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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:00 pm
Above: New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; published under Creative Commons license.
New York City's watershed police had a little extra duty over the Fourth of July weekend: Keeping four capsized boaters from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 3:07 pm
Above: Detail from a map showing the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a 122-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline that will connect gas from hydrofracked wells in Pennsylvania to a larger network of pipelines serving New York and New England.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Ed Potokar, instrument-maker and consummate sonic tinkerer from Accord, shows off the Peg Leg, named in honor of Peg Leg Bates. (He was a Catskills local, too.) Potokar and friends will be making gorgeous electro-percussive noise at Roxbury's Orphic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2013 - 3:11 pm
The newly-restored front porch of Spillian, an upscale "camp for grownups" opening soon in the former Fleischmanns family estate near the eponymous village. Spillian has been forced to postpone some of their planned July programming due to construction... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 1, 2013 - 11:36 am
Trailbuilders of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference spent their Saturday rebuilding a bridge on the Long Path in Platte Clove. For more photos of the rebuild -- and an idea of how badly the bridge needed an upgrade -- see the NY-NJTC's photo album... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jun. 29, 2013 - 2:56 pm
Above: Minor flash flooding sent water streaming across Franklin-Walton Road in Walton early Friday evening. Photo by Tina Burghart Kokoszka; used with permission.
With the Mohawk Valley reeling from severe flooding caused by recent rainstorms, Gov.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 28, 2013 - 10:46 am
The future is here, cat sold separately. About 8,000 people were chosen by Google in a social media competition to get the chance to test-drive Glass, the company's much-hyped, face-mounted, picture-taking web gadget. One of them was the Daily Freeman's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 27, 2013 - 3:17 pm
North-South Lake Campground in Haines Falls, a state-run campground that's about to get a $400,000 upgrade. Photo by Flickr user Iain Hinchcliffe; published under Creative Commons license.
This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $17 million in new spending... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 24, 2013 - 11:20 am
Kayakers on the Pepacton Reservoir. Photo by Dennis Schvejda; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
For decades, New York City's enormous reservoirs have been off-limits to all but a few dedicated anglers in rowboats. But when cautious city... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 21, 2013 - 12:47 pm
State Route 375 in Woodstock, now known as the Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
With a stroke of the gubernatorial pen, Route 375 between West Hurley and Woodstock has been officially... Read more
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