election 2013
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 - 6:31 pm
Above: Democratic supervisor Marge Miller and Republican challenger Nelson Delameter, of the Delaware County town of Middletown. In unofficial results from the county Board of Elections, Delameter bested Miller by just 22 votes.
Most of Tuesday's races in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 - 10:30 am
The results of Tuesday's local elections are in -- some expected, some surprising, and some still hanging in the balance as absentee ballots that could decide close races continue to roll in. We posted highlights from local races live on Twitter Tuesday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Listen to the pumpkin. Photo by Flickr user Tanner Lovelace; published under Creative Commons license.
In small-town America, odd years are where the political action is. On Tuesday, November 5, New York State goes to the polls to elect local officials.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 - 3:09 pm
Once again, the Watershed Post is proudly sponsoring a meet-and-greet for the local candidates in the town of Andes this Sunday, hosted by Andes Works at the Andes Hotel. (Here's video from the last one we sponsored, in 2011.)
The event will be a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 9, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Some local voters registered with a political party will have a chance to weigh in at the polls on Tuesday, September 10. The local races underway in the region may not be as headline-grabbing as others in the state -- New York City mayoral race, anyone... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 22, 2013 - 2:20 pm
On Tuesday, May 21, New York State voters went to the polls to decide the fate of local school budgets and elect members to school boards.
Most budgets throughout the five-county Catskills region passed. A few were voted down, and will now have 30 days to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2013 - 2:14 pm
In upstate New York's smallest villages, every vote really does count.
The Delaware County village of Hancock got a potent reminder of the power of the ballot box in last Tuesday's election, when incumbent mayor John Martin squeaked to victory over... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013 - 9:29 am
Most village-level politicians up for re-election in the Catskills on Tuesday went unchallenged. But some local villages had contests -- and with big issues like tax caps and flood recovery on the table even at the smallest level of government, the few... Read more
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
