Edgewood news 05/17/11

News from the Edgewood Preserve Spring Cocktail Party Fundraiser Canceled A reminder that the cocktail party scheduled for this Wednesday, May 18, has been canceled.  We are now getting a lot of last minute calls and e-mails about folks looking forward to the party.  Unfortunately, we did not get enough responders (either through rsvp, phone […]

Super Bowl/Who excitment shuts down Twitter

Saints shut down Colts and Twitter Technology can’t keep up with everything. Twitter could not keep up with a whole country worth of Who fans*, Superbowl watchers, and Super Bowl partiers (face it, some people just go for the chips!). Here is what I got when I tried to log in to Twitter at 9:52pm: […]

Superbowl Sunday, The Who on stage: In March, The Who’s “Tommy” on Long Island

Who videos at bottom of post… KW: Hurrah! I am so excited. I do not have a TV. And, I barely care about football. But, I just found out that The Who will be performing at the Superbowl halftime show. Super cool! And, they are supposedly playing a mash-up that includes “Pinball Wizard” and the […]

NYS Lawmakers must override veto of Edgewood bill

Hello everyone, As you know, the legislation to transfer additional land to the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plains Preserve, thus protecting this rare and irreplaceable habitat AND expanding our protected groundwater area (which supplies us with clean drinking water) — PASSED the Senate 48-7 and PASSED the Assembly 143-0, an unheard-of-unanimous-vote. The Governor’s VETO of this legislation […]