NewsShed: Bird is the word

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 Caribbean or Central or South America.

Watch out for potential flash flooding, Eastern Catskills. (You knew that already, right?) 

This is almost a century too late to be breaking news, but we've found a wonderful ornithology paper from 1922 cataloguing the birds of Frost Valley, by Mary Wood Daley. Bird people of the Catskills, we'd love to know if the species on and around Slide Mountain have changed over the last 91 years. 

Verizon's VoiceLink push in Sullivan County is giving county officials the fantods

In today's New York Times, columnist Joyce Wadler -- of those Wadlers -- recounts her magical summer of '65 as a teenager in Pine Hill.

On Tuesday, state Department of Environmental Conservation police descended on three junkyards in Fleischmanns and Arkville run by William Hrazanek, though they wouldn't say what they were looking for. (Stay tuned for more on that. The WP's Julia Reischel was on the scene, and is working on a story.) 

Dear mystery man in a black SUV who found a missing two-year-old during a massive manhunt at Camp Toldos Yaakov Yosef in Swan Lake on Sunday: The kid's parents would really like to say thank you

Meet Woodstock: It's a swirling vortex in time and space, where various wormholes open directly into 1969, and town zoning law does not apply to a planned library annex building

A routine Delhi traffic stop on Monday led to the arrest of a Meridale man as a fugitive from justice from the New York City Police Department. 

Walton's getting a new West Branch boat launch

Hancock's getting a new police chief

Tannersville's getting a new mobile stage. (Maybe.) 

Still supervisor-less: The Schoharie County town of Wright, whose supervisor Bill Goblet died in March.  Unless the town board appoints one, the town won't have voting representation in county government until 2014

Pop-up farmer's market in Downsville's Pepacton Park? Colchester supervisor Cindy Donofrio thinks it's too much liability

The River Reporter has some tips on how to get a snapping turtle off a road. (Hint: Get an old broomstick.) 

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