Show your Meridale fire department colors
Be the coolest kid at next week's Meredith Dairy Fest: buy a vintage Meridale Fire Department patch on eBay right now for five bucks.
Oorah's BoyZone can build in Jefferson, judge rules
Embattled Oorah, Inc., a Jewish organization that runs a summer camp for girls in Gilboa, won a court battle against the town of Jefferson yesterday. The ruling will allow Oorah to go forward with building a matching summer camp for boys on the grounds of the former Scotch Valley ski resort. From the Mountain Eagle:
Judge Devine essentially found the building permits issued to Oorah Resorts LLC on May 13 were valid, rendering the town’s case moot. The initial permits were issued by Michael Schwarzkopf, Code Enforcement Officer and Building Inspector for the town of Jefferson. The town then hired an engineer to review the work at BoyZone.
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Verizon outage costs Ulster businesses Memorial Day dollars
But if you're a business in Plattekill or Wallkill, you don't have the option of canceling your service, because Verizon is the only provider in town.
From the Times Herald-Record:
K&J's owner, Joshua Filangeri, had already been hit hard by the recession. To make matters worse, for the first two days of the outage, Verizon did not forward K&J's phone calls to his cell phone. Filangeri was worried that if the outage continued, he might have to shut his doors. He said he lost about $1,000 worth of business because his customers couldn't reach him.
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The Delaware is named #1 most endangered river in US
American Rivers, a conservation group, put the Upper Delaware on the top of its annual "Endangered Rivers" report today because of pending gas drilling in the watershed. Ramsay Adams, the director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, responded to the news at a press conference:
Today, right now, is the moment when we get to decide whether we will be 'reasonable' and let the overwhelming momentum carry us and as a result lose the Delaware or say 'No, we won't let this happen' and begin the long hard fight that we know can be won.
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Preserving green space might foster Lyme disease
On Sunday, the Daily Freeman delivered a probing look at Lyme disease, prompted by the story of Saugerties resident Eric Rutulante, who blogs at LymeBites about his 20-year tussle with the illness's various nasty manifestations. One of the revelations in the article is that human efforts to conserve green spaces might actually be making Lyme disease more prevalent:
Ostfeld said research has led to the discovery that planning techniques adopted to help encourage open space may inadvertently be playing a significant role in the spread of Lyme and other tick-borne disease ... “Inadvertently, some of our development arrangements are bad for our health, at least with respect to Lyme disease,” he said.
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It was OK when it left our backyard
New York City's unfiltered drinking water may be the finest in the world, but it's still not a good idea to mix it with propylene glycol before giving it to schoolkids.
About 80 children at Public School 20, an elementary school in Flushing, Queens, became ill Tuesday afternoon, apparently after drinking from water fountains that were contaminated by an air-conditioning chemical, the Department of Education said.
Whoops.
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GOP picks Lazio for governor's race
Sayonara, Steve.
The New York Times reports from the Republican convention in NYC:
Minutes after the vote, Mr. Levy appeared outside a hotel ballroom. As he addressed reporters he was defiant, saying he could not yet support Mr. Lazio because he was still weighing running on a third-party line, possibly as a Tea Party or Taxpayers Party candidate. But his usually [sic] peppiness was visibly muted.
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Kingston bear not a caffeine addict
The bear that wandered around Kingston yesterday morning had encounters with several passersby and a "small dog" that chased it into a tree, according to the Daily Freeman. But it didn't help itself to a cup of coffee.
The Freeman story says that one Kingston resident, Rich Fox, "saw the bear again as he was drinking coffee on his back porch."
This phrasing perplexed a commenter calling himself "Paul the poet":
This sounds funny to me--a fox sees a bear drinking coffee on his back porch--I know who was on the porch but for one ambiguous moment I got a chuckle out of the wording. Is it a revised version like the one that‘s about pandas—eats shoots and leaves? ... I certainly hope the bear wasn’t looking for a decently priced cup of coffee and he takes it black if he does drink it. "
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ATVs take a toll on the Liberty Rail Trail
The Liberty Indy bemoans the mighty ruts left behind by local dirt warriors:
For over 4-years we worked hard, hundreds of volunteer hours, thousands of dollars, endless campaigning, all to get this trail opened - and in 30 seconds it all gets thrown out the window because you have to show off for your buddy.
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Brooklynites open an art gallery on the Rondout
Remember Janet Hicks and Eddie Mullins? Last year, the New York Times wrote the thirtysomething Brooklyn art types into a story about upstate home buyers. (Bonus points to the Times for the title: The New Country Squires.)
Not content to sit around admiring their view of the Rondout, Hicks and Mullins recently opened the One Mile Gallery in their three-story Kingston brick house. Kingston Happenings reports:
They plan to show both local and New York City-based artists. [Sculptor Josh] Vogel, a resident of Highland, makes drawings and physically imposing sculptures whose sensuousness is heightened by their “woodsy aroma,” according to Hicks. The August show will feature acrylic oceanscapes, followed by an exhibit featuring “the world’s most successful canine artist, Tillamook Cheddar,” which opens Labor Day weekend. “The dog does amazing work,” said Hicks. “Her process for creating the art is really a treat to watch.”
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