Water
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 9:54 am
An unworldly photo of a rainbow over the Ashokan reservoir, taken by NYC DEP intern Cailee Nicole.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is planning to drain the Ashokan Reservoir of about 450 million gallons per day for the next few... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 - 10:43 pm
If there's a contest for which village got the worst of it in the October 1st floods, Catskill is probably winning. Sure, Phoenicia had some road damage, and their Main Street smelled like fuel oil for a couple of days. And we heard there were fish on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 - 11:29 am
If so, be sure to fill out a FEMA damage-assessment form and give it to your town code enforcement officer. The Woodland Valley View points out the importance of documenting just how much damage was done in the October 1st floods:
If you own a business or... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - 12:46 pm
In honor of Lark in the Park, this week's festival of outdoors activities in the Catskills, I'd like to issue a call to arms: If the Catskills are ever going to become an outdoor recreational mecca, we have a lot of work to do.
We need to tear down the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 3:39 pm
Prolific Flickr photographer Doug Kerr, who goes by "dougtone" on the photo sharing site, visited Buttermilk Falls the day after last week's flooding and found a raging cataract, pictured above. (The falls are located in Fergusonville, near Davenport... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 11:23 am
It's been an odd week for Greene County officeholders and officeholder wannabes.
Last Thursday, the code enforcement officer for the town of Coxsackie was arrested for moonlighting on town matters while on duty at his second job at the Coxsackie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 - 9:16 pm
Catskill residents, boil your water until further notice. The Daily Mail announced the alert at 1:30 this afternoon.
High levels of turbidity have occurred at the water filter plant due to the high volume of run off from the recent rain storms, according... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 - 4:29 pm
After the walloping six inches of rain we got last week, the thirsty Cannonsville Reservoir might play host to a Lark in the Park paddle on Thursday after all.
The annual festival had decided to move its Cannonsville padde, scheduled for this Thursday, to... Read more
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