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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 - 4:36 pm
The driver of a piece of farm equipment died on Wednesday, Jan. 13 when the vehicle, a four-wheel payloader, sank upside down in an icy pond in the Schoharie County town of Wright, according to the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
A press release issued... 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 - 4:40 pm
Above: 52 Burton St. in Walton. Image via Google Street View, August 2014.
Police and firefighters narrowly avoided being trapped in an intentionally-set explosion in a house in Walton on Monday, Jan. 11, according to a press release from the Walton... 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
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 - 12:28 pm
Above: Edward Callahan, left, with Joanne Callahan, his wife and co-owner of Callahan Catskill Real Esate, in a 2013 publicity photo for their business. Photo by Joe Damone.
Edward “Eddie” P. Callahan, a beloved figure in the Delaware County town of... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 - 11:51 am
Above: Earl Van Wormer, left, and Chris Tague, right, faced off in a close race for chair of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors on Monday, Jan. 4. Van Wormer won the position.
Longtime Esperance Supervisor Earl Van Wormer was elected to his ninth... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 - 3:56 pm
Above: Delaware County Family Court Judge Gary Rosa, pictured with his wife, Lori, took the oath of office from town of Andes Justice Joseph Grieco. Photo by Robert Cairns.
The main courtroom in Delaware County's historic courthouse was packed on Saturday... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 - 7:13 am
Volunteers with the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) use wildlife cameras baited with deer carcasses on high ridges around the Catskills to photograph and count golden eagles passing through the region as they migrate each year.
These shots, from a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 - 1:54 pm
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Above: Just like Times Square, only smaller, Uptown Kingston's New Year's Eve features a ball drop, fireworks, a block party, burlesque, vaudeville, a speakeasy and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015 - 9:17 am
Above: An inch of snowy, icy slush is cause for celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Photo via the Great Western Catskills Instagram account.
After almost an entire December without snow, the Catskills got its first significant snowfall on Tuesday, Dec. 29.... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015 - 12:47 pm
Above: The slopes at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in Highmount on Dec. 16. Photo by Rebecca Andre.
Snow guns are blazing at all four Catskills ski resorts as unusually warm weather—and a distinct lack of snowfall—puts a damper on the start of the ski... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 - 4:21 pm
Gifting is so much fun. But the classic ideas can always stand an update. After all, a partridge in a pear tree takes up the entire living room, shipments of milkmaids and drummers need to be housed (to say nothing of a gymnasium space for all those... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 - 7:57 pm
Above: Santa Claus in Woodstock. Photo by Julia Reischel.
On Saturday, Dec. 19, Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner will discuss his brand-new book, “Woodstock: Everyday History,” at the Catskill Interpretive Center in Mount Tremper from 1 p.m. to 3... Read more
By Niva Dorell on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 - 10:42 am
Above: Kenny Curry, left, toasts the first beer to be legally sipped in Neversink since 1935, along with Tim Dugan, Eureka Market owner Jennifer Grimes and Ed Sykes. Photo by Niva Dorell.
Eighty years after the town of Neversink in Sullivan County banned... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 - 1:11 pm
Above: A pair of compressors are part of a complex that is included in the proposal for the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, as seen in this artist's rendering. The complex would straddle the line between the Delaware County town of Franklin and the... Read more
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