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General News

Feds allege local developer is a pervasive sexual harasser

Female employees of a Kingston-based developer say they were subjected to misogynist taunts, crude sexual behavior and other forms of harassment by Birchez Associates founder and managing partner Steve Aaron.
Humor

Your guide to super secret, locals-only Hudson Valley swimming holes, 2019 edition

There’s nothing quite like a cool mountain swimming hole when the mercury hits triple digits.
Art & Music, Entertainment

See 80 bands in two days at the Rosendale Street Festival

A true celebration of the local by the locals, the long-running Rosendale Street Festival returns July 20-21.
Economy

Community preservation

Ulster County is now signed on to a state law that allows it to levy a 2 percent tax on certain property sales to preserve aspects of community character. We’re talking about real money. One possible local use is to help protect open space.
General News, Health

Ulster County wants to cut opioid deaths in half

Among the most significant changes is a proposal to introduce “Medication Assisted Treatment” to the Ulster County Jail. MAT programs, which include the use of opioid substitutes like methadone and Suboxone have been proven effective in reducing deaths from opioid overdose and reducing addicts’ dependence on street drugs. But, until recently, corrections officials have almost universally resisted their introduction into jails and prisons.
Community

Volunteering is still alive and well in the Hudson Valley

America has always been a society of joiners, and it was in that spirit that Ulster County executive Pat Ryan last Friday signed resolutions at the historic Volunteer Fireman’s Hall on Fair Street in Kingston to authorize up to $6.2 million in bonding for construction of a public safety training center on Ulster Landing Park in the Town of Ulster.
Politics & Government

What happened to legal weed for New York?

In a historic legislative session last month, New York lawmakers passed a long-bottled flood of progressive bills covering everything from early voting to rent control. But legalized recreational marijuana failed to make the cut, despite support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and strenuous efforts by Democrats in the state’s two houses.
Food & Drink, Local History

Meet the two women who founded the Culinary Institute

Frances Roth and Katherine Angell opened the institute in 1946, determined to establish a school that would become “the culinary center of the nation” and believing that America could have “the best meals on earth.”

Work on new Kingston roundabout pushed back

A plan to replace a major intersection in Uptown Kingston with a roundabout has been postponed after state officials rejected all the bids submitted for it. Work on the two-year project has been pushed back a full year, with completion now anticipated for the fall of 2021.
HBO auto wreck shoot in Rosendale canceled
Rosendale floodwall declared “stabilized” by DEC
Neighbors complain trucks still entering Saugerties construction & demolition debris dump despite DEC order

Jonathan Katz resigns as New Paltz Town Justice

With a tersely-worded letter sent to New Paltz Town Council members, Jonathan Katz ended his 24-year run as town justice, effective August 8. Interviews to fill the position until a permanent replacement is elected will be held at the Town Council meeting on August 1.
Public hearing on proposed Rt. 28 concrete plant draws too big of a crowd
Delgado votes to raise federal minimum wage to $15/hour
Cutten’s cut: Politics or smart government?

Art & Music

Aston Magna’s summer concerts to be held at three Hudson venues

Last season, Aston Magna tried out various venues in the Berkshires and the Hudson Valley. One of the most successful was the theater at Time & Space, Ltd. in Hudson.
Art & Music, Local History

Bethel Woods marks Woodstock festival’s 50th anniversary

In case you missed it, the Generation Gap is back with a vengeance. Maybe what we all need to facilitate intergenerational communication is to take some field trips together to the Museum at Bethel Woods.
Stage & Screen

Shadowland’s theater lineup in Ellenville

The first play of Shadowland’s season is a new drama by D. W. Gregory, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man. Based on true events, it chronicles the tale of Alexei S., a Soviet journalist with perfect memory who is seen as a threat by Stalin’s propaganda machine and targeted by a government censor.
Art & Music

PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz

PianoSummer founder and director Vladimir Feltsman describes the soon-to-perform pianist Vadym Kholodenko “one of the strongest pianists of his generation.”
Stage & Screen

Cyrano, Cymbeline, Much Ado and Into the Woods at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

It’s always tough to decide which shows to catch at any new summer season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, but 2019 – its 33rd year – is shaping up to be tougher than most.
Art & Music

“Madness in Vegetables” at Dorsky Museum in New Paltz

The title “Madness in Vegetables” references a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868, who is best-known for his turn away from the Symbolist movement and toward inspiration drawn from the natural world and a rustic life far from Parisian literary circles. “Madness in Vegetables: Hudson Valley Artists 2019” shares Jammes’ interest in our otherworldly entanglements with vegetal life and the endless potential for imagination that is found in the darkness of the underbrush and lightness of the overstory.
Art & Music

Bard SummerScape 2019 celebrates Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Among the most anticipated summer pleasures of the mid-Hudson Valley is Bard SummerScape, which uses a celebration of a different particular composer each year as an excuse to unlock a treasure chest full of cultural delights that look both backwards and forwards in time. This SummerScape will focus on a composer best-remembered for his film scores: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. An Austrian Jew and child prodigy who was lauded as a genius by the likes of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, John Williams credits Korngold’s score for King’s Row as his major influence for the Star Wars scores.
Stage & Screen

Powerhouse Theater season begins at Vassar

If you’re not gifted with precognition, the surest way to anticipate what stage hit is in the making is simply to attend plenty of each summer’s offerings on the Vassar College campus. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit show Hamilton got its start at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar.
Art & Music

Maverick Concerts’ 104th season lineup

The series, which features world-class jazz and classical music in a sylvan setting, has proceeded uninterrupted for over a century.
Entertainment

Opus 40 ushers in a season of performances, walks & workshops

The international experimental theater Dzieci returns to Opus 40 on June 22 and 23, presenting “the greatest (and only) East Molvanian circus in the world,” a Cirkus Luna! performance and workshop at 1 p.m. on Saturday and its visceral, innovative approach to Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Makbet, at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

DA hopeful Clegg: Bail reform needed right now

“The harms of unaffordable cash bail are unequivocal: people lose their jobs, homes and families while detained,” writes Ulster County district attorney candidate David Clegg. “Even worse, innocent people sometimes plead guilty just to get out of jail.”

Sports

Saugerties basketball standout Darnell Edge learns the ropes in NBA Summer

Edge, who grew up in Saugerties and amassed 1016 points during his varsity career for the Sawyers, graduated in 2015.

Business

Emmanuel’s Marketplace in Stone Ridge under new management

With Shawangunk and Catskill vistas revealed around every bend in its meandering country roads, and lush orchards and fertile alluvial cornfields sprawling in every direction, Stone Ridge is an alluringly lovely place to live. But such rural beauty has its down side: being inconveniently equidistant from such necessary evils of modern life as large chain stores.

Community, Local History

Ed Ford retiring as Kingston city historian

After 35 years as the curator, guardian and cheerleader of this city’s collective past, Edwin Ford, who turned 101 on April 15, is retiring.

News Wire

Motorcyclist dies in Saugerties crash

A 51-year-old Ulster County motorcyclist died yesterday morning after failing to negotiate a curve on Blue Mountain Rd. in Saugerties.

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