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Around the blogshed: Decking halls edition

Above: Frieda Suess' house on the Watershed Post Flickr pool. Have a shot of your own halls decked out for the holiday? Send it to [email protected] or upload it to our pool on Flickr -- we'll be displaying snapshots of houses all lit up until Christmas.

December is flying by, and the ski mountains are waiting with anticipation for our first major snowstorm. Chances look good for the white stuff on Sunday. Here's what happening on the local blogs:

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Fresh: Long Way on a Little by Shannon Hayes

Local author Shannon Hayes has just published her fourth book on the topic of sustainable eating, Long Way on a Little. Hayes, who holds a Ph.D. in sustainable agriculture and community development from Cornell University, works with her family raising grassfed meat on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in Schoharie County. A lifelong farm-dweller, Hayes has opined on the physiological and ecological benefits of grassfed diets in her three previous books, The Grassfed Gourmet, The Farmer and the Grill and Radical Homemakers.

Watershed Post: Local and small-living seems to run deep in your philosophy -- can you talk a little bit about how you came to this particular worldview?

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December falls in Blenheim

Flickr user A Man Called ACME took this photo of a Blenheim waterfall on December 2 and posted it in our Flickr pool. It's one of several wintery waterways our readers have shot recently.

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FEMA proposes buying 33 flood-prone properties in Ulster County

Above: Flood damage in Phoenicia caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Photo taken on September 4, 2011 by fixBufflao and posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool.

Yesterday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a plan to buy up to 33 properties in Ulster County that were "substantially damaged" by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in 2011.

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Fresh: West Branch Collision and Classics

There’s fresh relief on the horizon for would-be automotive bodies beautiful in the Central Catskills: Ben Krom is already lining up customers for West Branch Collision and Classics, now open at 60 Delaware Street in Walton. The Watershed Post chatted with Krom on the day he finally got his paint booth set up.

Watershed Post: So you restore classic autos?

BK: That and a bunch more – anything from antique car restoration to insurance work, touchups and deer hits. We’ve got state of the art equipment in a 7,000 square foot shop – a brand new paint booth and the ability to do aluminum welding. Besides cars, I can make your vintage Americana or outdoor furniture look great. If it needs metalwork or painting, bring it on.

WP: So what’s your background in this type of work?

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This Weekend: Breakfast fundraiser for fire-damaged Manor businesses

Above: Dawn Ceeno, the owner of the Moose-Be-Morning Coffee Shop, behind the counter in happier days. Photo contributed by Carolyn Bivins.

Dawn Ceeno and her daughter Rain, the owners of the Moose-Be-Morning Coffee Shop, lost their entire business in a fire on November 20. The blaze burned the historic Hoos Building at the center of Livingston Manor to the ground, and destroyed three other businesses and a photographer's studio. Moose-Be-Morning was the only retail business without insurance.

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Lourenso wins back a seat on the Woodstock Board of Fire Commissioners

The position of fire commissioner in Woodstock is a hot commodity these days.

Last night, 314 people turned out to choose among four candidates for an open seat on the five-member Board of Fire Commissioners, according to Judy Peters, the secretary and treasurer of the Woodstock Fire Department.

Mike Lourenso, a former commissioner who lost his seat to Peter Carberry in an election last year, was triumphant with 207 votes, Peters said this morning.

William Facompre came in second with 64 votes, James Dougherty came in third with 38 votes, and Duncan Wilson came in last with five votes.

The turnout of 314 people was "definitely a good number," Peters said today. "We're had that for a couple of years in a row. I guess everybody's interested in running for this postion now."

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Ulster County DA links Kingston teacher's drug arrest to death of Hurley man

The Daily Freeman has dug up a shocking new piece of information about the Sunday arrest of 42-year-old Matthew DiDonna, a social studies teacher at Kingston High School and Hurley resident, on felony drug charges: DiDonna was arrested after a neighbor's sudden death.

Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright told the Freeman that DiDonna was arrested after 38-year-old Mark Conlin, a father of three and a resident of DeWitt Mills Road in Hurley, ingested some hallucinogenic mushrooms and later died in his wife's arms:

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This Weekend: Frozendale Daze

This Saturday, Rosendale will sparkle and shine, sing and soar, as Frozendale Daze joy pervades Main Street. It would be hard to pick a favorite festival from this town’s smorgasbord, but Frozendale might be considered the homiest. Originally a Chamber of Commerce notion, it actively involves the various members of the business community – and what a community they are.

There will be fine artisanal gifts from an eclectic and expert bunch of crafty souls at the Winter Gift Sale at Canaltown Alley and TRANCEnDANCEnDRUM. Rosendale Guitars and the Rosendale Café will both have live music; those inspired can follow up by attending a special free sing-along showing of The Sound of Music at the Theatre Collective. There will be parties in progress at the Red Brick, the Bywater Bistro and the 1850 House. The Big Cheese is having a Mac-and-Cheese Bake-Off. There will be hot cider and cocoa, raffles and discounts, a puppet show at Redwing Blackbird, massages, and hayrides with Santa.

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DEC: Man shot in backside by his own unregistered handgun while hunting

A man who allegedly shot himself in the backside after dropping his .22 revolver while hunting on Thanksgiving Day will be charged with a felony, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced in a press release today.

Timothy E. Kelly, a 47-year-old Esperance resident, will be charged with not having a valid pistol permit for the handgun and for hunting deer with .22 caliber rimfire ammunution. The pistol permit violation is a felony.

Kelly was hunting with a famliy member near Sloansville on November 22, the DEC press release states. They had just shot a deer with a legal weapon and were approaching it when Kelly dropped the pistol, which went off, firing one round.

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