Several years ago -- maybe even 10 -- I felt it necessary to establish a website about building expansion at Schoharie school so I did that, and called it the Tattler. I was thinking of Addison and Steele's Tatler, published a few hundred years ago in London.
We shook things up a little, the school quieted down, and we discontinued the Tattler. Then, at the end of 2005, the Gilboa Dam crisis erupted and we started the Code Orange web site, later called Gilboa Dam Watcher. As we were phasing that out, the quarry issue erupted, the village decided to diddle unfair water rates to benefit owners of apartment buildings at expense of single-family homes, and the new school superintendent decided there could be yet another building project, this at "no cost" to residents. In the circumstances, I decided to reestablish the Tattler.
Two area state parks -- Minekill in Schoharie County and Glimmerglass in Otsego -- have apparently survived the state budget axe.
However, Max Shaul in Schoharie County, Thatcher Park in Albany County, Schoharie Crossing Historic Site in Montgomery County, and Johnson Hall in Fulton County will not open this summer, the governor announced Friday.
No announcement has been made yet in regards to Catskill Mountain parks operated by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Robert Riddle Park in Delaware County and Oquaga Creek in Brome County are on the clsure list, and Olana Historic Site south of Hudson will close two days a week.