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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 11:40 pm
Above: A severed water pipe in the basement of a house owned by Middleburgh mayor Matthew Avitabile. Photo by Matthew Avitabile.
In this week's Times Journal: A house owned by Middleburgh's new mayor has been broken into, in an incident that looks like a... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 4:19 pm
Rain means rainbows, and recently, the Catskills has had its fair share of both. A few Watershed Post readers have taken stunning rainbow photos around the Catskills recently. Check out their captures of the colorful creations below.
Local Twitter user @... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 3:40 pm
Above: The schedule for this year's event.
Among the wealth of goings-on this weekend, the East Durham Irish Festival stands out. Held in the splendor of the "Irish Alps," this year's festival includes the City of Albany pipe band, music on two stages,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 2:34 pm
This week, the Liberty Independent and the Sullivan County Democrat are hot on the trail of a local scandal: The Walmart in Monticello has apparently failed its fourth consecutive health inspection.
Yesterday, the Liberty Independent posted a photo of a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Above: A video showing the damage Irene wreaked on the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia. Taken August 29, 2011 by YouTube user mjanensch1.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge, which was feared to be irreparable after the wrath of Irene, will officially re-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 11:08 am
On Saturday, May 19, Onteora High School's young stars and starlets put on a musical theater tribute to Broadway called, fittingly, "Young Broadway." Here's a photo from the curtain call, featuring, from left to right, Roberto Noel-Berman, Katie Martucci... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, May. 24, 2012 - 1:32 am
Above: The Shandaken Theatrical Society's sign on its historic building in Phoenicia. Photo by Julia Reischel.
The day that Hurricane Irene hit the Catskills last year, the Shandaken Theater Society was holding a small flea market in front of its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 5:20 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that the agency is making improvements to its stream flow and snow monitoring network, as part of a recently-announced partnership with the National Weather Service to do... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 4:39 pm
Editor's note: Twenty-two-year-old Josh Turan was killed in motorcycle accident in Delhi on Saturday, May 12. This letter is from his uncle, Dave Turan. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor, Friends and Neighbors,
On Saturday evening, May 12, 2012, around 10 pm... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 4:08 pm
When is a fresh peach front-page news? When it's the first one for sale in town in almost nine months. Reader Sharon Skoble Goldstein took these photos today at the re-opening of Freshtown, a Margaretville supermarket that has been closed since the Irene... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 3:45 pm
Dear Editor,
We, Tony Fletcher and Laurie Osmond, would like to thank the voters of the Onteora Central School District for re-electing us to the School Board on Tuesday, May 15. We appreciate the vote of confidence.
The election was ultimately quite... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 3:01 pm
Floyd Guernsey III, owner of Guernsey's Schoharie Nursery, smiles for a TV camera at the nursery's grand re-opening ceremony on May 11. Photo by Donald Edmonds.
Like many of the towns in the path of the raging Schoharie Creek, the town of Schoharie took a... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 1:51 pm
Burgers-to-go, tasty treats and handmade crafts will once again be popping up for a quick market down at the Stamford railroad station. Open from 4:30-6pm, the market will feature brews from Tundra, pickles from the Pickle Man in Hunter and all the local... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 10:43 am
Two new arrests have been made by state police following a month-long investigation into copper thefts around the region. The investigation has yielded three arrests so far.
Highland resident Joseph A. Cioto, also a wanted parole fugitive, was arrested on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:08 pm
One of the Freshtown's iconic wooden bears looks out over a row of grocery carts, lined up and ready for throngs of Margaretville shoppers to descend in the morning. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Margaretville's been waiting a long time for its grocery store to... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Tony Lanza, the longtime superintendent of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, was dismissed from his position today.
Belleayre Mountain is currently run by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which is preparing to hand over the... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:21 am
Photo by Flickr user warrantedarrest; published under Creative Commons license.
State police seized “several ounces” of marijuana on Saturday after responding to a custody issue on Sagendort Corners Road in Howes Cave, and sent a growing operation’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 5:27 pm
Above: A Daily Freeman video about today's bear sighting at a Hurley elementary school.
It must have been tater tot day: The Freeman reports that a bear was spotted foraging in a dumpster at the Ernest C. Myer elementary school in Hurley this afternoon.... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 4:02 pm
New York State Police arrested 29-year-old Joseph A. Cioto, a Highland resident, on Friday following a month long investigation into copper-related burglaries in the area. Cioto faces charges of second-degree burglary and second-degree criminal mischief.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 3:42 pm
One of Route 28's funkiest attractions: A '47 Dodge-turned-rocket-ship from Steve Heller's Fabulous Furniture in Boiceville. Photo by Flickr user reclaimedhome; published under Creative Commons license.
Route 28 may not be an official scenic byway (yet... Read more
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