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General News

DA says cops handcuffed in trying to make Midtown Kingston safer

District Attorney Holley Carnright said this week that he believes a lack of proactive policing in Midtown Kingston and an increase in anti-police sentiment has complicated law enforcement’s efforts to address violent crime and drug trafficking in the neighborhood.
General News

County could take more of TechCity

In the latest chapter of the tortured saga of TechCity, Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan on Monday, Nov. 4 announced a county takeover of two tax-delinquent parcels at the former IBM Kingston site following a summary judgment by County Judge Donald A. Williams.
Art & Music

Cuneo sketches prove the walls can talk…

A recent discovery by owner Lizzie Vann and her team, which is renovating the newly renamed Bearsville Center at 291 Tinker Street, came in the form of dozens of sketches by artist John Cuneo covering the walls of two restrooms at The Peterson House, the old white house next to the Bear Café.
Voices

Poll: How strong is the sense of community where you live?

A lot has changed in the Hudson Valley since 2009. We’re wondering how readers feel the sense of community where they live and work has changed since that time.
Local History

Before the Deluge II: Tinker Street — From the Green to the Espresso

Tinker Street. What’s in a name? Well, that might be a good place to start before looking more closely at the Tinker Street that existed over a half-century ago. More than likely, the actual answer to the origin of the street’s name lies mainly in fact — though fiction might also play a role.
Local History

Rip Van Winkle: The local and mythic roots of Irving’s timeless tale

The story is not just the quintessential autumn Catskills tale, but also echoes many stories of a hero’s journey to another world and back again.

After fatal OD, Kingston police warn of fentanyl-laced cocaine

Kingston police say one person died and three others suffered non-fatal overdoses after using what cops believe is cocaine laced with the deadly opioid fentanyl.
Recycling charge passed on to New Paltz customers
In Saugerties, drive for a rebuilt animal shelter gets boost
Saugerties bluestone sidewalks replaced

Perry tops Kellogg In Hurley rematch

Hurley supervisor John Perry, a Republican, topped Democrat and former Woodstock town supervisor Tracy Kellogg in a rematch of their race two years ago, though control of the town board slipped away from the GOP with the elections of political newcomers Melinda McKnight and Peter Humphries on November 5.
Sofranko, Dems win in Olive
McKenna cruises in Woodstock
Shandaken squeaker: DiSclafani and Steen leading for town board, Stanley ahead for supervisor, but absentee ballots await

Faces of Kingston: Matthew Pleva

Matthew Pleva has both a recognizable face to many in Kingston and a portfolio of memorable, creative work that’s some of the best stuff Kingston has to offer. Pleva is a very interesting guy and it was a pleasure to get to interview him after having it on my “must do” list for a few years now.
Linda Ferrante takes the helm at New Paltz Rotary Club
Quilt made in honor of Woodstock veteran to be dedicated Nov. 11
Blood drive for Saugerties tot and others in need Tuesday, 11/12

Saugerties school staff to take on Harlem Wizards in fundraiser

Saugerties elementary school teachers and administrators will take on the Harlem Wizards in a basketball game in the Saugerties High School gym on Sunday, November 24. The fundraising event is sponsored by the Cahill Elementary PTA. The Wizards aim primarily to entertain crowds with a combination of “tricks, hoops and alley oops.”
In Saugerties, experiential simulation examines the impacts of poverty on education
New Paltz superintendent of schools announces resignation
For first time in years, Kingston’s school enrollment rises

Just a transition

The George Washington School on Wall Street in Kingston was the venue last Friday evening and Saturday for what its organizers termed an unconference. An audience of 200 showed up for “Surviving the Future: Connection and Community in Unstable Times,” billed as both a summit and a progress report on the sustained efforts of the past few years to organize radical political, economic and cultural consciousness-raising in and around Kingston.

FDR site screens new documentary on Frances Perkins, architect of the New Deal

Sunday, Nov. 3: Even if Frances Perkins hadn’t been the first woman ever to serve in a US presidential cabinet, or the longest-serving Secretary of Labor ever (12 years), she would still deserve a shining place in 20th-century history. She was a suffragist, worked with Jane Addams as a Hull House volunteer, advocated passionately for female workers after witnessing the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, became the highest-paid woman in New York State government as Industrial Commissioner, taught Sociology at Adelphi University, fought against child labor and for unemployment and a minimum wage – all before she even joined the FDR administration.
How Jack acquired his lantern
How treating supplanted tricking on Halloween in America
The Death of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White

Catskill Animal Sanctuary hosts Gobble & Groove Barn Bash

Saturday, Nov. 2: Are you a vegan or vegetarian who feels a little left out of the fun this time of year? Is your favorite part of Thanksgiving the presidential pardon for a couple of turkeys? The Catskill Animal Sanctuary is planning some festivities this weekend that will help get you into the holiday mood.
To bee or not to be: Rosendale Theatre screens The Pollinators
Ask a naturalist: Which kinds of trees make which color leaves?
Ask a Naturalist: When were apples first cultivated in the Hudson Valley?

General News

After fatal OD, Kingston police warn of fentanyl-laced cocaine

Kingston police say one person died and three others suffered non-fatal overdoses after using what cops believe is cocaine laced with the deadly opioid fentanyl.

News Wire

New Paltz’s Francois Barcomb advances to semifinals in Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Francois Barcomb of New Paltz continued his Jeopardy triumph last Friday, winning his quarterfinal match in the Tournament of Champions.

General News

Recycling charge passed on to New Paltz customers

Customers are now seeing a new “recycling sustainability” charge on their invoices in the amount of $3.31.

General News

In Saugerties, drive for a rebuilt animal shelter gets boost

A detailed rendering of a new Saugerties animal shelter and a schematic of its interior have been commissioned by a committee of local stakeholders. According to Adele Zinderman, daughter of shelter founder Marie Post and administrator of the Saugerties Animal Welfare Fund, these plans are a crucial element to receive needed grant funding for the proposed building.

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