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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 12:52 pm
Snow accumulation in Davenport, Delaware County. Photo by Mike Wilkie.
Yup, it's snowing. And it will keep snowing today and tomorrow throughout the northern counties of the Catskills, according to multiple warnings and forecasts from the National... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 10:01 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record had a thoughtful article on Sunday about what will happen to local municipalities when New York City shuts down part of the Delaware Aqueduct for a whole year in 2018.
While most towns in the Catskills don't drink... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 11:05 am
In an editorial published yesterday, the New York Post weighed in resoundingly against the potential moratorium on natural gas drilling passed by the state's Assembly last week. The logic? Fracking equals jobs:
Even proponents admit that most lawmakers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 7:26 pm
In Roscoe tomorrow: Flyfishers, filmmakers, and other folks are meeting at Roscoe Central School to watch Gasland and talk about fracking. The event starts at noon, and is open to the public. From an announcement posted on our local-business news channel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 1:34 pm
The Times Herald-Record has a pitch-perfect news story about a women who was evacuated from her home next to the fast-rising Neversink River during Wednesday's flood. Turns out, Donna Dunnett thinks the whole fuss was unnecessary:
Still, Dunnett insisted... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:58 pm
Last time the Esopus jumped its banks, on October 1, local photographer and videographer Franz Edlinger created an epic video of the flooding set to Beethoven's Fifth.
For the floods this week, Edlinger's picked something a little more Catskillian -- the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Photo of 12/2 meeting to discuss gas drilling risks held at the Davenport Firehouse, courtesy of Mike Wilkie.
This week, residents of Otsego and Delaware counties got an earful on the risks associated with a rush on horizontal gas drilling in the region.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 7:40 am
After the soggy events of yesterday, people across the Catskills are waking up and assessing the damage. Here's the latest:
Roads
Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper has been open since about 6:30pm last night, according to commenters on our Facebook page.
511.org is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Mud on Main Street in Phoenicia. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
What are you seeing out there? Email us reports and photos at editor@watershedpost.com, comment on this post below, weigh in on our Facebook page, tweet us on Twitter, or post a photo to our Flickr... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:03 pm
And snow. From the Binghamton National Weather Service office:
...ICY CONDITIONS LIKELY ON UNTREATED SURFACES... TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 29 AND 32 DEGREES BETWEEN 6 PM AND 8 PM. THIS WILL CAUSE ICING TO OCCUR ON UNTREATED SURFACES. BE ESPECIALLY... Read more
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