Rockland
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 4:02 pm
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 6, 2015 - 8:54 am
A snow plow and two tractor trailers were involved in a series of accidents caused by "speed and poor decisions" at exit 96 on Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Rockland on Wednesday, according to the New York State Police.
One tractor-trailer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 5:05 pm
Above: New York State Broadband Program director David Salway, left, talks with Greg Henderson, middle, the owner of the Roxbury Motel, and Angela Liotta, right, the state's Broadband Outreach Director, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 3:33 pm
Join by March 27 to be featured in the 2015- 2016 Pure Catskills Guide. Simply send a $35 payment by mail today: Make checks payable to “WAC” and mail to Watershed Agricultural Council, Attn: Pure Catskills, 44 West Street, Walton, NY 13856 OR pay online... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 - 3:43 pm
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 - 11:02 am
Above: "Finn Does Not Like Bowling," by Elinor Hills, one of the works being exhibited in the Art.Write.Now.Tour 2014-15. Image used with permission from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Over 100 teenage artists from around the country will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 - 3:26 pm
A neighborly dispute ended with an assault charge in Roscoe yesterday after 23-year-old Roscoe resident Jeremy Davis allegedly attacked his neighbor with a "small piece of lumber," according to the New York State Police.
Left: Jeremy Davis. Image via the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 - 11:02 am
Above: Snowmen in love in Roxbury promote Sunday's Hearts in the Hamlet event, via Facebook.
Just when we desperately need a celebration to take the edge off the cabin fever and the late-winter blahs, here it is Valentine’s Day. What could be lovelier? In... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 - 4:13 pm
The 2015 Catskills Food Guide is out. Click here for more info. - Ed.
Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Food Guide to send us their best photos of Catskills food and farms. This year, 32 photographers entered our 2015... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 - 8:01 am
Above: Icicles in Andes on Saturday, Feb. 7, by Mark Zilberman. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
Schools and offices are closed around the Catskills on Monday, Feb. 9 as the National Weather Service predicts 8 to 14 in inches of snow for the... Read more