Sunday, March 11: The 31st annual parade steps off from Uptown’s Kingston Plaza at 1 p.m., but the day begins with the popular two-mile Shamrock Run, anticipated to have as many as 5,000 participants this year. Registration for the run begins at 10 a.m., and the race starts at 12:50 p.m. sharp.
Sunday, March 11: Low Lily teams up with seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion John Whelan and fiddler Katie McNally
Wednesday’s winter storm turned the valley into a late-winter wonderland, but the weight of the snow-clinging to trees broke limbs and left 40k customers in the dark and cold, many for the second time in a week.
Sunday, March 18: Family infighting, warring legacies, a mastermind in absentia and hits, hits, hits: If it gets to bear the name the Beach Boys, it is probably worth seeing while you still can.
This January, the news dropped that Steven Spielberg is doing a big-screen remake of the stage musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein’s iconic music will be retained, but one of the most brilliant of contemporary playwrights, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), has come aboard to rewrite the screenplay.
As of Tuesday morning, 4,400 outages remain, primarily in the most heavily affected areas of northern Dutchess County.
This afternoon, local organization Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson and allies held a protest at Congressman John Faso’s office in Kingston. The protest called on John Faso and Congress to pass a Clean Dream Act – permanent legislative protections for DACA recipients that do not include any funding for a border wall or immigration enforcement.
The arrests were the result of an eight-month-long investigation into sale of heroin in the town of Cairo and Catskill.
Electric service is steadily returning to customers of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. affected by Friday’s nor’easter. Service has been restored to 97,000 customers; and as of 7 a.m.on Monday, approximately 12,500 customers remained without electricity. Of these, approximately 10,000 outages are in the most heavily affected areas of northern Dutchess County.
The president of the corporation that owns property adjacent to Riccardi Elementary writes to explain his side of a disagreement surrounding the creation of an emergency access road for Riccardi Elementary School.