Trailbuilders of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference spent their Saturday rebuilding a bridge on the Long Path in Platte Clove. For more photos of the rebuild -- and an idea of how badly the bridge needed an upgrade -- see the NY-NJTC's photo album of the rebuild.
Happy Monday, Catskills! We hope your sump pumps are working.
So far, last week's rain has shown no sign of going away. It was a soggy weekend across the Catskills, with a few outbreaks of flash flooding around the region.
The Sullivan County village of Woodridge got some flooding on Sunday, and the Times Herald-Record got a dramatic photo of a telephone pole floating across Greenfield Road.
"That's So Catskills" award for the week goes to the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, where a giant beaver dam broke on Sunday afternoon, alarming officials and flooding Route 10. We're trying to track down a picture.
A few roads are closed due to flooding in eastern Ulster County, the Freeman reports.
Greene and Ulster counties have a flash flood warning until 12:15pm, and both counties as well as Schoharie County are under a flash flood watch through Tuesday evening, says the National Weather Service in Albany. Delaware and Sullivan counties are under a flash flood watch through Tuesday morning, says the National Weather Service in Binghamton. For the umpteenth time, we wish the whole region was covered by the same National Weather Service office.
Delaware and Schoharie counties are both officially in a state-declared disaster zone, although they haven't seen much flooding recently. Officials would rather be safe than sorry.
Meanwhile, in the Mohawk Valley, where flooding struck hard last week, two people are missing.
A 23-year-old Pine Bush man fell into a 100-foot ravine in the Shawangunks and was killed on Saturday.
Saugerties highway super -- and avowed Republican -- Doug Myer is courting town Democrats, after his own party snubbed him in a nominating caucus.
The Rosendale Trestle is open again. Judging from the staggering number of Facebook likes our post about it got, we assume a lot of you are excited about that.
It takes more than a little rain to scare off pro mountain bikers, who had a muddy, rocky, rooty, rowdy blast at the U.S. National Mountain Bike Race on Windham last weekend.
This weekend warrior had a great time cycling around the dirt roads of Delaware County, too.
Happy 100th birthday, Sullivan County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Special birthday present for CCE this year: A $200,000 budget gap and furloughs for most of their employees. Don't eat too much cake, folks.
Today's Orwellian Albany news: Under a new Cuomo administration policy, state officials will now destroy most of their email after 90 days. If you want to FOIL something, better do it fast.
Just in time for the NYC Pride Parade, the governor's office announced the launch of "I Love NY LGBT," a new website for LGBT tourists. (That's acronym-ese for "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender," and there's more letters where those came from.) Much like Sullivan County's gay tourism website, it pretty much has stuff that's on the regular I Love NY website, but with more rainbows.
NewsShed, our weekday digest of news, weather and hot bloggy goodness from around the region, is a new item here at the WP. Readers, what do you think? Let us know in a comment, or email us at editor@watershedpost.com.
