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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 11:34 am
Do frackers have to get permits to inject diesel fuel into gas wells? The EPA says yes -- a position that's come under industry attack, via a lawsuit that's currently working its way through federal court.
Gas drillers using hydraulic fracturing... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
Two people were killed in a two-car accident on Rte. 23 in Davenport yesterday during the afternoon's sudden heavy snowstorm.
The State Police have released little information about the accident, and the names of the two victims are not known. The police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 4:45 pm
Above, a photo of snow falling in Davenport, from reader Mike Wilkie, via Facebook: "About a 1/2 inch on the ground here in Davenport. It is really coming down now."
This is turning into quite a white-out. The National Weather Service office in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:19 pm
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 12:29 pm
The village of Fleischmanns has won a legal battle over its right to foreclose on a long-shuttered movie theater in the center of town.
On October 21, a five-judge panel of the Third Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 9:26 am
Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently captured photographic evidence of anti-fracking graffiti taggers in Livingston Manor.
Speaking of fracking: An anti-drilling group called Action Otsego is planning a protest this Thursday, near a hydrofractured... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 - 8:21 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Chace-Randall on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 - 3:48 pm
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 3:29 pm
In remarks Wednesday, following an election-day wave of Republican victory that swept the G.O.P. into power in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama offered an olive branch to the new legislators: Support for gas drilling.
The New York... Read more
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