Colchester
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:24 pm
From the governor's office: Residents of Schoharie Valley and Catskills should be on alert tonight for more rain. Specific warnings are made for western Delaware County, particularly Unadilla -- see the highlighted areas in bold:
Governor Cuomo Orders... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 2:02 pm
From Diane Galusha, public information officer for the Town of Middletown.
[Additions: Andes School also closed early today, around 12:45: I know this for a fact, because my seventh-grade cousin is currently sitting at my kitchen table. Also, we have been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:58 pm
We'll be doing another special flooding edition of our radio show at 1pm today. Listen live by clicking here.
By Lillian Browne on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 2:57 pm
Editor's note: This story was submitted to the Watershed Post on August 31. In our haste to publish information about the hardest-hit towns, we have not published it until today, September 6. Thanks to Lillian Browne for keeping us posted on some of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011 - 7:06 pm
7:45pm: A clarification is in order. The mandatory evacuation order is only for the village of Downsville -- particularly for parts of Downsville that are prone to flooding.
An astute reader wonders whether everyone in Downsville must leave, or only... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 6:50 pm
20-year-old Colchester resident Matthew Mattice was arrested last Friday, on charges of sexually assaulting a child. A press release just issued by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Friday, July 8, 2011 Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 12:49 pm
Town of Colchester Highway Superintendent Kenneth Eck Jr. at the site of a streambank failure on Cooks Falls Road. Photo by Lillian Browne.
The Beaverkill, a famous fly-fishing stream that runs through lower Delaware County, is gaining a reputation for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Black bear cub. Photo by Alan Vernon, via Flickr.
According to the New York State Department of Conservation's 2010 hunting numbers for bear and deer, which were released yesterday, the Catskills are the place to go if you're hunting black bear. Three... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 11:11 am
The Daily Star has the details.
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