Kids’ Almanac (7/12-7/19)
Taiko drumming in the cool confines of Rosendale’s Widow Jane Mine | Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall visits Saugerties
Voices
Instead of looking at the relative humidity, pay attention to dewpoint
Dewpoints in the 40s and 50s mean dry air, low 60s mean medium-dry air, high 60s and 70s indicate steamy conditions.
How the Hudson Valley Mall can survive the ‘retail apocalypse’
If you apply some retail analytics and look at longer-term trends, maybe the Hudson Valley Mall would be better suited as something else.
Why Riverkeeper supports the plan to remove Tillson Lake Dam
Removing the Tillson Lake Dam would not only save $8 million in construction expense, it would eliminate ongoing maintenance costs, reduce flood risks and improve the natural habitat and biodiversity within Minnewaska State Park.
The Eagle’s View: Change comes slowly to Saugerties
Town GOP chair to step down; Seth Turner heads to Long Island; Myers versus Kraft for town justice?; Free ride for town board?
SUNY New Paltz mechanical engineering program continues to grow
Science and engineering dean Dan Freedman is convinced that 3D manufacturing will continue to have a major impact “on any industry where you make things.” In manufacturing, it’s a design tool, he says, applicable to a very wide variety of problems and a variety of situations.
Hugh Reynolds: On to the general in NY-19
I don’t think it takes a political scientist to figure out how Delgado won this thing. He laid it out at one of the innumerable debates among the candidates. “I am the one man on this stage that has the fundraising ability and the organization to win in November,” he told the audience.
Too close to home
As you might expect, we at Ulster Publishing reacted with shock and sadness at the shooting at the newspaper office in Maryland which killed five people who do for Anne Arundel County pretty much the same thing we do for Ulster County.
Trash in/trash out
Folks who are using our local swimming holes, like Big Deep and Little Deep, have got to stop trashing the places.
Kids’ Almanac (7/5-7/12)
Revolution on Huguenot Street!
