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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:42 pm
To the Editor
I have begun to educate myself about the proposed Catskill Mountain Rail Trail and I think there are some very important issues people raise. First of all, there is confusion about what will happen to the existing railroad, which many people... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:39 pm
Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter as a Shandaken resident in favor of the use of the Ulster rail corridor as a rail trail in the sections not actively used by the Catskill Mountain railroad. This letter is in no way meant to undermine the hard work... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:31 pm
Dear editor:
I am Allen Shiner, a full-time resident of Big Indian.
I have no investments in the area.
I don’t own a business.
I do not work in the area.
I do not work for Windham Mt.
I am not a paid lobbyist.
I am a skier at Belleayre. My entire family... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:16 pm
To the Editor:
I, for one am tired of a hysterical few in the Catskill Heritage Alliance raising absurd, outdated complaints about the Belleayre Resort.
The continue to bemoan the "behemoth" resort, despite the fact that the resort has been reduced by 62... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:02 pm
To the Editor:
The recently posted letter from Bob Axelrod concerning the Belleayre Resort is perplexing.
Where has Mr. Axelrod been for the last six years? It was then, not the other day, that a public/private partnership agreement was announced between... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 8:44 pm
To the editor:
Regarding the resurrected Belleayre Resort, it doesn't take a nobel prize in economics to see the flaws in the developer's business model and projections. Yes, Belleayre needs more lodging options, but timeshares? They are not exactly the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:42 am
Above: A time-lapse film of Mountain Jam's East Stage going up on Tuesday, June 4.
Mountain Jam on Hunter began nine years ago, when Woodstock radio station WDST decided to throw itself an anniversary party. The planets must have been well aligned. From a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 4:23 pm
For the second time in a year, the Walton Central School District has been besieged with virulent Facebook threats made against children.
On Monday evening, a message was posted on a local Facebook group threatening to shoot elementary school children in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 3:22 pm
Above: Video of a harness racing accident on the Monticello Raceway on Monday, June 3. Around 0:34, trotter Getthemoney falls, and a half-dozen horses behind him collide with horse and sulky.
Several racetrack drivers were injured in a seven-horse pileup... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 2:53 pm
Voters in Schoharie County's Middleburgh Central School District voted down this year's proposed $20,277,789 budget on May 21 by just 25 votes: 374 for to 399 against.
Now, with a second budget vote looming on June 18, the district has proposed a new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 8:58 am
A dreamy June landscape: vivid green grass, ripe seed heads, and the inexorable march of tiny feet. Jen Williams Dragon took this shot of a few recently emerged Brood II 17-year cicadas in the Ulster County hamlet of Malden, near the Hudson River, on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 5:15 pm
View from the top of Overlook Mountain. Photo by Greg Miller; courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
Over 250 acres near the summit of Overlook Mountain in Woodstock became part of the Catskill Forest Preserve recently, with the completion of a long-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 4:23 pm
Dawn on the Ashokan Reservoir: A perfect time to be alone with just a rowboat, a fishing pole and the sound of the mountains waking up for company. Photographer Tim Cox snapped this photo on the morning of Saturday, June 1; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 11:55 am
Above: A short video of the 18th annual Delhi Covered Bridge Run on June 1, 2013, shot by local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione.
Saturday's muggy weather was no match for the 469 runners, ages 6 to 78, who turned out for the Delhi Covered Bridge Run this year... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 9:46 am
A 55-year-old Port Ewen man who decided to take his Jeep off-roading in the town of Ulster on Sunday slid off the trail, and had to be rescued by state police and local fire companies.
According to a statement from state troopers, the man, who police did... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 5:16 pm
Above: A trailer for Knuckle Jack, an independent film shot in and around Roscoe by local filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams.
This weekend, film buffs will get a rare chance to see Roscoe on the big screen, as Knuckle Jack -- a film shot in and around... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 2:05 pm
Photo from the Friends of the Kaaterskill Rail Trail's Facebook page.
The Greene County mountaintop region will be celebrating National Trails Day in style this year: With the opening of a new rail trail through the heart of the Catskills' grand old hotel... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 10:22 am
Thanks to luck and training, a young Greenville pilot walked away from a plane crash in Wawarsing with only minor injuries on Thursday afternoon.
According to a New York State Police news release, 23-year-old Kimberly Striefler, the plane's sole occupant... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 4:06 pm
Lightning from a thunderstorm on Wednesday, May 29, taken between Grand Gorge and Stamford. Photo by Michelle Ogborn; shared on the Watershed Post's Facebook page.
A fierce rainstorm that swept through upstate New York on Wednesday night caused flash... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 12:58 pm
Dear Editor:
The Catskill Heritage Alliance has put out the call to their members to come to the Public Hearing May 29, to be bigger, better and, most of all, louder. Just what we need—another circus. Before they turn up the volume, I urge you to take a... Read more
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