Schoharie County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 - 2:36 pm
With a snowstorm approaching the Catskills region, Trailways New York has cancelled all service on several routes that go through the area for Thursday, Feb. 12. Many other routes throughout upstate New York are also cancelled or are operating on a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 - 1:18 pm
Above: Graphic from the National Weather Service showing weather watches, warnings and advisories in upstate New York as of 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The area in pink, stretching across the southern Catskills and Hudson Valley, is under winter storm warning;... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 - 5:54 pm
Above: A house near Schoharie, NY after Irene in 2011. Photo by fixBuffalo, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Communities across the Catskills have a shot at $3 million each to help them rebuild after the ravages of Hurricanes Sandy and Irene and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 5:44 pm
A man who spent Saturday night in his car, parked in a driveway in the village of Schoharie, was found dead in the car on Sunday. The cause of death is still under investigation, but no foul play is suspected.
On Monday, the Schoharie Sheriff's Office... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 3:51 pm
David Reese, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of DEP employee Aron Thomas, admitted to the act after the crime, a DEP police officer told a Kingston court judge on Monday.
At a preliminary hearing in Kingston city court... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 10:46 pm
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced Thursday that a young child with measles had been admitted to Albany Medical Center, and that patients who were in certain parts of the hospital on Friday, Jan. 31 or Saturday, Feb. 1 may have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 5:55 pm
The man charged with the recent shooting death of Aron Thomas turned himself in voluntarily to a DEP police officer before he was arrested, sources have told the Watershed Post.
At 6:46 a.m. on Monday, police say, 53-year-old David Reese of Gilboa shot... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 4:39 pm
A tractor-trailer driving on State Route 30A just north of U.S. Route 20 in the Schoharie County town of Esperance slipped off the road into a ditch around 2:15 p.m., according to a spokesman at the Schoharie County Emergency Management Office.
"He just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 2:32 pm
On Wednesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared I-84 in New York State closed to all traffic due to snow and ice conditions.
Around 2 p.m., Cuomo's office announced that the road had been reopened throughout New York State:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 2:24 pm
Snow falling on cedars...and hemlocks, oaks, and maples. (Not to mention sidewalks, driveways and interstates.)
Below are few of the stunning photos taken by Watershed Post readers around the Catskills in the last few days. Got one to share? Add it to our... Read more
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