MEDIA ADVISORY
contact: cynthiadnash@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“ISN’T IT WORTH SAVING?”
Music Video Celebrates Skinners Falls Bridge
Documentary music video inspiring preservation of historic bridge that is under threat of destruction by PennDOT.
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DCS submitted extensive comments on the Skinners Falls Bridge to PennDOT and the Federal Highway Administration on Feb. 3, 2025, outlining their “persistent refusal to follow established statutory and regulatory environmental and historic preservation review processes”. The introduction to these …
DCS sends Letter of Interest
To Acquire The Nation’s Historic Skinners Falls Bridge:
Objective is to restore, not destroy, the historic bridge.
Damascus Citizens …
The National Park Service (NPS) commented on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Camp FIMFO in a letter to the Town of Highland Planning Board dated January 10, 2025. The conclusions of the NPS (see below) include …
The Zane Grey Gallery has generously offered to donate all proceeds from its sales of Skinners Falls Reflections, by Craig Snedeker, to DCS’s legal efforts to save the Skinners Falls Bridge. Use the QR Code below or go to …
It’s crunch time for the Skinners Falls Bridge and the proposed Camp FIMFO, but especially for the bridge, which PennDOT intends to demolish asap. DCS, in conjunction with Wrought Iron Bridge Works, has presented a cost effective plan to save …
DCS has been working with Greenworks, our environmental attorney, and Wrought Iron Bridge Works (WIBW), experts in the restoration of historic bridges, to come up with a plan to save the Skinners Falls Bridge.
DCS has sent the following letter …
The Town of Highland Planning Board has extended the written comment period on the Camp FIMFO Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to March 11, 2025. To make your voice heard, email your comments to planningboardzba@townofhighlandny.com. You do not have …
As a Consulting Party on the Skinners Falls Bridge project, DCS received the following notification of a meeting to be held on February 11. As is evident in this notice, PennDOT intends to demolish the Bridge and is only looking …
DCS is actively and strongly defending the Skinners Falls Milanville Bridge from destruction by PennDOT, using their own data.
As detailed in our 1/2/2025 comment letter, PennDOT’s claims of rapid deterioration are not supported by the data available to …
NY Is Not Disposable!
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Got waste?
We all do, and way too much of it. And 40% of New York’s waste stream consists of discarded packaging.…
November 22, 2024 letter from DCS attorney Lauren Williams to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation:
Good afternoon,
On behalf of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, I am forwarding the email below and associated attachments to the Advisory Council on Historic …
