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General News

Ulster County sheriff charts bold course to battle opioid crisis, including anti-withdrawal meds in jail

‘I’m going to be straight with you, I have my reservations,’ said Sheriff Juan Figueroa, who took office in January. ‘But what we’re doing isn’t working. We have to try a new approach.’
Politics & Government

First Pat Ryan budget holds the line on property taxes in Ulster County

The spending plan includes new allocations on initiatives in line with Ryan’s progressive vision for county government while holding the line on taxes.
Explore

New 11.5-mile rail trail promises great fall foliage views

The Ulster County-built Ashokan Rail-Trail, a long-awaited public recreational walkway (the county prefers the term “shared-use path”), will be opened to the public on Friday, October 18. First proposed in 2012, the 11.5-mile trail is ten to twelve feet in width, with a compacted crushed-stone surface that allows accessibility to persons with disabilities and limited mobility.
Food & Drink

A guide to Hudson Valley breweries, wineries, cideries & distilleries

From national canning operations to farmyard family operations, here’s the guide to all the drinks your backyard has on tap.
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.

Ulster thrift stores band together to expand reach

Now, a number of local stores communicate and advertise via the “Ulster County Thrift Stores” Facebook page, which can be followed by shoppers looking for attractive sales and deals and area thrift store volunteers looking to exchange strategies for better sales.
Woodstock tackles the scourge of single-use plastic
Strict dumping laws mulled after East Kingston trash rash
A new fire: This year’s Burning of Kingston takes a different tack

Two incumbents are running unopposed for reelection to the Gardiner Town Board

Franco Carucci is a relative newcomer to municipal government, appointed last spring to fill out the remainder of the term of Mike Reynolds when Reynolds resigned after moving outside the township. Trained as an attorney, and with many years of experience obtaining grants for municipalities as a principal of Shingebiss Associates, Laura Walls has served on the board for nearly four years; before that she was town supervisor for a single term in 2000-2001.
Two candidates for two seats on the New Paltz Town Board
Lloyd Town Board candidate profiles
County exec Ryan answers Woodstockers’ questions

Varga’s Art Experience

For years, art was hung salon-style. Then it was done the way SoHo galleries did it…with loads of white space surrounding each work. Here in the Catskills we have Varga-style, a cornucopic potpourri of everything blasted all around a series of rooms, with music and performance tossed in to give it all a multi-dimensional experiential sense of oomph. Some (right…me) have labeled it all Energy Art.
Slow handwriting rules at Kingston’s Brush & Reed
Native America: Old and New at Unison
Landscapes meet abstracts in new High Falls show

Jay Leno to perform at UPAC in Kingston

Friday, Oct. 18: The acclaimed late-night TV show host, standup comedian, best-selling children’s book author, corporate speaker, TV and movie voiceover artist, pioneering car builder and mechanic and philanthropist has earned the moniker “the hardest-working man in show business.”
Native America: Old and New at Unison
Zellweger’s powerhouse performance makes Judy a must-see
Woodstock Film Fest hands out awards

KTD Abbot Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche passes on

Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, the abbot of Woodstock’s Tibetan monastery, Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD), died on Sunday, October 6, at the age of 95 (or 96 according to the Tibetan lunar calendar.) Hailed by Tricycle, the American Buddhist magazine, as a leading figure of Tibetan Buddhism in the US, Karthar Rinpoche will be honored and supported on his death journey by seven weeks of ceremonies at Karme Ling, the retreat center in Delaware County where he made his home.
Remember the Burning of Kingston
Faces of Kingston: Ethan Scott Barnett
Woodstock guitar sculptures up for auction

In Saugerties, experiential simulation examines the impacts of poverty on education

Do we really understand the stresses poor folks go through? Faculty across the Saugerties school district took part October 9 in a “poverty simulation” organized by Ulster BOCES, a role-playing exercise designed to give teachers and administrators a clearer understanding of what some of the district’s students go through on a daily basis.
New Paltz superintendent of schools announces resignation
For first time in years, Kingston’s school enrollment rises
Saugerties schools increase security

Remember the Burning of Kingston

Friday-Saturday, October 18-19. While a reenactment of the Redcoats’ landing and skirmish with the local militia at Kingston Point won’t be happening this year, some new features have been added to the semiannual commemoration of the disastrous sequence of events in 1777, when British forces took over the city, setting buildings afire as they moved from east to west.
Tivoli hosts Eleanor Roosevelt celebration, bronze bust dedication
Have an old bottle? Bring it to the Hudson Valley Bottle Club open house
Whitman’s 200th to be celebrated at Slabsides Saturday

New column: Ask a naturalist

Which kinds of trees make which color leaves? Why do we see so many spiderwebs in the fall? When were apples first cultivated in the Hudson Valley? Can woolly bear caterpillars predict the weather?
Dutchess Fairgrounds host NYS Sheep & Wool Festival
Bard hosts second annual John Cage Mycology Weekend
Monarch butterfly release party held in conjunction with the first anniversary of River-to-Ridge trail

General News

Ulster thrift stores band together to expand reach

Now, a number of local stores communicate and advertise via the “Ulster County Thrift Stores” Facebook page, which can be followed by shoppers looking for attractive sales and deals and area thrift store volunteers looking to exchange strategies for better sales.

Politics & Government

Two incumbents are running unopposed for reelection to the Gardiner Town Board

Franco Carucci is a relative newcomer to municipal government, appointed last spring to fill out the remainder of the term of Mike Reynolds when Reynolds resigned after moving outside the township. Trained as an attorney, and with many years of experience obtaining grants for municipalities as a principal of Shingebiss Associates, Laura Walls has served on the board for nearly four years; before that she was town supervisor for a single term in 2000-2001.

Education

In Saugerties, experiential simulation examines the impacts of poverty on education

Do we really understand the stresses poor folks go through? Faculty across the Saugerties school district took part October 9 in a “poverty simulation” organized by Ulster BOCES, a role-playing exercise designed to give teachers and administrators a clearer understanding of what some of the district’s students go through on a daily basis.

General News

Woodstock tackles the scourge of single-use plastic

“One coffee to go.” “Sure. Did you bring your own reusable cup, or do you need a disposable cup?” This conversation may become standard at Woodstock cafés, as the Rethink Disposables Working Group rolls out an initiative to reduce the quantity of single-use plastic littering our environment.

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