Food
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Woodstock was hopping last night with revelers prowling for cookies, wine, and Christmas lights at its holiday open house. We were there and stumbled upon Santa Claus, who was handing out poems and candy canes at FreeStyle Realty. For more photos from the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 4:30 pm
SUNY Delhi decided to channel Barbie when it entered Oneonta's gingerbread contest this week. Here's a slideshow of the college's entry, as posted on the SUNY Delhi Flickr page:
For more info on the contest, see the Oneonta NY Facebook page.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 11:29 am
We here at Watershed Post HQ wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. (Certainly happier than ours -- the whole team here has a terrible cold and will be missing the big feast entirely.)
Here are two Catskills Thanksgiving nuggets gleaned from the internet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:05 am
Local purveyor of scrumptiosity Shandaken Bake had Village Voice writer Rebecca Marx swooning yesterday over a tasty tidbit she picked up at the New Amsterdam Market. The baked good in question? An ordinary-looking slice of maple parsnip bread.
If you've... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:15 pm
The Daily Freeman has been publishing some incredible stories about an ongoing effort to bust participants in a really simple scam: According to police, a Midtown gas station accepted food stamp cards in exchange for half their value in cash, which... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 10:15 am
Photo of hops by Hagen Graebner, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York's one-time cash crop, hops, is on the rise again. Yesterday, the Greene County Industrial Development Agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension announced that the state will fund a hops-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 - 2:10 pm
Just released last week: the latest version of a new, free iPhone application called Farmshed, which delivers info about local food, farms and wineries in Central New York to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Green State Fair has the details:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Tonight at 7pm in the town hall on Rte. 28, anyone interested in the Delaware County town of Middletown will have a chance to weigh in on its 112-page draft comprehensive plan. The plan attempts to outline how Middletown, which contains the villages of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 9:23 pm
Belleayre Mountain and the German-American Club of the Northern Catskills hosting their annual Oktoberfest celebration last Saturday. Photo by Mary McKeon.
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Last night, the streets of Saugerties were crawling with zombies. (You can thank the tireless zombie organizer Cruella Moxham for that.) Our correspondent Kitty Sheehan armed herself with a bat and a digital camera and walked among the walking dead... Read more
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