The Amrods live on in Saugerties and elsewhere
Family histories have fluidity. In cases like the Amrods of Saugerties (as well as Red Hook, and many branches throughout Dutchess and Ulster counties), they also have elements of the utmost solidity.
Community
Stone Ridge activist links North Dakota fracking, New York pipelines
Asked for an “official” job title, Iris Marie Bloom calls herself a “citizen journalist” and a “galvanizer.” “Documenting social change movements as they happen is incredibly important,” she says.
Pauline remembered
About 250 people crowded the high-ceilinged legislative chamber of Kingston’s city hall this past Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to someone who made and listened to sound. Composer Pauline Oliveros, who died in Kingston on November 24, was a pioneer of electronic music and inventor of transformative listening methods.
Ulster Fillies take it inside for the winter
While most high school softball players in the area are in the midst of trying to figure out how to get on the diamond when it’s buried under over a foot of snow, members of the Ulster Fillies’ travel team are already in midseason form. Or maybe between-season form.
Stephen Freer to be inducted into Saugerties Sports Hall of Fame
Freer has held a Saugerties High School varsity sports record for more than three decades.
Varsity Football returns to Onteora
After a three-year absence, Onteora High School will field a Varsity football team for the 2017 fall season.
Jory’s journey to Neuro-kinetic therapy and retraining the brain
After growing up in Woodstock and leaving to work for two decades as a bodyworker in California, Jory Serota has returned to his hometown, bringing a system called neuro-kinetic therapy that he combines with Iyengar yoga.
A Day’s Work: Film soundtrack producer
‘Music is so important to film. Studios tend to fluff it off. It is the last layer that you put on that completely changes the experience.’
Kingston’s Shamrock Run to be held Sunday
Expect admiring crowds and chilly weather for this Sunday’s annual Shamrock Run, a two-mile Kingston road race beginning on the Academy Green and ending at the Strand.
New Paltz Climate Action Coalition hires Suzanne Flaum as coordinator
The New Paltz Climate Action Coalition (NPCAC), which meets weekly at Village Hall, has been around for quite a few years now, and its most active volunteers — among them Dan and Ann Guenther and Miriam Strouse — have been around even longer.