Benefit planned for Saugerties teen recovering from cancer

February 6, 2020·Comments closed·

Sunday, Feb. 9: Until November 2018, Taylor Block, now 16, was a typical teen who loved softball, skiing and the Jonas Brothers. But then she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a devastating bone cancer. After enduring over 15 surgical procedures to correct damage that weakened one of her legs, she is hopeful that she will be able to attend prom in May. She came back home to Saugerties three weeks ago after a 12-week stay at Sloan-Kettering in the intensive care unit.

Art & Music, Local History

Trailblazing journalist Ruth Gruber’s photographs on view in New Paltz

February 6, 2020·Comments closed·

Opening Saturday, Feb. 8: She accompanied a convoy of ships carrying nearly a thousand Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York, where they would live until the end of the war at an Army camp in Oswego.

Community

New Paltz teens want a skate park

February 6, 2020·Comments closed·

A central, walkable location – like Hasbrouck Park – has been suggested.

Local History

Researchers date demolished New Paltz house using tree ring data

February 5, 2020·Comments closed·

For her senior research project, Jaimie Kaefer, a December 2019 graduate of the SUNY New Paltz Environmental Geochemical Science program, used wood samples from a recently demolished house adjacent to the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail between Rosendale and Kingston to determine the age of the structure.

Community

Local man seeks to spread the art and spirit of the clown

February 4, 2020·Comments closed·

Rosendale clown Dagen Julty, who goes by “Clown Lovejoy,” sees himself as proud heir to a grand and positive tradition. According to Julty, clowns have appeared in every human civilization, and the tradition has every indication of bumbling into humanity’s future.

Community

Faces of Kingston: Chris O’Neal

February 4, 2020·Comments closed·

I was mindlessly browsing Instagram the other day when I went down a rabbit hole of weird and very cool warped

Community

The Table feeds the hungry in Woodstock

February 4, 2020·Comments closed·

“Here’s how the conversation usually goes,” explains Emily Sherry, CEO of The Table at Woodstock, her nascent no-cost prepared food program accessed via the side door closest to the parking lot of the Woodstock Reformed Church on the Village Green. “You’re doing 1,000 meals a month? Where are you bringing all these people from — Saugerties? Kingston?”

Community

Year three of Black History Month Kingston continues crucial conversation

January 30, 2020·Comments closed·

Three years ago, Frank Waters organized the first citywide Black History Month. Since then, the celebration has taken off, with performances, film screenings, lectures, kids’ events, meet-ups, craft workshops, story-telling and more.

People & Places

Changes afoot: Skate Time 209’s new owners in Accord are also producers of hit documentary Fantastic Fungi

January 30, 2020·Comments closed·

“It’s going to continue being a skating rink, but there are also going to be lots of other programs that we’re excited about,” says Apkon. “We really think of it as a community center.”

Sports

Smart money’s on Mahomes

January 30, 2020·Comments closed·

I rue the fact that the fans of tomorrow suffer in virtual isolation, and not in geographic and familial clusters of themed fur. Super Bowl LIV: San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, February 2, 6:30 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, FOX-TV. Halftime show, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, will likely begin shortly after 8 p.m.