With its proposed merger with Fortis energy receiving maximum scrutiny now, we’ve been talking about how Central Hudson has been...

Ann Horowitz trains with Mike Quinn. (photo by Brian Hollander) Ann Horowitz puts down the dumbbells and says she has...

I used to live in Boston, some 40 years ago, as a young man driving a cab and playing rock...

Deborah Amos (photo by Dion Ogust) In the field, on the streets of Damascus or Aleppo in Syria, Deborah Amos...

How ironic that the task of being the editor of our special section on Health, Sports and Fitness should arrive...

Does it seem a little nuts to be talking to people about running for the town offices here in February?...

Consolidation is the buzz word. The 2 percent tax cap is the hammer. And, according to assemblyman Kevin Cahill, that...

Part of the difficulty in deciding whether to further restrict the ability of citizens to possess guns of one sort...

There is a lot of talk these days about how gerrymandered congressional districts, drawn to give one of the major...

If the world had indeed ended on 12/21/12, then we wouldn’t have to go over the fiscal cliff. Happy New...

Dreams die hard. For Earl Pardini and a dedicated group who populate the dream of a restored Catskill Mountain Railroad...

Michael Hein In a ceremony that featured generous dollops of mutual praise doled out by Ulster County executive Michael Hein...

Ulster County has done a good job for the last 20 years of making the garbage go away. That’s all...

Our new congressman, Chris Gibson, ran this year as a moderate, pragmatic, bipartisan bridge builder. In 2010, when he won...

Maurice Hinchey With this election cycle, we’ve seen our politicians veering leftward after they seemed to take hard rights in...

It’s the economy. No, it’s health care and medicare. Or Libya and Iran’s nuke potential. It’s the debate performances, the...

Teresa Williams and Larry Campbell. (photo by Dion Ogust) It was out of the ordinary. Something you might even label...

Baby needs a new pair of shoes. That ought to be the campaign slogan for the current push to legalize...

  In a district reputed to have 130,000 registered Democrats, about 10,200 (including some write-ins, which we’ll have to wait...

Schreibman, Hinchey and Tyner (photo illustration by Will Dendis) There are about 40 Democrats at the Brik Gallery in Catskill...