Community

A Business Mixer/informational session on the upcoming hearings for the Belleayre Resort will be held Thursday, May 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Hanah Resort, Margaretville.
The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce and the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring the event. The information session is for chamber members, and will run from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Snacks will be provided and a cash bar will be available. 

Margaretville — The Open Eye Youth Theater Workshop and production of Sandra Fenichel Asher’s “Too Many Frogs” is scheduled for Monday through Friday, July 22 to August 2, with performances August 3 and 4. The theater camp for children ages 6-10 will run from 10 a.m. to noon.

By Brian Sweeney
The long-planned Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park and a significant expansion of Belleayre Mountain took steps forward last week with the opening of public review periods.

The Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park was announced more than 15 years ago by Crossroads Ventures and has faced a series of challenges, primarily from environmental groups. The project developers have refined their plan for the development, which would be built in Highmount, with portions in the towns of Shandaken and Middletown.

Lenghty process

Highmount — The proposed Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park will be located near the intersection of the boundaries of Delaware County and Ulster counties. The site consists of 739 acres adjacent to the existing state-owned Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.

The overall resort centers around two distinct hotels; Wildacres Resort with an 18-hole championship golf course and Highmount Spa Resort.

The following statistical information was provided by Crossroads Ventures, developers of the proposed resort:

Wildacres Resort

By Brian Sweeney
A proposed major expansion for the Belleayre Ski Center in Highmount was also announced last week by New York State.

Information on the public comment period is included in the Belleayre Resort above. The expansion is being proposed as part of Belleayre’s long-awaited Unit Management Plan.

By Jay Braman Jr.
Just as some groups have continued their decade-long opposition to plans for the Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, others groups have continued to voice their support for the $400-million plan.
As the public comment period on the latest set of plans begins, both sides are expected to offer opinions similar to those they voiced during reviews of previous project incarnations.

By Joe Moskowitz
It was the journey of a lifetime. It was a chance to see new things and sample different food, some of it very much alive and squirming. Arkville resident and Delaware and Ulster Railroad Executive Director Dave Riordan returned home last week after visiting his daughter, Kelsey in South Korea.
She is a graduate of Roxbury Central School and the Fashion Institute of Technology, but her current job has taken her thousands of miles from her home in Halcottsville. She teaches conversational English to what Americans might call middle school children in South Korea.

Mt. Tremper — The Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper is honored to have been chosen to host a gallery showing of the works of Manuel Pardo. The opening reception on Saturday, May 4 will include an appearance by renowned art expert and art aficionado David Frankel, editorial director for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

By Geoff Samuels
Walk into the American Legion Post 216 Hall in Margaretville right now and what you’ll see are concrete walls and bare studs. Don’t let that fool you. Don Kearney, the Legion’s finance director, says he hopes to start the Legion’s popular fund-raising Bingo game night back up at the hall sometime this May. He certainly has his work cut out.

By Brian Sweeney
“We Are What We Are,” a horror film shot last year in the Catskill Region, was picked up by eOne Distribution after screening at Sundance.

The Hollywood Reporter indicated that the U.S. rights to the film were acquired by eOne Distribution in a deal estimated to be in the low seven-figure range. eOne was reportedly one of several companies bidding on rights for the film.