Local Artisan Bakery opens up in Midtown Kingston
The operation started as a pop-up, appearing only at festivals, events, and farmer’s markets and the bakery quickly gained a strong following.
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Concept 1 Unisex Beauty Salon in New Paltz celebrates 50 years in business
When Delores Angelillo-Ward opened Concept 1 Unisex Beauty Salon in 1969, it was only the third hair salon in New Paltz. The others, “Powder Box” and “William’s,” are both long gone, but her establishment still thrives despite the considerable competition in town these days.
Spend a Saturday in Rosendale
A website by a local businessman aims to promote local businesses as a destination.
Naomi Aubain’s Furniture Fixitor repairs or repurposes any kind of wooden furniture
Got a family furniture heirloom that needs some TLC? A dresser whose drawers stick or have bowed bottoms, a wooden chair that’s pulling apart at the joints or whose cane seat is stretched and sagging, a cabinet with chipped or stained veneer? There’s a business operating out of a garage on Henry W. DuBois Drive in New Paltz designed with just your needs in mind.
CafAmelia takes over Cafeteria space at 58 Main in New Paltz
Downtown New Paltz offers a wide selection of places to sit down and have a cup of coffee, each with its own following. So, the recent change in proprietorship for “the Caf” at 58 Main Street will come as good news to some, alarming to others.
County fed up with TechCity’s back taxes, moves to foreclose
Ulster County is moving to foreclose on a major portion of the former IBM plant in the Town of Ulster after the owner missed an April 18 deadline. The move marks the latest blow to plans to redevelop the sprawling former industrial complex under the leadership of owner Alan Ginsberg, who purchased the site in 1998.
Norwegian Air scales back flights following declining traffic, issues with 737 Max 8 plane
The extent of the damage done to Norwegian Air’s Stewart Airport business is becoming more clear. The release of February data shows a drop in international passenger traffic – only Norwegian — for that month from 14,666 last year to 12,215 in 2019. International traffic had been showing double-digit growth most months before that. The Scandinavian carrier cut operations to Belfast, Bergen and Shannon in February and continued service to Dublin and Edinburgh.
Guido group taking over Redwood; Front Street Tavern expected to open in June
The owners of the Guido Restaurant Group will open a new eatery at the site of the former Redwood at 63 North Front St. in Uptown this June, a release stated Tuesday, April 23.
New Paltz planners want renovated McDonald’s to reflect community character
The engineer from McDonald’s may have thought the renovation of its New Paltz franchise would be a simple process. But planners have asked for parking lot connections and a design that would fit in with the community’s aesthetic. “New Paltz is not a strip,” said one planner. “We want New Paltz to be its own brand.”
Another new hotel planned for Lake Katrine
Ulster Commons is a 14.66-acre property with six lots along Ulster Avenue, five of which are already developed; the hotel would be built on the sixth lot. Already at Ulster Commons are a CareMount Medical building, a branch of Ulster Savings Bank, a recently opened Smoothie King, a Tractor Supply Co. store and a vacant fast food restaurant building that was briefly a Hardee’s.