Sullivan Catskills

15/11/2024

The weather is gorgeous and we know it is going to be a great weekend in The Sullivan Catskills! Here are a bunch of fun events, what are you up to?

15/11/2024

Adopt Pineapple! ❤️

13/11/2024

🎉 Callicoon is bustling with feel good fundraising events this Saturday! Here's what's happening:

Designer Handbag Bingo 👜
1-5PM at Delaware Youth Center
• Support the Callicoon Business Association!
• Win designer bags valued up to $650 during 14 rounds of Bingo, pizza included
• Get tickets ($40 advance/$50 door): Text (917) 969-3485 or email [email protected]

Western Inn Ballroom Revival Gala ✨
4-11PM at Western Inn
• Help restore this historic ballroom!
• Enjoy a night of casino games, cocktails, dinner, live music & dancing, burlesque performances, and exciting silent & live auctions!
• Buy tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/2k8jry9f

Two great ways to support our community while having fun! Join us in keeping Callicoon vibrant. 🌟

13/11/2024

🎬 Don't miss this FREE special event! Join us at the The Callicoon Theater tomorrow, Wednesday, November 13 at 6PM for an advanced screening of 'She Moves in Search of Feeling'. A beautiful short film celebrating the The Sullivan Catskills by Jeffersonville's Coil + Drift studio.

Stay after the screening for an intimate conversation with filmmaker Peter Crosby and star Andrea Lanzetti, owner of Bodies & Plants in Livingston Manor!

RSVP: tinyurl.com/shemovescallicoon

See you at the Callicoon Theater! 🎥 ✨

11/11/2024

📣 The Sullivan County NY Bureau of Fire urges everyone not to burn outdoor fires at this time in the Sullivan Catskills. Please be extra cautious as even a small spark can cause devastating damage in these dry conditions. Let's work together to keep our beautiful region safe! 🌲

Remember, outdoor fires include: campfires, burn piles and any other outdoor burning.

10/11/2024

🎉 The Sullivan Catskills business community keeps growing! We celebrated 3 ribbon cuttings in Jeffersonville yesterday - welcoming Cuppie Cake Desserts, Double D Sourdough, and Toast to NY Route 52! Stop by and support these amazing new local businesses 🎀 ✨ Congratulations to all!

08/11/2024

☀️ We are so glad its the weekend! It is the perfect time to honor our veterans🎖️ Take a look at the list of Veterans Day events below & click through all the other happenings in the Sullivan Catskills this weekend!

Veterans Day Events:
Saturday, November 9
🎖️ Woodbourne: 1 p.m. – The 26th Annual Veterans Day Parade

Monday, November 11
🇺🇸 Bethel: 11 a.m. – Veterans Day Services at Veterans Park
🇺🇸 Eldred: 11 a.m. – Service at Heroes Park
🇺🇸 Grahamsville: 11 a.m. – Flag-Raising Ceremony at Grahamsville Rural Cemetery, followed by ceremony at Neversink Town Hall
🇺🇸 Liberty: 5-7 p.m. – Spaghetti dinner at Liberty Elks Lodge #1545 (Veterans eat free!)
🇺🇸 Long Eddy: 11 a.m. – Veterans honor ceremony & luncheon at Long Eddy Fireshouse
🇺🇸 Monticello: 9 a.m. – Landfield Avenue Synagogue ceremony
🇺🇸 Monticello: 10:30 a.m. – Sullivan County Government Center ceremony
🇺🇸 Summitville: 9 a.m. – Service at Summitville Firehouse
🇺🇸 Wurtsboro: 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. – VFW Post services

07/11/2024

Last week we celebrated the grand opening of Two Farms Brewing company in Bloomingburg, NY! 🍺 Stop by this weekend for delicious small-batch beers crafted with ingredients grown right at Winterton Farms. The weather is perfect to enjoy The Catskills this weekend!

05/11/2024

Contest closed! 🎸GIVEAWAY! 🎉 Enter to win a fun weekend away in the charming hamlet of Barryville, NY! Featuring 2 tickets to see Dylan Smucker at the Black Velvet Lounge, delicious local food & a lovely stay at Stickett Inn. All located in The Sullivan Catskills!

Prize includes:
🎸 2 tix to Dylan Smucker at Black Velvet Lounge on 11/16
🌲 A 2-night stay, at Stickett Inn 11/16 to 11/18
🍔 Dinner for 2 at the River’s Edge NY on 11/16
🌮 Lunch for 2 at Barryville Oasis on 11/17
🍝 Dinner for 2 at Back To Bakers on 11/17
🥞 Brunch for 2 at The Hungry Goat Cafe on 11/18
🛍️ A Sullivan Catskills Swag Bag

How to Enter:
1. Follow all these businesses that are participating!
• Sullivan Catskills
• Stickett Inn
• Back to Bakers
• The Hungry Goat Cafe and Creamery
• Barryville Oasis
• River’s Edge NY
2. Leave a comment on this post about why you want to visit Barryville & tag who you are bringing with you!
3. For an extra entry, share this post & tag us!

Contest runs November 5th to November 11th and winner will be notified November 11th.

📸 7th pic at Back to Bakers by on IG

01/11/2024

Take a look at all the events going on, it's shaping up to be a busy weekend in The Sullivan Catskills! What you are up to? 🍁

31/10/2024

👻 On this spooky Thursday in The Catskills, learn about the history of Burn Brae Mansion from Catskills Paper Trail

“Singer Sewing Machine Company president George Ross MacKenzie and seven of his children each built their own summer mansions in Glen Spey. Our subject today, Burn Brae, the home of George’s daughter Margaret Ross MacKenzie Elkin, is one of the three that remain. [photos 1-4]

And some say it’s haunted.

But first: I tumbled down the rabbit hole of the Real Scottish Americans of Sullivan County. This bonnie landscape reminded the elder MacKenzie of his native Scotland, so in 1880 he renamed the hamlet of South Lebanon, Glen Spey.

Some or all of the MacKenzie dynasty mansions were likely designed by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh, whose credits include the Waldorf Astoria, the Plaza Hotel, and the Dakota.

And this seems very “rich people of the 1800s”: the MacKenzie estate was once stocked with deer and elk in a large enclosed area. “The animals flourished well in their new habitat and increased rapidly,” reported the Waterbury Evening Democrat in 1898.

Today, Burn Brae is a bed and breakfast, motel, and venue hosting murder mysteries and paranormal investigations, run by Pat and Mike Fraysse. It’s a well-established Halloween destination, with their Dark Forest Fright Trail turning 30 this year.

Reports of paranormal activity at the 116 year-old estate, spanning four decades, includes doors opening and slamming, children’s voices, unexplained animal sounds, organ music, balls bouncing, and the apparitions of a woman in white, a man in turn-of-the-century clothing, and a more modern man in overalls.

And if you want to get spooked by long-ago missed real estate opportunities, Mike mentioned that the Tiffany windows over the staircase were probably worth more than they paid for Burn Brae in the early 90s.

But most exciting to me was discovering that the small lake at the Glen Spey crossroads was most likely MacKenzie’s Lake, and that potentially 2 structures dating to their era are still there! I was lurking around getting photos of the roadside stone entryway to what might have been the mansion called Bel Air, or possibly even George Ross MacKenzie’s mansion [pic 6], and went to look at the lake since I’ve long been intrigued by the small structure on the little island [pic 7]. I found a wee boat house almost totally covered in overgrowth [pic 8]. You can see them both in the early 1900s postcard image [pic 9], and it looks like there used to be a bridge to the island. The card image shows them from a different angle than my photos [pic 10 shows boathouse, island would be further into lake to the left of photo”

🎃 Follow Catskills Paper Trail & read a bit more about the Burn Brae Mansion here: https://tinyurl.com/hnh3t283

31/10/2024

🎉 Upward Brewing Co. turns 5 this weekend! Celebrate tomorrow night starting at 6pm with live music from The Dave Walton Band 🎸

30/10/2024

🎇Make plans to celebrate Diwali tomorrow at Villa Roma Resort & Conference Center, all are welcome!

30/10/2024

Thank you Sullivan County Firefighters!

We at Catskills News Talk would like to take a moment to thank all of our local firefighters and emergency personnel for the exceptional job they have been doing. These past few weeks have had many large scale blazes that they have handled, with many companies throughout the area coming together and working in conjunction to keep our community safe. Thank you!

30/10/2024

$31 off adoptions starting Halloween day through Sunday!🎃👻🕸️💜🐈‍⬛🐶🐾

🕷️You can get a head start on the adoption process by submitting an application at sullivanspca.org/adopt

29/10/2024

📣 There are so many fun things going on this week! Click to see them all ⬇️ What are you up to?

28/10/2024

📣 Foodies! Restaurant Week has officially started! Try a new restaurant this week & enjoy a special menu only available till November 10th. For a full list of Sullivan Catskills restaurants participating, click here https://tinyurl.com/yckzp2tu