Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 2:13 pm
Photo of barn, fence and field in Kiamesha Lake by Catskills Photography. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
The Obama administration announced three new initiatives to benefit the rural economy, including a $15 million "Rural Jobs Accelerator"... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 1:11 pm
Photo by Flickr user Darwin Bell. Published under Creative Commons license.
We've noticed a bunch of interesting job postings cropping up lately in the world of local food and restaurants.
(Does this bode well for the local food economy? Impossible to say... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 12:36 am
With the clock ticking on a deadline set by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state officials and teachers' unions have brokered a deal that will create a new system for evaluating teachers.
The New York Times reports that Cuomo threatened to use his gubernatorial... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 4:36 pm
Illustration of brown trout, by NOAA. Published on Wikimedia Commons.
Every two years, the state Department of Environmental Conservation tinkers with fishing regulations. This year, the DEC is recommending several changes that could affect fishing in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 12:46 pm
A stretch of Route 42 in the town of Lexington, which has been shut down for nearly six months because of damage from the Irene and Lee floods, re-opened this morning -- no doubt to the great delight of Lexington's 805 residents.
Chris Dwon, Lexington's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 9:03 am
Spring already? Reader Laurie McIntosh sent us this photo of snowdrops in bloom, taken in Woodstock on Feb. 10.
Snowdrops are usually the first bloomers in the garden, beating out even the early crocuses for the title. But this is a bit early, even for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced the awarding of grants of roughly $50,000 each by the New York Department of State to 13 towns and villages in upstate New York, for rebuilding from the Irene and Lee floods.
The list of awardees includes the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 12:09 pm
In the Washington Post this week: A long love letter to Windham and Hunter from the newspaper's Lifestyle section, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Freelancer Irwin Curtin hit the slopes of the Catskills' two biggest ski centers the weekend after New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:37 pm
Photo of Cannonsville Reservoir by Flickr user kmitschke. Published under Creative Commons license.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection plans to announce publicly that the recreational boating program that has been running on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 - 3:06 pm
The Daily Mail reports that 54-year-old Staten Island resident Matthew Falco died in a skiing accident on Windham Mountain on Saturday morning:
Matthew Falco, 54, was skiing the Upper Warpath trail, listed as an intermediate level trail, according to... Read more
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