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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 - 9:58 am
Above: The Catskill Mountain Railroad during a Polar Express event in 2015. Photo via the CMRR's Facebook page.  It's a holiday miracle: Railroad fans, trail enthusiasts and Ulster’s County’s executive have decided to end a three-year feud over a county-... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 - 3:45 pm
Support your local farm and forest producer, working landscapes and your community by making your purchases count for clean water and the environment! Holiday shopping just got easier with the Fresh From the Catskills Holiday Gift Guide 2015. We've... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: Photo by Nannette Turner, via Flickr.  Ring those bells and light those lights: It’s Christmastime in the Catskills. Public festivities abound. Come out and revel with your neighbors this weekend. Here’s our five-county guide to what’s doing.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 - 5:51 pm
Above: The Ulster County town of Shandaken will receive $415,000 in state funds to fix broken pipes in Phoenicia, part of $26 million in state grants won by Catskills organizations and municipalities today. Photo via PhoeniciaNY.com.  The winners of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 - 5:42 pm
Above: Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum on ABC News. Paul Van Blarcum, the Sheriff of Ulster County, ignited a furor in the Catskills and in the national media on Thursday in when he posted a plea on Facebook asking licensed gun owners to carry... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 - 1:34 pm
Above: A decorated storefront in Narrowsburg in 2013. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.  Now that it's the first week of December, holiday events are legion across the Catskills. There are craft markets and... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 - 3:45 pm
Patients and doctors across the Catskills have been scrambling to deal with the abrupt closure of Health Republic, a troubled health insurance company that is closing for business today, Monday, Nov. 30. The shuttered company is no longer paying its... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 - 10:26 am
Photo by icoNYca, via Flickr.  As the fourth Thursday in November rolls around, we gather in a spirit of gratitude for our mountain peaks and sparkling creeks, our deer and raptors and black bear, and for each other. Here are some places to feast among... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 - 12:08 pm
Above: The 2014 Hudson Valley Hullabaloo. Photo via the HV Hullabaloo's Facebook page.  The holiday craft season is heating up. This weekend, 65 vendors will flock to the Hudson Valley Hullabaloo in Kingston, and more will appear at markets and bazaars in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 - 12:48 pm
Above: "Stuyvesant Square Park," a photograph by Tom Sardo, one of many artists featured in Salon 2015 and Handmade Holidays, an arts and crafts sale run by the Greene County Council on the Arts, opening this weekend. Makers, crafters and artisans across... Read more

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