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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

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

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

NORTH BLENHEIM - It was a perfect day for an antique car show at the New York Power Authority's Visitor's Center in North Blenheim Sunday. There was not a chance of rain, it was warm but not hot, and the cars and trucks filled the beautiful lush fields of the complex. The show, the 55th for the Schoharie Valley Region Antique Automobile Club of America, was one of the most attended with more than 125 vehicles and hundreds of visitors.

The 59th Annual Gas Up filled two weekends with antique engines, tractors, demonstrations, great food, live music, homemade ice cream, and family fun along with a celebration of Flag Day, Father's Day, and the First Day of Summer. The show was presented by the HUDSON-MOHAWK CHAPTER of the PIONEER GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION, Inc. The show is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of mechanical means of a bygone era.