New library focused on African-American history opens in Ponckhockie
A former corner grocery store in Kingston’s Ponckhockie neighborhood has a new lease on life as a library and community...
Ben Wigfall remembered as African-American arts pioneer
Benjamin Wigfall, a retired professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and former owner of the Watermark Cargo Gallery in...
Masterson’s paintings highlight ‘people of the fields,’ now on view in Kingston
Barbara Masterson, who lives on a farm at the top of a small mountain in the southern Ulster hamlet of...
Kingston City Hall jammed for forum opposing Pilgrim Pipeline
Panelists portrayed the 178-mile pipeline as potentially dangerous and gave suggestions for those in opposition to make their voices heard.
Kingston’s ‘Santa Claus Lane’ residents go all out to light up the holiday
Each holiday season, Kingston puts on an impromptu display of Christmas cheer. Entire streets get into the act, of which...
‘Made in Kingston’ event shines light on local manufacturing
While the days of an IBM or DuPont opening a plant are gone, Kingston’s factory spaces, affordable prices and proximity...
Kingston’s Pauline Oliveros, world-renowned composer, passes on
The sudden passing at age 84 on Thanksgiving Day of Pauline Oliveros, an internationally known and celebrated electronic music composer...
Friends of Historic Kingston recognizes year’s best preservation
The seven recipients represented a rich cross-section of the various heart-felt efforts that are helping save, restore, document and repurpose...
Eclectic and welcoming: How Virginia Walsh and Ann Street Gallery brought first-rate art to a tough neighborhood
One of this season’s most exciting art exhibitions is “Power and Politics” at the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh. It...
The saga of Bob and Pat Cohen
“We got married in 1996, and at the wedding we had ministers, priests and parole officers”
Home-movie footage of FDR’s 1940 Kingston visit found, put on DVD
On the afternoon of Nov. 4, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade swept into Kingston, after traveling north over the Wurts...
In wake of skeptical report, Kingston dentist holds pro-flossing rally
Kingston dentist holds rally to promote oral hygiene technique
O+ Festival spotlights female creativity in Kingston this weekend
This year’s festival will include numerous acts with a feminist bent, underscoring the theme of “Mothers of Invention.” The festival,...
Changing of the guard at the Hudson River Maritime Museum
The hiring of a full-time, salaried executive director was necessitated by the museum’s dramatic growth.
This Ulster County hayride was rated #1 in the U.S. by the New York Daily News, USA Today and MTV
The scary season is underway.
Irish Cultural Center’s zoning a millions-of-dollars question
What the Irish Cultural Center of the Hudson Valley will be may hang on whether, in the context of Kingston's...
Mini-retrospective of Mary Frank at Elena Zang Gallery
“I like work which asks questions, involving emotional states of mind. Beauty is not enough, because we live in urgent...
Proposed anchorages could unleash flood of petroleum shipping on Hudson
(Photo by Ian Burt) Starting in 2011, crude oil fracked from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota began to be...
Tappan Zee bridge build puts sturgeon under stress
DEC personnel net a sturgeon during a 2012 study. (Lynn Woods) Each spring, Atlantic sturgeon, a species dating back more...
Stimuli of July — Provoking images in city’s galleries
“Saved for Later” by Paul Evans. (Photo: Tara Cassady) “Residual Tilt,” the exhibition of Paul Evans’ small oil paintings on...
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