Lake Hill reawakening
The proposal is to build a new store and breakfast/lunch spot where the Lake Hill General Store, popularly known in its last incarnation as Murphy’s, once stood at the corner of Mink Hollow Road and Route 212 in Woodstock.
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More details on Sunflower Natural Foods’ expansion plans
The Woodstock store is making use of the former Rite Aid space. “There’ll be a bigger and better produce section, and we’ll be setting up a new coffee and juice bar over the summer.”
Tony Moore’s sculpture at WAAM
Tony Moore, the British-born sculptor whose solo show opened May 12 at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum brings a burly, Cedar Bar-like New York School sense of creativity that’s drawn such adjectives as “heroic,” “confrontational, “elegant,” “minimalist,” “substantial” and even “delicately detailed” to reviews of his work.
West Hurley residents question fire company’s needs
A standing room only crowd came out to the West Hurley firehouse Monday evening, May 7, to discuss their local fire commissioners’ proposal to purchase two new fire trucks.
Fuel Buyers Coop can save you money
Olaf Meyer brought up what made him feel good this past winter. He was talking at Woodstock’s Meals on Wheels appreciation luncheon May 1 and wanted to share how much he’d saved on fuel by joining the Mid-Hudson Fuel Buyers Coop, whose board he joined after signing up for “windfall” savings just before the start of the 2017-18 heating season last summer.
Habitat for Artists: A place to work
British sculptor Simon Draper founded the Habitat for Artists movement just as the economy was collapsing in 2007/2008. Starting this week, on May 2 to be precise, its small studio built by a team of local creators returns to the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum for its third season of exciting and diverse community engagement projects set to continue through July 29.
West Hurley Fire District postpones vote on buying trucks to better inform the public
Commissioners are looking at spending $94,000 for a used engine ladder truck, plus $51,000 for a used pumper tanker, then selling a tanker for revenue so the amount they’d need to use from an existing reserve fund would end up in the $40,000 or under range, after reimbursement from the existing tanker’s sale. A public meeting will be held May 7.
Neighbors balk at new Woodstock Way café…with alcohol sales
Public hearings that involve business projects before the Woodstock planning board tend to get feisty when they involve the changing hamlet’s residential neighborhoods.
New plans for Catskills recreation are taking shape
New plans to expand mountain bike and cross country ski trails throughout the Catskills are coming forth this spring in the form of a proposed revision to the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Unit Management Plan for more than 6,106 acres of forest preserve lands in the Shandaken Wild Forest.
Appellate victory for Belleayre Resort; more court decisions ahead
The granting of permits to the Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park moved a little closer to happening last week after some 19 years of haggling.