Woodstock Way withdraws its plan for café/bar
The planned alcohol sales at a boutique hotel had been the focus of a neighborhood controversy.
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Ulster County gets close to Airbnb registrations, tax collections
Ulster County recently saw the completion of a “data mining” expedition into short-term rentals by a third party company hired last spring, and is currently sending out notices to all Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway and other such hosts reminding them about the county occupancy taxes they owe.
Mary Frank’s Refuge at Zang
Mary Frank, who will be feted at the reception for her new exhibit of works, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, August 11 at Elena Zang Gallery in Shady, and has just released a new book of her epic photographic works, Refuge, has always been an activist — from the early battles over civil rights, our involvement in foreign wars, the rise of feminism, and ongoing battles against world hunger and thirst to the most recent separations of refugee families at our borders and attacks on Planned Parenthood.
Woodstock will hold another public hearing on Woodstock Way bar/café Aug. 9
The high-end boutique hotel being built behind the Center for Photography at Woodstock between Tinker Street and the former Hillcrest Ave., now Sgt. Richard Quinn Drive, has proven controversial— particularly the plan to add a bar and café with alcohol sales.
New 46-unit apartment building planned for former West Hurley school
The town of Hurley planning board has been in preliminary talks for the development of a site plan for a 46 unit multi-family apartment project in the two buildings that once made up the West Hurley school, which was sold by the Onteora School District to Brooklyn real estate developers in February, 2017.
Woodstock School of Art’s Monoprint Invitational
July 30-Aug. 4: The School of Art’s Monoprint Invitational, featuring 62 artists backed by four master printers. What are monoprints? Unlike classic multi-print formats from block and wood cuts to etching and intaglio, monoprints are often the simple transfer of paint to paper through a glass or other “negative.” It’s messy, unpredictable, perfect for experimentation, and hence not only a challenge but a great way for artists to fully explore their creativity, to really show underlying chops.
A busy and controversial time for Woodstock planners
While the town awaits the Woodstock Zoning Board of Appeals’ pending decisions on variances regarding the request for a bar/café at the new Woodstock Way lodgings in the center of town, fences and other already-built changes at the bagel café and wine bar going up on Mill Hill Road, and the advent of a new restaurant and store in Lake Hill, Woodstock has also been dealing with a host of other growing land use battles and proposals.
Still-life painting show opens in Woodstock
The exhibition, Nature Morte: The Early Years of Still Life Painting in Woodstock, features ten regional artists brought together by noted landscape painter and SUNY New Paltz professor Thomas Sarrantonio.
Review board makes no decision on Woodstock Way bar/café
The Woodstock Way proposal to add a bar/café area to its already-approved hotel complex rising alongside Tannery Brook in the center of town inched closer to the Land of Lawsuits after a contentious yet affirmative Zoning Board of Appeals.
New indictments in Foster murder
Two more people have been indicted for local hip hop artist’s murder.