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With space secured on Broadway, Kingston Food Co-Op is taking shape
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With space secured on Broadway, Kingston Food Co-Op is taking shape

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While retail stores have blossomed in Kingston filling empty storefronts, the city lacks the practical, day-to-day kinds of shops that decades ago, before supermarkets, malls and big-box stores, made it a true commercial center with residents able to do all their shopping on foot. For residents lacking cars — and for those of us who wish we could spend less time driving — that’s a problem. So the advent of the Kingston Food Co-op, which was announced last March and so far has between 260 and 300 members as well as a building on Broadway in Midtown, is welcome news.

Family-friendly New Year’s Eve in New Paltz
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Family-friendly New Year’s Eve in New Paltz

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“New Paltz Eve” is scheduled to make its sixth annual appearance on Tuesday, December 31 from 1-7 p.m. All activities are free of charge, thanks to support from local businesses and organizations. Most of the fun happens indoors, so the party will go on regardless of the weather.

Faces of Kingston: Diane Reeder
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Faces of Kingston: Diane Reeder

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This week for Faces of Kingston, as we dive (or are pushed) into the Holiday Season further, it felt like time for a chat with true humanitarian Diane Reeder of the essential, fun and very happy sweet tooth all-in-one stop shop, Kingston Candy Bar.

Saugerties New Year’s Eve festivities 2020
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Saugerties New Year’s Eve festivities 2020

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The village of Saugerties will sponsor the annual New Year’s Eve celebration in the village on Tuesday, December 31 from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The event will include a countdown video and ball drop at midnight at the corner of Main and Partition streets with DJ Riley Cornelison. Many local restaurants will be open late. Some streets will be closed starting a half hour before the ball drop. Attendees are advised to dress warmly and bring a folding chair to sit on. Party favors will be available.

Written in stone: The surprising career of Pine Hill’s scientist/philanthropist Henry Morton
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Written in stone: The surprising career of Pine Hill’s scientist/philanthropist Henry Morton

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In 1870 Morton became the first president of the newly founded Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, and used his own personal wealth to equip its labs with steam engines, tools and electrical equipment. He experimented and published widely, and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He also spent summers in the Catskills, and in 1897 he established Pine Hill’s first library.

The Heart of the Matter: The Unknown Hervey White
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The Heart of the Matter: The Unknown Hervey White

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Part IV in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White [1866-1944] is better described as godfather of a town he personally transformed into America’s most famous Bohemia, earlier even than 1920. But despite this fact, and although admired by artists and farmers alike, Hervey lived and died an enigma. Some knew part, but none knew all his secrets.