Sunday, June 2: Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas carrying the belated news that the Civil War had ended. It’s regarded as the last community of slaves in America to get the word that they had been freed.
Saturday, June 1: The Escher String Quartet will perform the first concert, featuring works by Mozart, Dvorák and Erich Wolfgang Korngold at Olin Hall.
A coalition of progressive Kingston groups writes that the Kingstonian project, a large mixed-use development proposed for the Stockade District, should receive what’s known as a “positive declaration,” which means it has the potential to have a significant environmental impact. They singled out the project’s lack of affordable housing as a problem.
Friday, June 7: The mad scientist of global musical collisions is known to rock fans for his part in Trey Anastasio’s band. In the jazz and Latin worlds, his greatness is common knowledge.
Saturday, June 8: Dazzling lights, sparkly outfits and retro tunes bring the joy of the roller rink back to the Hudson Valley for one glorious night.
According to New Paltz Mayor Tim Rogers, SUNY New Paltz calls have averaged approximately 20 percent of call volume for the last few years for the village’s all-volunteer New Paltz Fire Department.
The victim reported to detectives that when she informed the accused that she was pregnant, the two began to argue. During their argument, the victim reports that the accused pulled her around by her hair and then struck her in the face, causing injury, bruising and swelling to her eye.
“The Delaware County Fair, held in Walton in the middle of August, has been an annual rite of summer for 132 years,” writes a reader from Shandaken. “But the good will of the Fair has been marred in recent years by the Fair Board’s refusal to comply with the community demand that vendors be prohibited from selling merchandise bearing the Confederate flag.”
During their argument, a 35-year-old Saugerties man reportedly stated that he was “going to gut ” the complainants, and then brandished a knife to the two men he was arguing with.
Sunday, June 16: The Star Wars Marathon will feature all three of the original series – that’s right, the ones almost nobody hated – back-to-back on its big screen in Poughkeepsie.