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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2012 - 12:26 pm
Above: Video from the scene of the fire that destroyed the Rainbow Diner on Route 209 in Kerhonkson yesterday, from the Daily Freeman.
A local landmark went up in flames Monday afternoon: The Rainbow Diner, a seedy but beloved greasy spoon on Route 209... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2012 - 11:24 am
Above: Photo from the Stamford Auto Show on July 1. Taken by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
On Sunday, the Stamford Rotary Club held its 34th annual Auto Show at 159 West Main Street. David, a local... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2012 - 9:56 am
Dylan Smith, a 14-year-old from South Fallsburg, drowned in a pond near the Neversink River on Monday afternoon. The Times Herald-Record reports:
Fallsburg Police say Dylan Smith was swimming in a small, man-made pond fed by a spring near Route 42.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 2, 2012 - 3:36 pm
Photo by mountain_man_ny_2 via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
It's here -- that big holiday week right in the middle of summer. We've put together a guide to the best Fourth of July festivities the Catskills has to offer: carnivals, parades, frog-racing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 2, 2012 - 3:34 pm
People of Ulster County, are you tempted to set off illegal fireworks this week? Be warned: That plan didn't go so well for this watermelon.
This morning, the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center hosted an explosive demonstration, shown in the 7-second... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 2, 2012 - 1:20 pm
Kerry Henderson, one of the organizers of the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, emailed us yesterday to let us know that Main Street Phoenicia is now lined with banners designed by Harvey Konigsberg and a bunch of local schoolkids. He sent us... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Monday, Jul. 2, 2012 - 1:16 pm
Above: Eagles aren't fans of fireworks and subjecting them to fireworks comes with a heavy fine. Photo by Flickr user Gerry Balding, used under Creative Commons license.
The Sullivan County hamlet of Narrowsburg has canceled its July 4th fireworks, due to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 2, 2012 - 10:54 am
Civil war reenactors from far and wide descended on the Delaware County town of Sidney over the weekend for three days of living history.
Local filmmaker Jess Vecchione was on hand on June 30 at the Greater Maywood Rural Community Services Center, on the... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jun. 29, 2012 - 5:53 pm
Above: CONGRATULATIONS, MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS! Photo by Flickr user Catskills Photography in the Watershed Post Flickr pool. Want to see your photo on Around the Blogshed? Join the pool and your photo could be selected.
Got any favorite swimming... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 29, 2012 - 3:36 pm
Barbara, Bill and Cindy Lonecke on the site where their home in Maplecrest used to stand. Photo by Christopher Auger-Dominguez.
Today the Watershed Post is launching our Faces of the Flood Project, a collaborative effort to tell the untold stories of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 29, 2012 - 3:25 pm
Bill LoneckeRetired history teacherMaplecrest, Greene County
Bill Lonecke with his wife, Barbara (left), and daughter, Cindy (right), standing where their house used to be. It was washed away by the Batavia Kill, which is 50 yards away to the right.... Read more
By Jason Dole on Friday, Jun. 29, 2012 - 11:38 am
Above: A YouTube video diary documenting the recording of Reliquary, a soon-to-be-released album by Martin Rivas.
Singer/songwriter Martin Rivas is a Brooklyn native, but he’s also got some roots up in the mountains. When Schoharie County, Rivas’s home... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 10:25 pm
In the last year, several towns in Sullivan County have passed resolutions banning or imposing a moratorium on gas drilling within town borders. Last week, according to news accounts in the River Reporter and Sullivan County Democrat, the town of Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Background: On Monday, June 25, the Hurley town board voted to withdraw from the Catskill Scenic Byway project. The project, a collaborative effort between the towns of Hurley, Olive, Shandaken, Middletown and Andes, as well as the villages of... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 4:52 pm
Two Saugerties residents were convicted by a jury in federal court today on charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme, according to a press release from the FBI.
Thomas Komasa, 47 and Heidi Komasa, 39, were both convicted by a jury in United States... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 3:04 pm
Above: Video news clip from the Times Herald-Record of Andrew Porter's $5 million lottery win on Wednesday, June 27.
On Wednesday, 50-year-old Andrew Porter, a plumber and father of seven from Loch Sheldrake, got a very large check from the New York... Read more
By J.N. Urbanski on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 12:43 pm
Above and bottom: Tony and Elizabeth Ruiz and their children, Zed and Evie. Photos by Mellisa Misner.
As we work on relaunching our Catskills-wide business directory, we're beefing up our coverage of local businesses. This is the first installment of a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 12:01 pm
This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 in favor of letting most provisions of the healthcare reform law stand. (The ruling did strike down a provision that imposed federal penalties on states if they refuse to expand their Medicaid... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 28, 2012 - 9:46 am
Photo of a small tugboat and an oil spill surrounded by yellow booms on the Pepacton Reservoir. Taken on Tuesday, May 15 from Route 30, near the pump station for the East Delaware Tunnel, by Lissa Harris.
The New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2012 - 5:12 pm
Above: Independence Day fireworks over the Hudson River, as seen from Poughkeepsie, with the Mid-Hudson Bridge to the left, and the Walkway Across the Hudson on the right. Photo by Flickr user Atomox in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
In advance of the... Read more
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