IT IS ALMOST SPRING

by John H. Vargo, Publisher

When I was a boy, perhaps 5 years old, my father and his brothers, (or anyone that was home from the war, yes that war, WW11), with cigarettes dangling from their mouths, and a continuing cough coming deep from their lungs, would gather up their home made pool cue fishing rods, a brown bag with a couple of sandwiches in it and perhaps an apple or if we were real lucky an orange, and prepare to go striper fishing at Oscawana Railroad Sta- tion. This would be in March, and there may have been snow still under the Hemlocks. We would stop at Lou’s Sporting Goods, or to save time someone would have gone to Lou’s the night before to pick up a dozen bloodworms paying all of $3.50 for them.   Read More....

Many of you have seen the youtube videos of docks, boats and everything else being torn out of Catskill Creek during Hurricane Irene in late August 2011.

Of all the waterfront areas of upstate New York and the Hudson River hurt by Irene, the area that was affected most was in Catskill, NY. READ MORE