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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 - 8:24 pm
Above: Video footage of the entire hour-and-a-half-long forum, which was also broadcast on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury. Video by Fred Margulies.
With incumbent Len Utter stepping down after over a decade in the position, and three independent candidates on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 - 3:40 pm
Photo of new street sign in Allaben sporting a Catskills Park disc logo. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
Stalwart Watershed Post correspondent Aaron Bennett has noticed a new crop of Catskill Park signage going up in Shandaken this week. (The first batch of new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 - 11:26 am
Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo's office announced more stops on his administration's ongoing tour of flood-damaged communities in upstate New York.
This afternoon, Environmental Facilities Corporation CEO Matthew Driscoll will visit Sidney and Margaretville... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 - 3:42 pm
The Olive Meet-the-Candidates Forum at the Olive Town Meeting Hall, October 22, 2011. Photo by Julia Reischel.
About 40 Olive residents turned out on Saturday morning on October 22 to meet their candidates for various town offices at a candidates' forum... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 - 3:09 pm
Detail of a map from Lamont Engineers showing how much of Delaware Engineering's 2007 design for the Phoenicia wastewater treatment plant they can build with existing funds. Green lines show Lamont's proposed sewer connections; red lines show connections... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 - 12:29 pm
The Watershed Post sponsored a meet-the-candiates forum for candidates running for office in the town of Andes on Sunday, October 23, 2011. The forum was moderated by Presbyterian pastor Steve Swanson and timed by Andes resident Jack McShane. The Andes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 - 10:16 am
Governor Andrew Cuomo's office announced this morning that several members of his administration will be touring flood-damaged communities in upstate New York this week, beginning this afternoon.
Today, Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy and Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 - 9:10 am
Photo taken October 15, 2011 by Flickr user scottnj. Published under Creative Commons license.
The fall foliage may be on its way out, but there's vivid color in the Catskills landscape if you know where to look for it. For instance: This proud, Pepto-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 - 2:06 pm
Footage from the First Annual Saugerties Zombie Crawl in 2010, by Zachary Coons.
The undead walk again in Saugerties, as the town plays host to a crew of shambling, rotting, groaning zombies. Tonght, October 22, is the second annual Zombie Crawl -- and... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 8:09 pm
Photo of the Bushkill Creek in Olive by Ed Ostapczuk.
I remember more vivid autumns. Then again, I don't remember mowing the grass in the middle of October. I think all this rain caused the leaves to drop before they turned their bright colors. Mother... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 4:01 pm
This just in from Dorothy Maffei, Margaretville's indefatigable flood relief volunteer organizer.
The village of Margaretville needs volunteers on Sunday, October 23 at 11am to help move unsorted donations to a warehouse. There are (ulp) two tractor-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 2:58 pm
1839 poster supporting the Anti-Rent movement in Nassau, New York. From Wikimedia Commons.
Much about the world has changed in the century and a half since the Anti-Rent War took upstate New York by storm, and the protest movement of the hour is a rather... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 1:02 pm
Yesterday, 60-year-old Chichester resident Stevan Alburty was arrested for allegedly harassing three different complainants, according to a press release issued by the Shandaken Police Department.
Alburty was charged with five counts of aggravated... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 12:52 pm
This just in from the Town of Shandaken Police: 68-year-old Algernon Reese, of Old Plank Road in Mount Tremper, has been arrested on charges that he used an excavator to dig a trench through a neighbor's property without permission, and disturbed a stream... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 9:44 am
Above: Flood-damaged bags of grain at Cave Mountain Brewing Co. in Windham a few days after Hurricane Irene. Via Facebook.
The Windham Chapter of the Catskill Mountain Foundation and the Windham Area Recreational Foundation (WARF), two Windham-based... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 2:38 pm
Last weekend's big flood benefit concert in New Paltz raised $52,000 for flood victims who were hit hard by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee on the Wallkill River in Ulster County.
The concert, which you can watch in full on the New Paltz Flood Aid website,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 1:01 pm
Cover of the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home; image from a 1966 photo taken by Barry Feinstein of Bob Dylan at the Aust Ferry in England.
The AP reports that Barry Feinstein, a longtime Woodstock resident who took many iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 11:01 am
Antlers: Too small (top) and large enough to kill (bottom): DECThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is expanding its antler-restriction program for deer hunting into a larger portion of the Catskills, in a bid to allow more young... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 9:42 am
FEMA will be running a mobile disaster recovery center in Cobleskill from Friday, October 21 through Monday, October 24, from 8am to 8pm each day.
A press release from the agency:
A Mobile Disaster Recovery Center (MDRC) will open for four days in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 - 11:54 am
Pink Pearl apple at Montgomery Place Orchards, an orchard and cidery in Red Hook, NY on the Cider Route. Photo from Montgomery Place's website.
The Apple Project, a scion of local farm advocacy group Glynwood, is sparking a revival of old-school... Read more
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