News
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 8:12 pm
Meteorologist Mitch Gilt of the National Weather Service measures snowfall in Binghamton after a recent storm. Photo from NWS Binghamton's Facebook page.
After three major storms in three years, New Yorkers are investing heavily in high-tech weather... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 5:51 pm
Above: New York State Agricultural Society President Diane Held congratulates Schoharie County farmer Richard Ball, recently appointed as New York State's new Commissioner of Agriculture, at the group's 2014 forum on New York agriculture. Photo from the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 - 1:11 pm
Five live rounds and a spent casing. Closeup photo of .45 ammo by Flickr user kcdsTM; published under Creative Commons license.
A popular Delaware County gun shop, Lyn's Leisure Tyme Gun Shop in Davenport, was raided last Thursday by federal Alcohol,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 - 10:04 pm
A 44-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with embezzling over $50,000 from Masonic lodges in Sullivan County, where he was an officer for the fraternal organization.
Milford resident John Wells was arrested by Liberty state troopers on Tuesday,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 - 9:34 pm
Three young Ulster County men have been accused of committing an armed robbery at a motel in Dutchess County last week, police announced today.
On Friday, Jan. 17, state police responded to a reported robbery at the Pine Grove Motel in Beekman, in which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 - 9:28 am
Don't go out there, kitty. Photo taken in Andes over the weekend by Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
It's baaa-aaaaack: The polar vortex, a whirling mass of low-pressure frigid air that usually has the decency to stay far... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 - 2:37 pm
Above: Inge Grafe-Kieklak, plaintiff in a recent lawsuit challenging a Sidney town moratorium on gas drilling, demonstrates at a pro-drilling rally in Albany on Oct. 15, 2012. Grafe-Kieklak's sign, written in her native German, translates: "Gov. Cuomo,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 - 3:05 pm
Editor's note: We received the letter below from Keitha Capouya, former supervisor of the town of Meredith who was narrowly defeated in last November's election, in response to our story of Dec. 20, 2013, "Meredith bans gas drilling." In it, we reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 - 12:04 pm
Left: Gabrielle Alexis Kamlet. Photo courtesy of the Kingston Police Department.
Kingston police are looking for an Olivebridge 17-year-old who was reported missing by family members on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Gabrielle Alexis Kamlet was last seen around 5pm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 - 11:33 am
Left: Andrew Moore. Photo courtesy of the New York State Police.
A 29-year-old Sullivan County man has been accused of murdering his 54-year-old mother -- a charge he has admitted to, according to state police.
Arrested was Andrew Moore of Bloomingburg... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 - 9:11 am
Above: Pam Brown, owner of Woodstock's Garden Café On The Green. Photo from a GoFundMe page that is seeking donations to help offset Brown's medical bills. So far, donors from the community have pitched in over $27,000 of a $50,000 goal.
Pam Brown, owner... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 - 1:16 pm
Above: Doug McLaurine and Robin Factor, owners and founders of Roxbury General, stand in front of the building that will soon house the town's newest Main Street business. Photo by Suzanna Finley; published with permission.
There's no denying it: Roxbury... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 - 10:29 am
A breath of winter mist hovers over the Schoharie Creek. Photo taken Sunday, Jan. 5; with the past few days' warm weather, the cool blues of this evanescent Catskills landscape have given way to a more somber palette of thawing greys and browns.
Photo by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 - 10:26 am
A Pine Hill man who was charged with assaulting his neighbor with a knife in 2012 is back in Ulster County jail, arrested over the weekend on charges of harassment.
Arrested on Saturday evening was 54-year-old Kenneth Fazzina of Pine Hill, according to a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 - 10:19 am
Above: A running spigot at Hubbell Bros. in the Delaware County town of Middletown gets the polar vortex treatment. Photo taken on Wednesday by Watershed Post reader Burr Hubbell, who writes, "The water's still running inside that icicle thingy. It's just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 11:07 pm
Still life with fence post. Photos (top and bottom) by Walter Putrycz.
Snowy owls are creatures of the tundra, and a rare sight this far south of the Arctic Circle. But this winter, the ghost-white birds have been turning up across the Northeastern U.S... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 10:16 pm
Two young Saugerties residents were arrested on drug and weapons charges on Wednesday afternoon, January 8, after a multi-agency narcotics investigation found over 100 bags of heroin, black-market pharmaceuticals, scales and drug packaging material, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 4:13 pm
Above: A tour group at the Torah Animal World site in Brooklyn. Via the Torah Animal World website.
Brooklyn-based Torah Animal World, a taxidermy "zoo" featuring animals that appear in the Old Testament, is leaving its home in a Borough Park townhouse... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 1:02 pm
Above: "This is a life expectancy, folks," says John Parete, the new chairman of the Ulster County Legislature, holding up a tailor's tape measure. "Well, on the average, that's what I got left. And I'm not going to spend one minute anymore on partisan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 10:11 pm
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.
On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
Pages
