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Rental unit occupancy rates are down as are rents as fewer are able to afford the high cost of local residency. Brewster has so many apartments for rent they don’t know what to do and the homeless population is rising across the nation as people are forced out of their homes and apartments for their inability to cover their monthly payments. The national suicide rate has also steadily increased as people find themselves buried under a growing mountain of debt – not from credit cards mind you, but from the day-to-day bills that can no longer being met and who see no light at the end of the tunnel. [...]
Conservation easement acquired for Red Hook farm
RED HOOK – Environmental organization Scenic Hudson has protected the largest agricultural property in its history of farmland preservation, acquiring a conservation easement that extinguishes development rights to the 378-acre McKeon Farm in the Town of Red Hook.
The transaction guarantees the land will continue contributing to Red Hook’s economy while preserving the town’s rural, agricultural character.
Scenic Hudson Land Conservation Director Seth McKee said the land easement program is a win-win.
“It’s a completely voluntary agreement where landowners commit their lands in perpetuity, which transcends whatever changes in local zoning,” he said. “It is a bulwark against suburban sprawl pressures, which while they have abated somewhat, the long-term development potential of northern Dutchess county is very high, so it prevents the undermining of one of the mainstays of our rural economy in the Hudson Valley, which is agriculture.”
The McKeon Farm includes picturesque pastures and hay fields, which support grass-fed beef cattle, a horse boarding and training operation, goats, chickens and an orchard. More than half of the land’s soils are designated USDA Prime Farmland or of Statewide Significance. By clearing considerable overgrowth, owners Robert and Elisabeth McKeon have restored many [...]
Tom Andersen is the director of communications and special projects at the Westchester Land Trust. The countywide organization based in Bedford Hills works with private property owners and communities to protect open land and create new parks. It preserved more than 400 acres in 2009.
Q: A lot of what the Westchester Land Trust does is easements as opposed to outright purchases. Explain the difference.
A: A conservation easement is essentially a contract between a private landowner, who agrees to give up most or all of his right to develop his property, and us. Our part of the bargain is we agree to document the environmental values that are being protected. In exchange for that, the IRS offers the landowner fairly generous income tax deductions.
Q: What were some of your big accomplishments last year?
via Westchester Land Trust protects open space in tough times | LoHud.com | The Journal News.
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Pa. steel town hopes to make green comeback
VANDERGRIFT, Pa. (AP) — Imagine: It's 1895. A steel baron hires New York's Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted to build a town in western Pennsylvania where mill workers can live, work and play. By the turn of the century, Vandergrift's rounded buildings and roads flow along the contours of the Kiskiminetas River.
Reality: Much of what's left of that town is in the imagination.
So 114 years later, Vandergrift residents — from Baby Boomers who grew up during the town's heyday to students as young as their grandchildren — are reviving Olmsted's vision and making the community environmentally sustainable for the 21st century and beyond.
Their goal is to attract people to live or shop in the boutiques of the quaint town of just 5,000 people — which lost residents, jobs and allure along with steel.
From bringing back green spaces paved for parking to seeking how to harness electrical energy from river, Vandergrift is investing millions toward environmentally sustainable revitalization — a concept gaining popularity in Rust Belt towns.
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This evening at 6PM in Judge Spofford’s courtroom in Carmel, Lori Kemp will once again be called to answer a charge against a man she directly ordered to leave her property. The man “fell” and allegedly hurt himself so bad that he would not go through the hassle of filing charges against her. But the cop on the scene (there was a cop on the scene?) decided that he would instead and the case moves forward from there. [...]
Good Monday Morning,
Arts on the Lake held a golf outing and fundraiser at Sedgewood last Friday and it was a wonderful event. About 100 people gathered at a private home at the club and pretty much anyone who was anyone was there. There was a good showing by members of the Kent PD, Supervisor Doherty was there. Other residents of the Sedgewood club and local residents also came out. Thanks go to Liz Allison and Ellen Leerburger for manning the reception table, to Midhat Serbagi, Michelle LeBlanc, Pat Cummings, Bob Bradley’s Barbershop Quartet and Lora Lee Ecobelli for providing the atmosphere and to the residents who opened their home and to everyone who attended and especially to Arts on the Lake for being, well, Arts on the Lake!
Walkway Over The Hudson After the fundraiser at Sedgewood I ran up to Waryas park in Poughkeepsie to attend opening ceremonies for New York’s newest – and most unique – State Park, Walkway Over the Hudson. The event was part of the ongoing celebration of the Hudson River and served as the Main Event for the Quadricentennial itself.
Reconstruction of the High Bridge and its rebirth as one [...]
Walkway designated a National Recreation Trail
WASHINGTON, DC –The Walkway Over the Hudson is now as a National Recreation Trail. In response to a request from Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he was approving the National Park Service’s recommendation and making the scenic pedestrian overpass, which spans the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to Highland and once served as a railroad bridge, part of the national trail system.
“This designation literally puts the Walkway Over the Hudson on the national map where it will receive the recognition it deserves for providing Hudson Valley residents and visitors with extraordinary recreational opportunities along with beautiful views of the Hudson River,” Hinchey said. “With the public opening of the Walkway Over the Hudson less than three weeks away, the timing for a National Recreation Trail designation couldn’t be better. I’m grateful for Secretary Salazar’s support of this project and am looking forward to the upcoming opening celebration.”
The overpass, which opens to the public on October 3, will play a central role in the quadricentennial celebration of Henry Hudson’s exploration of the river that now bears his name. Once completed, the bridge will become the world’s longest bicycle-pedestrian [...]
A tall drink of water: Congress primes pump for conservation program in Northeast
Posted by Christopher Lancette on September 1, 2009 – 3:54pm
Good news travels quickly — and sometimes even hitches a ride on the currents of creeks and rivers. Moments after a Pennsylvania congressman announced last week that Congress is chipping in $700,000 to help conserve a critical watershed in the Keystone state, the ripple effects floated toward the some 25 million people who rely on the Highlands region of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for their drinking water.
“Protecting areas like the Cooks Creek Watershed preserves our natural resources and improves the quality of life for our families,” said Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-PA, who joined environmental leaders and local elected officials in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania for a press conference to herald the project.
The allocation from Congress comes on the heels of a House-passed amendment this summer sponsored by Rep. Scott Garrett, R-NJ, to double the funding for the Highlands Conservation Act, legislation passed in 2004 that recognizes the 3.5 million-acre area as “nationally significant” and authorizes Congress to appropriate $10 million a year to help acquire and protect land within its confines.
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Peter Collins and Maureen Fleming have a few things in common. For one, they’re both qualified attorneys with long standing practices. For another, they’re both running for Town Justice in the Town of Kent in primaries for the Democratic, Independence and Working Families party lines. While a few misanthropic Republican candidates have gone negative even before the primary, others (we do not know their party affiliations) are going negative on Collins and Fleming. In the former case it’s a letter to the Courier about mythical and magical situations which never transpired and passed on as facts and a widely mailed attack piece on Judge Collins. In the latter case, it’s missing and damaged campaign signs. Some cut in half. Others destroyed. Some missing entirely. [...]
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News That Matters – October 5, 2009 – The Walkway Edition
Good Monday Morning,
Arts on the Lake held a golf outing and fundraiser at Sedgewood last Friday and it was a wonderful event. About 100 people gathered at a private home at the club and pretty much anyone who was anyone was there. There was a good showing by members of the Kent PD, Supervisor Doherty was there. Other residents of the Sedgewood club and local residents also came out. Thanks go to Liz Allison and Ellen Leerburger for manning the reception table, to Midhat Serbagi, Michelle LeBlanc, Pat Cummings, Bob Bradley’s Barbershop Quartet and Lora Lee Ecobelli for providing the atmosphere and to the residents who opened their home and to everyone who attended and especially to Arts on the Lake for being, well, Arts on the Lake!
Walkway Over The Hudson After the fundraiser at Sedgewood I ran up to Waryas park in Poughkeepsie to attend opening ceremonies for New York’s newest – and most unique – State Park, Walkway Over the Hudson. The event was part of the ongoing celebration of the Hudson River and served as the Main Event for the Quadricentennial itself.
Reconstruction of the High Bridge and its rebirth as one [...]