The Good Work Institute seeks to provide kindred spirits an ecstatic experience that fosters the communitarian vision. Could the sparks it sets off kindle a generational fire in the Hudson Valley?
The class in wood-carving is part of a smorgasbord of art, craft, and boat-building courses that transport students to a slower, older time. Students learn square rule timber framing, paint maritime scenes, cast marine hardware in bronze, build a canoe, guitar, toboggan, or sea chest, and more.
Fruition Chocolate of Shokan has taken home the title of Best in Competition at London’s International Chocolate Awards, meaning a local, Catskills-based company has been crowned one of the best chocolate-makers in the world.
The event begins with a Healing Arts session of Acupuncture, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, and more and runs until 4 p.m. It will be followed by an evening concert at 6:30 p.m. featuring The Akwesasne Traditional Women’s Singers. Standing Rock activist Lyla June Johnston will fly in from Taos with a welcoming message. The Nimham Mountain Singers begin drumming at 6:30 p.m. to open the concert portion and there will also be spoken word and storytelling, and Charles Lyonhart will perform locally for the first time in over a year to support the effort.
Policy changes were made, funds were approved for programming, and some questions asked for clarification before Kevin Salem, acting as
The venerable Center for Spectrum Services, one of the area’s premier schools for children with autism, is hosting its Harvest Hop Dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19 at Diamond Mills in Saugerties. The fundraiser will help support the programs and services for the school’s students.
The Town of Olive’s proposed $5.5 million spending plan will carry a 3.7 percent tax hike.
The proposition to increase taxes for the Phoenicia Library was narrowly defeated at the polls, 634 to 613.
Woodstock Way, the 24-unit “eco cabin motel” that its owners hope will replace a half dozen Airbnb cabins beside Tannery Brook behind the Center for Photography, was subject to several design compromises and other changes set forth by the Woodstock planning board last week. A public hearing will be held next month.
The proposed $4,523,350 spending blueprint includes a tax levy increase of less than 1 percent.