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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 - 2:36 pm
With a snowstorm approaching the Catskills region, Trailways New York has cancelled all service on several routes that go through the area for Thursday, Feb. 12. Many other routes throughout upstate New York are also cancelled or are operating on a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 - 1:18 pm
Above: Graphic from the National Weather Service showing weather watches, warnings and advisories in upstate New York as of 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The area in pink, stretching across the southern Catskills and Hudson Valley, is under winter storm warning;... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 - 5:54 pm
Above: A house near Schoharie, NY after Irene in 2011. Photo by fixBuffalo, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Communities across the Catskills have a shot at $3 million each to help them rebuild after the ravages of Hurricanes Sandy and Irene and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 - 12:37 pm
Barbara Small photographed two robins brightening up Southside Road in Margaretville this week. Share your cold-weather photos with us via Facebook, our Flickr group, or by old-fashioned email.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 5:44 pm
A man who spent Saturday night in his car, parked in a driveway in the village of Schoharie, was found dead in the car on Sunday. The cause of death is still under investigation, but no foul play is suspected.
On Monday, the Schoharie Sheriff's Office... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 3:51 pm
David Reese, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of DEP employee Aron Thomas, admitted to the act after the crime, a DEP police officer told a Kingston court judge on Monday.
At a preliminary hearing in Kingston city court... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 - 8:57 pm
A member of the Franklin Fire Department, Assistant Chief James Wilber, suffered a fatal heart attack while responding to a call Sunday morning.
A public news release sent out by the Delaware County Department of Emergency Services stated that Wilber was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 - 3:32 pm
Above: A juvenile golden eagle was captured in the town of Andes on Saturday, February 8 and fitted with a GPS tracking device. Photos by Julia Reischel.
A rare eastern golden eagle was captured and fitted with a solar-powered GPS device this morning in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 1:44 pm
This Friday through Sunday, the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge comes alive with the twang of banjos, the stomp of feet, and the sweet sound of voices lifted in harmony. (And even a little "electrified Americana," in the form of a set by Saugerties' Conner... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 10:17 am
My wife's logic and humor #MoChunk pic.twitter.com/m4zFqNZk8T
— Aaron Grill (@agrill) February 1, 2014
Above: Mohonk's norovirus outbreak hits Twitter.
The Mohonk Mountain House closed its doors for a week on Friday, Feb. 7, after many guests and staff... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 9:35 am
A first-year SUNY New Paltz student was found dead in his dorm room on Thursday night, Feb. 6. The cause of death is still unknown.
On Thursday evening, campus police responded to a 911 call and found 18-year-old Eric Vandelaar of Monroe, N.Y. not... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 10:46 pm
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced Thursday that a young child with measles had been admitted to Albany Medical Center, and that patients who were in certain parts of the hospital on Friday, Jan. 31 or Saturday, Feb. 1 may have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 5:55 pm
The man charged with the recent shooting death of Aron Thomas turned himself in voluntarily to a DEP police officer before he was arrested, sources have told the Watershed Post.
At 6:46 a.m. on Monday, police say, 53-year-old David Reese of Gilboa shot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 11:11 am
Above: Delhi firefighters filling the town's new ice rink last week. Photo from the Delhi Fire Department's Facebook page.
Rockefeller Center, eat your heart out. On Saturday, Feb. 8, the Delaware County town of Delhi will celebrate the opening of a new... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 5:50 pm
A car crashed into the Wm. H. Adams Antiquarian Books bookstore in Hobart on Wednesday, February 5 at 2:30 p.m. Photos courtesy of Diana and William Adams.
A car slid off State Route 10 and into the side of a bookstore in the village of Hobart this... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 4:39 pm
A tractor-trailer driving on State Route 30A just north of U.S. Route 20 in the Schoharie County town of Esperance slipped off the road into a ditch around 2:15 p.m., according to a spokesman at the Schoharie County Emergency Management Office.
"He just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 2:32 pm
On Wednesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared I-84 in New York State closed to all traffic due to snow and ice conditions.
Around 2 p.m., Cuomo's office announced that the road had been reopened throughout New York State:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 2:24 pm
Snow falling on cedars...and hemlocks, oaks, and maples. (Not to mention sidewalks, driveways and interstates.)
Below are few of the stunning photos taken by Watershed Post readers around the Catskills in the last few days. Got one to share? Add it to our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 1:50 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday afternoon that a county-wide road closure, which was announced early in the morning, would be lifted at 2 p.m.:
The road closure for Delaware County will be lifted at effective 2pm today. Even... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 1:35 pm
A boil water advisory for Stamford that has been in effect since the weekend was lifted today, village officials announced around 11:30 a.m..
Except for the announcement, the village office was closed Wednesday due to the snow emergency.
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