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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 3:12 pm
Above: Two roosters square off at a cockfight in Andhra Pradesh, India. Photo by Flickr user Vijay Chennupati; posted under Creative Commons license.  About 3,000 roosters were seized from a Plattekill farm on Sunday, as part of what Attorney General Eric... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 1:44 pm
This Friday through Sunday, the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge comes alive with the twang of banjos, the stomp of feet, and the sweet sound of voices lifted in harmony. (And even a little "electrified Americana," in the form of a set by Saugerties' Conner... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 10:17 am
My wife's logic and humor #MoChunk pic.twitter.com/m4zFqNZk8T — Aaron Grill (@agrill) February 1, 2014   Above: Mohonk's norovirus outbreak hits Twitter. The Mohonk Mountain House closed its doors for a week on Friday, Feb. 7, after many guests and staff... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 9:35 am
A first-year SUNY New Paltz student was found dead in his dorm room on Thursday night, Feb. 6. The cause of death is still unknown. On Thursday evening, campus police responded to a 911 call and found 18-year-old Eric Vandelaar of Monroe, N.Y. not... 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 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
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 11:25 am
During a press conference this morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency due to the winter storm and asked New York State residents to stay off the roads. Cuomo's office issued a press release soon afterwards.  Here's the full text of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 - 8:47 am
Above: Better put on those snow boots. Photo by Julia Reischel. Send your Catskills snow day photos to julia.reischel@watershedpost.com, share them on our Facebook page, or upload them to our Flickr pool. We'll share 'em.  Between 8 and 10 inches of snow... Read more

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