Binocular update: Secrets of the best views
Through binoculars, the 3,000 stars visible to the naked eye on the clearest night in the Catskills jump to 30,000.
Voices
Hugh Reynolds: Lessons of the 2017 primaries
Last week’s primary results indicate that at least five of 23 incumbent Ulster County legislators won’t be back come next year, maybe more. It’s an unusually high turnover.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: What do you want to know?
I wonder what kinds of questions are on your mind about my Stage IV breast cancer experience: diagnoses, treatments, loss, end-of-life, appointments, mint chocolate chip milkshakes (#obsessed), daily life et cetera? Here are some questions that I’ve received from friends.
Two spooks and a grump
A portrait exemplifies the richness of authentic local history.
Medical marijuana in New York is needlessly expensive and difficult to obtain
Providing medical marijuana as a doctor in end-of-life care, I received calls from organizations urging me to grow my “marijuana practice.” What these organizations were ready to capitalize on is this truth: medical marijuana works. Unfortunately, it’s prohibitively costly and hard to get in New York State.
Eating Ivan
I’ve discovered since then that Ivan is something of a Rorschach test for people. Sometimes they think it’s cute that he had a name. Sometimes they’re delighted that he had a nice life on a farm down the road, where he had friends both bovine and human, and pretty much did whatever he felt like. But mainly, it seems, a lot of people are horrified.
Hugh Reynolds: A political ambush in Marbletown
As the populations of Ulster County towns go, Marbletown, with 5,607 souls, is a bit on the low side of the gauge. But for a few days last week it was the epicenter of county politics
Saugerties Times letters (9/14-20)
Verizon rolls over Saugerties, good local food, Saugerties’ unsung heroes, touched by Erica’s Cancer Journey,
Kingston After Dark: New Mountaintops
Basilica Soundscape, the music, arts and literature fest in nearby Hudson, is one of the dopest and most sharply curated annual occurrences you’re going to find on American soil.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Let’s talk!
“I don’t want to say the wrong thing,” people confess when I run into them in town. Or, “Don’t focus on… that [dying]…stay positive and you’ll get through!” I get it.