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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 12:21 pm
Coyotes. You've got questions. They've got answers.
On March 4, SUNY Ulster and the Catskill Institute for the Environment are hosting a talk on coyote ecology, featuring a panel of local scientists.
The panel will include Dr. Roland Kays, Curator of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 10:48 am
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development named its new executive director at their meeting last week. Here's the press release: Catskill Center for Conservation and Development appoints Alan White executive director
White was... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 8:36 pm
Capital Region enviroblogger, truck driver and all-around mountain man Andy Arthur climbed Hunter Mountain yesterday--and came back down with some marvelous photos. Above: The Hunter fire tower looking like something out of an Ingmar Bergman film.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 1:09 pm
The headline department is having a little too much fun over at the Legislative Gazette today: Pulled pathologist program prompts push for public-private partnerships.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 10:09 am
The Daily Star reports that the site of a fatal accident in Davenport last week, in which a tractor-trailer ran off Route 23 and into a house, has been the scene of other crashes as well.
[Charles] Harford was driving east on Route 23 at about 5 a.m. when... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 11:38 pm
A small-town Texas mayor from deep in gas country has been making the rounds of several upstate counties this week, warning rural New Yorkers about the toll horizontal gas drilling could take on their towns. The mayor made a push for heavy regulation,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Galvanized by the mugging of a neighbor, a Kingston resident is organizing a community crime watch. The group held its first meeting today.
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 10:22 pm
Ulster Common Sense blogger Jeremiah snaps a picture of a horse tied to a parking meter outside Rosita's in Kingston.
This does raise a lot of questions. 1) Does the owner have to pay the same amount at the meter? 2) If the owner has a couple of drinks,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 9:56 pm
Developer Dean Gitter presented a revised plan for the Highmount resort to the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce this week. The Times-Union reports that the new design calls for fewer units.
"Crossroads' proposals have been literally all over the place,"... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 5:57 pm
Reuters has been doing a great job lately of following the debate over natural gas drilling in New York State. Their latest article takes a look at the growing problem of disposing of frack water, which is too salty and contaminant-laden for most... Read more
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