Not a good place to sleep off a few. Photo of tractor by Flickr user Leo Reynolds; published under Creative Commons license.

Hot off the press at the Daily Star: Dennis Valente, town supervisor of Davenport, has been arrested on DWI charges after falling asleep behind the wheel of his tractor with the engine off. With a prior arrest already on Valente's record, the charge was elevated to a felony offense, Denise Richardson reports:

Above: Fledgling bald eagles at a nest near the Gilboa Dam on June 4, 2013. Photo courtesy of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). 

Weighing in at over 230 million pounds of concrete, with a $400 million price tag and a crew of over 100 workers, the restoration of New York City's Gilboa Dam at the Schoharie Reservoir is the largest and most ambitious construction project currently underway in the Catskills. 

Not all the dam's regular visitors are on the payroll. In 2011, with work at the dam already well underway, a pair of bald eagles began building their nest nearby.

"That freaked everybody out. They did not expect eagles to start building a nest in the middle of a construction zone," said Peg DiBenedetto, a DEP employee who has been tasked with keeping a close eye on the eagles. "They built the nest in a vital part of the site."

For the last two years, DiBenedetto has watched the nest, taking careful daily notes on the eagles' behavior to make sure the construction isn't disturbing them. 

A military contractor from Hunter was among three Americans who were shot and killed on Saturday on an Afghan army base in the Pakikta province of Afghanistan, several news outlets are reporting.

The Times Union reports that 54-year-old defense contractor Joseph Morabito of Hunter and 40-year-old lieutenant colonel Todd Clark of Albany were shot and killed by an Afghan soldier they were training, along with one other American whose name has not yet been released. The Afghan soldier who opened fire on the three Americans was also shot and killed in the incident, the paper reports. 

News of the shootings was first reported on Saturday, by an AP report that did not include the names of the Americans who were killed. The incident was one of a series of recent "insider attacks" by Afghan troops against each other or their international allies, reporter Kay Johnson writes:

A two-car accident in the town of Liberty on Friday claimed the life of a 46-year-old Rock Hill woman.

According to a New York State Police press release, Kim Gessner was driving west on Ferndale-Loomis Road in a 2008 Nissan Versa around 9am on Friday. As Gessner's car crossed the intersection with Route 55, it was struck on the driver's side by a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer -- a mid-size SUV -- driven by 41-year-old Ghia Young of Woodbourne. 

Gessner was taken to Catskill Regional Medical Center, where she died of her injuries. Young was treated for minor injuries.

The accident is being investigated by the Troop F Collision Reconstruction Unit and Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Above: A screenshot from the NWS's river forecast page. Dots indicate USGS streamgauges; the color indicates whether flooding is forecast over the next 48 hours. All gauges in the Catskills region are either green (no flooding forecast) or yellow (near flood stage forecast).

Tropical Storm Andrea is moving northward up the East Coast, bringing heavy rains along with it. But the Catskills region is likely to escape the brunt of the storm's wrath as it passes by to the east of the region.