Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
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A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 7:05 pm
The leadership of the flood-ravaged Greene County town of Prattsville has been in limbo since November, when Republican Alan Huggins won the supervisor's race as a write-in candidate, then promptly resigned.
But last night, the Prattsville town board re-... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 5:08 pm
Photo by Flickr member Vincent Racaniello. Published under Creative Commons license.
Coxsackie-Athens High School was vandalized late last week by a pair of 13-year-olds. The school was closed at the time for winter recess.
According to the Associated... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:11 pm
There's a wind advisory for all five Catskills counties today from the National Weather Service. In Delaware, Ulster, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Greene counties, watch for isolated gusts of 45 to 55 miles per hour, and possible downed trees and power lines... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 - 9:10 am
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Ken McCarthy, the founder of rebuild123.org, a website that helps local flood relief organizations use the internet to solicit and receive the exact donations they need.
Also, we... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 - 11:42 am
Photo by Flickr user Sonja Alves. Published under Creative Commons license.
Everybody needs a holiday now and then, even new-media news junkies. We're going to be spending some time during these last two weeks of 2011 on things that can't be done while... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 - 10:45 am
Batten down the hatches, and watch out for downed trees and power lines: Ulster, Greene and Schoharie Counties (as well as much of the rest of Eastern New York) are under a wind advisory through 1pm today.
Via NY-Alert:
Westerly Winds Will Blow At 15 To... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 - 10:38 am
For a town of less than 1000 people, Lexington has some pretty exciting politics. The latest development: Glenn Howard of the Lexington town council has abruptly resigned, midway through a town meeting held last Tuesday, December 6.
Michael Ryan for The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 12:10 pm
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Dan Viles, the owner of Cable Ad Net, a cable television advertising company that has launched a brand-new over-the-airwaves TV station, WYBN TV 14, from the top of Windham Mountain.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 - 3:33 pm
Nineteenth-century stereoscopic image of a Catskills creek after a flood. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
The wheels of government turn slowly. Months after flooding from Irene and Lee struck the Catskills, several much-needed regional projects to... Read more
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