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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 25, 2011 - 8:54 am
Greek-style yogurt with cinnamon. Photo by Flickr user thepinkpeppercorn.
On Saturday, the Daily Star ran a story about the odd phenomenon of yogurt companies taking our region by storm.
Chenango County, the paper reported, is home to not one, but two... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011 - 10:21 am
Watershed Post reader Maxanne Resnick sent us this fabulous poster advertising the apron sale that will be happening at Mama's Boy in Phoenicia next weekend, with proceeds going towards supporting a K-2 cooking class done by Robin Chess at Phoenicia... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011 - 10:10 am
The Daily Freeman reports that a fire in Samsonville, in the town of Olive, has displaced its occupant and claimed the life of his dog.
Olive Fire Chief Chris Winne said the fire started in the kitchen of the single-family home at 30 Ravenwood Road and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011 - 9:51 am
Finally, today feels like spring. The photo above by Dawn Synan of Delhi is the documentation to prove it.
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011 - 9:16 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 - 5:28 pm
New Paltz's election day is hurtling towards us, and the race is unusually lively this year with four candidates for village mayor and nine for three village trustee posts.
There have been a number of opportunities for villagers to meet their slate of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 - 5:05 pm
Congressman Maurice Hinchey put out a press release today announcing that he's being treated for a curable form of colon cancer. From Hinchey's website:
Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) today announced that he is being treated for a curable form of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 - 12:03 pm
A farmer in the Schoharie County town of Seward was arrested by State Police out of Cobleskill this week after dead cows and malnourished horses were found on his farm last Saturday, according to a State Police press release. But according to a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 - 10:52 am
The Daily Freeman shared an annual report about the quality of Kingston's drinking water today, and it's pretty good news:
Water Superintendent Judith Hansen said Kingston residents will be receiving the 2010 report about the quality of the city’s water... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011 - 8:54 pm
Two employees of the Sullivan County town of Neversink resigned this week in the wake of an incident on Monday in which a handgun was allegedly fired in the town hall.
According to several sources that declined to give their names on the record, town code... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011 - 11:24 am
Susan Marino on an Oprah segment that was aired last year.
The Times-Union broke the story yesterday: People for the Ethical Treatment of animals has released an uncover investigation of Angel's Gate Animal Hospice that accuses the Delhi operation of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011 - 10:34 am
Image from Sabrina Artel's Facebook wall; illustration by Heather Carson.
As of last Sunday, Sullivan County has its own patron (matron?) saint: Sabrina Artel. She's the one-woman powerhouse behind Trailer Talk, a traveling radio show produced from Artel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011 - 8:56 am
The latest news in the glacial saga of the maybe-someday-to-be-built Belleayre Resort happened yesterday -- the resort's developer, Crossroads Ventures, filed its revised environmental impact analysis of the proposed Shandaken resort project with the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 - 11:01 am
Temple Grandin, the renowned animal behaviorist who is also the world's most famous autistic person, will be in Stone Ridge this week to talk about her twin passions: livestock handling and autism.
Grandin will be giving two lectures at SUNY Ulster, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 - 8:42 am
The Times-Union reports this morning that the most wanted bear in Greene County has escaped its death sentence.
After the bear held down a Cairo women with its paw while riffling throgh garbage bags in her driveway last week, New York Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 - 4:23 pm
Politicians say the weirdest things.
From today's Times Herald-Record: In Sullivan County, Highland's town board recently passed a couple of resolutions calling on New York State to allow more local control over gas drilling. (Such resolutions don't have... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 - 3:04 pm
This may be upstate New York, but getting drunk and waving a shotgun still gets you arrested around here. From the Daily Freeman:
A 50-year-old man was in custody after police responded to a report of an “intoxicated man armed with a shotgun” in Port... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 - 11:26 am
Spring hunting season for turkey is almost upon us, according to a New York Department of Environmental Conservation press release.
The official season starts on May 1, but this weekend the kids get an early start during "Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend,"... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 - 8:47 am
Prompted by the end of the public comment period for the Delaware River Basin Commission's proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced yesterday that he will sue the federal government if it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 18, 2011 - 4:21 pm
After we posted our weekend cartoon about ramps, that coveted wild leek so loved by the foodie crowd, Watershed Post reader Leigh Melander shared a link to a post on Chefs Collaborative on our Facebook page that is quite sobering on the subject.
The post... Read more
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