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Local History

How treating supplanted tricking on Halloween in America

There’s scarcely an American left alive today who remembers the days when treats weren’t the primary focus of the practice
Local History

The Death of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White

Part III in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White [1866-1944] is better described as godfather of a town he personally transformed into America’s most famous Bohemia, earlier even than 1920. But despite this fact, and although admired by artists and farmers alike, Hervey lived and died an enigma. Some knew part, but none knew all his secrets.
Nature

New column: Ask a naturalist

Which kinds of trees make which color leaves? Why do we see so many spiderwebs in the fall? When were apples first cultivated in the Hudson Valley? Can woolly bear caterpillars predict the weather?
General News

Ulster County sheriff charts bold course to battle opioid crisis, including anti-withdrawal meds in jail

‘I’m going to be straight with you, I have my reservations,’ said Sheriff Juan Figueroa, who took office in January. ‘But what we’re doing isn’t working. We have to try a new approach.’
Politics & Government

First Pat Ryan budget holds the line on property taxes in Ulster County

The spending plan includes new allocations on initiatives in line with Ryan’s progressive vision for county government while holding the line on taxes.
Politics & Government

Where to vote early in Ulster County

For nine days, October 26 through November 3, you can vote at one of seven polling sites around Ulster County. Hours of operation vary, but include a mix of day, evening and weekend hours.
Explore

New 11.5-mile rail trail promises great fall foliage views

The Ulster County-built Ashokan Rail-Trail, a long-awaited public recreational walkway (the county prefers the term “shared-use path”), will be opened to the public on Friday, October 18. First proposed in 2012, the 11.5-mile trail is ten to twelve feet in width, with a compacted crushed-stone surface that allows accessibility to persons with disabilities and limited mobility.
Food & Drink

A guide to Hudson Valley breweries, wineries, cideries & distilleries

From national canning operations to farmyard family operations, here’s the guide to all the drinks your backyard has on tap.

Varga’s Art Experience

For years, art was hung salon-style. Then it was done the way SoHo galleries did it…with loads of white space surrounding each work. Here in the Catskills we have Varga-style, a cornucopic potpourri of everything blasted all around a series of rooms, with music and performance tossed in to give it all a multi-dimensional experiential sense of oomph. Some (right…me) have labeled it all Energy Art.
Slow handwriting rules at Kingston’s Brush & Reed
Native America: Old and New at Unison
Landscapes meet abstracts in new High Falls show

’90s Nickelodeon nostalgia comes to Hudson Valley

Calling all ’80s and ’90s babies: climate change and student debt got you down? A nostalgic, alcohol-infused evening with some Nickelodeon stars might be just the ticket. Two events in the “Nostalgia Personified” tour will be held in the next couple months in Newburgh and Woodstock.
New Paltz High School Drama Club unravels saga of split families in The Journey to Home
Jay Leno to perform at UPAC in Kingston
Native America: Old and New at Unison

Challenging white nationalism is topic of next “One New Paltz” book

The book being discussed, Rising Out of Hatred: the Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, recounts how Derek Black, heir apparent to the “largest racist web site in the world,” learned to question the beliefs he’d been taught his entire life and repudiate the movement. From November 3-9 a number of community events have been organized to provide opportunities to grok the message of dialog and redemption central to Black’s transformed thinking.
Faces of Kingston: Daniel Rhinier
KTD Abbot Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche passes on
Remember the Burning of Kingston

In Saugerties, experiential simulation examines the impacts of poverty on education

Do we really understand the stresses poor folks go through? Faculty across the Saugerties school district took part October 9 in a “poverty simulation” organized by Ulster BOCES, a role-playing exercise designed to give teachers and administrators a clearer understanding of what some of the district’s students go through on a daily basis.
New Paltz superintendent of schools announces resignation
For first time in years, Kingston’s school enrollment rises
Saugerties schools increase security

On the Rocks: A dark and stormy night

By the midnight of this awful night the storms had passed, and things had settled down. Where there had been colorful marine meadow, now there was the barren desolation of a fresh 10-inch thick deposit of coarse sediment. Few seafloor creatures were still alive; many had been broken up into a shell hash. As the moon rose over the dark sea floor, the last grains of the finer, lighter sediments were falling out of suspension like a marine dust. The new deposit was settling and compacting under its own weight. It was beginning a long process that would very slowly turn it into limestone. That limestone is still there, exposed along Rte. 9W.

Remember the Burning of Kingston

Friday-Saturday, October 18-19. While a reenactment of the Redcoats’ landing and skirmish with the local militia at Kingston Point won’t be happening this year, some new features have been added to the semiannual commemoration of the disastrous sequence of events in 1777, when British forces took over the city, setting buildings afire as they moved from east to west.
Tivoli hosts Eleanor Roosevelt celebration, bronze bust dedication
Have an old bottle? Bring it to the Hudson Valley Bottle Club open house
Whitman’s 200th to be celebrated at Slabsides Saturday

Dutchess Fairgrounds host NYS Sheep & Wool Festival

Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 17-20: There will be opportunities to shop for wool, learn different crafts, admire llamas and alpacas on parade and root for your favorite sheepdog.
Bard hosts second annual John Cage Mycology Weekend
Monarch butterfly release party held in conjunction with the first anniversary of River-to-Ridge trail
Longyear Farm Day benefits Woodstock Land Conservancy

Columns

On the Rocks: A dark and stormy night

Politics & Government

Hughes, Klepeis, Pryslopski seek reelection to Rosendale Town Board

In the Rosendale Town Board race, three incumbents are running uncontested: John Hughes, Ernest Klepeis and Chris Pryslopski. All three names will appear on the Democratic line, and Klepeis and Pryslopski on Republican and other lines as well.

Crime, News Wire

Police: Two men tried to rob Hudson Valley grandparents with bail scam

It’s a new and common scam: A grandparent receives a call from someone impersonating their grandson asking for bail money to be provided immediately. Two men almost got away with it again, but got greedy and asked for more money after the initial payment. When one arrived to pick up the money, state police were waiting for him.

Politics & Government

Mailers showing Dem DA hopeful with convicted felon spark controversy

Ulster County Democratic District Attorney hopeful Dave Clegg is dealing with the fallout this week after a George Soros-backed political

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