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Mar. 30, 2010
SUNY New Paltz students rallied last week against $152 million worth of proposed state cuts to higher education, a bill with the unfortunate acronym of PHEEIA.
The crowd of students and SUNY professors chanted slogans like “One, two, three, four, we can... Read more
Mar. 30, 2010
Gov. Paterson just announced that $2.1 billion worth of state aid to school districts across New York state won't be paid on schedule tomorrow. The NY Daily News has the press release.
In the Albany Times-Union: A list of how the delay breaks down by... Read more
Mar. 30, 2010
The DEC just announced some grant funding for private landowners interested in helping out the bog turtle.
Grant recipients are eligible for awards ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, depending on the project. To maximize the program's benefits, DEC will... Read more
Mar. 30, 2010
The good people of Cooperstown are hungry for information about fracking. There were two separate gas drilling meetings held last week: one on Tuesday, and another on Friday. Tuesday's was pretty popular, according to the Daily Star:
A forum on drilling... Read more
Mar. 30, 2010
A barn in Saugerties lifts a hopeful face toward spring.
Photo by Flickr user Blue_Mtn_Photos, posted in the Watershed Post pool on Flickr. All rights reserved.
Mar. 30, 2010
More info at the Daily Freeman.
Update from the Freeman: Two dead, one injured.
Mar. 29, 2010
We attended the Department of Justice's visit to Batavia to talk dairy today -- you can see our minute-by-minute coverage of the event here. The hearing was an historic one: the first time the DOJ has actually met dairy farmers on their own turf. This... Read more
Mar. 29, 2010
The New York Times and the Gannett newspaper chain weighed in yesterday on fracking and federal oversight. From the NYT editorial:
It’s important to enlarge the nation’s supply of natural gas, a relatively clean fuel. But where public health is an issue... Read more
Mar. 29, 2010
The FBI's Albany office has just launched a website called "Bandit Tracker Northeast," on which it lists and maps bank robbery suspects who have struck throughout New York. But it doesn't seem to have the crooks who hit the NBT bank at Grand Gorge in... Read more
Mar. 29, 2010
After almost a decade at Catskill Point in the village of Catskill, the local farmer's market is moving to the center of town, reports The Daily Mail. Not everyone is happy about it:
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the... Read more
Mar. 29, 2010
A descendent of the founders of the resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is now the hospitality directory at a Jewish retirement community in Lauderhill, Florida. In the spirit of Passover, which starts tomorrow, Elaine Grossinger Etess tells the Fort... Read more
Mar. 27, 2010
Google is going to be testing out Google Fiber, an experimental super-extra-fast broadband network, in a few places in the U.S. soon. They've invited communities to make their pitch for why Google should pick them. Kingston Digital Corridor (and Ulster... Read more
Mar. 27, 2010
Rape.
Property owners in Sullivan County, NY and everywhere have an absolute right to decide how to use their land. This is America. When your rights and choices impact someone else who did not consent, received no compensation, and given the option,... Read more
Mar. 27, 2010
Nate Wilson had an op-ed in the Buffalo News yesterday, in which he accused federal regulators of "whistling past the graveyard" while the U.S. dairy industry collapses.
Middletown, N. Y., cattle dealer Joe Distelburger, relates: “I spoke to a Western N... Read more
Mar. 26, 2010
As we mentioned earlier today, the Nevele Grande Resort is a shattered husk of the swank resort it used to be. Tonight, we discovered a wicked YouTube mashup that illustrates that fact. (Hat tip to Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record.)
Erik Torres, a... Read more
Mar. 26, 2010
At 8:13 pm, SUNY Delhi issued this brief and terrifying email to students, staff and faculty:
..........This is an ACTUAL NOTIFICATION..........
Issued By: SUNY - DelhiIssued To: SUNY-DELHI-ALL
Headline: UPDATE: Imminent Danger. Shots fired near... Read more
Mar. 26, 2010
Should the state allow grocery stores to sell wine? Tonight at 7:30pm on PBS stations across the state, New York Now is asking grape growers what they think. Here's a preview:
Mar. 26, 2010
Yesterday, we published a story and short video about this year's maple syrup yields, which some astute observers estimate are down 80% in the Catskills region.
We got an email from forester Peter Smallidge, who directs the maple program at Cornell... Read more
Mar. 26, 2010
We had no idea that she was an angler. Turns out, Sally Jessy Raphael is an avid one, so much so that she and her husband will be the first to fish on Saturday morning on April 10 in Roscoe.
The Catskills town of Roscoe, N.Y., always celebrates trout... Read more