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By Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 10:54 pm
Extended Deadline for Proposal to March 8th, 2011 - Seeking Plannning Consultant to create a comprehensive plan identifying current and potential public access points along the East Branch of the Delaware Stream Corridor, a marketing and design plan,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 4:10 pm
A recent action by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ensures that New York City's efforts to push dirty water out of the Ashokan Reservoir throughout the fall and winter are going to cost the city big time. The DEC is fining the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 11:18 am
Giant hogweed: Photo from DEC In the midst of a tight new budget and a departmental hiring freeze, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has one job for which it is actually hiring: giant hogweed wrangler.
Thanks to funding set aside... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 8:55 am
The voters have spoken in Budget Travel's America's Coolest Small Town contest, and Phoenicia has come in 6th with 15,451 votes. (The winner was Lewisburg, West Virginia, with an astonishing 139,118 votes.)
Lewisberg has been the leader in the contest... Read more
By jjefferson on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 9:26 pm
And it's orange! Do these words have meaning for you: sleeping porch, honeysuckle, campfire, firefly? Do you like shabby chic and industrial chic? Do you hate the word chic? Do you love cottages, cabins, farmhouses and tents? Then you will like Country... Read more
By chachahut on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 5:32 pm
Wanted to mention an event we're having over in Andes this weekend at Cha Cha Hut BBQ - WHISKEY.MAPLE.LOCAL. We're soaking local brisket & pork belly in whiskey & maple syrup & smoking it over whiskey barrel wood from Tuthilltown Spirits... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 2:11 pm
The Bovina History blog has a tidbit today proving that -- alas -- the fine art of community newspaper writing has suffered since its nineteenth-century glory days. Ray LaFever writes:
In February 1880, the winter was the subject of discussion, as it is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 1:02 pm
Photo of snow on a Stamford hillside by Flickr user McGahee. Posted in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Michael Frank, writing for the online-only Adventure Magazine this week, has a special Valentine's message for the Catskills: he's sorry he ever thought... Read more
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