Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 9:41 am
The flag stays in the picture. Photo from David Sager's campaign.
David Sager, the Sullivan County legislator who's challenging Republican incumbent John Bonacic for the 42nd District seat in the New York State Senate, will visit SUNY Delhi tonight at 6pm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 - 8:57 pm
Sidney NY Town Board Meeting - October 14 2010 from VeccVideography on Vimeo.
Local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione -- the creative force behind the award-winning documentary Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns -- has produced an extraordinary short documentary on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 - 12:30 pm
Anybody catch members of the USA Shaolin Temple on WIOX recently? (Alas, the Roxbury radio station's signal doesn't reach Watershed Post HQ.) The kung fu fighters, who are building a temple dedicated to the study of martial arts and Chan Buddhism in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 - 9:55 am
Photo of the crowd at last night's meeting by Qortni Medovichova, via Facebook.
A long-awaited town board meeting was packed to the gills last night with protesters angry about Sidney's recent star turn in a national scandal over a small Muslim graveyard... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 3:01 pm
Though the clouds are rolling in now, we've had some gloriously clear skies over the Catskills lately. Thanks to low light pollution, we're lucky to have some of the best stargazing in the world around here. Flickr user Atomox got this long-exposure shot... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 2:15 pm
Hernani Dias and Madalyn Warren put the finishing touches on a worm composter at the Andes Sprouts Society in August.
In the mountains, you never know who is hiding out in the next hollow over. It could be a fourth-generation dairy farmer, a Sufi worship... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 11:28 am
How small is Andes, NY? Small enough that there's just one ATM in town, on the porch of Don Hogan's general store. And in a few weeks, the bank that owns the machine is taking it out.
At least one person is fuming about it. Yesterday's edition of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:56 pm
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
7pm update: Add Schoharie, Ulster, and Greene Counties to Friday's forecast. Also, add "localized amounts of up to 6 inches" of rain, and some snow at high altitudes. This is starting to look a little grim.
There's another flood watch on for much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:54 am
11am 10/13/10 update: Delaware County Emergency Services has just issued a press release detailing the cause of yesterday's deadly fire: "an accidental electrical shortage" in a power cord that was placed under the kitchen stove. Here's the press release... Read more



