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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:40 pm
Call it builder's remorse. Many years ago, the town of Ashland hopelessly contaminated its underground water supply, and the town's few hundred residents have been paying the price ever since. At last, relief is in sight, though it's going to be expensive... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:01 pm
This just in from the DEP: The agency that polices New York City's upstate watershed will open 12,000 acres of city-owned watershed land to recreation. A total of 71,000 DEP-owned acres in the New York City watershed are now open to the public, according... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Fifty grand from the Watershed Agricultural Council (via its Pure Catskills program) and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is going to 15 local businesses to fund things like local soup at Good Cheap Food in Delhi and livestock processing at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 1:56 pm
If he runs for re-election, state senator John Bonacic will face at least two challengers this fall, in a race that is shaping up to be a referendum on natural-gas drilling in the region (which Bonacic emphatically supports).
Sullivan County legislator... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 8:30 pm
First the farmer's market got moved downtown. Now the village elders are moving the fireworks, too. Quoth village board president Vincent Seeley in the Freeman:
“There is a potential public safety issue with cramming upwards of 3,000 people down at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 12:50 pm
A whole bunch of village, town and county officials in Ulster County are probably wishing that they'd never heard of Richard-Enrique Ulloa, a man whom they accused of fraud and extortion in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court a week ago.
According to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:15 am
Reactions to the DEC's announcement last week are still ricocheting around the watershed. The Daily Freeman published an editorial today that endorsed the new regs, WAMC ran a long radio piece on Monday about the issue, and the directors of Schoharie... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:03 am
After a year of operating out of a school building a few blocks away, the Greene County Courthouse in Catskill is finally re-opened for business, reports the Daily Mail.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Times-Journal, a weekly based in Cobleskill that covers Schoharie County, has had some trepidations about Facebook:
Usually, we like to think we know what we’re doing at the Times-Journal. And almost never, with the exception of editorials and columns... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 12:33 am
Herman Gottfried, a lawyer who fought New York City on behalf of residents of the drowned towns that now lie beneath the waters of the Pepacton and Cannonsville reservoirs, died on April 24 at the age of 99.
Local historian Diane Galusha (author of Liquid... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 10:20 pm
Aspiring locavore Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently ditched Dannon in an effort to eat closer to home. Lucky for him, there's Tonjes Farm yogurt from Callicoon, made within 25 miles of his house.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
An incisive editorial from the Times Herald-Record about why the DEC's Friday decision to make it tough for gas drilling in NYC's watershed means that drilling elsewhere in New York state is now inevitable:
The city, with all its lawyers, money and clout... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2010 - 12:37 pm
A medical provider that left its Monticello office months ago apparently didn't have time to follow those pesky patient privacy laws before it departed, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lydia Truglio-Chavdarova, who works at a nearby RadioShack,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 11:32 pm
Thanks in part to a push from the Daily Freeman, the web service SeeClickFix is getting a lot of use in Kingston lately. The Freeman lists activity from a day in the life of the service, from complaints about potholes to barely-veiled calls for vigilante... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:21 am
As if you hadn't heard enough from the DEC this week, the Times Union ran an interview today with Wallace "Wally" John, the special assistant for natural resources to Pete Grannis and a West Shokan resident. No mention of, oh, gas drilling in the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:06 am
Gas prices in New York really did jump by 5.4 cents last week. For no real reason, since the national average has stayed flat, according to the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 4:41 pm
Anna and Robert Dioguardi of Catskill Retreat are looking for some enterprising caprines to help keep their lawn under control.
Naturally, there's a Goat Rental directory on the Internet. Alas, it has no New York State listings. Surely it's only a matter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 3:23 pm
The Daily Yonder tipped us off to this: In Kentucky, poet and newspaper columnist Constance Alexander recently lampooned the state's perpetually tardy budgetmakers with a mocking bit of verse modeled after "Casey At The Bat." An excerpt:
The outlook isn't... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Don't get mud on those $114 "Dry Aged" jeans from Barney's, guys. (What do they do, hang them from meathooks?)
Though I admit: That orange enamel cookpot is totally classy.
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