Woodstock 50 still looking for a home
The festival is still a go, but the clock is ticking.
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Zoning unrest in Woodstock
There’s even been talk of a mass resignation if their planning reviews continue to be countered by errant building permits, incomplete applications regarding the town’s land use ordinance, or no code enforcement.
Developer who sued after being denied tax breaks loses case; ordered to pay county IDA’s attorney fees
Thomas Auringer, the Kingston native seeking to expand his New York metro-area construction industry businesses into the Hudson Valley, was given an expensive slapdown by an appellate court last month.
Woodstock ZBA defers for now on The Lodge, Tonshi Mountain cases
The Lodge issue asks whether previously issued building permits are valid. The other, involving a Tonshi Mountain property where clearcutting occurred in the town’s heavily-restricted scenic overlay, and a stainless steel roof installed that can be seen for miles around, asks whether the town planning board can mitigate a site that should have come before it for approvals but never did because the town building inspector/CEO never alerted the landowner what zone he was in, and hence what zoning restrictions he’d be facing.
Manufacturing proposal borders Bluestone Wild Forest
A proposal by an entity called 850 Route 28 LLC owned by Tom Auringer of Long Island and Woodstock, would put two 120,000-square-foot buildings for a steel and precast concrete manufacturing operation on to the site of a former quarry adjacent to and surrounded by these state-owned wilderness lands.
Olive Dems pick Sofranko for supervisor
Boggess, Edinger get town board nods; Haug for town justice.
Woodstock 50 may get $18 million back from former partner; scores new financial backing
The Woodstock 50 Festival is a step closer to getting back millions of dollars that were swept from its bank account by the festival’s original financiers, Dentsu Aegis Network’s Amplifi Live.
Woodstock ZBA to make Lodge decision on Thursday, May 23
A recessed Woodstock Zoning Board of Appeals public hearing on the legality of new building permits granted for Selina Woodstock, new owners of The Lodge (formerly the Pinecrest), was closed last Thursday, May 9, following another courtroom-like flurry of opposing statements from attorneys for the restaurant/inn and a neighbor. A decision was set to be made by the ZBA’s next meeting on May 23.
Peter Bradley at Emerge Gallery
One of a handful of enterprising Color Field painters who took up acrylic gel paint for its own unique properties in the early 1970s, and hence influenced entire schools of modern abstract painters throughout his 50-plus year career (including the New New Painters of the 1980s and 1990s), Bradley will discuss his various careers as an artist, a gallerist, and a social mover in a special Woodstock School of Art event this Sunday, May 19, held in collaboration with Saugerties’ Emerge Gallery at its home at 228 Main Street in Saugerties.
Hurley seeks moratorium to slow pending projects, including conversion of school into rental apartments
Faced with growing development pressures, including the proposed development of the former West Hurley School into rental apartments, the Town of Hurley is seeking to pass a moratorium on any and all multifamily dwellings for nine months.