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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 - 10:24 am
Above: A lecture on the dangers of fracking organized by Friends of Sustainable Sidney on Tuesday at the Greater Maywood Rural Community Services Community Center.
A group called Friends of Sustainable Sidney is hoping that tonight's Sidney Town Board... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - 7:45 pm
Above: John Moffitt of Delaware Operations explains the planned upgrades to the Andes sewage treatment plant at the Andes Town Board Meeting on October 11, 2011.
Engineers described plans for a new $2.5 million Andes sewer upgrade at a tumultuous meeting... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - 6:14 pm
Photo of closed-off bridge to the village of Margaretville, in the town of Middletown, taken August 29, 2011. Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool by photographer Christopher Mooney.
Elected officials in Middletown are seeking to keep the town budget... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - 10:43 am
The Windham-Ashland-Jewett Board of Education is asking for the approval of town voters to borrow up to $4 million, through the sale of bonds and notes, to cover flood damages.
A vote on the measure will be held through a school bond election on November... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - 9:47 am
Above: Making cider at the Hubbell homestead. Photo by Julia Reischel.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with cider master Bob Hubbell, who oversees a 150-year-old, three-story cider press at Hubbell Companies in Kelly Corners... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 - 9:21 am
Video of flooding in Boiceville along Route 28, September 2011. By Youtube user foghat1987.
The floods of Irene and Lee have claimed another casualty: The Trail Motel, a longtime fixture on Route 28 in Boiceville. The Daily Freeman has a feature today... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 4:41 pm
Daniel R. FullingtonOn Sunday, October 9, 29-year-old Meredith resident Daniel R. Fullington was arrested and charged with rape in the first degree, in connection with a 911 call that was made reporting a sexual assault in the Town of Kortright on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 3:14 pm
Tempers flared at the regular Andes Town Board meeting today when a town resident accused the town's highway superintendent of being illiterate.
Town councilman Ritchie Gabriel was reading a report filed by Andes Highway Superintendent Michael McAdams... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 2:54 pm
Winter is icumen in. Photo of frost on leaves by Flickr user s.alt. Published under Creative Commons license.
This year, a federal program that one in five New York State households rely on to help pay their winter heating bills is likely to face drastic... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 10:16 am
In a stark contrast to our last installment of safety news, this month we are urging local residents to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. This month will also bring princesses, witches, ghosts, and more than likely a few werewolves to the region.
No... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 9:37 am
Above: A photographic tour of the enormous apple cider press at the Hubbell homestead. Click on the slideshow to open the the tour in a separate window. Photos by Julia Reischel.
It’s a good year for apples in the Catskills. Call it the silver lining of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 - 11:25 am
Photo of Pelikan fountain pen by Flickr user David Blackwell. Published under Creative Commons license.
We are pleased to announce a new regular feature on our website: The Watershed Post News Poem. Every week, we'll be bringing you some form of ode,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 - 5:06 pm
Dana Elizabeth RiceThe body of 54-year-old Dana Rice, a Kingston resident who has been missing since September 29, was found at the bottom of a steep embankment in the town of Ulster on Friday night, according to a press release issued by the Ulster... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 - 12:43 pm
Italian street artist Paolo Buggiani rides a flaming bicycle down Main Street in front of the Andes Hotel on Friday, October 7, 2011.
Diners on the porch of the Andes Hotel on Friday evening got a little spectacle along with their supper: A brief but... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 10:14 pm
Video: New York State senator John Bonacic inspects flooding at the Amphenol manufacturing facility in Sidney on September 9, 2011. From Bonacic's YouTube channel.
After sustaining major damage from flooding twice in five years, Amphenol -- one of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 8:53 pm
Dana Elizabeth Rice
Ulster County detectives are searching for 54-year-old Kingston resident Dana Elizabeth Rice, missing since September 29, 2011.
From a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
On 10/4/11, this agency began examining... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Photo by Flickr user Jeremy Bernstein. Published under Creative Commons license.
Help! We have too many capital letters in the alphabet as we try to repair damage from Hurricanes Irene and Lee and the recent deluge. I am convinced that if we could just... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Above: A sinkhole on southbound Rte. 145 in Middleburgh. Photo by Martin Rivas.
Martin Rivas, a New York City-based singer-songwriter, has been sending us updates about Middleburgh after Irene. (Rivas owns a house in Middleburgh.) Here's his latest... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 9:37 am
Jenn Schuman, the president of the Greater Roxbury Learning Initiative Corporation, sent us these photos of Roxbury Central School students talking about homegrown food and gardening at the Margaretville Hospital Health Fair yesterday.
The students... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 - 3:04 pm
It looks like the fast-growing Occupy Wall Street movement will come to the Catskills on October 29. Above, a poster making the rounds on Facebook advertises a Delaware County protest planned for the last weekend of the month in Delhi. There's a meet-up... Read more
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