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Winter Restoration Updates: March 2025

March 10th, 2025|Comments Off on Winter Restoration Updates: March 2025

March marks the final month of our 2024-2025 winter restoration season. We’re wrapping up winter-long and final projects and are preparing to begin uprig the first weekend in April. A big project this winter has [...]

Homeschool Education Sails – Spring 2025

February 19th, 2025|Comments Off on Homeschool Education Sails – Spring 2025

Join Clearwater for a Sailing Classroom Program for Homeschool students and families this spring out of Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and Beacon! Our Sailing Classroom Program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn about the river from the [...]

Clearwater Announces Spirit of the Hudson, Lifetime Contribution, and Next-Generation Environmental Leader Award Recipients

February 4th, 2025|Comments Off on Clearwater Announces Spirit of the Hudson, Lifetime Contribution, and Next-Generation Environmental Leader Award Recipients

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater  724 Wolcott Ave, Beacon, NY 12508 (845) 265-8080 Contact: Jen Benson, Director of Communications  jen@clearwater.org  585-943-7454   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2025 Clearwater Announces Spirit of the Hudson, Lifetime Contribution, [...]

Winter Restoration Updates – January 2025

January 27th, 2025|Comments Off on Winter Restoration Updates – January 2025

As we pass the mid-point of our winter maintenance season, the crew is hard at work. Demolition, always the quickest, is complete and building and installation are forging ahead. Captain Liam, who has been [...]

Environmental Groups Condemn EPA’s Final Review of the Hudson Superfund Site 

January 17th, 2025|Comments Off on Environmental Groups Condemn EPA’s Final Review of the Hudson Superfund Site 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 17, 2025 Environmental Groups Condemn EPA's Final Review of the Hudson Superfund Site  The Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup is not protecting Hudson River communities and the environment HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y.—Environmental [...]

Meet our new Education Director, Emily Marcet!

January 10th, 2025|Comments Off on Meet our new Education Director, Emily Marcet!

Clearwater is thrilled to introduce our new Education Director, Emily Marcet! Emily joined Clearwater as our Donor Relations Coordinator in the late summer of 2024 and then applied for the Education Director position, beginning [...]

From Clearwater Kid to On-Board Volunteer and Board Member

January 4th, 2025|Comments Off on From Clearwater Kid to On-Board Volunteer and Board Member

As the final weeks of the school year approached, I couldn’t wait until the freedom of summer would officially arrive. But my summer always arrived a little earlier than the other kids, because as [...]

The Great Hudson River Revival Wedding Cake

December 29th, 2024|Comments Off on The Great Hudson River Revival Wedding Cake

Back when Revival was at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, the Site Crew had an encampment back in the weeds behind the college's maintenance buildings. A big tent with several picnic benches end-to-end, a [...]

New York State Bans CO2 Fracking

December 23rd, 2024|Comments Off on New York State Bans CO2 Fracking

We are thrilled to share Governor Kathy Hochul signed A8866/S8357 on Saturday night, banning the use of CO2 for fracking! The bills expanded the existing NYS fracking ban to prevent CO2 fracking in addition to [...]