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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 - 9:24 am
Video: Tour of the Catskills pro cyclists ride past the Thompson House in Windham this weekend.
Biking is big in the Catskills and Hudson Valley -- and getting bigger, says Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record. Bosch has a story in today's paper on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 - 10:06 am
Can't get enough about the Delhi flash mob? Our WP correspondent and crack local videographer Jessica Vecchione has a 6-minute video that follows the mob that hit Main Street last week from start to finish.
By wateradmin on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 - 9:59 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.) You can see Mayer's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Image by Flickr user Samantha Manton.
Say it ain't so, New York Times "Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome! Not only are you jumping on the "Hudson Valley/Catskills is the new Brooklyn" bandwagon, but you're doing it with an enormous 2,553-word NYT... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 5:17 pm
The headline of an article in the July issue of Ami Magazine poses an alarming question: "Is bungalow colony life hazardous to your marriage?
The answer, according to the story, is a resounding yes. The article is a tale of woe from a woman referred to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 12:43 pm
Sometimes we forget that the Catskills are part of Appalachia, with all its misty hollows and moonshine lore. Folk musician A.J. Roach will cure that little delusion -- his first two albums were all fiddles, banjos and lyrics about life in ghostly eastern... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 9:40 am
Just days after the U.S. government asked a federal judge to dismiss an anti-hydraulic-fracturing lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a coalition of environmental groups has filed its own similar lawsuit, thereby giving the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:57 pm
Tomorrow, some 800 cyclists will descend on Greene and Ulster Counties for the fourth annual Tour of the Catskills, a three-day road race that spans nearly 200 miles and draws both amateur and professional cyclists from far and wide. The race will kick... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:03 pm
Above: Arm-of-the-Sea Theater, which will perform this weekend at the Batavia Kill Stream Celebration.
For those who might not know what, exactly, the "kill" in Catskill stands for, there's a whole festival happening this weekend that will cement the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 1:09 pm
This Saturday, August 6, the Ulster County town of Saugerties is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its incorporation. And what better way to show your Saugerties pride than donning a pair of pajamas and helping four of your best friends race a bed down... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo of the Western Hotel in Callicoon by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the New York Post today, real estate writer Tina Traster takes a stroll down Callicoon's Main Street, in search of the powerful lure that draws... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 9:17 am
Thanks to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and five other donors, who chipped in $250,000 each, schools in New York State will be able to hold January Regents tests this year. The tests were cut from the budget earlier this spring, when the state... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Today at 1pm we aired our second installment of the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, our 30-minute radio news show, on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury. You can listen to today's show below. (Our debut show aired in July -- you can listen to it here.)
We talked... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 4:54 pm
Natural gas well in Pennsylvania, July 2011. Photo by Jerry Dincher, via Flickr.
The New York Times' Ian Urbina, who has been spearheading the Grey Lady's coverage of hydraulic fracturing, has uncovered what seems to be the first documented case of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 11:07 am
Eldred and Bartholomew: Photo via New York State Police
According to a press release from the New York State Police in Schoharie County, three people have been arrested for stealing guns in Gilboa and hiding them in the presence of two small children.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 10:40 am
Ever heard scores of people bellowing their deepest-held complaints out in harmony? Ever wonder what grudges and dislikes lurk in the subconsciouses of your neighbors? All will be revealed this Saturday in Delhi, when the Complaints Choir of the Art... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 9:34 am
From the AP today: The Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the 60-day period for public comment on the latest draft of gas drilling regulations -- scheduled to begin in early August -- has been pushed back to "late summer."
The... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 3:36 pm
A crowd enjoys Verdi's Falstaff under a dusky sky at the first annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice in 2010. Photo courtesy of the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This week, the hamlet of Phoenicia plays host to an influx of visitors, including some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 12:53 pm
Photo of the Zipper from the 2009 Ulster County Fair, by Flickr user emma.maria. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, the 124th Ulster County Fair rolls into town, with the requisite smorgasbord of festive trappings: Carnival rides, country... Read more
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