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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 9:10 am
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As of 8:05am Wednesday morning, Route 144 in New Baltimore is closed from Route 143 to 9W. According to a New York State Department of Transportation notice on NY-Alert, an 8am incident on the Greene/... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 - 9:21 pm
Photo by Flickr user Rosie Rogers. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ah, New Year's Eve. Time for kisses and champagne, feast foods and dancing. Here’s a smorgasbord of what’s going on out there around the Catskills and just beyond our borders,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 - 4:45 pm
Photo of armed officer by Flickr user grendelkhan. Published under Creative Commons license.
Security will soon be beefed up at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Schoharie County. Prompted by fears of mass shootings like the recent school killings... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 - 1:50 pm
Route 213 in the town of Ulster is currently closed due to flooding from heavy precipitation and a rising tide from the Rondout Creek, the New York State Department of Transportation announced around 1:20pm. The road is expected to be closed until... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 - 1:07 pm
In the country, a little snow often reveals that you have more neighbors than you think you do. John of Catskills Photography captured this shot yesterday in Monticello, before last night's snow obliterated the evidence.
Readers: Any thoughts on what kind... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 - 11:41 am
A skier in fresh powder on the slopes of Windham this morning. Last night's snowstorm added 14 to 18 inches on the mountain, and has added 10 trails to Windham's open territory.
The other Catskills ski mountains are rejoicing in fresh powder, too.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 - 7:04 pm
Above: A map showing snow forecasts for Central New York, the Southern Tier and northeast Pennsylvania from the National Weather Service in Binghamton.
Snow is already falling across much of New York State, and is expected to keep falling throughout the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 - 3:16 pm
Local photographer Mark Zilberman's house all decked out for Christmas, Catskills style. Photo taken in Andes on Christmas Day, December 25, 2011, and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group pool.
Whatever holidays you celebrate, we hope you have a very... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 - 2:51 pm
Above: A poster that includes clippings from newspaper coverage about fracking regulations in Cobleskill, posted on the Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking Facebook page on Saturday.
The debate over how hydraulic fracturing will be regulated in towns... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 - 4:14 am
In the wake of last Friday's horrifying shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, schools around the Catskills are increasing their security.
The Daily Mail reported this week that students at both... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 - 4:29 pm
Above: Don't get excited: this photo's from 2007. Maybe if we post enough pictures of the white stuff Mama Nature will get the hint that we (and Belleayre and Windham and Hunter and Plattekill) are ready for winter to get started! Photo by Flickr user... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 - 3:21 pm
This letter is part of an ongoing conversation in our letters section about the future of the Catskill Mountain Railroad in Ulster County. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor:
The statements that the scrapping of the rails West of Phoenicia will not impact the... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 - 3:13 pm
Palenville resident Dick Vincent snapped this photo of an angry Kaaterskill Creek after the deluge of rain hit around 11 am.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Parallel contrails through winter trees in Monticello on December 14, by Catskills Photography via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The forecast for this afternoon calls for the world to continue (by most accounts), and also some snow in Delaware and... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 - 6:27 pm
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a wind advisory for the western Catskills including Sullivan and Delaware counties, effective from 7 pm tonight until 7 am tomorrow morning.
Gusts could reach 40-50 miles per hour overnight, so batten... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 - 2:41 am
Above: Video of the Gilboa Dam's newly installed siphon in operation. Video by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced on Wednesday that they had just finished installing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 - 3:51 pm
New York State is currently accepting public comments on its latest draft of gas drilling regulations. Helen Slottje, a lawyer who has been prominent in the movement to pass town bans on gas drilling, is hosting a series of public forums this week on the... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 - 3:00 pm
The Greater Stamford Chamber of Commerce is hosting a pre-Christmas pop-up market at the Frank W. Cyr Center tomorrow, Thursday, December 20 from 2:30-6:30 pm. 50 vendors are scheduled to be there, along with, according to the Chamber's Facebook page "11... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 - 10:17 am
This Saturday, December 22, Phoenicia will host an all-over-town Christmas celebration. Beginning at STS Playhouse at 4 PM, the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice will host a family friendly concert, followed by an appearance by Santa Claus at Mama's Boy,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 - 4:24 am
In the Catskills, we do have partridges -- not to mention pear trees.
But here at the WP, we thought we'd put a more local spin on a favorite carol. While we're at it, we'd like to wish a very Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to our readers across the... Read more
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