ANDES COMMUNITY DAY PARADE – September 2023

ANDES COMMUNITY DAY PARADE - September 2023

A perfect day for a parade!

FROM DINGLE HILL: BEWARE THE MENACING BEAUTIES – August 2023

FROM DINGLE HILL: BEWARE THE MENACING BEAUTIES - August 2023

Beware of Multiflora Rosa – highly invasive.

HUNTING TAVERN MUSEUM PROGRAMS DURING AUGUST – August 2023

HUNTING TAVERN MUSEUM  PROGRAMS DURING AUGUST - August 2023

A schedule of August happenings at The Hunting Tavern Museum.

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS – August 2023

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS - August 2023

As we bid farewell to the 2022-2023 school year and eagerly look forward to the upcoming school year,

BOOK REVIEW – Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen – August 2023

BOOK REVIEW - Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen - August 2023

Chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by Publisher’s Weekly, Vogue, and The New Yorker, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Activities of Daily Living is a debut novel that feels as if it’s written by a self-confident and experienced craftsman.

Juicy Summer Performance at Squid Farm – August 2023

Juicy Summer Performance at Squid Farm  - August 2023

Squid Farm is hosting an evening of music and dance in celebration of Andes Community Day.

THRIFT SHOP HOURS – August 2023

Thrift Shop Hours

HIGHLIGHTS FROM JULY TOWN BOARD MEETING – August 2023

HIGHLIGHTS FROM JULY TOWN BOARD MEETING - August 2023

Andes was awarded a $10,000 O’Connor Foundation grant to purchase two new AED (automated external defibrillator) units for the Town Hall and highway garage.

New Books – August 2023

New Books - August 2023

New books and DVD’s available this month.

LIBRARY NOTES – August 2023

LIBRARY NOTES - August 2023

All events happenings during July and August.

THE WAY WE WERE – August 2023

THE WAY WE WERE - August 2023

President Hardings death, Perch Lake as a resort, and other tid bits of the day.

ANDES SENIOR CLUB – August 2023

Notice regarding Senior Club Meeting

MY JULY 4th – August 2023

Michael details how he spent his 4th of July.

COMPLETE JULY PDF FILE – July 2023

You may view in PDF format.

ACS SCIENCE FAIR NOTICE – July 2023

ACS SCIENCE FAIR NOTICE - July 2023

Andes Central School held a very successful 2023 Science Fair for PreK-12th grade students on May 16, 2023. 

THE BIG ANDES HOEDOWN – July 2023

A community fundraising square Dance announcement to benefit the Andes Food Pantry and the Andes Fire Department.

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS – July 2023

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS - July 2023

Our new exhibition, “Wish You Were Here: Real Photo Postcards of Andes” opens July 8 at the Hunting Tavern.

COMMUNITY DAY AUGUST 12 TOWN BOARD QUESTIONS USE OF BOHLMANN PARK FOR EDIBLE GARDEN – July 2023

COMMUNITY DAY AUGUST 12 TOWN BOARD QUESTIONS USE OF BOHLMANN PARK FOR EDIBLE GARDEN - July 2023

Various town reports

THRIFT SHOP HOURS – July 2023

Webster Paving blacktopping in front of the Old Fire Hall on Friday, October 17th. Thrift Shop customers and volunteers will be thrilled with this improvement.

Summer Thrift Shop Hours

BOOK REVIEW – THE GREAT FIRE BY SHIRLEY HAZZARD

BOOK REVIEW  - THE GREAT FIRE BY SHIRLEY HAZZARD

  Yet The Great Fire is a great read. It is the kind of book that you read leisurely, one that you appreciate for its wonderful prose—each descriptive sentence a small masterpiece.

OUR PLACE – July 2023

   Our Place meets most Wednesdays at St. James Church, 55 Lake Delaware Drive, Delhi, from noon to 2:30 p.m

DELAWARE COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT TOUR – July 2023

Have you ever wondered if your recycling efforts make a difference? Take a tour of the Delaware County Solid waste Management Center in Walton – such an interesting and enlightening article.

NEW BOOKS – July 2023

NEW BOOKS - July 2023

New Books and DVDs this month.

LIBRARY NOTES – July 2023

LIBRARY NOTES - July 2023

Pam encourages us to take part in the Four County Library Road Trip .

THE WAY WE WERE – July 2023

THE WAY WE WERE - July 2023

One interesting tidbit from 100 years ago: After September 1, it will be unlawful for gypsies or others to tell fortunes in this state.

ADJUSTING – July 2023

Diane recaps our Spring and early Summer weather.

ANDES SENIOR CLUB – July 2023

Notice regarding Andes Senior Club

ANDES SOCIETY FOR HISTORY & CULTURE – July 2023

July Schedule for ASHC

A POEM ABOUT ANDES – July 2023

An AI poem about Andes

HOMETOWN HERO BANNERS AND FLAGS – JUNE 2023

HOMETOWN HERO BANNERS AND FLAGS - JUNE 2023

DELORES SOMELOFSKI – June 2023

DELORES SOMELOFSKI  - June 2023

   Today, May 10, at the Shaver Hollow cemetery, I said last goodbyes to my friend Delores. She was a happy person, robust and young at heart. We were friends, which meant as much to me as the store does.

HOLD AND HAUL” SEPTIC SYSTEM AND A NEW ROAD TO ACCESS LANDLOCKED PROPERTY ON AGENDA – June 2023

Andrew Didio presented a client’s proposal regarding 391 Little Dingle Hill Road. They wish to build a septic system to service a new guest house on their property. This system would be a “hold and haul” system, as the hillside of the sector next to the guest house has a steep pitch that would not accommodate a leach field system.

ERIC VAN BENSCHOTEN JOINS THE PLANNING BOARD PROPOSAL TO ALLOW ATVs ON TOWN ROADS – June 2023

   Privilege of the Floor: Chris Caiazza presented a proposal to allow all terrain vehicles (ATVs) legal access to drive on town roads. They are a club of ATV users and feel regulating ATV road privileges will be a safer alternative to current unregulated road use. The Town Board will check with their attorney and discuss the matter for further review. No decision was made regarding the proposal.

FROM DINGLE HILL: HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD AM I WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO DO A “GREEN” THING? – June 2023

   I was planning to write about the pair of chickadees I saw, mating about 3 feet in front of me…then my plan changed. An article I saw in the Washington Post this morning stopped me cold.

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS – June 2023

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS - June 2023

The Hunting Tavern Museum is open every Saturday from 11-4 pm. Please join us for Patrice Lorenz’s show of her paintings inspired by the writings of John Burroughs, Roxbury-born naturalist. The Parthenia Davis Gift Shop is open also, with selections of Burroughs writings, as well as books on the Anti-Rent War, NYC Reservoirs and local history.

BOOK REVIEW – The Son by Jo Nesbo – June 2023

BOOK REVIEW - The Son by Jo Nesbo - June 2023

At first I thought that The Son fell into a separate category, that of sheer virtuosity. It’s no accident that it was chosen for the Black Lizard Vintage Crime Collection, which includes classics such as The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon.

THE ANDES ACADEMY OF ART – June 2023

THE ANDES ACADEMY OF ART - June 2023

   The Andes Academy of Art, mostly emanating out of the Streamside Yoga Building at 506 Main Street, is the brainchild of Peter Mayer, Erwin Karl and William Duke. It offers 4 prongs of experience.

LIBRARY NOTES – June 2023

LIBRARY NOTES - June 2023

     As I’ve previously mentioned in earlier editions of the Gazette, and as you may have heard via town meetings or the Reporter, we are in the planning stages of re-envisioning our library landscape to become an edible landscape that anyone can benefit from.

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS—Andes has A new principal – June 2023

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS—Andes has A  new principal - June 2023

Chris Aguirre and his wife own a small hops farm in Middlefield and have lived on and off in Otsego County and rural Alaska for 30 years.

THE WAY WE WERE – June 2023

THE WAY WE WERE - June 2023

When early in 1906, the State Department of Education ordered Andes to provide a new high school building the thoughts of the local school board naturally turned to the Collegiate Institute building and communication was opened with Mr. Hilton.

COMPLETE JUNE 2023 PDF FILE

PDF File for June 2023

Complete May 2023 PDF File

5 May 2023 Andes Gazette

THE WAY WE WERE – February 2023

Death announcements, February temperature statistics and other interesting tid-bits.

BOOK REVIEW: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – January 2023

A work of tremendous scope and ambition, this novel dares to imagine what it would take to protect the entire world from environmental collapse.

CATSKILLS CHARACTERS – December 2022

CATSKILLS CHARACTERS - December 2022

   The mural in the library is coming along “slowly but slowly,” as my husband would say. It’s the Catskills, after all. No “New York minute” around here! Rip Van Winkle is just waking up in the scene after sleeping 20 years. Hopefully I won’t take that long!

COMPLETE PDF FILE FOR JUNE 2022

PDF File for June 2022

LIVE-WIRE STUDENTS CREATE A LIVING FENCE – June 2022

LIVE-WIRE STUDENTS CREATE A LIVING FENCE - June 2022

By Buffy Calvert A living fence now surrounds the outdoor garden plots on Andes Central School grounds. For two weeks Ed McGee’s 7th and 8th grade science students and Sharon Tucker’s elementary art class have been hard at work removing sod and digging a trench 18 inches deep, extending the arc of the arbor previous…

OUR ANDES – June 2022

OUR ANDES - June 2022

Newly arrived Andes residents talk about our lovely hamlet.

GARDEN THERAPY: Perdy Persicarias – Fleeceflowers – June 2022

GARDEN THERAPY: Perdy Persicarias  - Fleeceflowers - June 2022

This article by Mel is all about “Fleeceblowers – or Persicarias”

BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT ON BUSSEY HOLLOW ROAD APPROVED; POTENTIAL CATSKILL HARVEST CARBON-NEUTRAL GREENHOUSE SENT TO PUBLIC HEARING – June 2022

Town of Andes Planning Board Meeting

PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON PROPOSED TRANSIENT RENTALS LAW; POTENTIAL TOWN GAS STATION SITES STILL LOOK PROMISING – June 2022

Town of Andes Board Meeting

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS – June 2022

HUNTING TAVERN NEWS - June 2022

A new roof being installed at the Hunting Tavern.

DEP POLICE GIVES HELICOPTER ORIENTATION TO ANDES FIRE DEPARTMENT – June 2022

DEP POLICE GIVES HELICOPTER ORIENTATION TO ANDES  FIRE DEPARTMENT - June 2022

The DEP Police showed their newest helicopter with its state-of-the-art technology to the Andes Fire Department and discuss ways the two organizations can work together in a state of emergency.

OUR ACS GRADUATES – June 2022

OUR ACS GRADUATES - June 2022

2022 Andes Graduates

THE WAY WE WERE – June 2022

THE WAY WE WERE - June 2022

“Was the Jury Hypnotized” is jus a wonderful read.

LIBRARY NOTES – June 2022

LIBRARY NOTES - June 2022

By Pamela West-Finkle Summer is here! Yay! We made it through another Catskill Mountain winter.  I’ve heard that phrase and said it to myself every year. I am happy to announce we have an action-packed Summer! In celebration of our Summer Reading Program “Oceans of Possibilities” and the 100th Anniversary of our library, I plan…

New Books – June 2022

New Books at the Library

BOOK REVIEW: Briefly noted – Earthly Remains by Donna Leon – June 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Briefly noted – Earthly Remains by Donna Leon - June 2022

As the New York Times critic Marilyn Stasio has said: “Donna Leon can do no wrong . . .  [Earthly Remains] is one of her best.”

RESCHEDULED LITTER PICKUP: JUNE 8TH AND JUNE 11TH – June 2022

Andes Litter Pick-up Rescheduled

THE WAY WE WERE – May 2022

THE WAY WE WERE - May 2022

How many of the older inhabitants remember the winter of 1873-4??? Read all about it.

OLD TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE IS OFFERED FOR SALE VIA SEALED BIDS Audit shows $124,000 Increase in Town General Fund – March 2022

OLD TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE IS OFFERED FOR SALE VIA SEALED BIDS Audit shows $124,000 Increase in Town General Fund - March 2022

Hamlet sidewalks, streetlamps, frozen water lines, mechanical issue at transfer station, and much more.

THE WAY WE WERE – March 2022

THE WAY WE WERE - March 2022

Town clerk issues a marriage license but left without tying the know – and other mini stories.

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS – March 2022

MOUNTAINEER TRACKS - March 2022

The third quarter began on January 31st.  I am pleased to report that nearly 75% of our 5-12 students were named to the Superintendent’s List, High Honor, or Honor Roll for the second quarter.

NEW BOOKS & DVD’S – March 2022

NEW BOOKS & DVD'S - March 2022

New books & DVD’s

LIBRARY NOTES – March 2022

Pam

Updated information on Library Cards and all that is new in the Library.

GARDEN THERAPY: The Sullied but Super Sumac – March 2022

GARDEN THERAPY:   The Sullied but Super Sumac - March 2022

Mel falls in love with the Staghorn Sumac.

MUSINGS ON TENNIS – November 2018

MUSINGS ON TENNIS - November 2018

Gino plays tennis on Andes’ courts, enjoys it, but realizes he doesn’t play like his 25-year-old self did.

Scenes from the 2018 Community Day Parade

Scenes from the 2018 Community Day Parade

Scenes from the 2018
Community Day Parade