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By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:52 pm
Photo and video of flood damage in Mount Tremper after Hurricane Irene. By Laura Levine.
The wake of the flood is an uneven time. It was a very uneven flood. And it’s hard to strike the right balance between moving on with normal life and focusing on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:44 pm
According to a poster we hear has been posted at the Phoenicia firehouse, all volunteers who helped out during and after Hurricane Irene are invited to a party at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Friday, September 23 at 6pm. The poster promises that there... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:24 pm
Above: A view of the Boiceville business district on Route 28, taken on Sunday, August 28, 2011. From Jan Ryan and Ann Davies.
Like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK, people in the Catskills will also remember the details of the hurricane and flood. ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:03 pm
Want to volunteer in Shandaken? Last call is this weekend. From the Town of Shandaken website:
FINAL VOLUNTEER CALL – We still have a lot of work to accomplish. The CERT Tent will be open on Main St., Phoenicia this coming weekend Sept. 24th & 25th... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 11:46 am
To the editor:
In the wake of Hurricane Irene and the resultant flooding, we have organized New Paltz Flood Aid: Farmers, Families, and First Responders. Contributions and all ticket sales to Flood Aid events will be distributed to the New Paltz farmers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 11:42 am
To the editor:
Here in Delaware County many are trying to understand what happened to us during flood. Tangled attachments to the past are gone, there is much loss and we in the community try to console one another. We spend years building our home... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 10:26 am
This just in from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Deputies from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the arrest of Michael Planthaber age 26 of 482 Oliverea Road, Big Indian.
Michael Planthaber was charged with Strangulation in the 2nd degree (D-... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 10:01 am
Image by Monica Arellano-Ongpin, via Flickr.
A time comes when these Dispatches from Shandaken must move on from largely hurricane-related content, and that time I suppose is now. Which is only appropriate, since my last dispatch focused on Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:39 pm
Double rainbow all the way across Lucky Dog Farm, one of the spots mentioned in a recent New York Magazine article about Delaware County. Photo from Lucky Dog's Facebook page.
Online at nymag.com today: A travel story highlighting a dozen-plus western... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:15 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York Office of Emergency Management announced today that all Disaster Recovery Centers currently operating in New York State will now be open six days a week.
A joint press release from the agencies... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Above: The board of the Town of Dryden unanimously passes a ban on gas drilling on August 2, 2011. Video by ShaleShock, an anti-gas drilling media group.
The first shots in what is likely to become a statewide battle were fired recently, as two lawsuits... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:54 am
Photo by Flickr user Curtis.Kennington.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, things are finally getting back to normal. (Sort of.) We talk about a few non-flood-related news stories and a bunch of flood-related ones. Our on-air guest is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:22 am
The New York Times visited the the flood-ruined remains of the Prattsville Tavern this week, and reported yesterday that owner Ken Cox is keeping the bar going:
Happy hour at the Prattsville Tavern is still going strong. The catch? There is no bartender... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 5:04 pm
Above: Flickr photos taken around the Catskills, in the days after Irene flooding hit the region, by contributors fixbuffalo, Jay Harsevoort, and CMMooney.
Most of the photos here are from Shandaken, Margaretville, Middleburgh and Schoharie, and were... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 11:29 am
Photo of Catskills vista by Flickr user ohmann alianne. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, New York Post travel writer David Landsel took a spin up Route 28 to see what Irene hath wrought.
Landsel, a local boy whose grandmother had a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 9:19 am
Above, a photo of the shed at the Prattsville Agway where the Young family was trapped during the flood, from the Young's General website.
Brian Young, the energetic owner of two Greene County and feed stores, was trapped with his family on the roof of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 8:23 am
Writer Harriet Bernstein volunteered in Lexington, New York in the days after Hurricane Irene wiped out bridges, roads and power throughout the Greene County town. She has sent us this report of the scene at the Lexington Mission, a church which fed and... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 5:00 pm
As I stood in my own ambulance bay in Phoenicia on September the 16th -- anxious, profusely sweating, and feeling rather defeated after I denied repeated offers of a tetanus vaccine from the kind and concerned representatives from the Ulster County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 10:49 am
Above: Video footage taken in Prattsville on August 29, the day after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene destroyed most of the town's Main Street.
In the New York Post on Sunday, September 18: A suspected scammer posing as a volunteer for Prattsville's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 9:44 am
Randy Creamer, a disaster expert with the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, was in Prattsville last week to tell homeowners and first responders how to rebuild and clean up after flooding.
Middletown videographer Fred Margulies... Read more
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