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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 19, 2012 - 2:01 pm
Above and below: Rosa Isela De Los Santos, right, and her family. Photos by Julia Reischel.
Last August, Rosa Isela De Los Santos felt some pain in her stomach. When she went to the doctor, she discovered that she had gastric cancer.
Since then, De Los... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Jul. 19, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Editor's note: Recently, I wrote about a press release sent by Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills's office, concerning a voluntary inmate work program at the county jail. Our story -- entitled "Delaware County sheriff nostalgic for chain gangs" -- pointed... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Jul. 19, 2012 - 12:16 pm
Above: The SUNY Delhi culinary team posing after winning the American Culinary Federation National Championship. Left to right: Stephanie Wickert, Leonard Messina, Edward Maley, team captain Matthew Howard, and James Russell. Photo Courtesy of SUNY Delhi'... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Jul. 19, 2012 - 11:11 am
Above: Maple Shade Farm.
This weekend, the Bloomville and Delhi fire departments are joining together for the first annual FireFest fundraiser to benefit both departments. Among the events planned for the fest are skills competitions where firemen will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2012 - 1:55 pm
This just in from the National Weather Service: A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Ulster and Dutchess Counties until 2:15pm.
Watch out for quarter-sized hail, high winds, and cloud-to-ground lightning,, Northern Dutchess and East Central... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2012 - 12:32 pm
The driver of a Jeep Cherokee that collided with a ShortLine bus on Route 42 in Monticello yesterday has been pronounced dead, a New York State Police press release said.
Yesterday afternoon, according to the press release, the driver of the Jeep clipped... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Above: H.P. and Wellington, a couple of the Watershed Post's resident (legal) backyard chickens. Photo by Lissa Harris.
In today's Walton Reporter: The village of Walton, where no chicken may legally roost, is debating whether to allow backyard poultry.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2012 - 10:33 am
Our Faces of the Flood photographer, Christopher Auger-Dominguez, is blogging about his experience photographing subjects around the Catskills after Tropical Storm Irene. Here's his entry for our first subject, Bill Lonecke:
Faces of the Flood: Bill... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2012 - 10:11 pm
Above: Earlier this evening at Kaaterskill Falls.
The usually mighty falls have been reduced to a trickle by a mild winter and a record-breaking hot summer with little rain. Evidence of Irene and Lee's late-summer fury is still evident on the tree limb-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2012 - 9:54 pm
In the wake of an announcement that the HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley is planning to close Kingston Hospital, the Daily Freeman did some digging around in HAHV's recent tax records. They found a lot of red ink.
The Freeman reports that Woodland Pond... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2012 - 6:42 pm
Around 3:40pm, a Jeep Cherokee collided with a ShortLine bus on Route 42 in Monticello, leaving the driver of the Jeep critically injured and injuring many of the bus's passengers.
CatskillScoop reported around 3:45pm that members of the Catskills... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2012 - 10:06 am
Above: Early morning fishing at the Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskills. Photo submitted to our Flickr Pool by Timothy E. Cox.
We've been getting a lot of great photos in our Flickr group pool lately. Below, please enjoy some gorgeous shots of local... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 9:26 pm
The morning after Tropical Storm Irene, Yvonne Reuter, Kitty Leer, and Elizabeth Leer woke up to find flood waters rising around Reuter's home in Fleischmanns, NY. Here's the story of how they escaped -- and how that morning changed their lives.
Video... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 8:02 pm
Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein, with Ulster County Department for the Environment Coordinator Amanda LaValle and Riverkeeper's Kate Hudson, at a press conference on the Draft Consent Order held at the Saugerties Beach last month. Photo courtesy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 5:12 pm
Above: Photo of prisoners working on a South Carolina chain gang, taken in 1934 by Alan Lomax. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Update, 7/19: Sheriff Tom Mills has written a very thoughtful response to the story below. Click this link to read it.
File under: We... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 2:12 pm
Lightning struck an RV at Yogi Bear Jellystone Park in the Ulster County town of Gardner on Sunday, setting it on fire, according to a news story in today's Daily Freeman.
Four Long Island children were inside the RV when it the lightning struck, setting... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 12:35 pm
Above: 22-year-old Zan Strumfeld browses through some of the many used books available at this year’s Elting Memorial Library Fair. Photo by Andrew Wyrich.
Bookworms from across the Catskills crawled throughout New Paltz last weekend for the 56th annual... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 16, 2012 - 10:00 am
A little rain over the weekend was welcome, after a summer that's been unusually dry so far. But upstate New York is still pretty parched, raising the risk of wildfires, causing normally gushing streams to run at a trickle, and threatening drinking water... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 14, 2012 - 2:00 pm
Above: Yvonne Reuter stands in front of "Villa Yvonne," her house in Fleischmanns. Reuter, her 90-year-old mother, and her 14-year-old niece escaped from here by walking through waist-high floodwaters during Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Christopher... Read more
By wateradmin on Saturday, Jul. 14, 2012 - 1:49 pm
Yvonne ReuterPart-time residentFleischmanns, Delaware County
Above: Yvonne Reuter stands in front of "Villa Yvonne," her house in Fleischmanns. Reuter, her 90-year-old mother, and her 14-year-old niece escaped from here by walking through waist-high... Read more
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