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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 9, 2011 - 9:18 pm
Form the Onteora Central School District:
The Onteora Board of Education will hold a Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 6:00 in the Woodstock Elementary School on Route 375, Woodstock, New York.
The Board will vote to enter into Executive... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 9, 2011 - 11:17 am
Accurate as of 9:15am this morning, from the Ulster County Emergency Services news blog:
Road Closures September 9, 2011
ROAD CLOSURE LISTUpdated 9/9/11 09:15
Denning: Watson Hollow RdPeekamoose Rd closed entire length due to floodingOliverea Rd bridge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 9, 2011 - 10:11 am
Image: A Catskills map from 1903. From livingstonmanor.net, a website devoted to Livingston Manor history.
WXXI, a public radio station in Rochester, reported yesterday that New York State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill -- whose district, the 101st, includes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2011 - 10:56 pm
View from Overlook Mountain near Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Miss K; published under Creative Commons license.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced today that because of dangerous conditions in the wake of widespread... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2011 - 9:55 am
Reposted from the Ulster County Emergency Services News website. Accurate as of 8:30am:
ROAD CLOSURE LISTUpdated 9/8/11 08:30
Denning: County Line – Sundown between Grassy Rd and Ridge Ln- 1 LANE OPENSundown/Greenville 1 LANE OPENWatson Hollow RdOliverea... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:24 pm
From the governor's office: Residents of Schoharie Valley and Catskills should be on alert tonight for more rain. Specific warnings are made for western Delaware County, particularly Unadilla -- see the highlighted areas in bold:
Governor Cuomo Orders... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:58 pm
We'll be doing another special flooding edition of our radio show at 1pm today. Listen live by clicking here.
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 3, 2011 - 4:21 pm
We heard this morning from the Onteora Central School District that school will be opening as usual on Wednesday. Here's the press release that was sent out today:
As of 10:00 am this morning Phoenicia Elementary has power. All Onteora Schools will open... Read more
By Jim Friedlich on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 - 2:45 pm
This spring I took off from my investment business, and we moved to our second home in Shokan. We’ve been summering here for over a decade, but this year was different. In place of obsessively checking my Blackberry, I set sight on cultivating the perfect... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 - 2:01 pm
Above: "The Huckleberry Brook Dancing Bear," by David Barry, winner of our "Best-Kept Secret in the Catskills" photo contest.
A secret azure swimming hole. An abandoned dairy truck moldering in the weeds. A back road through jaw-dropping fall leaves. We... Read more
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