Hiker-friendly outdoor outfitter and recreation hub opens in Hudson Valley
BaseCamp is located at Benton Corners in Gardiner at the intersection of Bruynswyck Road and Route 44/55.
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Women entrepreneurs to seek Woodstock license for recreational marijuana sales
A group of entrepreneurs and social justice advocates believes it is poised to become Woodstock’s first recreational marijuana dispensary once the state opens applications for licenses for such facilities.
$12.5MM short? Potential budget gap predicted for Saugerties School District
Saugerties Central School District Business Manager Jane St. Amour recently detailed a potential $12.5-million budget gap by 2026 as part of a long-range financial projection presented to the Board of Education.
Catskill Terraces ten-lot subdivision approved
After nearly a year of discussion, adjustment of plans and hearings, Catskill Terraces, a ten-lot subdivision on 88 acres has received conditional final approval from the Town of Saugerties Planning Board.
New Paltz Middle school students will be given the privilege of using a locker
It’s time to teach kids in the New Paltz Middle School a skill that is new to many of them: how to use a locker. Those icons of life in public school have been off-limits since students have returned to the halls, because no one was sure how to keep the little ones six feet apart during that chaotic period between classes. The answer will be tight-fisted control over who gets to what lockers, and when.
Woodstock Library hopes for February bond vote
Woodstock Library officials are hoping for a February 15 referendum as to whether they can borrow the money — that is, bond for the funds — that will allow them to buy and renovate and then move to what will be the former Miller/Howard Investments building at 10 Dixon Avenue in Bearsville.
Downstream residents express concerns over Ashokan Reservoir discharges
Residents of the towns downstream from the Ashokan Reservoir voiced their complaints November 18 at the Frank D. Greco Senior Center in Saugerties to New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials about the brown water that has fouled the Esopus Creek over the past few years, and of flooding that they thought the reservoir’s dam was supposed to prevent.
Saugerties planners question self-service car wash
A self-service car wash in Saugerties that has no regular employees doesn’t need bathrooms, according to a developer who hopes to get approval and a zone change for his car wash.
Saugerties weighs weed retail and lounges, opinions divided
Opinion was divided on a set of new regulations that make a provision for cannabis-related establishments amongst larger zoning changes that officials say will bring more continuity to zoning regulations across the Town of Saugerties.
Woodstock planners will get a look at alleged clearcutting in Lake Hill
A family will get a second chance at approval for their dream home after three of the four Planning Board members who voted against a special use permit agreed to walk the property with an expert and discuss ways to build amid alleged illegal clearcutting in the Scenic Overlay District.