The first annual Environmental Awareness 5K was run on the rail trail to benefit the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, was put together by 16-year-old Ava DeSantis.
On a beautiful April 28 evening, 15 teams participated in the third annual Amazing Earth Day Race organized by the Friends of Five Rivers at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in Delmar.
The monarch massacre — the billion butterflies that made the epic flight from the eastern United States to Mexico each fall has fallen to only about 33 million — should served to warn us like the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
