Monster Trout Derby

PIKE COUNTY – Sponsored by the Business Owners of Lackawaxen Township. Catch one of 100 monster trout stocked with tags between Hawley and the Village of Lackawaxen to win $2,500 in prizes. No entry fee. Anglers must take their catch to Angler's Roost, Lackawaxen, or Wallenpaupack Sport Shop, Routes 6 & 590 for weight, certification and photos. Contact: mountainman@ltis.net or 570/6858-2010.

The Delaware River Power Line Story Continues

This is a good article from Hudson Valley Press Online. It offers a good definition of New York Regional Interconnection's (NYRI) upper hand.
Power lines, ethanol trash plants, what else can they throw at us. This is what happens when states are run by slimy pols. Pols that care more for urban votes than the environment. The real environment that we live in. When I say pols, politicians, I have little respect for any of them. I take that back, I have no respect. Bait fisherman are way above politians.

Reservoirs not always villains

A really good news story from the Times Herald-Record online.

Another 100 Year Flood??

Todays rains are causing flooding issues throughout nepa and the Catskills.

Thurs AM:
Region escapes serious flooding

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS/803060314

$1.6 million to fund rail, span work

Heres a story from The Times Tribune in Scanton concerning the Stourbridge Line railroad...

HAWLEY — Nearly three years after flooding wiped out the Hawley Bridge, the Wayne Industrial Development Authority has secured nearly $1.6 million to repair the span...

More Sewage for the Lackawaxen

Three Wayne County municipalities are preparing to turn their sewer system assets over to the fledgling Central Wayne Regional Authority...

Another Damned Power Line ?

Here's a story from Honesdale's The Weekly Almanac, Jan 31. It briefly lays out a proposal by PPL's building a new 500,000-volt electricity transmission line stretching from the Susquehanna River east to the Delaware River. 

Sorry to say... this isn't the same power lines story that has been around for the last year or so.