Bounty of the Hudson Wine & Food Festival in New Paltz
Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11: Locally made wine, spirits, hard cider, cheeses and chocolates at the fairgrounds. What’s not to like?
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Letter: Griffin? What About Ted Nugent?
Nugent wanted Obama to “suck his machine gun” and wanted to cut off the heads of Obama and Hillary, is invited to the White House and now there’s suddenly all this umbrage about Griffin?
Letter: Venting anger at town halls, and more
A self-described “old white man” responds to recent criticism of Faso’s town halls and a concealed carry bill.
Woodstock Festival site added to national register of historic places
The Sullivan County site, now home to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, is 10 miles west of Monticello on Rt. 17B and over 50 miles southwest of the festival’s namesake town. In August 1969, more than 400,000 people traveled to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for the now-famous three-day music festival.
Letter: Journalists must put aside left-wing ideology and embrace truth
It is time for journalists to recognize and report the consequences and contribution of the Obama administration to the rise and continued barbaric acts of radical Islamic terrorists.
Letter: Honoring Cantine Field
As history buff, I was fascinated by the evolution from the “Town Driving Park,” the work done through the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the donations by the Cantine and Knaust families to the modern complex we have today.
Memorial planned to honor Woodstock supervisor Jeremy Wilber
Plans are currently underway for the construction of a bluestone remembrance honoring the service of Jeremy Wilber to the town of Woodstock. The longest serving supervisor in the town’s history, he passed away on New Year’s Day 2017.
Mohonk Foothills Phenology Project seeks volunteers to collect nature data
Succinctly defined by the National Wildlife Federation as “the study of how the biological world times natural events,” phenology matters to humans in a million different ways.
Bicyclists unite to advocate for safer conditions in New Paltz
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Portland, Seattle, Boulder. These are some of the best bicycling cities in the world, and a growing number of residents hope that New Paltz will one day be on this list.
Country Living Fair in Rhinebeck
Friday-Sunday, June 2-4: The Fabulous Beekman Boys will be back for another cooking demo, and you’ll be able to meet the editors of Country Living magazine plus more than 200 vendors from 25 states, including antiques sellers, food purveyors, artists, furnituremakers and crafters.