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WP Deal: Garden Spring Special: A free consultation and a free perennial...
Above: Melissa Bennett, a gardening expert who is the founder and owner of From Root To Shoot in Hamden.The following is a WP Deal for Watershed Post readers, from advertiser From Root To Shoot:It's...
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Lambing Starts! And open this Saturday.
Hi,Out neighbor Lora took this photo of the first lambs of the season, and e-mailed it to me before I even got to the barn this morning! Two adorable Icelandic ram lambs. Momma did a great job. We're...
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This Weekend: Earth Day around the Catskills
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the...
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Tougher tests worry local schools -- and parents
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State...
View ArticleSullivan County under tornado watch
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Sullivan County, along with much of Pennsylvania, for Friday afternoon and evening. The tornado watch for Sullivan County was issued at...
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Swarmageddon: Northeast braces for 17-year cicadas
Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license.Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from...
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Last day to submit your photos to the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo...
Above: Just some of the entries in this year's Catskills Outdoor Guide photo contest, as pictured on our contest Flickr group. The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013....
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The priorities of trees
Above: Figure 1. The allocation of Carbon into structure, storage, and defense in lodgepole pine. Tree components with low numbers represent strong priorities for C allocations, whereas components with...
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Thanks for all the photos!
Above: "Fiddleheads", May 8, 2012, at Frost Valley YMCA, by Robin White. Just one of the 60-odd photos submitted to our photo contest. Wow, you Catskills folks take a lot of photos.Submissions from...
View ArticleTown gas bans can stand, appeals court rules
Two upstate New York towns that faced lawsuits over their gas drilling bans have won in appeals court, delivering a major victory to proponents of town "home rule." The towns of Dryden and Middlefield...
View ArticleShop Til You Drop For Kids Event!
Don't forget May 3rd from 6-8 pm GRLIC will be hosting a shop until you drop event at Grapevine Farms of Cobleskill with a percentage of all purchases going right back to programs for kids of all ages...
View ArticleTwo Schoharie men busted after Pete Lopez's house is burgled
Two 20-year-old Schoharie men have been arrested in an investigation into two burglaries in the town, one of which targeted a house owned by New York State Assemblyman Pete Lopez. State police arrested...
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This Weekend: Catskills Mother’s Day Events
Above: Who says moms always have to be nice? The Kindred Spirits Steakhouse and Pub in Palenville is serving up a Naughty Mother’s Day Brunch featuring ribald songstress Lex Grey from 11am to 4pm on...
View ArticleDEP: Boat rental businesses can store boats at reservoirs
On Thursday, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced that it would allow boat rental businesses to store rental vessels directly on the banks of the NYC reservoirs. The...
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Snow today, hard freeze on the way
Proof that there really are only two seasons in the Catskills -- winter and the Fourth of July. Photo taken at 1:45pm on Monday, May 13 at the Watershed Post's headquarters in New Kingston. As if the...
View ArticleTkaczyk proposes ban on out-of-state fracking waste
State senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an outspoken opponent of hydrofracking, is proposing new legislation that would prohibit out-of-state drillers from disposing of fracking waste in New York State.On...
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Earthquake in Canada rattles upstate NY
Above: A screenshot of the USGS's "Did You Feel It" map for an earthquake that struck northwest of Ottawa on Friday morning.Update, 10:43am: The USGS has revised their initial 5.0 estimate for the...
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Severe thunderstorm watch issued across New York State
The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center has issued a severe thunderstorm watch, effective until 9pm, for 45 counties in New York State as well as northwest Connecticut, western...
View ArticleTornado warning issued for Delaware, Sullivan counties
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a tornado warning for south central Delaware County and northwestern Sullivan County, effective from 1:09pm to 1:45pm.From a message posted on...
View ArticleMost local school budgets pass
On Tuesday, May 21, New York State voters went to the polls to decide the fate of local school budgets and elect members to school boards.Most budgets throughout the five-county Catskills region...
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