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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jun. 5, 2013 - 9:42 am
Above: A time-lapse film of Mountain Jam's East Stage going up on Tuesday, June 4.
Mountain Jam on Hunter began nine years ago, when Woodstock radio station WDST decided to throw itself an anniversary party. The planets must have been well aligned. From a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 4:23 pm
For the second time in a year, the Walton Central School District has been besieged with virulent Facebook threats made against children.
On Monday evening, a message was posted on a local Facebook group threatening to shoot elementary school children in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 3:22 pm
Above: Video of a harness racing accident on the Monticello Raceway on Monday, June 3. Around 0:34, trotter Getthemoney falls, and a half-dozen horses behind him collide with horse and sulky.
Several racetrack drivers were injured in a seven-horse pileup... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 2:53 pm
Voters in Schoharie County's Middleburgh Central School District voted down this year's proposed $20,277,789 budget on May 21 by just 25 votes: 374 for to 399 against.
Now, with a second budget vote looming on June 18, the district has proposed a new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 4, 2013 - 8:58 am
A dreamy June landscape: vivid green grass, ripe seed heads, and the inexorable march of tiny feet. Jen Williams Dragon took this shot of a few recently emerged Brood II 17-year cicadas in the Ulster County hamlet of Malden, near the Hudson River, on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 5:15 pm
View from the top of Overlook Mountain. Photo by Greg Miller; courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
Over 250 acres near the summit of Overlook Mountain in Woodstock became part of the Catskill Forest Preserve recently, with the completion of a long-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 4:23 pm
Dawn on the Ashokan Reservoir: A perfect time to be alone with just a rowboat, a fishing pole and the sound of the mountains waking up for company. Photographer Tim Cox snapped this photo on the morning of Saturday, June 1; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 12:36 pm
The treasurer of the Greene County Volunteer Firemen's Association (GCVMA) is accused of stealing money from the organization and covering up the theft by falsifying records.
On Friday, May 31, New York State Police at Catskill arrested 52-year-old Mitzi... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 11:55 am
Above: A short video of the 18th annual Delhi Covered Bridge Run on June 1, 2013, shot by local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione.
Saturday's muggy weather was no match for the 469 runners, ages 6 to 78, who turned out for the Delhi Covered Bridge Run this year... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 9:46 am
A 55-year-old Port Ewen man who decided to take his Jeep off-roading in the town of Ulster on Sunday slid off the trail, and had to be rescued by state police and local fire companies.
According to a statement from state troopers, the man, who police did... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 5:16 pm
Above: A trailer for Knuckle Jack, an independent film shot in and around Roscoe by local filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams.
This weekend, film buffs will get a rare chance to see Roscoe on the big screen, as Knuckle Jack -- a film shot in and around... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 2:05 pm
Photo from the Friends of the Kaaterskill Rail Trail's Facebook page.
The Greene County mountaintop region will be celebrating National Trails Day in style this year: With the opening of a new rail trail through the heart of the Catskills' grand old hotel... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 10:22 am
Thanks to luck and training, a young Greenville pilot walked away from a plane crash in Wawarsing with only minor injuries on Thursday afternoon.
According to a New York State Police news release, 23-year-old Kimberly Striefler, the plane's sole occupant... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 4:06 pm
Lightning from a thunderstorm on Wednesday, May 29, taken between Grand Gorge and Stamford. Photo by Michelle Ogborn; shared on the Watershed Post's Facebook page.
A fierce rainstorm that swept through upstate New York on Wednesday night caused flash... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 30, 2013 - 12:58 pm
Dear Editor:
The Catskill Heritage Alliance has put out the call to their members to come to the Public Hearing May 29, to be bigger, better and, most of all, louder. Just what we need—another circus. Before they turn up the volume, I urge you to take a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 9:22 pm
Above: A photo of Rte. 30 south of the village of Roxbury tonight around 8:40pm, taken by Jennifer Strom.
While a tornado warning for Delaware County was issued for about 15 minutes on Wednesday night, other weather warning and watches remain in effect... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 8:29 pm
*Update, 8:45pm: The tornado warning has been cancelled:
BGM cancels Tornado Warning forDelaware [NY] till 9:15 PM EDT nwschat.weather.gov/vtec/#2013-O-C…
— NWSBinghamton (@NWSBinghamton) May 30, 2013
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 5:45 pm
Watershed Post editor Lissa Harris is on the scene at tonight's public hearing about Belleayre Mountain Ski Center and the proposed Belleayre Resort. From the Discovery Lodge at Belleayre in Highmount, she's tweeting the public comments on the Watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 4:53 pm
Above: Davy Crockett, Phoenicia's Main Street mascot, hangs out behind Sportman's Alamo Cantina while his normal spot out front undergoes some spiffiing up. Photo by Laura Levine, the owner of Mystery Spot Antiques, which is located next door. The Mystery... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 2:08 pm
Dear Editor:
Support for the Constitution and Leatherstocking Pipelines is based primarily on the false promise of affordable shale gas. False, since the price of this gas is too volatile to make it a reliable energy source in the future.
With so much... Read more
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