Ripples of fear are coursing through Woodstock, Kingston, Phoenicia, Fleischmanns, Margaretville, and other towns where many Latin Americans are working in such fields as food service and construction.
“Traveling through Woodstock, Saugerties, and Phoenicia, there is no beating the location of this bicycle race.”
Dave Szish and Scott Wolfson’s story starts in fire and ends in water, with stops in Margaretville and Olive as it saunters towards the Woodstock Farm Festival’s Wednesdays opening May 31.
Nearly a year after it was announced, Woodstock’s program to help people overcome substance abuse has helped pave the road to recovery in place of a life of arrests and incarceration.
After 30 years of selling imported crafts on Woodstock’s Tinker Street, west of Tannery Brook, Bryn Kelsey has moved her shop, Walkabout, to Rock City Road, just off the town green.
Tiso’s Trattoria, the popular Mount Tremper restaurant, closed in December 2015 after five decades of operation by Joe and Marge Tiso. The eatery is about to reopen as The Pines under new owner Jeremy Bernstein, a Woodstock-born musician who performs as Burnell Pines.
You know the economy’s making big shifts, losing old business models, when a regional news website and one of the region’s top independent radio stations make paradigm-shifting announcements in the same week.
After growing up in Woodstock and leaving to work for two decades as a bodyworker in California, Jory Serota has returned to his hometown, bringing a system called neuro-kinetic therapy that he combines with Iyengar yoga.
Tuesday, February 28. Shrove Tuesday. Mardis Gras. The last day of Vidakafka.
“I went through the gamut of what to do for my child,” said Sharon Manner, whose now 25-year-old daughter Kerri has autism. “After she was hospitalized twice, I realized Western medicine was not working. I went back to my yoga roots to explore how to help her.”