Woodstock extends Mill Hill Rd. construction
The town has extended the Mill Hill Road project by about two weeks, seizing on an opportunity to replace some sections of sidewalk on the state’s dime.
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Hudson River Craft Beer Festival in Beacon
Saturday, Sept. 15: There’s live music, food and vendors, but let there be no mistake about who the headliners are here: brewers, over 90 of them serving up samples of 180 different products.
Taste of New Paltz at Ulster County Fairgrounds
Sunday, Sept. 16: As you taste your way through the Hudson Valley food, wine and beer tastings, attendees are asked to choose their favorite morsels.
SoundScape festival in Basilica Hudson’s cavernous industrial space
Friday-Sunday, Sept. 14-16: One of the region’s most substantial, current and challenging music and art festivals, SoundScape’s promoters reveal themselves as fearless, ambitious and undaunted by logistics and coordination. Consider, for example, one of the centerpieces of this year’s weekend: an orchestral piece composed by Stephen O’Malley of the ambient sludge-rock band Sunn O))) performed by Bard College’s 76-piece The Orchestra Now on Friday night.
Free outdoor screening of North by Northwest at Montgomery Place
Saturday, Sept. 15: Montgomery Place, the 379-acre Livingston family estate adjacent to the Bard College campus, was acquired by Bard early in 2016. This month, the college is organizing a series of free cultural events to inaugurate the historic manse, with its large handsome portico, as an exterior performance space, to be called the Stage at Montgomery Place.
Green parade and fair in New Paltz
Saturday, Sept. 15: Attendees can test drive electric cars and speak with energy efficiency and renewables experts. There will also be activities for kids, including a bicycle-decorating contest with prizes and wildlife education from Eric the Reptile Guy.
“Green Amendment” lecture at SUNY-Ulster
Monday, Sept. 17: There’s a growing rumble of popular interest in a movement to pass a “Green Amendment” or Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the US Constitution. It takes varying forms, but in general would establish a constitutional right to a healthy environment, grant the natural environment “personhood” and standing in court and/or require large corporations to recertify at regular intervals that their business practices are environmentally responsible or lose their charters.
Marist and Health Quest plan Poughkeepsie medical school
A new partnership announced today would train medical doctors in Poughkeepsie. The program, a collaboration between Marist College and Health Quest, would begin in 2022 and be the only MD-granting medical school between Westchester and Albany.
Letters: Ulster County sheriff Democratic primary
Supporters of Juan Figueroa and Paul VanBlarcum weigh in ahead of the Thursday, Sept. 13 primary.
Kingston Police seek missing teen
Kingston Police are attempting to locate 18-year-old Erin Nicole Dragula. She left home in July and her family hasn’t heard from her in several weeks. She is believed to be staying in the Poughkeepsie area with a male subject.