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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 5:01 pm
Above: Black Blessed Night, by Two Dark Birds. Music video shot by Scott Kawczynski.
Two Dark Birds, the Pakatakan Mountain-based band that released its latest CD this fall, makes no bones about how much nicer it is in the Catskills than it is in New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 3:41 pm
The good folks at the Kingston Library are on Twitter -- and today, they tweeted about a cryptic little article found in the vaults of the Kingston Daily Freeman, circa 1912.
The headline: "An Odd Accident." The rest you can read above.
Shavertown, as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 - 12:52 pm
A photo of a Catskills streambank post-Irene, from the Catskill Watershed Corporation website.
Five months after the Irene and Lee floods, streams all across the Catskills region are still clogged with downed trees, trash, pieces of trailers, and other... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 - 8:44 am
Photo of bobcat by Flickr user ucumari. Published under Creative Commons license.
New York's bobcat population is growing, says the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The elusive cats, found mostly in the Catskill, Taconic and... Read more
Got flood damage? New grants available for businesses and municipalities are now taking applications
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 - 9:40 am
Above: Flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene in the Greene County town of Lexington. Photo taken on August 30, 2011, by Flickr user kimmcg. Posted in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Two big grant programs for storm-ravaged businesses, property-owners,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 - 8:57 am
Peg Ellsworth, the director of the Roxbury-based MARK Project, asked us to get the word out this week about several new grant programs for small businesses and commercial properties in Delaware County. Two press releases about the new programs as well as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 - 3:27 pm
The National Weather Service has announced snow and winter weather advisories across much of the region for tonight and tomorrow.
Ulster County: Winter Weather Advisory from 1am through 3pm tomorrow, 3-6 inches of snow.
Delaware County: Winter Weather... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - 2:15 pm
Today, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a division of the US Department of Agriculture, announced that it is setting aside $31.5 million in disaster aid for projects sponsored by local town, city, county or tribal governments in New York... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 - 8:19 pm
Above: A Flickr slideshow of photos from Catskills FarmLink landowners and farmers. The first photo is of Michelle Premura, a landowner who has listed 13 acres between Delhi and Stamford on the FarmLink website. Click on individual photos to see the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 3:35 pm
In his proposal for the 2012 - 2013 New York State budget, released today, Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear that he would like to transfer the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center to the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) at the close... Read more