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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 11:17 pm
Ulster County primary election results from Tuesday are in -- and in a few of the hottest races, incumbents kept their party lines against challengers.
In Woodstock, where challengers Lorin Rose and Terrie Rosenblum sought to unseat incumbent Jeremy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 3:36 pm
Results are in for Tuesday's primaries in four Greene County towns: Athens, New Baltimore, Prattsville and Windham. All results are still unofficial, and with absentee ballots yet to be counted, the balance could shift in close races.
Prattsville's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Unofficial results are in from Tuesday's primaries in eight Sullivan County towns: Bethel, Fremont, Liberty, Lumberland, Mamakating, Neversink, Thompson and Tusten. Absentee ballots have not yet been counted, and a few races are too close to call before... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2013 - 10:09 am
Five Delaware County towns held primary elections on Tuesday: Andes, Colchester, Delhi, Kortright and Middletown. Unofficial results are in for all five, although two races are close enough that absentee ballots that have yet to be counted could shift the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 9, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Some local voters registered with a political party will have a chance to weigh in at the polls on Tuesday, September 10. The local races underway in the region may not be as headline-grabbing as others in the state -- New York City mayoral race, anyone... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Sep. 6, 2013 - 12:25 pm
Drink deep of the delights of the written word all weekend long at the Hobart Book Village’s Festival of Women Writers, where you can plunge into literature de la femme for three glorious days of immersion in the company of writers from far and wide for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 6, 2013 - 10:07 am
Update, 7pm: The Daily Freeman reported Friday afternoon that 90-year-old Elizabeth Askue, a well-known member of the Hurley community, was found dead in a wooded area near her home.
New York State Police released a statement later in the day:
"On... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 4:38 pm
A Catskills bumblebee forages on clover. Photo posted on Instagram this morning by Sean Mahoney.
Happy Thursday, Catskills. The hour has come at last: There's a chance of patchy frost in tonight's forecast, with temperatures expected to dip down into the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 1:43 pm
It's that time of year again: election season is upon us! Give your candidate a boost with an ad in the Watershed Post. Design is included in our low rates, and we're the best way to reach readers across the Catskills.
To get started, contact Julia... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 10:54 am
Above: The scene at 2011's Drum Boogie Festival, held in Kingston's Cornell Park. This year, the biennial drumfest returns in a new location, at Woodstock's Andy Lee Field.
Dance the day away at the 2013 Drum Boogie Festival, set to take place Saturday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013 - 5:18 pm
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2013 - 9:40 am
Flickr user A Man Called ACME took this shot of a tree at Mine Kill Falls in Schoharie County over the Labor Day weekend. What photos did you take on your holiday? Upload them to our Flickr pool and we may publish them here.
The Watershed Post HQ is... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 - 9:36 am
Child of the corn: A young Catskillian ventures into a corn maze at the annual Bovina Farm Day, returning to Crescent Valley this Sunday.
Still deciding how to spend Labor Day Weekend? The Catskills has it all, from farm days to fire jugglers. Below: Our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 8:10 pm
Above: Turbid water from the Lower Esopus mixes with clearer water in the Hudson River. Photo taken by Riverkeeper in November of 2011, when turbidity in New York City's Catskill watershed and the Lower Esopus Creek was still high as a result of the Irene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 12:20 pm
Above: Our Catskill Fire Towers badge on a proud hiker's backpack. Photo by Lisa Lyons.
The Catskills fire towers are already pretty neat, but they're going to be especially awesome this weekend. For half an hour after dark on Saturday, the cabs of all... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:10 am
This letter is written in response to an August 11 armed standoff in Bovina. Read our coverage of the standoff here. -- Ed
Dear Editor,
I want to take issue with the reporting in last week’s press stating that the Bovina hostage taking ends in ‘tragedy’.... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:03 am
To the Editor,
I have lived in Ulster County for 34 of my 37 years and I’ve seen the majority of my classmates from Onteora High School move away to places where conditions are more inviting to those seeking employment and financial security. Census data... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:02 am
To the Editor:
During my nearly four decades as a State and Federal representative, I was a staunch proponent of freight and passenger railroads. I viewed the collapse of so many of our nation's smaller railroads in the 1970's and 1980's with great... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 - 1:29 pm
Above: New Kingston during the 1971 Whoop-De-Doo. Photo courtsey of Shirley Davis.
In 1969, the local Presbyterian church in New Kingston founded a festival to showcase traditional folkways and crafts of the Catskills. They called it the "Whoop-De-Doo,"... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 - 4:30 pm
We just gave ourselves more time to produce the new Catskills Food Guide, a print and online publication that the Watershed Post is launching this fall. Our publication date is November 11 -- right before Thanksgiving.
That means you have more time to... Read more
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