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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 10:37 am
Above: Wolf Lake in Sullivan County, looking pretty spectacular in this recent photo by John of Catskills Photography. If you've got one of these handy, you may want to get in it today.
Thank God it's Friday, Catskills. The weekend is almost upon us --... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 9:06 am
It’s the 35th Street Festival weekend in the Festival Town, and sweet, funky little Rosendale will be turned on, tuned in and turned inside out on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s count is, in Street Fest parlance: One street, two days, five stages and 74... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:04 pm
An employee of the Shandaken highway department has been charged with embezzling over $20,000 from the town, some of it allegedly from FEMA funds meant for Irene flood relief.
On Wednesday, state police arrested 46-year-old Florence Sullivan of Chichester... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:48 am
Above: Image from a Fox13 newscast that aired Wednesday in Salt Lake City, where Grandpa and Grandma Woodstock -- two legendary characters from our own Woodstock, NY -- were stranded in an airport for a few hours, along with their dog Hector. The problem... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 2:36 pm
Above: The black-legged or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Photo by Scott Bauer of the USDA; published under Creative Commons license. Source: InsectImages.org.
In the Hudson Valley and across the nation, tick-borne disease is on the rise. The deer ticks... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 3:50 pm
Above: A female common merganser, photographed recently in Hortonville by John of Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Still no word from the state Department of Environmental Conservation on why they raided William... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 8:56 am
Above: 17-year-old pro mountain bike racer Taylor Allison, a local athlete who's currently fundraising to enter the 2014 World Cup at Windham. Last month, Allison took fourth place in U.S. Nationals on Windham's rocky, slippery slopes. Photo from Allison'... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: A scene from the Hudson Valley Chalk Festival in 2012, the event's first year.
Artists who work in chalk on public ground are pouring their hearts into big bold creations that get washed away nearly as soon as they’re done, sharing the process... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 3:07 pm
Above: Detail from a map showing the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a 122-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline that will connect gas from hydrofracked wells in Pennsylvania to a larger network of pipelines serving New York and New England.... Read more
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