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 immediate updates on bridge traffic visit the NYDOT’s real-time transportation status Web page.

Source: Westchester.com

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 City, Queens , will serve as the site for a live theatrical and musical performance at Nyack’s Memorial Park. This event is presented in collaboration with The Friends of the Nyacks, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1974 for the betterment of the Nyacks.

The fleet, known as the “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea,” was handcrafted by the international Artist SWOON, whose work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

Suitable for all ages, the performance, guided by OBIE award-winning playwright Lisa D’Amour, will be delivered from the decks of the vessels and the banks of the river. The crew of the rafts tells tales of the possible myths that might surround the vessels, the crew and the journey. Live music will also serve as an integral part of the performance.

Each raft is powered with alternative energy sources, including bio-fuels and solar power. SWOON’s larger-than-life “invented landscape” installation at Deitch Studios will receive the fleet September 7. The show opens to the public that day.

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Here’s an opportunity for tech fans, hikers and gamers. As well as children of all ages.

Wikipedia describes Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. Rockland County will host a geocaching tutorial and hike Saturday August 30 at 9am in Tallman State Park in Sparkhill.

A Rockland County trail guide docent will teach Geocaching using a Global Positioning System (GPS) as part of a 2-3 mile hike. Hikers should bring a GPS if they have one but it is not required.

Sources:  Rockland County Youth Bureau,  Geocaching.com, Wikipedia

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 Bridge and re-licensing Indian Point. You have to go back to 1884 to find a quake of magnitude five or greater. But in geological terms, that’s a blink of an eye.

Perhaps this is good material for a Nyack area author with writer’s block looking for their next best seller. If you someday soon see titles like

Panic in The Palisades,
Hudson Horror or
Nyack, The Village Under The Hudson try not to be too surprised.

Source: ScienceNow Daily News, August 22

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 fitness, and to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Check-In will be at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. Swimmers will conquer the river as kayakers and boaters assist them for safety.

For more information: Sleepy Hollow Chamber of Commerce, Hudson River Swim For Life

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 Michael Bloomberg at the same conference. Continue reading →

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 on Hudson River fish. The DEC will now move forward to require closed cycle cooling at Indian Point, which would reduce water usage and fish kills by 95 percent or more. Hearings on the new draft permit, which would mandate closed cycle cooling, are tentatively scheduled for spring, 2009. The legal decision was authored by Assistant Commissioner of the DEC J. Jared Snyder, and published on August 15, 2008. Continue reading →

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 levied a $10,000 fine on United Water for allowing too much water out of the Lake Deforest Reservoir in Rockland County. Another $7,500 will be suspended as long as United Water adheres to the agreement. Continue reading →

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 with the many friends of man’s best friend. Nyack area residents have been letting their four legged friends swim in the Hudson at the park before 9am for years, apparently without complaint. But new signs posted in the park last week make dogs’ doggy paddling a thing of the past. Continue reading →

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.

Below is the list of winners.

First Place Winners

• “Inviting Trail,” by Helen Katchmer, Ulster Park (Scenic Hudson Parks)
• “Boundless Calm,” by Bill Luchkiw, Cold Spring (The Hudson River)
• “Hudson River from Olana,” by Barbara Stephens, Tivoli (Valley Landscapes & Communities)
• “Bald Eagle Stare,” by Stephen Davis, Eldred (Wildlife)
• “Paddling Black Creek,” by Joshua Clague, Kingston (People Connecting with Nature)
• “Autumn Scene,” by David Miles, Hopewell Junction (Farmland)

 

 

 

 

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