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Thousands without power across the Catskills region

By Lissa Harris
9/18/12 - 8:43 pm

High winds are taking out power lines across upstate New York tonight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power.

As of this post, Central Hudson is reporting that 29,961 of its upstate New York customers have power outages. NYSEG has 22,056 customers without power. And National Grid has 12,384 customers without power.

Within the Catskills region, Ulster County appears to be the hardest hit by power outages, with 8,936 affected Central Hudson customers and 230 NYSEG customers as of the time of this post.

Central Hudson, NYSEG and National Grid all have live updating maps of power outages. Click the links above to see current maps and estimated power restoration times, if the company has them.

Primary Day: Thursday, September 13

By Lissa Harris
9/13/12 - 12:13 am

Above: Photo by Flickr user Ann Douglas. Published under Creative Commons license.

If you're registered to a political party in New York State, you may be eligible to vote in a primary election on Thursday, September 13. Most towns in the Catskills region have either a Republican or a Democratic primary. (Check our handy cheat sheet below to see if your party has a primary race in your town.)

Earlier this year, new New York State Senate and Assembly districts were drawn. This will be the first election to use the new primary districts, and voters in some towns will be seeing an unfamiliar incumbent on the ballot: a politician who is already in office, but who has never before represented that town as part of his or her district.  Read more

Catskills local food in the spotlight

By Lissa Harris
9/7/12 - 11:19 am

There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.

It's September, and the season of bounty is upon us: late-summer vegetables in full profusion, apple harvest just around the corner, tomatoes groaning on the vine.  Read more

Coming up: Irene anniversary events

By Lissa Harris
8/28/12 - 12:34 pm

It's a year to the day since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene pummelled upstate New York. While a lot of commemorative events have already happened over the past week, the next few weeks will see more (including a picnic in Maplecrest that is underway even as we blog).

One to mark on your calendars: On September 22, Schoharie is hosting the second annual Schoharie Valley Rock 'N Roll Flood Relief Concert, featuring a lineup of bands that includes Poor Dead Molly, FlashBack,Max Violet, Chicken Hearders, Shakey Ground, Crash Coarse, Von Rudder, and a special afternoon appearance by up and coming teen country sensation Chelsea Cavanaugh.

To find more, check out our calendar of upcoming Irene anniversary events.

A year since Irene: The Faces of the Flood Project

By Julia Reischel
8/28/12 - 10:43 am

Today is August 28, the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene's arrival in the Catskills. To commemorate the anniversary of the flooding, we are publishing the Faces of the Flood Portrait Project, which tells stories of the flood through cinematic portraiture and journalism. See the twelve portraits and stories by clicking here.

Letter to the Editor: James Blake for State Senate

By WP Newsroom
8/27/12 - 12:01 pm

Dear Editor;

My name is James Blake and I am on the ballot for the Thursday, September 13 Republican Primary. I am a strict Constitutional Conservative, what I am not is a champion politician. I am a champion for the children.

It is simple; if our children succeed - our communities will succeed. If we set this as our goal and work together at the local levels, we can succeed at creating vital communities.

I am a fighter and we are in the trenches together. I have lived, worked and survived in a community just like yours and this gives me the unique perspective that a career politician does not have. I know what it takes to pay bills, what it costs to fill your tank with gas and what it takes to raise a family in New York State today. I have listened to people from around the district and what the people want is a chance at “bottom up” solutions. I am offering to take our voices and our ideas to Albany and fight for what is ours.  Read more

Seward Letters

Letter to the Editor: Assemblyman Pete Lopez on Rebuilding from Recent Hurricanes
11/19/2012 - 1:41pm
Letter to the Editor: James Blake for State Senate
08/27/2012 - 12:01pm

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