New owner wants to revive failed Hudson Valley Mall
‘Why is a property a failed property? It’s because it doesn’t have the income. But there’s no bad property, it’s just lack of investment and bad stewardship. And that’s what’s occurred.’
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Think of the middle and upper portions of the Hudson Valley not as New York City’s back yard but as its mirror opposite. Where New York is characterized by a dense sea of humanity punctuated by token islands of green, much of the Hudson Valley consists of islands of people within a still significantly green sea. The two struggle in uneasy complement to each other.
Sonny Ochs keeps the legacy of Phil Ochs alive
In the Trump era, Sonny feels Phil’s music is more pertinent than ever. If he were alive today, “I don’t think he’d have time to sleep, there’s so much material out there,” she said. “He’s already written songs that are, unfortunately, still relevant.”
Members show kicks off new year at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
The Guild is pushing two faces this year. One is historic, best emblemized by the face of one of the original arts colony’s founders, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, who tried her hand at all mixes of arts and crafts explored in the studios built around she and her husband’s rural home here. The other is young and exploring, one of 600 members of the new organization who as often as not first experienced the place as part of Byrdcliffe’s annual, and growing, Artist in Residence program.
Georgia company finalizes purchase of Hudson Valley Mall
The mall’s purchase, expected for several weeks now, comes during a week of dreary news for brick & mortar retail companies.
Jeremy Wilber: 1950-2017
The full obituary of Woodstock town supervisor Jeremy Wilber.
Defeated congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout aims to stay involved
“We’re rebuilding. There’s definitely a hunger to act. Politics after all is the constant job of holding power accountable. We’re just trying to figure out what that means.”
Editorial: Promises Jeremy kept
He said he’d give some consideration to my deadline and he wanted to make it to 2017 so he’d have the distinction of being the town’s longest serving supervisor. When he died on New Year’s Day, he successfully completed both goals.
From Jeremy to you: Thank You, Woodstock
A letter from the late town supervisor to the community he loved.
McKenna appointed Woodstock town supervisor
Bill McKenna told the board he is ready to take over as supervisor, but “I hoped it would be several more of his terms down the road,” he said, referring to Wilber. “Jeremy was a great teacher and a great student.”