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By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Mar. 6, 2011 - 12:35 pm
Thanks to the combination of rain and snowmelt that's expected to last all day today, the National Weather Service has issued a flood watch throughout the Catskills for today and tomorrow.
But in Walton, the flooding has already started, according to a... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Mar. 6, 2011 - 11:09 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Mar. 5, 2011 - 10:34 am
Ice rescue practice on the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo via the NYC Water/NYC DEP website.
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record spent Thursday on the ice at the Ashokan Reservoir watching NYC Department of Environmental Protection police officers don bright... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Another Kind, an independent horror movie, has just finished shooting in the Catskills, according to the website Shock Till You Drop:
Another Kind follows four unprepared hikers from New York City on a winter camping expedition in the Catskills. Their... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 1:30 pm
The Daily Star had the scoop yesterday: Lisa Barrows, the former Stop DWI coordinator for Delaware County who was removed abrupty from her job last year, is now facing a felony charge brought by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
According to court... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 11:23 am
The Walton Reporter, a weekly newspaper covering a large swath of Delaware County, posted a heartfelt plea on its Facebook page yesterday:
Walton Reporter readers - We need your help. Some of our newspaper archives were lost in the 2006 flood. If you are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 10:19 am
Despite the layoff woes at the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, this year has been excellent for the businesses that depend on it, Jay Braman wrote in the Daily Freeman yesterday:
At a meeting on Monday of the Belleayre Region Lodging and Tourism... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 8:10 am
On Wednesday, Sean Scherer's Andes outpost of antiques, taxidermy, and artfully-arranged objects opened an outpost in the East Village. The Andes location of Kabinett & Kammer, however, is still the "flagship" store, according to the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 12:47 pm
A Callicoon shopkeeper has won a million dollars in the lottery, the second time in a month that someone from the Catskills has been handed a big lotto check.
In February, a Cairo man claimed a $122 million winning Powerball ticket. Now, according to a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 11:29 am
Want to nurse injured deer back to health, or hunt squirrels with a trained raptor?
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is holding its exams for both falconry apprentices and wildlife rehabilitators on April 22. To take the exams, you... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 8:58 am
The Daily Mail has a story today about the Greene County Stop DWI program, which, in the wake of the retirements of its two staff members, is going to be administered by the Greene County Sheriff's Office:
The county’s STOP-DWI program has a total budget... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 5:42 pm
Liz Benjamin at Capitol Confidential reports that 100 activists were protesting the Cuomo administration's planned budget cuts in Albany today. And while 17 were arrested, she writes that the scene wasn't particularly wild:
The whole situation was rather... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 5:28 pm
Michael Lowe: Photo via the New York State PoliceThe New York State Police in Liberty are reporting that Michael Lowe of Livingston Manor fired a rifle at a woman, her mother and her uncle as the woman was being picked up from Lowe's Meadow St. house... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 1:40 pm
After several years of weighing the evidence, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finally called a halt to its investigation of the eastern cougar -- previously listed as "critically endangered" on the Endangered Species List -- and declared it extinct... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Paul Smart of WGXC attended last night's public forum about the Catskill Central School District budget, at which parents and teachers considered what school looks like when the only things it offers are required by state mandate:
Speakers addressed what... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 8:20 am
Radium contamination in Pennsylvania wells, part of the New York Times series on natural gas hydraulic fracturing.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has finally hit the big time. Not only did the New York Times make the issue the subject of a front-page... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011 - 3:45 pm
Can you spot the bald eagle in the above photo? Flickr user Ted Kerwin took the picture in the Roundout Reservoir in 2003.
I Love New York wrote a blog post last week to remind likely Manhattan day-trippers that March is prime bald-eagle-watching season,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011 - 11:37 am
Twenty-one-year-old Martin Morales, of Cairo, reportedly led multiple police departments from multiple counties on a day-long chase on Monday after he allegedly attempted to abduct and murder his former girlfriend in Vermont, according to the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011 - 8:33 am
According to a hydrograph from the National Weather Service, the Wallkill River in Gardiner hit 15 feet this morning, two feet above flood stage. According to historical measurements, when the river hits 15 feet, Springtown Road, Libertyville Road... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 - 4:30 pm
Stone & Thistle Farm in East Meredith is knee-deep in baby goats these days, as its latest blog post shows with lots of adorable pictures (including the one above). This means that, because many of the farm's goats aren't exactly the best mothers, the... Read more
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