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Art & Music

Some nuggets from the Golden Age of New Paltz

I was present (if not fully accounted for) during the Golden Age of New Paltz – and, if you’ll pardon my bias, I wouldn’t trade it for any other Golden Age, not even that of ancient Greece. That conviction has been reinforced by the current exhibition at the Wired Gallery in High Falls: “The Golden Age of New Paltz,” the first in a series of three exhibitions celebrating New Paltz artists of the 1960s.
Politics & Government

Saugerties Ethics Board: Parks & rec chief didn’t violate code

The town’s ethics committee has cleared Parks and Recreation Department chief Greg Chorvas of any wrongdoing in connection with a complaint that he pressured subordinates to attend a 2015 Republican caucus and urged them to vote for town supervisor Greg Helsmoortel and other Democrats seeking cross-endorsement.
Art & Music

Peter Wetzler, the MAD maestro

Thursday, August 3: The composer prepares for Kingston’s Celebration of the Arts concert, which will take place in a large tent called the Collective, on the site formerly occupied by the Kings Inn motel.
Art & Music

As a river city with a strong arts presence, Kingston could be ideal home port for orchestra boat

A private collector has made an offer on Louis Kahn’s Point Counterpoint II, but the owner turned him down, wanting to keep the boat in the public domain, where it can continue its mission of exposing youth in cities and towns along the nation’s navigable waterways to classical music. An upcoming concert in Kingston is the perfect vehicle showcasing Kingston’s commitment to do just that.
Politics & Government

Democratic challengers outraising Faso

In the crowded field of Democrats in the 19th Congressional District seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) next year, two have taken the lead in one respect — outraising the incumbent in what most observers expect to be an expensive race.

Debbie Lan’s pop opera On a Midsummer’s Night premieres in Rosendale

Friday-Saturday, July 28-29: “I’d walk around on campus and hear the kids singing the songs on the playground, and I thought, ‘Wow, they’re singing Shakespeare! Twelve-year-olds in sixth grade!’ “So I went back to the script, and in reading it I saw there was music everywhere.”
Woodstock Comedy Fest July 29 fundraiser features Jimmy Roberts
East meets West, with complications, in The Big Sick
Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut in Woodstock

Amen to art

Friday-Sunday, July 28-30: Secret City Woodstock returns this weekend. It has been called a tent-revival meeting for artists, a salon and even a “church of art.”
A door opens for Dvorák’s Dimitrij at Bard
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to perform at Bard
Blondie & Garbage play Bethel Woods

BioBlitz: Identifying plants and wildlife at Thorn Preserve

At last June’s BioBlitz, scientists and expert naturalists worked with local residents to identify 280 species of plants and wildlife at the Thorn Preserve in Woodstock. On July 28 and July 29, the third annual BioBlitz will again bring citizen scientists and volunteers to the 60-acre preserve for a search through meadow, forest, stream, pond, and wetlands, in an event that is free and open to the public.

Letters

Letters: Access to Faso’s office denied?

An activist and representative of the congressman disagree about whether the Kingston district office was declared off-limits to constituents seeking to fill out comment cards each Friday.

Nature

BioBlitz: Identifying plants and wildlife at Thorn Preserve

Nature

Boat brigade keeps watchful eye on Wallkill

Plagued by high levels of bacteria and chemicals from sewage discharges and runoff, the poor health of the Wallkill was evidenced by a bright green, toxic algal bloom last summer which lasted some 80 days before dying off.

Books

Mayapple Press holds its annual Writers’ Retreat

The sixth annual Mayapple Writers’ Retreat, which takes place at Byrdcliffe from July 27 to 31, will present four public readings of poetry and prose by regional and national writers at a quartet of local venues including two restaurants, the Woodstock Library, and Byrdcliffe’s historic Villetta Inn.

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