A report in the New York Daily News says the NYPD suspects 22-year-old Jared Eng, a SUNY New Paltz student, of killing 65-year-old Paula Chin, his mother, with a knife inside their Tribeca apartment after a fight over money, then dumping her body at the family’s second residence in Morristown, NJ during the early morning hours of January 31.
Saturday, February 9: Screening begins at noon of shorts from Bill Moyers’ series on abortion in America. It will be followed by a panel and audience discussion anchored by Ruth-Ellen Blodgett, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Thursday, Feb. 14: A love story for our times? Named in a factually-accurate-if-grammatically-inverted way, Me & My Ex are the legally divorced musical duo of Ginny Leitner and Rob Leitner, whose gigging life has really taken off since they got their priorities straight and bagged the whole traditional family thing.
Saturday, Feb. 9: New exhibition takes an unorthodox approach to curation. It’s “community-sourced” by local citizens instead of chosen exclusively by art experts.
Saturday, Feb. 9: Born in Little Rock in 1936 and now a Kingston resident, Pfeifer helped launch the careers of numerous contemporary photographers, including Sally Mann, Peter Hujar and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Friday, Feb. 15: For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, glitz and glamour, the club was highly exclusive, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily.
Two letter writers argue for keeping the Uptown Kingston canopies.
Site preparations have begun for the Testimonial Gateway Trailhead at the Mohonk Preserve Foothills in New Paltz.
The Wallkill Valley Land Trust has secured a conservation easement to permanently preserve and protect 57 acres in Gardiner as open space. The property, owned by Ray and Anne Allbright Smith, is a critical habitat that supports 106 documented individual Eastern Box Turtles and is recognized as an important wildlife area.
John Tyler Kuhn, 35, was behind the wheel of a 2012 Mercedes-Benz C30 the morning of January 6 when it left Rt. 32 in Saugerties, rolled several times and struck a tree, causing severe injuries to two passengers. Now, he faces up to 15 years in prison.