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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 - 2:30 pm
Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey. Published under Creative Commons license.
Upstate New Yorkers living under the sway of the state's littlest governments go to the polls today, to elect new mayors and village boards or give the incumbents another two years... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 8:21 am
Spring may be due to kick off officially in just a couple of days, but winter isn't done with the Catskills yet. Starting tonight, the National Weather Service warns, we're in for a round of snow and sleet, with accumulations of up to eight inches in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Mar. 15, 2013 - 12:47 pm
We found the pot of gold: It's at Roxbury Mountain Maple. (And a dozen-plus other syrupmakers around the Catskills, all celebrating Maple Weekend on March 16-17 and 23-24.) Photo from Roxbury Mountain Maple's Facebook page.
Editor's note: We have added... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 1:44 pm
Above: Homemade pie with apples from Wrights Farm, destined to meet a sticky end in Lazy Crazy Acres's small-batch Apple Cobbler gelato. Photo from Pure Catskills's Facebook wall.
It's 3.14 today, which means math nerds and pie-lovers around the world are... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013 - 2:32 pm
The National Weather Service out of Albany has issued a spate of advisories for the entire area. Delaware, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster counties are under a flood advisory until 5 pm. while Delaware and Sullivan are also under a flash flood watch. A flood... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 8, 2013 - 9:15 am
Schools are closed across the Catskills this Friday morning, and it looks like a snow globe out there. The Hudson Valley Weather Facebook page reports that the snowfall ranges from 1 to 10 inches deep across the region.
We want proof! Share your snow... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2013 - 9:02 pm
Above: Screenshot of a video from a Wednesday morning press conference by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and fellow Assembly Democrats on a bill that, if passed into law, will place a two-year moratorium on fracking in New York State. Source: The Albany... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2013 - 9:51 pm
Utility poles near Binghamton. Photo by Flickr user Enoch Ross; photo published under Creative Commons license.
Rural utility companies call it the "last mile problem": Even in places where there is a network nearby that carries data, the final... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2013 - 1:59 pm
The latest local casualty of the crisis in the newspaper industry: Jobs and wages at the Kingston-based Daily Freeman, whose corporate parent, the Journal Register Company (JRC), is emerging from bankruptcy for the second time in four years.
In February,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 - 4:25 pm
Above: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia on September 5, 2011, a week after Irene flooding damaged the building and grounds. Photo by Flickr user fixbuffalo; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group.
Over a year and a half since the Irene... Read more
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