Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.

The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family friend Maria Kelso:

Kelso said Jacobs collapsed at the third annual Delaware County Republican Pig Roast and Family Barbecue at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Walton on Saturday. The Walton emergency squad, a Franklin town justice and others made a tremendous effort to try to save him, she said.

“It was horrific,” she said. Kelso said she took family members to the hospital and home later. “It was a very sad day,” said Kelso. “He was proud of his children and loved his wife.''

A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many pretty little streams from flooding towns and villages, as they did in 2011 during Tropical Storms Irene and Lee.

A document recently released by the state Department of Health (DOH) is full of more alphabet soup than a Campbell's warehouse. But within the acronym-laden government jargon is some big news for the Catskills, the home of New York City's vast unfiltered west-of-Hudson watershed.

Above: H.L. Wilson in his natural habitat. Photo by Tess Mayer.

Local bookstore proprietor H.L. Wilson died suddenly on Saturday, August 17, of complications from a stroke. He was 71. 

Since 1996, H.L. and his wife Linda Wilson have run (and lived in) the Bibliobarn, a lovingly curated used bookshop and bindery on a rural road in South Kortright that has become something of a legend among bibliophiles, and served as the inspiration for several other independent bookshops to open in the area.

Two Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs take a nap in the shade at Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo taken during Schoharie County Family Farm Day, Saturday August 17, by Jennifer Strom. For more photos from Family Farm Day, see the Catskills Food Guide's Facebook page.

Happy Monday, Catskills. After a couple of weeks of what felt like fall in August, it looks like we're in for some warmer weather: Hudson Valley Weather is forecasting temperatures in the mid-to-upper 80s this week, possibly cracking 90 on Wednesday or Thursday. Temperatures will be a bit cooler up in the mountains, naturally, but we should still see highs in the 70s and 80s up in the high peaks.