Delaware County
By J.N. Urbanski on Friday, May. 4, 2012 - 4:31 pm
Above: A recent photo from the ongoing construction of the new USA Shaolin Temple, on Breezy Hill Road in Fleischmanns. Photo from USA Shaolin Temple's Facebook page.
The Catskill Mountains are famously a magnet for people who want to create their own... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 4, 2012 - 10:45 am
Above: A comparison of last year's "supermoon," on March 19, 2011, with a more average full moon from December 20, 2010. File from Wikimedia Commons.
Cross your fingers for clear skies this Saturday night, when a phenomenon called a "supermoon" should... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 3, 2012 - 3:27 pm
The verdict is in: Lejuan Wainwright, who has been on trial since last Wednesday for the stabbing death of 20-year-old Walton resident Tyler Warner, was found guilty today of second-degree manslaughter.
It's a lesser charge than the one the prosecution... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 9:20 pm
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Above: The Pepacton Reservoir seen from satellite imagery. The East Delaware Aqueduct begins on the southern edge of the reservoir, a few miles east of the Downsville dam. Image via Google Maps. For a map of the New York City watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 10:24 am
Colchester supervisor Ted Fonda, who was elected to the post just six months ago, has resigned.
An employee at the Colchester town clerk's office told the Watershed Post that Fonda turned in a letter of resignation yesterday. The town board will be... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 2:10 pm
The great nature writer John Burroughs once wrote with curmudgeonly spleen that the automobile was a "demon," able to "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke."
That was before Henry Ford gave him... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 1:50 pm
Lejuan Wainwright is currently on trial in Delhi for the stabbing death of Tyler Warner outside of Wainwright's apartment in Walton on August 20 of last year.
Wainwright has maintained that the stabbing was in self-defense. Today, Wainwright is expected... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 1:17 pm
...one giant leap for newtkind.
Photographer Christopher Mooney took this shot of a red-spotted newt, called an "eft" while it is in the bright red, land-dwelling juvenile phase of its life, on a country road in Bovina Center on April 21.
Most amphibians... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 10:29 am
Video by Jessica Vecchione.
This weekend, hundreds of people descended on the Delaware County town of Delhi for the annual Relay For Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.
During the two-day relay, teams camped out overnight at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 28, 2012 - 2:04 pm
Above: Department of Environmental Conservation officers provide an honor guard at the April 28 memorial service for Robert Van Benschoten, a longtime employee of the agency and its former director of law enforcement. The service was held at the New... Read more
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