Water
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 - 10:08 am
The DEP is losing patience with Phoenicia, which is still dithering about whether or not to build a wastewater treatment plant. The Daily Freeman reports that the DEP has threatened to withdraw $17.2 millions in funding from the project, and that the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 - 10:01 am
On Friday, Governor David Paterson signed a law that aims to limit water pollution. Amazingly, it had nothing to do with fracking. From the Messenger Post:
Watershed groups Friday announced Gov. David Paterson has signed Senate Bill 3780-A, which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 11:48 am
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam: Foofwa d'Imobilite's Tribute to Merce Cunningham, Michael Jackson and Pina Bausch
Dear readers: Please believe us when we tell you we'd never inflict a mime on you in our weekend picks if he wasn't going to be brilliant. A... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 - 9:28 am
The New York state Senate had a few surprises up its sleeve last night, and for once, they weren't about Pedro Espada.
Not only did the senators finally pass the long overdue state budget, they then quickly debated and passed Senate Bill 8129B, which bans... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 - 11:59 am
According to a press release issued on July 20, Sullivan County is launching a special website today that will publish the minutes of county meetings. In the statement, County Manager David P. Fanslau says that the move is designed as a service for county... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the state's intermediate appeals court handed a victory to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a fight with a Windham landowner over watershed development regulations.
According to the decision,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 4:27 pm
Pete Seeger and Mark Ruffalo were among the citizens calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in Albany yesterday, as part of a protest organized by Frack Action. Frack Action's website has videos of the day's speechifying, including Seeger's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 10:26 am
Or so Shandaken police believe. Last week, as regular readers may recall, beavers launched a most un-beaverlike attack on some tubers on the Esopus. Jay Braman Jr. reports in the Freeman:
According to James McGrath, the officer in charge of the Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 4:11 pm
If you live in or near the Catskill-Delaware watershed, you can't help but be aware that the water in your backyard goes to New York City. Still, even if you know New York well, it's tough to imagine the sheer mass of the city that drinks from our... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 10:21 am
Even with the federal government pouring money into broadband internet infrastructure in rural areas, it's still hard for small towns to make sure they aren't forgotten. At the July 8 board meeting for the town of Jefferson, in Schoharie, the town's... Read more
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