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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 12:03 pm
The Delaware County town of Sidney will hold a public hearing on the town's proposed moratorium on gas drilling and heavy industry tonight (February 9) at 7pm, at the Sidney Civic Center on 21 Liberty Street.
Gas drilling has been a contentious issue... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 7:04 pm
Photo of a Shandaken ambulance, from the Shandaken Ambulance Service's Facebook page.
Like much of the rural Catskills, the town of Shandaken is a virtual black hole for cell phone coverage. Despite years of efforts by the town and its citizens to lure... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 12:16 pm
A New York Times headline yesterday: "After Early Gallop, Albany Slows to Crawl in Making Decision on Gas Drilling."
Reporter Mireya Navarro points to an accumulating pile of evidence that New York State's government is a good deal less enamored of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 10:18 am
Diane Brown, the director of the Community Foundation for South Central New York, called us this week to tell us that her organization has $100,000 to give away to flood-damaged nonprofits in Delaware, Broome, Chenango, Otsego and Tioga counties.
The... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Photo of Delaware County street signs by Mark Zilberman. Posted to the Watershed Post's Flickr group.
When is a tourist not a tourist?
Answer: When the only touring they're doing is from their hotel room to the spa to the gift shop in the lobby.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 11:43 am
Above: "Ella Underwater," a pixilation animation made at Flick Book Studios by student Ella Goldin.
In this week's Woodstock Times is a feature on local artist Keiko Sono, who teaches stop-motion animation to artists of all ages at Flick Book Studio on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 4:22 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that a fire at the Monticello Garden Apartment Complex on Moon Manor Road last night left a 6-year-old child dead:
The fire in Apt. No. 61 was reported at 9:27 p.m. Monticello firefighters and police arrived within 4... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Above: The grave of a 15-year-old Civil War soldier in Warren County, NY. Photo by Flickr user Diane Cordell. Published under Creative Commons license.
New York History has a feature story today about Laura Smith, a Wawarsing resident who works with a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 3:06 pm
The Daily Mail reports that 54-year-old Staten Island resident Matthew Falco died in a skiing accident on Windham Mountain on Saturday morning:
Matthew Falco, 54, was skiing the Upper Warpath trail, listed as an intermediate level trail, according to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 9:53 am
Above: A video from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation about the discovery of an 18th-century fort at the Schoharie Crossing State Historical Site.
The Irene floods swept away a lot of local history, including the 156... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:17 pm
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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 9:59 pm
Looks like the Greene County village of Coxsackie is seeking a better claim to fame than "that place that got a nasty virus named after it": The village police force may soon be the subject of a reality show.
Last month, the Daily Mail reports, film crews... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:17 am
21-year-old Daniel Hughes of Highland was killed yesterday in a one-car accident on Route 9W in Esopus.
Mid-Hudson News reports that Hughes was the son of an Ulster County sheriff's deputy.
A press release from the New York State Police:
State Police at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 - 11:56 pm
Early in January, the Watershed Post's two-person staff trucked down to Kingston for a taping of "Kingston NOW." The episode, which aired last night on WRNN-TV, was about digital newsmaking, and featured us along with one of our favorite local self-made... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 - 3:26 pm
Above: WEWS-TV video from the Groundhog Day ceremonies at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, PA, Feb. 2, 2012.
Punxsutawney Phil, the nation's foremost prognosticating groundhog, saw his shadow at Gobbler's Knob this morning. By ancient tradition, this means... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 5:01 pm
Above: Black Blessed Night, by Two Dark Birds. Music video shot by Scott Kawczynski.
Two Dark Birds, the Pakatakan Mountain-based band that released its latest CD this fall, makes no bones about how much nicer it is in the Catskills than it is in New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 3:41 pm
The good folks at the Kingston Library are on Twitter -- and today, they tweeted about a cryptic little article found in the vaults of the Kingston Daily Freeman, circa 1912.
The headline: "An Odd Accident." The rest you can read above.
Shavertown, as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:34 am
Photo: Jacob Heymann Butcher Shop, 345 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Taken in 1938 by WPA photographer Berenice Abbott. Source: Flickr.
Local farmer Shannon Hayes, who raises grass-fed pigs, cows, sheep and chickens at Sap Bush Hollow Farm in West Fulton,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 - 12:52 pm
A photo of a Catskills streambank post-Irene, from the Catskill Watershed Corporation website.
Five months after the Irene and Lee floods, streams all across the Catskills region are still clogged with downed trees, trash, pieces of trailers, and other... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 - 11:04 am
The late Vincent, a formerly-feral Phoenicia cat who adopted columnist Tom Rinaldo when he moved into the neighborhood.
Vincent arrived at our new property pretty much the same time we did. At least it seems that way now looking back. When we moved into... Read more
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