TRR photo by Sandy Long Debbie Smorto performs water quality testing on Millbrook Creek in Pond Eddy, NY.

Wise counsel from the councils

By SANDY LONG

UPPER DELAWARE REGION—Debbie Smorto has targeted 32 creeks and streams throughout Lumberland, NY to begin a water quality monitoring program. As chairperson of the Environmental Management Council (EMC) for the town, Smorto hopes to gather enough volunteers to perform tests to establish a current baseline against which to measure future changes or environmental impacts to the town’s waterways.

Volunteers will test for factors such as pH, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen and fecal coliform bacteria on a quarterly basis. The tests are easily performed and can be completed within 30 minutes. Smorto will train interested individuals, who will return test results to her for compilation of the data.

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Sheriff’s deputies to patrol SCCC college campus

Security beefed up as semester begins

By FRITZ MAYER

LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY—Security at the college is being beefed up this year with the addition of a new security officer and a new partnership with the county Sheriff’s department.

At a gathering of student dormitory resident assistants and security personnel at Sullivan County Community College (SCCC), Sheriff Mike Schiff said that a deputy would be on patrol on the campus and in the dormitory from 6:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m., beginning Monday, August 28.

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Bethel Woods impact mostly positive for innkeepers

Some concertgoers ‘make a weekend of it’

By FRITZ MAYER

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—Where will they all stay? That’s a question many were asking about the thousands of people who come to Sullivan County to take in a concert at Bethel Woods. Many of them see the show, then turn around and go home. But, according to bed & breakfast business owners and others who rent rooms to the public, many of the concertgoers also spend the night in Sullivan County.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Clinton declares victory in morning-after pill battle
• Damascus may get a cell tower
• DIGit event incorporates historic Roebling Bridge
• Faso in Monticello
• NPS orders removal of Peck’s lighthouse
• State moves to identify child mental health problems
• New York power player does not recommend NYRI
• Roasters in town
• Tusten planning board faces disappearing deed restrictions

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