Cairo
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 9:55 am
The Daily Mail reports that a house on Mountain Avenue has been destroyed by fire -- thankfully, with no injuries, either human or animal.
Residents Joseph and Adele Spinelli could not be located after emergency personnel arrived on the scene, and there... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 9:25 am
A Catskill man who hurt his ankles while working as a corrections officer in Coxsackie was collecting workers compensation insurance for the injury while also working as a part-time police officer in Cairo, the New York State Insurance Department reported... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 7:39 pm
A trained weather spotter reporting to the National Weather Service and the good folks at WGXC saw some high water covering Rte. 145 in Cairo this afternoon, at its intersection wtih Rte. 23.
From the weather spotter at 3:06pm, via NWS's Storm Summary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 4:34 pm
You've really got to watch your step in the mountains during hunting season. Just ask Greene County man Robert Warrings -- who, it is alleged, was shot at several times by a local sheriff's officer while tracking a bear. The Daily Mail reports:
The state... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 2:40 pm
WIOX on its launch day in August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Big radio news across the Catskills today.
In Delaware and Schoharie counties, full-power WIOX station has won a $129,712 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The funds have been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Photo of a woolly bear caterpillar by Roban Kramer, via Flickr.
When you see these little brown-and-black fuzzy caterpillars everywhere, that means it's right around Columbus Day in the Catskills. Aside from Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is one of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:38 am
The National Weather Service just issued a Tornado Watch for most of eastern New York, including the Catskills region:
Tornado Watch issued September 28 at 9:57AM CDT expiring September 28 at 5:00PM CDT by NWS Storm Prediction Center
Activation Time: 09/... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 8:46 am
It must be election season, because the earmarks are pouring in to the Catskills and the Hudson Valley Region.
Yesterday, US Representative Maurice Hinchey announced that he got $205,000 from House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services for... Read more
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