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Economy

It’s about us, Pat Ryan says

Ryan brings a different style to the county executive’s office and an excellent grasp of the local economy. This should be interesting.
Nature

Spotted lanternfly: New York’s newest insect invasion

While spotted lanternflies like tree of heaven best, they also like to eat almost everything else. They are known to feed on the sap of more than 70 plant species. Fruit trees and grapevines are being especially hard-hit in Pennsylvania. Hops are also a favored host, as are nut trees. So this creature’s imminent arrival in the Hudson Valley, with its agricultural economy, is cause for serious concern.
Community

Saugerties’ Jim Starlin: The man behind Thanos

Jim Starlin is one of the most important writers in the history of pop culture, but you likely don’t know his name. As a comics writer at Marvel in the 1970s, Starlin created Thanos, the villain who has supported the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, the cinematic juggernaut whose intricately-connected franchise movies have dominated international theaters for over a decade now.
Community

Sowing seeds of community: The New Paltz Rescue Squad

Most encounters with an ambulance are quite pedestrian: the flashing lights and wailing siren signal it’s time to pull the car over and let the members of the rescue squad pass. What’s a momentary pause in the lives of those New Paltz residents might represent a critical moment in the life of someone else, as that ambulance is bringing to their door a crew of professionals with sufficient equipment to do anything that might otherwise happen in a hospital emergency room.
Local History

The anatomy of an enigma: The unknown Hervey White

Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, Hervey 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.
Community

Social-media driven crowds, garbage, broken glass force Woodstock’s Millstream to close for swimming

Another popular swimming hole has fallen victim to an explosion in popularity through social media and travel websites, this time closing for good. The section of the Millstream just above the intersection where Millstream, Ohayo Mountain and Tannery Brook Roads meet, a popular summer spot for a century and more, also known to locals as Sully’s, has become too much to handle for its owners.
Community, Food & Drink

Hudson Valley Farmers’ Markets: 2019 edition

Farmers’ market season has returned to the Hudson Valley. All the markets listed below will be open as of this posting, unless otherwise noted, with most ending in October and November. Many carry on with less frequent indoor markets over the winter, but we’ll leave those listings for another time.
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.

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

Although the upcoming season of Maverick concerts will be its 104th – that’s right, it has been going uninterrupted for 104 years – the series changes in interesting ways from year to year. The season begins, on June 29, with the Bill Charlap Trio.
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.

Open letter to Mayor Noble: Don’t get involved in public art

“It is certainly within the city’s purview to regulate artwork installed on city property,” writes a reader. “But to create a further barrier to creation and expression on the facade of a privately owned business or home seems deeply misplaced to me.”

The swami and Stone Ridge

Whenever Vivekananda went on one of his exhausting lecture tours in the US, the Leggetts would offer their guru the use of their home, Ridgely Manor, as a country refuge for a period of rest and quiet.
Oscar of the Waldorf: New Paltz farmer, Manhattan maître d’ to millionaires
Bethel Woods marks Woodstock festival’s 50th anniversary
Archaeoastronomy lecture in Rhinebeck

Snappers on the move

There’s a survival reason for their testy tempers: The plastron or underside shell of a snapping turtle doesn’t cover all of its abdomen, leaving plenty of room around the legs for swimming movements. There are thus soft parts exposed that make the animal vulnerable to any large predator that managed to grab onto it.
Make way for the red eft
Meet the timid timber rattler
A visit to Split Rock

News Wire

Kingston’s Fuller Building prepares to welcome new tenants

The 113-year-old building that formerly housed the Fuller Shirt Factory will welcome a dozen new tenants into a renovated space.

Crime

Police still unsure of motive in father-son murder-suicide

It’s been a little over two weeks since a Saugerties man killed his father in the parking lot of a New Paltz diner and shot himself after losing control of his vehicle following a police pursuit, and investigators are still trying to piece together why it happened.

Politics & Government

Woodstock’s Comeau property needs maintenance help

A group that oversees the Comeau property is asking for help with trail maintenance that has not kept up with a significant increase in use and could lead to risk of injury. The last trail assessment was done in 2016, Comeau Stewardship Advisory Committee member Lisa Bonk told the Town Board at its regular meeting Jun 11.

General News

New Paltz officials discuss providing additional access to the Moriello Park playground

Full-time access to that playground was cut oﬀ when it was fenced in with the pool a number of years ago.

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