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By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Not bad for a tiny little town that wants to revitalize its movie theater. From an email that the Collective sent out this morning:
We did it! Out of 362 projects across the United States competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant, the Rosendale... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 2:04 pm
In the Wall Street Journal today: a sharp look at the process of cementing oil wells in offshore drilling operations. Some experts think that faulty cementing could be behind the recent BP disaster that killed 11 and is spilling 5,000 barrels of oil a day... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Local officials in Greene County are mounting an effort to get the DEC to reconsider their decision to close the Devil's Tombstone campground. From the Windham Journal:
The campground, located amidst Route 214’s Stony Clove, has been slated for closure... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:48 pm
Normally the month of April, or “mud season,” as it is affectionately known, is relatively quiet in the high peaks region. The ski centers close down, many of the restaurant owners and innkeepers shut their doors for a few weeks to seek out warmer and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 7:16 pm
Sustainable Esopus dishes up some recent data from the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, and concludes that Esopus's dismal recycling rate (18.7 percent, compared to a 40.7 percent recycling rate across the county) is costing it serious taxpayer... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:54 pm
This week, the Obama administration issued a 47-page report on the American rural economy, with recommendations for policies aimed at giving a boost to small business, infrastructure, agriculture and overall quality of life in rural areas. The Daily... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:40 pm
Call it builder's remorse. Many years ago, the town of Ashland hopelessly contaminated its underground water supply, and the town's few hundred residents have been paying the price ever since. At last, relief is in sight, though it's going to be expensive... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:01 pm
This just in from the DEP: The agency that polices New York City's upstate watershed will open 12,000 acres of city-owned watershed land to recreation. A total of 71,000 DEP-owned acres in the New York City watershed are now open to the public, according... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Fifty grand from the Watershed Agricultural Council (via its Pure Catskills program) and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is going to 15 local businesses to fund things like local soup at Good Cheap Food in Delhi and livestock processing at... Read more
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