Phoenicia
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 4:27 pm
Above: A shamrock on the slopes at Plattekill Mountain.
Why do so many turn part Irish in the season of St. Patrick? Perhaps because there is something primal about celebrating the end of winter by slathering swathes of green everywhere. Perhaps because... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2015 - 1:46 pm
Above: New Environmental Police Officers being sworn in to their jobs patrolling New York City’s upstate watershed, which spans a 2,000-square-mile area, much of it in the Catskills. Photo via the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 4:02 pm
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015 - 5:53 pm
A 49-year-old man who didn’t have a driver’s license repeatedly backed into a police car when Shandaken police tried to stop him from driving drunk in Phoenicia on Monday, March 2, police say.
Kenneth A. Jackson was attempting to drive in an “intoxicated... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2015 - 4:34 pm
Above: Brooke Baxter Bailey and Jeff Bailey at the Woodstok Flea Market. Photo by Alexandra Marvar.
Before leaving Williamsburg for the Catskills, Brooke Baxter Bailey and Jeff Bailey were involved in a series of Broooklyn-based experimental spaces: an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 5:05 pm
Above: New York State Broadband Program director David Salway, left, talks with Greg Henderson, middle, the owner of the Roxbury Motel, and Angela Liotta, right, the state's Broadband Outreach Director, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 3:33 pm
Join by March 27 to be featured in the 2015- 2016 Pure Catskills Guide. Simply send a $35 payment by mail today: Make checks payable to “WAC” and mail to Watershed Agricultural Council, Attn: Pure Catskills, 44 West Street, Walton, NY 13856 OR pay online... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 - 3:43 pm
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 - 10:13 am
This story has been updated with information from fire investigators. See bottom for new info. - Ed.
The Key Bank building on Main Street Phoenicia that burned on Monday, Feb. 16 reignited briefly on Thursday, Feb. 19, prompting firefighters to respond... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 - 6:47 pm
Above: Firefighters respond to a fire near Phoenicia Thursday, Feb. 19. Photo by Sara Loughlin.
A structure in the Ulster County town of Shandaken is on fire on Thursday, Feb. 19, according to eyewitnesses.
A neighbor down the street reports that a large... Read more
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