Water
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 - 12:05 pm
Top: Schoharie Central School students and staff receive the top prize in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow grant contest in Washington, D.C. From left to right: David Steel, EVP of Corporate Strategy, Samsung Electronics North America; Tanner Stone, Schoharie... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 9:00 am
The third annual Ashokan Stream Conference is happening this Saturday at the Bearsville Theater. A collaborative effort of New York City DEP, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, and Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District, the... Read more
By Jason Dole on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 10:29 am
Above: Three-year-old Brody Day savors the victory of having reeled in the first trout of the "first cast" ceremony at Roscoe's Junction Pool, held on April 14 this year because of the holidays. Photo by Jason Dole.
On Saturday, Roscoe reminded everyone... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:22 pm
To the editor:
This is a picture of the Binnekill Bulkhead where the culvert lets water into the Binnekill. It lies on the outside of a bend in the river upstream of the village of Margaretville. From this point downstream for a hundred yards or so the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Mike Hein announces an executive order banning the use of frac fluid by any county department. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
Ulster County executive Mike Hein issued an executive order today to prevent the spreading of brine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 11:51 pm
Gas drillers aren't exactly clamoring to set up rigs in the Ulster County town of Olive, well north and east of the more gas-rich parts of the Marcellus Shale in New York State. But town officials are worried enough about the prospect of hydraulic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 12:41 pm
The Catskills are catnip for artists, and have been ever since Thomas Cole painted his first majestic waterfall. Filmmaker David Becker is the latest aesthete to respond to the lure of the mountains, and he's making a whole film about the subject. In his... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Above: A juvenile American eel, sometimes called a "glass eel." Photo via the NY DEC website.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conversation announced today that the number of migrating American eels in the Hudson River may break some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 5:22 pm
Above: Video taken by YouTube user mjanensch1 on Monday, August 29, 2011, showing heavy flood damage to Bridge Street and the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge over the Esopus Creek, knocked out of commission by the Irene... Read more
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