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WATERTOWN — The Watertown Police Department Administration and Communications Administration congratulated Dispatcher Patricia Bessette and Dispatcher Melissa Bostick, as they had been selected as the Atlantic Chapter of the Association

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com. This article first appeared in New York Focus, a website that features investigative reporting on New York State issues. Following a surge in power-hungry Bitcoin mining that set environmentalists scrambling, New York lawmakers have introduced multiple bil...

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) recently announced the 20 recipients of its 2021 Student Production Awards — with Greater Latrobe Senior High

In the last three weeks of legislative session, some state lawmakers are talking about the birds and the bees.

Funding for Agricultural Conservation Programs Essential to Moving Country to Net-Zero Emissions Share Donate Funding for Agricultural Conservation Programs Essential to Moving Country to Net-Zero Emissions Mike Saccone Apr 28, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of 133 conservation, farmer and rancher, sportsmen, and wildlife groups urged the leadership of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate agriculture committees in a letter to ensure the forthcoming infrastructure package includ...

Scientist: Another Sandy ‘would be devastating’ after BJ’s development destroys Graniteville wetlands Updated 10:19 AM; Today 10:00 AM Staten Island environmental activists are fighting against the Graniteville wetlands development. Sept. 25, 2017 (Staten Island Advance/Erik Bascome) EXT Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Carl Alderson remembers how Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, causing immense flooding and two dozen deaths. Two decades before, he witnessed how...

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com. A decade ago, the bankrupt owner of the Greenidge power plant in Dresden, New York, sold the uncompetitive coal-fired relic for scrap and surrendered its operating permits. For the next seven years, the plant sat idle on the western shore of Seneca Lake, a ...

New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it? Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms. October 4, 2020 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maines North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan Relat...

Perkins and Will on DesignBiz With Cindy Allen March 2, 2021 By Colleen Curry A staggered lighting installation at the University of Virginia’s Human Resources Department by Perkins and Will symbolizes diversity. Photography by Halkin Mason Photography. Black History Month just wrapped up and Women’s History Month is here, so it’s fitting that diversity and equity were two big topics of conversation during last week’s DesignBiz episodes, where Editor in Chief Cindy Allen (@thecindygram)...