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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:46 pm
The Watershed Post interviews George and Duane LaFever, Catskill maple syrup producers.
It's the peak of New York's annual maple festival, and local tappers are saying the maple syrup yield in the Catskills is worse than it's ever been.
An evaporatorSugar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Maria at New Paltz Gadfly would rather not see the New Paltz P.D. packing Tasers.
In order for Taser use to be warranted and effective, a target ideally would be middle aged, of normal build, good health, and sitting down. You would point the taser at... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 10:03 am
March means lots of new lambs at Catskill Merino, a small sheep-raising and yarnmaking farm in Goshen--and lots of work for the farmer.
Leaving, I swept the flashlight around the blackness of the yard seeing its beam reflected by many pairs of sheep... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:30 am
Margaretville resident Sherry Bush was killed in a head-on auto crash while driving to work in Walton yesterday, the Daily Star reports. Bush's car was struck by another vehicle that was trying to pass a tractor-trailer in a no-passing zone. The other... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 5:27 pm
For a village of 6,500, Monticello has been generating a great quantity of unfortunate news lately. First, their mayor gets arrested on counterfeiting charges and hauled away in the back of a police cruiser. Then the village manager resigns, in the wake... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 4:36 pm
If you're in Kingston, and your barroom pickup lines usually involve something about the width of your backside cache, you might want to head down to Keegan Ales at 5:30. The Kingston Digital Corridor is whooping it up beer/geek style in what's becoming a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 3:35 pm
New Yorkers with unpaid water bills collectively owe the DEP an astonishing $58.4 million. The agency announced this week that they're going after homeowners with delinquent water bills:
This is the first of a series of notifications to homeowners owing $... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 1:13 pm
Chesapeake Energy, one of the major players in the rush to prospect for New York State's natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, recently made a big hire that's raising some eyebrows among conservationists: Paul Hartman, a former employee of The Nature... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 10:08 am
One DWI wasn't enough for Adam Day, an 18-year-old from Cochecton who had too much to drink on Monday, The Times Herald-Record reports. Two hours after state troopers stopped him from driving in the Town of Thompson after watching him fail sobriety tests... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 5:48 pm
The Half Moon, a full-scale replica of the East India Trading Company yacht Henry Hudson sailed in 400 years ago, is taking on crew from April 9 to 11, as the ship moves from its winter quarters in Verplanck to Peckham Wharf in Athens.
New York History... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 5:02 pm
The Daily Freeman reports the town of Ulster is considering evacuations along Orlando Street because of Esopus Creek flooding.
The Ulster County Red Cross will be opening a shelter in Kingston at 6pm.
Below: Live updating graph from NOAA of water levels... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 4:36 pm
The fate of most of New York's state parks is still undecided until legislators and the Governor can agree on a budget, but the axe is already falling on some natural areas in the state. With the DEC facing staffing cuts (and, potentially, a vastly... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 4:25 pm
If you lost your wedding ring somewhere in the Shawangunks, this guy might have it.
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 4:11 pm
Delhi resident Keith Daury, whose backyard was overtaken by the swollen West Branch of the Delaware River this afternoon, decided to make the best of it. "I think I lost my picnic table," he said.
By Aaron Bennett on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 11:24 am
The Watershed Post is delighted to introduce our first columnist: Aaron Bennett of Catskill Mountainkeeper. Bennett’s job as regional director at CMK is to serve the “high peaks region” of the Catskill Mountains, which includes Delaware, Greene and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 9:40 am
Yesterday's rain is swelling creeks and rivers throughout the Catskills region, and prompting a round of flood alerts.
News 10: Schoharie County under flood watch.
Daily Freeman: Flood warnings for Esopus and Rondout creeks; flood watch for Ulster and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 8:07 pm
The annual St. Patrick's Day parade got rained out in Halcottsville last week. No worries: The tiny village's doughty citizens celebrated yesterday instead. Erin go bragh!
Photo courtesy of the Halcottsville Fire Department. More where that came from on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 5:56 pm
Frequent Fox News commentator Dick Morris aimed a rhetorical blunderbuss between New York Congressman Scott Murphy's eyes yesterday over his vote for the healthcare reform bill, calling him and seven other legislators "traitors."
Those all voted no,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Last week's public meeting about the Partition Street development project in Saugerties is still prompting reactions. Peter Solow of Saugerties has published a public comment on the Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development website in which he suggests... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:50 pm
It's become an annual tradition for high school students from New York City and its upstate watershed communities to get together to talk about the science and policy of the NYC watershed. Last week, the Ashokan Center hosted 30 students from John Bowne... Read more
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