Kingston After Dark: Times of pride and peril
Here’s to you, Kingston. We should be proud right now.
Voices
Hugh Reynolds: Snow jobs
After years of delay, Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week dropped $8 million in a capital development grant at the state-owned Belleayre Ski Center at Highmount.
Kingston Times letters (2/23-3/1)
Selections from the Feb. 23 print edition of Kingston Times.
A sneak preview of the Thomas Cole House restoration
Thomas Cole’s home on Spring Street in Catskill has left behind its near-death experience of the 1970s and as an independent non-profit organization affiliated with the National Park Service has been engaged in a recovery that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago.
Saugerties Times letters (2/16-22)
Topic include: Saugerties Farmers Market seeks new location, Trump had his chance, Faso votes for ‘Kleptocracy Protection Act’, protecting environment protects jobs, Flynn’s plausible deniability
Kingston After Dark: Of Hummus and Headbanging
While I love plugging inspiring bands or discussing the area with interesting people, many have mentioned to me recently how Kingston’s dining scene is actually the most poppin’ thing going on lately.
Hugh Reynolds: Two Belleayres are ringing
While the controversy over the proposed Resort at Belleayre continues in court, the seemingly settled issues of capital funding at the (unrelated, or is it?) state-owned Belleayre Ski Center at Highmount have once again erupted in public dispute.
Kingston Times letters: Opinions on Faso; Mike Hein, what is freedom?
Letters to the editor for the 2/16 edition of Kingston Times.
Mark Sherman: Using what you’ve got
From the standpoint of identity politics, you are in a particularly strong position if you can claim more than one downtrodden identity. As a white male there isn’t a lot to choose from, but I do have one card…
Walter Maxwell and the importance of community
As political scientist Robert Putnam, author of the turn-of-the-21st-century classic Bowling Alone, America’s Declining Social Capital, expressed it, “If we can get more people engaged in community life in contexts that respect American pluralism, many of our other problems —to begin with, our politics — will be different.” Walter Maxwell lived that belief. Walter got it. Walter lives.