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General News

Fixing the tunnels: Progress report on DEP’s Catskill Aqueduct

The work was long awaited for many…and a ﬁrst act of a much longer production yet to unfold as New York City grapples with decades of aging infrastructure over the coming years.
General News

Anti-domestic violence program to be widened

For the past three years, Kingston has served as a proving ground for a cutting-edge initiative aimed at preventing domestic violence using “focused deterrence.” Now, armed with data showing its effectiveness, District Attorney Dave Clegg said this week he wants to take the “Intimate Partner Violence Intervention” [IPVI] program countywide.
Books, Local History

Book tackles early racial injustice in Upstate New York

Back in December, 1905, when Kingston still got its water from the Zena reservoirs and Cooper Lake was twinkling in the city’s eye, Oscar Harrison was murdered near the water supply. An African American man, Cornell Van Gaasbeek, in whose house the body was found, was charged with the crime and tried in Ulster County Court. He was defended by a local reformer, part politician Augustus H. Van Buren, as the trial unfolded amid the charged racial climate of the early 20th Century.
Community

Hudson Valley women’s mentoring group needs volunteers

“It’s so satisfying to see her happy and successful and excited now about the future,” said Nancy Sweeney, who volunteers with Kingston-based Raising HOPE, designed to help women succeed despite challenges that have, in many cases, landed them in the social services system. The organization was founded in 2007 to give women who no longer needed such services the help that would keep them moving forward rather than falling back into the system. Today Raising HOPE serves a range of women from all over Ulster County seeking help with education and careers, and a recent grant from the Novo Foundation is expanding their services, increasing the need for new mentors.
Food & Drink

Hudson Valley burrito named one of nation’s best

Ingredients include vegetable rice, black beans, coleslaw, guacamole, pico de gallo, onion marmalade, a sweet chili sauce and cilantro. But the star of it all is the tender, juicy, short rib.
Politics & Government

Ulster exec promises 1,000 jobs in 1,000 days

The focus of Pat Ryan’s first State-of-the-County address at Kingston High School was programs and initiatives that would provide more economic opportunities to keep more young people in Ulster County after graduation. Ryan graduated from the school 20 years ago.
Voices

Poll: The rising cost of rent

Rents are increasing across Ulster County. What, if anything, should be done?
General News

Fewer prisoners, fewer guards? Staff levels at Ulster jail questioned

Ulster County lawmakers say they anticipate a “hard conversation” about staffing levels at the Ulster County Jail in light of both the new bail reform law and a broader trend away from incarceration for low-level offenders. But Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa said this week he believes it’s still too early to predict what the long-term impact of the reforms on the jail population will be.

Shandaken launches aggressive campaign for cell service

The campaign to bring Verizon Wireless service to Shandaken is heating up. A change.org petition from Shandaken Town Clerk Joyce Grant to the NYS Public Service Commission and Governor Cuomo is, at this writing, closing in on a 1000-signature goal. Virtually every business in the bustling Shandaken hamlet of Phoenicia has a print version, too.
Kingston looks at alternatives after rent control ruled out
Opioid fatalities fall in Ulster
New Paltz water declared safe to drink, but questions linger

Woodstock board members concerned about town offices design

Woodstock Town Board members continue to express concerns about the design for the Comeau town offices renovation and a desire to make sure it is in character with the existing building.
Dutchess’ Van De Water announces GOP run for Congress in NY-19
Term limits for Saugerties town officials discussed
New Paltz board offers diversity of views on plan to map environmentally sensitive areas

Spyro Gyra plays Towne Crier in Beacon

Friday, Feb. 21: Driven by the effortlessly tuneful, graceful playing and composing of reed-player Jay Beckenstein and a light-touch, globally spiced approach to groove, Spyro Gyra unfortunately became a pivot point in the argument about jazz fusion: Were they true heirs of jazz gravity and genius like the first wave of great fusion bands (from Weather Report to early Pat Metheny Group), or were they the godfathers of lite jazz and ’70s TV themes, just a few stone-throws away from you-know-who, with the Kenny and the G?
Reed master Don Byron plays the Falcon
Poughkeepsie hosts Hudson Valley Gospel Festival this weekend
Kaki King to play BSP

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco coming to Poughkeepsie

Friday-Sunday, Feb. 28-Mar. 1: Recipient of Billboard’s inaugural Comedian of the Year award, comedian, actor and best-selling author Sebastian Maniscalco performs no fewer than six times at the Nesheiwat Convention Center in Poughkeepsie.
Cave Dogs: Liquid States shadow play at SUNY-New Paltz
Gwen Christie stars in National Theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rosendale Theatre
UPAC presents Lewis Black in Kingston

Jared Reinmuth talks about new graphic novel Big Black: Stand at Attica in Saugerties

Saturday, Feb. 29: Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth and art by Améziane, is the memoir of Frank Smith, a prisoner-negotiator during the Attica prison revolt.
Sojourner Truth Life Walk ends with slideshow by two sculptors of famous activist
Poughkeepsie pioneer: Meet Jane Bolin, first black woman judge in the US
What the New Paltz newspapers said 100 years ago

Possible mountain lion sighted in the Hudson Valley

An Ulster County man shared an image of what appears to be a mountain lion he said he caught on a game camera last week. The DEC agrees that it looks like a mountain lion, but would like to know more to establish it really was photographed locally.
The limestones of Noah’s flood?
Owl prowl in New Paltz
Wings of desire

Crime

Police looking for man who robbed Saugerties QuickChek Sunday night

Saugerties police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man who robbed the Route 9W QuickChek at 7:06 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23 while wearing a white ski mask.

Politics & Government

Woodstock board members concerned about town offices design

Woodstock Town Board members continue to express concerns about the design for the Comeau town offices renovation and a desire to make sure it is in character with the existing building.

Politics & Government

Dutchess’ Van De Water announces GOP run for Congress in NY-19

A second Republican has entered the race to unseat U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-Rhinebeck) in November’s election.

General News

Shandaken launches aggressive campaign for cell service

The campaign to bring Verizon Wireless service to Shandaken is heating up. A change.org petition from Shandaken Town Clerk Joyce Grant to the NYS Public Service Commission and Governor Cuomo is, at this writing, closing in on a 1000-signature goal. Virtually every business in the bustling Shandaken hamlet of Phoenicia has a print version, too.

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