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Men overboard: Four boaters rescued from NYC reservoirs over the weekend

Above: New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; published under Creative Commons license.

New York City's watershed police had a little extra duty over the Fourth of July weekend: Keeping four capsized boaters from sinking in a few million gallons of New York City's drinking water.

The four boaters went overboard in two separate incidents over the weekend: One on the Cannonsville on Friday evening, and another on the Rondout on Saturday morning.

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NewsShed: When lightning strikes twice

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.

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Couple dies in Meredith crash

A Cayuga County husband and wife were killed in a one-car crash in Meredith on Sunday afternoon.

The accident occurred around 3:30pm on Turnpike Road when the driver of the 2013 Toyota, 65-year-old Barbara Secord, lost control of the car. The car ran into a ditch, became airborne, and hit a tree and a stone wall.

Both Secord and her husband, 67-year-old Tyler Secord of Moravia, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to Delaware County undersheriff Craig DuMond.

Responding to the scene, along with Delaware County sheriff's deputies, were the Meridale Fire Department and EMS, the Delhi Fire Department, Cooperstown Medical Transport and the Delaware County medical examiner.

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Flash flood watch in effect for eastern Catskills

Early Monday morning, the National Weather Service in Albany issued a flash flood watch for eastern New York and western New England, including Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties.

The watch is in effect from 11am to midnight, and warns that a combination of saturated ground and slow-moving thunderstorms could yield localized flash flooding and rising creek waters.

If you see flooding in your area, or have local road closings to report, let us know at [email protected]. A few good local weather resources to keep an eye on: NWS Albany, NWS Binghamton, local river forecasts from the NWS, and Hudson Valley Weather.

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Fireworks and festivities: A Catskills guide to the Fourth of July

Above: Photo by Flickr user Jeff Golden.

Planning to spend Independence Day in the Catskills? You'll have your pick of festivals, parades, and demonstrations of explosive exuberance. (We've updated these listings -- thanks for the suggestions! -- Ed.)

Events featuring fireworks are listed first -- read on, and you’ll find other celebrations of all sorts. Unless otherwise specified, fireworks happen at dusk.

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From the Publisher: Feedback wanted about the Catskills Outdoor Guide

The 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide just won't stay on the shelves. In the month since we published our print guide to all things Catskills outdoors, over 2,500 print copies of the guide have been distributed in New York and New Jersey, and 4,500 people have visited the guide online.

In fact, the guide has been so popular that it has disappeared from our drop points much sooner than we expected. That's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem for those who want to get their hands on a copy.

So we're turning to you for advice. We have distributed more than half of the 5,000 copies we have printed. Should we distribute the rest of them this summer, or ration them to make them last all year?

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NewsShed: Cats and dogs

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 Gallery on Friday, July 5 at 6pm, when the gallery hosts an eclectic lineup of musicians to kick off "Potophonics," a two-month gallery show of Potokar's musical sculptures. On hand for Friday's show: Alice Molloy, Frank Coelho, Michael Suchorsky, Chris Butler, Mark Schaaf, Paul Badger, and of course Potokar himself.

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Groundbreaking set for Catskill Recreation Center in Arkville

Above: A six-acre lot on County Route 38 in Arkville destined to be the home of the Catskill Recreation Center. Source: Delaware County GIS mapping tool.

After a hiatus of several years, plans for the Catskill Recreation Center -- a community fitness center in the Middletown hamlet of Arkville that will include a six-lane indoor pool and possibly an ice rink -- are moving forward once more.

The center was first proposed in 2007 by Kingdon Gould Jr., a local philanthropist who has formed a nonprofit called the Catskill Recreation Center Inc. to own and spearhead the project. In 2009, plans for the center were put on hold after an archaeological survey turned up some potentially interesting evidence on the site.

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NewsShed: Water, water everywhere

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 delays on their sewer extension, but they're still throwing a big birthday bash for the MARK Project on Friday, July 5. Photo by Reed Clark.

News flash: It's still raining. Flash flood watches are still in effect. Everybody's hoping for a break by the Fourth, but no promises on that front.

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Flood watches continue in the Catskills

Above: A briefing issued by the National Weather Service in Albany on Tuesday morning.

Across the Catskills, flood watches are still in effect Tuesday, after almost a week's worth of sporadic rainstorms that have caused much anxiety but little damage in the region.

A flash flood watch issued by the National Weather Service in Binghamton remains in effect through Tuesday evening, covering Delaware and Sullivan counties along with a large portion of Central New York. In a briefing issued this morning, NWS Binghamton meteorologist David Nicosia said that the Susquehanna River Basin was hardest-hit by overnight rainstorms, and would have the greatest potential for flash flooding today in NWS Binghamton's region.

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