Hurricane Irene
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 14, 2012 - 2:00 pm
Above: Yvonne Reuter stands in front of "Villa Yvonne," her house in Fleischmanns. Reuter, her 90-year-old mother, and her 14-year-old niece escaped from here by walking through waist-high floodwaters during Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Christopher... Read more
By wateradmin on Saturday, Jul. 14, 2012 - 1:49 pm
Yvonne ReuterPart-time residentFleischmanns, Delaware County
Above: Yvonne Reuter stands in front of "Villa Yvonne," her house in Fleischmanns. Reuter, her 90-year-old mother, and her 14-year-old niece escaped from here by walking through waist-high... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 29, 2012 - 3:36 pm
Barbara, Bill and Cindy Lonecke on the site where their home in Maplecrest used to stand. Photo by Christopher Auger-Dominguez.
Today the Watershed Post is launching our Faces of the Flood Project, a collaborative effort to tell the untold stories of the... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012 - 5:31 pm
Above: A 2001 aerial photo of a 6.45 acre property on Delaware Avenue in Sidney that may soon be seized by the Delaware County Industrial Development Agency in an eminent domain proceeding. Source: Delaware County Community Online Mapping Tool. To see a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012 - 2:22 pm
We've received a bunch of letters this month. Read them all in our letters section. To support the Margaretville American Legion Post's rebuilding efforts, send a check to American Legion Post 216, PO Box 41, Margaretville, NY 12455. -- Julia Reischel... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Friday, Jun. 8, 2012 - 4:09 pm
The Schoharie Fire Department's current temporary location on Fort Road, and the future site of the rebuilt Niagara Engine Co. No. 6. Photo by Matt Brisley.
After having seven and a half feet of water flow through it in last year’s floods, Niagara Engine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Above: A video showing the damage Irene wreaked on the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia. Taken August 29, 2011 by YouTube user mjanensch1.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge, which was feared to be irreparable after the wrath of Irene, will officially re-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 3:01 pm
Floyd Guernsey III, owner of Guernsey's Schoharie Nursery, smiles for a TV camera at the nursery's grand re-opening ceremony on May 11. Photo by Donald Edmonds.
Like many of the towns in the path of the raging Schoharie Creek, the town of Schoharie took a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:08 pm
One of the Freshtown's iconic wooden bears looks out over a row of grocery carts, lined up and ready for throngs of Margaretville shoppers to descend in the morning. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Margaretville's been waiting a long time for its grocery store to... Read more