Vassar professor Sarah Kozloff unveils feminist fantasy series in Rhinebeck
Sunday, Jan. 26: “My vision was: What if Aragorn had been a woman? What if a realm awaited the return of a queen?”
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Long Neck Inn welcomes human visitors to Old Game Farm in Catskill
Many of the old Game Farm buildings still stand, and the site’s 3.5 miles of paved walkways – which connect to a 20+ mile trail system that leads to waterfalls and swimming holes – are open to visitors.
The region’s best places to spot bald eagles
January and February are the peak time to catch a glimpse of these stately raptors. They tend to be most active between 7 and 9 a.m. and 4 and 5 p.m.
11 Jane Street hosts Linda Mary Montano’s Art/Life/Death 78th BirthdayArama Party
Saturday, Jan. 25: Known among other things for her multiyear “endurance art” pieces, for her Sacred Sex workshops with Annie Sprinkle and Barbara Carrellas, for founding the Art/Life Institute in Kingston, for having spent two years as a nun and for fascination with the subjects of chickens and death, internationally renowned performance artist Linda Mary Montano regularly returns to her birthplace, Saugerties, for an audience-participation event.
Reformed Church of New Paltz hosts slideshow of successful Uganda mission trip
Several dozen parishioners and friends of the New Paltz Reformed Church gathered last Friday evening in the cozy Fireside Room of the Wullschleger Education Building on Huguenot Street for a slide presentation on the mission trip to Uganda that the Church sponsored in late October and early November of 2018.
The traveler’s guide to Hell on Earth
1917 is the film that the centennial of the Great War deserved, arriving a couple of years late but still welcome.
Gardiner’s Tourism-Related Accommodation Law set for February 11 public hearing
A final version of the proposed “Local Law to Amend Chapters 200 and 220 of the Town of Gardiner Town Code Regulating Certain Tourism-Related Accommodation Uses” was adopted by the Gardiner Town Board at its meeting on January 7. A public hearing will be held at Town Hall on Tuesday, February 11 before the board can vote to enact the law.
Walsh awaits finishing touches on several Rosendale infrastructure projects in 2020
Some represent the final steps in multiyear projects addressing flood damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee way back in 2011. Another is a streetlight replacement project that was begun by former councilwoman Jen Metzger, now serving in the State Senate.
Zoning code reform, sewer & bridge infrastructure top Majestic’s 2020 priorities for Gardiner
Issues that most urgently need addressing in 2020, in her view, begin with fixing the gaps, contradictions and vague terminology in the Zoning Code that have hindered town officials’ ability to regulate short-term rentals and other tourist accommodations, as well as replacing a decrepit, dangerous bridge on Clove Road and scoping out how to enhance the capacity of the sewer infrastructure in the Gardiner hamlet.
Brew with a view
Zeus Brewing Company opens in Poughkeepsie with fresh beer and Italian fare; Rooftop bar coming this summer. The fact that the site is diagonally opposite the Cunneen-Hackett Building, once the mansion of brewing magnate Matthew Vassar, is purely coincidental.