The Bop Island Big Band will play three concerts at the Woodstock Playhouse this fall, alternating with two performances by smaller ensembles, in the Bop Island Jazz Festival. The first show features Jazzmasters, a quartet led by guitarist Peter Bernstein, on Saturday, September 22.
A 1933 Franklin Olympic and cars of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s from Ford, Plymouth and Chevrolet, will be participating in the 2nd Annual Catskill Conquest Pilot Rally Commemorating the 1903 Automobile Endurance Run, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Saturday September 22.
Relief may be in sight for Woodstock’s seemingly endless summer of road construction with detours and jaw-rattling potholes.
Numbers have always been used to evaluate the performances and the value of nearly all professional athletes. But in the not-so-wonderful-world of the National Basketball Association, these quantitative judgments have gotten out of hand. I mean, even the most commonly-used and seemingly incontrovertible statistics can be misleading.
When the world-famous Shanghai Quartet performed at the Maverick concert series this summer, they played their encore on string instruments created by Woodstock craftsman David Wiebe.
Some residents of western Shandaken who have been unable to obtain cable TV or Internet service, unless they spring for an expensive satellite dish will soon be able to go online.
The public is invited to a reception at the church on Sunday, September 15, at noon, in honor of Pastor Sonja Maclary, who was ordained two decades ago and came to Woodstock to shepherd her first congregation.
On Saturday, September 15, the store will hold an anniversary party from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., with cake, balloons, and a raffle. The first 40 customers who walk in that day and ask for the feminist classic The Golden Notebook will receive a free copy in return for holding up their phone and following the store on Instagram, as well as posing for a photo that will be posted with thanks to HarperCollins.
The town has extended the Mill Hill Road project by about two weeks, seizing on an opportunity to replace some sections of sidewalk on the state’s dime.
The Woodstock Land Conservancy (WLC) holds its fourth annual BioBlitz on Friday, September 21, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, September 22, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., as naturalists lead expeditions on the Thorn Preserve in eastern Woodstock, counting the species found on the 60-acre property.