WMCHealth manages change in a dynamic healthcare environment
Back on April 12, an amended press release from the hospital provided data on the new hospital wing’s first 100...
Ulster County’s only city finds a new identity
Forty or so invited attendees are formed in a half-circle in front of the podium in the former cigar factory...
Ulster County’s housing crisis: short-term fixes and long-term solutions
In August 2021 a plan was announced for Rupco to convert the Quality Inn hotel a half-mile closer to Kingston...
Despite economic uncertainty, three ambitious development projects move forward in Ulster County
It’s springtime, and despite high inflation-fighting interest rates and an uncertain economic outlook this year three significant development projects are...
Phoenicia pharmacy opens, bringing Ed Ullmann home to Shandaken
Close to a hundred of Ed Ullmann’s closest friends turned out this chilly Friday morning to celebrate the opening of...
The Town of Hurley is in a state of political transition
The political transformation of northern Ulster County from solid red to predictably almost-solid blue has been more than a half-century...
Well-known Hudson Valley hotel and restaurant will be “completely transformed”
Tom Struzzieri has decided not to sell the Diamond Mills Hotel and Tavern, the 30-room boutique hotel, restaurant and banquet...
Former police officer and UC Boces instructor charged with pension fraud
A former Westchester police officer has been charged in an eight-year alleged swindle. Anthony Sciacca is charged with taking $163,000...
In what senator Chuck Schumer once described as “a moon shot,” East Fishkill chip manufacturer promises billion-dollar investment
On Friday, February 10, New York senator and majority leader Chuck Schumer visited the East Fishkill semiconductor fabrication plant (called...
Enormous collection of historic Woodstock art opens this Saturday in New Paltz
Over 100 works chronicle Woodstock’s early days as an arts colony…
Kingston receives $1.8 million grant for energy upgrades and $1.5 million for photo center
Last week, the state’s energy research and development agency, Nyserda, awarded the city a grant of $1.8 million for energy...
With ribbon-cutting, RBW brightens 100,000 square feet of former IBM office space
About two months into commencing operations in an elegantly repurposed 100,000-square-foot ex-IBM space, the lighting firm RBW finally held a...
Why is an Olympic public authority running an Ulster County ski facility?
As part of a very complex political deal struck in Albany in the 2012 state budget, management of the floundering...
Ryan prevails by an even narrower margin in the new district
Sure, and it must be the luck of the Irish. On November 8, local congressman and former Ulster County executive...
A peek inside the new Center for Photography at Woodstock space in Kingston
In the possessive world of property, intention does not constitute ownership. Brian Wallis, executive director of the soon-to-be-renamed Center for...
Hinchey wins comfortably, Sue Serino defeated
Dealt a bad hand by redistricting, Republican state senator Sue Serino faced a very narrow path to victory in this...
Top Federal Reserve official fights inflation while calling Hudson Valley home
New York Federal Reserve president and CEO John Williams spoke in such folksy tones that few of the hundred or...
Kingston non-profit gets big bucks to fight gun violence
At a press conference Monday morning, lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado, state senator Michelle Hinchey and Kingston mayor Steve Noble advocated...
LED lighting company flourishes in Ulster County
Where they work affects how people work, workplace experts have long realized. Humans are extremely sensitive to their work surroundings....
Governor announces completion of much anticipated Kingston housing project
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced completion of a $25-million affordable housing development for seniors in Kingston. It’s now called a...
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