Signs posted to protest weddings at Olive venue burned by unknown arsonist
On High Point Mountain Road in the Town of Olive, several signs, posted to protest the activities of Ashokan Dreams wedding venue, were recently destroyed or damaged.
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Hugh Reynolds: The watchdog, defanged
Personally, in choosing between the comptroller and the academic on one side and the rest of county government on the other, I find the angels on the side of Auerbach and Benjamin— but angels don’t vote.
Michael Rosenthal’s Barney: Fighting censorship
Barney Rosset, the spirited subject of Michael Rosenthal’s new biography, “Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship” — which will be the subject of a reading and book signing event at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 18 at the Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock — seems to have made only one key trip to Woodstock in his lifetime.
My only sunshine
New innovations in solar panels and the grid come to the Hudson Valley.
Olive residents upset about use of tracks for rail bike tours
Residents of the Town of Olive are up in arms about Rail Explorers, the company whose contract with Ulster County will allow them to run tours of rail bikes down the Ulster & Delaware tracks alongside 39 homes on Cold Brook Road, near Boiceville, beginning in August or September.
Varsity Football returns to Onteora
After a three-year absence, Onteora High School will field a Varsity football team for the 2017 fall season.
Jory’s journey to Neuro-kinetic therapy and retraining the brain
After growing up in Woodstock and leaving to work for two decades as a bodyworker in California, Jory Serota has returned to his hometown, bringing a system called neuro-kinetic therapy that he combines with Iyengar yoga.
Belleayre gondola already in the works
Construction of a gondola lift at Belleayre Ski Center is already in the works after last month’s state approval of $8 million in investments for the center, Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley reported at the March 6 town board meeting.
Big night: Amphibian populations crossing the roads
Many enterprising local salamanders made the trip to their spring spawning grounds in late February, weeks ahead of schedule.
Woodstock Library Board takes another look at renovation
Demolishing the library and building a new $5.75 million building, out; fixing the current building, in.