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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 2:01 pm
The Mountain Eagle has the depressing story:
Members of the Greater Stamford Area Chamber of Commerce learned there would be no ‘Music on the Mountain’ event this summer and heard a presentation by Kees Trappenburg about the Junior Golf Program at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 1:03 pm
Greenwire reports via the New York Times that there is discussion behind the scenes in Congress about a possible plan to publicly disclose the proprietary fluids used in hydraulic fracturing:
The proposal making the rounds in the House would largely keep... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 11:10 am
Noah Katz, a Vice President of Foodtown/Freshtown, stands in front of the Margaretville Freshtown, which will hold a grand opening ribbon-cutting at 7pm tonight. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The citizens of Margaretville and Delhi get to celebrate two long-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 10:21 am
The Vermont-based Center for Biological Diversity informed Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday that they are suing the government on behalf of two bat species that have been decimated by a mysterious fungus. From the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 11:13 pm
I don't know how many times I've given up in despair while trying to to figure out how to take the Trailways bus to Port Authority from somewhere along Rte. 28.
First, there's the many different Trailways franchises to navigate: Pine Hill Trailways,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 9:58 pm
The Friends of the Upper Delaware River issued a crisis alert on Monday, warning that current river temperatures had reached lethal levels for trout after an unseasonable late-spring heat wave, and that anglers and guides have reported seeing dead trout.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 5:05 pm
In the wake of the ever-widening BP disaster in the Gulf, the company's stock is tanking -- and so far, it's taken $30 million of the value of New York's state pension fund, the third-largest in the country, with it. State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 4:31 pm
The BP oil spill is making ordinary folks pretty apocalyptic. Today, Kingston resident Peter Meurer wrote the Daily Freeman a letter with his theory of how the catastrophe could be the end of the world:
My grandson had a thought on this: There is a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Almost 40,000 pounds of ground beef and beef patties from New York and California were recalled yesterday due to E. coli contamination, Consumerist reports.
Both recalls have are considered Class I hazards by FSIS, meaning "there is a reasonable... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 3:49 pm
The EPA is in the early stages of conducting a massive study on the risks of hydraulic fracturing, and they'll be holding a series of four public meetings in shale gas hotspots around the country to get public input. On the schedule: a meeting in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 3:00 pm
If you felt the earth shaking this afternoon, that was the 5.5 quake that hit Ottawa around 1:45. As far south as Kingston, NY, they were evacuating buildings:
In Kingston, firefighters ordered the evacuation of buildings on Wall Street, the uptown... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 12:58 pm
Hot off the (digital) press: New maps of New York State's various eco-regions for use with GIS mapping software, thanks to a group effort by the EPA, DEC, USGS, NRCS, and the mercifully acronym-free New York Natural Heritage Program.
They're free to... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 11:19 am
Ever since its inception back in 1993, National Trails Day has been held on the first Saturday in June. If you have never heard of National Trails Day, it is the only nationwide celebration of trails and was inspired by President Ronald Reagan's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 10:27 am
On Tuesday, a panel of expert tasters convened in Chicago to crown North America's best-tasting tap water. The winner: Stevens Point, Wisconsin, whose 25,000 residents are thrilled that they beat New York City for the top spot.
Stevens Point's water... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 9:51 am
In today's New York Times: A profile of an emerging vegetable venture that links Schoharie County with the South Bronx, a neighborhood the article described as "the poorest congressional district east of the Mississippi."
The project is Corbin Hill Road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 10:06 am
Constance McMillen's hometown in Itawamba County, Mississippi may not have wanted her at their party, but Woodstock thinks she's a rock star. McMillen, who made national headlines earlier this year when her school canceled their prom rather than let her... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 9:40 am
We're not sure what those Kingston elected officials are smoking, but it must be potent. An article in the Freeman today has the scoop on a kerfuffle over whether or not to put a gazebo in Forsyth T.R. Gallo Park, and it's got some of the most hilarious... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 9:15 am
Gas drilling opponents are lining up in front of the Sullivan County Government Building at 10am today, for a three-day walk from Monticello to Delhi in support of a state moratorium on drilling in the Marcellus shale. Here's the details on the walk,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 8:46 am
In last December's issue of Harper's magazine, reporter David Cargill fired a shot across the bow of the $1-billion-plus effort to clean the Hudson River of cancer-causing PCBs by dredging: The General Electric Superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 - 3:23 pm
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has been working overtime to keep the good citizens of New York safe this week. On Saturday, he made an appearance in Kingston to warn his constituents of the dangers of cancer-causing sunscreen. (Oddly, in the video taken by... Read more
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