Sullivan County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:54 am
The former site of the Chestnut Woods restaurant in Grahamsville. Could the hamlet get a proper restaurant again? Depends on whether Neversink stays dry, its owner says.
It's been 75 years since a legal libation was sold in the Sullivan County town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:45 am
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
7pm update: Add Schoharie, Ulster, and Greene Counties to Friday's forecast. Also, add "localized amounts of up to 6 inches" of rain, and some snow at high altitudes. This is starting to look a little grim.
There's another flood watch on for much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 8:56 am
U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey brought the star power to campaign for him in Binghamton on Monday: None other than Mr. Bill Clinton himself, who spoke to 600 fans, according to Fox 40. (The Star Gazette has a photo gallery.)
Hinchey's Republican... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - 12:46 pm
In honor of Lark in the Park, this week's festival of outdoors activities in the Catskills, I'd like to issue a call to arms: If the Catskills are ever going to become an outdoor recreational mecca, we have a lot of work to do.
We need to tear down the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 10:12 am
In the wee hours on Sunday, State Police responded to a call about a domestic dispute in Long Eddy, NY, near Hancock. But they ended up busting a marijuana farm allegedly growing in the home of the unhappy couple, both of whom have ties to law enforcement... Read more
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