Wawarsing

By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:25 pm
According to the Ellenville Central School District's website, a lit cigarette caused a fire in the basement of the High School and smoke damage throughout the school building last night. A previous post on the school's website this morning, which has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 9:02 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here and here. Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 4:39 pm
Photo: Some of the heavy-duty equipment deployed in the perpetual fight to keep Laura Zakotiria-Smith's Wawarsing neighborhood above water. From a photo album on Zakotiria-Smith's Facebook wall. This just in: New York State lawmakers have agreed to use a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 2:37 pm
Times Herald-Record reporter Adam Bosch reports on his environment blog that the New York City reservoir system is full to capacity -- plus a little extra. (Not sure exactly how that's possible, but OK.) The reservoirs currently stand at 101.1 percent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 2:21 pm
The Times Herald-Record has the details on a 30-year-old Forestburgh woman who fled state troopers on Route 42 last night. Thankfully, the chase ended in an arrest rather than in violence: [Maryanne] Silverstrim refused to get out of the car and when... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 1:49 pm
When it rains in Wawarsing, it pours -- from both above and below, thanks to the leaky Delaware Aqueduct, which has been flooding the basements of a few dozen local houses with depressing regularity for years. During the most recent floods last week, when... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Mar. 12, 2011 - 10:19 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record reports that the pleas of Wawarsing residents about their perennially flooded basements were finally heard by New York City Department of Environmental Protection authorities yesterday when top DEP officials showed up... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 10, 2011 - 3:20 pm
Between the rain and the millions of gallons of water being pumped by the DEP through the leaky Delaware Aqueduct underground, the sump pumps of Wawarsing are working overtime. Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports today: Homeowners said floods... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Last Friday, an Ulster County Sheriff's deputy reportedly plucked 15-month-old Sarah Schmidt from death. The baby's parents, Alexander and Andrea, called 911 when Sarah stopped breathing, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:40 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent out a press release today announcing that three stands of trees on three different parcels of city-owned upstate land will be the focus of a new forest management program. The three sites are... Read more

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