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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 12:01 pm
Above: Santas ride the chairlift on Sunday, Dec. 14 at Windham Mountain Ski Center. Screenshot from Windham Mountain's video of the event, which you can watch below.
Windham Mountain invited Santa Claus to ski for charity on Sunday, Dec. 12, and 300... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Above: Photo via Flickr user rabiem22.
A 28-year-old man wearing nothing but a pair of boots turned up on the porch of a residence in Summit after spending 14 hours naked outside on Sunday, Dec. 7, police say.
"You've never seen a guy shake that much in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 10:16 am
Gov. Andrew Cuomo handed out early Christmas presents on Thursday, Dec. 11 in the form of $709.2 million in economic and community development funding to hundreds of organizations across New York state. Several Catskills organizations, including MTC Cable... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 12:30 pm
A 48-year-old Walton man died on Tuesday, Dec. 9 after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and into a tree in the Delaware County town of Hamden, according to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
Kelvin J. McKnight was driving north on Route... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 9:20 am
Above: A window display at Ragtime Clothing Exchange in Callicoon, which hosts its first Dickens on the Delaware event this weekend. Photo via the Dickens on the Delaware Facebook page.
The snow is on the ground, just in time for the fourth installment... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 6:49 pm
Above: Photo by Flickr user grendelkhan.
A power surge during a large snowstorm caused electical outlets to smoke and pop in six houses in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh early on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Beginning at 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 6:12 pm
Above: The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville. Photo by Doug Kerr.
The steel truss bridge that carries Route 23 over the Schoharie Creek in the Greene County town of Prattsville is slated for replacement in 2016, according to the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 4:34 pm
Above: Photo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, via Flickr.
This Sunday, the Peekamoose Restaurant & Tap Room is throwing a fundraising bash for the Community Pantry, the food pantry that serves the Delaware County town of Middletown.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:55 pm
Above: A 65-year-old New York City woman is dead after five tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles crashed on Route 17 in Sullivan County on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, via Flickr.
Icy road conditions early on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:42 pm
Above: Benton, the kitten that took over the front page of the Chicago Tribune for 16 minutes on July 30, 2013, thanks to a website goof. We feel your pain, Trib.
If you visited the Watershed Post today and got an error message instead of a piece of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 - 5:39 pm
Above: Rush hour traffic in Andes, New York. Photo by Flickr user charltonlido, taken in 2010.
With a unanimous vote, the town board of the Delaware County town of Andes passed a local law banning oil and natural gas waste on Tuesday, Dec. 9, according... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 5:27 pm
Winter storm warnings are in effect for Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties for Tuesday, Dec. 9 through Thursday, Dec. 11. Forecasts are calling for eight to 14 inches of snow, often accumulating at one to to inches per hour... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 4:24 pm
Above: An excerpt from a letter sent to to landowners along the route of the Constitution Pipeline on Dec. 3. Read the full letter at the bottom of this story or by clicking here.
The day after receiving federal approval, the Constitution Pipeline sent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 12:10 pm
Above: Carts full of holiday shopping were abandoned in the checkout line at Walmart on Saturday, Dec. 6 after shoppers evacuated the building after a "threat call." Contributed photo.
Several stores in the town of Ulster shopping center on Route 9W near... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 - 5:26 pm
A winter weather advisory is in effect for Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties today, Friday, Dec. 5, beginning this afternoon and lasting through tomorrow morning.
The high roads in the Catskills will be icy tonight, according to a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 - 11:57 am
Above: A festive bovine bust at Lucky Dog Farm Store in Hamden.
Challenge: Spend every holiday shopping dollar at a Catskills merchant this month. To help you do it, here's the third installment of our holiday shopping guide. (Want even more things to do... Read more
By Alecia Lynn Eberhardt on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 - 1:05 pm
Above: Justin Behan, the owner of Green Wolf Brewing Company. Photo used with permission.
Three and a half years ago, Justin Behan was standing in an old house on his property when he had a revelation. “It dawned on me,” he said, “this building has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 - 5:31 pm
Above: The door to the Gypsy Wolf Cantina. Photo by Flickr user satemkemet.
Every year since 1989, the sign in front of the Gypsy Wolf Cantina in the Ulster County town of Woodstock has changed. One year, a stylized wolf howled at the moon. Another, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 - 12:58 pm
Above: A natural gas pipeline being constructed. Photo courtesy of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Constitution Pipeline received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build a 124-mile natural gas pipeline from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 - 2:10 pm
Above: An ice wall in Platte Clove in 2013. Photo by Dave Hebb and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The National Weather Service has issued winter weather advisories for snow and freezing rain beginning on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 2 and lasting... Read more
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