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Donate to the Binnekill Business Council Toys for Tots toy drive

By Julia Reischel
11/13/12 - 4:08 pm

The Binnekill Business Council (formerly ShopMargaretville) is organizing a toy drive to help re-stock the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation warehouse in Brooklyn, which lost 1,000 toys to Sandy floodwaters. Brand new toys are being accepted at locations across the Catskills beginning on November 17. Locations include the Bed and Bath Shoppe and the Commons in Margaretville, The Tinder Box and Wadler Brothers hardware store in Fleischmanns, the Andes Hotel in Andes, Quarltere's Nursery in Roxbury and NBT Bank in Grand Gorge.

More info: http://brooklyn-ny.toysfortots.org/local-coordinator-sites/lco-sites/default.aspx Read more

Last day to submit your photos to the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest!

By Julia Reischel
4/30/13 - 11:46 am

Above: Just some of the entries in this year's Catskills Outdoor Guide photo contest, as pictured on our contest Flickr group.

The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013. Thanks! Read more

Swarmageddon: Northeast braces for 17-year cicadas

By Lissa Harris
4/26/13 - 10:34 am

Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license.

Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from Georgia to Connecticut, an onslaught of giant bugs that have lain dormant underground for the last 17 years.

The periodical cicada is the Methuselah of insects, spending long years underground in larval form before emerging en masse in tremendous numbers. Groups of 13-year or 17-year periodical cicadas that emerge together are known as 'broods,' and New York State is home to several of them, along with several species of annual cicadas that emerge every year. The last mass cicada emergence in New York, of the 17-year Brood XIV, happened in 2008. Read more

Thunderstorms across Catskills

By Lissa Harris
4/19/13 - 4:23 pm

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Sullivan County, along with much of Pennsylvania, for Friday afternoon and evening. (Update, 9:30pm: The area is no longer under tornado watch.)

Sullivan County, along with the rest of the Catskills region, can expect thunderstorms, heavy rain, and gusting winds of up to 40 or 50 miles per hour as a cold front moves through the area from west to east.

As of around 4pm, Hudson Valley Weather reported, the line of storms was moving through Western Pennsylvania.

Update, 8:30pm: Delaware and Sullivan Counties are both under severe thunderstorm warnings until 9pm: Read more

Tougher tests worry local schools -- and parents

By Lissa Harris
4/19/13 - 1:42 pm

Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.

Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough new standardized tests in English Language Arts. Next week, students face another round of testing in math. The new tests are designed for the Common Core curriculum, a new educational initiative that has been adopted by 45 states so far. Read more

This Weekend: Earth Day around the Catskills

By Anne Pyburn Craig
4/18/13 - 5:39 pm

Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.

The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and in between. (Properly so: Isn't every day supposed to be Earth Day?)

Here's the Watershed Post's guide to the goings-on.

DELAWARE COUNTY

The little town of Andes is celebrating Earth Day in true no-nonsense Catskills style -- by getting to work. On Saturday, April 20, citizens will convene at 9am at Hogan's for the annual Andes litter pickup. Bring gloves, boots and any trash-grabbing "reacher" tools you may have at hand, and feel free to email annroberti@yahoo.com for more information. Read more

WP Deal: Garden Spring Special: A free consultation and a free perennial plant offered by From Root To Shoot

By root2shoot
4/18/13 - 10:14 am

Above: Melissa Bennett, a gardening expert who is the founder and owner of From Root To Shoot in Hamden.

The following is a WP Deal for Watershed Post readers, from advertiser From Root To Shoot:

It's time to get your garden into shape!

To celebrate the beginning of the new season, Melissa Bennett, a gardening expert who is the founder and owner of From Root To Shoot in Hamden, is offering a free consultation for your garden.

If you call before May 6, 2013 and schedule a consultation, you get a free perennial plant.

To claim this WP Deal, contact Melissa Bennett at 607-746-7246 or email her at root2shoot@delhitel.net

More about From Root to Shoot:

Gardening Experts and Master Weeders, Specializing in Rock, Water and Perennial Gardens and serving the Catskills region of New York Read more