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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 - 7:42 pm
New York City's newly-inaugurated mayor, Bill de Blasio, made it clear he's opposed to hydraulic fracturing in New York State in a speech to fellow mayors in Washington D.C. on Thursday.
De Blasio told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that "the one thing I... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 - 1:55 pm
Above: Even in subzero weather, Roxbury looks picture-perfect. Photo taken Wednesday at sunset by Greg Henderson of the Roxbury Motel.
Above: It's a nippy 4.1 degrees right now on Belleayre Mountain, but the freshly-groomed corduroy looks pretty inviting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 8:43 pm
Meet the elusive ice circle: An unusual ice formation that occurs on slow-moving water during intense cold weather. In the video above, posted today by the folks at the Woodstock Inn On The Millstream, a broad ice circle rotates slowly in the Millstream's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 8:12 pm
Meteorologist Mitch Gilt of the National Weather Service measures snowfall in Binghamton after a recent storm. Photo from NWS Binghamton's Facebook page.
After three major storms in three years, New Yorkers are investing heavily in high-tech weather... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 5:51 pm
Above: New York State Agricultural Society President Diane Held congratulates Schoharie County farmer Richard Ball, recently appointed as New York State's new Commissioner of Agriculture, at the group's 2014 forum on New York agriculture. Photo from the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 - 9:28 am
Don't go out there, kitty. Photo taken in Andes over the weekend by Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
It's baaa-aaaaack: The polar vortex, a whirling mass of low-pressure frigid air that usually has the decency to stay far... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 - 10:19 am
Above: A running spigot at Hubbell Bros. in the Delaware County town of Middletown gets the polar vortex treatment. Photo taken on Wednesday by Watershed Post reader Burr Hubbell, who writes, "The water's still running inside that icicle thingy. It's just... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 1:02 pm
Above: "This is a life expectancy, folks," says John Parete, the new chairman of the Ulster County Legislature, holding up a tailor's tape measure. "Well, on the average, that's what I got left. And I'm not going to spend one minute anymore on partisan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 10:11 pm
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.
On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 4:30 pm
Don't touch that dial (til 10 p.m.). Closeup photo of washing machine control panel by Flickr user Chris Dillon; published under Creative Commons license.
Officials at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit company that manages... Read more
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