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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 11:33 pm
Hurricane Irene over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011. Image by NOAA.
Hurricane Irene caused so much death and destruction in 2011 that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the name 'Irene' from the rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Mike Hein announces an executive order banning the use of frac fluid by any county department. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
Ulster County executive Mike Hein issued an executive order today to prevent the spreading of brine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012 - 11:23 am
Photo of check presented to Roxbury Central School by GRLIC for a new media and technology center at the school. Courtesy of Jenn Schuman.
With school budgets under fierce pressure, and enrollments dropping throughout the region, many local schools are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 5:11 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Middleburgh Fire Department today, announcing that New York State will cover the local share of flood recovery costs in 25 counties. Photo by David Avitabile of the Schoharie County Times Journal; reproduced by permission.
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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 9:59 am
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will pay a visit to the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh today at 12:30 to make a public announcement about flood recovery in the area.
Cuomo will be at the headquarters of the Middleburgh Fire Department, at 127 Railroad Avenue. On... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 11:51 pm
Gas drillers aren't exactly clamoring to set up rigs in the Ulster County town of Olive, well north and east of the more gas-rich parts of the Marcellus Shale in New York State. But town officials are worried enough about the prospect of hydraulic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 9:57 am
Two programs that have been helping with the local effort to rebuild and restore the region after the Irene and Lee floods announced application deadlines this week.
A $2.5 million program for funding debris removal from streams in the New York City... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 9:35 am
A Westchester County man was arrested and jailed last week for allegedly pumping hundreds of gallons of raw sewage into Catskill Creek.
James Sheerin of Ardsley, NY was arrested last week after an investigation by the state Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 9:36 pm
In an abrupt about-face, the Fleischmanns village board has appointed trustee Todd Pascarella as mayor, to fill a vacancy left by former mayor Dave Morell's resignation.
In February, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a motion by trustee Ben Fenton... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 3:39 pm
Tom Wargo may not have been elected mayor of Middleburgh last month, but he's pretty sure he got more than two votes.
Wargo, who came in last by a long shot in a three-way race between incumbent Bill Ansel-McCabe and winning challenger Matthew Avitabile... Read more
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