Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 2:31 pm
Watershed Post reader Cassie Perez sent us a video of a few baby bucks -- with miniature antlers -- play-fighting at dusk next to the Ashokan Reservoir last night. Yet another entry for the Wild Things Badge.
Cassie writes:
Here is a video I shot on 10/... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 12:44 pm
New York and Pennsylvania state environmental agencies are imposing emergency rules on hunters, after a captive deer in New Oxford, Pennsylvania was found to be infected with chronic wasting disease.
Today, the New York State Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 2:44 pm
Above: Noel van Swol, in a screenshot from a 2011 YouTube video from Energy In Depth's Northeast Marcellus Initiative. In the video, van Swol cites the Anti-Rent Wars as a precedent for the pro-gas-drilling movement in upstate New York, and tells an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 4:15 pm
On Thursday evening, a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer on Route 17 in Deposit left 43-year-old Robert Stanton dead, the Daily Star reports.
The Star describes the collision:
Stanton, of Evans Road, who was driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 - 4:46 pm
Canoes line up at the Adventure Race National Championship on the Pepacton Reservoir yesterday morning. Photo by Carol O'Beirne.
For the past two days, the Catskills have played host to a grueling 30-hour trial of physical strength and endurance: the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 - 10:59 am
It's just a few flakes, but after last year's dismally snow-free winter, forgive us for being excited about it.
The photo above was taken high up on Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury this morning. Plattekill posts on Facebook:
FIRST FLAKES of the season are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 - 12:29 pm
Above: Bucks Burnett, founder of the Eight Track Museum, with a Frank Zappa eight track. Bucks will be on hand at the opening of the Roxbury outpost of his museum this weekend. Below: The rare Sinatra/Jobim eight track. Photos by Robert Greeson.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 - 9:36 am
Rumors are flying in the Delaware County town of Stamford, which was the scene of heavy law enforcement activity last night. So far, little information has been released about the nature of the incident, but state troopers told the Watershed Post that an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Above: Detail of photo by Flickr user Kevin Dooley. Published under Creative Commons license.
Are you registered to vote in New York State? If not, you have until Friday, October 12 to make sure you're registered to vote in the general election on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 - 11:59 am
Enough with the bears, you say? I couldn't resist: We got this fantastic bear video from Michael DiBenedetto today in which a black bear outsmarts a bear-proof bird feeder by implementing the mechanics of pulleys.
Really. Proof positive that humans aren'... Read more
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