Ulster County’s economic future
Life after IBM.
Voices
Letter: Kingstonian project must be subject to thorough review
A coalition of progressive Kingston groups writes that the Kingstonian project, a large mixed-use development proposed for the Stockade District, should receive what’s known as a “positive declaration,” which means it has the potential to have a significant environmental impact. They singled out the project’s lack of affordable housing as a problem.
Letter: No more Confederate flags at Delaware County Fair
“The Delaware County Fair, held in Walton in the middle of August, has been an annual rite of summer for 132 years,” writes a reader from Shandaken. “But the good will of the Fair has been marred in recent years by the Fair Board’s refusal to comply with the community demand that vendors be prohibited from selling merchandise bearing the Confederate flag.”
Beautiful city
Driving around Newburgh last August, New York Magazine writer Simone Kitchens got the sense that some kind of change was going on. Many newcomers, “drawn to the incredibly affordable, stately housing stock and growing creative communities,” were moving in, she said. Might Newburgh have the potential to become the next Hudson, “the onetime working-class town where antique lamps now go for $7000?”
Kingston After Dark: Macro micro
Regional taste-shapers and wave-makers SubFamily Records have released your perfect soundtrack for local music that pairs well with late spring and early summer.
Constant as the northern star
Polaris can be identified most easily right now, at nightfall in spring, because the Big Dipper hovers at its highest of the year.
Letter: Assessment grievance day in Saugerties
If you feel that your assessment is too high, it can be grieved on Tuesday, May 28 at the Senior Center Building on Market Street from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
Images through the ages
When I mixed the oil colors together, all the hues turned out the color of backed-up septic waste. I had a monumental task, way beyond the collages and crayon relief drawings assigned in seventh grade art class. I was driven to express through a single painting what finding out about the Holocaust did to my childhood heart.
Letter: The Saugerties C&D dump must be cleaned up
“As a 25-year native resident to Saugerties, I have never witnessed something so horrendous as the mess Mr. Karoyls has brought to our town,” writes a candidate for Town Board.
Taming the wild forest
A zest for blending wild nature’s unruliness with mankind’s desire for domestication is hardly a new experience for the Hudson Valley.