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Business, Stage & Screen

Movies return to Hudson Valley Mall tonight

After being without a movie theater since last August, the Hudson Valley Mall will once again host Friday-night movies. Here’s what’s showing.
Business, General News

Engineer says long environmental review for Kingstonian would kill project

As the city’s planning board is working to decide just how extensive the environmental review for the Kingstonian should be, an engineer for the developers of the site said this week he believes his bosses will pull the plug on the $53 million proposed residential, commercial and parking project if planners demand they produce a full environmental impact statement.
Art & Music

By the time we got to Woodstock: My brief interview with Michael Lang

Michael Lang can stake a legitimate claim to intellectual ownership of Woodstock, but he doesn’t. He is a “we” person when he talks, and over time you begin to notice that there are three levels to his use of that pronoun.
Explore, Local History

Bridges not too far: A brief history of the spans that unite us

Considered by many to be the jewel of the Hudson River bridges, the Mid-Hudson Bridge was created by the famous bridge designer Ralph Modjeski. And the financing of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge is considered by many to be an innovative precursor of FDR’s New Deal economic systems.
General News

Surge in evictions makes for tough times for Kingston tenants

As affordable housing issues take center stage in Kingston with a series of public hearings and heated debate over a major market-rate apartment complex being pitched for the heart of Uptown Kingston, a local activist group has published a study arguing that evictions in the city are reaching rates not seen since the housing crisis a decade ago.
Nature

The spring peeper is a little frog with some amazing abilities

These harbingers of spring have some remarkable talents. They can withstand being frozen solid for days, and can generate a sound comparable in volume to a chainsaw. Not bad for a creature that tops out at 1.5″ and 5 grams.

Assistant DA: Saugerties teen’s collapse not related to opioid-laced marijuana

A Saugerties teen’s apparent drug-related collapse in Greene County last week set off a cavalcade of rumors throughout the community, but a top county law enforcement official said this week the incident had nothing to do with alleged fentanyl-laced marijuana said to be circulating in the area.
Overdose investigation in Saugerties highlights personnel shortages, says police chief
Saugerties board convenes tonight on dump issues
Glasco residents want a traffic signal at dangerous intersection

Ulster County’s cash flow running low, says budget czar Gulnick

Ulster County’s next executive could come into office flying into financial headwinds, according to a memo from the county’s budget director. Challenges include: lower-than-expected sales tax revenue, a $1 million shortfall in jail boarding fees and $200,000 in unexpected costs associated with the April 30 special election for county executive.
New Paltz Village Board member suggests $10,000 raise for mayor
Notes from the Saugerties Village Board
New Paltz government officials consider local municipal ID card

Lake Katrine man arrested for public lewdness on rail trail

State Police arrested Douglas H. Lackner, 74, of Lake Katrine, on Tuesday, following a report of a male masturbating in front

News Wire

Flash flood watch in effect for area through Saturday afternoon

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flash flood watch for our area, effective from 8 p.m. tonight until 2 p.m. tomorrow.

Local History, Nature

John Bartram: botanist to kings and Catskills

The eminent Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus, father of modern taxonomy, called Bartram “the greatest natural botanist in the world.” And aristocrats eagerly awaited the arrival of their “Bartram’s Boxes”: bundles of seeds, saps and specimens shipped from North America. What brought him to the Catskills?

Nature, Stage & Screen

Baker Does Beethoven – with a lawnmower

Having previously created large-scale images of Elvis, Einstein, the Statue of Liberty and Jimi Hendrix in a field in Ellenville by expertly manipulating a lawnmower, Roger Baker fired up his push-mower by Sandburg Creek and began crafting Beethoven’s eyes in May 2016. The completed drawing on the living canvas of grass culminated in a series of performances of Beethoven’s music held on-site. Days later, as the grass grew and the dark and light areas melded together, the image vanished. It lives on in John Hazard’s new film.

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