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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 10, 2014 - 10:30 am
Above: Still deep winter at the icy cathedral of Kaaterskill Falls. Photo taken March 5 by Rebecca Balzac; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. The Northeast is bracing for yet another late-season snowstorm, due to hit the Catskills region on... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014 - 4:17 pm
Above: Slickepott's Pam Lamont and Betty Acre Farm's Aissa O'Neil talked up their products at the Pure Catskills booth at a New York City trade show on Monday afternoon. Photos by Jennifer Strom. For three days this week, you could sample Slickepott... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 - 11:26 am
Top:  Bill Pullman with Jessica Vecchione, the founder of the Catskill Mountains Film Festival. Photo by Riikka Olson, via the CMFF Facebook page. Above: Bill Pullman explains his relationship to the Catskills. Video shot by festival founder Jessica... Read more
By D. Seiler on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 - 3:16 pm
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at 1:00 p.m., at the Roxbury Library, David Carner of Fidelis Care will provide a program on Medicare services. Regular RLA Tuesday Forum attendees will provide refreshments following Mr. Carner's presentation. The Robury... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 - 4:29 pm
Above: Storm-felled trees on New York City-owned land on Houck Mountain, northeast of the Cannonsville Reservoir in Beerston, NY, in May of 2013. Photos courtesy of NYC DEP. Blame it on the rain -- and the wind, and the torrential flooding. In the past... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 - 3:49 pm
A highway runs through it: Route 30, Roxbury's Main Street, on a chilly January afternoon. Photo by Greg Henderson.  In the rural Catskills, "economic development" often doesn't mean big-ticket projects. For the MARK Project, a nonprofit based in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 - 11:52 am
Above: Snow falling thick and fast at 11:40 a.m. in Margaretville at the WP HQ.  This winter isn't over yet. The National Weather Service in Albany is predicting that a "quick burst" of 1 to 3 inches of snow will fall in the eastern Catskills this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 - 11:05 am
Above: New DEP commissioner Emily Lloyd and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday in the Blue Room at City Hall, where de Blasio announced the appointment of Lloyd and two other city administrators. Photo courtesy of Mayor de Blasio's office. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 - 4:31 pm
Photo illustration. The reservoir in the background is the Pepacton in Delaware County; photo by Timothy Cox, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. A union representing about 200 watershed police working for the New York City Department of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 - 1:45 pm
The worst is over. Yesterday's travel advisory for Delaware County was lifted at 11:51 a.m. today via email by Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills:  Per Order of Delaware County Sheriff Thomas Mills: Effective immediately, the travel advisory for Delaware... Read more

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