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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Mar. 5, 2011 - 10:34 am
Ice rescue practice on the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo via the NYC Water/NYC DEP website.
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record spent Thursday on the ice at the Ashokan Reservoir watching NYC Department of Environmental Protection police officers don bright... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 1:30 pm
The Daily Star had the scoop yesterday: Lisa Barrows, the former Stop DWI coordinator for Delaware County who was removed abrupty from her job last year, is now facing a felony charge brought by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
According to court... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 10:19 am
Despite the layoff woes at the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, this year has been excellent for the businesses that depend on it, Jay Braman wrote in the Daily Freeman yesterday:
At a meeting on Monday of the Belleayre Region Lodging and Tourism... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 11:29 am
Want to nurse injured deer back to health, or hunt squirrels with a trained raptor?
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is holding its exams for both falconry apprentices and wildlife rehabilitators on April 22. To take the exams, you... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 8:58 am
The Daily Mail has a story today about the Greene County Stop DWI program, which, in the wake of the retirements of its two staff members, is going to be administered by the Greene County Sheriff's Office:
The county’s STOP-DWI program has a total budget... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 5:42 pm
Liz Benjamin at Capitol Confidential reports that 100 activists were protesting the Cuomo administration's planned budget cuts in Albany today. And while 17 were arrested, she writes that the scene wasn't particularly wild:
The whole situation was rather... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 5:28 pm
Michael Lowe: Photo via the New York State PoliceThe New York State Police in Liberty are reporting that Michael Lowe of Livingston Manor fired a rifle at a woman, her mother and her uncle as the woman was being picked up from Lowe's Meadow St. house... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 1:40 pm
After several years of weighing the evidence, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finally called a halt to its investigation of the eastern cougar -- previously listed as "critically endangered" on the Endangered Species List -- and declared it extinct... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Paul Smart of WGXC attended last night's public forum about the Catskill Central School District budget, at which parents and teachers considered what school looks like when the only things it offers are required by state mandate:
Speakers addressed what... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2011 - 8:20 am
Radium contamination in Pennsylvania wells, part of the New York Times series on natural gas hydraulic fracturing.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has finally hit the big time. Not only did the New York Times make the issue the subject of a front-page... Read more
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