Last October the Boy Scouts of America opened up registration to girls interested in being Cub and Boy Scouts. Last Monday, young Sydney — a kindergartner at Myer Elementary in Hurley — joined Pack 103’s Den 1 at St. James Methodist Church in Kingston.
The media system in the Frank Greco Memorial Senior Center is being revamped for the first time since the building’s construction in 1978.
The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off Feb. 9 in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Police estimated the number of people at 1500 to 2000, comparable to the 2017 march. Both last year and this year, women, men, and children marched from Andy Lee Field to Bradley Meadows and then back to the town green, pausing to listen to speakers and musicians and to commune with friends. “I wanted to be around people who feel like me, and to get more hope from being together,” said one marcher.
The Shining Star Award for Individual Service will be awarded to Joseph Fay, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Ulster County since 1984.
The Woodstock march was one of over 250 held a year after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Sixteen-year-old Zach Swart of West Saugerties Road has been selected by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation as one of its five national ambassadors this year.
Four Boys and Girls Club members were commended for their local good deeds and projects with the Saugerties Community Youth Award at a recent village board meeting.
Bowling is such a quintessential community activity that sociologist Robert Putnam titled his study of the decline of American civic life “Bowling Alone.” If bowling participation is an indicator of community health, Saugerties, which just added a school team due to overwhelming demand, is thriving.
Among the 250-plus women’s marches and events around the U.S. planned for Saturday, January 20, demonstrators will again take to the street in Woodstock, echoing the protest expressed last year on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president.