2009 will be remembered for a lot of things but mostly for the overt racism that exploded across the nation with the inauguration of the US's first Black president.
Along with the racism came a resurgence in anti-intellectualism. "Tea Baggers" and "Birthers" don't seem to understand the difference between political philosophies...
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Good Friday Morning,
The weather report was something along the lines of gusty windy, driving rains, falling trees and power lines. Instead, it has gently snowed and snowed enough that I was throwing snowballs last night. It’s still snowing outside this morning.
The Town Board in Kent, in its tentative budget, proposes to give itself a...
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Trail Conference Projects Among 32 in New York to Get Funds for Trails
Posted June 25th, 2009 by Georgette Weir
Date:
2009, June 25
Source:
OPRHP press release
View from Bear Mountain
Above: Trail work with a view. Trail Conference volunteers take a break on the Bear Mountain Trails Project.
Two New York-New Jersey Trail Conference projects are among the 32 trail-related...
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Note: Congressman John Hall is NOT a Co-sponsor. We need to get him to sign on.
From the American Hiking Society:
This summer, as hiking season swings into full gear, American Hiking Society urges you to use this page to contact your Representative and encourage them to support HR 1912, the “Complete America’s Great Trails Act,”...
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While I was driving down Peekskill Hollow Road yesterday (Thursday) I saw the most wonderful thing: at home after home signs have sprouted calling for the protection of that road from a threatened "improvement" which would ruin the look and feel of Putnam's most exurban byway and alter forever the lives of those who...
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BusinessWeek reports that one of the biggest problems of the current recessionary cycle is the abundance of unoccupied commercial space. One San Francisco based commercial real estate firm reports a 16% increase in commercial listings. In Elk Grove, a 107 acre mall site, which was highly touted for years as an economic engine, sits...
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Well now, Patterson Crossing is back in the news, at least if you were at the Planning Board meeting in Kent last evening. Whew. I'm happy I'm not Insite Engineering or Paul Camarda right about now! It's no longer an issue of crossing t's and dotting i's at this point, it's about stormwater and...
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