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A legislative soap opera
HARRISBURG, PA — Just weeks into the new year, the Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives has been rocked by disorganization and unkept promises. Meanwhile, in the Senate, the … more
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Global resilience trainer Duncan Kirkwood spoke to students at last week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Action. Inspired by Dr. King's Blueprint for Life, Kirkwood's goal is to help students understand that setbacks are tools that will launch the young people forward, helping them become successful adults. How can they use life's storms to live a lives of peace, joy, love and success? For the full story, see next week's River Reporter.
Martin Luther King’s day of service
HURLEYVILLE, NY — As I stood in the ballroom of the Hurleyville Arts Center on January 13, I witnessed juniors and seniors from all over the county enter the space with their curious eyes and … more
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Eric Cooley, a ninth grade English teacher at Honesdale High School, will fill Jared Newbon's seat on Honesdale Borough Council for the remainder of the calendar year.
In ‘odd,’ ‘slanted,’ process, Honesdale fills council seat
HONESDALE, PA — Honesdale Borough Council started the new year off in a new location with the appointment of a new council member. In the first meeting since moving from Main Street to the … more
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Pollution in the Mongaup
TOWN OF BETHEL, NY — A report is being investigated of a potential sewage leak affecting the Mongaup River. Shannon Schultz lives on Creamery Road, near the Sullivan County International … more
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Milford borough
Pike County receives traffic, conservation grants
Utilities relief for New Yorkers ALBANY, NY — Roughly 478,000 residential customers and 56,000 small businesses in New York State will receive assistance totaling $672 million to pay off … more
Pike and Sullivan: key housing strategies
UPPER DELAWARE RIVER VALLEY — A river may run between them, but Pike County, PA and Sullivan County, NY share an issue of unaffordable housing. Articles in this week's edition of the River … more
A condemned building in Monticello.
Housing for Sullivan County and beyond
MONTICELLO, NY — An $8 million project in Monticello looks to pair housing with commercial development. Three properties on Broadway, all taken over by the Sullivan County Land Bank (SCLB) … more
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Relieving the rent burden
MILFORD, PA — It’s “nearly impossible” for many Pike County residents to afford housing without some sort of government subsidy, according to the results of a 2020 housing … more
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Fraud task force announces arrests
LIBERTY, NY — The Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Task Force has made the following arrests: more
More heat pumps, made in America
NATIONWIDE — Thinking about installing a heat pump and reaping the money-saving awards? The federal government, in its Inflation Reduction Act, will—ahem—pump $250 million into … more
Greening your laundry, simply
Buy less clothing. Invest in better-made clothes, rather than cheap fast fashion that will wear out faster. (Thrift stores, such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army, often have a variety of brand-name … more
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Listening to music with your loved one is a great way to keep someone with dementia engaged this winter.
Keep your loved ones engaged this winter
REGION — While many families are caring for their loved ones at home, finding ways to stay engaged and active indoors during the cold winter months can be challenging for many Americans. … more
If we fail to glimpse the wild beauty in the feathered fall of light through forested boughs, neglect the sense of wonder that saturates a sunset framed by leaves, close our eyes to scenes where trees are etched against a moonlit inky sky, we deny ourselves some of life’s greatest pleasures.
'Trees please' gets grounded
The Trees Please project, profiled in the fall edition of the Upper Delaware Magazine of the River Reporter, has quietly begun growing. Members of the initiating group met to identify the next … more
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A solar-panel installation by SEEDS volunteers at the Lacawac Sanctuary visitor center. Solar energy is just one example of the clean energy projects that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 could fund.
Cleaner and cheaper energy systems
No, the government won’t pay you ... to install solar or make improvements on your home for “free.” But there are plenty of new or improved tax incentives in the federal … more
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Cellulose insulation is a type of wood- or paper-based product. It is mechanically blown into or onto empty spaces in the structural part of a house to slow down the transmission of heat or cold. Because of the nature of the loose material, it can fit in enclosed areas (such as walls, pictured here) and can conform around obstructions such as wires and ducts (found both in walls and in attics).
It is inevitable
Whenever I talk with someone about the need to make our built environment more airtight and highly insulated, the question always pops up: “But houses have to breathe!” Allison A. … more
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This Catskill Project model home was open to inspection on October 8, 2021. The 2283 square foot house is built to Passive House standards that includes a continuous building envelope, superinsultation, a robust ventilation system, and high-tech windows. It is part of a 90-acre subdivion that will preserve 40 acres as a nature preserve.
Housing for the future
REGION — Housing can be sustainable on a number of levels. When a housing development gets built, a chief question is whether the local community can sustain it. Will it draw more water … more
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Not only was the audience mesmerized by the insanely smooth riffs being played on stage, but it was immediately clear that the musicians themselves were seriously digging the groove.
Skating on thin ice
While in conversation last week with managing editor Annemarie Schuetz about this issue of the River Reporter , I mentioned that I was planning to swing by the Sullivan County Historical Society and … more
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"Three Boats," by E. Jane Stoddard.
The world in watercolor and more
StoryWalk in Callicoon CALLICOON, NY — The Delaware Free Branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library (WSPL) system offers a unique way to experience “The Mitten,” a picture … more
The cast of "Offal Endings" is caught in a surgical moment.
Death by corporation
NEW YORK, NY — Beth Kelley, the Milford Theater’s acclaimed director, saw “Offal Endings” in its early stages. “I’d worked with John [Klemeyer] on and off for 20 … more
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Astra Parsons-Pudder shows her published drawing of a cat getting a bath.
The importance of kids’ art, how they see the world, and a cat’s bath
LACKAWAXEN, PA — Astra Parsons-Pudder is making her way in the art world already—at the age of six. She just had a drawing published in Spider Magazine, a national publication from … more
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