Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 - 6:29 pm
AT&T announced yesterday that they've just flipped the switch on a new cell tower on Route 23 between Prattsville and Ashland, in Greene County:
"More than ever before, customers look to wireless communications to stay in touch with family, friends... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Image by Flickr user Samantha Manton.
Say it ain't so, New York Times "Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome! Not only are you jumping on the "Hudson Valley/Catskills is the new Brooklyn" bandwagon, but you're doing it with an enormous 2,553-word NYT... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:57 pm
Tomorrow, some 800 cyclists will descend on Greene and Ulster Counties for the fourth annual Tour of the Catskills, a three-day road race that spans nearly 200 miles and draws both amateur and professional cyclists from far and wide. The race will kick... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:03 pm
Above: Arm-of-the-Sea Theater, which will perform this weekend at the Batavia Kill Stream Celebration.
For those who might not know what, exactly, the "kill" in Catskill stands for, there's a whole festival happening this weekend that will cement the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Today at 1pm we aired our second installment of the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, our 30-minute radio news show, on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury. You can listen to today's show below. (Our debut show aired in July -- you can listen to it here.)
We talked... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 9:39 am
Three businessmen, including the owner of a local trucking business, were arrested recently on charges that they shipped ash timber out of Greene County, where the wood is under a quarantine because the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been found... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 9:36 am
You should take that headline literally. Thanks to a water main break in the village of Catskill, the Catskill Community Center's "Summer Fun Programming" has been cancelled today, according to its website:
URGENT! NO SUMMER REC OR SUMMER FUN TODAY... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Looks like the Ulster Savings Bank has finally managed to unload the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill for a modest $2.4 million. (That's $1.4 million less than what the bank was owed, when they foreclosed on the Route 32 property last April.)
But the identities... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:06 am
Photo by Flickr user Alina Sofia.
It's a renaissance weekend for theaters in the Catskills. At the Woodstock Playhouse, the first summer stock season on the safe side of foreclosure continues. In Tannersville, the expansion and renovation of The Orpheum... Read more
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