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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 3, 2012 - 11:11 am
Catskills Photography took this photo of a female (or possibly a juvenile) common merganser on the Neversink River over the weekend.
This sleek-billed creature is a duck, though it does all sorts of un-duck-like things. The merganser eats fish, makes its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 9:20 pm
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Above: The Pepacton Reservoir seen from satellite imagery. The East Delaware Aqueduct begins on the southern edge of the reservoir, a few miles east of the Downsville dam. Image via Google Maps. For a map of the New York City watershed... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Above: Water shoes, anyone? Didymo warning on a pole near the Shandaken Tunnel at the Esopus Creek. Blooms of the noxious algae already coat the bottom of the creek. Photo by Daniel Case on Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons license.
It's been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 12:32 pm
35-year-old Hurley resident Shawn Tyler, accused of beating his landlord Ann Gaffney to death with a sledgehammer last December to steal a few hundred dollars from her pocket, pled guilty in Ulster County court yesterday to first-degree murder.
The Daily... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 2, 2012 - 10:24 am
Colchester supervisor Ted Fonda, who was elected to the post just six months ago, has resigned.
An employee at the Colchester town clerk's office told the Watershed Post that Fonda turned in a letter of resignation yesterday. The town board will be... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 5:15 pm
Above: Cinco de Mayo, a day for the celebration of Mexican heritage, is this Saturday. The image above is in the archives of Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries and DeGolyer Library. Used under a Creative Commons license.
It's only... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 2:10 pm
The great nature writer John Burroughs once wrote with curmudgeonly spleen that the automobile was a "demon," able to "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke."
That was before Henry Ford gave him... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 1:50 pm
Lejuan Wainwright is currently on trial in Delhi for the stabbing death of Tyler Warner outside of Wainwright's apartment in Walton on August 20 of last year.
Wainwright has maintained that the stabbing was in self-defense. Today, Wainwright is expected... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 1:17 pm
...one giant leap for newtkind.
Photographer Christopher Mooney took this shot of a red-spotted newt, called an "eft" while it is in the bright red, land-dwelling juvenile phase of its life, on a country road in Bovina Center on April 21.
Most amphibians... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 11:25 am
At their regular meeting tonight, the Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on a new contract for superintendent Phyllis McGill.
The new contract would cut her salary from $160,000 a year to $150,000 a year, and extend the end date on her... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 11:27 pm
A house party in Greenville ended in three stabbings and the arrest of five people in the early hours of Sunday, April 29, state police report.
18-year-old Catskill resident James Felter has been charged with the stabbings, and faces three counts of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 6:58 pm
The rolling landscape of upstate New York is a little more lush than the dry West Asian desert Camelus dromedarius is native to, but these guys don't seem to mind. Catskills Photography took this shot of camels grazing on emerald-green new spring grass in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 10:57 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that a driver was injured on Friday afternoon in Accord, when a large tree branch broke and fell onto the windshield of her car.
According to a press release from the sheriff's office, Debra Fehring, a 50-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 10:29 am
Video by Jessica Vecchione.
This weekend, hundreds of people descended on the Delaware County town of Delhi for the annual Relay For Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.
During the two-day relay, teams camped out overnight at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 28, 2012 - 2:04 pm
Above: Department of Environmental Conservation officers provide an honor guard at the April 28 memorial service for Robert Van Benschoten, a longtime employee of the agency and its former director of law enforcement. The service was held at the New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 - 11:32 pm
Several Watershed Post readers wrote today to tell us that they've been getting urgent emails from someone purporting to be Shandaken town supervisor Rob Stanley. We've gotten a few ourselves.
The good news: Stanley isn't stranded in the Philippines and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 - 6:32 pm
Above: The Great Tortilla Conspiracy in action, screenprinting tortillas with edible chocolate ink. Video from the Taller Tupac Amaru Art Collective's biannual open studio event, INK & PAPER, July 2009.
"ART IS FOOD," Bread and Puppet Theater's Cheap... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 - 4:02 pm
Photo of blossoms on a Pennsylvania apple tree, taken April 22 by Steve Guttman. An early, warm spring followed by many unseasonally cold nights has made this a challenging season for apple and other fruit growers across the Northeast. Photo published... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 - 12:39 pm
A screenshot from a Gannett interactive map of New York State towns that have passed bans or moratoria on hydraulic fracturing. To use the map and see further detail, click this link.
On Thursday, April 27, Bethel's town board unanimously passed a law... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 - 9:23 am
Catskills Cycling blogger Mike Wentland and daughter Isabelle pick up bicycles for this Saturday's giveaway from Overlook Mountain Bikes in Woodstock. Photo courtesy of Mike Wentland.
Local blogger and bike advocate Mike Wentland can't fix all the damage... Read more
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