Sullivan County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 5:46 pm
Earlier today, several accidents on an icy stretch of Route 17 in Roscoe shut down the road in both directions. NY-Alert is now reporting that the road has been cleared.
WBNG reported about an hour ago that about 40 vehicles were involved in crashes on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 2:10 pm
UPDATE: The road has now been cleared.
Route 17 is currently closed in both directions near Exit 92 on Route 17, due to multiple road accidents.
From NY-Alert:
State Highway 17 is closed in both directions (East & West bound) in the area of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 - 8:50 pm
Be careful on the roads tonight, Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for south-central New York and northern Pennsylvania through tomorrow morning.
From NY-Alert:
Light Wintry Mix With Ice... 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 Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 6:31 pm
80-year-old Verna Hess of Callicoon died Sunday morning when her car hit a utility pole on Route 52 in White Sulphur Springs, the Times Herald-Record reports.
[Sullivan County sheriff's] deputies found Verna Hess inside of a 1991 Buick Century. The White... 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
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
Watch live streaming video from newyorkstateofficeofthegovernor at livestream.com
A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:11 pm
There's a wind advisory for all five Catskills counties today from the National Weather Service. In Delaware, Ulster, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Greene counties, watch for isolated gusts of 45 to 55 miles per hour, and possible downed trees and power lines... Read more
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