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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 12:34 pm
It's a year to the day since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene pummelled upstate New York. While a lot of commemorative events have already happened over the past week, the next few weeks will see more (including a picnic in Maplecrest that is underway... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 10:43 am
Today is August 28, the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene's arrival in the Catskills. To commemorate the anniversary of the flooding, we are publishing the Faces of the Flood Portrait Project, which tells stories of the flood through cinematic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 - 10:39 am
"The Catskills: Always In Season."
Get ready to see it on bumper stickers, billboards, ad campaigns, and anything else a bunch of marketers can think of. That's the slogan that got Arkville's Jenn Nolan $1,500 from the Catskill Park Resource Foundation on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein at the county Department of Public Works substation in New Paltz, flanked by county legislators Ken Wishnick and Hector Rodriguez. Photo courtesy of Hein's office.
Today, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein signed... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 - 1:18 pm
Dear Editor,
On Sunday, July 15 John Stobaeus e-mailed me, "Do you know about the mini-folk fest in Phoenicia today at the Parish House? They'll be celebrating the Roots of Folk," so I walked over to see. It was a reunion of Camp Woodland, a summer camp... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 12:39 pm
This week's must-read story for upstate New York: An editorial by Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, titled "End of the anti-frack world is near." In it, LeBrun claims that a gubernatorial plan to greenlight hydraulic fracturing by the time the leaves... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 11:32 am
Above: “The Huckleberry Brook Dancing Bear,” by David Barry, winner of the 2011 Watershed Post’s “Best-Kept Secret in the Catskills” photo contest. Submit your photo to the 2012 "Great Outdoors Experience" photo contest and win a dinner at Peekamoose.
To... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 - 5:11 pm
A six-year tax battle between Shandaken and its largest landowners may have ended on July 20 when a jury ruled in favor of the town. However, despite their latest defeat, the landowners have not thrown in the towel just yet.
The group of landowners is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Above, Michelle Jennings and Maria Todaro took the stage during the final dress rehearsal for "Divas Unleashed: The Benefit," which kicks off the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice tonight. Photos by Kerry Henderson.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 12:45 pm
A flash mob of opera fans staged an impromptu performance on the Walkway Over the Hudson on Saturday morning to promote this weekend's Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.
VoiceFest executive director Kerry Henderson sent us these photos of... Read more