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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 12:35 pm
Just a couple of months ago, we were worried about the mighty Kaaterskill Falls, which was reduced to a mere trickle by mid-summer drought. A little rain makes all the difference.
Reader Jennifer Strom sent us this recent photo of Bastion Falls in full... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 12:23 pm
In a lot of local elections, it's a challenge to find enough people to run to have a contested election. But not in the Delaware County town of Sidney, where five people are running for two seats on the town council in the November 6 election.
Sidney,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 10:54 am
Over a dozen people tried their hand at writing a caption for this awesome photo of an Eastern Screech Owl over the weekend.
Choosing a winner was hard, but not that hard, because Pat Guido went the extra mile by having the owl ask a critical question... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 9:16 am
Traffic jam on New Kingston Mountain Road. Local crime writer and Blues Maneuver frontman David Krajicek got this shot of a few of the Manhattan Country School's year-round residents on New Kingston Mountain Road in Roxbury last week. Shared with... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 6:14 pm
On Wednesday, October 17, Doctor Wayne Longmore of Woodstock pled guilty to a federal drug charge that will cost him his medical license and his future at his cash-only Woodstock Walk-In Doctor's Office.
Longmore, a former emergency room doctor whose... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 4:26 pm
Frieda Suess, of Roxbury, snapped this shot of a severe-looking owl a few days ago. (If we had to guess, we'd say it's a Great Horned Owl. But we may be wrong.) [Update, 10/20/12: I was wrong. It's an Eastern Screech Owl, as many of you -- including the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 3:30 pm
Bertha Rogers, a well-known poet in the region and the founder of the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Franklin, was badly hurt in a car accident on Route 6 in the town of Woodbury on Tuesday.
According to an account of the accident from the Mid-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 3:06 pm
The eastern Catskills and Hudson Valley are now under flood advisory, along with Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service at Binghamton warns:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued An * Urban And Small Stream Flood Advisory... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 11:19 am
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has declared a flood advisory through around 3:45pm today for Sullivan and Delaware Counties. From an alert posted on NY-Alert:
At 945 AM EDT...Doppler Radar Indicated Heavy Rain Was Falling... And Will Result In... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 11:50 pm
Several local news outlets are reporting that a man and a woman were found dead in a room in the Starlight Motel in Athens on Wednesday night, in a case that police believe is the result of accidental overdose at a "pill party." The Kingston Daily Freeman... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 8:10 pm
Years back, one could scarcely find a food truck in the Hudson Valley outside of a county fair, with the exception of the occasional hot dog gypsy and those curiously unsettling ice cream-mobiles. But in keeping with our clever habit of adopting what's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 5:02 pm
Tonight, the candidates for New York's 19th Congressional District, Julian Schreibman (Democrat) and Chris Gibson (Republican incumbent), will hold their second debate at 8pm at WMHT-TV in Troy. The station will be broadcasting the debate live on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 2:54 pm
Above: Tuthilltown's microdistilled gin and vodka made with New York State apples, on display at a recent cider tasting for the media at the Stockade Tavern in Kingston. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The spirit of Johnny Appleseed is alive and well in New York's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 8:26 pm
Above: A three-car accident resulted in a flipped-over pickup truck on Rte. 28 last night. Photo by Mike A., of the West Hurley Fire Department, via the department's Facebook page.
Sun glare and crowded traffic conditions caused a rear-end chain collision... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 4:16 pm
Above: Preserves at the Greenville Farmers & Crafts Market, this weekend at the Greenville Cultural Center. Photo from the Great Northern Catskills website.
We're in the thick of autumn now: Cairo's apple festival is past, pumpkins and squash are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 2:47 pm
Last week, a majority of the Delaware County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a resolution that would support the construction of a natural gas pipeline through a portion of Delaware County. This letter is in response to that vote. -- Julia Reischel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 2:31 pm
Watershed Post reader Cassie Perez sent us a video of a few baby bucks -- with miniature antlers -- play-fighting at dusk next to the Ashokan Reservoir last night. Yet another entry for the Wild Things Badge.
Cassie writes:
Here is a video I shot on 10/... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 1:07 pm
Add this to the growing pile of evidence that, in fact, we live in the Shire. A Watershed Post reader known only to Flickr as dyerry1 captured this ephemeral moment on Slide Mountain on Friday, October 12, when the high peaks of the Catskills got the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 12:44 pm
New York and Pennsylvania state environmental agencies are imposing emergency rules on hunters, after a captive deer in New Oxford, Pennsylvania was found to be infected with chronic wasting disease.
Today, the New York State Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 2:44 pm
Above: Noel van Swol, in a screenshot from a 2011 YouTube video from Energy In Depth's Northeast Marcellus Initiative. In the video, van Swol cites the Anti-Rent Wars as a precedent for the pro-gas-drilling movement in upstate New York, and tells an... Read more
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