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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:48 am
Above: Image from a Fox13 newscast that aired Wednesday in Salt Lake City, where Grandpa and Grandma Woodstock -- two legendary characters from our own Woodstock, NY -- were stranded in an airport for a few hours, along with their dog Hector. The problem... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 3:50 pm
Above: A female common merganser, photographed recently in Hortonville by John of Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. Still no word from the state Department of Environmental Conservation on why they raided William... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 8:56 am
Above: 17-year-old pro mountain bike racer Taylor Allison, a local athlete who's currently fundraising to enter the 2014 World Cup at Windham. Last month, Allison took fourth place in U.S. Nationals on Windham's rocky, slippery slopes. Photo from Allison'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 9:50 am
The young Toshi Seeger -- filmmaker, activist, arts advocate, cofounder of the Clearwater organization, and wife of legendary folksinger Pete Seeger. Toshi died Wednesday at the age of 91 at the couple's home in Beacon. Last year, Pete told Persimmon Tree... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013 - 3:42 pm
Four young barn swallows peep out at photographer Frieda Suess, who shared this shot recently in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. By mid-August, these talented young aerialists will be getting ready to make their first big migration south to the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 9, 2013 - 6:15 pm
A poolside chair at Grossinger's succumbs to the elements. Photo from Marisa Scheinfeld's "Leftover Borscht," a photography project documenting the slow surrender of Sullivan County's former Borscht Belt resorts to nature and decay. Scheinfeld is in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 3:07 pm
Above: Detail from a map showing the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a 122-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline that will connect gas from hydrofracked wells in Pennsylvania to a larger network of pipelines serving New York and New England.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Ed Potokar, instrument-maker and consummate sonic tinkerer from Accord, shows off the Peg Leg, named in honor of Peg Leg Bates. (He was a Catskills local, too.) Potokar and friends will be making gorgeous electro-percussive noise at Roxbury's Orphic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2013 - 3:11 pm
The newly-restored front porch of Spillian, an upscale "camp for grownups" opening soon in the former Fleischmanns family estate near the eponymous village. Spillian has been forced to postpone some of their planned July programming due to construction... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 1, 2013 - 11:36 am
Trailbuilders of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference spent their Saturday rebuilding a bridge on the Long Path in Platte Clove. For more photos of the rebuild -- and an idea of how badly the bridge needed an upgrade -- see the NY-NJTC's photo album... Read more

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