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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 2:25 pm
This just in from the CWC: Boiceville's wastewater treatment plant project, a feat of engineering two years in the making, is finished. The plant went online last summer, and on January 7, the last hookup pipe connecting the new plant to a Boiceville home... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 1:12 pm
Read about 2010 Karl Connell Award recipient Jack McShane, Terra Madre, a riparian planting at Hilltop Hanover Farm, and answers to commonly asked questions in the Winter 2010 issue of Watershed Farm & Forest, a semi-annual print publication of the... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 12:48 pm
WALTON, NY -- The Watershed Agricultural Council, with funding from New York City Environmental Protection, recently awarded $3,500 through the Pure Catskills Education Scholarship Program to nine regional farmers to attend various workshops, seminars and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 10:10 am
The intrepid snow diviners at Plattekill Mountain stuck a ruler in the ground at 7:30am this morning to find over 7 inches of snow. (See image above, via the Plattekill Facebook page.) And it's still coming down.
For more ski mountain snow photos, check... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 9:47 am
More details are emerging about Ulster County's threat to sue the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over its releases of turbid water into the Lower Esopus.
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports that County Executive Mike Hein... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 6:24 pm
From the Times Herald-Record:
State Sen. John Bonacic has been named chairman of two powerful Senate committees.
Bonacic, R-C-Mount Hope, will head the Senate’s Racing, Wagering and Gaming Committee and also the Judiciary Committee, his office announced... Read more
By jjefferson on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 5:59 pm
"The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
Sweet vintage and rusty metal--If a store could be a poem, Country Weekend... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 5:43 pm
The National Weather Service has issued a storm warning for Sullivan and Delaware Counties. From NY-Alert:
..Winter Storm Warning In Effect From 7 PM This Evening To 7 PM EST Wednesday... The National Weather Service In Binghamton Has Issued A Winter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 5:31 pm
The Times Herald-Record has an exclusive: Ulster County Executive Mike Hein has announced that the county is suing New York City over its release of muddy water from the Ashokan reservoir into the Lower Esopus River. From the story, which broke around 5pm... Read more
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