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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 - 11:45 am
Changes are afoot at Woodstock's independent movie theater, according to the Woodstock Times.  New managers Dede and Steve Leiber, who own a nonprofit movie theater in Rhinebeck called Upstate Films, began leasing the Tinker Street Cinema this month.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Ulster County political types really like the Internet. Comptroller Eliot Auerbach has a blog. So do legislator Mike Madsen and former Kingston mayoral candidate Rich Cahill. There's Jeremy Blaber, a Democratic campaigner with a lively blog on the Ulster... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 5:26 pm
Never mind dancing hamsters. This is what the internet was made for. Mt. Tremper writer Tony Fletcher, whose jazz-to-punk history of the New York music scene, All Hopped Up And Ready To Go, came out last year, has teamed up with 8tracks.com on an online... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 4:19 pm
SUNY New Paltz student Steve Deffabia reports that his study abroad program in Cardiff has gotten off to a rocky start: We get to the baggage claim area where it is just me, Nina, and Christine waiting for our luggage. Christine grabs hers. Nina snatches... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 10:35 am
At the Kingston Progressive blog, Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen weighs in on Warren Redlich, a Tea Party/libertarian type who's looking to topple Rick Lazio in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Question is, what are the chances of the New York... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 - 10:21 pm
And we're celebrating it. (Maybe you thought there was no black history in the Catskills?) Check out this find from the papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society: depositions from an 1822 trial in Catskill, Greene County in which "James Fox a negro" is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 - 9:48 pm
A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated along with the Long Island Business News and Times Herald-Record that the Nevele had finally been sold. Well, it was under contract, anyway. Which is just paperwork, right? Wrong. The THR's Adam Bosch reports that a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 12:11 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Woodstock dentist Michael Tischler (who's also a photographer) recently started a foundation that will: ...raise money to provide high-quality dental care to underprivileged children and raise awareness about the importance... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 11:48 am
Part time, spring through summer/fall. From Ulster Corps: Nestled next to the southwest side of the Marlboro Hills, ten minutes from the center of college town New Paltz, New York, Liberty View Farm is a boutique farm and orchard of organically grown... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 - 10:05 pm
Founder Mark Greene is leaving for NYC, wants to leave the org in good hands. Join Mark Greene at his home Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM for a discussion on the future of the KDC.

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