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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2016 - 11:33 am
Above: A dumpster full of trash at the Peekamoose Blue Hole trailhead in Denning on July 7. Photo by Joe Ferrara.
Volunteers are invited to help clean up trash and litter this Sunday, July 17 at Peekamoose Blue Hole, a popular swimming hole in the Ulster... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 25, 2016 - 4:37 pm
Above: A crowd at the Peekamoose Blue Hole on a summer day in 2015. Photo via the NYS DEC.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued emergency regulations on Wednesday, May 25 to protect Peekamoose Blue Hole, a popular swimming... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 25, 2016 - 7:36 am
Above: The author, Jeffrey Vincent, picks up trash on a Catskills hike in December 2015.
Outdoor recreational activities are booming, and the Catskill Mountains are making a comeback in a big way. Movies like “Into the Wild,” “A Walk in the Woods” and “... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 4, 2016 - 1:43 pm
Above: Early morning at Colgate Lake by Elaine Warfield. This photo was entered in the 2016 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest.
Saturday, May 7 is "I Love My Park Day" in New York state, and state and local parks across the Catskills region are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2015 - 9:54 am
Truckloads of trash have been left in wild Catskills spaces every week during the summer of 2015. The problem is growing, officials say.
In partnership with Visit Vortex, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, the New York-New Jersey Trail... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:55 pm
Above: A 65-year-old New York City woman is dead after five tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles crashed on Route 17 in Sullivan County on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, via Flickr.
Icy road conditions early on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2014 - 3:22 pm
Route 23A in Kaaterskill Clove -- a narrow road that winds down a deep notch known simply as "the Mountain Road" by locals -- is one of the most breathtaking drives in the Catskills. It's also covered with trash.
When two Haines Falls sisters, Colleen and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 2:14 pm
The head of Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, executive director Michael Bemis, got the axe last night at a meeting of the agency's oversight board. Bemis's departure comes in the wake of a report by Ulster County comptroller Eliott Auerbach that... Read more
