The Keeper’s Log: The Widow Lighthouse Keeper
National Women’s History Month is an opportunity to recognize those previously overlooked. A fitting example is the story of the first female lighthouse keeper at the Saugerties station.
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Community helps Saugerties family get new van with wheelchair ramp
A long-awaited dream of a wheelchair accessible van for Tim and Valerie Scott, and son Tim Jr., for their daughter Cassandra came true this week.
Saugerties Times letters (3/22-29)
A lachrymose dream, a coup by attrition, a political endorsement, a political march, and a spiritual solution.
Despite marriage to U.S. citizen, deportation looms for local business owner
A Saugerties business owner is facing deportation and separation from his wife and infant son after new hard-line immigration policies and a torturously slow bureaucracy left him in legal limbo.
Saugerties Sports Hall of Fame: Mike Melville
Melville played sports in all three high school seasons, and he played them well. But he’s also being honored for his post-high-school contribution to the local sports scene, up to and including his coaching of the varsity girls’ basketball team
Revolution Bicycles is moving to Kingston
Revolution Bicycles, a retail fixture in the village of Saugerties for the past nine years, is moving to a larger location on the corner of Foxhall and Hasbrouck avenues in Midtown Kingston.
Saugerties village takes on feral cat problem
“We need people to raise their hand and say ‘Listen, there are cats all over the place and my neighbor is feeding them, there are plates everywhere and it smells like urine. Can you help me?””
Buddhist elementary school plans to open in West Saugerties
The light-filled classrooms in what’s to become the new Middle Way School in West Saugerties were packed with kids and parents Saturday, February 24, as educational consultant Kristen Lhatso, from Boulder, Colorado, outlined emerging plans for the private day school for elementary age students planned to open in September.
Young Saugerties entrepreneur looks to follow in family’s auction tradition
Donny Malone III, the 25-year-old scion of the local Malone auctioneering dynasty, began renting last fall the old site of Gisiano’s on Glasco Turnpike in November to store antiques and oddities for his online sales business. He’d like to begin holding in-person auctions at the venue.
Hudson Valley Honor Flight seeking veterans for spring flights
Area veterans are invited to apply to participate in the Hudson Valley Honor Flight spring flights to Washington, D.C. to visit their respective war memorials at no cost.