Woodstockers will choose the library’s direction
There is one thing that is certain about the effort to create a more modern, workable space for the library — the people…the voters of Woodstock will be the ones to decide.
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A little over a week ago, grubby politics brought an abrupt end to a hard-fought environmental treaty, many years in the making. Scientists advised and citizens pleaded, but to no avail: One rogue government simply walked away from the negotiations, and that was that. I’m talking about New Jersey, of course.
Letter: Griffin? What About Ted Nugent?
Nugent wanted Obama to “suck his machine gun” and wanted to cut off the heads of Obama and Hillary, is invited to the White House and now there’s suddenly all this umbrage about Griffin?
The wild beasts of Abbey Road
Blame the tourists, blame the neighbors, blame society. For all of her crimes, the only one not to blame for Miss Ulster County #332’s death was the bear herself.
Mapping the Catskills
The Catskill Mountains are crisscrossed with political and cultural lines that meander across the landscape like so many invisible trout streams, carving the landscape into more tame and manageable pieces. The result of all this slicing and dicing is that little attention gets paid to the Catskills as a whole, either by its own residents or by the larger powers that be.
Nods to the past align with the technology of the future at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds
In the Hudson Valley, ag still rules! A big early-20th-century barn has popped up at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, reminding passersby on Route 9 that there’s much more there than the midway at the annual Dutchess County Fair.
What reshoring may mean for the Hudson Valley’s economic growth
President Donald Trump has said that his America First policies can significantly — hugely! — increase the rate of growth of America’s gross domestic product. The average annual growth pf GDP over the past decade has hovered around two per cent. Trump is sure he can increase that to four percent. In fact, he recently told Fox News that with better trade deals the United States should be able to lift it to five per cent in a few years.
Ulster County’s most innovative public secondary school
The mission of the Hudson Valley Pathways Academy, a small publicly funded secondary school on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston, is to graduate students with both technical knowledge and real-world skills. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, that’s no small ambition.
Heads in beds, updated
A look at two local hotel plans, one traditional and one non-traditional. What do they have in common? Both would like a tax break from the county.
Trumpian training
President Trump’s proposed budget wants to scale back on a number of job training programs, including those aimed at helping seniors, disadvantaged young people and unemployed Americans.