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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Linda Norris, an independent museum professional based in Treadwell, first set foot in Ukraine in the dead of winter two years ago. One of the first things she noticed was that it wasn't that different from January in the Catskills.
Over the months since... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 2:25 pm
If you're new to grass-based livestock, take a look at this educational tool "Prescribed Grazing Management" from the Watershed Agricultural Council. There's more to growing great grass (and putting weight on a market-bound animal) than meets the eye. If... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 1:54 pm
In an increasingly digital age, when so many time-honored skills and crafts seem poised on the lip of the dustbin of history, it's refreshing to know that there are a few traditional craftspeople still keeping the faith.
Take, for instance, analog... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 1:43 pm
Farmhearts is sponsoring a fellowship in collaboration with the Farm to Market Program of the Watershed Agricultural Council (WAC). The fellow will work with the Farm to Market Program and focus on beginning farmer programming.
The mission of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 12:06 pm
For the nine million people who drink New York City water, the city buying a few thousand acres of upstate land each year hardly registers as news. But in the towns whose fields and forests make up New York City's million-acre Catskill/Delaware watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 10:28 am
If you're one of those people who just can't get enough of cows, barns, fresh eggs and homegrown tomatoes -- and, let's face it, you probably wouldn't live here if you didn't have an endless capacity for these things -- you might want to tune into WJFF... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 9:34 am
The Croton Reservoir: Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Times had a neat article yesterday about the history of the New York Public Library building, which stands on what once was the Croton Reservoir.
The reservoir opened for business in 1842 as the city's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 6:32 pm
If you bought propane gas -- or got it delivered -- between February 25 and September 30 of last year, be warned: Distributor Aux Sable announced a massive recall today, after it was discovered that some of the gas they shipped (sold under a variety of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 3:07 pm
The AP is reporting that icing problems are forcing Central Hudson to turn of its natural gas service to hundreds of customers in Ulster County for several days, just in time for a very cold snap.
The Ulster County Red Cross is opening an overnight... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 2:27 pm
The Mountain Eagle had coverage today of last Thursday's Board of Education meeting in Stamford, which reportedly became an impromptu protest of a popular music teacher's firing from Stamford Central School.
Pamela West-FinkleAccording to the article,... Read more
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