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By wateradmin on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 - 9:06 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 New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 - 2:19 pm
The New York State Police are reporting today that state troopers and town of Saugerties police officers shot and killed a pit bull after it attacked three people, including an infant, in a Saugerties home yesterday.
The infant was reportedly saved from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 - 11:36 am
If you don't have to be outside right now, don't be -- the National Weather Service has been warning all morning that "dangerous snow squalls" will be whistling across the Catskills today. Driving is especially discouraged, and at least one segment of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011 - 11:11 am
It's official: Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Interior rejected the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans' application for approval to build a resort casino in a hamlet in Sullivan County.
The Times Herald-Record has the story:
The Department of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 - 4:16 pm
YNN ran a story this week about new statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that show that New York state is losing large farming operations and gaining small ones. The story quotes a Sullivan County farmer saying that farmers might need to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 - 2:02 pm
This week, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation entered the legal fray against New York City over the NYC Department of Environmental Protection's releases of muddy water into the Esopus Creek. The story was big news, and we rounded... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 - 1:13 pm
We've known this was coming for months, and now here it is: A new water supply permit for New York City from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.
The new permit allows the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to continue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 - 12:23 pm
Laura Levine, the proprietrix of Phoenicia's thrift-store-cum-junk-shrine Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques, also happens to have taken some of rock's most iconic images (such as a portrait of naked, leaf-covered Bjork) during her career as a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 4:10 pm
A recent action by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ensures that New York City's efforts to push dirty water out of the Ashokan Reservoir throughout the fall and winter are going to cost the city big time. The DEC is fining the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 11:18 am
Giant hogweed: Photo from DEC In the midst of a tight new budget and a departmental hiring freeze, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has one job for which it is actually hiring: giant hogweed wrangler.
Thanks to funding set aside... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 - 8:55 am
The voters have spoken in Budget Travel's America's Coolest Small Town contest, and Phoenicia has come in 6th with 15,451 votes. (The winner was Lewisburg, West Virginia, with an astonishing 139,118 votes.)
Lewisberg has been the leader in the contest... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 2:11 pm
The Bovina History blog has a tidbit today proving that -- alas -- the fine art of community newspaper writing has suffered since its nineteenth-century glory days. Ray LaFever writes:
In February 1880, the winter was the subject of discussion, as it is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 1:02 pm
Photo of snow on a Stamford hillside by Flickr user McGahee. Posted in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Michael Frank, writing for the online-only Adventure Magazine this week, has a special Valentine's message for the Catskills: he's sorry he ever thought... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 11:22 am
Ulster County Executive Mike Hein announced in his annual county address last night that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has filed a formal complaint against the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over the DEP... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 10:54 am
The Schoharie County Sheriff's Office is reporting that 26-year-old Tara Valhos fell off a snowmobile in the village of Richmondville and into the path of an oncoming car yesterday.
According to a press release, Valhos was airlifted to Bassett Medical... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 9:45 am
A bus driver and an aide transporting Pre-K and kindergarten students to Catskill Elementary School on Monday morning parked a bus in a Wal-Mart parking lot with a 5-year-old girl sleeping inside, according to the Daily Mail and the Daily Freeman. When... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 4:57 pm
Casks of liquor from Tuthilltown. Photo via the Tuthilltown Spirits Facebook page.
Hudson Valley Business has a neat story this week about what Ulster County whiskey-maker Tuthilltown Spirits is doing with the old oak barrels it uses to age its liquors.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 1:25 pm
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. Photo by Flickr user Jim Lynch; published under Creative Commons license.
Now that the federal Departments of the Interior and Justice have put the kibosh on the proposed Stockbridge-Munsee casino... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 11:52 am
A "large fireball" was spotted in the skies over Ulster County yesterday by an anonymous poster on a meteor-tracking blog:
Ulster County, NY Large Daytime Fireball 12:45 p.m., February 14, 2011
Feb 15 2011, 3:38 AM
Guest233 (guest): Promo3 Large Fireball... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 11:33 am
The Daily Freeman is reporting that yet another car accident happened yesterday evening, this one the second to occur on Rte. 28 this week. Happily, however, the four occupants of the car sustained only minor injuries, the paper reports:
Officer John... Read more
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