Bob Shepard Memorial Highland Landing Park to get its finishing touches
The park opens the “majesty of the Hudson” to all, and by encouraging tourism lends itself toward a “more sustainable community,” said a state lawmaker.
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This is the earliest photograph of Saugerties
Saugerties has a long-enough history that you can just about trace the phases of it in the growth and decline of interest in that history. A look at the earliest photograph of Saugerties is the best way to show history is on the upswing right now.
Former Wurtsboro church houses vast collection of crystals from all over the world
It isn’t magic, co-owner Travis Ogden explains, but it is miraculous – something you have to engage with to experience. “Crystals are minerals. Our bodies are made of minerals and we need them.”
Remembering Supertots, Woodstock’s beloved preschool
Cheryl Chandler has retired, but her house is a welcoming shrine to the preschool. “I’ve invited parents to send their kids on sleepovers,” she said.
Saugerties cop graduates from FBI academy
Only one in a hundred law-enforcement officers in the United States graduates from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Saugerties police lieutenant K.J. Swart Jr. is one of them.
Woodstock church hosts immigration talk
‘People think, they’re coming to take our jobs. But we’re coming to have the rights that humans should have everywhere…’
Gala honors founders of land trust that created rail trail
The Wallkill Valley Land Trust will hold its 30th Anniversary Gala Dinner Benefit on October 1 at Garvan’s. The event will feature a live and silent auction and will honor its founders: Kitty Brown, Fran Dunwell, Kate Hudson, Jim Ottaway Jr., William Rhoads, Johanna Hecht Sokolov, Jean Bartlett, John Jacobs, Robert Lasher, Jay LeFevre and Seward Weber.
Automobilia: The 1903 Endurance Run commemoration
A once famous, now all-but-forgotten, auto race was reenacted on a recent crisp fall weekend.
Kingston loses a good one with passing of MAC Fitness’ Lyle Schuler
The Kingston business and fitness communities were saddened this week by the death of MAC Fitness owner and founder Lyle Schuler.
Depleted Saugerties football team outslugs Monticello
It was a miracle at Cantine Field.