Upstate Dispatch

17/02/2025

Carolann's is a sweet hang-out spot here in the Catskills.

Carolann unintentionally transformed her desire for a café into a thriving restaurant, Carolann’s Cuisines, after a successful Pierogi Pop-Up during the 2020 lockdown. With a focus on locally…

16/02/2025

My friend Carolann has created a loving hang-spot with hearty winter fare. Come visit the Commons in Margaretville!

Carolann unintentionally transformed her desire for a café into a thriving restaurant, Carolann’s Cuisines, after a successful Pierogi Pop-Up during the 2020 lockdown. With a focus on locally…

03/02/2025

Maple Syrup in the news as one of six commodities expected to go up in price. In addition to syrup, a lot of the equipment used in US maple syrup production is imported from Canada. Tree Juice Maple Syrup

"If I buy goods that are domestically produced in the US, but that are produced using inputs from Canada, the price of those goods is also going to go up," [the economist] added.

Economists warn that the introduction of tariffs could lead to prices rising for consumers on a wide range of products.

13/01/2025

“Since I have benefited from making art, and it has been part of my healing journey, I want other people to have that opportunity. I want to help as many people as I can, providing the place and the materials, because I am passionate about art and what an incredible practice it is. You move emotions by making art.”

Make Your Own Art is open at weekends in to adults and children at Bea Ortiz Studio upstairs at the Commons in Margaretville. Suggested donation is $10 per person.

Fine artist Bea Ortiz, after facing health challenges, discovered healing through art. Since relocating to the Catskills, she established a project called “Make Your Own Art,” aimed at …

14/07/2024

Upstate Dispatch will be participating in the AMR Artists open studios tour on the last weekend of this month. Please visit. Maps are available at the Commons Building in Margaretville as well as businesses in the area.

Jenny Neal recounts her journey from attending the first open artists’ tour in 2012 to becoming a participating artist with her Upstate Dispatch Studio in its 10th anniversary year. She refle…

14/05/2024

Please join my friends at the Catskills Water Discovery Center for an event that will impart essential information on our ground water that every resident and home-owner should know.

In the Catskills, the omnipresent water from rivers, streams, and creeks requires ongoing protection efforts and is essential for New York City’s supply. The Catskills Watershed Corporation and rel…

09/05/2024

Dear Everyone! It finally happened, of course it did. We are having trouble promoting my Sandra Finkenberg exhibition on May 25th because Facebook doesn't like the nudity! Please support us. It will be a fantastic show and right in the middle of Memorial Day Weekend in lovely Margaretville. Sandy's work is gorgeous and she deserves to rake in some cash. We will have 15 - 20 dreamy nudes (oil on board) in the show, plus some finger food and frosty beverages. Please help promote her! Thanks, friends.

Sandy’s gorgeous, dreamy nudes rendered in oil on board, many done with a live nude model at a figure drawing group, are some of the Catskills’ most coveted art pieces.

26/04/2024

Thrilled to be presenting a show of Sandy Finkenberg's exquisite nudes in May, on Memorial Day Weekend.

Sandy’s gorgeous, dreamy nudes rendered in oil on board, many done with a live nude model at a figure drawing group, are some of the Catskills’ most coveted art pieces.

21/04/2024

My 18 x 24 Daily Catskills piece of Roxbury will be just one of the photographic works to be included in the AMR Artists this year. This piece is currently at Play Catskills waiting to be hung. The reception will be next Saturday April 27th! Details to follow.

31/03/2024

Just in time for early spring: the basics of foraging, free for all subscribers on my substack:

The Art of Foraging in Early Spring

05/03/2024

So proud to be featured in the Mountain Eagle for hosting the opening show of our figure drawing group in the Upstate Dispatch gallery. Oh my! My little gallery is on a roll and I'm getting praise for my curating skills. Who knew? Not me!

Thanks to Rob Brune for his wonderful reporting. William Duke for starting up the figure drawing group. Gary Mayer for continuing the group for us diehards throughout winter. Sandra Finkenberg (artwork pictured) who is going to be Upstate Dispatch's next solo show of the year; Bovina Farmer for his waxing lyrical and our brave models, thank you. I'm pleased to be an artist supporting artists of the Catskills.

Gallery opening hours are Saturdays Noon to 4pm, or by appointment.