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By wateradmin on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 10:12 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 2, 2011 - 9:40 pm
A New Jersey man was killed yesterday when his car, which was stopped in the northbound passing lane on the New York State Thruway, was struck from behind. From the New York State Police:
State Police responded to a two vehicle collision that occurred at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 2, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Tomorrow, Sarah Lee Guthrie (yes, of those Guthries) and her husband and musical partner Johnny Irion are performing at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia. The little train station should be a nice intimate backdrop for their sound: a rich,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 1:56 pm
The Daily Star has the horrible news: An 83-year-old woman was killed yesterday when a car drove through the house in Sidney where she was waiting to get her hair done at an in-home hair salon:
An 83-year-old Unadilla woman waiting to have her hair done... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 11:17 am
Artist's rendering of a planned floating luxury casino to be located on the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo credit.
OLIVE, NY – The Tuscarora tribe has entered into a secret deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to build a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 11:03 am
Note: This isn't an April Fool's joke. You can't make this stuff up. --Ed.
Rumors are flying in Delhi that the Tractor Supply Co. store on Main Street was hit by armed robbers on Wednesday. The stories vary, with some of the more extravagant ones... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 8:51 am
A homemade fly dryer, invented by Paul Cowell, of Paul's Angling Journal. Photo used with permission.
Happy fishing season opener day! Despite that sunny-sounding news, today doesn't feel very springy, and the New York Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 9:52 pm
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The agency is planning to push water into the lower Esopus via the Ashokan waste channel starting tomorrow, in response to predicted snowstorms in the Catskills region. According... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 2:33 pm
Former Daily Star reporter Patricia Breakey, who was among several editorial staffers laid off last month by the newspaper. Photo courtesy of Breakey; used with permission.
On February 11, the Oneonta Daily Star – the only daily print newspaper that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 1:05 pm
Photo of organic seed packets by Flickr user LollyKnit.
Reuters reports that the Public Patent Foundation, a nonprofit organization located at Cardozo School of Law and dedicated to preserving "freedom in the patent system," has filed suit against the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 10:13 am
For the first time in five years, Albany has gotten its act together and passed a budget on time -- indeed, a day early.
That's the good news. The bad news? With all the cuts required to close a $10 billion budget gap, state-run services are being slashed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 4:49 pm
Watershed Post reader Sarah Mesh found evidence of spring, in defiance of the forecasts of snow for tomorrow, in Delhi last Saturday. (We spotted crocuses in Andes two weeks ago. But it wasn't enough to keep the snows away.)
If you'd like to share a photo... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 4:36 pm
The Times-Union reports:
Investigators are examining the death of a 20-year-old State University of New York at Cobleskill student found in an apartment on Tuesday, village police said.
Police were called to the Hammerstone Village Apartments at 5:21 p.m... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:49 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A Seaford man drove into a creek in Hamden and flipped his car, after failing to stop at an intersection. Here's the press release:
On 3/19/2011 Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies investigated a one... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:28 pm
Kingston Citizens reports that Brooklyn-on-the-Hudson our fair city to the east is dipping a toe into the waters of social media, and has gotten a Twitter account.
Good news! The city of Kingston is finally working to access social media outlets to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 2:11 pm
The Times Herald-Record is reporting that teams of federal and Sullivan County officials have made one of the biggest marijuana busts in the county's history: 7,000 marijuana plants, a haul worth about $10 million.
"We believe it will be a record,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:30 pm
We're debuting something new today: Facebook comments. Instead of our old system, which let people choose between anonymous commenting and registering for a username on our site, we're now asking commenters to use their Facebook identities to post... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:25 pm
According to the Ellenville Central School District's website, a lit cigarette caused a fire in the basement of the High School and smoke damage throughout the school building last night.
A previous post on the school's website this morning, which has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 10:15 am
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced yesterday that she had been named chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security. From the press release (via the Catskill Chronicle):
Senator Gillibrand will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 8:45 am
Lee Hoiby, a reclusive Catskills-loving composer who adapted one of Tennessee Williams' plays into an opera, died yesterday, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lee Hoiby, a Sullivan County-based composer whose operas were performed everywhere from... Read more
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