Government
By Rich Muellerleile on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 4:02 pm
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? As we start to experience the chills of a Catskills winter, questions like that (except maybe a little less tongue in cheek) become more and... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 12:04 pm
Image: Route 28 Scenic Byway map. From the Central Catskill Collaborative's Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan, September 2011.
The Shandaken Town Board held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, December 5. Here's Watershed Post reporter Rusty Mae... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 - 12:05 pm
Above: The Twilight Zone logo, via Wikipedia.
As reported by Michael Ryan for The Daily Mail last week, the Greene County town of Lexington is in limbo after last month's election.
Candidates for the town's five-member town council are in an unusual tie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 - 7:13 pm
Tonight, December 5, the Ulster County legislature is scheduled to vote on the 2012 budget, including a decision on whether to transfer the county's publicly-owned Golden Hill nursing home to a Local Development Corporation (LDC). Transferring Golden Hill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 - 2:21 pm
Above: The bridged ravine on Oliverea Road. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
The governor's office announced on Friday that Rte. 23 in Greene County between Prattsville and West Settlement Road is open today. [This post has been changed -- see correction below... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 - 2:34 pm
On Wednesday, Ulster County Deputy Executive Robert Sudlow told the Daily Freeman that the enormous ravine that Tropical Storm Irene cut through Oliverea Road in Shandaken would open to traffic on Friday (today).
You may remember this ravine from our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 - 10:28 am
Above: Video taken by Sullivan County radio producer and anti-drilling activist Sabrina Artel at the DEC's public hearing on gas drilling in Binghamton, November 17, 2011.
In what has become a familiar plot point in the unfolding saga of New York State's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 - 3:49 pm
Above: Jim Eklund stands before freshly slaughtered beef at the Eklund Processing facility in Stamford. Delaware County officials toured the Catskills' new slaughterhouse on November 30, 2011. Click on any photo to read its caption. Photos by Julia... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 - 12:08 pm
Photo of Schoharie resident Clinton Manchester, who is living in a FEMA trailer while he rebuilds his house. From the caption: "FEMA is placing these units close to the homes of the hurricane survivors, enabling easy access as they rebuild." Taken by FEMA... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 - 12:10 pm
Above: Pamela West-Finkle and her husband Theodore Finkle, as the band Diviner.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Pamela West-Finkle, a South Kortright musican and singer-songwriter, about her new Community Music and Arts... Read more
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