Program offers planning funds
MARGARETVILLE _ County, town and village governments may apply for funds under the Catskill Watershed Corporation's Local Technical Assistance Program, or LTAP.
Applications are being taken through Jan. 29 for the fifth and final round of funding for this program, and are available online at www.cwconline.org, or by calling (845) 586-1400 or (877) 928-7433.
The program encourages community planning efforts intended to improve water quality and enhance the quality of life in the Catskill-Delaware New York City Watershed.
Municipalities can apply for funds to develop comprehensive land-use and open space plans, zoning laws, environmental-protection statutes, highway and infrastructure- maintenance plans, strategic capital investment plans and other initiatives.
The CWC is a nonprofit local development corporation based in Margaretville.
SUCO teacher authors book
ONEONTA _ Brian Haley, an associate professor and chairman of the anthropology department at the State University College at Oneonta, is the author of a book that will be released this month by Palgrave Macmillan.
"Reimagining the Immigrant: The Accommodation of Mexican Immigrants in Rural America" is an ethnography on the experience of Mexican immigration and settlement in a small town in California.
Haley, who earned his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joined the SUNY Oneonta faculty in 2000. He previously taught at the University of California, Riverside, and served as a post-doctoral research anthropologist at the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States.
In 2007, he was named a fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, an honor that is considered a mark of professional achievement and recognition. He is a co-editor and contributor to the book "Imagining Globalization: Language, Identity, and Boundaries," which was released in November by Palgrave Macmillan.
According to a media release from the college, Haley's teaching and research address how ethnic, racial and national identities form and change; the social and cultural consequences of capitalist agriculture, Mexican immigration, globalization and tourism; and the application of anthropology to practical issues such as immigration, heritage management and ethnic relations.
