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...
Ulster County renters feel the squeeze of housing crisis
The market for Ulster County residential real estate has slowed, and in the late summer of 2022 it appears both...
Minnewaska State Park fire contained, but not extinguished
Governor Kathy Hochul announced late Sunday afternoon that after eight days of suppression efforts on the Napanoch Point wildland fire in...
Washington lionizes new member of Congress
Pat Ryan became a national celebrity following his narrow victory over Marc Molinaro in the special congressional election on August...
Blauweiss and Berelowitz outdo themselves
Stephen Blauweiss and Karen Berelowitz are two such strivers. Their impossibly detailed book The Story of Historic Kingston, Featuring 950...
The story of New York City’s reservoir system retold
The 198-page book, issued by a modestly sized New York City publishing house called The Experiment, contains lavish illustration, some...
Future power
The innovative storage battery maker Zinc8 Energy Solutions announced last Friday that it had signed a letter of intent to...
Big drug takedown
Charges against twelve members of a million-dollar local drug-selling organization were announced early Wednesday afternoon at the Ulster County sheriff’s...
Onteora district tries not to ignore challenging problems
The Phoenicia Elementary School held an unscheduled lockdown on June 1. Gordon Norton, a 21-year-old Woodstock resident, had breached the...
Elections will be highly unusual
Whoever heard of a candidate running in two elections for two different districts on the same day? Ulster County executive...
Home prices reflect economic shifts
People are still buying lots of homes in Ulster County in 2022, though in smaller numbers than in 2021. And...
Noted regional historian Vernon Benjamin dies
Vernon Benjamin, who died Monday, June 6, will probably be remembered most as an outstanding historian and a dedicated Saugertesian....
Mental-health commissioner must navigate complex relationships
The five million dollars in federal ARPA money allocated for the provision of mental-health services provides the spark of creativity...
Ryan and Molinaro run for Congress, Gallagher available to move up
Ulster County Democratic county executive Pat Ryan and his Republican Dutchess County counterpart, Marc Molinaro, announced they would run for...
Expanded High Falls museum provokes rich insights
A very impressive exhibit of canal-era artifacts had a soft opening at the D&H Canal Museum at the 1797 DePuy...
Kingston’s transformation draws new adherents
The move after 45 years of the Center for Photography in Woodstock from its iconic Tinker Street location — in...
“Melody did everything”
Melody Newcombe died this past Monday in Florida, according to Gloria Waslyn, current president of the Ulster County Women’s Network. A...
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