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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 16, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Above: A document showing a roughly 1,200-acre parcel acquired by the state in Big Indian, near the Belleayre Ski Center. Source: DEC website.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the agency has completed a proposal to... Read more
By Julie McMahon on Monday, Sep. 16, 2013 - 10:44 am
Photo illustration. The reservoir in the background is the Pepacton in Delaware County; photo by Timothy Cox, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Since 9/11, the number of Department of Environmental Protection police officers in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 13, 2013 - 3:57 pm
Above: Deputy John Demeo and K-9 Osman "Ozzie" Steele, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office's newest drug law enforcement team. Ozzie is the namesake of a famous Catskills officer of the law: Undersheriff Osman Steele, who was the only casualty of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 13, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Above: Sunrise over the dividing weir that separates the Ashokan Reservoir's east and west basins. Photo by Tim Cox; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
'Tis the season for road work, apparently: Next week, several construction projects will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 11:17 pm
Ulster County primary election results from Tuesday are in -- and in a few of the hottest races, incumbents kept their party lines against challengers.
In Woodstock, where challengers Lorin Rose and Terrie Rosenblum sought to unseat incumbent Jeremy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 3:36 pm
Results are in for Tuesday's primaries in four Greene County towns: Athens, New Baltimore, Prattsville and Windham. All results are still unofficial, and with absentee ballots yet to be counted, the balance could shift in close races.
Prattsville's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Unofficial results are in from Tuesday's primaries in eight Sullivan County towns: Bethel, Fremont, Liberty, Lumberland, Mamakating, Neversink, Thompson and Tusten. Absentee ballots have not yet been counted, and a few races are too close to call before... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 10:09 am
Five Delaware County towns held primary elections on Tuesday: Andes, Colchester, Delhi, Kortright and Middletown. Unofficial results are in for all five, although two races are close enough that absentee ballots that have yet to be counted could shift the... 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, Sep. 4, 2013 - 5:18 pm
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
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