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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 5:11 pm
A stretch of Route 209 in the Ulster County town of Rochester is closed in both directions due to flooding.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43pm:
N/S US Hwy 209 between Main St & Whitfield Rd closed due to flooding until further notice - Rochester - Ulster Co...
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Photo of evacuation on Watson Hollow Road, September 28, 2011, by Jeanette Giuliano Kahil. From Facebook album.
Earlier today, we reported that a man had fallen into the creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan after trying to cross a temporary... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 12:24 pm
In the aftermath of Irene and then Lee, Town of Colchester Supervisor Robert Homovich, is breathing a sigh of relief that Downsville, Horton, Harvard, Corbett and Shinhopple were spared serious damage from the flood waters.
But Homovich is angry with... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 12:22 pm
Our friends at the Kingston Digital Corridor and the Ulster County Musicians Network are throwing a fantastic flood-relief bash called "After the Deluge" tonight in Kingston. We're proud to be an official sponsor of the event.
"After the Deluge" features... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 12:10 pm
From NY-Alert:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued A * Flood Warning For The Esopus Creek At Cold Brook. * From This Afternoon Until This Evening. * At 10 AM Wednesday The Stage Was...9.2 Feet. * Flood Stage Is 11 Feet. * Minor Flooding Is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 10:55 am
A man narrowly escaped drowning this morning, after being swept off a makeshift foot bridge and into a creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan, near the intersection with Private Road 3.
Neighbor Martha Frankel, who made the call to 911, said that she... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 10:07 am
Peter Wallace posts a message from a local eyewitness in Upstaters, a local Facebook group:
Travel Advisory (near Phoenicia, Wed. 9:30 am): Plank Rd. under a lot of water just north of the monastery. Rt. 212 between Woodstock and Phoenicia under a lot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 9:01 am
The National Weather Service at Binghamton has issued a flash flood watch, effective through Thursday morning, for south central New York and northern Pennsylvania, including Delaware and Sullivan counties.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43am:
An Upper Low... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 10:14 pm
Several days ago I invited anyone who wanted to; to email me at the Watershed Post with Thank You’s to people in Shandaken who they wanted to acknowledge -- for what they did for others, during and after the flooding.
We received a few responses, but I... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 9:07 pm
This weekend marks the start of Lark in the Park, a ten-day outdoor extravaganza of hiking and outdoors events throughout the Catskills region. In honor of the event, we are running this dispatch from Paul Misko, an avid member of the Catskill Mountain... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 8:47 pm
Preparing for opening day. Photo from the WAJCS website.On Monday, September 26, 2011, after a 12-day delay, the Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School opened its doors to students.
After receiving approval from the New York State Education Department, ONC... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:07 pm
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too familiar... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 11:42 am
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The DEP is putting $300,000 towards fixing Schoharie County’s emergency siren system for Gilboa Dam.
The sirens were functional during Hurricane Irene on August 38, and were... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 10:39 am
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that they will be opening a mobile disaster recovery center in Catskill, from Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30.
The DRC will be located at the Catskill Community Life Church at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 9:00 am
The monthly town meeting in Colchester took a turn for the dramatic on Wednesday, September 21, when local resident Terry Edwards showed up armed with a barrage of complaints about alleged shady dealings, and Colchester Town Planning Board member Louis... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 12:31 pm
In the early hours of Sunday, September 25, 27-year-old Broome resident Richard Welden was shot and killed by New York State Police troopers after a confrontation near his sister's house on Route 145.
Police say that troopers who responded to a domestic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 10:09 am
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting this morning that 31-year-old Shaun Wynne from Peekskill died on Sunday night in an all-terrain-vehicle accident on Fall Clove Road in the town of Andes.
According to the press release, Wynne hit a tree as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 9:21 am
The Schoharie Reformed Church after the floods that devastated the village of Schoharie during Hurricane Iriene. Photo by Jay Harsevoort via the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
David Letterman has his own street in the village of Schoharie in Schoharie... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 24, 2011 - 12:58 pm
It's been a few weeks since the flooding that drenched and damaged the Catskills community. For the first time since August, Lissa and I have a free weekend to catch our breath. The first thing we want to do is thank you.
We started the Watershed Post in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 1:27 pm
This just in from Community Reporting Alliance director Barbara Gref: The Millbrook NY-based Dyson Foundation has established two hurricane relief grant programs for nonprofit organizations in several affected counties, including Greene and Ulster. Check... Read more
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