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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 7, 2012 - 11:19 am
There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 12:34 pm
It's a year to the day since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene pummelled upstate New York. While a lot of commemorative events have already happened over the past week, the next few weeks will see more (including a picnic in Maplecrest that is underway... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 10:43 am
Today is August 28, the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene's arrival in the Catskills. To commemorate the anniversary of the flooding, we are publishing the Faces of the Flood Portrait Project, which tells stories of the flood through cinematic... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 - 12:01 pm
Dear Editor;
My name is James Blake and I am on the ballot for the Thursday, September 13 Republican Primary. I am a strict Constitutional Conservative, what I am not is a champion politician. I am a champion for the children.
It is simple; if our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 - 10:39 am
"The Catskills: Always In Season."
Get ready to see it on bumper stickers, billboards, ad campaigns, and anything else a bunch of marketers can think of. That's the slogan that got Arkville's Jenn Nolan $1,500 from the Catskill Park Resource Foundation on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 - 2:49 pm
A Hamden man who was declared missing after his mobile home was set ablaze spent four days hiding in the woods, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
On Monday morning, police and emergency responders found William D. Lawson's home at 866... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 - 5:16 pm
Update, 8/24: Lawson was found in the woods near his home on Thursday night. See our story for more details.
A Hamden man whose mobile home was destroyed by fire on Monday morning is missing, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office reports.
William D. Lawson... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 - 12:23 pm
Through this Saturday, August 18, the Delaware County Fair in Walton is going strong with rides, horse and livestock shows, bull riding, country music, and demolition derby.
Reader Ann Roberti visited the fair earlier in the week, and sent us some photos... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 12:39 pm
This week's must-read story for upstate New York: An editorial by Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, titled "End of the anti-frack world is near." In it, LeBrun claims that a gubernatorial plan to greenlight hydraulic fracturing by the time the leaves... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 11:32 am
Above: “The Huckleberry Brook Dancing Bear,” by David Barry, winner of the 2011 Watershed Post’s “Best-Kept Secret in the Catskills” photo contest. Submit your photo to the 2012 "Great Outdoors Experience" photo contest and win a dinner at Peekamoose.
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