New World Home Cooking shuttering its doors
The restaurant has been an Ulster County fixture for 25 years. It will close April 7.
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SolarGeneration sold, will stay in the neighborhood
The homegrown company SolarGeneration, which began installing solar panels in the Woodstock area in 2005, has been purchased by Paul McMenemy, a renewable energy entrepreneur who previously owned the Golden Notebook bookstore.
Phoenicia Arts and Event Space arrives
The walls have a fresh coat of white paint, the aged carpet is gone from the staircase, and the former Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community gallery that closed in February, is about to reincarnate under new proprietors and a new name.
Farming is an increasingly popular career choice for those with developmental disabilities
Organizers say farming is well suited to people with developmental disabilities because it doesn’t depend on social cues. If they want to be alone, there’s a lot of space and solo duties to perform. If they want to interact with others, there are always farm chores to do that require more than one person.
Woodstock musicians, neighbors, clubs speak up on proposed noise law
The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a recent public hearing.
Maple tappers branch out
It’s Maple Weekend across New York State this week, and sugarbush tappers are opening their saphouses to celebrate the harvest. On tap for the weekend: pancake breakfasts, leaf-shaped candies and clear bottles full of sweet amber, a taste of fresh sap out of a bucket. It’s about as traditional as it gets. But if you look closely, the landscape is shifting. As the climate changes, the trees change too — and tappers follow.
Autism panel is one highlight of Woodstock Bookfest
Completely new this year at the Woodstock Bookfest will be its first gathering of writers who specialize on the subject of autism, at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock.
Woman sentenced to jail for assisted suicide released after judge has ‘second thoughts’
Solane Verraine, who pled guilty to assisting her husband, Johnny Asia, to commit suicide in Phoenicia in November 2016, has been released from the Ulster County jail.
Ulysses S. Grant’s Woodstock visit
For 19th century Woodstockers, Grant’s visit to their mountain was a seminal moment of recognition. His stay may have been brief but here was validation and birth as Woodstock began the transition from industries that took from the land — such as quarrying and tanning — to an economy and lifestyle based on what others saw in the land.
WAAM shows focus on the abstract
From the look of the Woodstock Arts Association & Museum’s new exhibits opening this weekend, with receptions set for March 24, abstraction’s back in town…if it ever really left.