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A Visit to the Ulster County Planning Board.

05-Dec-13

Cullera On Wednesday I drove directly from work to Kingston (with a stop, of course, at the excellent Benny’s Pizzeria in Stone Ridge).  I arrived a bit early and walked around the streets, which was pleasant: the town is quiet but beautiful, a place I have long loved.  Sometime after seven o’clock I went to the […]

Letter to the Ulster County Planning Board.

02-Dec-13

where can i buy prednisone The Ulster County Planning Board has its meeting to review the wind turbine here in Denning on Wednesday the 4th.  I expect to attend.  The online petition opposing the turbine, to be built inside the “forever wild” Catskill State Park, is here.  Emails for people on the UCPB are ddoy@co.ulster.ny.us, and rlei@co.ulster.ny.us.  I wrote the […]

Wind Turbine Postponement.

12-Nov-13

We were circulating a petition asking for a tabling of the vote on the wind turbine, and the vote has indeed been tabled.  Ulster County caught wind of the project and put a stay on it themselves, pending their own review.  This is good.

Town Board Meeting Tonight, Zoning Board Meeting 11/13/13.

12-Nov-13

There’s a town board meeting tonight at 7 p.m., and one of the items of business will be our petition to get a stay on the decision to build a 177′ wind turbine here in town.  I’ve heard complaints from some of my environmentalist friends – we need renewable energy sources – but I still […]

“Cover the Mountains With Wind Turbines.”

07-Nov-13

I went to the Town Board meeting last night, in part to congratulate the victors, but mostly because of the wind turbine issue I wrote about earlier.  Since first encountering this issue I’ve thought about it a lot, and asked the opinions of people I respect, and the more I thought about it the more […]

Wind Power Generation in Denning?

04-Nov-13

Going door-to-door along Mountain Lane yesterday I was asked what my opinion was about “the big wind turbine,” and I had to confess that I had no opinion about it, because I had never heard of it before. (It felt like a bit of a political defeat, to be going door-to-door and get asked about […]