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By wateradmin on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 - 2:35 pm
Above: This year's ballot in the town of Ashland, in Greene County, in which all races are uncontested.
Maybe it's the result of apathy. Maybe it's due to powerful endorsements from town leaders. Whatever the reason, 70 percent of the races in this year'... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 - 9:45 am
The Phoenicia Library's temporary location at the Maverick West building on Ava Maria Drive. Photo from the Phoenicia, NY website.
On Election Day this year, voters in Shandaken will be deciding on Proposition 414. It's a measure to increase town funding... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Painting by local artist Alix Travis. One of several dozen items donated by local artists and craftspeople via the Catskill Mountain Artisans' Guild for a raffle to raise funds for flood relief.
It all started with a quilt. On September 4, with... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 - 9:39 am
Photo from Prattsville Museum website.
Beginning Friday, November 4, and continuing through Sunday, November 6, workshops will be held to develop long term recovery plans for Prattsville. Residents are completing a survey (available online as well) and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Above: Two of Michelle MacNaught's pieces.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Michelle MacNaught, a 21-year-old DeLancey native and artist who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer a year ago. In the year of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 - 8:14 am
On Friday, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of 22-year-old Eric W. Owen for allegedly robbing two churches, a library, and a pizzeria in towns throughout Ulster County in recent weeks. Owen, who is reportedly homeless, was charged... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 - 9:26 am
We'll be offline for the rest of the day today while we move the Watershed Post HQ to its new home in New Kingston. We'll be out of internet access for several hours while we switch everything over, but we'll be back tomorrow as usual. Tonight, we're... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 - 9:09 am
Two canine participants in Sunday's Halloween parade in Phoenicia. Photo by Bruce Barry.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 - 9:06 am
At the last minute yesterday, FEMA extended the deadline for victims of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee to register for disaster benefits. The deadline was yesterday at 10pm, but now you have until December 15 to register -- see the press release below:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 - 9:52 am
If you were affected by Tropical Storm Irene and live in the Catskills, today -- October 31, 2011 -- is your last chance to apply for federal disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Phone lines will close at 10pm tonight. Call 800-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 - 8:37 am
A bat hair colonized by Geomyces destructans under a microscope. Photo via Wikipedia.
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reported on Saturday that scientists have proven that bats across the county are being killed by an odd, cold-loving fungus called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011 - 10:23 am
For the second time this week, we're collecting your snow photos from around the Catskills. Send us your pictures of this weekend's freak October snowstorm in the Catskills, and we'll add them to the growing slideshow above.
We're kicking off with two... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011 - 10:19 am
Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione visited the Occupy Delhi protest at Courthouse Square in Delhi on Saturday, October 29. She took the film above, which features many among the small group of protesters speaking about why they're allying themselves with the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011 - 9:01 am
Above: Snow and a downed tree blocking a road in Dutchess County last night. Photo by Steve Hopkins, via Facebook.
Well, that was something. Five to 10 inches of snow wet, heavy snow are blanketing the Catskills this morning after an overnight blizzard.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 2:03 pm
Above: A map of the terrain Ryan Owens traveled through on his 6.5-mile walk from West Shokan to Denning while he was lost in the Catskills on October 28 and 29 with only a long-sleeve T-shirt and a bottle of water. To view Ryan Owens's walk in a larger... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 8:56 am
2pm update: Ryan Owens has been found! Click to read our follow-up story.
1:30pm update: This story has been edited to remove a quote from Mauer. Martha Frankel reports from Shokan that the search for Ryan Owens continues this afternoon.
Original story... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 1:48 pm
At 7pm on Friday, October 28, we livestreamed the Woodstock Supervisor Candidates Debate from the Woodstock Community Center. (The live stream was brought to you via Channel 23's UStream feed, which you can see above.) Jeremy Wilber and Lorin Rose squared... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 1:32 pm
The first snow of the season is already melting on lawns and plopping off tree branches in the upper elevations of the Catskills. But it looks like that was just a taste of what's in store for us: Tomorrow, the area could get six inches or more.
From the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 8:47 am
It snowed across the Catskills yesterday, leaving a Christmas card scene to surprise us at dawn today. We're compiling an album of photos from around the region of the season's first snow -- watch it as it grows above.
I shot the first three photos in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 - 5:28 pm
Photo from the Red Goats of Kingston Facebook page.
Dozens of spray-painted red goats have mysteriously appeared on white wooden planters in Kingston's Uptown district -- and, just as mysteriously, someone has been painting numbers on them. The Daily... Read more
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