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Mar. 1, 2010
Rural towns and outdoorsfolk are up in arms about the Paterson administration's proposal to shutter dozens of state parks--an act that would save the state a few million dollars, a pitiful handful of gravel to toss into the yawning abyss of the state... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
Gov. Paterson directed two state employees to contact the woman who accused his aide David Johnson of assaulting her, the New York Times just reported.
Mar. 1, 2010
NYC ag lawyer Cari Rincker recently helped to start a New York chapter of the American Agri-Women Association. She's looking for other digitally connected women in New York agriculture:
New York Agri-Women now has a Facebook fan page and you can follow... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
Farmers are rallying in the state capital to oppose a farmworkers' labor bill, the subject of a hearing in the Legislature today.
The North Fork Vue, a Long Island online newspaper, recently published an in-depth piece on the controversy over the bill.... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
Fiberglass cats! Board games! Is there nothing the town of Catskill won't try?
Instead of going to jail, as in the original game, players can land in Catskill Town Court.
And the most expensive properties on the board are not Park Place and Boardwalk but... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
Great piece in the Times Herald-Record today on the debate over how New York State should count prisoners. Currently, they're counted where they're imprisoned, not where they're originally from, a practice that artificially inflates upstate districts... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
The gasmen are coming to town. Among the byproducts of the Marcellus Shale natural-gas drilling boom: a flood of legal work that is already well underway a few miles to the south. The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to PA lawyers about the impact Marcellus... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
Wanted: New York State travel editor who knows where Gore Mountain is. According to a state tourism guide, it's in the Catskills.
Spotted by eagle-eyed Times-Union reporter Rick Karlin.
Mar. 1, 2010
The New York Times continues its excellent "Toxic Waters" series today, with a disturbing revelation: Rulings in recent years by the Supreme Court have left the nation's courts with an increasingly vague definition of which waterways the Clean Water Act... Read more
Mar. 1, 2010
The Chronogram has a profile of the Shandaken hamlet in the latest issue.
Located off of Route 28 in the town of Shandaken, Phoenicia is just 30 minutes from Kingston and seemingly chiseled into a mountainside, just minutes away from skiing at Hunter and... Read more
Feb. 28, 2010
Does every county in upstate New York really need its own jail? In Sullivan County, whose jail is falling apart and has been partly shut down by the state, legislators don't think so--and state senator John Bonacic agrees. The senator just introduced... Read more
Feb. 28, 2010
Twelve minutes: That's how long it took seismic waves to travel from the epicenter of the earthquake in Chile to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY.
The Hudson Valley Geologist has the seismogram.
Feb. 28, 2010
Kingston Citizens is urging residents to contact their legislators to spare the historic site from the budget axe.
Feb. 27, 2010
Over at Breathing Is Political, Liz Bucar has an account of a recent Delaware River Basin Commission hearing on proposed gas drilling, in which several Pennsylvania business owners said their plans were on hold because of the uncertainty surrounding... Read more
Feb. 26, 2010
Forget feet--we're now measuring snow depth in babies. That's at least two and a half, there. Photo, "Finnegan Digs Out," by Watershed Post reader Peter Manning.
Feb. 26, 2010
Sullivan County offices are closed today, the Catskill Chronicle reports.
A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for Sullivan County. A Winter Storm Warning for heavy snow means severe winter weather conditions are expected. Significant amounts of snow... Read more
Feb. 26, 2010
A New Zealander and her paramour battle six-foot snowdrifts in their mountain paradise. Somewhere under there, she swears, there's a car.
Mr Weiss grew up in a snowy place, and is calmly going about trying to find where the car is, The Catskill Kiwi... Read more
Feb. 26, 2010
The Boston Globe had a story this week featuring several New York State farmers who sell their grass-fed beef and lamb on the Internet.
With so much buzz about the practices of factory farms, many consumers are looking past the supermarket meat case for... Read more