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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:40 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent out a press release today announcing that three stands of trees on three different parcels of city-owned upstate land will be the focus of a new forest management program.
The three sites are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 2:25 pm
This just in from the CWC: Boiceville's wastewater treatment plant project, a feat of engineering two years in the making, is finished. The plant went online last summer, and on January 7, the last hookup pipe connecting the new plant to a Boiceville home... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Videographer and former Phoenicia Times columnist Dakota Lane is celebrating the holidays by going from business to business in Shokan, Olive, Phoenicia and Woodstock asking people to divulge their wish lists for the season. The result is a sweet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:32 am
*Note: This post's been updated (and the headline changed as well). Read the whole thing to hear the DEP's response to accusations that they're a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of driftwood-hoarders. Maybe there's a happy ending to this sad little story after all... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 3:49 pm
"A November Brown Catskills," by Dennis Schvejda. Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group.
The Catskills Center for Conservation and Development has good news for Andes, Olive, Shandaken, Arkville, Margaretville, Middletown, Fleischmanns, and the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 9:54 am
An unworldly photo of a rainbow over the Ashokan reservoir, taken by NYC DEP intern Cailee Nicole.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is planning to drain the Ashokan Reservoir of about 450 million gallons per day for the next few... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 7:58 pm
When newspapers die, there's no headstone to mark their passing. But I'd like to imagine that somewhere in the Catskill mountains, in a clearing on a hillside ringed with a crumbling stone wall, there's a little plot where mourning readers can pay their... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 9:49 am
UPDATE 10:24pm: Local papers reported this afternoon that two Kingston 16-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the shooting, Eban Woullard and Brandon Jones. Here's the Times-Herald Record story; here's the Freeman's.
UPDATED 9:54am: A man was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:45 pm
A tractor-trailer killed 83-year-old Vera Un and 86-year-old George Un of Shandaken as they stopped on Rte. 28 to make a left turn in Boiceville this afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 59-year-old William... Read more
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