Detail from cover of the November 17, 2011 issue of the New Paltz Oracle, a newspaper run by student journalists at SUNY New Paltz.

For the last two weeks, the SUNY New Paltz community has been embroiled in controversy over a series of racist incidents on campus. Several offensive signs targeting black people have been found on campus, including a sticker bearing the words "Colored Only" on a water fountain, and a scrawl on a poster declaring "Lynch N-----s"* in an elevator.

Since the first sign was found on November 8, the incident has become local and national news, making headlines in the Times Herald-Record, New York Daily News, and the Huffington Post.

The Delaware River Basin Commission, a multi-state and federal agency that governs water use in the Delaware River Basin, has abruptly cancelled a meeting at which commissioners were expected to vote on new gas drilling regulations.

A notice posted on the DRBC website today is short on details:

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) today announced that the special meeting scheduled for Nov. 21 to consider draft natural gas development regulations has been postponed to allow additional time for review by the five commission members.

No additional information is available at this time.

But the move comes as no surprise to analysts who've been watching the DRBC closely. Public opposition to the new regulations by two of DRBC's member states had reporters and gas drilling stakeholders wondering if the agency would put off the vote.

A decaying bathroom at former Borscht Belt jewel Grossingers. Photo taken in 2008 by Jonathan Haeber; published under Creative Commons license.

Dean Gitter, the developer whose Crossroads Ventures has spent over a decade trying to build a luxury resort on Belleayre Mountain, has a new plan for the Catskills: A $5 million marketing campaign to polish up the region's image downstate.

At a breakfast meeting of the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce yesterday morning, the Daily Freeman reports, Gitter minced no words in describing downstate attitudes about the Catskills:

On Monday afternoon, Windham-based radio station WRIP 97.9 began broadcasting in the Stamford area, thanks to a new translator that picks up WRIP's signal and re-broadcasts it on 104.5 FM.

WRIP's Joe Loverro told the Watershed Post that staffers at the station have been looking forward to expanding into new territory.

"It's been in the works for some time," he said. "We've been looking forward to this. We were marginal in Stamford, but now we have a good strong signal there."

Loverro said that the signal seems to be broadcasting better to the west and south. The mountains in the region interfere with radio signals, which makes it challenging for a station to serve a large territory.

"Especially for FM signals, the mountains can really shade a signal," he said. "We have to have a simultaneous transmitter on Hunter Mountain, because between Windam and Hunter there was a mountain that impeded our signal."