- RAIL TRAIL COMPLETION PROPOSED – The Leader-Herald ( Gloversville, NY) Website
The Fulton County Planning Department is proposing a $1.1 million capital project for 2014 to complete the Rail Trail project begun in the 1990s.
- INVASIVE THREAT: POTENTIALLY HARMFUL SPECIES TRAVEL THROUGHOUT STATE’S WATERWAYS – Post-Star ( Glens Falls, NY) Website
Reporter Jon Alexander reports that the interconnected nature of regional watersheds makes the spread of invasive species not only a regional issue but an international one, noting that localized attempts to control or limit the introduction of invasive species may potentially slow the spread, but will ultimately fail without a more global policy.
- EXCLUSIVE: CUOMO AND BLOOMBERG TAKE THEIR RIVALRY TO THE WATER – Daily News ( ) Website
Reporter Kenneth Lovett reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will face off on July 22 in a whitewater rafting race on Indian Lake in upstate Hamilton County as part of the governor’s push to boost tourism in the Adirondack Mountains.
