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Woodstock area’s small hotels and B&Bs prepare for summer influx

Town Supervisor Bill McKenna said it was perfectly fine for people from the city to come up as long as they are staying in place. Still, he respects hotel operators’ rights to open as that category of business was never made part of the state order. “I hope they’re advising their guests to practice social distancing and wear masks,” he said. “I appreciate that people want to get out, but they should have masks on.”
General News

Despite delays, Kingston’s Irish Cultural Center gets another reprieve from building safety

Neighbors refer to it as “the pit.” Excavated two years ago, the site of the Irish Cultural Center of the Hudson Valley (ICCHV), at 32 Abeel Street in Kingston’s Rondout, is an eyesore for those who venture up Company Path and has been a safety hazard for the neighboring properties. First proposed in 2011, the 16,000-square-foot structure, which would include a pub, exhibit space, 171-seat theater, and classrooms, is yet to be built.
Village Voices

A chat with John Lefsky

About month ago, long-time New Paltz resident and Hudson Valley music scenester John Lefsky announced online that he would be closing Jack’s Rhythms, the cool, small record on Main Street that had been in continuous operation since 1990. For a bit, John could not be reached for comment. Then, John could be reached for comment. He has done a lot for local music, even more for local taste, where in his non-contentious way he has expanded the comfort zones of his customers, including me.
Columns, Nature

Night Sky: Don’t believe the hype

Click-bait articles try to get readers excited about non-events like lunar eclipse and unremarkable meteor showers. Don’t be fooled.
General News

Mid-Hudson begins to re-open

The immediate effects were not necessarily apparent. After all, some of the largest businesses, like Target, Walmart and local grocery stores, as well as those that are patronized the most often, like corner delis and gas stations, have been open the entire time. Some construction and manufacturing continued as essential work as well, and it’s not exactly a hot market for either.
General News

The calm before the storm?

It’s too soon to know how the pandemic that has particularly ravaged the New York metropolitan area will affect the economic relationship between America’s biggest city and its immediate Upstate neighbors. When things settle down, will there be more home-buying from downstaters seeking refuge?
Stage & Screen

Mark Ruffalo shines in dual role in locally filmed “I Know This Much Is True”

It has been speculated that part of the attraction of this story for Ruffalo may be grounded in personal history: The actor’s younger brother Scott died of a gunshot wound in 2008, under circumstances never fully explained. In I Know This Much Is True he plays twin brothers, one of whom, Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The other twin, Dominick, is the protagonist, the ordinary complications of his life multiplied exponentially by his brother’s delusions and self-destructive behavior.
Stage & Screen

The drive-ins of yesteryear start a new season

Been hoping to see a movie not from one’s couch? Several drive-ins within the Hudson Valley will be reopening this Friday, May 22, as part of the first wave of lockdown relief … with strict health protocols in place.

Protesters demand justice and racial equity

The protests sweeping much of the nation reached New Paltz Saturday, albeit in a more peaceful form than the one which has rocked Minneapolis and other cities in the wake of several racially charged killings around the country by police officers. Marchers also took to the streets in Kingston on Saturday afternoon. Demonstrators walked from Academy Green down Broadway to Kingston City Hall.
Saugerties purchases weed harvester for Esopus Creek
New Paltz officials discuss reopening the economy
Woodstock considers Selina’s partial opening of cabins

The dubious virtue of reading

I was brought up to believe unquestioningly that reading was healthy, good for you like spinach, and virtuous. I now see reading as entirely neutral, the absurd claims of its inherent powers little more than middle-class social-mobility propaganda, as well as a puritanical reaction against the rise of electronic media in mid-century.
Ready for the war
Nothing more to say
The spiritualism path

Saugerties salutes front-line workers, high-school athletes and a special birthday

For the third day in a row, fire engines and police cars, sirens blaring, made their way through the village of Saugerties last Sunday to wish Tina Dean a happy birthday, just prior to her 1:30 p.m. birthday party on the front porch of the Ivy Lodge Assisted Living Facility on Main Street in Saugerties. She is 104 years old.
Letters to the editor
Ulster marks Memorial Day
Help plant trees along the Wallkill River

Preview: Onteora School Board trustee and budget vote

Info on the proposed $57,938,542 budget and interviews with the candidates for School Board. The vote is by mail, with ballots due by June 9 at 5 p.m.
Preview: Kingston School Board trustee and budget vote
Preview: Saugerties School Board trustee and budget vote
Preview: New Paltz School Board trustee and budget vote

The dubious virtue of reading

I was brought up to believe unquestioningly that reading was healthy, good for you like spinach, and virtuous. I now see reading as entirely neutral, the absurd claims of its inherent powers little more than middle-class social-mobility propaganda, as well as a puritanical reaction against the rise of electronic media in mid-century.

What the local newspaper said 100 years ago

“The high rents and general congestion in New York City and vicinity are driving people into the country. Most of the purchases of real estate in our village of late have been by city people.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
D&H Canal launches virtual programs
Saugerties history group cancels programming
Historic Huguenot digital initiatives

Farewell, my lovely

It’s almost over. Venus has been dazzling and delighting us for months now, the best apparition of the evening star since 2004. It’s still amazingly bright in the northwest during the first couple of hours after sunset. It’s hard to believe that this will now change so rapidly.
Mohonk Preserve continues to track weather data despite absence of volunteers
Do ecological research as a family project, virtually, via Cary Institute’s 2020 Hudson Data Jam
Fossils of the Catskill Sea

Village Voices

The dubious virtue of reading

General News, News

Protesters demand justice and racial equity

The protests sweeping much of the nation reached New Paltz Saturday, albeit in a more peaceful form than the one which has rocked Minneapolis and other cities in the wake of several racially charged killings around the country by police officers. Marchers also took to the streets in Kingston on Saturday afternoon. Demonstrators walked from Academy Green down Broadway to Kingston City Hall.

Village Voices

Ready for the war

Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh have tinderboxes where gentrifying areas sit next to long-decaying neighborhoods that have been forgotten, labeled as gang-ridden. Hudson and Beacon have built dream communities along long main streets filled with increasingly upscale businesses, plus loads of fancy restaurants. Ellenville’s long had a sense of divide to it.

Village Voices

Nothing more to say

A New York state senator’s picture made the news this week. The picture was taken by a Reuters photographer. He’s in agony, his eyes tight shut against the pepper the police have sprayed in his eyes, his arms pulled behind him by police officers taking him into custody.

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Caden’s Delivery brings customized grocery-shopping to New Paltz doors

Magical-realist Rosendale springs to life in Mark Morganstern’s The Joppenbergh Jump

Woodstock Library bonding will be discussed in June

Bicycling during the pandemic: New Paltz shop reports surge of interest

Will local music venues survive the pandemic?

Music roundup: New releases from local artists

Saugerties couple reopen their restaurant for takeout after being trapped in Pakistan due to Covid 19

Maverick moves forward

After 30 years in business, Jack’s Rhythms in New Paltz closes

Local school districts face big budgetary headaches this year