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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:03 am
After a year of operating out of a school building a few blocks away, the Greene County Courthouse in Catskill is finally re-opened for business, reports the Daily Mail.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Times-Journal, a weekly based in Cobleskill that covers Schoharie County, has had some trepidations about Facebook:
Usually, we like to think we know what we’re doing at the Times-Journal. And almost never, with the exception of editorials and columns... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 12:33 am
Herman Gottfried, a lawyer who fought New York City on behalf of residents of the drowned towns that now lie beneath the waters of the Pepacton and Cannonsville reservoirs, died on April 24 at the age of 99.
Local historian Diane Galusha (author of Liquid... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 10:20 pm
Aspiring locavore Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently ditched Dannon in an effort to eat closer to home. Lucky for him, there's Tonjes Farm yogurt from Callicoon, made within 25 miles of his house.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
An incisive editorial from the Times Herald-Record about why the DEC's Friday decision to make it tough for gas drilling in NYC's watershed means that drilling elsewhere in New York state is now inevitable:
The city, with all its lawyers, money and clout... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 12:37 pm
A medical provider that left its Monticello office months ago apparently didn't have time to follow those pesky patient privacy laws before it departed, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lydia Truglio-Chavdarova, who works at a nearby RadioShack,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 11:32 pm
Thanks in part to a push from the Daily Freeman, the web service SeeClickFix is getting a lot of use in Kingston lately. The Freeman lists activity from a day in the life of the service, from complaints about potholes to barely-veiled calls for vigilante... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:21 am
As if you hadn't heard enough from the DEC this week, the Times Union ran an interview today with Wallace "Wally" John, the special assistant for natural resources to Pete Grannis and a West Shokan resident. No mention of, oh, gas drilling in the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:06 am
Gas prices in New York really did jump by 5.4 cents last week. For no real reason, since the national average has stayed flat, according to the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 4:41 pm
Anna and Robert Dioguardi of Catskill Retreat are looking for some enterprising caprines to help keep their lawn under control.
Naturally, there's a Goat Rental directory on the Internet. Alas, it has no New York State listings. Surely it's only a matter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 3:23 pm
The Daily Yonder tipped us off to this: In Kentucky, poet and newspaper columnist Constance Alexander recently lampooned the state's perpetually tardy budgetmakers with a mocking bit of verse modeled after "Casey At The Bat." An excerpt:
The outlook isn't... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Don't get mud on those $114 "Dry Aged" jeans from Barney's, guys. (What do they do, hang them from meathooks?)
Though I admit: That orange enamel cookpot is totally classy.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Catskill High School and Middle School went on lockdown on Thursday after the superintendent heard what she thought was a gunshot. Turns out it was actually a tree limb crashing, she later told the Daily Freeman:
The schools immediately went into lock-out... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 1:26 pm
Despite a statewide burn ban that prohibits any burning of brush until May 14, town fire departments are still allowed to burn brush as part of their training exercises. But towns looking to kill two birds with one stone by having the fire department burn... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 24, 2010 - 7:05 pm
Richard Reeve, the head of the Family Foundation and a Catskills blogger in his own right, caught this shot of a ruined castle on the Hudson this week. It's near Beacon, on the eastern shore of the river, so not quite the Catskills, but we couldn't resist... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 24, 2010 - 10:06 am
For folks in search of sources for raw cow and goat milk, Pure Catskills helpfully posts a list of local farms.
Photo of raw milk being skimmed by Flickr user Chiot's Run. Posted under a Creative Commons license.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 5:24 pm
The New York Times story on the DEC's recent announcement on gas drilling, posted this morning, has been beefed up with some more reporting since then. Here's DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis baldly admitting that the DEC's goal was to tread the narrow path... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 4:24 pm
The DEC's announcement that it will make gas drilling in NYC's watershed extremely difficult drew a statement from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg this afternoon:
The portions of the Marcellus Shale where the City’s watershed lies must be treated differently... Read more
By Joe Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 2:24 pm
Area Teen Joe Harris, the Watershed Post's newest columnist, critiques Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz and Nicolas Cage in Kick-Ass.
For an avid comic book fan, watching a movie like Kick-Ass – yet another film adaptation of a Marvel license – can be like... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 12:50 pm
The DEC's announcement that their road map for gas drilling in New York State doesn't apply to New York City's watershed caught us by surprise. (See our ongoing coverage here.) Looks like they called a bunch of beat reporters to break the story:... Read more
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