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What it’s like to walk the new Ashokan Rail Trail

Having heard enthusiastic reports from friends who’ve walked or biked the Ashokan Rail Trail since the October 18 opening of the West Hurley trailhead, I was curious to get a look at the western section, which opened on Thanksgiving Day. I live in Phoenicia, so the trailhead on Route 28A near Boiceville is only eight minutes away.
General News

Woodstock gets new street signs; old ones for sale

The old signs, designed by artist John Pike, do not comply anymore with the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets specific guidelines for the letter height, background color and reflectivity.
General News

Clouds over the Kingstonian

A real estate investor with extensive holdings in Uptown Kingston has filed an action with city zoning officials that could derail or at least seriously delay a proposed mixed-use development project in the Stockade District.
Stage & Screen

Hollywood-on-Hudson: Mohonk hosts Billions as local filmmaking ramps up

This week Mohonk Mountain House served as a set for a party scene in the fifth season of the Showtime series Billions, which stars Paul Giamatti as a US attorney (loosely based on Preet Bharara) and Damian Lewis as the hedge fund tycoon he’s pursuing. In Hudson Valley Film Commission director Laurent Rejto’s view, 2019 has quite simply been “the most successful year to date for regional film and TV production.”
Nature

Best Moon of 2019

Moonlight is at its brightest. Let’s celebrate that by giving it some attention during this lunation. Copernicus, a magnificent, isolated crater with terraced walls, is regarded by many as the Moon’s most handsome feature. It’s now at its best.
Art & Music

Woodstock’s Fletcher Gallery closes after 28-year run

Art lovers don’t walk in off the street anymore in Woodstock — at least not to buy works by the artists who ﬁrst put the town on the map. So Tom Fletcher, whose art auctions and web-based transactions allowed him to keep his Mill Hill Road gallery doors open well past a dramatic down-turn in sales will continue to sell art from out of his Byrdcliffe home. But this same tenacious Tom Fletcher three weeks ago bowed to the inevitable. The culprit? A long-punishing “investment shift” towards non-representational art, and the recent rise of on-line Mega-galleries all but obliterating sales for smaller galleries.
Food & Drink

Rossi’s Deli is a Poughkeepsie legend – for good reason

“The Hudson Valley is rich with culture. To work to carry this on in our way – that’s what we do.”

Should Saugerties Christmas Candy Run ditch the sirens?

“For us, for many people, the sound of a siren means someone is in distress,” said one resident, referring to the sounds emitted by fire engines distributing candy throughout the village on Christmas morning. “On Christmas Day, when we’re celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, maybe there’s a better sound,” she said.
Woodstock Library seeks funds for a match
New Paltz Child Care Center closes
Town of New Paltz considers building a solar field at the site of former landfill

Supervisor-elect Jim Sofranko’s thoughts on Olive’s future

‘…I don’t want us to end up like a Vail or Aspen, where the people who work in town have to live 40 miles away…’
New Paltz planners discuss Jansen Rd. cell tower
Jim Noble’s final meeting
Saugerties town budget increases spending 3%

Kingston After Dark: The Strange Ones

Welcome to another addition of Kingston After Dark. Hopefully by now you have managed to digest, and perhaps even excrete,
Haley Heynderickx plays BSP
Colony hosts Abbey Road tribute
Fred Hersch plays Senate Garage

Old Dutch Church hosts Dzieci Theatre’s Fools Mass in Kingston

Sunday, Dec. 8: The Roman custom of celebrating Saturnalia with a temporary topsy-turvy social order, during which servants were permitted to lord it over their masters, persisted well after the Christianization of Europe. In his Anatomy of Abuses in England in Shakspere’s Youth (1583), the pamphleteer Phillip Stubbes railed against the ongoing practice of a Lord of Misrule being appointed by a mob to take over a country church at Christmastime. That odd tradition has largely been forgotten, but the Brooklyn-based Dzieci Theatre – known hereabouts for its performances of Makbet at Opus 40 – does its best to keep the memory alive.
Knives Out serves up murder with a timely sociopolitical twist
A Christmas Carol ballet at UPAC this weekend
Kaatsbaan names Stella Abrera artistic director

Healthy conclusion

Implementing single-payer on a state level might result in a better system than nationwide Medicare for All. At least that’s the opinion of Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, who has forgotten more about health-care policy than most will ever know.

Remembering the old Kingston Post Office

Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 4-7 p.m. at 63 Main St., Friends of Historic Kingston and Blauweiss Media are hosting an open mic where the public is invited to a free event to share memories and anecdotes about the Old Post Office in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its demolition.
$17M expansion of National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor now underway
Lenape/Delaware Native American Center concept to be discussed in Stone Ridge
“Requiem for Ashokan” opens at Olive Free Library

Hunting stories

Hunting season is upon us. Though this sport has lost favor in the last few years, I still await clothed hunters who now with bright day-glow orange are easily recognized at convenience stores and gas stations. Most sport their tags on the backs of their jackets.
New column: Ask a Professor — Why is the recent discovery of an ancient trove of massive galaxies significant?
At New Paltz’s Millbrook Preserve, beavers thrive close to civilization
Cary Institute to host “Sustainability: What We Need to Succeed” talk by Dr. Bruce Lourie

Community

Saugerties family’s Christmas light show the biggest yet

The Sussin Family of 123 Patch Road in Saugerties once again invites the public to view its annual Christmas light show, which can be seen every night from Nov. 29 to Jan. 1, 5-10 p.m., weather permitting, with Santa usually making appearances Friday and Saturday nights.

General News

Should Saugerties Christmas Candy Run ditch the sirens?

“For us, for many people, the sound of a siren means someone is in distress,” said one resident, referring to the sounds emitted by fire engines distributing candy throughout the village on Christmas morning. “On Christmas Day, when we’re celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, maybe there’s a better sound,” she said.

Politics & Government

Supervisor-elect Jim Sofranko’s thoughts on Olive’s future

‘…I don’t want us to end up like a Vail or Aspen, where the people who work in town have to live 40 miles away…’

Local History

Remembering the old Kingston Post Office

Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 4-7 p.m. at 63 Main St., Friends of Historic Kingston and Blauweiss Media are hosting an open mic where the public is invited to a free event to share memories and anecdotes about the Old Post Office in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its demolition.

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