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A busy and controversial time for Woodstock planners

A busy and controversial time for Woodstock planners

While the town awaits the Woodstock Zoning Board of Appeals’ pending decisions on variances regarding the request for a bar/café at the new Woodstock Way lodgings in the center of town, fences and other already-built changes at the bagel café and wine bar going up on Mill Hill Road, and the advent of a new restaurant and store in Lake Hill, Woodstock has also been dealing with a host of other growing land use battles and proposals.

Awkward moments in local racism

Awkward moments in local racism

I confess I feel like a real Pollyanna being surprised by this, but a SUNY New Paltz professor’s avuncular dogwhistling honestly shocked me more than anything else in the news this week.

Yankeetown Pond bought for a dollar! (Part 2)

Yankeetown Pond bought for a dollar! (Part 2)

Rumors proliferate in Woodstock like botulism in an ancient can of tuna fish. So until it failed to go away, I paid little mind to the one in the headline. A single visit to the town offices, however, and the gossip was at least partially substantiated. Someone named Erin Moran had indeed purchased 24 acres of land under and around one of Woodstock’s less advertised treasures (which occupies approximately 125 acres) for a dollar. Part 2 of 2.