Hudson Valley One

Columns

The preppers are coming to town

The New York Times alerts us to a new trend: millennials buying property in the Catskills because it’s “filled with natural resources.” The piece makes for a satisfying rage-read.
Business

How will local media survive?

A panel of local media leaders – including our own Geddy Sveikauskas – was recently convened to discuss the future of their industry, and what that means for local communities.
General News

Sunset Garden owners say they’ve been maligned, defend their record

Daniel Goldstein, managing partner of E&M Management, the owners of local residential properties like 217-unit Sunset Garden, said his company has been painted in an inaccurate and unfavorable light by some residents and Town of Ulster officials.
Voices

Where’s SUNY?

When it comes to public higher education, New Yorkers deserve better. We are a state with considerable wealth, a highly educated citizenship, and we pay our fair share of taxes. We don’t deserve to see the next list of the best colleges and universities put out by some national media source only to find SUNY either non-existent or hidden near the bottom.

Cioni Building deal closes

It took nearly 18 months, but the sale of the Cioni Building, the Kingston City School District’s administrative HQ, to developer Neil Bender has finally closed.
Kingston’s bluecashew aims to equip and educate home chefs
Tops Friendly Markets emerges from bankruptcy with reduced debt
Half of Ulster County’s short-term rental proprietors are now paying the bed tax

Winter Expo shares climate-smart tips for coping with seasonal stresses

St. Joseph’s Church basement was buzzing with community members excited to learn and impart knowledge on how to make their homes more energy-efficient and winterized, as well as practical and professional guides on how to recycle, compost, reduce food waste and junk mail as well as one’s carbon footprint.
Parade, tree-lighting launch holiday season in Gardiner
Miracle on Main Street: Phoenicia celebrates the holiday season
A Holiday on Huguenot Street returns for its annual outing

Winter Expo shares climate-smart tips for coping with seasonal stresses

St. Joseph’s Church basement was buzzing with community members excited to learn and impart knowledge on how to make their homes more energy-efficient and winterized, as well as practical and professional guides on how to recycle, compost, reduce food waste and junk mail as well as one’s carbon footprint.

Politics & Government

Town panel examining Saugerties government’s impact on climate change

After a year of tireless cataloging, Saugerties’ Climate Smart Task Force aims to unveil a complete audit of each municipal facility’s (of which there are over 60) greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs by the end of the calendar year.

Politics & Government

New Paltz village limits building height to 3 stories on north side

The decision, which affects a mixed-use zoning area along North Chestnut Street, will reduce the current limit by one story. “We already have a downtown New Paltz,” said former mayor Tom Nyquist, expressing a view which is common among those seeking to scale back the current rules. Others, like architect David Toder, whose mixed-use Zero Place development is proposed for the area ,see the blighted North Chestnut corridor as precisely where a vision of 21st-century development should be unfurled.

Books

The Woodstock Flaneur

Michael Perkins’ latest book, The Woodstock Flaneur: A Saunterer’s Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Famous Small Town, will be celebrated with an Oriole9 reading Thursday, December 13, featuring a quintet of topnotch readers

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