This Saturday, the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith is launching a new festival, the Build-Fix-Grow Festival, to celebrate “the ingenuity and creativity of the past and the present."

The festival offers an odd and appealing combination of museum exhibits, historical reenactments, local food vendors and readings by Catskills authors.

For those who are curious about old-timey skills and crafts, there will be demonstrations of yarnmaking, blacksmithing, gravestone cleaning, cidermaking, dulcimers and old-time woodstove cooking. The museum's historic, water-powered sawmill and gristmill will be up and running for demonstrations as well. 

Meadowbrook Maple and Awestruck Ciders will be offering tastings of their Catskills-made maple syrup and hard apple cider, alongside a pie sale put on by the Charlotte Valley Presbyterian Church. 

A 36-year-old Long Island man died instantly after he crashed an ATV into a creek in the Delaware County town of Tompkins on Sunday night, May 24, police say.

Keith J. Stratton of Bellmore, New York had been at a family party on Apex Road that evening, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, according to a press release from the New York State Police.

Stratton was not wearing a helmet when he "decided to take a ride" on an all-terrain vehicle, the press release states.

While driving, Stratton failed to make a right turn and overturned the ATV into a shallow nearby creek, where he was killed on impact, police say.

Stratton was found dead in the creek around 9:34 p.m. by police. He was pronounced deceased by Delaware County Deputy Medical Examiner James Cooros at the scene, according to the press release.

While the State Police press release stated that "alcohol was a factor in the crash," people close to Stratton insist that he had not been drinking before he got on the ATV.

Above: "Ashokan Reservoir" by Mark Miller, the grand prize winner of the 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest. 

It's Memorial Day weekend, and our print 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide has hit the streets! Copies are waiting at dozens of locations around the Catskills. See what it looks like and how to get one by clicking here.

Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Outdoor Guide to send us their best photos of the Catskills great outdoors. This year, 52 photographers entered our 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest. 

A 25-year-old Virginia woman died and her three passengers were injured when she crashed a car on I-88 in the Delaware County town of Sidney on Wednesday, May 20, police say.

Ericka Sa-Keema, of Lorton, Virginia, was driving a 2002 Ford east on the highway at 6:27 a.m. when the crash occurred, according to a press release from the New York State Police:

[S]he drove off the north side of the roadway on to the shoulder. When she tried to correct this she lost control of her vehicle and it travelled into the center median where it over turned and rolled over several times coming to rest on the wheels.

Two young children, two-year-old Zavion Martin and one-year-old Zamari Martin, were in the backseat of the car during the crash, and both were "completely ejected from the vehicle," police say.

Both children were taken to area hospitals with injuries. The two-year-old was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital with a chest injury and the one-year-old was was airlifted by LifeNet to University Hospital in Syracuse for a head injury.