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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 12:05 pm
Photo of a small tugboat and an oil spill surrounded by yellow booms on the Pepacton Reservoir. Taken on Tuesday, May 15 from Route 30, near the pump station for the East Delaware Tunnel. Photos by Lissa Harris.
The source of a small oil spill in New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 - 5:57 pm
Facing a looming August 6 deadline to form a sewer district in Phoenicia, uncertainty about the scope of the proposed sewer plant, and public outcry against the project, the Shandaken town board has opted to ask New York City for an extension on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 - 9:57 am
A reminder: New Yorkers go to the polls today to vote for school budgets and board members. To find your local polling place, check your school district's website.
Problems at the polls? Let us know at editor@watershedpost.com.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 11, 2012 - 5:15 pm
In the Daily Freeman today: A sinkhole on Washington Avenue in the city of Kingston is threatening gas, water, and sewer pipes underground, and a city engineer says it could take $1 million to fix it.
Ralph Swenson told members of the Common Council’s... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 4:15 pm
We are writing in response to the information we have received from our town board and from other neighboring towns. We are very happy to hear that the towns of Rochester, New Paltz, Marbletown and others are working to pass zoning bans to prohibit... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 3:00 pm
The Ulster County town of Olive has a new law on the books: A one-year moratorium on all gas drilling activity, including the transportation of fracking waste, within town borders.
The law was approved unanimously by the town board at their regular... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 11:33 am
Above: A Google map of New York State post offices that will have reduced hours under the new plan. Click on a red dot to get information about a post office's current hours and their planned reduced daily hours. Use the controls on the left to zoom in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 2:31 pm
Dear Editor,
Last week I attended the showing of “Priceless” in Rosendale, a documentary film about campaign finances, fair elections and how candidates get bought off by taking large donations from sources outside of their voting district. After the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:56 pm
A state-owned property at 67 Wurts Street in Kingston that Ulster County executive Mike Hein wants to convert to county-owned veterans' housing. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
At a lofty price of $1, it won't be the biggest... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:37 am
Shandaken's latest bout of dithering over a proposed Phoenicia sewer plant may have cost the town $15.8 million in New York City grant money. After years of negotiation with a reluctant town board over the Phoenicia sewer project, the Catskill Watershed... Read more
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