Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 - 4:08 pm
Two Staten Island residents were killed in a car accident last night when their vehicle went into a pond off Bruce Porn Road in Roxbury. The Daily Star reports:
Police said Paul Campione Jr. and his brother, Christopher Campione, were driving a 2001... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 7:13 pm
Belleayre's slopes today. Via the Belleayre Mountain Facebook page.
There are two big stories about Belleayre Mountain Ski Center making the rounds today. First off, Jay Braman Jr. has juicy articles in both the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 10:47 am
In the Daily Star today: An item on a new book out about the life of Bisbee's General Store in Meridale, destroyed by fire in 1976.
In case you're tempted to yawn: Pause for a moment and picture this scene, from the Delaware County Genealogy and History... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Not a minute too soon: Soggy, soggy Delhi is joining nine other communities across the country in a pilot project to map flooding data.
Locally, the study is being sponsored by the USGS and the Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District. The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 2:14 pm
Rally to Save Belleayre Mountain from Fred Margulies on Vimeo.
Chanting "We are Belleayre, We are Belleayre," 150 people gathered before a podium at Belleayre Mountain on Friday to protest layoffs at the state-run ski resort ordered by the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 11:52 am
Hate Crime in NYS 2009 Annual Report:
Last week, we reported that a gay artist in the sleepy hamlet of Pine Hill was possibly the victim of a hate crime when his house was torched on Thanksgiving. If it turns out that the arson was attacking... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 4:10 pm
Sidney Center has water contamination problems. And Dawn Rivers Baker, former candidate for supervisor of Sidney, is angry about it.
Did you know that a sizable chunk of the population of the Town of Sidney does not have access to clean drinking water?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 - 10:07 am
We here at Watershed Post HQ will be taking today and the weekend off to celebrate the holidays. If there's any big news, however, we'll be on it -- let us know about stories we need to cover over the Christmas weekend by commenting on this post or... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 5:53 pm
Warp drive: In the Roxbury Motel's new Final Frontier suite, a "window" peers into a skyful of shooting stars.
After months of hammering, sheetrocking, tiling and mood-lighting, the mighty fortress of fabulosity overlooking the East Branch in Roxbury is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 9:14 am
A grass-roots community teaching and learning cooperative is having its second meeting ever tonight in Andes, and organizer Laurie "Story Laurie" McIntosh is talking it up in the local newspapers. In an article on Saturday in the Daily Star, McIntosh told... Read more
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