More Rain Expected

More rain is expected over the next several days. While many of the thunderstorms passed by the area Thursday night, expect more Friday and into Saturday.

Plummer Wins in Sharon

Doug Plummer is the new Mayor of Sharon Springs. In the race to replace outgoing Mayor Omer Cousineau, Trustee Plummer defeated Dennis Tobin 71-54 (57-43%). Jeff White, Jim Navilio, and Denise Kelly all won seats on the Village Board.

Plummer stated, "Truly honored to be able to continue to serve this wonderful community that we all love." on his Facebook profile.

Cobleskill Wrangles over Water

The Village of Cobleskill is still deciding how to manage its water district, especially in light of the recent plan for its expansion. At its May meeting, questions arose about the continuation of charging 1.5 times the rates for out of Village residents in the water district, which is opposed by Mayor Galasso.

SALT Hosting Bounty of the County June 30th

SALT is hosting the Bounty of the County Artisan's Market and a brunch on Sunday, June 30th on the DAR lawn. The event at 368 Main Street in Schoharie is being sponsored by the Apple Barrel and Hessian Hill farms and will take place between 11 am and 5 pm.

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Budget Passes, Tax Hike At MCS

Middleburgh voters approved the 2013-2014 budget on the second go around. The budget was approved by a 592-414 (59-41%) margin. The new budget raised taxes by 2.68 percent, significantly lower than the initial proposal. This was still above the zero percent threshold proposed by MCS School Board member Mike Fisher. Total spending increases by .2% to $20,189,799-- a $39,308% increase. Still, with a declining tax base after Irene, the tax rate per property increased at a higher rate than the budget's expansion.

About us

To Contact Us:

By phone: 518-763-6854 (cell-- call or text) or 607-652-5252

Email: mountaineaglenews@gmail.com

Fax: 607-652-5253

Mail: The Mountain Eagle / PO Box 162 / Schoharie NY 12157 or PO Box 278 / Stamford NY 12167

A Brief History

The Mountain Eagle was founded in 1982 in a collaboration led by Don Conover. Expanding rapidly, the newspaper soon became the read of choice for much of the northern Catskills. After a series of corporate owners starting in 1993, the newspaper changed-- and shrunk in both coverage and areas covered. We owe our original spark and growth to Mr. Conover.

The Schoharie News was an online-only newspaper founded by Timothy Knight of Middleburgh in 2013. It served as the community's only exclusively online news outlet from 2013-2016.  In September of 2014, Mr. Knight sold it to Robert Panico, also of Middleburgh, who ran the internet paper for five months. Mr. Knight briefly brought it to print from May-August 2015. Mr. Knight, who worked as a freelance reporter for the Mountain Eagle from July 2014 to February 2015, returned as editor and owner of the Schoharie News on Tuesday, February 24th 2015, replacing Mr. Panico as the sole proprietor.

On September 16, 2016, Matthew Avitabile from Middleburgh purchased the online Schoharie News and brought it to print in October 2016. He then purchased the Mountain Eagle from Columbia-Greene Media, combining the two publications. Now combined, the Mountain Eagle and Schoharie News serves Schoharie, Delaware, and Greene Counties, as well as two towns each in Otsego and Ulster Counties. The publication is now published through a partnership by him, Patrick Billings, and Robert Panico under Upstate Weekly News LLC.

The new model combined a number of young, aspiring writers and bringing alums of the Mountain Eagle, Windham Journal, Times Journal, Catskill Mountain News, and Times Union together to create a number of unique perspectives and skillsets. Our goal is to be a non-partisan source of local news without any national coverage and little statewide commentary except for issues affecting our area directly. All of our news is locally-derived and does not include any wire services. All services except for printing, provided by the Albany Times Union, is done in-house by our team.

We currently sell at 136 retail outlets and offer same-day mail delivery to nearly 40 post offices across the region. We are the largest geographical weekly in the Catskills and largest by paid circulation published in Schoharie County.

The Mountain Eagle and Schoharie News publishes each Friday, except for the weeks of Christmas and Thanksgiving, for 50 editions per year.

The newspaper has gone through several recent expansions:

- Oct 2016: Schoharie News goes to print

- Jan 2017: Mountain Eagle and Schoharie News merge into one paper

- Feb 2018: New section: The Windham Weekly

- July 2020: New section: The Catskills Chronicle

- July 2021: New section: The Cobleskill Herald

- November 2021: Expanded section: The Schoharie News

- January 2023: Expanded section: The Mountain Eagle (Delaware County news, now includes Delhi)

- May 2023: Expanded coverage for Sharon Springs and expansion of distribution and coverage in Roseboom and Cherry Valley in Otsego County.

The current Mountain Eagle includes several publications in one newspaper-- the Mountain Eagle, the Schoharie News, the Windham Weekly, the Catskills Chronicle, the Cobleskill Herald, and the Tri-County News section.

Our current editors per section are:

A section - Mountain Eagle - Liz Page

B section - The Schoharie News - David Avitabile

C section - The Windham Weekly - Michael Ryan

D section, Tri-County News includes info from all of the other sections

E section - The Catskills Chronicle - Brian Sweeney

F section - The Cobleskill Herald - Joshua Walther (interim editor)

For more information, we are always available via phone (call or text) at 518-763-6854 or Monday-Wednesday at 607-652-5252. Our fax number is 607-652-5253. Email us at mountaineaglenews@gmail.com.