Impact of league changes on Stockade FC remains unclear
The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is just a few months into its long offseason, but the expansion which led
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Woodstocker Paige Elenson receives award for teaching yoga in Africa
“Our goal is to train a million yoga teachers in Africa,” said Paige Elenson, who recently received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Global Citizen Award for her Africa Yoga Project.
Exhibit documents Kingston’s past, from street level
Kingston filmmaker and videographer Stephen Blauweiss tells the story of a small-town comeback.
Conversation series at Ashokan Center explores eclectic range of topics
“One of the initial motivations for this series was our feeling that the Ashokan Center is an amazing venue for various groups of people to explore varied interests, a way to get away from the world at large and delve into some subjects with heart and brain.”
Red Hook’s Cruger Island once home to remarkable plundered Mayan sculptures
From the mid-1840s to about 1920, the shores of this island in Tivoli Bays served as the unlikely setting for a collection of Mayan sculptures brought more than 1,700 miles north from their points of origin. Back then, canoe excursions by moonlight were the height of dramatic entertainment. Explorers were folk heroes and on a steamy August night, it would have been easy to imagine you were moving up a previously uncharted river, with natives gazing out from the darkness.
Meet & Greet: Frank Marquette
Frank Marquette, actor, re-enactor and re-creator of local history, might wear more costumes in a week than an entire preschool does on Halloween. It also could be argued that Marquette has made a place for himself in the community by stabbing people in the back. Is that a compliment?
A Day’s Work: HVAC-R technician
‘It’s hard work, mentally and physically.’
FDR’s fortune and opium the subject of upcoming talk
Saturday, Nov. 4: “Extracting the Truth from the Trade: The Delano Family at Home and in China” will explore the Delano family and their rise to fame and fortune as the result of their involvement in the opium trade in China – a fortune that eventually trickled down to America’s 32nd president.
Onteora’s class of 1967 plants tree to remember departed classmates
The Onteora Class of 1967 held its 50th class reunion with a three-day weekend in September, and as a result a Blue Spruce tree was planted on the grounds of the Middle/High School on Route 28 in Boiceville.
New Paltz football outlasts Rondout
New Paltz moves on to play number two seed Spackenkill – who the Huguenots defeated handily early in the season – on Saturday, October 28 at 3 p.m. at either Dietz Stadium in Kingston or Faller Field in Middletown.