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Whatever happens this year, it’s a great comfort to me to feel like the school is on my daughter’s side. They don’t always get it, but that’s what every kid deserves.
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Kapeluck’s By Time and Gravity
A launch concert for his just-released album will be held on Sunday, September 9, at 8 p.m., at Colony Woodstock, 22 Rock City Road.
Woodstock Library budget passes 75%-25%
The Woodstock Library budget passed overwhelmingly in September 6 balloting, by a margin of 511-166.
Both Faso, Delgado like what Siena poll said
The NY-19 congressional poll gave Faso a 45-40 advantage, but Delgado supporters see reasons for optimism.
Olive Day returns to Davis Park
Olive Day, which takes place 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, September 8, in Davis Park, just off Route 28A at Watson Hollow Road, in West Shokan, started off as a political party fundraiser. But as the rest of the nation has turned more partisan, Olive Day’s become increasingly bipartisan, ecumenical almost, in its self-consciously old-style celebration of country living and lifestyles, and accompanying heartfelt display of a community’s love for itself and its uniqueness.
VanBlarcum, Figueroa square off for Democratic line in Sept. 13 primary challenge
The Ulster County sheriff, a Democrat, was denied his party’s nod in May after taking several controversial positions during his most recent term. But only a few hundred vote at the nominating convention. The rest of the party will have its say this Thursday. At stake? The line with the most registered voters in the county.
Teen arrested for threatening school shooting wanted to transfer to different school
In the posting, the teen said he wanted to go the school and “shoot it up” right now, and that he didn’t care if he went to jail. He was charged with the felony of making a terroristic threat.
Zulma Steele: Gender blender extraordinaire
A renowned beauty and intellect of legendary sensuality and style, she was praised, envied, scandalized, even worshipped (for one, by Byrdcliffe’s founder Ralph Whitehead, who named the domicile he built for her “The Angel.”) But though she was the first great woman artist of Woodstock, her face remains all but unknown to us.
Morte Las Vegas
Morte Las Vegas, where beneath the faux glamour, the phony fleeting thrills, the perpetual hope that the next card or the next number will produce untold riches, and the cut-rate abundance, the bottom line is always the bottom line. R.I.P. America.
Proposals are in for new Woodstock Library
The three architects chosen as finalists presented to library trustees and the public their proposals for a new Woodstock Library facility with cost projections ranging from about $4.9 million to $7.2 million.
