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By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 11:56 am
Adventures in the Outdoors reports from a cross-country ski trip from South Lake to Boulder Rock, with photos.
The trip out to Boulder Rock from South Lake is probably the 'classic' backcountry cross-country ski trip in the Catskill Mountains. It is not... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 11:48 am
Part time, spring through summer/fall. From Ulster Corps:
Nestled next to the southwest side of the Marlboro Hills, ten minutes from the center of college town New Paltz, New York, Liberty View Farm is a boutique farm and orchard of organically grown... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 10:43 am
The recession has squeezed the 30-year-old gallery from both ends: their building's owners can no longer afford to give them a break on rent, and the state budget crisis has eliminated much of their funding.
Stamer said that does not mean she nor her... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 10:29 am
How cold is it in upstate New York? A sampling from the Twitterverse:
@CatskillsCyclng 0F outside and a Phoebe is whistling its summer "Feee-beee" call. Someone has to lead the charge, eh? Sign me up!
@sleepjunky 4 degrees Fahrenheit, without the wind... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 - 10:05 pm
Founder Mark Greene is leaving for NYC, wants to leave the org in good hands.
Join Mark Greene at his home Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM for a discussion on the future of the KDC.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 - 12:42 am
At an emergency meeting yesterday, watershed leaders scrambled to respond to a surprise attack by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on local hospitals that have been disposing of drugs by flushing them down sinks and toilets.
“I feel the action was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 - 12:15 am
On the face of it, the situation in Delaware County looks like a straightforward case of polluters brought to justice. Hospitals and nursing homes have been disposing of drugs by flushing them down sinks and toilets, a practice of dubious legality that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Want to be a farmer? Farm Catskills, a Delhi nonprofit that helps farmers find ways to sustain careers in agriculture, wants you to apply to its "Growing New Farmers" program. They've put out a call for "new or aspiring farmers," according to the The... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 - 2:43 pm
A Gerson Lehrman Group analyst says Congress is likely to hold off on passing legislation to regulate hydrofracking:
The EPA has delayed a study of fracking's effect on drinking water that the Congress ordered last year because the study has not been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 - 11:43 am
A blogger at New Paltz Gadfly is steaming over the theft of his feisty pro-middle-school yard sign.
This morning I discovered that the sign, which was secured to a tree in my yard by and Eagle Scout well acquainted with knots, was missing.
New Paltz is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 - 9:42 am
Ulla Kjarval of Meredith's Spring Lake Farm thinks farmers should be connecting with eaters online. She's selling a whole steer on Twitter.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 7:24 pm
Gov. David Paterson may be calling for a state land-buying moratorium, but the DEP's watershed land acquisition program marches on. From a department press release yesterday:
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has submitted... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 6:45 pm
Reuters reports that a group of shareholders, worried about the environmental damage from drilling in the Marcellus Shale, is pressuring gas companies for greater transparency and more safety assurances.
The shareholder proposal campaign, aimed at 12... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 1:44 pm
We apologize for seizing on a London Times story that led us (and millions of gleeful Scots-Americans) to believe the USDA was on the brink of legalizing real sheep haggis, which for years has been contraband in the US.
As it turns out, the heroin of meat... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 1:17 pm
It's been just over a year since Ulster County began electing a county executive and a comptroller, ending the county legislature's long reign over management matters. While Ulster exec Mike Hein and comptroller Elliot Auerbach (who has a blog! whee!)... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 12:16 pm
The Ashokan Center and Camp Epsworth are hosting a four-part forest gardening/permaculture workshop with AppleSeed Permaculture, running over four weekends from February to June.
Imagine a future of homegrown fruits- berries, pawpaws and persimmons,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 12:09 pm
A new documentary on hydrofracking gets serious love from Variety mag's Robert Koehler:
Who could have anticipated that one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years would be the work of a Gotham theater director who's never... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 12:24 am
Lest anyone doubt the passion and commitment of the protestors at today's dueling rallies on the issue of natural-gas drilling in New York State, let the record state: It was January, and it was raining, and it was in Albany. Enough said.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 - 5:22 pm
Recipe for New York State politics:
1. Take a rural county where almost a fifth of residents are under the poverty line.
2. Extract from it the nation's second-highest tax burden, preferably with a citrus reamer.
3. Stuff with massive prisons. Re-inject... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 - 12:36 pm
The Chronogram's Nina Shengold had a terrific profile recently of local writer Shalom Auslander, author of Foreskin's Lament and a frequent NPR contributor. In it, Auslander--who is screamingly hilarious, in that way that comes only from having endured... Read more
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