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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 - 10:17 am
Yesterday afternoon, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced that it would no longer be releasing turbid water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the Esopus Creek, starting immediately. The press release from DEP Commissioner Cas... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 1:41 pm
Flickr user Laura McCarthy snapped this photo (and a bunch of others -- see slideshow below) last weekend while hiking the Black Dome range trail in Greene County. Photo used with permission.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm
In the Daily Star today: Thanks to donations, Oneonta's embattled Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center has enough money to keep the lights on for at least a few months.
About $110,000 in contributions will keep Foothills operating for several... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 10:13 am
Last night, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart interviewed oilman T. Boone Pickens about fracking and its prominent place in the Pickens Plan for American energy independence.
Highlights include Jon Stewart asking Pickens whether or not he's annoyed that BP has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:57 am
Cheesemaking Help, a blog dedicated to (surprise, surprise) the fine art of cheese and the making thereof, published a wonderful interview yesterday with a member of the Osmanli Dergah, the Sidney Sufi community that was in the news so much last year... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:30 am
Yesterday, word got around that the organizers of the indie music festival All Tomorrow's Parties have decided to move their three-day rock concert from the Kutshers resort in Monticello to a new venue on the Jersey Shore.
The festival's organizers tried... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 5:26 pm
Leave it to the New York Daily News to faithfully follow the story of Benjamin, the monkey terror of Greene County, who attacked a guest at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast last summer and then was spirited away to Florida by his owner, who himself fled... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 4:33 pm
Above: A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome symptoms. Via the Flickr page of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.
Phil Brown of the Adirondack Almanack posted a story yesterday about his visit to New York state's largest bat... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 2:44 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that an Ulster County Highway Department snow plow collided with a school bus loaded with 25 kids in the Town of Esopus this morning. The bus driver and two students were reportedly taken to Kingston... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 1:54 pm
ProPublica, whose reporter Abrahm Lustgarten is currently one of the most prominent critics of hydrofracking in the media, published a long piece yesterday that casts doubt on the purported climate benefits of natural gas. An excerpt:
Advocates for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 10:02 am
Monticello just lost one of its coolest attractions -- the indie-rock festival All Tomorrow's Parties, which was held at Kutshers Country Club for the past three years. This year, the festival's organizers told the New York Times on Tuesday, ATP will be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 8:39 am
Delaware County real estate agent Frank Lumia (who, full disclosure, is one of our business subscribers), has produced a video for the environmental news and video website BigGreenTV that explains water pollution by using magic tricks.
Lumia is a magician... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 2:09 pm
The famous Munson Diner, a much-beloved Hell's Kitchen greasy spoon that made its way to Liberty on the back of a flatbed trailer in 2005 and re-opened to great fanfare in 2007, has closed. Again. From this week's Sullivan County Democrat:
Her most recent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 12:34 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A man driving a black pickup truck made off with two ATVs sitting near Rte. 10 in Walton on Saturday night. There is a reward for whoever returns them. Helpfully, both ATVs are bright yellow.
For the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 9:20 am
Bovina historian Ray LaFever digs up a book of earmarks -- the kind you put on sheep, not bills. With so many farmers in Bovina, no wonder they had a hard time keeping the sheep straight:
These earmarks were registered with the town clerk. In the records... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 9:01 am
The Daily Mail reports:
A 24-year-old West Coxsackie woman was injured Tuesday when she lost control of her sedan and slid into a school bus, state police said.
The woman, who had to be extricated from the vehicle, suffered head trauma, though state... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 3:55 pm
Dan Abrams: Photo by Joy Moore. Used with permission.The opera-loving hoi polloi in Mozart and Beethoven and Wagner's day didn't have access to live HD broadcasts. Outside theaters in metropolitan centers, they relied on solo artists, generally pianists,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 3:28 pm
Above: A Sundance "Meet the Artist" feature with Vera Farmiga, who directed and starred in the Hudson Valley-filmed Higher Ground, and who's also a part-time Catskills resident.
Through the 30th, most of the indie-film world is in Utah for the annual... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 10:48 am
If you wondered where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stood on hydraulic fracturing, wonder no more. The anti-drilling documentary Gasland, which has been touring the country for most of this year, has been nominated for Best Feature... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 10:30 am
The Delaware River Basin Commission announced yesterday that it will invite public comment on its proposed regulations for gas drilling in the Delaware River watershed at three meetings in February.
The draft regulations, which were released in December,... Read more
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