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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.
Columns, Nature

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.
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.
Politics & Government

Tally continues in Ulster DA’s race

Last week, election officials completed their count of absentee and affidavit ballots, leaving Democrat Dave Clegg with a 45-vote lead over Republican Mike Kavanagh. On Wednesday, Dec. 4, both sides appeared in court to begin the process of counting or dismissing 289 ballots that have been subject to challenges.
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.”

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,
Kingston After Dark: We salute you
Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market this weekend features 100+ vendors
Big Takeover to play back room at BSP

Kaatsbaan names Stella Abrera artistic director

She joins executive director Sonja Kostich at the helm of the prominent 30-year-old Hudson Valley dance organization. Says Kostich, “Stella is an extraordinary figure in the cultural world and an inspiring advocate for Kaatsbaan, both as a female Filipino-American leader and as an artist, and I’m elated to welcome her as my new partner at Kaatsbaan.”
Parasite is an instant classic merging horror, social commentary
Performing Arts of Woodstock’s timing feels perfect with The Realistic Joneses
Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman to speak at Rosendale Theatre screening of Kundun

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.

$17M expansion of National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor now underway

The Purple Heart is the US military’s oldest medal, created here by General George Washington toward the end of the Revolutionary War to recognize meritorious service. New York governor Andrew Cuomo is touting the museum’s improvements as part of a multifaceted campaign to make New York State, home to nearly 750,000 military vets, “the most veteran-friendly state in America.”
Lenape/Delaware Native American Center concept to be discussed in Stone Ridge
“Requiem for Ashokan” opens at Olive Free Library
FDR site screens new documentary on Frances Perkins, architect of the New Deal

New column: Ask a Professor — Why is the recent discovery of an ancient trove of massive galaxies significant?

Vassar professor Debra Elmegreen is president-elect of the International Astronomical Union – the largest organization of professional astronomers in the world – and will begin her three-year term as president in 2021. Like Maria Mitchell more than 150 years ago, Elmegreen was recently elected into membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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
Ask a naturalist: Deer antlers, squirrel nuts, shrew sustenance & bobcat comeback

Education

New Paltz Superintendent Maria Rice to leave at end of month; interim replacement named

New Paltz Superintendent of Schools Maria Rice will be leaving her post in the New Paltz Central School District at the end of December, two-and-a-half years after she retired from that same job.

Politics & Government

Saugerties town budget increases spending 3%

The Saugerties Town Board has approved a budget for 2020 that will increase spending by 3.06 percent, a total of $393,322, from this year’s $13.2 million dollar plan.

Art & Music

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,

Community

More than 1,000 join New Paltz Turkey Trot honoring Kathy Cartagena

This year, the Trot was named in honor of longtime Family of New Paltz director Kathy Cartagena, who passed away earlier this year. True to her spirit, the event garnered upwards of $40,000 and had so many participants that the organizers ran out of race bibs.

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