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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 - 12:55 pm
In the city, it's all about location. Here in the mountains, it's all about elevation.
This morning, Watershed Post publisher Julia Reischel snapped this photo of snow clinging to every branch of every tree atop New Kingston Mountain Road, between New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 - 11:46 am
A view of the course at the Windham Country Club. Photo from Windham Country Club's website.
Local ski resort Windham Mountain announced this week that the resort's owners intend to buy the Windham Country Club, an 18-hole mountaintop golf course near the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 4:45 pm
Photo by Flickr user Jeff Adams; published under Creative Commons license.
A new state law intended to combat illegal recreational use of hydrocodone, a highly addictive opiate that is the main ingredient in Vicodin and other prescription painkillers,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 2:43 pm
Above: Lieutenant Erik Dauber of the New York State Police briefs local news reporters on an unfolding homicide investigation at Troop C's Sidney headquarters on Tuesday. Source: New York State Police's Facebook page.
Number of bodies found so far in a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 12:55 pm
A few of the 99 cats seized in January from the home of a cat hoarder in Wright settle into their new surroundings at the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley. Photos from the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley's Facebook page; used with permission.
A month... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 8:27 pm
Two residents of Yulan were arrested on Thursday for burglarizing a home in the town of Tusten earlier this month, according to a New York State Police press release.
Michael Darch, 27, and Gabrielle Paolini, 25, are accused of breaking into a home... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 5:12 pm
Forecasters are calling for heavy, wet snow to fall across the Catskills late this evening and overnight, moving from south to north.
Accumulations could reach 5 to 10 inches in western Greene and Ulster Counties, according to a winter storm warning... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 3:15 pm
More disturbing details are emerging from the police investigation into an apparent murder-suicide and arson that occurred last week in a Walton home.
On February 19, two people were found dead at a house at 294 John Lockwood Road, which was set on fire... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 11:16 am
Come to Catskill on March 2 and 3 and revel in the exotic and astonishing things that happen when artists shape the light. On both days, you can watch a glittering array of fine short films -- and after dark, the storefronts of Main Street come to life in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 3:14 pm
A long-dead body has been found during the investigation of an arson-suicide at 294 John Lockwood Road in Walton, where 48-year-old Debra Sundstrom committed suicide by gunshot on February 19.
On the afternoon of February 19, two local police officers --... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 2:18 pm
This week, Delaware County is likely to join a growing contingent of upstate New York counties declaring opposition to the SAFE Act, New York State's new gun control law.
Among a slate of resolutions to be taken up at the Delaware County Board of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 11:13 am
A 30-year-old Marlborough woman has died after falling out of the bed of a pick-up truck and striking her head on the pavement.
State police say Kristina Kornberg, a resident of 548 Lattintown Road in the Ulster County town of Marlborough, was injured on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 9:37 am
Photo courtesy of Woodstock Fire Department; reproduced by permission.
A Bottini fuel truck driving on Glasco Turnpike in Woodstock early Saturday afternoon veered off the road and struck a tree, leaving the driver trapped in the cab.
In an account of the... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 - 9:06 pm
Six-year-old Lucas Lemos gets a taste of fresh maple sap at Brook Farm in New Paltz. Photo by Dawn M. Cservak.
Three bundled-up boys huddled in the morning mist to catch drops of sap as it trickled out of a freshly drilled 1-inch deep hole in the bark of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 - 10:30 am
Watch out on the roads tonight, drivers: Winter weather advisories are in effect this evening across the Catskills region, and forecasters are calling for freezing rain changing over to snow overnight.
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 - 4:41 pm
Above: The abandoned Apollo Mall in Monticello, New York, photographed on February 20, 2013. Photo by Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Bottom: A short video about the Apollo Mall posted on Dead Malls.com.
The former... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 - 1:20 pm
A head-on collision between two cars on the New York State Thruway in New Baltimore around 1am Friday morning left two dead and two injured, including a four-month-old baby, police announced today.
According to a news release from the New York State... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 - 5:02 pm
One of the two people found dead in a burning house on a dead-end road in Walton on Tuesday was 48-year-old Debra S. Sundstrom, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
A forensic pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton has found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 - 12:28 pm
Photo by Flickr user manyhighways; published under Creative Commons license.
To butcher a quote from Henry Ford: You can have any color school bus you want, as long as it's yellow. But that wasn't always the case: Before a rural education professor led... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 10:14 pm
Up to a third of Central Hudson's customers may have had their personal or financial information accessed by hackers in a cyberattack that struck over President's Day Weekend, the electric utility announced Wednesday.
In a release issued about the attack... Read more
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