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By wateradmin on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 - 12:01 pm
Above: Footage of The Band performing at Woodstock, August 17, 1969. The Band was not featured in Woodstock, the famous documentary about the festival, but their set was filmed, and clips from their performance can be found on YouTube.
In 1968, when most... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Two cars collided head-on on Route 299 in New Paltz around 11pm on Saturday night, when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 45-year-old Highland resident Jeffrey Davis left its lane and drifted into oncoming traffic.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 10:50 pm
The Daily Mail reports that on Saturday, an unattended cigarette sparked a blaze at a home in Catskill that left a family homeless and kept six fire departments busy through the afternoon:
The six-alarm fire was called in at 1:32 p. m. Saturday and first... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 4:48 pm
Some parents in the Onteora school district are still smarting from the Board of Education's recent decision to reconfigure its three elementary schools.
By adopting the current plan, which takes effect in the fall, the board was able to cut the budget... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 3:19 pm
To the editor:
I am Rebecca Balzac and I am running for the Onteora Board of Education. After speaking with residents of the district, some with children in the Onteora schools and some whose children have graduated, I have become very aware of a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 3:13 pm
To the editor:
Having served my three-year term since being elected by the community in 2009, the last year-plus as Vice President, I would like to announce that I am running for re-election to the Onteora School Board.
I am doing so because I believe in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 20, 2012 - 10:47 am
Donated children's shoes at the CARE for New York State warehouse in Cobleskill. Photo from CARE's Facebook page; reproduced by permission.
A decade ago, the Guilford Mills textile plant in Cobleskill hummed with the sound of workers making fabric and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 4:02 pm
The sounds of sweeter days: Levon's groove coupled with daughter Amy's soaring vocals. YouTube video from a 2010 show at the Horseshoe Casino.
A few simple words, posted today on Levon Helm's website, are reverberating around the world:
Levon Helm passed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012 - 1:36 pm
Outside of tabloids like the New York Post -- which once ran the famous headline "Headless body found in topless bar" -- news headlines about crime, especially in small-town papers, are usually pretty boilerplate.
But a couple of truly despicable... Read more
By Jason Dole on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 10:29 am
Above: Three-year-old Brody Day savors the victory of having reeled in the first trout of the "first cast" ceremony at Roscoe's Junction Pool, held on April 14 this year because of the holidays. Photo by Jason Dole.
On Saturday, Roscoe reminded everyone... Read more
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