Local women tell Cecile Richards how Planned Parenthood has helped them
The visit comes as Congressional Republicans, including local rep John Faso, consider voting to defund the organization.
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Woodstock councilman and vet appears in political ad criticizing Donald Trump
“I served under General Patton. I saw him up close, and the thing he’d be most shocked by is you,” said the councilman, pointing at the camera during an ad that ran during one of Trump’s favorite television shows.
Saugerties approves 53-unit village apartment complex
Work on the project is expected to begin later this summer or early fall.
New Paltz considers closing Church St. on Sunday afternoons this summer
Business owners have been supportive, citing higher foot traffic.
Ulster County Legislature votes to ban memorializing resolutions
In the past, the Legislature has passed resolutions that weighed in on state and national issues. From now on they’ll have to stick to more narrow and local matters.
Medical marijuana slow to take off, with legal recreational use not happening any time soon
Three years after the state adopted a law enabling the use of medical marijuana, some 900 doctors are prescribing cannabis oil to more than 5,000 patients. But state health officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say that more can — and should — be done to make the treatment more widely available.
Pot busts not the top of local cops’ priority list, though arrests can and do happen
While marijuana remains illegal in New York, statistics show that 1960s-era horror stories of pot smokers languishing for years behind bars for possession of a few joints is largely a thing of the past.
School districts find marijuana use has become increasingly normalized
Local school districts are constantly looking for new ways to steer kids away from old vices.
Aqueduct Tunnel boring with the Nora
2.7 million pound machine named for civil engineer suffragist.
William Grant & Sons acquires Gardiner’s Tuthilltown Spirits
Independent family-owned Scottish distiller, William Grant & Sons, has announced the acquisition of Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner, New York State’s first distillery since Prohibition.