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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 12:59 pm
February's not going to go out without a fight. There's more snow on the way--and the Ulster County Red Cross is reporting that as many as 31% of homes in the county are without power. From Twitter:
@ulsterredcross We've opened a shelter at the Kerhonkson... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Congressman Maurice Hinchey's bill would fund a study on whether the Hudson Valley should be made part of the national parks system. Here's the OpenCongress page for the bill.
The House Natural Resources Committee is voting today on whether to advance H.R... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 10:18 am
The letter below is from Calvin Tillman, mayor of DISH, Texas. Tillman has been touring New York and Pennsylvania talking about the problems his small town has been having with natural gas drilling.
My new friends in the Marcellus,
As I return from almost... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 9:53 am
The New York Times's Property Values real estate column features a house in Woodstock today: a converted 1861 church on the market for $879,000.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 10:35 pm
DEC biologist Carl Herzog is speaking at SUNY New Paltz on Thursday about the great American bat die-off. From the Hudson Valley Geologist:
If you don't know, bats have been dying off in record numbers locally (and throughout the northeast) from a fungal... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 7:31 pm
The New York legislature passed a bill today expanding net metering for renewable energy systems.
Translation: If you're generating your own electricity, you can sell it to the electric company. The law previously allowed net metering, but made it... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 3:11 pm
On eBay: A 1956 clipping from Coronet magazine, with a long article about Catskills violinmaker Harry Stoughtenburgh.
50-plus years later, this probably still holds true:
In Ulster County, boys aren't encouraged to be luthiers.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 2:59 pm
State senator John Bonacic is stirring populist ire against the MTA payroll tax.
"The MTA is virtually useless to the overwhelming number of Orange County residents, and the MTA tax amounts to taxation without transportation," said Bonacic, whose... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 1:13 pm
Dean Sparks wants to get upstate food on downstate plates. The Central New York food distributor, who's behind regional milk coop Nymilk, is using social media to connect with farmers and eaters. The ultimate goal: Building a distribution system to funnel... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 12:41 pm
It's been the worst year for dairy farmers in memory--a year of catastrophic prices in which many farmers went deep in debt just to stay in business. Will 2010 bring any relief?
Maybe so. Prices are picking up. And New York's dairy outlook is brighter... Read more
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