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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 12:08 pm
So far, there's a website and plans for billboards to go up on Route 17 in Sullivan county, according to the Sullivan County Democrat:
Yesterday, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Gasland the Movie, and EarthJustice jointly... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 9:12 am
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman report that 19-year-old Jordan Soderback was killed in a car crash in Olive yesterday, in which the driver has been charged with DUI. From the THR:
Erica Miller, 31, was driving under the influence of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 4:37 pm
How do you fill a row of empty storefronts in a small town? You could offer economic incentives or be generous with your zoning laws. Or, if you're the town of Roxbury, in Delaware County, you could invite teams of designers to give the stores makeovers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 1:40 pm
This week, the EPA dropped a last-minute bombshell on a planned meeting to discuss the risks of hydraulic fracturing: Three days before the meeting, they moved it from Binghamton to Syracuse.
But it seems the last-minute venue change didn't deter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 1:17 pm
Apparently the spirit of industry is alive and well in Kingston, where a few old-school businesses from the days when steamships ruled the Hudson are still kicking it. Kingston Happenings has a great post today on two of Kingston's historic purveyors of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 11:18 am
Woodstock blogger Shouting Thomas takes a stroll past the vacant storefronts of Tinker Street -- and offers a cautionary rant against opening a cute little bead shop to solve your financial woes:
Why do so many people open shops in Woodstock and dump... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 10:57 am
WTEN reports on last night's town board meeting in Cobleskill, where supervisor Tom Murray said (again) that he's determined to stay put despite repeated calls for his resignation.
"I've done nothing wrong," Murray said.
Once again, here are the words... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 5:29 pm
Democracy: It's so expensive. And it really snarls up the morning commute. But thanks to some really enlightened thinking by Binghamton University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the city of Binghamton won't have to suffer the slings and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 5:25 pm
The New York Times golf columnist, Bill Pennington, has written a rapturous blog post about the Rip Van Winkle Country Club golf course in Palenville. The gist is that size, when it comes to golf courses, shouldn't matter.
You see, the Rip is a nine-hole... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 4:48 pm
This being 2010, he announced it on his blog. Stay tuned.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 2:35 pm
When it's shot by a police officer in the town of Ulster, that is. Via the Daily Freeman.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 - 10:26 am
Woodstock is grieving this morning for the loss of violinist Betty MacDonald. The Times Herald-Record reports that she died at home this morning after a brief period of hospice care:
Her friend and fellow Woodstock musician, Pete Levin, said Friday her... Read more
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 Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:54 pm
A former Ellenville junkyard which has been declared a Superfund site is on the federal Environmental Protection Agency's agenda this month.
Once Ellenville Scap Iron and Metal, the site is now 24 acres of leaking car batteries, heavy metals, and known... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Congressman Scott Murphy, who represents most of the Catkills region in the U.S. House of Representatives, is putting his weight behind a very specific cause: cell phone service in the Delaware County town of Andes.
He issued a press release yesterday in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 5:43 pm
Forget the palatial estate with horse barn, swimming pool and five-bedroom Victorian. Today's hot Catskills property is a moldering cabin on 30 brushy acres, with Plexiglas windows and "BRIAN SHOT A BUCK 11/16/08" chalked on the door.
Don't believe me?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Since the surprising passage of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing by the New York Senate on Tuesday night, the political chess pieces have been moving around the board.
Our own Catskills-area state senator John Bonacic, who reversed his previous pro-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:02 pm
A paper published in the prestigious research journal Science on August 6 makes a dire prediction: The little brown bat, the Northeast's most common bat and an important species in the ecology of the region, could become extinct in the region within 16... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 1:46 pm
Bovina blogger The Wild Rabbit Goes Catskills found a couple of kittens yesterday, which she's hoping to give to a good home.
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