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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 10:49 am
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is resorting to a subpoena to get engineering firm Halliburton to reveal its secret recipe for hydraulic fracturing, multiple news agencies are reporting this morning. The order is part of the EPA's effort to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 9:22 am
To all veterans from the Catskill Mountains, living and dead: A deep and heartfelt thank you.
Looking for information on Veteran's Day celebrations around the region? A few links for you:
-The Times Herald-Record has a special section today, with listings... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Bat skull and remains in a site affected by White-Nose Syndrome. Photo by Ann Froschauer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The bad news about bats just keeps getting worse. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 2:05 pm
A missing person alert for Alice Hall, an 83-year-old woman from Franklin, was issued this morning but then quickly cancelled when she turned up at home safely.
Hall's family reported Hall missing after she was last seen asking for directions to Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Phil Brown, who pens the Adirondack Dispatches blog for the Times Union, had a great post on Monday about two accomplished "ski mountaineers," Mike Whelan and Ron Konowitz, who have teamed up to make a mini-documentary about skiing down Slide Mountain:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 9:08 am
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:15 pm
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