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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 Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 - 8:50 pm
Be careful on the roads tonight, Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for south-central New York and northern Pennsylvania through tomorrow morning. From NY-Alert: Light Wintry Mix With Ice... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 9:02 am
Above: It wasn't a white Christmas this year in the Catskills. Photo of a Delaware County dairy farm on Christmas Eve this year by Mark Zilberman, via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool. After an oddly snow-less winter so far, Mother Nature is going to make... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 8:53 am
Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione. On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents. The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 2:44 pm
While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud. Yesterday, Eisel, who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 10:40 am
     Krista L. Hess      Cortney R. Hess 21-year-old Krista L. Hess of Hobart and her younger sister, 18-year-old Cortney R. Hess of Grand Gorge, were arrested yesterday and charged with assault after allegedly fighting in front of an apartment building... Read more
By D. Seiler on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 4:36 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact Person: Dian Seiler, Director, Roxbury LibraryTelephone and Fax: (607)-326-7901 JANUARY 2012 “JUST DESSERTS” ROXBURY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TUESDAY FORUMGATHERING AT THE ROXBURY LIBRARY On Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at 1:00 p.m... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:09 pm
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we come back from a winter vacation with the stories you may have missed while snoozing in front of the fire. Also: A look back at our top stories of 2011.  CLICK TO LISTEN LIVE to today's... Read more

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