The right lane of southbound lane of the Tappan Zee Bridge will be closed for bridge maintenance, from milepost 16.1 to 13.1 Tuesday through Friday this week (September 2-5) beginning at 9:30a. Maintenance will conclude at 2:45p each day except on Friday when operations complete at 1p. For … [Read more...]
PERFORMANCE ART FLOTILLA COMES TO NYACK’S MEMORIAL PARK
Thursday, August 28, 8pm (Rain Date, August 29th) Admission free, bring a lawn chair or blanket NYACK, NEW YORK -- A fleet of seven intricately crafted boats fashioned out of scrap wood and other salvaged materials, as they sail down the Hudson River from Troy, NY to Deitch Studios in Long Island … [Read more...]
Nyack Threatdown Fear #1: Quakes!
ScienceNow Daily News says the NYC area is due for an earthquake. Yes, *this* New York City. Geoscientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY count 383 sesmic events in our area since 1677. The research was compiled as part of studies for a new Tappan Zee … [Read more...]
September Swim To Sleepy Hollow
Swim The River in September. It's good for your health and for the health of people who have leukemia or lymphoma. Swim from Nyack to Sleepy Hollow on September 7 as part of the Hudson River Swim For Life, an event to raise awareness of the Hudson River, promote swimming as a life long form of … [Read more...]
Tilting at Windmills on the New TZB
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says windmills should be added to plans for a new Tappan Zee Bridge. Feiner made the suggestion at a Las Vegas conference on alternative energy this week. Feiner wrote the following on his blog earlier this week, following up comments made by New York Mayor … [Read more...]
NYS Affirms Indian Point’s Adverse Impacts
Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson applaud DEC’s progress towards Clean Water Act enforcement (Tarrytown, NY) The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has determined that the Indian Point nuclear power plant’s cooling water intake system causes adverse environmental impacts … [Read more...]
FINE: Too Much (United) Water
United Water customers will be getting more information than requested in upcoming bills. But they might not be getting the news that they need to know. The state Department of Environmental Conservation says the utility released more water than allowed between June and September 2007 and has … [Read more...]
Dogs Deserve Their…Doo?
Here's another story about dogs and what they doo -- or can't do -- at Memorial Park. When Village Trustees Denise Hogan, Richard Kavesh, Marie Lorenzini and Louise Parker voted earlier this year against changing village law to allow off-leash dogs before 9am in Memorial Park, they touched a nerve … [Read more...]
Scenic Hudson’s Hudson Valley Photo winners
Scenic Hudson had a contest for photos of the Hudson Valley and announced the winners. Unfortunately, nobody from Nyack was on the list, but there are some beautiful shots. The winner was Jack Gilman of Yonkers who took the amazing photograph "Palisades Clouds" from the Yonkers waterfront. … [Read more...]
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