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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 4:29 pm
Jon and Tiffany Kalupa in their new Margaretville store, Reprise. Photos by Julia Reischel.
A dingy storefront that has stood empty on Main Street in Margaretville for over a year has been transformed into a men's clothing boutique that wouldn't look out... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 3:53 pm
While most of the nation's political middle seems to be going the way of the dodo, centrists hang on in NY's 24th Congressional district. Photo of hollowed-out tree by Flickr user joelogon; published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, former... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 12:59 pm
Brooklyn Bridge in the snow, by Randy Lemoine. Photo via Flickr, some rights reserved.
Michele Forsten, the director of communications for New York City College of Technology/CUNY, bought a condo in Ulster County in order to get away from the big city.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 10:28 am
The hosts and broadcasters at Roxbury's WIOX radio station are celebrating today. The full-power FM station, which you can hear throughout much of Delaware County on 91.3 FM, is now also online. To listen to the streaming audio of the station's current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 3:24 pm
WBNG Binghamton reports that some local Delaware County dancers were tapped to march in the enormous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City yesterday:
Five young dancers from the Kennedy Performing Art Studio in Sidney strutted their stuff in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 1:14 pm
The New York Times ran a long and loving article yesterday on a Catskills tradition: KlezKamp, a Yiddish culture festival-cum-bootcamp that runs the week between Christmas and New Year's at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson. The gathering... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 11:29 am
We here at Watershed Post HQ wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. (Certainly happier than ours -- the whole team here has a terrible cold and will be missing the big feast entirely.)
Here are two Catskills Thanksgiving nuggets gleaned from the internet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 10:45 am
People are getting mighty excited about gas drilling. An article on the business website The Street yesterday urged its readers to jump on the natural-gas bandwagon before it, er, "explodes:"
2011 is going to be the year for natural gas. Stories keep... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 2:55 pm
Oorah's BoyZone camp in Jefferson. Photo by Julia Reischel
The Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, reports that Oorah Inc., the company that owns a Jewish boy's summer camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, was the target of a noisy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 11:41 am
Photo: Excess water spilling over the Gilboa Dam, the NYC-owned dam with the greatest untapped potential for developing clean hydroelectric power. Image released into the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
After being courted for years by an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 10:11 am
Skiers at Belleayre. Photo via the Bellayre website.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, in a show of some gumshoe reporting, has gotten a list of every single position slated for axing from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation this year.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 4:18 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A 30-year-old Franklin man named Preston E. Smith has been arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle and then using it to go hunting. The press release in full:
On November 22, 2010 Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:22 am
According to "I LOVE DELHI, NY," the Facebook page devoted to the little town on the West Branch of the Delaware River, somebody's bogarted the town's welcome sign. Posted yesterday evening:
WHO STOLE OUR WELCOME TO DELHI SIGN?? COST IS $1200. AS... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:05 am
Local purveyor of scrumptiosity Shandaken Bake had Village Voice writer Rebecca Marx swooning yesterday over a tasty tidbit she picked up at the New Amsterdam Market. The baked good in question? An ordinary-looking slice of maple parsnip bread.
If you've... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 10:29 am
A tempest in a teapot is brewing today over the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation's looming layoffs. The Civil Service Employees Association, which is furious about the cuts and is considering a lawsuit, finagled a Freedom of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 10:04 am
A black bear crosses the road at noon in California. Photo by RickC, via Flickr.
There might be a rather large black bear roaming around Uptown Kingston today, according to the Daily Freeman:
City police were called to Stickles Avenue off Fairview Avenue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 7:19 pm
When you hit a deer, as so many of us have in the Catskills, your first worry is instant death and dismemberment, your second is for the cost of autobody repair, and your third, maybe, is for the deer. But last week, a 25-year-old man from Mount Vision... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Detail of this week's "Potshots" cartoon, by Gary Mayer.
As anticipated last week, Governor David Paterson announced today that he has struck a deal with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans to build a gaming resort in the hamlet of Bridgeville in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 12:57 pm
Rte. 28 between Hurley and Andes already has a new name: the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway. And now, the Central Catskills Collaborative is hosting a design contest to come up with a logo for the route.
Anyone who is unsatisfied with the new logo for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 9:56 am
A fight between two residents at an assisted-living home in Esopus got so violent that one man was airlifted to Albany by helicopter, and another is facing felony assault charges, police say. A press release issued last night by the Ulster County Sheriff'... Read more
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