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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 5:46 pm
Democratic nominee for Catskill town justice Michael Smith didn't file his paperwork for his candidacy correctly, a judge has ruled, according to the Daily Mail:
A decision made Wednesday by Albany County Court Judge Joseph C. Teresi has ordered town of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 3:01 pm
Though the clouds are rolling in now, we've had some gloriously clear skies over the Catskills lately. Thanks to low light pollution, we're lucky to have some of the best stargazing in the world around here. Flickr user Atomox got this long-exposure shot... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 2:15 pm
Hernani Dias and Madalyn Warren put the finishing touches on a worm composter at the Andes Sprouts Society in August.
In the mountains, you never know who is hiding out in the next hollow over. It could be a fourth-generation dairy farmer, a Sufi worship... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 11:28 am
How small is Andes, NY? Small enough that there's just one ATM in town, on the porch of Don Hogan's general store. And in a few weeks, the bank that owns the machine is taking it out.
At least one person is fuming about it. Yesterday's edition of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 7:26 am
Jeremy Blaber notices some drama on Ulster County GOP chairwoman Robin Yess's Facebook wall. Looks like local farmer and gay-rights activist Billiam van Roestenberg was mad enough about Yess's support for Carl Paladino to get personal.
It's been said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:56 pm
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:42 pm
Sherry Bush, a 60-year-old nurse who worked for the ARC of Delaware County, was killed in March when a car travelling in the wrong lane on Rte. 10 in Hamden struck her car head-on.
Now, the driver of that car, Joshua T. Simpson of Masonville, has been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
7pm update: Add Schoharie, Ulster, and Greene Counties to Friday's forecast. Also, add "localized amounts of up to 6 inches" of rain, and some snow at high altitudes. This is starting to look a little grim.
There's another flood watch on for much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 2:14 pm
The head of Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, executive director Michael Bemis, got the axe last night at a meeting of the agency's oversight board. Bemis's departure comes in the wake of a report by Ulster County comptroller Eliott Auerbach that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 12:42 pm
The folks over at Windham Mountain say that it was pretty frosty there this morning, and they have photo to prove it on their Facebook page.
Got any frost photos? Send them to us at editor@watershedpost.com, or upload them to our Flickr page.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:54 am
11am 10/13/10 update: Delaware County Emergency Services has just issued a press release detailing the cause of yesterday's deadly fire: "an accidental electrical shortage" in a power cord that was placed under the kitchen stove. Here's the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:29 am
A photo of Paladino walking by the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston yesterday. From the Hudson Valley Chronic's Facebook page.
After kicking up a huge gay rights controversy with a few choice quotes issued on Sunday, Carl Paladino, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 8:56 am
U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey brought the star power to campaign for him in Binghamton on Monday: None other than Mr. Bill Clinton himself, who spoke to 600 fans, according to Fox 40. (The Star Gazette has a photo gallery.)
Hinchey's Republican... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 6:06 pm
Someone (or several someones) broke into a post office in the sleeply hamlet of Willow in Ulster County on Saturday. What they stole is pretty tantalizing, according to the State Police, who just sent out a press release looking for leads in the case:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 12:30 pm
Robert Wilkinson, who told a judge in July that he shot his friend Lucian Haid with an AR-15 last year, has received his sentence, according to the Daily Freeman:
A former Pine Plains man was sentenced this morning to 20 years to life in state prison for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 10:31 am
A giant pumpkin welcomes visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC last year. Photo by Neil Rosenau, via Flickr.
This year is proving to be a bonanza one for pumpkins. Newspapers and TV stations all over New York are reporting that the dry summer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 - 2:47 pm
NY-Alert reported last night that a serious accident occurred yesterday around 6pm on Rte. 55A in Wawarsing at Lackawack Hill Road.
Today, the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record have the details: Stephen E. Roth was thrown into a guardrail after... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 - 2:15 pm
Finally! From the Daily Mail.
By Ellen Verni on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 - 6:49 am
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 October 2002. You can get more of Verni on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 - 1:25 pm
Three vehicles were involved in a fiery accident on Rte. 145 in East Durham on Friday, but everyone survived, thanks partially to the efforts of five bystanders and a bunch of fire extinguishers, the Daily Mail reports.
Yesterday, the DM interviewed a few... Read more
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