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PennDOT to dismantle Skinners Falls Bridge before winter, prioritizing river traffic safety. https://lnkd.in/gxBda29m

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?? Radio Catskill does it again! For the third year in a row, we’ve been honored at the NYSBA’s 58th Annual Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting! ?? ?? Best Use of Audio: "Hard Harvest: A Special Report" – Producers? Rosie Starr and Jason Dole. ??? Best Election Coverage: "Election Night 2023" – Producers Patricio Robayo and Jason Dole. ?? Serving New York: Red Cross Emergency Preparedness PSAs. Congratulations to (pictured, left to right) Jason Dole, Rosie Starr, and Patricio Robayo! #RadioCatskill #BroadcastExcellence #CommunityRadio #NYSAwards

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David Driver’s The Stonewall Jukebox: A Documentary Concert tells the unknown, unexpected, and uplifting story of how The Stonewall Uprising came to be, and how it impacted contemporary LGBTQ+ culture. It’s at the Tusten Theatre in Narrowsburg next Saturday, August 10th. Radio Catskill’s Tim Bruno spoke to David Driver about the show he calls “part musical performance, part little-known oral history.” Listen to the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gfdixRbe

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, has announced that a lawsuit has been filed against the Liberty Central School District under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). The lawsuit alleges that the district willfully violated USERRA by denying a step salary increase to John Chewens, a teacher and U.S. Army National Guard member, due to his military service. Learn more about the lawsuit here: https://lnkd.in/gy8dXZAi

Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York and Food Bank of the Hudson Valley provides 50 million pounds of food each year to 1,000 agencies in 23 counties of northeastern New York. To meet growing demand, it is moving to a new 40,000-square-foot distribution center that will be twice the size of the food bank’s current warehouse in Cornwall-on-Hudson. This move will enable the food bank to increase the capacity of food it distributes to 400 food pantries and soup kitchens in Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Rockland, and Putnam counties. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gVPMiBJd

Joe Johnson is a retired Port Jervis science teacher and Radio Catskill volunteer and he regularly brings us science stories that have caught his eye. This week Johnson discussed a woolly mammoth DNA discovery, ancient cave paintings, and a smelly planet with Jason Dole on Radio Chatskill. Listen to their conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gPn-aR64