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By Andrew Wyrich on Friday, May. 25, 2012 - 1:29 pm
Joe Moskowitz and Pauline Liu in the freshly-sheetrocked 4,000-square-foot space currently being transformed into the Arkville Cowdome. Photo by Mellisa Misner. This Memorial Day, a new venue for Catskill entertainment will be opening up in Arkville: The... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 4:19 pm
Rain means rainbows, and recently, the Catskills has had its fair share of both. A few Watershed Post readers have taken stunning rainbow photos around the Catskills recently. Check out their captures of the colorful creations below. Local Twitter user @... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 11:08 am
On Saturday, May 19, Onteora High School's young stars and starlets put on a musical theater tribute to Broadway called, fittingly, "Young Broadway." Here's a photo from the curtain call, featuring, from left to right, Roberto Noel-Berman, Katie Martucci... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 1:32 am
Above: The Shandaken Theatrical Society's sign on its historic building in Phoenicia. Photo by Julia Reischel. The day that Hurricane Irene hit the Catskills last year, the Shandaken Theater Society was holding a small flea market in front of its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 12:49 pm
You've probably seen this little blue flower before, but odds are you haven't really noticed it. Catskills Photography gets a closer look at what looks to us like Veronica persica, also known as bird's eye or Persian speedwell. This little blue flower is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:05 pm
Photo of Opus 40 by Flickr user Bluesguy From NY. Published under Creative Commons license. This weekend, the Catskills' most enduring monument to one man's artistic vision, the six-and-a-half-acre Saugerties bluestone sculpture known as Opus 40,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 17, 2012 - 12:40 am
Jean Craighead George, a Newbery Medal-winning children's book author who made the Catskills wilderness famous in her 1959 book "My Side of the Mountain," died Tuesday at the age of 92. In a recent obituary, New York Times writer Margalit Fox writes that... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 - 4:36 pm
As voters head to the polls for school elections today, parents in the Onteora Central School District are still upset over the district's abrupt about-face on a plan to move the elementary music program from the school day to the early morning hours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 3, 2012 - 11:11 am
Catskills Photography took this photo of a female (or possibly a juvenile) common merganser on the Neversink River over the weekend. This sleek-billed creature is a duck, though it does all sorts of un-duck-like things. The merganser eats fish, makes its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 2:10 pm
The great nature writer John Burroughs once wrote with curmudgeonly spleen that the automobile was a "demon," able to "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke." That was before Henry Ford gave him... Read more

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