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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 10:40 am
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21-year-old Krista L. Hess of Hobart and her younger sister, 18-year-old Cortney R. Hess of Grand Gorge, were arrested yesterday and charged with assault after allegedly fighting in front of an apartment building... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Shandaken Town Board. Left to right: Town Clerk Joyce Grant (D), Councilman Doris Bartlett (D), Councilman Alfie Higley Jr. (R), Supervisor Rob Stanley (R), Councilman Jack Jordan (R), and Councilman and Deputy Supervisor Vincent Bernstein (R). Photo by... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 5:37 pm
Native Tongue Dance (Bill Barrett, lead singer, shown above with Maria Todaro at Mama's Boy in Phoenicia) headlines Saturday's Shandaken Pan Arts Festival kick-off.
The Shandaken Pan Arts festival kicks off 10 days of music, art and writing in venues... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 4:08 pm
The Register-Star reports that Catskill High and Middle Schools were on lockdown this afternoon, after a bullet was found in a classroom.
The lockdown was initiated, and Catskill police responded to interview students and perform locker searches.
No... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 3:43 pm
Above: A satellite image of the turbid lower Esopus spilling into the Hudson River. From Google Maps.
The following letter, from New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) deputy commissioner Paul Rush, lays out the agency's reasoning... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 9:47 am
Video of nurse-in at Kingston Target on Wednesday, December 28 by YouTube user mamakating.
When Texas mom Michelle Hickman was hassled in her local Target store for breastfeeding her infant, she turned to breastfeeding advocates who helped organize a... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 5:10 pm
Prince Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
Prince Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, a former New York City highway commissioner, one-time head of the city’s Department of Transportation, and Environmental Protection Agency - Region 2 administrator, died last week at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:09 pm
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we come back from a winter vacation with the stories you may have missed while snoozing in front of the fire. Also: A look back at our top stories of 2011.
CLICK TO LISTEN LIVE to today's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
Watch live streaming video from newyorkstateofficeofthegovernor at livestream.com
A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 11:38 am
Lexington's new town council, left to right: John Berger, Dixie Baldrey (supervisor), William Pushman, Jo Ellen Schermerhorn, Lynn Byrne. Photo by Walter Severini.
Lexington, a small Greene County town that was the locus of some very strange political... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 7:05 pm
The leadership of the flood-ravaged Greene County town of Prattsville has been in limbo since November, when Republican Alan Huggins won the supervisor's race as a write-in candidate, then promptly resigned.
But last night, the Prattsville town board re-... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 5:59 pm
Photo by Flickr user ZeroX. Published under Creative Commons license.
Boil up a hot toddy and call the dog in, the frigid temperatures have finally arrived. So frigid, in fact, that the National Weather Service out of Binghamton has issued a wind chill... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 5:08 pm
Photo by Flickr member Vincent Racaniello. Published under Creative Commons license.
Coxsackie-Athens High School was vandalized late last week by a pair of 13-year-olds. The school was closed at the time for winter recess.
According to the Associated... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 2:09 pm
Above: "David and Goliath," a cartoon by Gary Mayer showing Mike Hein as a stone-throwing David to NYC's Golaith, which ran on the Watershed Post a year ago.
Maybe Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is a bona-fide upstate firebrand representing the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 - 11:21 pm
Ulster County sheriff's deputies report that a home on Old Unionville Road in Plattekill was robbed by armed invaders early this morning. Police say that around 4am, two men entered the house armed with handguns, took some property, and struck one... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 - 11:26 am
Above: Video footage shot in 2009 by undercover PETA investigator at the Angel's Gate animal hospice in Delhi.
Susan Marino, a 60-year-old Delhi resident and the founder of the Angel's Gate animal hospice, has been arrested on five counts of cruelty to... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 6:25 pm
Photo by Flickr user comedy_nose. Published under Creative Commons license.
Whether you're eight or eighty, there is no shortage of ways for you to give 2011 a proper send-off this weekend. Check out the This Weekend section to find out what's going on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:29 pm
A horrific murder of a 54-year-old woman made headlines in Ulster County and across the state last week. On December 21, Ann Gaffney was found beaten to death in her home on Old Route 209 in the Town of Hurley.
According to a press release from the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:11 pm
There's a wind advisory for all five Catskills counties today from the National Weather Service. In Delaware, Ulster, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Greene counties, watch for isolated gusts of 45 to 55 miles per hour, and possible downed trees and power lines... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 - 6:05 pm
Above: Jeffrey Vollkommer of Delhi and Scott Burns of Bovina. At bottom of post: Clarence Vanier and Melody Vanier of Oneonta. All four were arrested last week and charged with oxycodone possession. Photos from the New York State Police.
Last week's bust... Read more
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