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BOVINA -- Bovina Farm Day offers visitors a unique opportunity to connect with the land, meet local farmers, and experience the bounty and beauty of Delaware County farm life.

ROXBURY — Labor Day weekend in Roxbury reached its traditional crescendo Sunday evening as neighbors and friends gathered at Kirkside Park for an evening of food, games, dancing and fireworks, bringing one of the summer’s final big community celebrations to a joyful close.Now in its sixth year, the Roxbury Community Potluck has become a late-summer tradition organized by Friends of Roxbury members

FLEISCHMANNS — With cool mornings beginning to hint at autumn, Fleischmanns made the most of one of summer's final holiday weekends Sunday as Main Street filled with music, food, art, yard sales and neighbors for the village's annual Labor Day Street Festival.Before noon, vendors hurried through last-minute preparations while residents arranged the traditional assortment of yard-sale discoveries a

One hundred and fifty years ago, along the Ulster Delaware Turnpike, before it was to become Route 28, lines of men called Gandy Dancers laid down wooden ties, crushed rock ballast and rails. They inched the rails into place. Soon after, they would straighten those same rails. The rails would be constantly pushed out of line by the immense crushing weight of trains rumbling over them. They tapped

HOBART - The toes were tappin' and the hands were clappin' on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the village of Hobart, where an early full house was enjoying the Leatherstocking Jazz Orchestra.The mood was festive and the spirits were high as the sun came out to smile down on this humongous gathering of people enjoying local brews and sausage.Hobart Rotary Club member Andrew Flach was working the

BEDELL CEMETERY — This past Saturday, I had the honor of being invited to the unveiling of a marker dedicated to the memory of Revolutionary War veteran, Sylvenus Kelly. The Kelly family are indeed a remarkable group, among a remarkable group of families. I discovered a while back that there are families here in the Catskills with long memories. At screenings of "The Calico Rebellion," a film abou

DELHI — Materiality is a buzzword in contemporary art circles or to use another phrase, “the medium is the message,” and mediums do come to the fore in the works of Kelli Cain, and Anthony Chase. These two artists currently make up the two person show “One Dreams Up Another” at Bushel, the airy and welcoming art and performance collective in Delhi, New York. These artists’ compelling works, create

Story and Photographs by Lorcan OtwayGRAND GORGE — A new restaurant opened in Grand Gorge today. Time will tell if it is a pop up, or a long standing culinary institution which will become part of the family memories of generations of diners in our Catskill town. It is a partnership between sisters and cousins of a well loved and much needed business which serves this motoring hamlet. We all know

Story and Photographs by Lorcan OtwaySTAMFORD — The Venue for the magic show is the old train station, currently the home of the Stamford Historical Society. Passenger trains stopped coming here in 1954. Freight trains stopped coming to Stamford in the late 1970s. It is well preserved and full of the history of the village, bringing back my warm memories of Stamford in the 1960s and 1970s and inst

ROXBURY — Dear Neighbors, most know that I love to tell the stories of the people of the Catskills, their tough and creative lives. I love telling these stories because I have over the years had to tell the harder stories. I started in the occupied counties of Ireland in the mid-1970s. I then did general reporting in NYC, from crime to fashion journalism. I photographed fires, arrests, streets blo

MARGARETVILLE — The tantalizing smell of wood-smoke fills the air as meats sizzle in the big smokers outside of the clubhouse at the Meadows Golf Center in Margaretville. It’s Saturday night and Duane Wilkins, a master at turning out Southern-style barbecue, is on the job, over-seeing the wood-smokers. The fun and good eating is underway.  Barbecue lovers of all ages are heading to The Meadows Gol

ANDES — There are communities that hold annual festivals, and then there are communities that celebrate themselves. Andes Community Day once again demonstrated why this small Delaware County hamlet has become one of the most welcoming and vibrant places in the Catskills, as residents, visitors, volunteers and local organizations filled Main Street and neighboring businesses for a full day of festi