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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 - 9:17 pm
Above: Miss Kitty's Saloon, one of the suites at the Roxbury Motel. Image via the Roxbury Motel website.
According to legend, Saint Valentine was a pretty wild character who was incarcerated and executed for performing illegal marriages back in the third... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 - 10:31 am
Above: Police say the body of a Walton man was found in this burned-out apartment in Walton. Photo by Robert Cairns.
Police say a man died in an early morning fire on Monday, Feb. 8 at an apartment house at 22 Benton Avenue in the Delaware County village... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 - 1:21 pm
Above: Lifting a block of ice with ice tongs at the 2015 Ice Harvest. Photo by Rebecca Andre of MGP&D.
Before freezers and refrigerators, harvested ice from local ponds, lakes, and rivers was essential to preserve food through the warmer months.
At... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 - 6:17 pm
Above: Narcan, an opioid antidote, saved a life in Livingston Manor on Sunday. Image via Flickr user PunchingJudy.
A 32-year-old man who had overdosed on heroin was saved by first responders who administered two doses of Narcan, an antidote to opiates, in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 - 5:39 pm
The owners of a defunct farmstand in the Ulster County town of Shandaken must pay the town $126,200 in fees for “flagrant and egregious” violations of town law that occurred in 2012 and 2013, an Ulster County Supreme Court judge ruled on Jan. 28.
Al and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 - 1:44 pm
Above: The summit of Sherrill Mountain in Greene County is a three-mile bushwhack from the nearest road. Image via Google maps.
Five forest rangers and two volunteer firefighters hiked six miles of rough terrain to a remote Greene County mountaintop to... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 - 10:33 am
Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout ended weeks of speculation on Monday, Jan. 25 by announcing her candidacy for outgoing Republican Congressman Chris Gibson’s 19th congressional district seat, which represents the Catskills and the Hudson... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 - 10:15 am
A pair of bald eagles has set up house in a nest on Route 30 in the Delaware County town of Middletown near the village of Margaretville. Watershed Post correspondent Rebecca Andre took this shot of the pair on Sunday, Jan. 24. To see a larger version of... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 - 8:07 pm
Above: Tom Joyce of Andes in Delaware County, Lisa Lyons of Livingston Manor in Sullivan County and Robert Eggleton of the town of Rockland in Sullivan County talk about a map of the Catskills at a Jan. 23 forum about tourism and economic development in... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016 - 11:19 am
Above: Flood damage in a Schoharie County stream. Photo via SchoharieStreams.com.
In the latest blow to Schoharie County's floundering $29.5 million streambank remediation project, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 - 6:08 pm
Above: Kaaterskill Falls in winter 2007. Photo by Jason, via Flickr.
Editor's Note: The DEC's press release about this rescue reported erroneously that the incident occurred on Kaaterskill Falls, which has a notoriously dangerous unofficial trail that is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 - 4:46 pm
Two men died after a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a tree in the Ulster County town of Rosendale on Wednesday, Jan. 20, police say.
The men, 58-year-old driver Ronald Myroniuk and 58-year-old passenger Robert Myroniuk, both of Cottekill, were driving on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 - 4:38 pm
Above: The intersection in the village of Walton where a man was killed after being hit by a car last Thursday. Image via Google Maps.
A 31-year-old man was killed on Thursday, Jan. 14 after being hit by a car in the Delaware County town of Walton,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 - 11:44 am
Above: A rendering of one of the hotels in the planned Belleayre Resort. Image via the Crossroads Ventures website.
The planning boards of the towns of Middletown and Shandaken approved permits for the long-awaited Belleayre Resort last week, in a move... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 - 4:31 pm
Above: Bowie on the cover of "Aladdin Sane."
British newspapers are abuzz with speculation that David Bowie's ashes could be scattered in the Catskills in the wake of the pop singer's death from cancer on Sunday, Jan. 10.
Bowie was a fixture in the Ulster... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 - 3:43 pm
Above: A contestant in the 2012 Shandaken Primitive Biathlon. Image via shandakenprimitivebiathlon.net.
This Sunday, Jan. 17, buckskin-swathed competitors wearing snowshoes and carrying muzzleloading rifles will compete in the 19th-annual Shandaken... Read more
By Gina C. Gould on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 - 11:15 am
Above: A view of the downstream face of the Olivebridge dam in 1911 as it was under construction as part of the soon-to-be-flooded Ashokan Reservoir. Image via the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program. Used with permission.
One hundred years ago,... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 - 10:44 am
Above: Zephyr Teachout, right, a potential Democratic candidate for the 19th U.S. Congressional District seat, spoke with town of Andes Supervisor Bud Gladstone on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at a gathering in Delhi. Photo by Robert Cairns.
Zephyr Teachout, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 - 4:04 pm
Above: Radar shows a band of nasty winter weather heading for the Catskills on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 12. Image via NWS Binghamton.
Snow squalls, lake effect snow, high winds and general weather nastiness are forecast for portions of the Catskills this... Read more
By Alan Via on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 - 3:16 pm
Above: Snowshoes at Catskill Mountain Storehouse. Photo by Tim Luby.
Now that winter has arrived in the Catskills in earnest, it’s time to break out the snowshoes. If you’ve never tried hiking with snowshoes, read on for a guide on how to choose, size... Read more
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