Letters: Woodstockers weigh in on traffic woes
Does Woodstock need traffic lights? Stop signs? Traffic cops? Tickets for double-parked trucks? To do nothing and let drivers and pedestrians figure it out?
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So long, Hurley Ridge
For those of us who didn’t want to have to drive to Kingston for a market, it was a haven.
Woodstock seeks solution to summer gridlock
Small towns with a tourism season perennially grapple with traffic, but Woodstock’s vehicular woes seem to be getting worse.
Woodstock Library Fair’s theme: “Citizens of the World”
Come Woodstock, Citizens of the World, to the 86th Annual Library Fair Saturday for a day of music, food fun and more.
Citizens want Woodstock to become sanctuary town
“There is a moral imperative to speak out in defense of our community,” said one resident.
New children’s coordinator at Woodstock Library looks after programs
The Woodstock Library’s Children’s Summer Reading Program continues its decades-long run under the new direction of Dawn Meola, Coordinator of Children’s Services.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a Woodstock founding mother
“If it hadn’t been for Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Woodstock might not be what it is today,” town historian Alf Evers told me one afternoon, speaking of the turn-of-the-century novelist, poet, nonfiction writer, feminist thinker, controversial social commentator and women’s suffrage activist.
Jenny Nelson’s chaos
On making abstract art: “What makes a difference is knowing how to draw .. to me, the difference shows in the ability for the painting to hold up over time. If you don’t know how to render an object in space in black and white, to draw the crumpled paper bag, the oval with light on it, the studies of light to dark — without this knowledge, the painting falls flat. Everything sits on the surface. It’s important to create a feeling of real space. Even if you’re looking at shapes and they’re not recognizable, it feels good because somewhere there’s depth to it.”
Searching for the best deal on heating oil in the Hudson Valley
As air conditioners start to hum in some of the region’s warmer spots, families are hunkering down trying to figure
How to gild most anything
We know our rural forebears participated in quilting bees, but have you ever heard of a gilding bee? Artist Laura Sue King invented the term to describe gatherings she has organized at The Painters Gallery, 1109 Main Street, Fleischmanns, where she will teach people to apply gold leaf to small items they bring along, or to objects King has found in the woods.