The saga of Bob and Pat Cohen
“We got married in 1996, and at the wedding we had ministers, priests and parole officers”
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Home-movie footage of FDR’s 1940 Kingston visit found, put on DVD
On the afternoon of Nov. 4, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade swept into Kingston, after traveling north over the Wurts Street Bridge on Route 9W. It stopped in front of the Gov. Clinton Hotel before the president, on the eve of his re-election, gave a brief speech at Academy Green, across the street. Local businessman William O’Reilly was there and stepped right up out of the crowd to the president’s car to film the scene. “People have said, ‘I can’t think of your father without that black movie camera in front of his face,’” recalled his daughter Patricia Murphy, former president of Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK).
In wake of skeptical report, Kingston dentist holds pro-flossing rally
Kingston dentist holds rally to promote oral hygiene technique
O+ Festival spotlights female creativity in Kingston this weekend
This year’s festival will include numerous acts with a feminist bent, underscoring the theme of “Mothers of Invention.” The festival, now in its seventh year, began as a benefit for the large numbers of artists and musicians without health insurance, a problem that has yet to be fully solved. It’s also a fantastic time.
Changing of the guard at the Hudson River Maritime Museum
The hiring of a full-time, salaried executive director was necessitated by the museum’s dramatic growth.
This Ulster County hayride was rated #1 in the U.S. by the New York Daily News, USA Today and MTV
The scary season is underway.
Irish Cultural Center’s zoning a millions-of-dollars question
What the Irish Cultural Center of the Hudson Valley will be may hang on whether, in the context of Kingston’s zoning law, “West Strand” is a street or an area.
Mini-retrospective of Mary Frank at Elena Zang Gallery
“I like work which asks questions, involving emotional states of mind. Beauty is not enough, because we live in urgent times. I want the work to speak back.”
Proposed anchorages could unleash flood of petroleum shipping on Hudson
Starting in 2011, crude oil fracked from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota began to be transported by rail to
Tappan Zee bridge build puts sturgeon under stress
Each spring, Atlantic sturgeon, a species dating back more than 120 million years to the era of the dinosaurs, swim