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By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2012 - 3:22 pm
Above: Know who else wants your blood? The Red Cross. Photo by Flickr user Ednaar, used under a Creative Commons license.
The American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive in one of its mobile units in downtown Kingston tomorrow, in front of Kingston... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2012 - 10:51 am
A Pine Bush woman is facing felony charges of fourth-degree grand larceny, for allegedly stealing a golden retriever worth $1,200 from an acquaintance.
Ulster County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 27-year-old Colleen Neidermier on a warrant from the Town of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2012 - 10:03 am
On Saturday, March 3, Prattsville held a Housing Expo and Home Improvement Show for homeowners looking to rebuild after the devastating Irene floods.
The Daily Mail's Michael Ryan was on hand, and spoke to a few of Prattsville's determined residents:
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 5, 2012 - 2:45 pm
Over the weekend, local photographer Mark Zilberman caught the soulful gaze of his neighbor's horse on film. (Well, on pixels, anyway.)
Photo taken in Andes on March 3. Thanks to Mark for sharing it in our Watershed Post Flickr group pool. We often... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 6:44 pm
Above: Jake and Karen Fairbairn in Lazy Crazy Acres's mobile kitchen-on-wheels. Photo courtesy of Lazy Crazy Acres.
The Lazy Crazy Acres recipe for ice cream is deceptively simple: Start with a cow.
Meet small-batch gelato makers, dairy farmers, and... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 1:04 pm
Above: Prattsville depicted in the days of Zadock Pratt on an 1844 postcard, when Pratt's tannery was the biggest business in town. From Wikimedia Commons.
Thanks to Irene, the picture the country has of Prattsville in its collective consciousness is,... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Some people sign petitions, stage protests, write congress, when they're unhappy about something. Big Fracas Productions has chosen the time-honored tradition of using music to gather attention and support for their anti-hydraulic-fracturing position (Get... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Above: Chris Berry, a paleontologist at Cardiff University, examines the fossilized stump of a Gilboa tree in a quarry at the Gilboa Dam. Photo courtesy of Cardiff University.
Scientists around the world have been waiting for nearly a century to walk... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 - 4:58 pm
I often see a commercial on TV for a company that provides high speed internet access to rural communities and hard-to-wire places; it tells people who want to sign up to go to a website and fill out a contact form. While that seems like a joke worthy of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Above: A photo taken by a Watershed Post reader in Fleischmanns Park on August 31, 2011, after the Irene floods. Six months later, Fleischmanns still must undertake millions of dollars' worth of rebuilding work, which has been stalled while the village... Read more
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