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Catskills runners among those at Boston Marathon

By Lissa Harris
4/16/13 - 11:54 am

Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.

The Watershed Post obtained the names of the local runners with a zipcode-based search of the Boston Marathon organizers' runner database. Among them were two runners from Delaware County, two from Schoharie County, one from Sullivan County and thirteen from Ulster County. No runners from Greene County were found in the database.

Embedded below is a spreadsheet of the runners, with their home towns. We have cross-referenced their names with Google's Boston Marathon Person Finder to find out if local runners have been reported as safe. The links in the "Link" column lead to more information about specific runners. Read more

Announcing the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest

By Julia Reischel
4/16/13 - 11:24 am

Top: A photo by Amanda Lee Popp, which won an honorable mention in last year's Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.

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

This weekend: Green energy on display in Rosendale

By Anne Pyburn Craig
4/12/13 - 4:52 pm

Above: Retrofitters at work transforming a Rosendale home into a model of energy efficiency. Photo courtesy of Manna Jo Greene.

The Festival Town -- site of the first green-built, geothermal community center in the state -- will be ahead of the enviro-curve as usual this weekend. The 2013 Rosendale Energy Expo takes over the Rosendale Recreation Center on Saturday with “Retrofitting For Resilience: Preparing our Homes and Businesses for the 21st Century.”

Co-sponsored by NYSERDA, Central Hudson, and the upstate New York chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Expo will focus on a deep energy retrofit pilot project underway right now that’s transforming a leaky, creaky older home into a lean, green, energy-efficient machine. Those in attendance will enjoy an afternoon of education about the project from the builder, the homeowner, and experts on building science and the financing that helps make it all possible. After the Expo, from 5 to 6pm, there will be a site visit and group tour of the retrofit project. Read more

Wanna buy a newspaper? Dow Jones Local Media Group may be for sale

By Lissa Harris
4/5/13 - 9:04 am

Above: The Times Herald-Record's office in Middletown, Orange County. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

The News Corp-owned media group that publishes the Times Herald-Record may soon be on the market, according to a story this week in the Wall Street Journal (also owned by News Corp):

News Corp is exploring the sale of its Dow Jones Local Media group, the collection of community newspapers mainly on the East Coast that was formerly known as the Ottaway community newspapers, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company has hired Waller Capital, the New York-based investment bank, to shop the papers, in hopes of selling them before the company spins off its publishing assets into a separate company this summer, according to the people.

The Local Media Group publishes the Times Herald-Record, along with seven other community newspapers. Read more

Trout season kicks off in the Catskills

By Lissa Harris
4/1/13 - 12:34 pm

Above: Photo of a brown trout fresh from the Pepacton Reservoir on April 1, 2013, the first day of trout season, posted on Facebook by the Vineyard Wine Bar in Downsville.

From April 1 through October 15, it's open season on trout in New York State -- the time of year when that migratory species, Anglerus waderii, flocks to our clear, cold Catskills trout streams from far and wide.

This year, with snow and ice still clinging to the banks of many streams, the season kicked off chilly and damp. In a press release about the 2013 fishing season, the state Department of Environmental Conservation tells anglers that the fish will perk up when the weather gets more spring-like: Read more

Catskills skiing on Easter weekend -- and beyond

By Lissa Harris
3/29/13 - 5:30 pm

Above: A shot of "The Cliff" on Hunter Mountain, taken on March 27 -- in most years, a date when Catskills skiers are already putting their gear back in the attic.

Skiing on Easter Sunday? Yes indeed: All four Catskills mountains are open for business this weekend.

After last year's dismal winter, you've got to forgive local ski centers for being a little giddy about the prospect of skiing until April. Plattekill, a small family-owned ski center in Roxbury, was especially liberal with the exclamation points when they announced they'd be open March 29 through 31:

Isn't March for Spring Skiing??? It's confusing when April is next week, it's snowing like it's December and the conditions are comparable to mid-January. Now don't you just love mother nature, WE DO!!! YAY FOR SPRING!!! Read more