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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 9:19 am
Every season is beautiful in the Catskills, but winter is the best time to really see the structure of the landscape.
Photo of snow on a farmer's field in Andes, taken on Feb. 12 by photographer Mark Zilberman and posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 4:07 pm
Illustration for the seed pack of heirloom tomato variety Cosmonaut Volkov. Art by cartoonist and graphic artist Will Sweeney, for the Hudson Valley Seed Library's "Art Pack" line of artist-designed seed packs.
This Friday, the Horticultural Society of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 11:25 am
Photo by Flickr user Roger Karlsson. Published under Creative Commons license.
It's a familiar story in rural upstate New York: A small-town school, once bustling and full of life, is slowly being drained of its students, forcing a community to make... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 4:21 pm
Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway CMP Draft
Above: The current draft of a plan to apply for state and federal scenic byway designation for a section of Route 28. Members of the Central Catskills Collaborative, a seven-municipality task force that drafted... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 12:46 pm
A stretch of Route 42 in the town of Lexington, which has been shut down for nearly six months because of damage from the Irene and Lee floods, re-opened this morning -- no doubt to the great delight of Lexington's 805 residents.
Chris Dwon, Lexington's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 9:03 am
Spring already? Reader Laurie McIntosh sent us this photo of snowdrops in bloom, taken in Woodstock on Feb. 10.
Snowdrops are usually the first bloomers in the garden, beating out even the early crocuses for the title. But this is a bit early, even for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced the awarding of grants of roughly $50,000 each by the New York Department of State to 13 towns and villages in upstate New York, for rebuilding from the Irene and Lee floods.
The list of awardees includes the... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 2:34 pm
Councilmember Doris Bartlett, who presented a resolution in support of keeping the Phoenicia Elementary School open. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
Board votes to move Phoenicia sewer project forward
Supervisor Rob Stanley reported that the DEP has approved... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 12:29 pm
Above: A video of a public hearing held in Sidney on Feb. 9, regarding a proposed moratorium on gas drilling and heavy industry in the town.
The meeting went on nearly four hours, and, according to attendees, drew over 100 people from the town of Sidney... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 8:27 am
A meeting in the town of Shandaken to discuss applying for scenic byway status for a roughly 50-mile stretch of Route 28, which was postponed several weeks ago, has been rescheduled. The meeting will be held tonight at the Shandaken town hall, at 6pm.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 1:42 pm
In a radio broadcast aired today, Dave Lucas, WAMC's Hudson Valley bureau chief, checked in with some of the people he spoke to shortly after Irene's floods raged across upstate New York.
Lucas found that life isn't quite back to normal yet for flooded-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 12:09 pm
In the Washington Post this week: A long love letter to Windham and Hunter from the newspaper's Lifestyle section, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Freelancer Irwin Curtin hit the slopes of the Catskills' two biggest ski centers the weekend after New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 11:08 am
The hour of decision approaches for the Onteora School Board, which is facing a choice later this month on which money-saving reconfiguration plan it should put in place for its elementary schools.
Among the three options before the Board is one that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:37 pm
Photo of Cannonsville Reservoir by Flickr user kmitschke. Published under Creative Commons license.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection plans to announce publicly that the recreational boating program that has been running on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 12:03 pm
The Delaware County town of Sidney will hold a public hearing on the town's proposed moratorium on gas drilling and heavy industry tonight (February 9) at 7pm, at the Sidney Civic Center on 21 Liberty Street.
Gas drilling has been a contentious issue... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 7:04 pm
Photo of a Shandaken ambulance, from the Shandaken Ambulance Service's Facebook page.
Like much of the rural Catskills, the town of Shandaken is a virtual black hole for cell phone coverage. Despite years of efforts by the town and its citizens to lure... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 12:16 pm
A New York Times headline yesterday: "After Early Gallop, Albany Slows to Crawl in Making Decision on Gas Drilling."
Reporter Mireya Navarro points to an accumulating pile of evidence that New York State's government is a good deal less enamored of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 - 10:18 am
Diane Brown, the director of the Community Foundation for South Central New York, called us this week to tell us that her organization has $100,000 to give away to flood-damaged nonprofits in Delaware, Broome, Chenango, Otsego and Tioga counties.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 5:16 pm
A SUNY New Paltz student suspected of being "under the influence of an unknown hallucinogen" was arrested today after allegedly taking several fellow students hostage with a Japanese katana sword, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Isaac Doughty, 18,... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Photo of Delaware County street signs by Mark Zilberman. Posted to the Watershed Post's Flickr group.
When is a tourist not a tourist?
Answer: When the only touring they're doing is from their hotel room to the spa to the gift shop in the lobby.
The... Read more
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