The Hudson River Watertrail Association

12 Noon at St. Philip’s Church, 1101 Route 9D, Garrison, NY 10524.

All members are welcome, only board members may vote.

People, everybody needs to spend a moment reading up on how web-logs are used. Posting “comments” is not the way to use this site. If you want to comment on a specific item, then yes, post a comment. If you want to ask a general question or make a point then write a new POST and it will appear in this main list. Very few people will find your comments on, say, the ABOUT page, when your comment has nothing to do with the ABOUT page.

How do you write a new post? If you have already registered you must LOGIN to the site (lower left, click where it says LOGIN). Once you have logged in click WRITE A NEW POST and then have at it. 

There will be a delay before you see your post unless you have previously approved comments/posts already on this site. This is because of “comment spam.” The filter on this site has already stopped over 1,200 comments from going public.

Everybody who has registered on this site has now been promoted to “Contributor.” This means you are now welcome to write posts that will appear on the main page (like this one).

Just a reminder, you don’t have to register here unless you want to post comments or possibly get more involved with the site.

Registering for this site is not the same as registering for the NYCKayaker list.

The spring meeting of the HRWA Board is slated for Saturday May 3rd at 11:30, Garrison NY. Location more specific than “the church” soon to be added.

I wanted to toss out a couple reasons how this blog-thing might be useful in case anybody is scratching their heads. Personally it’s all about permanence. About building a record that can last (assuming this time i successfully make backups). if anybody has a category or topic they’d like to see discussed i can create a “top level” page and then put content under that top level. One that comes to mind is boat building.

Another is regional reporting. I encourage folks at different parts of the river to submit stories or even shorter posts talking about what is going on in their areas. Obviously for call-to-action types of issues the email list would be more appropriate, but if people begin contributing here we can begin to build our history of the region and share it with others who might not care to subscribe to an email list.

I can create categories for different regions (or for any other purpose) and then content can be sorted by those categories. If even a small percentage of users submit content here we could grow this website into a useful tool that can bring attention to issues and will persist long after that email has been deleted.

We’re trying the “blog” format one more time.

All users who were registered before have been deleted (this is totally separate from the NYCKayaker email list). So… we invite you to register and post comments, stories, or ask questions.