The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a recent public hearing.
The mini-trek along the completed segment of the Trail was part of a four-day Hudson Valley tour for the 20-member group, hosted by the Open Space Institute (OSI) and planned to include stops at local parks, preserves and historic sites.
Sunday afternoons were made for church discussions of community issues. This Kingston event proved a stimulating contribution not only to the national debate over policing strategies but to the local ones as well.
This baseball season could be the year when no one wants to be caught in a storm at the Babe Ruth field, because there will be nowhere to hide.
An indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court this week contained new details of a brutal slaying allegedly committed by members of a violent street gang at the Turkey Point state forest in Saugerties last year. In the indictment, prosecutors charge that a three-man “cancha,” or cell, of the 18th Street Gang based in Kingston helped a downstate associate murder a suspected informant and later sheltered him after he gunned down a member of a rival gang on a Queens street.
The Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team this week announced the conclusion of a three-month undercover operation that resulted in the arrest of 28 alleged drug dealers from all corners of Ulster County.
The SUNY New Paltz community and special guests gathered on March 15 for an open house and ribbon-cutting celebrating the $1.5 million expansion and full renovation of the Speech-Language and Hearing Center.
The provider has the low bid, and the town intends to move forward. The result would mean all residents would have to use County Waste for curbside pickup. Costs would be more than $10 cheaper per month, say town officials.
Williams Lumber hopes to ship up to 100 carloads of lumber a year out of the former Lowe’s Plumbing on Smith Avenue, which it owns, next to CSX tracks in Midtown as “an economic alternative to the high cost of shipping by truck.”
A Saugerties business owner is facing deportation and separation from his wife and infant son after new hard-line immigration policies and a torturously slow bureaucracy left him in legal limbo.