Shandaken
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:37 am
Shandaken's latest bout of dithering over a proposed Phoenicia sewer plant may have cost the town $15.8 million in New York City grant money. After years of negotiation with a reluctant town board over the Phoenicia sewer project, the Catskill Watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 9:43 am
In this week's Woodstock Times: The Phoenicia Library, whose building was gutted by fire last March, has run up against a roadblock in its plans to rebuild and return to 48 Main Street:
Neighbors on both sides of the Main Street library building have... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 7, 2012 - 4:23 pm
In the Catskills this year, Memorial Day is going to be epic.
For the first time in history, four of the six west-of-Hudson New York City reservoirs will be open to boating and paddling for the masses. A new bike event will bring the spirit of the Tour de... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 4, 2012 - 10:45 am
Above: A comparison of last year's "supermoon," on March 19, 2011, with a more average full moon from December 20, 2010. File from Wikimedia Commons.
Cross your fingers for clear skies this Saturday night, when a phenomenon called a "supermoon" should... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 1, 2012 - 11:25 am
At their regular meeting tonight, the Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on a new contract for superintendent Phyllis McGill.
The new contract would cut her salary from $160,000 a year to $150,000 a year, and extend the end date on her... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 27, 2012 - 11:32 pm
Several Watershed Post readers wrote today to tell us that they've been getting urgent emails from someone purporting to be Shandaken town supervisor Rob Stanley. We've gotten a few ourselves.
The good news: Stanley isn't stranded in the Philippines and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012 - 9:23 am
Catskills Cycling blogger Mike Wentland and daughter Isabelle pick up bicycles for this Saturday's giveaway from Overlook Mountain Bikes in Woodstock. Photo courtesy of Mike Wentland.
Local blogger and bike advocate Mike Wentland can't fix all the damage... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 - 2:58 pm
The AP reports today:
Mitt Romney did what was expected, easily winning New York's Republican presidential primary and padding his delegate lead in his all-but-inevitable march toward the party's nomination.
Romney easily outdistanced Ron Paul and Newt... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 - 11:19 am
To the editor:
As I run for re-election, along with Tony Fletcher, to the Onteora school board, I would like to remind voters of the many things this board has accomplished, with the help of our administration, during the four years I have been on it.
We... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 - 2:23 pm
Tuesday, April 24 is the New York State presidential primary -- but with frontrunner Mitt Romney coasting toward the 2012 GOP nomination, the press isn't too excited about it.
"Every four years, the New York primary becomes less significant," the New York... Read more
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