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WMCHealth manages change in a dynamic healthcare environment
The HealthAlliance Hospital. (Photo by Dion Ogust) You’re old road is rapidly agin’ Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a’changin’. — Bob Dylan, February...
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Point of view: Local congressmember goes bipartisan
Congressman Pat Ryan (C-Span) The time for the big vote on lifting the national debt ceiling had come for the House of Representatives. Several of the television networks had promised they’d break into...
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The global economy takes Ulster County real-estate for a spin
The former Coleman High School. A player new to the Ulster County real-estate market recently bought the 117,000-square-foot former John A. Coleman High School building on 17 acres off Hurley Avenue in...
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Behind the scenes of Hudson Valley’s oldest music venue
Maverick Concerts in Woodstock. (Photo by Dion Ogust ) So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the...
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Withering GOP nominates Democrats in Hurley election
Mike Boms Hurley politics will be seeing something new on November 7, a Republican slate composed mostly of long-time Democrats united under the banner of Keep Hurley Hurley. The nominees will be...
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Watershed warriors struggle to keep the water clean
Ashokan Reservoir (Photo by Dion Ogust) It was announced last year that New York City was preparing to spend $49 million to build a sewage treatment plant and the connections to it in the Shokan hamlet...
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New venture launches at Woodstock Playhouse and Saugerties Orpheum
Steven Schragis, founder of Thoughtful Productions. Rumpled, loquacious and self-effacing, 66-year-old Woodstocker Steven Schragis never stops having big ideas for providing services with educational...
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In Woodstock, community learning begins with nature
Erik Holmlin of Dharmaware at the Mower’s Flea Market. (Photo by Dion Ogust) “My old man was Mr. Mead himself, who had built the place 40 years before. Pointing down to what seemed an earthly paradise,...
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A new kind of urgent-care facility opens in Kingston area
Nuvance Health-GoHealth Urgent Care has opened a Kingston center at 1240 Ulster Avenue. (Photos by Dion Ogust) A new urgent-care facility held its outside ribbon-cutting on the semi-cloudy afternoon of...
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Candidates for district attorney present an extreme contrast in personality
Mike Kavanagh Different things make different kinds of people tick. No better example can be provided than by the personality contrast between Manny Nneji and Mike Kavanagh, the competitors in the...
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The Kingston Stockade’s banking community is about to get another competitor
Rondout Savings Bank (RSB) has purchased the former uptown Kingston location of Key Bank at 267 Wall Street. (Photos by Dion Ogust) Rondout Savings Bank (RSB) has purchased the former uptown Kingston...
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It’s a very bad time to have to refinance
Some parts of the American economy have been much more negatively affected by high interest rates than others. And some of those damaged parts are not distant from the Hudson Valley. Handouts from the...
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All systems go for high-speed all-fiber Internet service in Kingston
Three Archtop Fiber representatives spoke to an audience of about 15 people in Kingston’s city-hall council chambers late Tuesday afternoon, November 14. Installation of their product will begin first...
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The golden age of Woodstock lithography
Winter Peace by Grant Arnold. Before the global warming of the past few decades, winter in the Hudson Valley was longer, bleaker and colder — the kind of weather in which the bright light of the winter...
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iPark 87 attracts an unexpected new kind of tenant
iPark87 (Photo by Sue Pilla) It’s a trustworthy truism, tried and tested over time, and it’s about to be tried and tested again at iPark 87, the sprawling and obsolete ex-IBM facility in the Town of...
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Congressional boundary changes would put northern Ulster County in Pat Ryan’s...
New York State’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) has submitted a single map containing the bipartisan ten-member body’s recommendations for congressional boundaries in this November’s...
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Acquisition of Nuvance Health by Northwell Health spurs discussion
Will the corporate merger announced February 28 between Nuvance Health and Northwell Health bring higher-quality clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs to the mid-Hudson Valley? Nuvance Health, a...
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Massive government program runs into unprecedented amount of fraud
Confronted with the economic catastrophe of the Covid pandemic, the federal government agreed in 2020 to pump out the astonishing amount of more than $6000 for every American man, woman and child to...
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Pat Ryan’s race this year could be a close and bitter one
Pat Ryan Though there’s been a recent significant sign that Ulster County, there are indicators that congressmember Pat Ryan may be in for a challenging time in his reelection bid this November. The...
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Don’t believe what you read
An early sentence in Tuesday’s press release attributed to governor Kathy Hochul provided the alert reader the tipoff. “The project includes depth repairs and pavement resurfacing on a 15.5-mile...
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