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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 9:32 am
According to the Middletown Flood Recovery website today, the landslide that blocked Hog Mountain Road in the Denver/Vega Valley and in Fleischmanns last week is still a big problem that drivers shouldn't ignore.
The site reports that drivers had been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 - 4:04 pm
As we clean up from the destruction caused by flooding across the Catskills, it's on all our minds: How do we keep this from happening again?
The answer isn't a simple one. Here at the Watershed Post, we will be exploring the many tasks we have ahead of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 - 3:47 pm
FEMA is offering some rent subsidies and help finding replacement housing for flood victims, according to a press release the agency sent out today.
For more information on relief resources in the Catskills, to go the Watershed Post's relief page.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 - 12:12 pm
Andrew Hafele. Photo by New York State Police.
New York State police report that on Saturday, September 17, 20-year-old Deposit resident Michael J. Mills, Jr. was killed in a fight in a shed near a home on Airport Road.
38-year-old Andrew L. Hafele, also... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 - 10:51 am
FEMA recently announced the opening of a new Disaster Recovery Center in the region, and the moving of another.
Today at 12 noon, FEMA will be opening a new DRC for Delaware County at the Sidney Civic Center on 21 Liberty Street. Starting Tuesday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 18, 2011 - 10:15 am
After a fire gutted an apartment building on Main Street Margaretville on Saturday, September 17, deputies from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office arrested the man who owns the building -- 58-year-old Eugene E. Gundelach -- on charges of arson.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 17, 2011 - 2:49 pm
Above: An apartment building in the village of Margaretville burned on Saturday. Photo by Reginald Oberlag.
2:45pm update: We just received more photos and a report from another witness to the fire, Reginald Oberlag. Here's what he sent us via email:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 17, 2011 - 11:32 am
Top: Main Street Schoharie over Labor Day weekend. Photo by Jay Harsevoort, via Flickr and the Watershed Post Flickr group pool. Above: Photos of Schoharie village on September 8, 2011 by Martin Rivas.
In the village of Schoharie, the county seat of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 - 11:45 am
The New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has set up meetings for flood victims in each county in the Catskills in the coming weeks. During these "office hours," all consumers are welcome to walk in and ask questions about flood-related issues.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 - 11:27 am
The IRS is giving you a break if you live in Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Delaware or Schoharie county this year, with a special Hurricane-Irene tax deadline extension. Normally, third-quarter estimated tax payments would have been due yesterday. Now they... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 - 11:15 am
Town supervisor Berndt Leifield and West Shokan resident Martha Frankel get into a shouting match at the Olive town board meeting on Tuesday, September 13, 2011. One of 9 video segments from the meeting. For the others, see Cindy Johansen's YouTube... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 - 10:27 am
The Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, from the UDSB website.
A proposal by the Board of Directors of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (UDSB) to ban "non-traditional" industrial traffic along the byway is ruffling feathers in the town and village of Hancock in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 2:15 pm
When towns flood, all the household appliances, hay bales, and contents of grocery stores and pharmacies end up downstream. Riverkeeper has posted some proof of that axiom on its Facebook page today (see photo above), in a new feature it calls "Catch of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 1:31 pm
Aerial imaging of the village of Schoharie on Tuesday, August 30, courtesy of RIT researcher Jason Faulring. Cropped by the Watershed Post from the original, larger image.
Across the Catskills region (and beyond), Irene and Lee wreaked devastation on many... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:56 am
WGXC 90.7FM in Greene County had a reporter at Tuesday's emergency meeting for flood-ravaged farmers at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Agroforestry Resource Center in Acra. The full audio of the meeting is available by clicking here.
Earlier, on 9/13/... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:51 am
To the Editor:
We’re now hearing there will soon be a second indictment of a Kingston Police Department (KPD) officer, this time a retired one.
It looks like getting to the bottom of KPD corruption will require a full investigation, and it ought to be... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:47 am
To the Editor:
It’s almost been a year since we learned that Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency’s chief executive was fired after employees complained about bullying, sexual harassment, documents being falsified, improper storage of waste materials... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:44 am
To the editor:
I was elated to hear that Jon Sennett is running for Ulster County District Attorney. I am a partner in a large Mid-Hudson law firm, but years ago as Assistant DA in the Bronx, it was Sennett who trained me, on-the-job in one of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:34 am
According to the Schoharie County Emergency Services Facebook page, there will be a meeting for Schoharie County farmers who have suffered flood damage today in Cobleskill. Details below:
Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie County and Schoharie... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:18 am
Dear Editor:
Phoenicia is open for business, and wants to welcome everyone back to our lovely town. But, to many who live far afield and read the New York Times, a recent article questioning Phoenicia’s location in a flood plain, may have served to... Read more
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