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Free Maple Weekend Trio

By Jon
3/15/13 - 9:48 pm

Hope to see you this Sunday to help us celebrate Maple Weekend in New York! We'll be serving complimentary house made organic steel cut oatmeal with organic Catskill Mountain Sugar House maple syrup. Can't think of a better way to start a day and just before a walk through the mountaintop maples and sugar house in Grahamsville.

RSVP by Saturday to Lisa Morgan Outdoors 845 439 5507

Main Street Farm for a maple taste treat Sunday morning! Read more

Snow day!

By Julia Reischel
3/8/13 - 10:15 am

Schools are closed across the Catskills this Friday morning, and it looks like a snow globe out there. The Hudson Valley Weather Facebook page reports that the snowfall ranges from 1 to 10 inches deep across the region.

We want proof! Share your snow photos with us, and we will add them to our slideshow above. Read more

Daily bread: What does it take to succeed as a Catskills bakery?

By Jason Dole
3/7/13 - 9:30 pm

Top: John Lopez works in the kitchen of J&K North Main Bakery. He is looking for a bigger space to move into. Photo by Jason Dole.

Above: A slideshow of photos from Sullivan County bakeries.

On New Year's Eve, Livingston Manor’s Flour Power Bakery, a high-profile local business with a devoted following, closed abruptly. A brief email to friends and customers titled “There will be no more bakery” made it clear that Flour Power’s doors will not reopen.

Small, independent, artisanal bakers have been on the rise in Sullivan County. Over the past decade, many new entrepreneurs have emerged in the region to tap into a growing market for local food.

But lately, the ranks of Sullivan County bakers have been thinning.

Above: The popular Flour Power Bakery in Livingston Manor closed its doors this winter. Photo by Jason Dole.

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Two-year moratorium on hydrofracking passed in Assembly

By Lissa Harris
3/6/13 - 10:02 pm

Above: Screenshot of a video from a Wednesday morning press conference by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and fellow Assembly Democrats on a bill that, if passed into law, will place a two-year moratorium on fracking in New York State. Source: The Albany Times-Union's Capitol Confidential blog. Watch the full video below.

A bill placing a two-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in New York State passed the Assembly by a wide margin on Wednesday, March 6, and is now headed for the Senate, according to several news reports.

If signed into law, bill A.5424, which has local Assemblyman Kevin Cahill as one of its sponsors, would suspend gas drilling permits in the Marcellus and Utica shale until May 15, 2015, and require the state to complete a review of the public health impacts of hydrofracking before any permits can be issued. Read more

Cuomo announces $25 million in grants to build more broadband

By Lissa Harris
3/5/13 - 10:51 pm

Utility poles near Binghamton. Photo by Flickr user Enoch Ross; photo published under Creative Commons license.

Rural utility companies call it the "last mile problem": Even in places where there is a network nearby that carries data, the final connections that bring service to individual houses are the most difficult and expensive to build. In the rural Catskills, where houses are far from one another and remote from population centers, many homes and communities still lack access to high-speed internet or cable television.

Some of those areas may soon get new broadband access. On Tuesday, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the awarding of $25 million in grants to fund the expansion of broadband networks in underserved parts of the state, through the Connect NY Broadband Grant Program. Read more

CWC announces grants for flood-damaged nonprofits

By Lissa Harris
3/1/13 - 5:25 pm

Above: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia on September 5, 2011, a week after Irene flooding damaged the building and grounds. Photo by Flickr user fixbuffalo; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group.

Over a year and a half since the Irene and Lee floods wreaked devastation on the Catskills, the long work of recovery is still going on.

This week, the Catskill Watershed Corporation announced a new initiative: a grant program to help nonprofits that were badly damaged in the 2011 floods. The program is open to any 501(c)3 organizations or state-chartered museums with buildings located inside New York City's Catskill-Delaware watershed. Read more

USDA's new definition of 'rural' could hurt small towns

By Lissa Harris
3/1/13 - 12:40 pm

Rural enough for ya? Photo of dirt road in the Delaware County town of Meredith by Flickr user somervillebikes; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group.

A newly-released report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends a change in the agency's definition of "rural," a shift that would make larger towns newly eligible for a variety of USDA grants.

The new definition, if adopted, would replace several different definitions currently used in different USDA grant programs with a single criterion: To be considered "rural," a community must have less than 50,000 people.

Under the old definitions, to be eligible for community water and waste disposal grants and loans, a community could have no more than 10,000 people. For community facility grants and loans, the upper limit was 20,000 people. Read more

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