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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 6, 2011 - 4:53 pm
A line of severe thunderstorms is marching across the Catskills this afternoon, as this snapshot of radar taken at 4:41pm shows. The National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch earlier today for Delaware, Greene, Schoharie and Ulster... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011 - 3:25 pm
Photo by Flickr user akasped.
That question has divided the community around Cairo-Durham Central School this month.
In early June, the Daily Mail reported that C-D students were flying and displaying the confederate flag in the school parking lot:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011 - 2:50 pm
There was lots of excitement in the tiny hamlet of Bearsville last Friday, according to the Daily Freeman:
An elderly woman was rescued from her car in a stream Friday morning after the vehicle barrelled backward from the Cub Market parking lot, then... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011 - 11:31 am
Lois Lubrano, a 41-year-old Napanoch woman, allegedly attempted to kill her 72-year-old mother with a 12-gauge shotgun last Thursday, the State Police out of Ellenville report in a press release.
Lois Lubrano: Photo via New York State PoliceThe unnamed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011 - 12:21 am
Above: Slide from DEC Commissioner Joe Martens' presentation on hydraulic fracturing regulations on Friday.
It's officially a draft of a draft. But a 736-page document from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, released to the media... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 1, 2011 - 10:03 am
As we wrote yesterday, scores of people gathered on the Shavertown Bridge over the Pepacton Reservoir last Saturday to protest hydraulic fracturing of the Marcellus Shale. Today, videographer (and Watershed Post advertiser) Jessica Vecchione, who was at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 1, 2011 - 9:48 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that it has made an arrest on Wednesday in a case of stolen coins in Saugerties.
According to a press release, 19-year-old James Raymond of Glasco allegedly stole coins from a Saugerties residence on Old Rte... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 1, 2011 - 8:54 am
Right on time for its July 1 deadline, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation will be releasing its recommendations for the statewide regulation of hydraulic fracturing today. There will be a big press conference (viewable via webcast) at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 30, 2011 - 11:34 am
Photo provided by CDOG/un-naturalgas.org. Video shot by Jessica Vecchione.
On Saturday, scores of people gathered on the Shavertown Bridge that crosses the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware County to protest the controversial practice of hydraulic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011 - 1:11 pm
Photo by Flickr user David Chess. Published under Creative Commons license.
By law, a school contingency budget has to spend less than the failed budget it is adopted to replace.
So, after having two budget proposals shot down by voters this year, the... Read more
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