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The Half-Hour News Hour: 20111005 (Audio)
Oct 05, 2011
Hosted by Julia Reischel and Lissa Harris of The Watershed Post.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with David Merzig, a municipal lawyer for several upstate towns who has been working on local bans on gas drilling. He is currently crafting a zoning regulation for the Town of Andes that would prevent hydraulic fracturing, and other kinds of heavy industry, from happening within town borders.
Also on the show:
* The New York Department of Environmental Conservation riles opponents of hydraulic fracturing by issuing draft laws to allow drilling across the state.
* Margaretville faces a pricey decision.
* Disaster aid for Ulster County brings relief ... and confusion.
* The DEP is giving $1 million to rebuild communities in the Catskills.
* A Greene County man was killed on Monday while trying to cross a ramp at a rest area.
NYC's tap water is still pristine.
* Feral pigs are once again menacing the Catskills.
* Reenactors get hitched in an 18th-century-style wedding.
* The O+ Festival swaps healthcare for art in Kingston in just one of This Weekend's many festivals.
* The weekly News Poem and the Perpetual Optimist’s Glass-Half-Full News Corner.
The Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour airs live at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays on WIOX 91.3 FM in Delaware and Ulster counties and at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene and Columbia counties.
Also on the show:
* The New York Department of Environmental Conservation riles opponents of hydraulic fracturing by issuing draft laws to allow drilling across the state.
* Margaretville faces a pricey decision.
* Disaster aid for Ulster County brings relief ... and confusion.
* The DEP is giving $1 million to rebuild communities in the Catskills.
* A Greene County man was killed on Monday while trying to cross a ramp at a rest area.
NYC's tap water is still pristine.
* Feral pigs are once again menacing the Catskills.
* Reenactors get hitched in an 18th-century-style wedding.
* The O+ Festival swaps healthcare for art in Kingston in just one of This Weekend's many festivals.
* The weekly News Poem and the Perpetual Optimist’s Glass-Half-Full News Corner.
The Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour airs live at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays on WIOX 91.3 FM in Delaware and Ulster counties and at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene and Columbia counties.