Within the last week, the news of the booking spread on social media and a boycott was suggested. County Executive Pat Ryan urged the county Agricultural Society to cancel the performance, calling the flag a “symbol of division and racism.” That cancellation was announced earlier today.
Brutally hot weather, topping 100-degree readings on both Saturday and Sunday, suppressed turnout markedly at the 2019 Rosendale Street Festival. But not one of the 80+ bands who signed up to play for free failed to show up on account of the heat, and not one attendee needed to be treated for heat-related illness, according to Festival officials.
Rambling Rose clientele, who have come to rely on the shop owner’s expertise in fashion, may be surprised to learn that Mazur is going into real estate sales. As one of her longtime customers put it so succinctly, she will be going “from dresses to addresses.”
One of Rosendale’s most popular downtown eateries and watering holes, the Red Brick Tavern, has been sold to new owners and is currently closed for renovations. The transfer of ownership from Billy and Michelle Loughlin to the group who run the Santa Fe restaurants in Tivoli, Woodstock and Uptown Kingston took place in late June.
“It’s very difficult to do a good job if you only have two years,” said the current supervisor.
Kingston’s burning, but this time don’t blame the British, embroiled as they are with Brexit issues. With median property prices increasing more than 20 percent in the first half of this year over last year’s first half, the market for Kingston real estate is hot.
U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-Rhinebeck) traveled to McAllen, Texas Friday along with members of Congress on a bipartisan Congressional delegation trip to facilities at the southern border.
With Shawangunk and Catskill vistas revealed around every bend in its meandering country roads, and lush orchards and fertile alluvial cornfields sprawling in every direction, Stone Ridge is an alluringly lovely place to live. But such rural beauty has its down side: being inconveniently equidistant from such necessary evils of modern life as large chain stores.
With a tersely-worded letter sent to New Paltz Town Council members, Jonathan Katz ended his 24-year run as town justice, effective August 8. Interviews to fill the position until a permanent replacement is elected will be held at the Town Council meeting on August 1.
With a heat wave forecast for this weekend, local officials have announced the following cooling centers will be open.