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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 - 10:03 am
WGXC, the Daily Freeman, and the Daily Mail all have reports sparked by a press release issued yesterday: The Holcim cement plant in Catskill is being "mothballed."
The press release reports that 100 jobs will be lost:
"We deeply regret having to mothball... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 4:53 pm
Above: Bocce, a 9-month-old German Shepherd, surveys the high water on Route 299 in New Paltz last week. Photo by Laura Cerrone.
On Friday morning, the Watershed Post team visited a journalism class taught by Times Herald-Record reporter Adam Bosch at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 2:21 pm
The Times Herald-Record has the details on a 30-year-old Forestburgh woman who fled state troopers on Route 42 last night. Thankfully, the chase ended in an arrest rather than in violence:
[Maryanne] Silverstrim refused to get out of the car and when... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 12:40 pm
As if the emerald ash borer and the Asian longhorned beetle weren't enough: In the last few years, a small, brown, smelly invader has moved into the Hudson Valley. It's Halyomorpha halys, the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, and it's after your apple trees.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Today's the day for village elections, and while many races across the Catskills have candidates for various village boards and mayors who are running unopposed, there are a few real contests out there. Here's a list of the heated challenges:
Sullivan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 10:07 am
The Woodstock Times and WGXC have neat sports news his week: John Thorn, a Catskill resident and baseball history guru, has been appointed to the post of Major League Baseball's historian.
John Thorn's new bookThorn has experience pontificating about the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 7:43 pm
When a predicted flood last week didn't reach Biblical proportions, Phoenicia residents breathed a sigh of relief. The tiny hamlet in Shandaken has borne the brunt of much of the region's flood damage over the fall and winter, with back-to-back floods in... Read more
By Writers in the Mountains on Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 5:55 pm
By Writers in the Mountains on Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 5:50 pm



