Hudson Valley One

Economy

Kingston’s on fire again

Kingston’s burning, but this time don’t blame the British, embroiled as they are with Brexit issues. With median property prices increasing more than 20 percent in the first half of this year over last year’s first half, the market for Kingston real estate is hot.
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.
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.”
Community

Make for the midway: 2019 guide to county fairs in the Hudson Valley

County fairs are for everyone: everyone who dares believe in our commonality, our blood ties to livestock and the Earth and in the high ritualistic value of pure diversion and unhealthy fats as your great-grandparents enjoyed them.
Nature

Everything you need to know about the timber rattlesnake

Timber Rattlers can be found in the mountainous areas of the Hudson Valley, including the Catskills and Shawangunks. There have been no recent recorded cases in New York State of human fatalities from a bite from a timber rattler, but symptoms may be severe, including nausea, vomiting, paralysis and tissue damage, and an allergic reaction can certainly be life-threatening. A dog twice bitten in Minnewaska State Park in 2014 succumbed to the venom.
Community

Hudson Valley fire departments need more volunteers

The volunteer model, which supports nearly 90 percent of departments in New York State, is no longer providing enough firefighters. A switch to paid fire departments could cost an estimated $3 billion, and require a property tax increase of at least 25 percent.

Secret City’s Woodstock Revival

The shows combine art, food, music, storytelling, meditation, singing, performance, and community interaction in an artistic celebration that will take place this year from July 25 through July 28, at various locations in Woodstock.
Kingston After Dark: Peacebomb’s re-explosion plan
Woodstock 50’s latest setback
Southside Johnny to play free concert at Bowdoin Park

Arm of the Sea Theater seeking to make a permanent home in Saugerties

An abandoned paper mill from the late 19th century that has been of late a waterfront canvas at Tina Chorvas Park for graffiti has been fenced off and slated as the future permanent home for the nomadic puppeteers of the Arm of the Sea Theater and an educational site for children.
New doc about Cambridge Analytica scandal to be screened in Woodstock
Reality star shines: Jessie Buckley radiates big-screen talent in Wild Rose
Voice Theatre conjures up a frothy, frisky Blithe Spirit at Byrdcliffe

Faces of Kingston: Steve Rodriguez

I grabbed a slice of pizza Uptown and went for a stroll with Kingston’s own Steve Rodriguez for this week’s Faces of Kingston. Rodriguez is an affable, funny and insightful dude who can often be seen on the social scene or working hard to help people have an enjoyable time. Let’s get to know him a little better.
Jim Maloney recalled as dedicated public servant
Ed Ford retiring as Kingston city historian
Shawangunk Runners launch 46th year of Summer Series

Immunization policy in New Paltz schools revised, informational meeting planned for August

Now that New York State has removed the religious exemption that allowed parents to refuse to vaccinate their children on grounds of faith-based beliefs, the New Paltz Central School District has amended its official policy with regard to immunization requirements for students.
Incoming New Paltz High School principal takes the reins
New Saugerties superintendent, business manager begin work
Retiring New Paltz High School principal Barbara Clinton looks back

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.

Voices

DA hopeful Kavanagh: Bail reform creates threats to communities

A candidate for Ulster County district attorney argues that changes to the law would release more dangerous individuals into the community and make the opioid problem worse.

Business, Food & Drink

Rosendale’s Red Brick Tavern to be reborn as Santa Fe Burger Bar

One of Rosendale’s most popular downtown eateries and watering holes, the Red Brick Tavern, has been sold to new owners and is currently closed for renovations. The transfer of ownership from Billy and Michelle Loughlin to the group who run the Santa Fe restaurants in Tivoli, Woodstock and Uptown Kingston took place in late June.

Art & Music

Secret City’s Woodstock Revival

The shows combine art, food, music, storytelling, meditation, singing, performance, and community interaction in an artistic celebration that will take place this year from July 25 through July 28, at various locations in Woodstock.

Community

Faces of Kingston: Steve Rodriguez

I grabbed a slice of pizza Uptown and went for a stroll with Kingston’s own Steve Rodriguez for this week’s Faces of Kingston. Rodriguez is an affable, funny and insightful dude who can often be seen on the social scene or working hard to help people have an enjoyable time. Let’s get to know him a little better.

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