Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we come back from a winter vacation with the stories you may have missed while snoozing in front of the fire. Also: A look back at our top stories of 2011.
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The Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour airs live at 1pm on Wednesdays on WIOX 91.3 FM in Delaware and Ulster counties and at 3pm on Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene and Columbia counties.
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Ken McCarthy, the founder of rebuild123.org, a website that helps local flood relief organizations use the internet to solicit and receive the exact donations they need.
Also, we'll be talking about how today is the shortest day of the year. Happy Solstice!
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The Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour airs live at 1pm on Wednesdays on WIOX 91.3 FM in Delaware and Ulster counties and at 3pm on Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene and Columbia counties. Read more
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Dan Viles, the owner of Cable Ad Net, a cable television advertising company that has launched a brand-new over-the-airwaves TV station, WYBN TV 14, from the top of Windham Mountain.
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The Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour airs live at 1pm on Wednesdays on WIOX 91.3 FM in Delaware and Ulster counties and at 3pm on Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene and Columbia counties.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Anna Moschovakis and Tianna Kennedy, the founders of Catskills Time, a "local time bank" that aims to build a new system of exhange based on time, not money.
Above: Pamela West-Finkle and her husband Theodore Finkle, as the band Diviner.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Pamela West-Finkle, a South Kortright musican and singer-songwriter, about her new Community Music and Arts Network and her mission to bring "community music" to the Catsklls.
The film, Vecchione writes, is about "a little-known artist and long-time resident of Franklin New York. In the early 90's, Robert began constructing fantastic stone castles in his small backyard."
Robert will screen for the first time at the Skene Library in Fleischmanns on Saturday, December 3rd at 2pm.
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We stayed up late on November 8 to cover election returns live on the internet and on the radio. The radio portion of the program was our special hour-long election edition of the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, which aired from 11pm to midnight on WIOX 91.3FM and WGXC 90.7FM. With the help of Mike Teitelbaum and Rich Grape, who worked the board and the phones, we did live interviews with candidates and announced hot election results in real time. Read more
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talked with freelance writer and Rosendale resident Sari Botton about a voting kerfuffle in Rosendale's hotly contested supervisor race. We also discussed some of the most interesting election results from around the Catskills. Read more
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Michelle MacNaught, a 21-year-old DeLancey native and artist who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer a year ago. In the year of chemotherapy and treatment that has followed, MacNaught has devoted herself to her art, making beautiful and haunting woodcuts, etching and drawings inspired by her struggle with cancer.
MacNaught's work is being exhibited in a new book, "Michelle MacNaught," and in an exhibit opening on November 15 at the Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte gallery in Manhattan. We are honored to have her as our guest on the show today.
Update: Michelle was unable to join us for today's broadcast, although we did discuss her art and upcoming gallery show on today's show. We hope to have Michelle on as a guest on a future show soon.
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Above: Mike Ondish's and his1968 Shelby Mustang in a poster for the documentary Demon on Wheels.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Christina Eliopoulos, the director of the documentary Demon on Wheels, and her subject, Margaretville outlaw mechanic and daredevil Mike Ondish, who is resurrecting his 1968 Shelby Mustang and returning it to its past racing glory. For more info on the movie, see the bottom of this post.
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