The winners of the 2016 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest
Above: "Waterfall on Trout Creek" by Steve Aaron, the grand prize winner of the 2016 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest.
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Poetry workshops come to West Hurley’s new Poetry Barn
Above: A poem written on a paper airplane, a prototype for "Skywriting: Poems & Planes," a workshop to be held Saturday, May 28 at the Poetry Barn in West Hurley. Photo by Lissa Kiernan.
Poet and teacher Lissa Kiernan makes her students’ poetry fly, both literally and figuratively.
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Funk ambassador in the Catskills: Jon Cleary and the Monster Gentlemen
Above: Jon Cleary and the Monster Gentlemen. Photo via the West Kortright Centre.
When Jon Cleary and the Monster Gentlemen return to the West Kortright Center, you won’t be faulted for thinking you’ve been transported to the Big Easy.
“He played here in 2006,” West Kortright director Martha Van Burek said of the crown jewel of her season. “And he brought the house down. He was amazing. Been trying to get him back ever since.”
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Bebert’s Condiments, a Moroccan café, opens in Fleischmanns
Above: Inside Bebert's Condiments Café and Gallery. Photo by J. N. Urbanski.
Diane Adzema, a designer, and Bebert Attias, a chef born and raised in Morocco, met at a couscous party in New York City and have been partners for 17 years. In 2014, working out of their home in the Ulster County hamlet of Big Indian, they launched a line of Moroccan condiments called Bebert’s Condiments.
Last week, they expanded their Catskills business into a new venture in Fleischmanns: a French Moroccan café and gallery, also called Bebert’s Condiments, located in the former Zoom Gallery on Main Street in the Delaware County village.
Berbert’s Condiments Café and Gallery held its grand opening on Friday, May 20. The café serves tea, espresso and juice as well as soups, salads and sandwiches, many featuring their condiments: preserved lemons, chutney, fruit compote and harissa, a hot chili pepper paste native to North Africa.
Above: Diane Adzema and Bebert Attias. Photo by J. N. Urbanski.
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DEC issues emergency regulations for Peekamoose Blue Hole swimming hole
Above: A crowd at the Peekamoose Blue Hole on a summer day in 2015. Photo via the NYS DEC.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued emergency regulations on Wednesday, May 25 to protect Peekamoose Blue Hole, a popular swimming hole on the Rondout Creek in the Catskills that was overwhelmed with visitors and trash last summer.
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Carry in, carry out: Fight the Catskills trash problem
Above: The author, Jeffrey Vincent, picks up trash on a Catskills hike in December 2015.
Outdoor recreational activities are booming, and the Catskill Mountains are making a comeback in a big way. Movies like “Into the Wild,” “A Walk in the Woods” and “Wild,” starring Reese Witherspoon, which feature hiking, camping and backpacking, have helped spark new interest in the mountains.
But along with more people comes more trash in the pristine Catskills wilderness.
Dozens of Memorial Day events kick off summer in the Catskills
Above: An honor guard leads the 2015 Liberty Memorial Day Parade. Photo by John Kocijanski of Catskill Photography, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
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Woman in critical condition after Vroman's Nose fall
Above: First responders use ropes to reach an injured hiker on Vroman's Nose on Sunday, May 22. Photo by Schoharie County Fire Wire. See an album of photos from the rescue at the Schoharie County Fire Wire Facebook page.
A hiker has been admitted to Albany Medical Center in critical condition with a back injury and a severe injury to her left wrist after tumbling off the cliffs of Vroman's Nose on Sunday, May 22 in the Schoharie County town of Fulton, according to Middleburgh Fire Chief Michael Devlin.
Vroman’s Nose is a 600-foot cliff that looms above the Schoharie Valley just outside the Schoharie County village of Middleburgh. It’s a popular spot for hikers and history seekers.
The woman, a 32-year-old from Lebanon, New Hampshire who is not being identified at this time, had been hiking on the mountain with a male companion when she fell off the cliff, according to Devlin.
16-year-old killed on Route 28 in Olive
Above: Damein Kovacs. Via Keyser Funeral Service.
A 16-year-old from the Ulster County town of Shokan was killed on Wednesday, May 19 when his car veered into a utility pole in the town of Olive, police and the Daily Freeman report.
Former sheriff’s deputy used meat cleaver to attack wife, prosecutor says
Above: Theodore Tiska, a former deputy in the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, is charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault for an alleged attack on his wife in April. To the left is Tiska in a Delaware County Employee of the Month photo in 2008, from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, and to the right is Tiska in his April 2016 booking photo, via the New York State Police.
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