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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 11:41 am
Last week's Phoenicia Times raises the terrifying specter of rabid attack beavers on our waterways:
On Tuesday July 13, one or more beavers attacked and bit two swimmers and one person tubing in the Esopus Creek... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 11:32 am
At a Thursday public hearing, livestock-loving protesters won a reprieve from a proposed ordinance that would outlaw farm animals from Coxsackie, according to the Daily Mail:
The hue and cry prompted village officials to promise to take a second look at... 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
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 10:02 am
I highly doubt Rick Bates's truck is in any way a good thing for the environment, but it's kind of amazing.
He cobbled it together from about $100 worth of parts, and it’s pretty low-tech. One of his fuel filters, for example, is a trash can filled with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 9:50 am
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Cabot Oil and Gas, one of the early players in the natural gas leasing effort in the area, has put its entire leased acreage in Sullivan County up for sale.
It’s also doing the same in neighboring Wayne... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 17, 2010 - 10:17 pm
That's what the AP says today:
The city last year signed contracts to either buy land or conservation easements on a record 11,309 acres of land around its upstate reservoirs, marking the second year-to-year gain of more than 30 percent in the 13-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 17, 2010 - 10:04 pm
The Daily Mail reports that gas pumps on the northbound side of the New Baltimore rest stop on I-87 will be shutting down Monday for repairs. Plan ahead, drivers -- but don't worry, the bathrooms are going to stay open.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 9:35 pm
The town officials who got caught on tape using racial slurs in Cobleskill are finding themselves at the center of a firestorm. On Monday, the Times Journal reports, there was quite a crowd at a Cobleskill town meeting:
With signs that read, “You Lied to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 12:16 pm
Joe Damone writes us to say that 13-year-old Ted (above) has gone missing from his home in Andes. Joe's offering a reward: Call 845-676-3812 or 845-676-4940.
Here's to Ted's speedy return.
Update: We're pleased to report that Ted has been found.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 10:54 am
Kingston's mayor really has a way with the verbiage. Back in 2004, a busted sewer main flooded houses and businesses along Wilbur Avenue with unspeakable horrors. Six years later, Sottile is pushing for the city settle with the owners, to the tune of $293... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 9:26 am
Gas isn't the only thing underground that has local landowners riled up. In Ulster, a zoning dispute over a potential limestone mine owned by Eddyville Corp. has reached the state Supreme Court, and homeowners near the site are urging the town to fight... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010 - 10:04 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection held three meetings this week on a proposed 10-year extension of their watershed land-buying program. At a meeting on Monday in Delaware County, one of the city's main targets for buying land over... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 7:59 pm
From the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, July 8th, firefighters from East Branch and Downsville Volunteer Fire Departments and Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a structure fire on White... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 2:39 pm
The unstoppable Ulla Kjarval, daughter of a local grass-fed beef farmer and herself a passionate local-foods and farming advocate, had an interview last week with Eat To Blog. Here, she opines on what can be done to fix our broken national food system:
... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Anybody know more about this? We got an alert from the NY DOT:
building fire has closed Route 97 South and North bound within the Village of Hancock @ 8am 7/14/2010 for about 4 hours, with local detours set-up
Please send eyewitness accounts, photos, or... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 11:13 am
On Monday night, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's plan to buy more private land in the upstate watershed met a skeptical crowd at a public hearing at SUNY Delhi.
The Land Acquisition Program, as the DEP calls it, is the linchpin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 10:40 am
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that Hurley resident Evan Stauble, who had been missing since July 1, was found dead on Sunday.
Kingston police were the last to see Evan Stauble, walking across the Route 9W bridge that connects Kingston to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Rich Blake, blogging at the hedge-fund-oriented Hedgeworld, begins a critique of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac with a meditation on the repairs he has to do on his Big Indian cabin:
I own a tiny, cottage-style house in Ulster County, New York, in a valley... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 5:13 pm
Downy mildew on a basil plant: From the Cornell Dept. of Plant Pathology website. It's downy, it's mildew-ey, and it's out to wilt your basil, the Times Herald-Record reports:
It's called downy mildew, and it's infecting basil plants across New York, as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
Thanks to state Assemblyman and Attorney General hopeful Richard Brodsky, who has been demanding to know why quasi-public agencies have been handing out bonuses to their executives, we now know that Alexander Mathes, the executive director of the Greene... Read more
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