UPPER DELAWARE RIVER — Sullivan County Legislator Robert Doherty, center, presented a $5,000 check to the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, Inc. (UDSB) on June 26 as his District 1 Discretionary Funds contribution to the 2nd Annual Festival of the Founding Fish. Activities from May 20-28 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 Single Bite healthy foods program, and lessons by the National Park Service and local casting experts; and a UDSB 20th Anniversary Shadfest Bus Run roundtrip from Port Jervis to Hancock with numerous community stops and on-board narration by Sullivan County Historian John Conway. 2023 festival sponsors were The Delaware Company, Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association, and Sullivan County.