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O'NEILL'S SHIRE PUB– PROM NIGHT RETURNS @ 9:30PM

May 18, 2013 - 9:30pm - 11:45pm
O'NEILL'S SHIRE PUB- LIVE MUSIC BY JOE CHINNICI 3PM-6PM

May 25, 2013 - 3:00pm - 6:00pm
O'NEILL'S SHIRE PUB- KICK-OFF TO OUR SMOKIN’ HOT SUNDAYS W/ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BAND

May 26, 2013 - 3:30pm - 6:30pm
CTW presents Connections & Misconnections

June 1, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
ASK (Art this Summer for Kids) 2013

August 5, 2013 - 9:30am - August 9, 2013 - 2:00pm

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Last chance to sign up for grant workshop

By WP Newsroom
2/7/13 - 2:17 pm

The “Writing Successful Grant Proposals” workshop, a two-session grant writing class, will be held on February 12 and 26 from 3 PM to 5:30 PM at the Delaware County eCenter in Delhi.

The workshop will emphasize writing compelling, concise and well-crafted grant proposals. Workshop topics are developing a grant concept, finding funders, establishing goals and objectives, writing the narrative, making a budget, developing a work plan, and gathering support letters.

Kevin Hodne will lead the workshop. He has written over $7 million in successful grants in the areas of education, agriculture, and economic and community development.

The workshop fee is $65 for both sessions. A notebook with resources and sample grant proposals is available for $30.

For more information about the workshop, and to request a registration form, contact Kevin Hodne at 607-434-8254 or by email at hodnekevin@yahoo.com.

Invasive Species Awareness

By Kiraly
11/7/12 - 4:37 pm

FERAL SWINE? GIANT HOGWEED? WILD PARSNIP?

LEARN WHAT’S “INVADING” OUR REGION

The Lennox Forest Committee, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County and the Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership (CRISP) will be hosting an Invasive Species Awareness Day at Camp Shankitunk, Ford Hall, 2420 Arbor Hill Road, Delhi, NY. (also called ‘Back River Road’ from DeLancey), Delhi, NY, on Saturday, November 17, 2012, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. The program will focus on feral swine, giant hogweed and the pervasive wild parsnip, Asian longhorn beetle and the emerald ash borer. Participants will learn to identify ash trees and participate in a woods walk to “tag” ash trees at nearby Lennox Memorial Forest.

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is responsible for the death of tens of millions of ash trees from the mid-west to the Northeast. More than 7.5 billion ash trees in the United States, including 900 million in New York State, remain at risk. Read more

Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree

By mapleshadefarm
10/16/12 - 12:11 am

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Maple Shade Farm

The Delhi Fire Department

Host the 5th Annual

Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree October 20th

10-8

Celebrate our 5th Year in Business

*********Free Admission ********** Read more

PUMPKIN DISPLAY & Contest

Pumpkin Carving area on site

CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINMENT

OWL- Oneonta World of Learning Pumpkin Fun

Delhi Fire Department -Halloween Safety

Pappa’s Hill Billy Express

Chee Chee the Clown

Costume Parade with prizes

Micro News Report - 10th Annual Dog Walk and Fair - Heart of the Catskills Humane Society - Delhi NY

By jes.vec
10/15/12 - 9:19 am

A Micro-Report on this year's Dog Walk and Fair, "Long Live Ruff & Roll" at Legion Field in Delhi.
The Heart of the Catskills Humane Society shelters dogs and cats in the western Catskill region.
They care for those who cannot speak or care for themselves. They educate their community, defend the meekest, teach humane treatment for all living creatures, foster a compassion for the weakest, heal the broken trust of the abused, and link the lonely with a four-legged companion. And they will until they educate every person in the community that spaying and neutering animals is the only humane thing to do, that owning a pet is a commitment for the lifetime of the pet, that abuse or neglect is unconscionable and illegal. And they try to match every adoptable pet with a loving home - every day.

Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me a farm

By Bethany Lyttle
1/18/12 - 9:19 pm

Above: A Flickr slideshow of photos from Catskills FarmLink landowners and farmers. The first photo is of Michelle Premura, a landowner who has listed 13 acres between Delhi and Stamford on the FarmLink website. Click on individual photos to see the captions.

After graduating from West Point Academy and serving in the army for five years, Julie Zavage pursued a degree in organic agriculture from Colorado State University. Two internships and an apprenticeship later, the 30-year-old is ready to start her own vegetable farm. But Zavage doesn't own land, nor does she have the money to buy it. Leasing land is her only option.

So she turned to Catskills FarmLink, a new local website aimed at connecting would-be farmers with landowners, for help.

“I'm typical of many farmers of my generation,” she said. “We have the desire and ability to do the work and do it sustainably, but we don't have the money to buy the land we need.” Read more

Wintry mix warning for the western Catskills tonight

By Lissa Harris
1/16/12 - 9:50 pm

Be careful on the roads tonight, Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for south-central New York and northern Pennsylvania through tomorrow morning.

From NY-Alert:

Light Wintry Mix With Ice Tonight Into Early Tuesday Morning... ...Winter Weather Advisory Remains In Effect From 9 PM This Evening To 10 AM EST Tuesday...

* Locations...Oneida...Madison...Chenango...Otsego...Broome... Delaware... Sullivan...Susquehanna...Wayne...Lackawanna...And Pike Counties.

* Hazards...Light Wintry Mix Including Freezing Rain.

* Accumulations...Up To A Tenth Of An Inch Of Ice...And Generally Less Than An Inch Of Snow And Sleet. The Most Ice Accumulation Will Occur In The Western Catskills And Oneida County. Over Northern Oneida County Snow Accumulation Of 1 To 3 Inches Is Likely. Read more

Tonight it will snow, finally

By Julia Reischel
1/11/12 - 10:02 am

Above: It wasn't a white Christmas this year in the Catskills. Photo of a Delaware County dairy farm on Christmas Eve this year by Mark Zilberman, via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.

After an oddly snow-less winter so far, Mother Nature is going to make up for it tonight. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the entire Catskills region warning of a storm that will roll in this evening and dump up to 6 inches of snow on high elevations. Wet stuff will begin to fall around 8pm, and will last until morning.

Here are the warnings:

For Ulster, Schoharie and Greene counties: Read more

Fault lines in fracking opposition

By Julia Reischel
1/10/12 - 1:22 pm

Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the Catskills.

Applebome explores the fact that mainstream environmental groups like the Sierra Club have not called for an outright ban on natural gas drilling in New York, and that a bunch of relatively scrappy, regional groups like Catskill Mountainkeeper, Frack Action and Catskills Citizens for Safe Energy have arisen to do so instead. Here's one of the most extreme anti-fracking points of view in the story:

Claire Sandberg was one of the two founders of Frack Action, which started up in 2010 largely because some antifracking activists worried that established environmentalists seemed resigned to living with gas drilling. Read more

The Catskills get their own DEC hydrofracking hearing - by doing it themselves

By Julia Reischel
1/9/12 - 9:53 am

Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione.

On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents.

The hearing was planned to fill a gap: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation didn't organize an official public comment meeting in Delaware, Schoharie or Otsego counties last November, when it held several public forums its draft Supplemental Generic Draft Impact Statement (SGEIS) on natural gas drilling. (The nearest official DEC meeting was held in Loch Sheldrake, in Sullivan County, about hours away for Delaware and Otsego residents.) Read more

Delaware County won't join Hein's feud with the DEP

By Lissa Harris
1/6/12 - 3:44 pm

While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud.

Yesterday, Eisel, who chairs the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, sent a letter to New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. In it, Eisel writes that -- contrary to Hein's accusations -- the relationship between Upstate and Downstate in Delaware County's part of the watershed is relatively cozy. An excerpt:

Many of us here in the watershed have a more balanced view of the relationship and understand that while we don’t always agree we have always achieved real results by working together and keeping the discourse professional.

The elected leaders of two of the five watershed counties have now weighed in on the feud. (How about it, Greene, Schoharie and Sullivan?) Read more