An application review for a site plan and special use permit for a potential cannabis dispensary in the Village of New Paltz last week became a greater discussion about policy, particularly as it relates to traffic and the shared use of data. | Continue reading
Mayor Noble and the Water Department have escalated the Drought Emergency to Stage II for all City of Kingston water customers. | Continue reading
Carrying signs that expressed sentiments like “Control Guns, not our bodies,” “Uncle Sam, get out of my pants,” and “Keep your Rosaries off my ovaries,” about 200 protestors of the Supreme Court’s decision to end the reproductive protections afforded by Roe V. Wade gathered in th … | Continue reading
Car drives into Sunflower Market on Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. | Continue reading
The people have spoken decisively, and Woodstock has taken a major step toward getting a new library. | Continue reading
As soon as the new law is filed in Albany, it will be legal to ride an electric-assist bicycle on all New Paltz roads. | Continue reading
Woodstock’s planning board is willing to give The Colony beer garden on Rock City Road another chance at lowering the sound level of its music. A new proposal from the owners will offer to feature bands whose sounds don’t carry through the hills and valleys of the town famous for … | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Widely known in Ulster County and beyond as the prime pioneer of the Repair Café movement in the Hudson Valley, Wackman, age 69, died suddenly on Friday at his home in Kingston of an apparent heart attack. | Continue reading
An excerpt from a chapter of the authors’ upcoming book, available in December 2021, entitled “The Story of Historic Kingston: A Journey through the Hudson Valley and Its Connections With New York City.” | Continue reading
Your guide to New York State’s marijuana legalization law. | Continue reading
The Bearsville Theater’s pastoral streamside backyard lawn will heat up the summer season with live music in the newly renovated lounge bar, as Lizzie Vann presents the Americana Barbecue Music Series. The series will take place on Saturdays through Labor Day from 12 to 6 p.m. fo … | Continue reading
Nina Schmidbaur grew up next to the Dragon Inn on Route 9W in Saugerties, and as a small child, dreamed of one day owning the restaurant and restoring it to its former beauty. This may seem like a childish dream, but it recently came true and Schmidbaur is now the owner of the cr … | Continue reading
Ulster County's active cases fell by 40 percent over the weekend. | Continue reading
The naming of Woodstock's most recognized street has been steeped in both myth and conjecture over the years. | Continue reading
Repeated calls from local officials and residents for a large state-run vaccination site to be located in the Hudson Valley have been answered. First came the announcement of a temporary site at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, which will operate from March 5-10, and today the gov … | Continue reading
Woodstockers, rejoice: The Bearsville Theater complex, now called the Bearsville Center, has trumpeted its reopening, officially effective February 1. While no live concerts have yet been scheduled as of presstime, there’s good news on the culinary front: Closed since May 2019, t … | Continue reading
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild has announced that its 21st annual 5 by 7 Show fundraiser will debut online this year. | Continue reading
Dixon Roadside on Tinker Street and Silvia on Mill Hill Road opted to close this week following positive Covid-19 test results.In the case of Dixon Roadside, the positive test came from "someone who was inside" the restaurant on Monday evening, November 9. According to a message … | Continue reading
After a warm second half of October, the forecast is calling for snow in parts of the Hudson Valley on Friday, October 30.According to Hudson Valley Weather, steady rain today will become wet snow overnight from north to south. Friday morning will be windy, with a coating to one- … | Continue reading
In 2017, when I was teaching second graders music at Woodstock Day School, a seven-year-old got up in front of the class and performed the text-heavy (it’s all text-heavy) opening number “Alexander Hamilton,” to everyone’s astonishment. I should’ve known then: Get your ass to Bro … | Continue reading
Those entering the recently closed Big Deep and Little Deep in Woodstock now face a trespassing charge due to recent enforcement efforts by the town. Crowding and piles of garbage forced the Town of Woodstock to close popular Big Deep swimming hole. | Continue reading
“The news from Governor Andrew Cuomo [during his daily press briefing] about the Mid-Hudson Region being eligible for Phase 1 re-opening on Tuesday, May 26 is very encouraging,” said Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan. | Continue reading
It has been speculated that part of the attraction of this story for Ruffalo may be grounded in personal history: The actor’s younger brother Scott died of a gunshot wound in 2008, under circumstances never fully explained. In I Know This Much Is True he plays twin brothers, one … | Continue reading
Every day, the governor repeats the same song and dance. If we reopen the state too soon, he can promise those dropping virus infection numbers will spike up. I get it. He's not repeating himself because he has nothing else to say. He's repeating himself over and over to try to r … | Continue reading
This is Bunnyville. At least for now.When we moved here almost three years ago, we knew this place as Franklin. And so it is, on any map you might find. But this year, I'm noticing more wildlife than ever before. I don't think it's something new. I just think I'm home enough, an … | Continue reading
Notably, the declaration responds to the concerns expressed by many upstate residents about second-homeowners fleeing the epicenter of infection in New York City to seek shelter in more rural areas, using Airbnbs and similar short-term lodging, thus potentially infecting the Huds … | Continue reading
Ulster County is ramping up efforts to combat the coronavirus after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported on Sunday, March 8 in a local man who had recently returned from travel abroad. In response, the county has opened up its emergency operations center while public … | Continue reading
Arthur Vogel’s Willow Automotive, nestled on Route 212 in Willow, is as close to time travel as you’ll get in these parts. A couple dozen vintage automobiles in various stages of repair (or disrepair), surround the faded yellow-with-green-trim circa 1934 building. An ancient gas … | Continue reading
Don’t worry about making reservations; Dixon Roadside, like its sister Phoenicia Diner, doesn’t take them. It won’t even have normal table service, but a counter service and staff to run orders to people…sort of like the classic old roadside spots of 50, 60 years back. | Continue reading
The western section of the Ashokan Reservoir rail-trail, northern Ulster County’s latest public recreation attraction, will formally open on Thanksgiving Day, according to a county government press release. It has been closed due to construction activities. | Continue reading
Should the Woodstock Library change its election and budget votes to Election Day in November? Complaints about this year’s vote count were heard at the library’s October 17 meeting. | Continue reading
The Ulster County-built Ashokan Rail-Trail, a long-awaited public recreational walkway (the county prefers the term “shared-use path”), will be opened to the public on Friday, October 18. First proposed in 2012, the 11.5-mile trail is ten to twelve feet in width, with a compacted … | Continue reading
The slate of candidates favoring construction of a new Woodstock Library after tearing down the current building won the three seats available on Board of Trustees in October 3 voting. Former trustee Leslie Gerber led all six candidates with 442 votes, followed by current board p … | Continue reading
Tinker Street. What’s in a name? Well, that might be a good place to start before looking more closely at the Tinker Street that existed over a half-century ago. More than likely, the actual answer to the origin of the street’s name lies mainly in fact — though fiction might also … | Continue reading
Some say summer ends in a few days. Others say we have a few more weeks. A look at those and other ways to reckon the seasons. | Continue reading
What was Woodstock like in the years before we lent our name to a generation? What, for this purpose, might Mill Hill Road have presented to the passerby before the world “found” us in the years prior to a certain festival? (Even though we were doing quite well, thank you.) | Continue reading
Last week a notice appeared on the bulletin board of the Woodstock Library concerning The Bear Café, which has been closed most of this year, along with the nearby Bearsville Theater and Peterson House, most recently known as Commune Saloon. | Continue reading
Another popular swimming hole has fallen victim to an explosion in popularity through social media and travel websites, this time closing for good. The section of the Millstream just above the intersection where Millstream, Ohayo Mountain and Tannery Brook Roads meet, a popular s … | Continue reading