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By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 6:50 pm
NYC ag lawyer Cari Rincker recently helped to start a New York chapter of the American Agri-Women Association. She's looking for other digitally connected women in New York agriculture:
New York Agri-Women now has a Facebook fan page and you can follow... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Fiberglass cats! Board games! Is there nothing the town of Catskill won't try?
Instead of going to jail, as in the original game, players can land in Catskill Town Court.
And the most expensive properties on the board are not Park Place and Boardwalk but... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:21 am
The Chronogram has a profile of the Shandaken hamlet in the latest issue.
Located off of Route 28 in the town of Shandaken, Phoenicia is just 30 minutes from Kingston and seemingly chiseled into a mountainside, just minutes away from skiing at Hunter and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 - 12:34 pm
Forget feet--we're now measuring snow depth in babies. That's at least two and a half, there. Photo, "Finnegan Digs Out," by Watershed Post reader Peter Manning.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 - 12:12 pm
A New Zealander and her paramour battle six-foot snowdrifts in their mountain paradise. Somewhere under there, she swears, there's a car.
Mr Weiss grew up in a snowy place, and is calmly going about trying to find where the car is, The Catskill Kiwi... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 10:43 pm
Newton's lesser-known fourth law: The length of a driveway increases in direct proportion to the rate of precipitation accumulating on it. Photo by Watershed Post reader Aaron Bennett.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 10:20 pm
The view from above the Bun 'N Cone in Margaretville today. Photo by Watershed Post reader Wallace Patterson.
Got a photo, video or snow tale to share? Email it to editor@watershedpost.com.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Online ski magazine First Tracks ran a fantastic interview yesterday with Joe Kelly, founder and chair of the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain.
The central Catskills region needs the ski area not only to survive, but to flourish. That’s why I became... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 2:26 pm
Denise O'Donnell, NY's Deputy Secretary for Public Safety, just resigned.
The Times-Union is wondering what to call the latest gubernatorial scandal. We're going with "Battergate."