Gardiner seeks volunteers to revive Open Space Commission
Interested in the issues surrounding open space preservation? The town of Gardiner wants you.
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Saugerties artist is taking her unique clothing line national
Striking paintings depicting religious figures of assorted faiths adorn the walls of multimedia artist Kelli Bickman’s studio on Partition Street. Those images are reprinted onto cotton clothing smattered on racks throughout the space. After gaining notoriety in private art collections worldwide, Bickman hopes to take her clothing line, 11:11 Style, national.
Mass resignation from Lloyd Planning Board follows Plavchak’s ouster
Town Democrats, now in the majority, flex their muscles.
Woodstock Brewing opens at Phoenicia Plaza
Woodstock Brewing is the latest addition to the assortment of businesses at the Phoenicia Plaza. John Blydenburgh’s Resort Ridge Pizza was the only previous tenant to return after the fire. Grace Ann Louis moved her pre-school, Woodland Playhouse, to the plaza last year, enabling her to expand her play-based program to children formerly on a waiting list.
Saugerties Spelling Bee: ‘Rhododendron’ to the regionals
The Saugerties schools’ annual spelling bee was swept by a pair of sixth grade students at Riccardi Elementary School.
Catskill Thunder, Belleayre’s new gondola, scales the mountain in seven minutes
On a snowy Monday, the day the cold spell broke, I rode the gondola, named “Catskill Thunder,” to the top of the mountain. Since the weather got in the way, I can’t report on the spectacular view, which will be essential to the lift as an attraction in other seasons, but I can describe the ride.
Rosendale’s Market Market closes
Market Market Café, the restaurant, bar and alt/rock “micro-venue” at the corner of Route 32 and Madeline Lane in Rosendale, has officially gone out of business after ten years of operation.
Gardiner taps new Planning Board/ZBA clerk
The board voted to accept the supervisor’s request to hire Maureen TerBush Vickner to take over the part-time position of clerk to the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.
Democrat-controlled Saugerties town board makes its appointments
Saugerties’ new town board cleaned up shop at their January 3 reorganizational meeting at the Frank Greco Senior Center, designating citizens for town committees and divvying up liaison positions.
Civil service law nixes Kingston’s plan for more openness in cop complaint cases
Mayor Steve Noble this week had to walk back a promise to provide written decisions in police discipline cases, after city attorneys told him that doing so would violate state civil service law.