NARROWSBURG, NY — Sullivan County Legislator Robert Doherty, seen at center in photo at right, presented a $5,000 check to the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, (UDSB) on June 26 as his District 1 Discretionary Funds contribution to the second annual Festival of the Founding Fish. 

Accepting the funds were Program Manager John Pizzolato, left; City of Port Jervis representative Teresa Spradling; UDSB Committee Vice-chair and Town of Delaware representative Rosie DeCristofaro; and UDSB Committee Secretary/Treasurer and Town of Cochecton representative Larry Richardson. Other members participated via Zoom. 

Activities from May 20 through 28 at the festival included an Upper Delaware Shadfest theme at the Barryville Farmers’ Market, an Angler’s Trade Fair and Shad Shindig at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History in Narrowsburg, a Youth Fishing Day with students from the Homestead School, a healthy-foods program from A Single Bite, lessons by the National Park Service and local casting experts, and a UDSB 20th anniversary Shadfest Bus Run trip from Port Jervis to Hancock and back. The last offered numerous community stops and on-board narration by Sullivan County Historian John Conway. 

The festival sponsors for 2023 were the Delaware Company, the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, the Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association and Sullivan County government.