Market Market Cafe in Rosendale goes the extra mile for Sari Botton, who can't eat regular bread.
Today, I had a toasted, buttered slice with my soup and salad. I felt like standing up and showing everybody, “Look! I have toast!” (You’d probably have to have celiac or some other condition that requires you to eat gluten-free in order to appreciate that feeling.)
Seriously. They have a whole section called "HDYGTFAJ?"
Hotelier (er, motelier?) Greg Henderson breaks it down for Ready Made editor Katherine Sharpe:
I guess you could say that we’re re-creating the fantasies of our childhood. I always wanted to live in the bottle from I Dream of Jeannie, so I grew up and built my own bottle.
The pictures of The Roxbury are pretty shagadelic, too. Can't wait to see what the new extension they're currently building is going to look like.
The Kingston nursing home's hot water system is contaminated with bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease. County officials aren't sure if they can fix it.
But in the interim, the county and state say it’s a safe place to live. Just ask Beckman: “My own mom resides there and I haven’t had a concern about her at all,” Beckman told legislators Thursday night.
RFK Jr.'s in West VA right now, debating Don Blankenship on coal, mountaintop removal and the future of American energy. Watch it live here, or follow on Twitter by searching for #coaldebate.
Bad news for Texas: A lot more burritos full of Hudson River gloop are coming your way. According to an EPA survey, the river is even more polluted with PCBs than the agency thought it was.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office just released a statement on a settlement with Lafarge. The cementmaker, one of the nation's largest, owns plants around the state. Lafarge has come under fire for its relatively high levels of mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide pollution, which contribute to respiratory disease, acid rain and high levels of toxins in fish and wildlife locally. Under the settlement, Lafarge will have to modernize its Ravena plant, cut emissions and pay a $5 million penalty.
Under today’s settlement, Lafarge will eliminate a total of over 9,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 26,000 tons of sulfur dioxide each year
from its plants, including those in upwind states whose pollution impacts New York.
Background: Erin Brockovich (yep, that Erin Brockovich!) visited Ravena last year to talk about Lafarge, and Capitol region enviroblogger Andy Arthur blogged it.
Ask not on whom the budget axe falls; it falls on thee. Paterson's proposed budget contains deep cuts across the board, and it's drawing howls of protest from affected agencies. The Times-Union has a roundup.
State Senator John Bonacic, whose district includes Delaware, Sullivan and most of Ulster counties, is unhappy with the school aid cuts.
I am concerned that while the Governor is proposing to cut school aid statewide by 5%, many Hudson Valley Districts would lose considerably more. The biggest loser may be a hit TV show, but I do not want it applying to school aid in my communities and will fight to make the budget fairer. For example, Goshen, Pine Bush, Highland Falls, Andes, Delhi, and Downsville would all see aid reductions of more than 10% under the Governor’s plan.
Ulla Kjarval, whose family runs Meredith's Spring Lake Farm, has a great editorial on the Civil Eats blog today. The topic: a proposed 72,000-cow CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in New York State that if built, she writes, would be the largest animal operation east of the Mississippi.
Our family opposes the proposed CAFO for many reasons, some of which include animal welfare, a possible decrease in the allure of local New York state Beef, and the fact that we encounter many issues of inadequate infrastructure, such as long waits for slaughter spots for our cattle and lambs. We also pay high taxes and get very little back in the way of help from the state. In fact, sometimes we feel as if the state is trying to put us out of business.
Both friends and foes of natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in New York plan to rally at the Capitol building in Albany next Monday.
Catskill Mountainkeeper, Environmental Advocates of New York and other anti-drilling groups are organizing buses from across the state. More info here.
Pro-drilling landowners are also planning to turn out. From the Chenango County Evening Sun:
Rumors of a local land coalition losing out on a $70 million lease because the natural gas company feared drilling would be banned in New York are prompting land owners and other pro-drillers to rally in Albany. “Sign up to rally in Albany or kiss N.Y. natural gas exploration goodbye,” stated Oxford Land Group President Bryant Latourette in a press release issued last night.
Travel and Leisure reviews the Copperhood Spa on Route 28 in Shandaken, where spa-goers can opt for a juice detox program or an all-raw menu.
Recent guest Nina Combs, an NYC-based copy editor, raved about Copperhood's wonderful owner, Elizabeth Winograd, and the juicing plan. "I lost 10 pounds in a week!" she reports.
Personally, my Catskill Mountains weight-loss plan involves a lot of log-splitting. Maybe I should try some kale juice with that?
