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By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 10:02 am
The EPA announced yesterday that the agency will conduct a two-year, $1.9 million, peer-reviewed study of the effects of horizontal natural gas drilling on drinking water.
Bring it on, gas companies say--but the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that shares... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 10:47 pm
Long Island Democrat Steve Levy jumps fence, joins GOP, declares he's running for governor. This should be fun.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 9:56 pm
Steve's Digicams, a digital camera site whose members often share photographs in the forums, has some incredible recent pictures of the Ashokan from Samsonville Road. Check it out.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 2:47 pm
The Watershed Post editorial team took advantage of an unseasonably warm afternoon to swing by Opus 40 yesterday, which, we discovered, is closed in the winter except by appointment. (And, we assume, except for prospective buyers.) But while we were in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 11:28 am
The Daily Star reports that publisher Tanya Shalor has "left The Daily Star to pursue other professional interests."
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Federal antitrust top cop Christine Varney has been talking to farmers across the nation lately about anti-competitive agricultural markets. On March 29, she'll be at Genesee Community College to get an earful from New York's dairy farmers.
Farmers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:50 pm
Populations of American shad have gotten so depleted that fishermen (and fisherwomen, naturally) may no longer fish for them in the Hudson River, the DEC announced today. Restrictions are also being put on shad fishing in the Delaware.
"Unfortunately, the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:06 pm
City councilors in the Northern New York city of Watertown are considering stepping in to prevent a local wastewater treatment plant from accepting hydrofracking fluid, the Watertown Daily Times reports.
"My feeling all along is that this is a parochial... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:38 am
Two hikers were lost in deep snow on Blackhead Mountain over the weekend. Virginian Alberto Risenberg was rescued on Sunday, but Poughkeepsie's Seth Lyon died on the mountain.
View From The Top, a Northeast outdoors online community, remembers Lyon in a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:30 am
Last night, Ulster county legislators voiced their approval of the latest plan for a resort to be built near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center by Dean Gitter, a developer with Crossroads Ventures LLC. The Daily Freeman reports that 27 legislators voted in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:42 pm
A few dozen Delaware Academy parents and students gathered at the American Legion in Delhi on Monday, March 15 to ask the state to remove Richard Hughes from his post as the Delaware Academy Central School High School principal.
The turnout, of about 35... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:40 pm
If you're a farmer, odds are you don't have $100,000 in your back pocket for an M.B.A. But you've got business problems that would keep Warren Buffett up at night. How do you get your perishable wares to eaters (and, of course, buyers) of food? Finding... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:35 pm
Gilboa resident James E. Papas was arrested last week on charges that he intentionally set fire to his trailer and claimed he'd been blasted out of the window by an exploding furnace. A press release from the New York State Insurance Department:
Papas... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:21 pm
Outdoorsman Dennis Schvejda followed a tip from the Andes Gazette to a bald eagle nest on Dingle Hill--and kindly posted driving directions for fellow birders, photographers and nature junkies.
With a good lens, you can get some good shots. REMEMBER…... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 2:03 pm
It's election day in villages around New York State. Most polls opened at noon today, and close at 9pm. Here's our guide to the races in and around the Catskills. Note: Races are grouped by county (Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster and Sullivan) and by... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 - 5:46 pm
A young harp seal spotted last week in the Rondout Creek died in the middle of a rescue attempt organized by the Riverhead Foundation, the Daily Freeman reports.
Earlier: Seal swims to Kingston
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 - 5:13 pm
In the MLS database for $3.5 million: A Saugerties property with 4 beds, 3 baths, 2,860 square feet of living space, and a backyard that rivals the seven wonders of the ancient world. Opus 40, a massive bluestone sculpture that sprawls across an abandoned... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 - 11:46 am
Looks like we got lucky. While pickup trucks were being swept away in the town of Tuxedo, in Orange county, the rain wasn't even enough to douse the St. Patrick's day parade in Kingston:
Video by Clark Richters at The Kingston News, who was onhand to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 3:51 pm
The Open Space Institute just bought 67 acres of cliff faces in the Gunks, to be added to the Mohonk Preserve and used for conservation and recreation.
The rock formations that comprise the cliffs on the Shawangunk Ridge feature many different... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 3:37 pm
It was with a heavy heart that Skip of Cluckin' A Critter Farm in Greene County sent a seemingly rabid raccoon to meet its maker this morning.
All I know is that I don't want to kill these animals, but I won't take a chance on loosing our own animals to... Read more
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