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By Ellen Verni on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 1:13 pm
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. The column below first ran in December 2007. You can get more of Verni on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 11:05 am
In an editorial published yesterday, the New York Post weighed in resoundingly against the potential moratorium on natural gas drilling passed by the state's Assembly last week. The logic? Fracking equals jobs:
Even proponents admit that most lawmakers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 9:34 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Department has arrested 16-year-old Thomas J. Langjan of Kerhonkson and an unnamed 14-year-old accomplice for having "subjected a 16-year-old female to unwelcome sexual contact." The press release is below:
Thomas J. Langjan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 - 9:59 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context about this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 7:26 pm
In Roscoe tomorrow: Flyfishers, filmmakers, and other folks are meeting at Roscoe Central School to watch Gasland and talk about fracking. The event starts at noon, and is open to the public. From an announcement posted on our local-business news channel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 4:41 pm
The New York Times' House Tour columns can be quite cheeky. In an interview with a Saugerties second-home owner Jeff Blum on Thursday, reporter Bethany Lyttle (who weekends in Roxbury herself), got a pretty fabulous quote:
In 2002 I was living in a loft... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 1:34 pm
The Times Herald-Record has a pitch-perfect news story about a women who was evacuated from her home next to the fast-rising Neversink River during Wednesday's flood. Turns out, Donna Dunnett thinks the whole fuss was unnecessary:
Still, Dunnett insisted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Woodstock was hopping last night with revelers prowling for cookies, wine, and Christmas lights at its holiday open house. We were there and stumbled upon Santa Claus, who was handing out poems and candy canes at FreeStyle Realty. For more photos from the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 9:25 am
A Catskill man who hurt his ankles while working as a corrections officer in Coxsackie was collecting workers compensation insurance for the injury while also working as a part-time police officer in Cairo, the New York State Insurance Department reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:58 pm
Last time the Esopus jumped its banks, on October 1, local photographer and videographer Franz Edlinger created an epic video of the flooding set to Beethoven's Fifth.
For the floods this week, Edlinger's picked something a little more Catskillian -- the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Photo of 12/2 meeting to discuss gas drilling risks held at the Davenport Firehouse, courtesy of Mike Wilkie.
This week, residents of Otsego and Delaware counties got an earful on the risks associated with a rush on horizontal gas drilling in the region.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 12:25 pm
Looks like Windham's opening a day early, and they're practically giving away lift tickets to celebrate. This just in from Windham Mountain's Facebook wall:
Here’s some BREAKING NEWS! Windham Mountain is open TODAY at 2:00 p.m. for the 2010 – 2011 ski... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 11:22 am
Image: A bill of sale for a slave named Peet, dated October 17, 1785, to Samuel Smith of Walkill, NY. From Wikimedia Commons.
Today and tomorrow, historians, scholars, teachers, and activists are converging on Lake Placid, NY for a two-day conference on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:12 am
Rick Karlin, a Capitol Bureau correspondent for the Albany Times Union writes this morning that at least three Belleayre employees might be laid off solely because the last four digits of their social security numbers are too low:
[C]an simply having the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 4:30 pm
SUNY Delhi decided to channel Barbie when it entered Oneonta's gingerbread contest this week. Here's a slideshow of the college's entry, as posted on the SUNY Delhi Flickr page:
For more info on the contest, see the Oneonta NY Facebook page.
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 3:57 pm
Schoharie County Emergency Services is reporting (via their Facebook wall) that some of the county's 911 lines are experiencing technical difficulty.
If you have an emergency and dial 911 and do not reach a person, please hang up and dial the non-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 12:46 pm
The Mountain Eagle has a story today on an unnamed 11-year-old Jefferson boy who was lost in the woods for six hours on Monday -- and ended up home safe and sound, thanks to a team of rescuers and two good dogs named Casey and Crier.
“We were just... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 7:40 am
After the soggy events of yesterday, people across the Catskills are waking up and assessing the damage. Here's the latest:
Roads
Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper has been open since about 6:30pm last night, according to commenters on our Facebook page.
511.org is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Mud on Main Street in Phoenicia. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
What are you seeing out there? Email us reports and photos at editor@watershedpost.com, comment on this post below, weigh in on our Facebook page, tweet us on Twitter, or post a photo to our Flickr... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:03 pm
And snow. From the Binghamton National Weather Service office:
...ICY CONDITIONS LIKELY ON UNTREATED SURFACES... TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 29 AND 32 DEGREES BETWEEN 6 PM AND 8 PM. THIS WILL CAUSE ICING TO OCCUR ON UNTREATED SURFACES. BE ESPECIALLY... Read more
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