Photo by Linda Law. Courtesy of the Center for Symbolic Studies.
C’mon out and frolic ‘round the Maypole. The Center for Symbolic Studies's annual Beltane festival, taking place this year on Saturday, April 27, regularly draws a crowd of over 1,000 to celebrate the return of warmth and light. (Picture a Renaissance Faire with a lot less commercialism and a lot more Magick and you’ve got the idea.)
This annual rite of spring boasts dancing horses, dancing dragons, and a host of other mythic creatures, the poetry in motion of the Vanaver Caravan and their youth troupe, the Stone Mountain Masquers and Festival Singers, giant puppets, clowns, jongleurs and craftspeople all joining to welcome in the May Queen, blending centuries-old Celtic with right-now Rosendale into a spicy gumbo. Read more
Above: Julia Reischel (right) teaching a Facebook for Businesses class with a gaggle of Phoenicia business folks at the Peekamoose Restaurant & Tap Room on April 22. Photo by Laura Levine of Mystery Spot Antiques in Phoenicia, via Instagram.
By popular demand, we're holding another Facebook for Businesses class in Margaretville on May 8. The class is for beginners only. Details on session and location are below. Call or email Julia at the contact numbers below to register -- spaces are filling up fast! All classes are $35, or $29 if you are a member of the Delaware or Central Catskills chambers.
Facebook for Businesses
Two versions of this class are available: Read more
Above: Video of Richie Havens performing "Freedom" at Woodstock in 1969.
Folk legend Richie Havens, who was the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock festival, died on Monday of a heart attack in his home in Jersey City. He was 72.
Havens and two members of his band were pressed into urgent service as other musicians -- including the planned opening act, the folk-rock band Sweetwater -- fought traffic on the roads leading to Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Woodstock, New York. Read more
Over the weekend, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office released an updated list of their top ten most wanted fugitives from justice.
The ten men on the list are wanted for a wide variety of alleged offenses: assault, larceny, welfare fraud, failing to register as a sex offender, failure to pay child support, and in one case, felony DWI.
One man on the list, 26-year-old Frankie Joseph, is currently incarcerated in the Lakeview Correctional Facility, a minimum-security prison in Chautauqua County. An officer at the Ulster County Sheriff's Office told the Watershed Post that Ulster County had only recently learned of Joseph's whereabouts.
The list:
1. Jahson A. Marryshow, 30, wanted for Robbery 1st (Bank of America, Woodstock), last known address of 26 Witchtree Road, Woodstock Read more
Year round resort is seeking local Line Cooks and Kitchen Workers to come join our team. Flexible hours in a beautiful work environment. Immediate openings available.
Sullivan County, along with the rest of the Catskills region, can expect thunderstorms, heavy rain, and gusting winds of up to 40 or 50 miles per hour as a cold front moves through the area from west to east.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough new standardized tests in English Language Arts. Next week, students face another round of testing in math. The new tests are designed for the Common Core curriculum, a new educational initiative that has been adopted by 45 states so far. Read more
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.
The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and in between. (Properly so: Isn't every day supposed to be Earth Day?)
Here's the Watershed Post's guide to the goings-on.
DELAWARE COUNTY
The little town of Andes is celebrating Earth Day in true no-nonsense Catskills style -- by getting to work. On Saturday, April 20, citizens will convene at 9am at Hogan's for the annual Andes litter pickup. Bring gloves, boots and any trash-grabbing "reacher" tools you may have at hand, and feel free to email annroberti@yahoo.com for more information. Read more
Above: Melissa Bennett, a gardening expert who is the founder and owner of From Root To Shoot in Hamden.
The following is a WP Deal for Watershed Post readers, from advertiser From Root To Shoot:
It's time to get your garden into shape!
To celebrate the beginning of the new season, Melissa Bennett, a gardening expert who is the founder and owner of From Root To Shoot in Hamden, is offering a free consultation for your garden.
If you call before May 6, 2013 and schedule a consultation, you get a free perennial plant.
To claim this WP Deal, contact Melissa Bennett at 607-746-7246 or email her at root2shoot@delhitel.net
More about From Root to Shoot:
Gardening Experts and Master Weeders, Specializing in Rock, Water and Perennial Gardens and serving the Catskills region of New York Read more
Above: Scale model of the planned hotel and lodge buildings at Highmount -- part of the proposed Belleayre Resort project -- from a supplemental draft environmental impact statement released Wednesday by the DEC.
The long-planned Belleayre Resort project took a step forward on Wednesday, with the release of a newly-revised draft of an environmental impact statement by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The agency also released draft plans for the management of the Belleayre Ski Center that call for a major expansion of the ski area. Read more
