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By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 12:19 pm
Spring has sprung, despite the thermometer and farmer's markets are beginning to pop up from their winter hiatuses. One that's literally popping up is the Stamford pop-up farmer's market, setting up at the historic Stamford railroad station this afternoon... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 9:47 am
The Daily Freeman reports that Saugerties police are looking for 46-year-old Jessica I. Plotnick, last seen around 1pm on Monday afternoon:
[Deputy police chief Joseph] Sinagra said Plotnick left her home driving a dark red 2001 Subaru Legacy with New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 3:08 pm
The Catskills are full of summer camps, one for every ethnicity. Carolyn Simmons of West Laurels, NY visited a Russian summer camp called OTRADNOYE in Swan Lake, Sullivan County back in 2009. The camp's brightly-colored campus was deserted when she was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 1:28 pm
To the editor:
Schoharie and Otsego counties are in my new Congressional District, the 19th C.D. Dutchess County is also in our 19th C.D., so we have the pleasure of being in the same C.D. as that wonderful progressive Joel Tyner, a 5 term Dutchess county... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 9:48 am
A Hurley man, 48-year-old John C. Benkert, has been arrested on charges of grand larceny and forgery after a five-month investigation into his business dealings.
State police say he stole over $360,000 from victims by convincing them to loan him money for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 10:50 pm
Walter Goodrich, a recently elected member of the Sidney town council and a 28-year veteran of the New York State Police, has died.
News of Goodrich's death was posted on Facebook today by a member of the Sidney Bi-Partisan Coalition, which campaigned on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Above: A juvenile American eel, sometimes called a "glass eel." Photo via the NY DEC website.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conversation announced today that the number of migrating American eels in the Hudson River may break some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 9:59 am
State officials have posted a Missing Child/College Student Alert for 20-year-old Ashley MacDonald, last seen in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh around 11pm on April 2.
MacDonald is described as 5'1" and 105 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Apr. 2, 2012 - 5:37 pm
Above: A 1957 timetable for the Pine Hill - Kingston Bus Corporation. Courtesy of Watershed Post reader Stu Silverman.
Sometimes, once-commonplace things must almost vanish before they are finally revered. Forgotten familiar items can spend decades in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 2, 2012 - 10:57 am
Above: The Times Herald-Record films the first cast of Opening Day on the Willowemoc Creek, with Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and actor Olek Krupa joining the crew of eager flyfishers.
April 1 was the first day of trout season in New York State -- and for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 1, 2012 - 3:58 pm
Lisa VanOrden, a 49-year-old Kerhonkson resident, died on Saturday, March 31 after a one-vehicle car crash on Samsonville Road in the town of Rochester.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that she was found unconscious in the car after her vehicle... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:19 pm
Above: Screenshot of a National Weather Service map showing the 24-hour snow accumulation forecast across the country, for March 31 through April 1. Note the red spot showing 80 percent probability of an inch or more, hovering right over the Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 5:22 pm
Above: Video taken by YouTube user mjanensch1 on Monday, August 29, 2011, showing heavy flood damage to Bridge Street and the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge over the Esopus Creek, knocked out of commission by the Irene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 12:46 pm
Photo courtesy of Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This summer, from August 2-5, will be the third annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Last year's festival culminated in a thrilling performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Phoenicia's Parrish Field,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:21 am
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012 - 5:04 pm
Stop-work order attached to the work site at Hanover Farms on Route 28, taped on top of the original building permit. Construction work continues unabated at the site. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
A Route 28 farmstand in Shandaken that has been embroiled in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012 - 11:22 am
On Monday, April 2, the Olive town board will hold a special public meeting to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the prospect of passing local legislation to ban it in the town.
Supervisor Berndt Leifeld said that there is broad agreement on the town board... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012 - 11:38 pm
Above: Chef Noah Sheetz and Frank Serpico (yes, that Serpico) make gnocchi. Photo courtesy of Green Peas TV.
On March 31, lovers of fine local grub and real-life adventure stories will gather at one of the Hudson Valley's newest venues, the Saugerties... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012 - 12:26 pm
Earlier this week, we reported that the Delaware County Planning Board is seeking to prevent a proposed gas ban in the town of Sidney from being enacted.
The Daily Star reports that another local conflict between a town and a county planning department is... Read more
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