Categories

Our Sponsors


Brown Ink
Commercial Printing
600 Horsepound Road, Kent Lakes, NY 10512
(845) 225-0177
Greg Brown


TaconicArts.com

Interior/Exterior House Painting by someone you can trust. (845) 225-2104 jeff@taconicarts.com House


Joe Greico's
Out On A Limb
All types of tree work, all aspects of lawn maintenance, snow plowing, lot clearing, excavation, retaining walls, stump grinding.
82 Hortontown Rd.
Kent Cliffs, NY 10512
greico@verizon.net
T- (914)224-3049
F- (845)231-0815


Chuckie Goodnight Foundation
To educate children on how to be good stewards of the earth.


Chris Casaburi
Photographer
(845) 531-2358


Town of Kent Conservation Advisory Committee

Explore the outdoors in the Town of Kent, New York


One Click ButterCutter

A Putnam County Owned Business Enterprise

ButterCutter


Politifact

Activist Calendar

Video from Beck’s Rally – You must watch this!

“I’ve never heard him [Beck] be disrespectful to the President…” . . . → Read More: Video from Beck’s Rally – You must watch this!

  • Share/Bookmark

Welcome to News That Matters

If I were a better writer and could match the skills of even the most middling of authors, life in Putnam County, New York would make quite excellent reading. But so few publishers would believe what I had written as genuine they’d have to place my book in the fiction section of bookstores and the fantasy section of libraries. But I can assure you that what we experience here as residents is real and genuine even though it reads – and too often feels – as if we’re living in a 1950’s Central American Banana Republic. In only a very few other places around the world, perhaps in one of those central Asian “stans” no one can pronounce, could we write about the depths of malfeasance that passes for government in our bucolic 240 square miles. If Voltaire or Shalom Aleichem were alive today even they could not have surpassed the fantastical mysteries and ironies that abound in our every day lives. . . . → Read More: Welcome to News That Matters

  • Share/Bookmark

News That Matters – Monday, August 30, 2010

Glen Beck held Whitestock this weekend on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and near 87,000 came out to rock and roll, drop acid and splash naked in the Reflecting Pool and chill in a thai-stick haze under a glorious sun. Now I’m sorry I didn’t go. The sight of 87,000 pudgy, pasty white people all stoned out of their gourds should not have been missed. . . . → Read More: News That Matters – Monday, August 30, 2010

  • Share/Bookmark

News That Matters – Wednesday, September 1, 2010

“These are the marks of a great society, not the flag-waving jingoism of thousands of people on the Mall in Washington, D.C. bemoaning a nation that never was and desiring a nation that was never meant to be.” . . . → Read More: News That Matters – Wednesday, September 1, 2010

  • Share/Bookmark

"Put the Lid on the Cup, Things are Really Looking Up"

I discovered some Wendy’s training videos from the 90′s, detailing for new employees how to serve hot and cold drinks.  I had no idea how precise a procedure it was.  Or how awesome.  Thanks, Consumerist. . . . → Read More: "Put the Lid on the Cup, Things are Really Looking Up"

  • Share/Bookmark

Tools for Transparency: Google Fusion Tables

Just look at any one of Sunlight’s projects and you’ll realize that it takes a mountain of data to help keep government open and transparent.  From district information to campaign expenditures to lobbying dollars, making sense of large data sets is an intensive, concerted effort. Many of your own projects use dozens of spreadsheets, take [...] . . . → Read More: Tools for Transparency: Google Fusion Tables

  • Share/Bookmark

Reduce Your Water Bill with a Rain Barrel

If you are not ready to install a green roof yet, you can accomplish much the same thing by directing water from your roof into a rain barrel.The main goal is to reduce the amount of storm water that runs off your property and into an overburdened sewe… . . . → Read More: Reduce Your Water Bill with a Rain Barrel

  • Share/Bookmark

Hiking in Ferris Lake Wild Forest to Good Luck Lake

Hiking in Ferris Lake Wild Forest to Good Luck Lake Filed under: Adirondacks, Hiking . . . → Read More: Hiking in Ferris Lake Wild Forest to Good Luck Lake

  • Share/Bookmark

Bash Bish Falls/Sunset Rock/Prospect Hill – slideshow

Hiking in Bash Bish State Park, MA and Taconic State Park, NY Filed under: Hiking, Waterfalls Tagged: Bash Bish State Park, Taconic State Park . . . → Read More: Bash Bish Falls/Sunset Rock/Prospect Hill – slideshow

  • Share/Bookmark

Rochester’s Bike Master Plan—It’s Not Just for Cyclists

Click here to read: Rochester’s Bike Master Plan—It’s Not Just for Cyclists To explore many of Rochester’s bike trails, pick up a copy of “Take Your Bike – Family Rides in the Rochester Area.” Filed under: Biking, Rocheste… . . . → Read More: Rochester’s Bike Master Plan—It’s Not Just for Cyclists

  • Share/Bookmark