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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 11:21 am
Can't get enough debate about fracking? The Huffington Post is hosting a live expert vs. expert debate on its site this morning where the topic is the safety and efficacy of horizontal drilling in the Marcellus Shale. To see and hear the live debate as it... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 11:17 am
In the Daily Freeman today: The state Department of Environmental Conservation is mulling whether to fine the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for using stimulus funds to tear up a big chunk of the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in the name... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 9:40 am
If you were awake around 4am this morning, you probably heard a mighty roar of wind. Reports are trickling in of some serious storm activity across the Catskills last night. NY-Alert reports that there was hail and downed trees in Ulster County this... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 4:53 pm
Big, surprising news out of Sullivan County this afternoon. The hamlet of Bridgeville, which has been the focus of several Indian tribes' casino dreams for years, just got closer to becoming the home of a major gaming resort.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 4:49 pm
The Times Herald-Record has the scoop on the first wave of DEC layoffs: 140 workers at the agency got their pink slips today.
Local residents and environment groups are watching closely to see how many layoffs hit the division of mining, which is the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 4:22 pm
Answer: When they're drilling straight down, not sideways.
I admit, I was puzzled last week, when we got word of a company called Gastem getting approval from the New York State DEC to frack a couple of wells in Otsego County. (The announcement sparked a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 4:03 pm
Last night, Saugerties' school board unanimously rejected a special tax deal for the developers of the Partition Street Project that would have given the local government significant money up-front but more uncertainty down the line. The Daily Freeman has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 11:53 am
The Daily Freeman's Jay Braman broke the news today that Belleayre Ski Center is going to see some nasty job cuts:
Belleayre Mountain Superintendent Tony Lanza delivered bad news today to ski center employees. Lanza said he told staff members that top... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 10:15 am
Photo of hops by Hagen Graebner, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York's one-time cash crop, hops, is on the rise again. Yesterday, the Greene County Industrial Development Agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension announced that the state will fund a hops-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 11:31 am
In the Saugerties Times this week: A local environmental group has sponsored a study of the Blue Mountain Reservoir, which provides water to the town of Saugerties. The study's author, hydrologist Paul Rubin of HydroQuest in Stone Ridge, says the town... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 8:34 am
***Update: The Daily Star is reporting that court documents filed by the Oneonta Police Department allege that Sprague was attempting to rape Ridge.
An Oneonta man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Sonja Ridge, 26, in the early... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 - 5:58 pm
Above and below: Sullivan County Sheriff's Deputies and State Police troopers pull over a few of the scores of high-performance cars that ripped through the speed limit this afternoon. Photo provided by NY State Police.
This afternoon, local law... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 - 8:13 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 - 10:07 am
Clark Richters, who runs the videoblog Kingston News, found yesterday that his camera wasn't welcome at one of Kingston alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes's regular meetings with her Fifth Ward constituents.
Richters writes that "it was a very informative... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 3:26 pm
File under: Their Diamond Shoes Are Too Tight.
McPherson & Co., a small indie publishing house in Kingston, is facing a tricky problem: A title slated for release on Monday, the novel Lord of Misrule by author Jaimy Gordon, has been nominated for a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 1:03 pm
Site plan for Partition Street Project, from Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development.
The people of Saugerties are facing a dilemma: Does their government tax the controversial and still-to-be-built Partitiion Street Project development a lot now, via... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 9:44 am
Three men who decided to harvest deer in Roscoe a week early were arrested by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday. 26-year-old Steve Rosati, 27-year-old Vincent J. Lopicolo and 27-year-old Christopher Abrahamsen have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Few things on Earth are more depressing than an empty, boarded-up school in a small town.
But when life gives you lemons -- well, you know how that goes. Local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione recently made a short video about a new group in Sidney, Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Tonight's episode of CSI: "Fracked." Airs at 9pm on CBS.
Two men are murdered right before exposing a natural gas company for poisoning residents in a farming town, and the CSIs must discover who is responsible for their deaths on the next episode of... Read more
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