With the Catskills in a deep freeze since before Christmas, local plumbers are working overtime to restore frozen and sometimes ruptured pipes in homes and businesses. For some people, this problem is a major annoyance. For others, it’s a crisis.
Recommendations for future flood resilience include relocating the town hall complex out of the flood zone; enlarging two bridges on Fox Hollow Road only if damaged or scheduled for replacement; monitoring the stream bottom at a bridge on Creekside Road and cautiously removing sediment if warranted; elevation of homes or electrical structures within buildings in the flood zone.
I think we can all agree that the real joy of Christmas is spending time with the important people in your life. People like Jan the Xbox tech support specialist. Jan and I got a lot of quality time in this Christmas.
Creative Music Studio (CMS), the ground-breaking Woodstock-based improvisation lab, turns over a new leaf in 2018, as co-founder Karl Berger hands over the presidency to jazz drummer and educator Billy Martin.
Books collecting the autographs of others, along with poems and other mementos, were once common. Today they live in only for special occasions, like weddings or graduations.
Weighing property rights against the change in quality of life brought about by the sharp increase in short-term visitors in residential neighborhoods.
The need for more youth outreach and people-friendly space were some ideas shared by focus groups for the Woodstock Public Library’s three-year plan of service.
His occupations have included musician, painter, builder, priest, and bicycle repairman, as well as cartoonist (Woodstock Times readers know him as Swami Salami).
‘Our goal is to have quality assessments that are not 100 questions long, because we’ve seen fabulous examples where I can cover six standards in one question.’
Although it sometimes seems Woodstock has ridden the coat-tails of what didn’t happen here more than what did, the town has indeed been graced with several geniuses, two of whom endured allegations of “imposter!” and taught the world much through such endurance.