Tag: heroin

A regional social services group says it’ll provide Ulster County addicts with clean needles, training in the use of anti-overdose ...

Walking Man sculpture by Alberto Giacometti. Once, dinosaurs roamed New York. Not long ago they were so numerous herds of ...

Martha Frankel (photo by Dion Ogust) The seventh annual Woodstock Writer’s Festival joins the local dialogue on the drug epidemic, ...

I knew that there would be a large group of people at St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church this past Saturday, ...

Lea Kwiecinski (photo by Violet Snow) The February 29 overdose death of 20-year-old Phoenicia resident Ryan Molnar has jolted Shandaken ...

The Onteora District Board of Education had its first reading on a new policy that would allow the administration of ...

A former addict looks at heroin addiction and is shocked by its pervasiveness in Woodstock. "I could never have imagined ...

Kasandra Quednau and Shayna Micucci, founders of the Rt. 212 Coalition (photo by Dion Ogust) The Rt. 212 Coalition meeting ...

Kasandra Quednau A contentious point of debate came during the forum held by the Onteora Central School District at its ...

The Rte. 212 Coalition held its second meeting February 9 at Bread Alone. (photo by Dion Ogust) The Rt. 212 ...

(Photo by KJ Garbutt) Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said that he would continue to resist calls for a dedicated drug ...

Aidan Ferris and Rachel Marco-Havens. Graduation from college with sky-high debt and few available jobs. The risk that fracking or ...

Heroin addicts put their syringes in trees to keep anyone from stepping on them. (Photo: Thomas Marthinsen via Flickr) Local ...

Organizers Shayna Micucci and Kasandra Quednau lead meeting. Rachel Marco-Havens and Police Chief Clayton Keefe engage in dialogue. (photo by ...

Anthony Heaney and Emily Sherry. (photo by Dion Ogust) The answers are vague, the ideas fleeting. They come and go ...

The memorial service for Harold Reilly, 24, was expected to draw two crowds to the Woodstock Community Center on December ...

(Will Dendis) You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Drug addiction is famously difficult ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Drug addiction is ...

Rachel Marco-Havens addresses forum. What a welcome beginning that was on Monday, November 16, when some 70 people gathered in ...

Concerned citizens listen at the forum in Town Hall. (photo by Dion Ogust) In the wake of two local drug-related ...