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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - 2:15 pm
Today, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a division of the US Department of Agriculture, announced that it is setting aside $31.5 million in disaster aid for projects sponsored by local town, city, county or tribal governments in New York... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 - 8:19 pm
Above: A Flickr slideshow of photos from Catskills FarmLink landowners and farmers. The first photo is of Michelle Premura, a landowner who has listed 13 acres between Delhi and Stamford on the FarmLink website. Click on individual photos to see the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 2:28 pm
The New York Power Authority, which owns and operates the dam at the Blenheim-GIlboa Hydroelectric Power Station just downstream from New York City's Gilboa Dam, will hold a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the power authority's actions during the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Michael A. KissingerDerrick YoungThomas J. MercerSince November, state troopers in Schoharie and Montgomery Counties have been getting complaints about mysterious BB gun shooters who fire on unsuspecting cars from a moving vehicle. Yesterday, the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 9:02 am
Above: It wasn't a white Christmas this year in the Catskills. Photo of a Delaware County dairy farm on Christmas Eve this year by Mark Zilberman, via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
After an oddly snow-less winter so far, Mother Nature is going to make... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 11:58 am
Above: The New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage Power Project in the town of Blenheim in Schoharie County. Photo via the New York Power Authority's website.
At the year's first meeting of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors last... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 8:53 am
Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione.
On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 2:44 pm
While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud.
Yesterday, Eisel, who... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:09 pm
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we come back from a winter vacation with the stories you may have missed while snoozing in front of the fire. Also: A look back at our top stories of 2011.
CLICK TO LISTEN LIVE to today's... Read more
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