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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:07 pm
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too familiar... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 11:42 am
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The DEP is putting $300,000 towards fixing Schoharie County’s emergency siren system for Gilboa Dam.
The sirens were functional during Hurricane Irene on August 38, and were... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 10:39 am
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that they will be opening a mobile disaster recovery center in Catskill, from Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30.
The DRC will be located at the Catskill Community Life Church at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 9:00 am
The monthly town meeting in Colchester took a turn for the dramatic on Wednesday, September 21, when local resident Terry Edwards showed up armed with a barrage of complaints about alleged shady dealings, and Colchester Town Planning Board member Louis... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 10:09 am
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting this morning that 31-year-old Shaun Wynne from Peekskill died on Sunday night in an all-terrain-vehicle accident on Fall Clove Road in the town of Andes.
According to the press release, Wynne hit a tree as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 9:21 am
The Schoharie Reformed Church after the floods that devastated the village of Schoharie during Hurricane Iriene. Photo by Jay Harsevoort via the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
David Letterman has his own street in the village of Schoharie in Schoharie... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 24, 2011 - 12:58 pm
It's been a few weeks since the flooding that drenched and damaged the Catskills community. For the first time since August, Lissa and I have a free weekend to catch our breath. The first thing we want to do is thank you.
We started the Watershed Post in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 1:27 pm
This just in from Community Reporting Alliance director Barbara Gref: The Millbrook NY-based Dyson Foundation has established two hurricane relief grant programs for nonprofit organizations in several affected counties, including Greene and Ulster. Check... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:52 pm
Photo and video of flood damage in Mount Tremper after Hurricane Irene. By Laura Levine.
The wake of the flood is an uneven time. It was a very uneven flood. And it’s hard to strike the right balance between moving on with normal life and focusing on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:44 pm
According to a poster we hear has been posted at the Phoenicia firehouse, all volunteers who helped out during and after Hurricane Irene are invited to a party at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Friday, September 23 at 6pm. The poster promises that there... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:24 pm
Above: A view of the Boiceville business district on Route 28, taken on Sunday, August 28, 2011. From Jan Ryan and Ann Davies.
Like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK, people in the Catskills will also remember the details of the hurricane and flood. ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:03 pm
Want to volunteer in Shandaken? Last call is this weekend. From the Town of Shandaken website:
FINAL VOLUNTEER CALL – We still have a lot of work to accomplish. The CERT Tent will be open on Main St., Phoenicia this coming weekend Sept. 24th & 25th... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 11:46 am
To the editor:
In the wake of Hurricane Irene and the resultant flooding, we have organized New Paltz Flood Aid: Farmers, Families, and First Responders. Contributions and all ticket sales to Flood Aid events will be distributed to the New Paltz farmers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 11:42 am
To the editor:
Here in Delaware County many are trying to understand what happened to us during flood. Tangled attachments to the past are gone, there is much loss and we in the community try to console one another. We spend years building our home... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 10:01 am
Image by Monica Arellano-Ongpin, via Flickr.
A time comes when these Dispatches from Shandaken must move on from largely hurricane-related content, and that time I suppose is now. Which is only appropriate, since my last dispatch focused on Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:39 pm
Double rainbow all the way across Lucky Dog Farm, one of the spots mentioned in a recent New York Magazine article about Delaware County. Photo from Lucky Dog's Facebook page.
Online at nymag.com today: A travel story highlighting a dozen-plus western... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:15 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York Office of Emergency Management announced today that all Disaster Recovery Centers currently operating in New York State will now be open six days a week.
A joint press release from the agencies... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Above: The board of the Town of Dryden unanimously passes a ban on gas drilling on August 2, 2011. Video by ShaleShock, an anti-gas drilling media group.
The first shots in what is likely to become a statewide battle were fired recently, as two lawsuits... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:54 am
Photo by Flickr user Curtis.Kennington.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, things are finally getting back to normal. (Sort of.) We talk about a few non-flood-related news stories and a bunch of flood-related ones. Our on-air guest is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:22 am
The New York Times visited the the flood-ruined remains of the Prattsville Tavern this week, and reported yesterday that owner Ken Cox is keeping the bar going:
Happy hour at the Prattsville Tavern is still going strong. The catch? There is no bartender... Read more
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