The perfect combination?
Two community banks serving Ulster and Orange counties, Wallkill Valley Federal Savings & Loan in Wallkill and Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley headquartered in Walden announced their merger last week.
Voices
Are you on Santa Reynolds’ list?
’Tis the season. Celebration time. Come on! For the nice and the naughty and to all in between, you know if you’ve been bad or good. So for goodness’ sake, holiday greetings.
Saugerties Times Letters (12/22-29)
Topics include: Questioning crossing guard hires, Audit the Pentagon, Willy Neumann status report, Standing up to destructive pipelines, Praise for “Top ten albums” article, Farmers’ Market will be back, election thoughts.
The devil and Donald Trump
It is a desolate, moonless night on the Mississippi delta. There’s nothing there at the intersection of Highways 61 and
Kingston After Dark: Live and direct
The new record “Holy Rollin’” from area heroes The Grape and the Grain is crackling with a sense of adventure and even more of a funky hard rock sensibility than perhaps anything they have released to date.
One of the two last surviving steamboats in the country is Kingston-bound
State money will fund “a traveling celebration,” a pilot project for “how boats, cargo, ideas and people influenced the region’s river, canal and ports.” These arts and culture programs will be held aboard the 1902-built SS Columbia. In order for those programs to occur on that locale, the venerable 208-foot-long steam-powered vessel has to be moored on the Hudson River, and specifically on the Rondout Creek.
Hugh Reynolds: Blowin’ in the wind
Ulster County DA Holley Carnright quoted Dylan to the legislature as he pled for resources to battle the heroin epidemic. “How many deaths will it take ’til he knows that too many people have died?”
Saugerties Times letters to the editor (12/15-22)
Hudson Valley Dessert Co. comes to rescue of snowbound motorist, Holiday in the Village success, Ulster County needs economic development, taking a stand.
Kingston Times letters (12/8-14)
Parking fees not the answer; land of the oil.
Ulster County needs to adapt to the changing economy
The county’s vision for its economic future, Ulster Tomorrow, is in need of a major update— particularly in how the nature of work has changed, perhaps the most profound economic trend in the past decade. It completely escaped the Ulster Tomorrow net.