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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 12, 2013 - 10:53 am
In the unlikely event that you've lost power and are still able to read this post, keep your fridge door shut, say officials at Delaware County Public Health Services, who sent out a press release this morning warning that food can spoil quickly when the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 9, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Some local voters registered with a political party will have a chance to weigh in at the polls on Tuesday, September 10. The local races underway in the region may not be as headline-grabbing as others in the state -- New York City mayoral race, anyone... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 4:38 pm
A Catskills bumblebee forages on clover. Photo posted on Instagram this morning by Sean Mahoney. Happy Thursday, Catskills. The hour has come at last: There's a chance of patchy frost in tonight's forecast, with temperatures expected to dip down into the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 1:43 pm
It's that time of year again: election season is upon us! Give your candidate a boost with an ad in the Watershed Post. Design is included in our low rates, and we're the best way to reach readers across the Catskills.  To get started, contact Julia... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013 - 5:18 pm
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 - 9:36 am
Child of the corn: A young Catskillian ventures into a corn maze at the annual Bovina Farm Day, returning to Crescent Valley this Sunday. Still deciding how to spend Labor Day Weekend? The Catskills has it all, from farm days to fire jugglers. Below: Our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 8:10 pm
Above: Turbid water from the Lower Esopus mixes with clearer water in the Hudson River. Photo taken by Riverkeeper in November of 2011, when turbidity in New York City's Catskill watershed and the Lower Esopus Creek was still high as a result of the Irene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 12:20 pm
Above: Our Catskill Fire Towers badge on a proud hiker's backpack. Photo by Lisa Lyons.  The Catskills fire towers are already pretty neat, but they're going to be especially awesome this weekend. For half an hour after dark on Saturday, the cabs of all... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 5:05 pm
A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 - 12:31 pm
Above: H.L. Wilson in his natural habitat. Photo by Tess Mayer. Local bookstore proprietor H.L. Wilson died suddenly on Saturday, August 17, of complications from a stroke. He was 71.  Since 1996, H.L. and his wife Linda Wilson have run (and lived in) the... Read more

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