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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 - 12:21 pm
There's been a lot of bad checks written in Delaware County lately.
A serial check bouncer left a trail of larceny across the county earlier this month, and now the New York State Police say that they have arrested an Amsterdam man for writing $30,000 in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 - 4:36 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is hosting an odd event this Friday, Jan. 23: A driftwood giveaway.
The DEP has a driftwood glut on its Ashokan Reservoir, one of the city's upstate lakes that supplies NYC's drinking water. A... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 4:31 pm
Above: Rameek Alston and Teresa Wintermeyer. Photos via the New York State Police.
A hidden trail camera caught a Wurtsboro couple red-handed as they burglarized an apartment with their 18-month-old child in tow, according to a New York State Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 3:52 pm
A toddler vacationing at a camp in Loch Sheldrake reportedly drowned in a bathtub the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, according to multiple Sullivan County news outlets.
A sergeant answering the phone at the Fallsburg Police Department said that no one was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 10:27 pm
Above: The first of a three-part video from the Shandaken Planning Board's public hearing on Crossroads' proposed Belleayre Resort project. Source: Town of Shandaken's YouTube channel.
For the past fifteen years, the public debate surrounding the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 8:52 pm
Left: Lee S. McDonald. Photo via the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
A Walton man allegedly bounced checks and stole large sums of money from victims across six counties in two states, police say.
Lee S. McDonald, a 35-year-old man who owns a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 5:43 pm
Above: Families board a Thomas the Tank Engine train in Kingston during a Catskill Mountain Railroad event in September. Photo via the Catskill Mountain Railroad Facebook page.
Ulster County is preparing to file more litigation in an attempt to evict... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 1:35 pm
Above: A Southside cocktail made with Warwick Gin at Livingston Manor, a new bar in downtown Brooklyn. Photo via the Livingston Manor website.
Livingston Manor, the Sullivan County hamlet, meet Livingston Manor, the new bar in downtown Brooklyn.
The bar... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 - 2:07 pm
Above: An ice-covered plant, photographed by John of Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr pool and on our new Instagram account.
Sharing and regramming photos on Instagram is one of our New Year's resolutions. So far, we're... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 - 1:24 pm
Above: The Phoenicia Library's snazzy new sign, via its Facebook page.
After the Phoenicia Library burned down on March 19, 2011, it took almost four years for it to rise from the ashes. But rise it did, with the close-knit Shandaken community raising $... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 - 12:18 pm
A family of three, including an infant, was left homeless by a fire that completely destroyed their double wide trailer home on Oliverea Road in the Ulster County hamlet of Big Indian in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Jan. 14.
The two parents, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 - 12:21 am
With the arrest of their sitting town supervisor on Monday after a long and mysterious investigation, residents of the Greene County town of Windham may finally start getting some answers.
Windham town supervisor Stacy Post, 51, was arrested by New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 - 1:43 pm
Above: An underground natural gas pipeline right-of-way after completion. Photo courtesy of FERC.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is holding public hearings on whether or not to issue a permit to the Constitution Pipeline... Read more
By Laney Salisbury on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 - 12:22 pm
Above: A bear snacks on birdseed after smashing a bird feeder at a home in Andes in 2006. Photo by Peter Possenti (using a telephoto lens.) Used with permission.
The spot Tim Meservey found at the base of a tree early one Saturday morning in September ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 - 6:51 pm
The state commission that disciplines judges found that Judge Richard L. Gumo, the acting judge in the village of Walton, committed misconduct during a case in which he sentenced a Walton woman to 15 days in jail for swearing in public.
Gumo demonstrated... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 - 2:36 pm
Above: A double rainbow over the Ashokan Reservoir in July 2014. Photo by Rebecca Balzac, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Joining the likes of Travel + Leisure and Fodor's, the New York Times has listed the Catskills as one of "52 Places to Go... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 - 12:29 pm
Above: Raw honey made by bees at Westwind Orchard in Accord. Photo via the Westwind Orchard website.
Westwind Orchard, an organic farm in the Ulster County hamlet of Accord, has won a 2015 Good Food Award for its raw unpasteurized honey.
Farmers Fabio... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 - 11:21 am
Travis James Roloson was heading home to celebrate his birthday on Monday when his red 1997 Honda CRV drifted off the road and into a tree, killing him instantly, police and his family say.
Roloson, who turned 31 on Jan. 5, was driving north on East River... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 - 5:21 pm
Above: Forecasted windchill temperatures for Thursday, Jan. 8, from the National Weather Service's Binghamton office.
Several Catskills school districts have announced delays for Thursday, Jan. 7 because of frigid temperatures expected on Wednesday night... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 - 9:30 pm
Above: A map of forecasted wind chill temperatures on Wednesday night, via Hudson Valley Weather.
The wind chill on Wednesday night is going to be brutal, according to the National Weather Service, which has issued wind chill warnings for Delaware,... Read more
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