West Shokan
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 12:28 pm
The Onteora School District could be broke by 2016, according to a financial expert who addressed the school board on Wednesday. According to the Daily Freeman, Richard Timbs, the financial advisor, had dire news:
If the district continues on its present... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 9:50 am
Above: Locations of upcoming public hearings on the DEC's new draft gas drilling regulations.
On Wednesday, September 28, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation riled environmental and anti-driling groups by issuing drafts of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Have you seen flooding in your area? Readers, you are our eyes and ears; we rely on you to help get the word out to your neighbors. Send eyewitness accounts, photos and video to editor@watershedpost.com, or post to our Facebook wall: facebook.com/... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 3:34 pm
Above: DEP employees cleaning up flood debris in downtown Margaretville on September 13, 2011. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced this morning that they will donate $1 million to a fund to help... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 9:08 am
Posted on NY-Alert at 4:45am:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued A * Flash Flood Warning For... Greene County In East Central New York... This Includes The City Of Hunter... Central Ulster County In East Central New York... This Includes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 6:38 pm
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Rondout Creek in Rosendale, effective through the evening of Thursday, September 29.
Posted on NY-Alert at 6:19pm:
At 5 PM Wednesday The Stage Was...17.5 Feet. * Flood Stage Is 18 Feet. *... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 5:52 pm
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we covered yet more flooding in the Catskills with a live interview with West Shokan resident Martha Frankel as she was being evacuated from her home today. We also interviewed Brooklyn artists Ellie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Photo of evacuation on Watson Hollow Road, September 28, 2011, by Jeanette Giuliano Kahil. From Facebook album.
Earlier today, we reported that a man had fallen into the creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan after trying to cross a temporary... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 12:22 pm
Our friends at the Kingston Digital Corridor and the Ulster County Musicians Network are throwing a fantastic flood-relief bash called "After the Deluge" tonight in Kingston. We're proud to be an official sponsor of the event.
"After the Deluge" features... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 10:55 am
A man narrowly escaped drowning this morning, after being swept off a makeshift foot bridge and into a creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan, near the intersection with Private Road 3.
Neighbor Martha Frankel, who made the call to 911, said that she... Read more
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