EVENTS (update 5/4/10)
Registration for 5th Annual Canal Splash! Now Open
5/17/2010 ReadMedia (press release)
by New York State Canal Corporation ALBANY, NY (05/17/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Canal Corporation, the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor ...
ERIE CANALWAY NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR
Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum receives top honors among ...
5/20/2010 The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
The site has received top honors from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission. The Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum has been chosen to ...
2010 Erie Canalway Heritage Award of Excellence Winners - Erie ...
5/19/2010 WATERFORD, NY - The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission is pleased to announce. Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum in Chittenango as the ...
http://www.fltimes.com/articles/2010/06/01/news/doc4c0543194a36e915130433.txt
5/30 Finger Lakes Times- Mural project receives Heritage Award
http://www.waynecountylife.com/2010/05/2010-erie-canalway-heritage-award-of.html#more
5/20 Wayne County Life- Lyons Murals win Heritage Award
Museum Announces Summer Hours
5/18/2010 Madison County Courier
The museum is now part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor “Passport to Your National Park” program. Admission is $5; 12 and younger are ...
Hero/Beech-Nut opens new baby food plant
5/27/2010 Albany Business Review
The plant replaces a 100-year-old factory in Canajoharie that was damaged when the Mohawk River flooded in 2006. Hero/Beech-Nut is using $104.5 million in
Green Island appealing fed power plant vote
5/17/2010 Bizjournals.com
The village of Green Island, NY, has started another round in its fight to build a hydropower plant on the Mohawk River. The latest development in the ...
Valesky Receives Excellence in Historic Preservation Award
5/28/2010 Madison County Courier
Valesky received an Excellence in Historic Preservation Award, which honors notable achievements in retaining, promoting and reusing New York State's ...
Old Erie Canal cleanup plan finalized
5/25/2010 Utica Observer Dispatch
By JENNIFER BOGDAN The state has finalized plans for a toxic chemical cleanup of a section of the Old Erie Canal, but it remains unclear if any companies
Camillus completes aqueduct project
5/22/2010 NewsChannel 9 WSYR
The Erie Canal Park in Camillus celebrated the opening of its Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct project Saturday morning. Discussion to rebuild the aqueduct started
New York visitors urged to explore whole state
5/311 Opodo
Adventure seekers can head to the Erie Canalway, which is described by New York State Tourism as 'a new kind of national park'. ...
Tour boats offer relaxing trips
5/28/2010 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Take a leisurely trip down the Erie Canal, across Canandaigua Lake or out into Lake Ontario. Here are some of the tour boats operating in the area. ...
Olde Erie Canal Fest returns to Albion this weekend
5/25/2010 The Daily News Online
... and other artisan demonstrations will again be showcased this weekend in Albion as part of the second annual Olde Orleans Erie Canal Festival. ...
Inside lock 17 on the Erie Canal | S/V Cygnus
5/25/2010 Our route this time is Hudson River to Erie Canal, go into Oswego Canal near Syracuse then into Lake Ontario, go along the east and north end of Lake Ontario, through the Thousand Islands to the Trent-Severn Canal and into Georgian Bay. ...
Zoo exhibit goes back in time
5/19/2010 Buffalo News
By Mark Sommer The stoic-looking Rocky Mountain big horn sheep had the best view Monday as workers rushed to finish the Buffalo Zoo's new Erie Canal-themed ...
Roundtable in Schuylerville tonight to discuss how to attract and ...
5/17/2010 SCHUYLERVILLE — The New York State Canal Corporation is partnering with Parks & Trails New York to present a roundtable on taking advantage of the growing ...
Registration for 5th Annual Canal Splash! Now Open
5/17/2010 ReadMedia (press release)
by New York State Canal Corporation ALBANY, NY (05/17/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Canal Corporation, the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor ...
Attractions showcased for visiting Israeli delegation
5/11 Rome Sentinel
The May 11 to 15 trip will focus on the Erie Canal and communities along its path. Local stops on Wednesday will begin at Fort Stanwix National Monument ...
Penn State couple to begin 6500-mile canal boat sabbatical
5/30 Penn State Live
Carlsen and Berger bought the craft last year from Mid-Lakes Navigation, a family-owned company that runs charters and hire boats on the Erie Canal. ...
No Dumping in the Erie Canal
5/28/2010 13WHAM-TV
Rochester and Upstate, NY - If you boat on the state canal system, you can no longer dump sewage in the water. The EPA and the DEC have declared the entire ...
Pump it don't dump it
5/28/2010 Albany Times Union
From now on, boats on the 524-mile canal system must dispose of sewage ... the canals, which include the Erie, Champlain, Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca systems. ...
New rules for discharging sewage begin Thursday
5/28/2010 Troy Record
The zone now encompasses the Erie, Cayuga-Seneca, Champlain, and Oswego canals. Prior to the ban, vessels in these waters were allowed to discharge treated ...
EPA chief: Support PCB dredging
5/28/2010 Albany Times Union
Enck spoke Thursday to the Times Union editorial board, touching on topics including expanding the Hudson dredging project to include the Champlain Canal
EPA, DEC move to keep canal water clean
5/28/2010 Tonawanda News
The New York State Canal System is now a “no discharge zone” after federal and state regulators moved Thursday to ban boat sewage disposal from the ...
NYS bans boaters from dumping potties in canal system
5/27/2010 The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
... no longer be permitted to discharge sewage into New York's 524-mile canal system, including Onondaga and Oneida lakes, state officials announced today.
EPA and New York State Announce Ban on Boat Sewage Disposal to New York Canal ...
5/27/2010 U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck and DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis were joined by New York State Canal Corporation Director Carmella R. Mantello and ...
Syracuse Inner Harbor Dredging Kicks Off (USA)
5/27/2010 Dredging Today
The New York State Canal Corporation held an informative meeting Wednesday ... providing that channel for boaters being able to travel through the system, ...
Water Fleas Are On Their Way To Lake Champlain | The Hudson River
5/25/2010 By hudson
The report examines a variety of treatments that could be used in or near the Champlain Canal to stop the water-borne movement of the spiny water flea. It settles on one, a permeable textile barrier installed in the Hudson River, ...
Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity: NYS Canal Corporation to Kick ...
5/25/2010 ALBANY, NY -- The New York State Canal Corporation will hold a media availability to kick off the dredging project at the Syracuse Inner Harbor on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. at the Inner Harbor in ...
Asian carp has attention of ecologists in WNY
5/21/2010 Tonawanda News
Since then, the goby has spread to all the Great Lakes and in nine years has made its way halfway to Albany, along the Erie Canal. ...
Federal Action Sought in Reservoir Battle
5/20/2010 WAMC
UTICA, NY (WAMC) - New York State is going to court with the Mohawk Valley Water Authority over a ninety-year-old agreement on water output from the ...
Thruway Authority to develop energy master plan
5/19/2010 Rochester Business Journal
By THOMAS ADAMS The New York State Thruway Authority on Wednesday announced a $400000 agreement with Buffalo energy engineering firm CJ Brown Energy PC to ...
Lake Champlain protection campaign targets boaters
5/18/2010 BurlingtonFreePress.com
The canal links the lake to the Hudson River, the Erie Canal and thus the Great ... Tim Mihuc, a lake researcher at the State University of New York in ...
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge a sanctuary from the world
5/17/2010 RocNow
The State University of New York College at Geneseo graduate and lifetime ... Barge Canal in the early 1900s and the New York state Thruway in the 1950s.
Community Benefit Agreement would sink waterfront
5/31/2010 Buffalo News
By WT “Bill” McKibben The folks urging the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. to adopt a Community Benefit Agreement are well meaning. ...
Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor
5/28/2010 Buffalo News
Concerts start at 5 pm in the Erie Canal Harbor, Central Wharf. Tickets for each show are $10 in advance; $20 starting one week before the concert date; ...
Protests Closing of Chittenango Falls State Park | Madison County ...
5/20/2010 By Margo
The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation indicates this is a temporary closure until a budget with funding for the parks is approved by the legislature. This comes on top of the announcement this week that the ... David J. Valesky (D – Oneida) and Assemblyman Bill Magee (D – Nelson) to stop participating in the traditional three-men-in-a-room budget solution and to work across the aisle and find a budget solution that will benefit Upstate New York. ...
Senate delays action on bill to keep parks open | Vote Up ...
5/17/2010 Fourteen historic sites have been closed, and the state made service reductions at ... 2010, the New 2 York state office of parks, recreation and historic preservation is ... local governments · Donovan Heads Upstate To Announce AG Run ...
Off the canal, into the fray
5/31/2010 Buffalo News
They were there for the final stop on Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl P. Paladino's 12-day, 14-county tour on the Erie Canal, a trek that allowed ...
Paladino Taking A Ride On The Erie Canal
5/21/2010 WGRZ-TV
... to the airwaves and promising to "take out the trash" at the Capitol, Buffalo developer Carl Paladino is now taking his message up the Erie Canal. ...
Ahoy! Carl Navigates The Erie Canal »
5/19/2010 New York Daily News (blog)
By Celeste Katz GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino will spend 10 days aboard a 40-foot tug-trawler, traversing the canal to meet with voters in Albany, ...
Running the Erie Canal for Roswell
5/27/2010 WKBW-TV
By WKBW Programming BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) -- A couple of local men are on a mission to run the entire length of the Erie Canal, from Albany to Buffalo, ...
Rochester man's long family history with the Erie Canal
5/20/2010 The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
The Grahams' trip to the Erie Canal Museum in June will include stops in Seneca Falls, Frontenac Island, Oswego and Cleveland. On board the “Cayuga” will be ...
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