Arts
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Blue_Mtn_Photos gets a glorious may-blooming field in Saugerties framed just right. Posted in the Watershed Post photo pool on Flickr.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 11:57 am
Upstate New York is riddled with museums, landmarks, historical sites, preservation societies and the like. But here's one we haven't heard before: An outdoor museum for unspecified objects, consisting mainly of a giant wooden bobcat in a vacant lot.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The New York Flora Association is calling on all backyard entomologists to keep a sharp eye out for the rusty-patched bumblebee and the yellow banded bumblebee. If you spot one, let them know.
According to the Xerxes Society, the two bee species are... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm
In the Daily Mail today: Greene County Council on the Arts pleads the state not to decimate its arts budget.
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, came before the county Legislature Wednesday with a plea of support.
“... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 3:25 pm
Bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night. At least that's what they say in the thyu-tuh -- and it seems to have been true for the Margaretville Central School's performance of Carousel for their classmates this week, according to beleaguered... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Truck, a three-day annual music fest that's been running in Britain since 1998, touched down on American soil last weekend for the first time. The venue: The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian.
Local music writer Tony Fletcher says he's "desperately hoping it... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 7:10 pm
JImmy Fallon, who hails from Saugerties, gets to be the face of the Emmys. Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 12:54 pm
A Woodstock yard abloom in bugleweed. (We think.) Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjs76/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Not bad for a tiny little town that wants to revitalize its movie theater. From an email that the Collective sent out this morning:
We did it! Out of 362 projects across the United States competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant, the Rosendale... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
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