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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 - 2:19 pm
At noon today, about 50 anti-gas-driling protesters hauled signs to the lawn in front of the Region 3 office of the New York Deparment of Environmental Conservation to call for a fracking moratorium. One of the speakers was New Paltz Central School... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 - 10:37 am
The DRBC has put a stop to all Marcellus shale gas drilling throughout the Delaware River Basin, the AP reports:
The move temporarily halts all Marcellus drilling in the Delaware basin. The commission last month declared a moratorium on new shale drilling... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 11:26 pm
Stymied by conflicting state laws on drug disposal, hospitals and nursing homes in the New York City watershed are stockpiling a growing stash of narcotics that they have no legal way to get rid of.
In January, an investigation by Attorney General Andrew... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 9:34 pm
The New York legislature has passed the budget extender in time to avoid a government shutdown, with mere hours to spare. Michael Kink, Democratic policy advisor to the state Senate, tweeted a few minutes ago::
the Assembly has now voted for the budget... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 5:13 pm
... and it's getting weird. Kaitlyn Ross, a reporter for Capitol Tonight, tweeted about this strange scene in the Senate chambers a few minutes ago:
Senators just came back into chambers- said Happy Birthday to Senator Bonacic... recessed... WHAT?!
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 3:18 pm
"Fireshade": One of Drolma's masks. Photo by Andrew Hanenberg.
Music writer Tony Fletcher chronicles a bonanza of new stores in Phoenicia and concludes that the Ulster County village is "phriving."
The new digs include a cafe and market called Mama's Boy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 2:47 pm
Livingston Manor is celebrating this week, freelance sports reporter Richard Ross writes:
I can’t even imagine the rapture and pride being felt by the ladies of the Livingston Manor softball team as their eyes fly open this morning to the realization... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 9:24 am
The short answer: probably. Another budget-extending bill is up for a vote today at noon in the state Senate, and last-minute weekend manuevering seemed to point in the direction of passing it, according to the Times-Union. If the bill fails today,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 9:03 am
The Daily Freeman talks to a Phoenicia-based fishing tackle company which has lost big time because of the oil spill:
Owner Scott Greenberg said the full impact on his business, from sales to fishing in the five-state Gulf Coast region, won’t been known... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jun. 12, 2010 - 12:05 pm
Every June, Josephine and Lea Moffett, the mother-daughter proprietors of Catskill Maison, pack up their bags and make the migration from New York City to Jefferson, in Schoharie County. Lea, who's also the voice behind Foodie on the Hudson, says she's... Read more
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