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Feb. 2, 2010
The debate between local pols and the NYC's DEP about how to manage high water levels goes on, the Daily Freeman reports.
From the vault, here's a NYT editorial from 2006 on the topic.
Feb. 2, 2010
The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports that pro- and anti-gas-drilling groups in the area sat down over breakfast recently to talk about what they have in common when they're not hurling nasty epithets at one another.
Dan Fitzsimmons, chairman... Read more
Feb. 2, 2010
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning.
Translation: While the rest of the nation grouses about six more weeks of winter, here in the Catskills we'll be hoping the woodpile lasts til May.
Feb. 1, 2010
And we're celebrating it. (Maybe you thought there was no black history in the Catskills?)
Check out this find from the papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society: depositions from an 1822 trial in Catskill, Greene County in which "James Fox a negro"... Read more
Feb. 1, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated along with the Long Island Business News and Times Herald-Record that the Nevele had finally been sold. Well, it was under contract, anyway. Which is just paperwork, right?
Wrong. The THR's Adam Bosch reports that a... Read more
Feb. 1, 2010
The NY Daily News gossips that David Bowie and Iman are looking at Annie Leibovitz's $11 million pad in Rhinebeck.
Feb. 1, 2010
Interest in the Marcellus Shale is heating up at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which just launched a tipline where New Yorkers can report sightings of illegal gas and oil drilling. The agency is asking residents of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New... Read more
Jan. 30, 2010
The Daily Freeman reports that Woodstock dentist Michael Tischler (who's also a photographer) recently started a foundation that will:
...raise money to provide high-quality dental care to underprivileged children and raise awareness about the importance... Read more
Jan. 30, 2010
Adventures in the Outdoors reports from a cross-country ski trip from South Lake to Boulder Rock, with photos.
The trip out to Boulder Rock from South Lake is probably the 'classic' backcountry cross-country ski trip in the Catskill Mountains. It is not... Read more
Jan. 30, 2010
Part time, spring through summer/fall. From Ulster Corps:
Nestled next to the southwest side of the Marlboro Hills, ten minutes from the center of college town New Paltz, New York, Liberty View Farm is a boutique farm and orchard of organically grown... Read more
Jan. 30, 2010
The recession has squeezed the 30-year-old gallery from both ends: their building's owners can no longer afford to give them a break on rent, and the state budget crisis has eliminated much of their funding.
Stamer said that does not mean she nor her... Read more
Jan. 30, 2010
How cold is it in upstate New York? A sampling from the Twitterverse:
@CatskillsCyclng 0F outside and a Phoebe is whistling its summer "Feee-beee" call. Someone has to lead the charge, eh? Sign me up!
@sleepjunky 4 degrees Fahrenheit, without the wind... Read more
Jan. 29, 2010
Founder Mark Greene is leaving for NYC, wants to leave the org in good hands.
Join Mark Greene at his home Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM for a discussion on the future of the KDC.
Jan. 27, 2010
A Gerson Lehrman Group analyst says Congress is likely to hold off on passing legislation to regulate hydrofracking:
The EPA has delayed a study of fracking's effect on drinking water that the Congress ordered last year because the study has not been... Read more
Jan. 27, 2010
A blogger at New Paltz Gadfly is steaming over the theft of his feisty pro-middle-school yard sign.
This morning I discovered that the sign, which was secured to a tree in my yard by and Eagle Scout well acquainted with knots, was missing.
New Paltz is... Read more
Jan. 27, 2010
Ulla Kjarval of Meredith's Spring Lake Farm thinks farmers should be connecting with eaters online. She's selling a whole steer on Twitter.
Jan. 26, 2010
Gov. David Paterson may be calling for a state land-buying moratorium, but the DEP's watershed land acquisition program marches on. From a department press release yesterday:
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has submitted... Read more
Jan. 26, 2010
Reuters reports that a group of shareholders, worried about the environmental damage from drilling in the Marcellus Shale, is pressuring gas companies for greater transparency and more safety assurances.
The shareholder proposal campaign, aimed at 12... Read more
Jan. 26, 2010
We apologize for seizing on a London Times story that led us (and millions of gleeful Scots-Americans) to believe the USDA was on the brink of legalizing real sheep haggis, which for years has been contraband in the US.
As it turns out, the heroin of... Read more
Jan. 26, 2010
It's been just over a year since Ulster County began electing a county executive and a comptroller, ending the county legislature's long reign over management matters. While Ulster exec Mike Hein and comptroller Elliot Auerbach (who has a blog! whee!)... Read more