Archive for the ‘News’ Category

News Pre-2008

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

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2007:

Municipalities join to Protect Saw Mill River Watershed (2/23/07)

Journal News: Volunteers clean up debris (4/23/07)

Volunteers clean up what others cast off (4/27/07)

Yonkers to Take Lid Off River (7/1/07)

Rye Sound Shore Review: Flood Report (10/7/07)

 

2006:

Invasive Vines (1/19/06)

Vines threaten trees along Saw Mill River Parkway (2/10/06)

Students have passion for environment (4/21/06)

Storm Drain Marking (4/28/06)

Yonkers cleans up vacant lots (6/23/06)

Yonkers’ ambitious plan meets skeptics (8/6/06)

Saw Mill River Seminars (9/29/06)

“Free-A-Tree” Project (10/4/06)

Downtown development deal bad idea for Yonkers (10/06/06)

Vine-choked trees need helping hands along Saw Mill (10/27/06)

 

2005:

Yonkers to Uncover River (1/6/05)

Saw Mill River Coalition Champions (Feb/Mar 05)

Saw Mill River health is called no fish story (8/26/05)

River RATs free choked trees in Macy Park (10/7/05)

Yonkers groups labor to remove invasive vines, garbage (10/7/05)

Volunteers Sought for parkway cleanup (10/31/05)

Opening river a boon to city (11/8/05)

Saw Mill RIVER Parkway (11/20/05)

On Yonkers waterfront (11/29/05)

Tired of trash, residents clean up (11/29/05)

Yonkers groups remove vines (12/7/05)

Clearing Parkway Vines (12/10/05)

 

2004:

When the Saw Mill River Floods_NY Times (7/11/04)

Storm runoff threatens drinking water (11/8/04)

 

2003:

Rising River_NY Times (1/30/03)

 

1989:

Canoe Trip Leads to a River’s Adoption, Part 1 (1/15/89)

Canoe Trip Leads to a River’s Adoption, Part 2 (1/15/89)

 

1986:

Group Keeps Close Watch on Dangers of Yonkers Flume, Part 1 (5/5/86)

Group Keeps Close Watch on Dangers of Yonkers Flume, Part 2 (5/5/86)

 

1984:

Underground water tunnel worries environmentalists (10/11/84)

 

1977:

Flume Gets Refurbished, Part 1 (8/25/77)

Flume Gets Refurbished, Part 2 (8/25/77)

Flume Gets Refurbished, Part 3 (8/25/77)

Flume Gets Refurbished, Part 4 (8/25/77)

 

1974:

This Flume’s a Fly in Yonkers’ Ointment, Part 1 (8/11/74)

This Flume’s a Fly in Yonkers’ Ointment, Part 2 (8/11/74)

 

 

2011

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

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Cleaning up the Saw Mill (05/15/11)

2010

Monday, April 18th, 2011

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Progress on Hudson (1/29/10)

Group Battles Invasive Vines (02/08/10)

No Parking (2/12/10)

Journal News: Creeping Vines Meet Some Resistance (2/26/10)

NMSDC Moves Forward with Daylighting (10/29/10)

18 yonkers sites pegged for redev (11/11/10)

Journal News: Sewage Release Unreported (11/18/10)

cortlandt law will preserve historic roads (11/19/10)

2009

Monday, April 18th, 2011

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Uncovering an Urban River (01/01/09)

City agrees to fine (2/13/09)

Nonprofit hopes to dock green science barge in yonkers (07/16/09)

Urban Farm is future (07/24/09)

BioBlitz to inventory parkway’s species (09/25/09)

BioBlitz sends scientists up and down Saw Mill River collecting data (09/27/09)

Journal News: Rye Strives to be a haven for Wildlife (10/12/09)

Saw Mill Blitz catalogs life in all its forms (11/2/09)

Trees freed from vines’ grip (11/9/09)

 

NY Times Article on Brooklyn Botanical Garden Endangered Native Plant Study

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

On April 2, 2010, the NY Times published an article about a 20-year mapping project, carried out by the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.  They are hoping to save dozens of endangered native plants using the information that they have gathered. Read the article or check out the mapping project to find out which native plants are growing near you.

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