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Economy

Community preservation

Ulster County is now signed on to a state law that allows it to levy a 2 percent tax on certain property sales to preserve aspects of community character. We’re talking about real money. One possible local use is to help protect open space.
General News, Health

Ulster County wants to cut opioid deaths in half

Among the most significant changes is a proposal to introduce “Medication Assisted Treatment” to the Ulster County Jail. MAT programs, which include the use of opioid substitutes like methadone and Suboxone have been proven effective in reducing deaths from opioid overdose and reducing addicts’ dependence on street drugs. But, until recently, corrections officials have almost universally resisted their introduction into jails and prisons.
General News

Bring Your Own Bag Act launches in Ulster County on July 15

With this move, the county anticipates the statewide act, scheduled for 2020 enforcement, with which New York will join only two other US states to date (California, of course, but also Hawaii) and 30 nations, from France to Madagascar.
Community

Volunteering is still alive and well in the Hudson Valley

America has always been a society of joiners, and it was in that spirit that Ulster County executive Pat Ryan last Friday signed resolutions at the historic Volunteer Fireman’s Hall on Fair Street in Kingston to authorize up to $6.2 million in bonding for construction of a public safety training center on Ulster Landing Park in the Town of Ulster.
Politics & Government

What happened to legal weed for New York?

In a historic legislative session last month, New York lawmakers passed a long-bottled flood of progressive bills covering everything from early voting to rent control. But legalized recreational marijuana failed to make the cut, despite support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and strenuous efforts by Democrats in the state’s two houses.
Crime

Saugerties man who killed father in New Paltz should not have had a gun: Law enforcement officials

A State Supreme Court justice approved the pistol permit over the strenuous objections, on the grounds of the killer’s repeated run-ins with town police, of Sheriff Juan Figueroa, Sheriff’s Chief Civil Administrator John McGovern and Saugerties Police Chief Joe Sinagra.
General News

Passed by state, rent reform coming to the Hudson Valley

The new law opens the door for rent control, caps security deposits, toughens regulations on evictions, bans “blacklists” of troublesome tenants, and more. The law was opposed by New York’s real estate interests, one of the most powerful lobbies in the state, and is the product of unified Democratic control of state government for the first time in over a decade.
Community

Make for the midway: 2019 guide to county fairs in the Hudson Valley

County fairs are for everyone: everyone who dares believe in our commonality, our blood ties to livestock and the Earth and in the high ritualistic value of pure diversion and unhealthy fats as your great-grandparents enjoyed them.

HBO auto wreck shoot in Rosendale canceled

Rosendalers bracing for possible traffic nightmares on the first morning of this weekend’s Rosendale Street Festival due to closure of part of Binnewater Road for filming can breathe a sigh of relief. The shoot, originally scheduled to take place at night from July 17 to 19, has been canceled.
Rosendale floodwall declared “stabilized” by DEC
Neighbors complain trucks still entering Saugerties construction & demolition debris dump despite DEC order
Not all happy with the new way of buses in Kingston

Notes from the Saugerties Village Board

Former village police chief led this year’s July 4 parade; should the rules regarding the right-of-way between Stella’s Station and Bluestone Roasting Co. be changed? Speed bumps at the village beach? Climate resiliency study.
Shandaken looks at new committee to write Short Term Rental law
Selina seeks to cooperate with Woodstock on former Lodge property
Developer of 51 Main in New Paltz presents revised site plan

What’s under there? Checking Woodstock Cemetery grounds for space with radar

SUNY New Paltz geology professor John Rayburn and two of his students came to the Woodstock Cemetery on June 26 with ground-penetrating radar equipment to determine what lies under sections of the property that are without gravestones. Members of the cemetery task force hope to find out if there are areas that could someday be used for burials, either of coffins or cremation urns.
Faces of Kingston: Nardia Bennett
Cindy Cashdollar given Key to the Woodstock
Fifteen thousand turn out for Saugerties’ Sawyer Motors Car Show

New Saugerties superintendent, business manager begin work

Superintendent Kirk Reinhardt and business manager Jane St. Amour took the helm July 1, after the district spent the 2018-19 school year with interim administrators in their place.
Retiring New Paltz High School principal Barbara Clinton looks back
Kingston district closing in on new principals for high school, Montessori school
Saugerties High School graduates 215

Art & Music

Aston Magna’s summer concerts to be held at three Hudson venues

Last season, Aston Magna tried out various venues in the Berkshires and the Hudson Valley. One of the most successful was the theater at Time & Space, Ltd. in Hudson.
Art & Music, Local History

Bethel Woods marks Woodstock festival’s 50th anniversary

In case you missed it, the Generation Gap is back with a vengeance. Maybe what we all need to facilitate intergenerational communication is to take some field trips together to the Museum at Bethel Woods.
Stage & Screen

Shadowland’s theater lineup in Ellenville

The first play of Shadowland’s season is a new drama by D. W. Gregory, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man. Based on true events, it chronicles the tale of Alexei S., a Soviet journalist with perfect memory who is seen as a threat by Stalin’s propaganda machine and targeted by a government censor.
Art & Music

PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz

PianoSummer founder and director Vladimir Feltsman describes the soon-to-perform pianist Vadym Kholodenko “one of the strongest pianists of his generation.”
Stage & Screen

Cyrano, Cymbeline, Much Ado and Into the Woods at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

It’s always tough to decide which shows to catch at any new summer season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, but 2019 – its 33rd year – is shaping up to be tougher than most.
Art & Music

“Madness in Vegetables” at Dorsky Museum in New Paltz

The title “Madness in Vegetables” references a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868, who is best-known for his turn away from the Symbolist movement and toward inspiration drawn from the natural world and a rustic life far from Parisian literary circles. “Madness in Vegetables: Hudson Valley Artists 2019” shares Jammes’ interest in our otherworldly entanglements with vegetal life and the endless potential for imagination that is found in the darkness of the underbrush and lightness of the overstory.
Art & Music

Bard SummerScape 2019 celebrates Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Among the most anticipated summer pleasures of the mid-Hudson Valley is Bard SummerScape, which uses a celebration of a different particular composer each year as an excuse to unlock a treasure chest full of cultural delights that look both backwards and forwards in time. This SummerScape will focus on a composer best-remembered for his film scores: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. An Austrian Jew and child prodigy who was lauded as a genius by the likes of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, John Williams credits Korngold’s score for King’s Row as his major influence for the Star Wars scores.
Stage & Screen

Powerhouse Theater season begins at Vassar

If you’re not gifted with precognition, the surest way to anticipate what stage hit is in the making is simply to attend plenty of each summer’s offerings on the Vassar College campus. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit show Hamilton got its start at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar.
Art & Music

Maverick Concerts’ 104th season lineup

The series, which features world-class jazz and classical music in a sylvan setting, has proceeded uninterrupted for over a century.
Entertainment

Opus 40 ushers in a season of performances, walks & workshops

The international experimental theater Dzieci returns to Opus 40 on June 22 and 23, presenting “the greatest (and only) East Molvanian circus in the world,” a Cirkus Luna! performance and workshop at 1 p.m. on Saturday and its visceral, innovative approach to Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Makbet, at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

DA hopeful Clegg: Bail reform needed right now

“The harms of unaffordable cash bail are unequivocal: people lose their jobs, homes and families while detained,” writes Ulster County district attorney candidate David Clegg. “Even worse, innocent people sometimes plead guilty just to get out of jail.”

News Wire

Police investigate apparent accidental drowning of Rosendale woman in Rondout Creek

A 44-year-old Rosendale woman was seen swimming in the Rondout near her residence on Saturday shortly before she was found and pronounced dead.

General News

HBO auto wreck shoot in Rosendale canceled

Rosendalers bracing for possible traffic nightmares on the first morning of this weekend’s Rosendale Street Festival due to closure of part of Binnewater Road for filming can breathe a sigh of relief. The shoot, originally scheduled to take place at night from July 17 to 19, has been canceled.

Education

New Saugerties superintendent, business manager begin work

Superintendent Kirk Reinhardt and business manager Jane St. Amour took the helm July 1, after the district spent the 2018-19 school year with interim administrators in their place.

Art & Music

WAAM readies for its July 20 centennial bash

The Woodstock Artist Association’s 100th Anniversary heats up again in the coming week as it heads towards its big Birthday Bash on Saturday, July 20, complete with cake and ice cream party in a tent out back of the classic building just off the Village Green.

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