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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 - 2:04 pm
Above: Former Denning Recycling Manager Ed Mues in happier times. Photo courtesy of Denning Concerned Citizens.
To hear his supporters tell it, Ed Mues was more than a trash man. Mues, recently dismissed by the Denning town board from his job as manager... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 - 10:37 pm
The legality of town bans on gas drilling in New York State is being tested in court -- and so far, the bans are holding up. Today, a state judge upheld a gas drilling ban in the Otsego County town of Middlefield, which was challenged by a local dairy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 - 9:49 am
Yesterday, advocates of town "home rule" won a key legal battle in the ongoing statewide debate about hydraulic fracturing. A Tompkins County state Supreme Court judge ruled that a gas drilling ban passed by the town of Dryden could stand.
Jon Campbell, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 2:28 pm
The New York Power Authority, which owns and operates the dam at the Blenheim-GIlboa Hydroelectric Power Station just downstream from New York City's Gilboa Dam, will hold a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the power authority's actions during the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 11:58 am
Above: The New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage Power Project in the town of Blenheim in Schoharie County. Photo via the New York Power Authority's website.
At the year's first meeting of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors last... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 - 5:08 pm
Above: A contractor clearing storm debris from DEP land in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Photo provided by the DEP.
There's a lot happening in the Greene County town of Prattsville. The town, which was walloped by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 9:40 am
Just days after the U.S. government asked a federal judge to dismiss an anti-hydraulic-fracturing lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a coalition of environmental groups has filed its own similar lawsuit, thereby giving the... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 7:44 pm
Remember when New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman threatened back in April to sue the federal government over hydraulic fracturing? He meant it.
The New York Daily News Daily Politics blog has posted the complaint that Schneiderman filed today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 18, 2011 - 9:56 am
Lisa Barrows, the former Stop DWI coordinator for Delaware County, was arraigned yesterday for allegedly stealing a set of golf clubs from the county while she worked there, the Daily Star reports.
Barrows' relationship with the country soured last year... Read more
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