Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 8:27 am
A meeting in the town of Shandaken to discuss applying for scenic byway status for a roughly 50-mile stretch of Route 28, which was postponed several weeks ago, has been rescheduled. The meeting will be held tonight at the Shandaken town hall, at 6pm.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 12:09 pm
In the Washington Post this week: A long love letter to Windham and Hunter from the newspaper's Lifestyle section, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Freelancer Irwin Curtin hit the slopes of the Catskills' two biggest ski centers the weekend after New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 11:08 am
The hour of decision approaches for the Onteora School Board, which is facing a choice later this month on which money-saving reconfiguration plan it should put in place for its elementary schools.
Among the three options before the Board is one that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:37 pm
Photo of Cannonsville Reservoir by Flickr user kmitschke. Published under Creative Commons license.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection plans to announce publicly that the recreational boating program that has been running on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 7:04 pm
Photo of a Shandaken ambulance, from the Shandaken Ambulance Service's Facebook page.
Like much of the rural Catskills, the town of Shandaken is a virtual black hole for cell phone coverage. Despite years of efforts by the town and its citizens to lure... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Photo of Delaware County street signs by Mark Zilberman. Posted to the Watershed Post's Flickr group.
When is a tourist not a tourist?
Answer: When the only touring they're doing is from their hotel room to the spa to the gift shop in the lobby.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 11:43 am
Above: "Ella Underwater," a pixilation animation made at Flick Book Studios by student Ella Goldin.
In this week's Woodstock Times is a feature on local artist Keiko Sono, who teaches stop-motion animation to artists of all ages at Flick Book Studio on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Above: The grave of a 15-year-old Civil War soldier in Warren County, NY. Photo by Flickr user Diane Cordell. Published under Creative Commons license.
New York History has a feature story today about Laura Smith, a Wawarsing resident who works with a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:17 am
21-year-old Daniel Hughes of Highland was killed yesterday in a one-car accident on Route 9W in Esopus.
Mid-Hudson News reports that Hughes was the son of an Ulster County sheriff's deputy.
A press release from the New York State Police:
State Police at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 - 11:56 pm
Early in January, the Watershed Post's two-person staff trucked down to Kingston for a taping of "Kingston NOW." The episode, which aired last night on WRNN-TV, was about digital newsmaking, and featured us along with one of our favorite local self-made... Read more
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