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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 4:48 pm
Some parents in the Onteora school district are still smarting from the Board of Education's recent decision to reconfigure its three elementary schools.
By adopting the current plan, which takes effect in the fall, the board was able to cut the budget... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 3:19 pm
To the editor:
I am Rebecca Balzac and I am running for the Onteora Board of Education. After speaking with residents of the district, some with children in the Onteora schools and some whose children have graduated, I have become very aware of a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 3:13 pm
To the editor:
Having served my three-year term since being elected by the community in 2009, the last year-plus as Vice President, I would like to announce that I am running for re-election to the Onteora School Board.
I am doing so because I believe in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 10:47 am
Donated children's shoes at the CARE for New York State warehouse in Cobleskill. Photo from CARE's Facebook page; reproduced by permission.
A decade ago, the Guilford Mills textile plant in Cobleskill hummed with the sound of workers making fabric and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 4:02 pm
The sounds of sweeter days: Levon's groove coupled with daughter Amy's soaring vocals. YouTube video from a 2010 show at the Horseshoe Casino.
A few simple words, posted today on Levon Helm's website, are reverberating around the world:
Levon Helm passed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 1:36 pm
Outside of tabloids like the New York Post -- which once ran the famous headline "Headless body found in topless bar" -- news headlines about crime, especially in small-town papers, are usually pretty boilerplate.
But a couple of truly despicable... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 9:00 am
The third annual Ashokan Stream Conference is happening this Saturday at the Bearsville Theater. A collaborative effort of New York City DEP, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, and Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 4:13 pm
Above: It's really spring: The forsythia is blooming in the Catskills. Photo of forsythia (alas, not in the Catskills) by Seha bs, via Wikimedia Commons.
Give a Catskills town a chance to celebrate spring and it'll do it with gusto. The village of... Read more
By Jason Dole on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 10:29 am
Above: Three-year-old Brody Day savors the victory of having reeled in the first trout of the "first cast" ceremony at Roscoe's Junction Pool, held on April 14 this year because of the holidays. Photo by Jason Dole.
On Saturday, Roscoe reminded everyone... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 4:50 pm
Carol Smith. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
Just announced by Ulster County executive Mike Hein's office: Local doctor Carol Smith, currently the medical director of occupational health services at Kingston-based urgent care... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 4:01 pm
The Woodstock Writers Festival is running from Thursday (April 19) through Sunday (April 22) and will feature workshops, slams and readings from writers such as Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy, New York Times best-selling author Augusten... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 3:55 pm
Photo from Levon Helm's website.
Grievous news today from local legend Levon Helm's website: The musician, who underwent surgery and radiation for throat cancer in the late 1990s, is now facing a more final struggle with cancer.
A message posted today on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 3:25 pm
Delaware County growers, watch out for hard frost tonight. The National Weather Service warns that temperatures will drop sharply across a large swath of south-central New York around 3am:
Temperatures...In The Upper 20S To Low 30S. * Impacts...Any... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012 - 11:33 am
As promised in last week's town meeting, the Delaware County town of Middletown launched an official town website this week, with help from a grant from the O'Connor Foundation.
The site is still something of a work in progress -- the official launch date... Read more
By Jason Dole on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Above: Joel Tyner and campaign volunteer Burr Hubbell hold a receipt for 2,350 signatures filed with the New York State Board of Elections. Photo by Jess Vecchione.
It can't be easy being Joel Tyner. While the four-term Dutchess County legislator has been... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:37 pm
Above: A photo of the Binnekill bulkhead, a topic of discussion at this month's Middletown board meeting. Submitted by Watershed Post reader Thomas Clark.
Highlights of Middletown's regular town board meeting on Tuesday, April 10: Middletown goes online... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:22 pm
To the editor:
This is a picture of the Binnekill Bulkhead where the culvert lets water into the Binnekill. It lies on the outside of a bend in the river upstream of the village of Margaretville. From this point downstream for a hundred yards or so the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:03 pm
Catholic priest Jeremiah Nunan, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Cairo and Our Lady of Knock Shrine in East Durham, has been suspended from ministry, while the Albany Diocese and the Greene County District Attorney investigate charges that he sexually... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 10:13 am
Above: YouTube footage of a fire at the Grandview Palace in Fallsburg. Early on in the video, a woman - presumably a resident of the complex - can be heard saying, "Well, there goes our first investment in real estate."
For the second weekend in a row,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 11:33 pm
Hurricane Irene over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011. Image by NOAA.
Hurricane Irene caused so much death and destruction in 2011 that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the name 'Irene' from the rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical... Read more
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