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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 1:14 pm
Photos by Jack McShane.
March is the time for putting up bluebird nest boxes, and cleaning out old ones. Watershed Post reader Jack McShane caught these little field mice red-handed -- er, red-pawed -- taking over a bluebird box on his property in Andes.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 12:09 pm
A Long Island man was arrested this week on charges that he assaulted a woman at his Wawarsing hunting camp and threatened her with a shotgun. State police announced the arrest of 52-year-old Oceanside resident Tracy Vierra on Thursday, March 22:
The New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 2:59 pm
Above: The Watershed Post's resident rooster, Wellington. He's good company out here in rural Delaware County, but we're guessing he wouldn't fit in too well in your average tiny Kingston backyard. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Looks like the urban-farming... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 12:42 pm
A close neighbor died very recently. That is a simple, but profoundly sad, statement of fact. Those few words are difficult to write when they concern someone you knew, cared about and greatly respected.
Elizabeth and Patrick Kern penned something... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 12:12 pm
The results of a village board of trustees election in Walton that were announced on Tuesday evening were wrong, according to a recount conducted Wednesday morning by village election inspectors.The recount found that John Clark, with 223 votes, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 10:09 am
Photo from the Halls Mills Covered Bridge blog. Reproduced by permission.
The Halls Mills Bridge in Neversink was luckier than the Old Blenheim Bridge over the Schoharie Creek -- it survived Irene's ravages mostly intact.
But the stone pier that supports... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 9:45 am
Above: Carl Chipman, supervisor of the town of Rochester, and Art Snyder, the director of Ulster County Emergency Management, displaying a map of Rochester Chipman used during Irene to coordinate emergency response at the disaster officials workship this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012 - 8:43 pm
Two suspects have been arrested in the investigation of a burglary of a West Shokan home on March 17, in which the victim was strangled and sustained minor injuries.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office announced that a 29-year-old homeless woman, Kristen D... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012 - 4:17 pm
Above: Matthew Avitabile coordinating volunteers at the Middleburgh Municipal Offices five days after Tropical Storm Irene flooded Main Street Middleburgh in Schoharie County. Photo by Marty Rosen for the Watershed Post.
A 25-year-old who earned his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012 - 3:54 pm
A last-minute write-in campaign for the Fleischmanns village board by planning board chair Larry Reilly and local businessman Martin Morales failed to get either candidate enough votes for a seat on the board. Incumbent trustees Fred Woller and Harriet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2012 - 11:57 pm
Wondering where the brillant art in the windows of businesses in Margaretville, Arkville and Fleischmanns this month came from? Look no further than Margaretville Central School, where artists from every grade level competed to have their creations... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2012 - 12:17 pm
Above: New York State's new 19th Congressional district. Detail from a document posted on Scribd by Politicker reporter Colin Campbell; embedded below.
It took a federal court to get it done, but New York State finally has its Congressional districts... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2012 - 10:13 am
"Vote" poster by Flickr user Eric Perry. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, March 20, is Election Day in most of New York State's incorporated villages.
Many of the village trustees and other officials running in today's local elections are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 3:03 pm
Photographer Christopher Mooney got this beautiful close-up of a golden eagle (or immature bald eagle?) near the shore of the Pepacton Reservoir yesterday.
Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group. (Local photographers, if you'd like to see your photos... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 12:25 pm
A January 9 meeting of town, county and village officials held to discuss flood recovery in Fleischmanns has become a political punching bag, as the village gets close to its improbably heated board of trustees election.
The problem? Too many Fleischmanns... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 8:25 am
A small plane went down near Jennings Road in New Baltimore on Sunday, March 18, leaving its solo pilot with minor injuries, several news outlets are reporting.
The Daily Mail has an account of the crash, and a photo of the crashed plane -- a 2/3-scale... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 6:54 pm
Above: Flickr user Ben Helmer captures a moody shot of bystanders watching the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Kingston, March 11, 2012. Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group pool.
Looks like Middletown supervisor Marge Miller has pulled the plug on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 2:27 pm
Above: The Old Blenheim Bridge in 2008. Photo by cg-realms at en.wikipedia, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Mountain Eagle writes this week that Paul Loether, the head of the National Register of Historic Places, has promised that the federal government won't... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 11:56 am
From the Hudson Valley Film Commission: A film company shooting in Sullivan County later this month is looking for cast members on short notice to play several roles in their short film, "My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain."
One very specific role they're... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 10:18 am
Above: Raw video from a fire at a yeshiva in Kiamesha Lake from the Times Herald-Record.
On the evening of Thursday, March 15, a massive fire broke out in the dormitory of a boys' yeshiva (a Jewish religious school) in Kiamesha Lake near Monticello. The... Read more
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