Government
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 1:15 pm
This map from the New York state education department depicts areas that are not served by public libraries. Many communities in Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties remain underserved.
With roof trusses going up this week,... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Shandaken Town Board. Left to right: Town Clerk Joyce Grant (D), Councilman Doris Bartlett (D), Councilman Alfie Higley Jr. (R), Supervisor Rob Stanley (R), Councilman Jack Jordan (R), and Councilman and Deputy Supervisor Vincent Bernstein (R). Photo by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 3:43 pm
Above: A satellite image of the turbid lower Esopus spilling into the Hudson River. From Google Maps.
The following letter, from New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) deputy commissioner Paul Rush, lays out the agency's reasoning... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
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A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 11:38 am
Lexington's new town council, left to right: John Berger, Dixie Baldrey (supervisor), William Pushman, Jo Ellen Schermerhorn, Lynn Byrne. Photo by Walter Severini.
Lexington, a small Greene County town that was the locus of some very strange political... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 7:05 pm
The leadership of the flood-ravaged Greene County town of Prattsville has been in limbo since November, when Republican Alan Huggins won the supervisor's race as a write-in candidate, then promptly resigned.
But last night, the Prattsville town board re-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 2:09 pm
Above: "David and Goliath," a cartoon by Gary Mayer showing Mike Hein as a stone-throwing David to NYC's Golaith, which ran on the Watershed Post a year ago.
Maybe Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is a bona-fide upstate firebrand representing the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:29 pm
A horrific murder of a 54-year-old woman made headlines in Ulster County and across the state last week. On December 21, Ann Gaffney was found beaten to death in her home on Old Route 209 in the Town of Hurley.
According to a press release from the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 - 6:05 pm
Above: Jeffrey Vollkommer of Delhi and Scott Burns of Bovina. At bottom of post: Clarence Vanier and Melody Vanier of Oneonta. All four were arrested last week and charged with oxycodone possession. Photos from the New York State Police.
Last week's bust... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 - 3:00 pm
A truck driver drove 40 feet off the New York State Thurway in Rosendale this morning and was flown to Westchester Medical Center with serious leg and chest injuries, according to a New York State Police press release.
Sixty-two-year-old Ralph Rickert, of... Read more
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