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Apr. 29, 2010
Call it builder's remorse. Many years ago, the town of Ashland hopelessly contaminated its underground water supply, and the town's few hundred residents have been paying the price ever since. At last, relief is in sight, though it's going to be... Read more
Apr. 29, 2010
This just in from the DEP: The agency that polices New York City's upstate watershed will open 12,000 acres of city-owned watershed land to recreation. A total of 71,000 DEP-owned acres in the New York City watershed are now open to the public, according... Read more
Apr. 29, 2010
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
Apr. 29, 2010
Fifty grand from the Watershed Agricultural Council (via its Pure Catskills program) and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is going to 15 local businesses to fund things like local soup at Good Cheap Food in Delhi and livestock processing... Read more
Apr. 28, 2010
Reactions to the DEC's announcement last week are still ricocheting around the watershed. The Daily Freeman published an editorial today that endorsed the new regs, WAMC ran a long radio piece on Monday about the issue, and the directors of Schoharie... Read more
Apr. 28, 2010
After a year of operating out of a school building a few blocks away, the Greene County Courthouse in Catskill is finally re-opened for business, reports the Daily Mail.
Apr. 28, 2010
The Times-Journal, a weekly based in Cobleskill that covers Schoharie County, has had some trepidations about Facebook:
Usually, we like to think we know what we’re doing at the Times-Journal. And almost never, with the exception of editorials and... Read more
Apr. 28, 2010
Herman Gottfried, a lawyer who fought New York City on behalf of residents of the drowned towns that now lie beneath the waters of the Pepacton and Cannonsville reservoirs, died on April 24 at the age of 99.
Local historian Diane Galusha (author of... Read more
Apr. 27, 2010
Aspiring locavore Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently ditched Dannon in an effort to eat closer to home. Lucky for him, there's Tonjes Farm yogurt from Callicoon, made within 25 miles of his house.
Apr. 27, 2010
An incisive editorial from the Times Herald-Record about why the DEC's Friday decision to make it tough for gas drilling in NYC's watershed means that drilling elsewhere in New York state is now inevitable:
The city, with all its lawyers, money and clout... Read more
Apr. 27, 2010
A medical provider that left its Monticello office months ago apparently didn't have time to follow those pesky patient privacy laws before it departed, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lydia Truglio-Chavdarova, who works at a nearby RadioShack,... Read more
Apr. 26, 2010
Thanks in part to a push from the Daily Freeman, the web service SeeClickFix is getting a lot of use in Kingston lately. The Freeman lists activity from a day in the life of the service, from complaints about potholes to barely-veiled calls for vigilante... Read more
Apr. 26, 2010
As if you hadn't heard enough from the DEC this week, the Times Union ran an interview today with Wallace "Wally" John, the special assistant for natural resources to Pete Grannis and a West Shokan resident. No mention of, oh, gas drilling in the... Read more
Apr. 26, 2010
Gas prices in New York really did jump by 5.4 cents last week. For no real reason, since the national average has stayed flat, according to the Daily Freeman.
Apr. 25, 2010
Anna and Robert Dioguardi of Catskill Retreat are looking for some enterprising caprines to help keep their lawn under control.
Naturally, there's a Goat Rental directory on the Internet. Alas, it has no New York State listings. Surely it's only a matter... Read more
Apr. 25, 2010
Catskill High School and Middle School went on lockdown on Thursday after the superintendent heard what she thought was a gunshot. Turns out it was actually a tree limb crashing, she later told the Daily Freeman:
The schools immediately went into lock-... Read more
Apr. 25, 2010
Despite a statewide burn ban that prohibits any burning of brush until May 14, town fire departments are still allowed to burn brush as part of their training exercises. But towns looking to kill two birds with one stone by having the fire department... Read more
Apr. 24, 2010
Richard Reeve, the head of the Family Foundation and a Catskills blogger in his own right, caught this shot of a ruined castle on the Hudson this week. It's near Beacon, on the eastern shore of the river, so not quite the Catskills, but we couldn't... Read more
Apr. 24, 2010
For folks in search of sources for raw cow and goat milk, Pure Catskills helpfully posts a list of local farms.
Photo of raw milk being skimmed by Flickr user Chiot's Run. Posted under a Creative Commons license.
Apr. 23, 2010
The DEC's announcement that it will make gas drilling in NYC's watershed extremely difficult drew a statement from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg this afternoon:
The portions of the Marcellus Shale where the City’s watershed lies must be treated differently... Read more