Phoenicia
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 8:55 am
The voters have spoken in Budget Travel's America's Coolest Small Town contest, and Phoenicia has come in 6th with 15,451 votes. (The winner was Lewisburg, West Virginia, with an astonishing 139,118 votes.)
Lewisberg has been the leader in the contest... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 - 2:30 pm
Upstate Oddities, a blog dedicated to photos of the weird and wonderful things its author stumbles across in her forays around the Catskills, has a post this week dedicated to the Shandaken Theatrical Society, housed in the old Shandaken Oddfellows Hall.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Until February 11, Budget Travel Magazine is taking votes on which of twenty small American towns is the coolest. In the running: artsy, funky Phoenicia.
Two and a half hours north of New York City, this tiny town in the Catskill Mountains is a smaller... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 12:07 pm
This afternoon, Phoenicia will put the year's soggy unpleasantness behind it with a community party thrown by a group of local business leaders.
An outdoor Christmas party begins at 4:30pm on what has become the unofficial village square: the now wide-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 10:23 am
Ulster County executive Mike Hein visited Phoenicia's Main Street yesterday afternoon, to discuss the county's response to the village's increasingly dire flood problems. Hein, who promised the county's support for the town of Shandaken in an application... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Videographer and former Phoenicia Times columnist Dakota Lane is celebrating the holidays by going from business to business in Shokan, Olive, Phoenicia and Woodstock asking people to divulge their wish lists for the season. The result is a sweet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:58 pm
Last time the Esopus jumped its banks, on October 1, local photographer and videographer Franz Edlinger created an epic video of the flooding set to Beethoven's Fifth.
For the floods this week, Edlinger's picked something a little more Catskillian -- the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 7:58 pm
Above: Main Street, Phoenicia around 6pm, December 1. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
11:15pm update: Menla Mountain's John Lundin took some great photos this afternoon of flooding at the retreat center. Below: A normally-placid dam spillway rages. (Posted with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
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