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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 - 12:54 pm
Video: Billy Bob Liggan takes a video tour of the Rosendale Street Festival, 2008.
Party down, Rosendale: The annual Street Festival is in town once again. This Saturday and Sunday, the little town's Main Street will be transformed into an open-air fiesta... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 - 9:18 am
Looks like AOL Weather is having some issues with their local forecast.* (It's hot in Arkville, but not THAT hot -- Weather Underground puts the current temperature around 81 degrees.)
The heat wave rolling across most of New York State isn't expected to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Looks like the Ulster Savings Bank has finally managed to unload the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill for a modest $2.4 million. (That's $1.4 million less than what the bank was owed, when they foreclosed on the Route 32 property last April.)
But the identities... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 4:32 pm
Photo: Excess water spilling over the Gilboa Dam at the Schoharie Reservoir. Image released into the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
At a public hearing in Kingston today, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection released... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 3:35 pm
There are some things that just go together. Ice and tea. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes.
Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to manufacture those square nails once used to keep the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo: Dave Jacke, author of the indispensable two-volume textbook Edible Forest Gardens and local hero of the permaculture movement, in action. Courtesy of the Northeast Permaculture Convergence.
This Saturday marks the high point of the year for local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo by Flickr user Paul Reynolds.
Midnight tonight is the deadline for our photo contest about the "best-kept secret" in the Catskills, and the submissions are coming in! We're discovering things that we had no idea existed up here. I'd say more, but I... Read more
By Ellen Verni on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:35 am
Delaware County's own Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. Today's column is guest-written by Ellen's daughter, Juliet Verni. You can get more of both talented Vernis on Ellen's blog... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:33 am
At a recent meeting of the Phoenicia Rotary Club, local resident Jerry Bender of Mt. Tremper, New York was honored.
With friends and family looking on, Ken Jacobs, president of the Phoenicia Rotary Club, expounded on all the great things Jerry does for... Read more
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