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General News

Ryan: Ulster has had worst 48 hours since pandemic began

In his Covid-19 update this afternoon, Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan called the last two days the “single worst 48-hour period since the beginning of the pandemic by pretty much all measures” and warned that “if we don’t’ start to flatten this curve, this is going to be a very long, a very dark, and a very difficult winter.”
Nature

Beavers help shape New Paltz’s Mill Brook Preserve

Beavers serve as nature’s hydroengineers, creating ponds and lakes, diverting streams, slowing stormwater runoff and designing landscapes that welcome a myriad of waterfowl and fauna. Not the least of these is the great blue heron, which can often be seen perched in or around the beaver lodge at the Mill Brook Preserve in New Paltz.
Art & Music

Virtual holiday craft fairs and auctions help keep midHudson artists afloat

Have you checked out the cost of renting a drafty garret in the Hudson Valley lately? The vast majority of people who make their living from the arts and the not-for-profit organizations that provide them services have lived close to the edge of destitution for as long as most of us can remember. But Covid-19 has taken that precarious state of existence to a whole new level of dread.
General News

Second wave: Local officials urge residents to wear masks and follow CDC guidelines

Community officials from Woodstock, the Town of Ulster, Saugerties and New Paltz said they’re getting the message out as best they can. It’s not a complicated message. But following it up is not easy, particularly at the time of the holidays. People seem to be letting their guard down.
Celebrations

Ideas for the outward-bound on your shopping list

There is no pricetag on the outdoors, no substitute for the fresh air or the invigorating smell of snow on pine branches or the way the warmth of the sun heats one from the inside out. There is no Instagram pic or Facebook post of a waterfall or forested trail or sunset sliding down the back of a mountain that can transport the viewer. There is no 3-D printer for life. You have to go out and get it.
Stage & Screen

Thriller shot in Saugerties, Follow Her, seeks finishing funds

Jess Peters (Dani Barker), the female lead of Follow Her, a new independent feature film shot largely in the Hudson Valley, is one of those Millennials whose sense of worth depends on how many people watch and like her YouTube videos. Her specialty is setting up assignations for a little consensual kinkiness on Craigslist, secretly filming and livestreaming the encounters under the handle J-Peeps. The provocative footage quickly finds a growing audience.

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum hires new interim executive director

Nicole Goldberg, who spent the first six months of this year’s lockdown upstate, will be replacing previous director Janice La Motta, who resigned her position after four-and-a-half years in late June, after having been asked to furlough during the first part of New York On Pause.
Virtual holiday craft fairs and auctions help keep midHudson artists afloat
Onteora students pursue their interests and passions
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s twenty-first annual 5 by 7 Show now online

Village Voices are on hold

As general editor of Village Voices, I have decided to call a moratorium of our blog posts and decide meanwhile whether to continue this daily feature. If anyone in the audience wants to contribute their two cents’ worth to that discussion, please email me at geddy@hudsonvalleyone.com.
Keeping it all together
I need a day off
Time travel

What the newspapers said 100 years ago

The ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been copied from the December issues of the New Paltz Independent. To get a closer look at these newspapers of the past, visit the staff of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library at 93 Main Street in New Paltz, or call 255-5030.
What the local newspapers said 100 years ago
What the newspapers said 100 years ago
Rail-trails transform historic corridors

Beavers help shape New Paltz’s Mill Brook Preserve

Beavers serve as nature’s hydroengineers, creating ponds and lakes, diverting streams, slowing stormwater runoff and designing landscapes that welcome a myriad of waterfowl and fauna. Not the least of these is the great blue heron, which can often be seen perched in or around the beaver lodge at the Mill Brook Preserve in New Paltz.
Woodstock looks to become the first municipality in Ulster County with a solar farm
Night Sky: God and the geniuses
Kingston Land Trust protects Wilbur uplands

News Wire

Ulster to purchase electric buses

County Executive Pat Ryan signed a series of resolutions today that provide just over $2 million in funding to Ulster

General News

Environmental review set for proposed solar farm

A site-plan/special permit application to build a large-scale photovoltaic generating system at the border of the towns of Gardiner and New Paltz, first broached in March 2019, is moving forward.

Community

Black Lives Matter rallies held each Saturday in Saugerties

A “Black Lives Matter” gathering takes place every Saturday at 1 p.m. at the corner of Main and Market streets in Saugerties. Daily rallies began in Saugerties shortly after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota on May 25.

General News

Woodstock Library trustees discuss repercussions of narrow bond defeat

A new approach would be salutary, most agreed. The community remains deeply divided, and the various participants deeply suspicious of each other.

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What the newspapers said 100 years ago

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum hires new interim executive director

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