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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 11:25 am
During a press conference this morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency due to the winter storm and asked New York State residents to stay off the roads. Cuomo's office issued a press release soon afterwards.
Here's the full text of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 8:47 am
Above: Better put on those snow boots. Photo by Julia Reischel. Send your Catskills snow day photos to julia.reischel@watershedpost.com, share them on our Facebook page, or upload them to our Flickr pool. We'll share 'em.
Between 8 and 10 inches of snow... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 8:45 am
All roads in Delaware County are closed today, according to a an order issued by Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills via email at 6:25am:
By Order of Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills - All roads in Delaware County are officially closed due to current and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 8:22 am
Update, 2:50 p.m.: I-84 in New York State was reopened shortly after 2 p.m., the Governor's office announced.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has banned vehicles from travelling on I-84 in New York State because of heavy snowfall. Any vehicles on the highway will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 3:20 pm
The plan to heat the village of Fleischmanns with a communal wood boiler will live or die on community buy-in, according to Jim Waters, the director of the Catskill Forest Association (CFA), which is spearheading the proposed project.
Waters gave a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 11:32 am
Above: A photo of Aron Thomas posted on a GoFundMe page dedicated to a fund drive for his wife and children. Photo used with permission.
A fund has been started to benefit the wife and two young children of Aron Thomas, a 33-year-old Olivebridge man who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 10:33 am
Above: Rowboats wait for the return of sunnier weather in the Sullivan County hamlet of Kiamesha Lake. Photo taken Monday, Feb. 3 by John of Catskills Photography; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. For a larger view, click on this link to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 9:10 am
That pink swath over most of the Northeast and Midwest? That's winter storm warnings, issued for a band of snow and sleet that's moving northeastward across the nation. Source: National Weather Service.
Skies over the Catskills are dazzling blue, but by... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - 5:38 pm
To the editor:
The 126-mile Constitution pipeline is slated to run behind my farm and under Crane Hill Rd. as well as County Route 23. For those of you along the proposed route, you are being asked to sign an easement agreement. Please consider the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - 5:30 pm
Dear Editor:
The New York Observer editorializes that the rebuilt Tappan Zee Bridge should be named for Mario Cuomo. I must disagree. Though I respect the ex-governor, I have even more love for the few Dutch names that still exist in our area. ("Tappan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - 10:52 am
Several fire companies battled a major structure fire Monday morning at a home on 4 Franklin Street in Delhi, just off the village's Main Street. Photo by Cathy Roloson and used with permission. (Thanks everyone for helping us track down the photographer... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - 9:35 am
Left: David N. Reese, who was arrested and charged with murder in the 2nd degree after allegedly shooting a coworker at the DEP on February 3, 2014. Photo via the Kingston Police Department's Facebook page.
A 33-year-old Olivebridge man was fatally shot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 - 3:54 pm
Stamford is currently under a boil water advisory due to a water main break in the village that occurred on Friday evening. The break was discovered around 7 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, according to a post on the village's Facebook page.
Before the boil... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 - 12:48 pm
Water, land and sky: The colors of the Catskills landscape take on a subtle, unearthly beauty in deep winter.
The photo above was shot at the Ashokan Reservoir on Thursday, Jan. 30 by landscape photographer Michael Neil O'Donnell, and shared on Flickr... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 - 11:35 am
A boil-water advisory issued Sunday, Jan. 26 for the Phoenicia Water District has been lifted, town officials in Shandaken announced Friday.
The advisory was declared last week because of the extreme cold weather, which froze underground springs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 9:39 pm
Fishing on the Pepacton Reservoir: Has that umbrella been steam-cleaned? Photo taken July 17, 2013; from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Flickr page.
In the past few years, there's been a shift of attitude at the New York City... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 8:29 pm
A 56-year-old Saugerties man was struck by a truck Thursday morning, Jan. 30, while crossing Partition Street, the Daily Freeman reports. He died of his injuries later in the afternoon:
Robert G. Carlson, of 210 Main St., was crossing Partition Street on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 1:03 pm
Above: Jim Waters, the executive director of the Catskill Forest Association. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Forest Association.
Does it make sense to heat the village of Fleischmanns with wood? Hear what the experts think at a public forum this Saturday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 - 9:03 am
Above: A trailcam captures a nighttime view of a wild boar in Delaware County. Photo taken in August of 2013; courtesy of Justin Gansowski of the USDA.
This week, federal wildlife agents armed with cameras and sniper rifles are patrolling New York State... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 - 4:16 pm
Above: A couple of Cobleskill firefighters suited up for an ice rescue drill in the town of Summit on Saturday, Jan. 25. Photos by Sandra-Lynn White VanValkenburgh; reproduced with permission from Schoharie County Fire Wire & News.
If you fell... Read more
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