Last week a notice appeared on the bulletin board of the Woodstock Library concerning The Bear Café, which has been closed most of this year, along with the nearby Bearsville Theater and Peterson House, most recently known as Commune Saloon.
Up-and-coming downtown Rosendale has added a brand-new art gallery to its attractions. Just opened on June 1, it’s called Art JuXtapose, and it offers artists more than simply a place to show and broker their work.
The Gilded Carriage, a longtime fixture of Woodstock for fine kitchen and housewares, is celebrating its 60th year. Owner Marina Basil says the store, which her mother, Mari Basil, opened in 1959, holds much more than six decades of Woodstock history within its walls; it also contains the memory and legacy of her mother, father, and sister.
Nina Smiley and Eric Gullickson of Mohonk Mountain House have launched an all-new ice cream flavor in commemoration of the hotel’s 150th anniversary. The new signature flavor, named Mohonk Mountain Crunch, features a rich vanilla base, chocolate-covered pretzels, dark chocolate fudge, and a salted caramel swirl. It was created in collaboration with Jane’s Ice Cream , a family-run creamery in the Hudson Valley.
Coppersea Distilling recently celebrate the release of its long-awaited Excelsior Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon with an event featuring live music and a pig roast.
The natural foods store in Woodstock has been expanded. The new Sunflower feels like the Sunflower we’ve all known for a generation now. Only it’s bigger, fresher, lighter, and filled with much more than it ever had before.
New management of The Lodge from Selina Woodstock, including the president of all Selina operations worldwide, assured the Woodstock planning board Thursday night, July 18, that they would do whatever was asked of them to bring their property into compliance and correct a string of bad building department permits that were vacated by the town zoning board of appeals earlier this month.
Rambling Rose clientele, who have come to rely on the shop owner’s expertise in fashion, may be surprised to learn that Mazur is going into real estate sales. As one of her longtime customers put it so succinctly, she will be going “from dresses to addresses.”
One of Rosendale’s most popular downtown eateries and watering holes, the Red Brick Tavern, has been sold to new owners and is currently closed for renovations. The transfer of ownership from Billy and Michelle Loughlin to the group who run the Santa Fe restaurants in Tivoli, Woodstock and Uptown Kingston took place in late June.
With Shawangunk and Catskill vistas revealed around every bend in its meandering country roads, and lush orchards and fertile alluvial cornfields sprawling in every direction, Stone Ridge is an alluringly lovely place to live. But such rural beauty has its down side: being inconveniently equidistant from such necessary evils of modern life as large chain stores.