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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 Julia Reischel on Saturday, Apr. 21, 2012 - 2:00 pm
Above: By 10:30am this morning, a big crowd was strolling Main Street Margaretville. Click to see a slideshow of images from today's GardenFest. Photos by Julia Reischel and Terry Doyle.
Margaretville celebrated spring today with the village's first... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 4:13 pm
Above: It's really spring: The forsythia is blooming in the Catskills. Photo of forsythia (alas, not in the Catskills) by Seha bs, via Wikimedia Commons.
Give a Catskills town a chance to celebrate spring and it'll do it with gusto. The village of... 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 wateradmin on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:37 pm
Above: A photo of the Binnekill bulkhead, a topic of discussion at this month's Middletown board meeting. Submitted by Watershed Post reader Thomas Clark.
Highlights of Middletown's regular town board meeting on Tuesday, April 10: Middletown goes online... 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 Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 9:57 am
Two programs that have been helping with the local effort to rebuild and restore the region after the Irene and Lee floods announced application deadlines this week.
A $2.5 million program for funding debris removal from streams in the New York City... 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
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