Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 9:37 am
Jenn Schuman, the president of the Greater Roxbury Learning Initiative Corporation, sent us these photos of Roxbury Central School students talking about homegrown food and gardening at the Margaretville Hospital Health Fair yesterday.
The students... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 - 3:04 pm
It looks like the fast-growing Occupy Wall Street movement will come to the Catskills on October 29. Above, a poster making the rounds on Facebook advertises a Delaware County protest planned for the last weekend of the month in Delhi. There's a meet-up... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 - 10:01 am
Eugene E. Gundelach, the owner of the Margaretville building on Main Street that burned down on September 17, is no longer being accused of starting the fire, according to the Catskill Mountain News.
Gundelach was arrested on September 17 after the blaze... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 - 11:54 am
A lawn sign opposing fracking from Otsego2000. Photo by Flickr user Bosc d'Anjou.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with David Merzig, a municipal lawyer for several upstate towns who has been working on local bans on gas... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Andes Town Supervisor Marty Donnelly tipped us off to an act of vandalism in his town's Ballatine Park last week. It seems that several people decided to gouge their names into a stone obelisk that stands near the southern edge of the park. Today, I was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 10:12 am
Video: Part 1 of A Pickup Load of Pigs: The Feral Swine Pandemic, a three-part series produced by the Mississippi State University Extension Service. More from the series available here.
Feral pigs are gaining a foothold in western Sullivan County and... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 3:46 pm
Photo of temporary housing units in North Carolina by FEMA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last week that they are delivering temporary housing units to Cobleskill, to be distributed to flood victims in New York State who cannot find... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 9:03 am
Photo by Flickr user D. Sharon Pruitt. Published under Creative Commons license.
The Associated Press reports that although the recent flooding has stirred up New York City's water system considerably, and required the city to do some extra chlorination,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 8:47 am
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. You can get more of Verni on her blog, at homecookincolumn.blogspot.com.
In a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 9:50 am
Above: Locations of upcoming public hearings on the DEC's new draft gas drilling regulations.
On Wednesday, September 28, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation riled environmental and anti-driling groups by issuing drafts of... Read more
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