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General News, Health

Hospital making progress in helping ‘multi-visit patients’

HealthAlliance’s mandate to treat everyone who walks through its doors means its emergency room often has to tend to persons not suffering an acute health crisis but, rather, dealing with a complicated mix of homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse, with some patients clocking over 100 visits a year.
People & Places

Saugerties man goes out with a bang

Terry O’Connell wanted to die in his sleep, be cremated and shot out of a gun. He got his wish.
People & Places

Where, exactly, is “Upstate New York”?

Where does it begin? What are its boundaries? In which part of Canada does it terminate? Nobody seems to know. But everybody is willing to go to the mattresses to settle the question.
General News

On health care, most NY-19 Democratic candidates call for sweeping changes

The once radical idea of nationalizing the health-insurance industry and providing taxpayer funded health-care with no out-of-pocket expense at the point of contact has been embraced by the majority of House Democrats- and a majority of the candidates for New York’s 19th Congressional District.
General News

‘Napa meets New Paltz’: the latest on the Wildberry Lodge project

The $42m project, located on 57 acres along Rt. 299 and South Ohioville Rd., is expected to break ground in summer 2019 and include: a spa and wellness center, 90-room hotel, two conference facilities, restaurant, outdoor amphitheater, 15,000-sq-ft butterfly sanctuary and “treehouse and canopy adventure.”
Community, Food & Drink

Hudson Valley Farmers’ Markets: 2018 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.

Saugerties gears up for annual July 4 fireworks

The Kiwanis Club of Saugerties has passed the baton of coordination of the community’s Fourth of July festivities to the Saugerties Lions Club this year. Although the long-standing ceremony will go largely unchanged, the transfer is significant; after 34 years of hosting the festivities, Kiwanis members could no longer handle the event alongside their ever-growing list of community involvements.
Saugerties student filmmakers tackle dating violence
Why was Duck Pond drained? And how did it come to be built, anyway?
A memorial swim is held at Minnewaska for Terry Laughlin

Community planning in Esopus — from the roots, upward

First-term supervisor Shannon Harris is focusingon issues like access to the Hudson and Rondout, agri-tourism, and hamlet-specific issues. (Town residents, unless they’re from the hamlet of Esopus, tend to say they live in Ulster Park, Port Ewen, St. Remy or one of the other hamlets.)
This week in NY-19: Rhodes picks up Times endorsement, Beals “tell-all” to air on This American Life
Latest version of New Paltz “CVS Project” drops the drugstore
Woodstock inches closer to regulation of short-term rentals

Politics & Government

Tales from the trail: Beals campaign takes aim at corporate power and income inequality

Do you think the system is rigged in favor of corporations and the rich and against everyone else? That fundraising success in a candidate is a signal that they’ll be on the side of the big money and against the little guy when it counts, no matter what they tell you? That we need a sharp-elbowed fighter openly antagonistic to Wall Street, corporate America and members of his own party willing to play ball with those forces? That Democrats are losing not because they aren’t appealing to moderates but because they aren’t supporting bold and sweeping proposals that directly address the problems of the 99 percent? Then Jeff Beals just may be your guy.
Politics & Government

Agriculture and education: On the trail with Erin Collier

A local town official, when asked what she thinks of the candidate, says, “She got into the race late, so she’s got a tough road ahead. She has the agricultural community on her side. She’s young and female. Those are all good.”
Politics & Government

Making a habit of listening: On the trail with Brian Flynn

His weekends include shuttling among forums, meet-and-greets, and festivals where he can chat with voters. On weekdays, he goes to meetings with local Democratic committees and groups representing specific issues such as opioid recovery or Medicare for all. “This Tuesday, we hit meetings in all five counties,” Flynn says.
Politics & Government

Roots and service: On the trail with Pat Ryan

Ryan believes his profile as a U.S. Military Academy graduate, combat veteran and Kingston native with deep roots in his hometown is the right mix to present progressive ideas, like single-payer healthcare and an assault weapons ban, to a largely rural district split near-evenly between Republicans, Democrats and non-party-enrolled voters.
Politics & Government

Candidate takes the road less traveled, stressing the way a congressman can help with small-town problems

Gareth Rhodes recently completed his Winnebago trip to all 163 towns in the NY-19. The Ulster County native and former Cuomo aide shares many positions with his competitors for the Democratic nomination. What makes Rhodes different is he spends just as much time talking about local issues that don’t map neatly on to the left vs. right divide, including the lack of a maternity ward in three counties in this district, dealing with falling numbers of volunteer EMTs and firemen and fixing sidewalks damaged by snow plows.
Politics & Government

1000 grass roots: On the trail with Dave Clegg

NY-19 candidate Dave Clegg says he is “one person removed from just about everyone I meet.” He’s been a Hudson Valley resident for 36 years, and he’s hoping those local connections are enough in a race against better-financed and more polished opponents who have spent little of their adult lives living and working in the district.
Politics & Government

Tales from the campaign trail: Delgado’s diner tour

“I’m for those values I was raised with: compassion, understanding, sympathy and shared prosperity,” said Delgado, more than once.

Rocking Horse Ranch celebrates 60th anniversary

The New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce, Ulster County Tourism and representatives from both Ulster and Dutchess counties were on hand for a special ceremony June 1. The Turk family was presented with multiple plaques, as well as a proclamation from Ulster County Legislator Herb Litts commending Rocking Horse Ranch on 60 years of serving guests and the local community.
New owner of Saugerties mansion discusses plans for B&B and restaurant
Faso stops by Saugerties equipment rental business to talk regulations
Boombox Kitchen and Bar serves up wings, gyros, beer and video gaming with a retro vibe in New Paltz

Immigrant kid taken from parents at border being kept in Kingston

On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Steve Noble issued a statement acknowledging the presence of a separated child at a “local federally funded youth residential care program.” According to local immigration activist Emma Kreyche, the only ORR-contracted facility in Kingston is the Children’s Home at 27 Grove St.
Catskills watershed lends its expertise across the pond
Cuomo: Migrant child separated from family being held in Kingston
Should Lloyd be renamed Highland-on-Hudson? (with poll)

General News

Immigrant kid taken from parents at border being kept in Kingston

On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Steve Noble issued a statement acknowledging the presence of a separated child at a “local federally funded youth residential care program.” According to local immigration activist Emma Kreyche, the only ORR-contracted facility in Kingston is the Children’s Home at 27 Grove St.

Community

Saugerties gears up for annual July 4 fireworks

The Kiwanis Club of Saugerties has passed the baton of coordination of the community’s Fourth of July festivities to the Saugerties Lions Club this year. Although the long-standing ceremony will go largely unchanged, the transfer is significant; after 34 years of hosting the festivities, Kiwanis members could no longer handle the event alongside their ever-growing list of community involvements.

General News

Catskills watershed lends its expertise across the pond

When Danielle Hitt of Welsh Water, a private water and sewage company in Great Britain, jokingly called the New York City DEP “the Beyoncé of the water industry.”

General News

Cuomo: Migrant child separated from family being held in Kingston

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that over 70 migrant kids are being held in New York State after being separated from their families, with one child being housed at a facility in Kingston. Congressman John Faso is supporting legislation that would address the issue along with other immigration-related provisions, including funding for a border wall and addressing the legal status of “Dreamers.”

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