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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013 - 5:05 pm
A satisfied customer at Bohringer's Fruit Farm in Middleburgh. Photo by James McCracken; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
June brings many things: Weddings. Graduations. A riot of greenery. And of course, strawberries. The brief, glorious... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013 - 3:48 pm
It's been a perilous week on Greene County roads and trails.
On Wednesday morning, state police say, two Athens women walking along the shoulder of Cauterskill Road in Catskill were struck by a car that drifted off-course. One died; the other was injured... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013 - 12:18 pm
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find. Photo by Flickr user Scott Namelrod; published under Creative Commons license.
The latest out of Albany: With just days left in the legislative session, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and key state legislators struck a late-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 19, 2013 - 10:23 am
After a defeat at the polls in May, the Cairo-Durham Central School District passed a revised budget by 472-360 on Tuesday, the Daily Mail reports:
After the $27.7 million budget was voted down in May, the revised budget dropped the tax levy from $12,550,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 10:00 pm
After the Middleburgh school district's first budget was defeated at the polls by a slender margin, voters in the district passed a revised budget Tuesday. The district announced the results on Facebook:
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Middleburgh Central School District18... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 5:57 pm
A 21-year-old Delhi man drowned on the West Branch of the Delaware River on Tuesday after he fell from his kayak.
Around noon on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, local first responders and police responded to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 3:49 pm
Dear Editor,
I am writing to express my support for the proposed Catskill Mountain Rail Trail (CMRT). As a resident of the City of Kingston, I am very excited about the impact this trail will have on our city! The CMRT will begin in Midtown Kingston (near... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 3:21 pm
Dear Editor,
Is it only me or does the weather feel weird these days. In late May, we had temperatures in the 40's accompanied by rain and strong wind. Usually, cold temperatures in late May are associated with clear weather and high pressure- not wind... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 3:10 pm
Dear Editor,
The 38.5 mile U&D corridor was purchased in 1979 for 1.5 million dollars by Ulster County (approximately four million dollars in 2013 dollars). Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) supporters are now urging people to tell County Executive... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 3:09 pm
Above: The old Ulster & Delaware rail tracks near Cathedral Glen on Highmount. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A controversial plan to convert Ulster County's old rail corridor into a walking trail from Kingston to Highmount got a boost on Monday, with the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 3:00 pm
Dear Editor,
When I was a kid growing up in a Phoenix suburb, my friends and I rode our bikes everywhere. They were our source of freedom, adventure and comradeship. There were streets throughout the small city that were wide, lightly-trafficked, and safe... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 - 11:39 am
On Tuesday, June 18, voters in two Catskills school districts will have another chance to vote on school budgets that failed to pass in the regular election on May 22.
The Middleburgh Central School District, whose budget failed by just 25 votes in May,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 11:11 pm
A six-mile stretch of Route 28 was closed to traffic late Monday night due to downed power lines on the road, according to an alert posted on 511-NY by the New York State Department of Transportation.
The alert stated that as of 10:58pm Monday, Route 28... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 3:48 pm
A five-month investigation into local drug activity in Delaware County has netted eight arrests, county police announced today. Five women and three men were arrested recently and charged with a variety of heroin- and prescription-drug-related offenses.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 2:12 pm
As if torrential rains and a flooded-out downtown on Friday weren't bad enough: Huntersland Road in Middleburgh is shut down until further notice, after a mudslide in the wee hours of Sunday morning forced the closure of the road.
YNN reports that the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 1:41 pm
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Route 213 in Rosendale near the intersection with Binnewater Road is closed due to downed electrical wires, the NY Department of Transportation announced at 1:34pm Monday.
The road is expected to reopen by around 5:30pm.
Update: Route 213... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 17, 2013 - 10:46 am
State police are looking for a New Jersey man after a Sunday evening hit-and-run accident in Marlborough that left a woman injured.
At 9:17pm Sunday, a 2002 Chevrolet Suburban was driving the wrong way on one-way Western Avenue, police say. The Chevrolet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 14, 2013 - 5:44 pm
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Above: A video report from News 10 of flooding in Middleburgh's Main Street on Friday afternoon.
Just when it was clearing up: Rainstorms moving south through the Hudson Valley prompted a fresh round of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 14, 2013 - 4:25 pm
A Brood II cicada in Malden-On-Hudson in Ulster County. Photo taken June 3, 2013 by Jen Williams Dragon.
Where, indeed? After 17 years underground, Brood II has emerged across the Northeast in the last month or so -- but not everywhere. While some areas... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 14, 2013 - 12:55 pm
Above: Karen Butler, Ingrid Husam, Richard Friedberg and Wenda Habenicht protest the New York Safety Track at a town meeting on Tuesday, June 11. Photo courtesy of the Friends of Rural Life, a local group that wants the track shut down.
In Harpersfield,... Read more
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