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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 - 11:38 am
Above: Jess Olenych (with Joey, Jess's dog) and Karen Fairbairn at the inaugural meeting of the Margaretville Business Association. Photos by Julia Reischel.
Fifteen business people and one small dog gathered to form the Business Association of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 - 2:04 pm
Above: New York City Department of Environmental Protection staffers install a new "under-ice water quality monitoring buoy" on the Ashokan Reservoir on Thursday, Dec. 11. Photo via the NYC DEP's Flickr page.
Before this year, scientists at the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 9:04 pm
A man was trapped by snow in a remote cabin in the Schoharie town of Broome for three days last week, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
Sixty-year-old David Garrison lives in a cabin with no phone or electricity. On... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 4:52 pm
Left: Julio L. Martinez. Photo via the New York State Police.
After police allegedly found drugs in his vehicle, a Monticello man attempted to flee the scene by running into traffic on busy Route 17, according to a New York State press release.
Julio L... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 1:47 pm
Eighteen people were arrested on drug charges after a 14-month investigation by Greene County and New York State police and officials on Friday, Dec. 12, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
The arrests spanned Greene County from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 1:10 pm
Above: A Yamaha Grizzly 350 all-terrain vehicle. Photo via the Yamaha product website.
A 68-year-old man driving an all-terrain vehicle on a wooded trail in High Falls died on Sunday, Dec. 14 after his ATV flipped over, pinning him beneath it, according... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 12:01 pm
Above: Santas ride the chairlift on Sunday, Dec. 14 at Windham Mountain Ski Center. Screenshot from Windham Mountain's video of the event, which you can watch below.
Windham Mountain invited Santa Claus to ski for charity on Sunday, Dec. 12, and 300... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Above: Photo via Flickr user rabiem22.
A 28-year-old man wearing nothing but a pair of boots turned up on the porch of a residence in Summit after spending 14 hours naked outside on Sunday, Dec. 7, police say.
"You've never seen a guy shake that much in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 10:16 am
Gov. Andrew Cuomo handed out early Christmas presents on Thursday, Dec. 11 in the form of $709.2 million in economic and community development funding to hundreds of organizations across New York state. Several Catskills organizations, including MTC Cable... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 12:30 pm
A 48-year-old Walton man died on Tuesday, Dec. 9 after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and into a tree in the Delaware County town of Hamden, according to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office.
Kelvin J. McKnight was driving north on Route... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 10:11 am
The highway superintendent of the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh was arrested on a drunk driving charge by the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office on Nov. 28, according to Alex Beam at the Times Herald-Record.
Beam reports that neither the highway... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 - 9:20 am
Above: A window display at Ragtime Clothing Exchange in Callicoon, which hosts its first Dickens on the Delaware event this weekend. Photo via the Dickens on the Delaware Facebook page.
The snow is on the ground, just in time for the fourth installment... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 6:49 pm
Above: Photo by Flickr user grendelkhan.
A power surge during a large snowstorm caused electical outlets to smoke and pop in six houses in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh early on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Beginning at 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 6:12 pm
Above: The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville. Photo by Doug Kerr.
The steel truss bridge that carries Route 23 over the Schoharie Creek in the Greene County town of Prattsville is slated for replacement in 2016, according to the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 4:34 pm
Above: Photo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, via Flickr.
This Sunday, the Peekamoose Restaurant & Tap Room is throwing a fundraising bash for the Community Pantry, the food pantry that serves the Delaware County town of Middletown.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:55 pm
Above: A 65-year-old New York City woman is dead after five tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles crashed on Route 17 in Sullivan County on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, via Flickr.
Icy road conditions early on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 - 2:42 pm
Above: Benton, the kitten that took over the front page of the Chicago Tribune for 16 minutes on July 30, 2013, thanks to a website goof. We feel your pain, Trib.
If you visited the Watershed Post today and got an error message instead of a piece of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 - 5:39 pm
Above: Rush hour traffic in Andes, New York. Photo by Flickr user charltonlido, taken in 2010.
With a unanimous vote, the town board of the Delaware County town of Andes passed a local law banning oil and natural gas waste on Tuesday, Dec. 9, according... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 - 4:33 pm
A rollover motor vehicle incident on Monday, Dec. 8 on Silver Hollow Road in the Ulster County town of Shandaken left one man in critical condition, according to the New York State Police.
The driver of the vehicle, 24-year-old Brendan M. Bailey of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 5:27 pm
Winter storm warnings are in effect for Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties for Tuesday, Dec. 9 through Thursday, Dec. 11. Forecasts are calling for eight to 14 inches of snow, often accumulating at one to to inches per hour... Read more
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