Schoharie County
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 - 3:11 pm
Photographer Caleb Jacobus took these photographs of the blazing fall colors in the Schoharie Valley this morning, Friday, Oct. 17.
He was hiking on the cliffs in the town of Middleburgh, looking out towards Vroman's Nose and the Catskills. Below, there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 - 1:47 pm
Up here in the Catskills, in the heart of New York City's vast rural watershed, it's impossible to forget that one lives in the middle of the city's water supply. The city's huge reservoirs dominate the landscape. Watershed affairs dominate local... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Columbus Day Weekend is coming up, and the Catskills are making the most of summer's last hurrah.
If you're a Catskills local, you've been living in a slow-mo fireworks display for a couple of weeks now, as maples, beeches, birches and oaks erupt in a... Read more
By RUPCO on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 12:40 pm
Kingston, NY , September 22, 2014 – The regional housing agency, RUPCO, Inc. based in Kingston, announced this week the appointment of Tara Collins to its senior staff as Director of Communication & Resource Development. Collins comes to RUPCO... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:39 pm
The New York State Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection will be repairing a 3-mile stretch of Route 990V in Gilboa for three weeks in October, according to a press release issued by the DEP last week.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:09 pm
Above: A bagel with lox from H&H Bagels Midtown East. Photo by Flickr user Kenneth Lu.
A story by the business news site Quartz on Oct. 7 confirmed what New Yorkers already know: The secret to NYC's bagels is in the water.
Bagel entrepreneurs are so... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 - 3:33 pm
Not only is this week Fire Prevention Week, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has just declared that today, Oct. 7, is Firefighter Appreciation Day. To mark the occasion, we've asked Rich Muellerleile, a firefighter, paramedic, and longtime Watershed Post columnist... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: An Autumn Olive (Wildberry) Mojito. Photo courtesy of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Make your own with the recipe at the bottom of this story.
Foraging for food that grows wild has long been a hobby for nature lovers out walking in the woods. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 11:14 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and a slew of other groups and volunteers will fan out across the Catskills on Sunday, Oct. 5 to clean up four of the NYC reservoirs -- the Pepacton, the Cannonsville, the Neversink, and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 - 4:14 pm
Above: The interior of the Blenheim Bridge in 2006, in a photo by Flickr user paraflyer. The bridge was washed away by floodwaters in 2011.
The Old Blenheim Bridge, which was the longest open-span covered bridge in the world before it was destroyed by... Read more
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