Middleburgh
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 - 11:54 am
Pink Pearl apple at Montgomery Place Orchards, an orchard and cidery in Red Hook, NY on the Cider Route. Photo from Montgomery Place's website.
The Apple Project, a scion of local farm advocacy group Glynwood, is sparking a revival of old-school... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 - 4:43 am
Above: Rte. 30 in Schoharie County the morning after flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Flickr user aimlessbird, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Elizabeth Zicari, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 10:38 am
A video by food.curated showing damage to Maple Downs Farm, a dairy farm in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh that was devastated by the recent floods.
On Monday, October 17, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) and the New York State... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 - 12:21 pm
Thanks to the New York State DOT for ensuring that our local tourist attractions are well-marked. For instance, this sign on Route 28 in Shandaken, which appears to depict a hardy mountaineer skiing directly uphill on a 60-degree slope.
(Or perhaps our... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 - 3:04 pm
Above: A house in Schoharie County after the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by fixbuffalo, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The Associated Press ran an in-depth feature story about flood victims mired in red tape in Greene and Schoharie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 2:54 pm
Winter is icumen in. Photo of frost on leaves by Flickr user s.alt. Published under Creative Commons license.
This year, a federal program that one in five New York State households rely on to help pay their winter heating bills is likely to face drastic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 9:37 am
Above: A photographic tour of the enormous apple cider press at the Hubbell homestead. Click on the slideshow to open the the tour in a separate window. Photos by Julia Reischel.
It’s a good year for apples in the Catskills. Call it the silver lining of... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Above: A sinkhole on southbound Rte. 145 in Middleburgh. Photo by Martin Rivas.
Martin Rivas, a New York City-based singer-songwriter, has been sending us updates about Middleburgh after Irene. (Rivas owns a house in Middleburgh.) Here's his latest... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 10:12 am
Video: Part 1 of A Pickup Load of Pigs: The Feral Swine Pandemic, a three-part series produced by the Mississippi State University Extension Service. More from the series available here.
Feral pigs are gaining a foothold in western Sullivan County and... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 3:46 pm
Photo of temporary housing units in North Carolina by FEMA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last week that they are delivering temporary housing units to Cobleskill, to be distributed to flood victims in New York State who cannot find... Read more
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