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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 2:58 pm
1839 poster supporting the Anti-Rent movement in Nassau, New York. From Wikimedia Commons.
Much about the world has changed in the century and a half since the Anti-Rent War took upstate New York by storm, and the protest movement of the hour is a rather... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 1:02 pm
Yesterday, 60-year-old Chichester resident Stevan Alburty was arrested for allegedly harassing three different complainants, according to a press release issued by the Shandaken Police Department.
Alburty was charged with five counts of aggravated... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 12:52 pm
This just in from the Town of Shandaken Police: 68-year-old Algernon Reese, of Old Plank Road in Mount Tremper, has been arrested on charges that he used an excavator to dig a trench through a neighbor's property without permission, and disturbed a stream... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 - 9:44 am
Above: Flood-damaged bags of grain at Cave Mountain Brewing Co. in Windham a few days after Hurricane Irene. Via Facebook.
The Windham Chapter of the Catskill Mountain Foundation and the Windham Area Recreational Foundation (WARF), two Windham-based... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 2:38 pm
Last weekend's big flood benefit concert in New Paltz raised $52,000 for flood victims who were hit hard by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee on the Wallkill River in Ulster County.
The concert, which you can watch in full on the New Paltz Flood Aid website,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 1:01 pm
Cover of the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home; image from a 1966 photo taken by Barry Feinstein of Bob Dylan at the Aust Ferry in England.
The AP reports that Barry Feinstein, a longtime Woodstock resident who took many iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 11:01 am
Antlers: Too small (top) and large enough to kill (bottom): DECThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is expanding its antler-restriction program for deer hunting into a larger portion of the Catskills, in a bid to allow more young... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 - 9:42 am
FEMA will be running a mobile disaster recovery center in Cobleskill from Friday, October 21 through Monday, October 24, from 8am to 8pm each day.
A press release from the agency:
A Mobile Disaster Recovery Center (MDRC) will open for four days in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 - 11:54 am
Pink Pearl apple at Montgomery Place Orchards, an orchard and cidery in Red Hook, NY on the Cider Route. Photo from Montgomery Place's website.
The Apple Project, a scion of local farm advocacy group Glynwood, is sparking a revival of old-school... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 - 4:43 am
Above: Rte. 30 in Schoharie County the morning after flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Flickr user aimlessbird, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Elizabeth Zicari, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 9:51 pm
Early this morning, a Trailways bus from Kingston bound for New York City rear-ended a tractor-trailer, leaving the driver hospitalized and nearly half of the bus's 16 passengers with minor injuries. LoHud.com reports:
The trucker told troopers that he... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 2:24 pm
Several TV news crews reported yesterday from the demo site in Prattsville that used to be Pam Young's family home. Built in 1947, the house was home to four generations of Young's family until August 28, when Tropical Storm Irene flooded the house and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 12:05 pm
Belleayre Mountain and the German-American Club of the Northern Catskills hosting their annual Oktoberfest celebration at Belleayre Ski Center last Saturday. Photo by Mary McKeon.
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 11:00 am
Rob Stanley and Ken Jacobs address flood cleanup volunteers in Phoenicia. From a set of photos of volunteers on the Phoenicia, NY Facebook page.
This is the third, and for now at least, last installment of “expressions of gratitude” in the wake of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 10:38 am
A video by food.curated showing damage to Maple Downs Farm, a dairy farm in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh that was devastated by the recent floods.
On Monday, October 17, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) and the New York State... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 - 8:21 am
As you may have noticed, it's a big year for apples. I wrote a whole feature story about that fact here last week, and spilled a lot of virtual ink about the virtues of apple cider. But what if you have cider and apple juice coming out of your ears and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 - 4:18 pm
On Saturday, October 15, the Occupy Wall Street movement spread to the Chase Bank plaza in New Paltz, where protestors marched, chanted and carried homemade signs decrying corporate control of American politics.
YouTube user kiew0101 took the video above... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 - 12:56 pm
Ah, New York State. It's a magical place, where the hills are alive with the sound of chizzles chizzling, skiers defy gravity, and the Higway runs through it all.
Watershed Post reader Nancy Fallon, who spotted the road sign above and took the photo,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 - 12:47 pm
Last Thursday, October 13, the Sidney Town Board voted to grant the Leatherstocking Gas Company a public franchise agreement, which will allow it to build a natural gas pipeline through Sidney, Coventry, and Bainbridge.
According to a video of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 - 9:21 am
Clarkson professor Hung Tao Shen (left) and Lauren Davis examine the Delaware River on Davis’ property on August 27, 2011, one day prior to the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene. Photo courtesy of Clarkson University.
Clarkson University announced last... Read more
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