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By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 10, 2012 - 11:18 pm
Photo by Flickr user Dave Stokes. Published under Creative Commons license. Don't forget to set your clocks forward an hour -- Daylight Saving Time starts at 2am on Sunday, March 11. Readers: Are you looking forward to that extra hour of light in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2012 - 3:40 pm
Above: The triumphant girls' Livingston Manor basketball team, which beat Roscoe 53 - 31 last night at Sullivan County Community College to win the Section Nine Class D championship. Photo by Nick Piatek - SportsInsightsNY.com.  It's March Madness for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 3:02 pm
Above: FEMA External Affairs Interns inspect the recovery effort in Prattsville on Feb. 22, 2012. Photo by Hans Pennink. Wednesday is the deadline for New York State towns and counties to submit lists of properties for a federal buyout program. Under the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 10:01 am
Above: WBNG-TV forecast of a winter storm headed for the Northeast later this week. Looks like Old Man Winter's finally woken up at last: A big snowstorm is barreling towards us from the Midwest, and will start dumping some sleet and snow on upstate New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 2:13 pm
Photo of barn, fence and field in Kiamesha Lake by Catskills Photography. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group. The Obama administration announced three new initiatives to benefit the rural economy, including a $15 million "Rural Jobs Accelerator"... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 12:36 am
With the clock ticking on a deadline set by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state officials and teachers' unions have brokered a deal that will create a new system for evaluating teachers. The New York Times reports that Cuomo threatened to use his gubernatorial... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 11:25 am
Photo by Flickr user Roger Karlsson. Published under Creative Commons license. It's a familiar story in rural upstate New York: A small-town school, once bustling and full of life, is slowly being drained of its students, forcing a community to make... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 - 9:03 am
Spring already? Reader Laurie McIntosh sent us this photo of snowdrops in bloom, taken in Woodstock on Feb. 10. Snowdrops are usually the first bloomers in the garden, beating out even the early crocuses for the title. But this is a bit early, even for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced the awarding of grants of roughly $50,000 each by the New York Department of State to 13 towns and villages in upstate New York, for rebuilding from the Irene and Lee floods. The list of awardees includes the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 - 8:37 pm
Photo of Cannonsville Reservoir by Flickr user kmitschke. Published under Creative Commons license. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection plans to announce publicly that the recreational boating program that has been running on the... Read more

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