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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 6:13 pm
It's despised by flyfishers everywhere. It's a blight on the ecosystem of the trout stream. And it's coated the bottom of the Esopus with a foul goop with all the charm of a wad of wet toilet paper. How could rock snot ever be beautiful?
Most people tend... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Drama is brewing over a pre-Civil-War barn in Woodstock, recently transformed into a gallery called Vivo Fine Art that opened this summer. The Woodstock Times reports that by painting a big sunburst on the side of the building without proper permission... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 8:07 am
It took over six months, but the Hobart diner that burned down last winter opened for business again last weekend, according to the Mountain Eagle:
Despite the devastation, the reopened Coffee Pot looks exactly the same as it did before the fire, right... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 4:09 pm
Is New York City's water kosher? That depends on your perspective -- after all, it is swimming with tiny, harmless shrimplike organisms called copepods.
Earlier this summer, an enterprising blogger added a common laboratory stain to New York City tap... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 12:42 pm
Catskill Mountain Thunder Motorcycle Rally
The biggest motorcycle party of the season starts tonight at 5pm in East Durham during the kickoff of the annual Catskill Mountain Thunder festival. Shows, vendors, tattoos, fireworks, several long, scenic rides... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 11:26 am
Misako Ishimura, the captain of Japan's national fly fishing team, has spent the year introducing the United States to a pared-down, "haiku-like" form of fly fishing known as Tenkara. Ishimura, who lives in Arkansas, first discovered fly fishing in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 4:41 pm
A middle-aged man and two teenagers allegedly forced their way into a household in Accord in Ulster County on Monday and attacked a person they found inside. Forty-year-old Chip Daole, 19-year-old Justin Cox, and 17-year-old Dylan Cox were arrested. From... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 11:47 am
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Want to tell the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency your thoughts on gas drilling in New York? Today's your last chance, and there are hundreds of people lined up to speak before you.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 10:39 am
USA Shaolin Temple master Shi Yan Ming shaves a disciple's head during a ceremony to dedicate the new temple in Fleischmanns. For more photos of the ceremony, see the USA Shaolin Temple's Facebook photo album.
Fleischmanns just keeps getting more... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 9:44 am
The results are in from yesterday's primary vote, showing the major statewide candidates who will eat up your airtime and brain space between now and November. The winners are:
For governor: Carl Paladino surfed on Tea Party discontent to best Rick Lazio... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010 - 12:49 pm
There might finally be a scientific breakthrough in the case of the Great Bat Die-off, a plague caused by a bizzare cold-loving fungus that has slaughtered a million bats over the past four hibernation seasons.
It's not quite the polio vaccine, however.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010 - 7:05 am
If you're in charge of "visual explaining" at the New York Times, you probably know your way around video editing. And indeed, Andrew DeVigal, the gray lady's multimedia editor, just posted an extremely watchable and lively video account of a recent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 5:21 pm
Alexis Muniz, who hails from Accord in Ulster County, had to let her Facebook friends know that she was working another job while collecting workers compensation, which is a big, felonious no-no. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that the authorities... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 2:29 pm
We spilled a lot of ink over the weekend about the many candidates running for governor in tomorrow's primary election, and we would be remiss if we overlooked those who are running to be the next attorney general of our fair state. Luckily, Reuters has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 11:42 am
Up here amongst the hills and trees, it's easy to think that the Catskills' perennial tensions with New York City over water are something that only locals know or care about. Not so. Witness this audio interview with Tracy Stanton, the "water program... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 8:29 am
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently put a halt to work on a federal conservation project at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is covering the old runways of the... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 - 1:56 am
Note: The Watershed Post is hugely stinkin' grateful to two very talented individuals for this story, a look at the wild and woolly cast of characters in the race for New York State governor. One is its author, Steve Hopkins, who's the editor and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Half Moon on the Hudson last year. Photo by ennuipoet, via Flickr. Some rights reserved.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, a group of 12 seventh-graders from cities in upstate New York was anchored in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 - 10:17 am
Police found about 75 huge pot plants in Kingston yesterday. From a press release by the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT):
The plants were located near a quarry pond on 1st Avenue near Kingston Street. Most of the plants were over... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 4:03 pm
A retired Iowa environmentalist who grew up in the Catskills told the Sioux City Journal this week about a vision he received as a child when pneumonia sent him into a high, delirious fever. The vision, of a fox wearing an interestingly dressy garment,... Read more
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