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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 11:07 am
Eldred and Bartholomew: Photo via New York State Police
According to a press release from the New York State Police in Schoharie County, three people have been arrested for stealing guns in Gilboa and hiding them in the presence of two small children.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 9:34 am
From the AP today: The Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the 60-day period for public comment on the latest draft of gas drilling regulations -- scheduled to begin in early August -- has been pushed back to "late summer."
The... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 12:24 pm
Photo by J. Ronald Lee, 2011. Via Flickr.
Sixty percent of the water that is pumped through Phoenicia's water system is vanishing before it reaches its destination, Alfred Peavey, the chairman of the committee for the Phoenicia Water District, told the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 4:17 pm
Photo by Flickr user tlindenbaum.
Rural areas are going the way of the dodo, if you believe yesterday's Associated Press story about "the decline of small-town America." The article begins with a stark statistic from the 2010 Census:
Rural America now... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Above: Radar image taken at 2:47pm. National Weather Service.
See that storm over Binghamton? It's heading towards the Catskills. (So that's why it's so humid and sticky out there.) The National Weather Service has issued "severe thunderstorm watch" for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 9:00 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced yesterday that, starting today, the Lower Esopus will get 10 to 15 million gallons of clean water a day from the Ashokan Reservoir.
For creekside residents below the Ashokan, who have... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 4:03 pm
Thanks to intrepid reporter Cindy Johansen, we will be posting video of the town of Olive's monthly Town Board meetings right here on our Olive town page. Johansen videoed the July 11 meeting of the Olive town board. Check out the first quarter of the... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 2:41 pm
The staff of Delaware County's Office of the Aging. Retiring director Tom Briggs is the gentleman sitting on the right. Photo via Delaware County New York website.
The Delaware County Board of Supervisors had a short docket for July -- nine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 11:07 am
Unless the state Department of Environmental Conservation makes big changes to its latest draft of gas drilling regulations, New York State is on track to ban hydraulic fracturing in and around New York City's vast, unfiltered watershed. But many... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011 - 2:22 pm
Photo of rusty mailbox by Flickr user Mandy Jansen. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, the United States Postal Service released a list of almost 3,700 post offices across the country -- many of them in small, rural towns -- that the agency... Read more
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