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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 - 2:58 pm
The AP reports today:
Mitt Romney did what was expected, easily winning New York's Republican presidential primary and padding his delegate lead in his all-but-inevitable march toward the party's nomination.
Romney easily outdistanced Ron Paul and Newt... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 - 2:23 pm
Tuesday, April 24 is the New York State presidential primary -- but with frontrunner Mitt Romney coasting toward the 2012 GOP nomination, the press isn't too excited about it.
"Every four years, the New York primary becomes less significant," the New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 10:31 pm
Heavy rains forecast across much of the region for tonight and tomorrow morning mean a flood watch for the eastern Catskills, as well as western New England.
An alert from the National Weather Service warns that Greene, Ulster and Schoharie County could... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 3:25 pm
Delaware County growers, watch out for hard frost tonight. The National Weather Service warns that temperatures will drop sharply across a large swath of south-central New York around 3am:
Temperatures...In The Upper 20S To Low 30S. * Impacts...Any... Read more
By Jason Dole on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Above: Joel Tyner and campaign volunteer Burr Hubbell hold a receipt for 2,350 signatures filed with the New York State Board of Elections. Photo by Jess Vecchione.
It can't be easy being Joel Tyner. While the four-term Dutchess County legislator has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 11:33 pm
Hurricane Irene over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011. Image by NOAA.
Hurricane Irene caused so much death and destruction in 2011 that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the name 'Irene' from the rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 5:11 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Middleburgh Fire Department today, announcing that New York State will cover the local share of flood recovery costs in 25 counties. Photo by David Avitabile of the Schoharie County Times Journal; reproduced by permission.
Local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 12:41 pm
The Catskills are catnip for artists, and have been ever since Thomas Cole painted his first majestic waterfall. Filmmaker David Becker is the latest aesthete to respond to the lure of the mountains, and he's making a whole film about the subject. In his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:21 am
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2012 - 5:49 pm
No, that's not the Shire -- it's the sun over Bovina Center this morning, illuminating farm fields that are already turning from gold to green in earnest. Photo by Christopher Mooney, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
For a larger view,... Read more
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