Gary Kutcher, a longtime community activist who in 2011 returned to Woodstock, where he grew up, after residing for more than three decades in Oregon, announced this week that he will seek a seat on the Town Board in the fall election. Kutcher’s candidacy creates — for the time being, at least — a three-way...
April’s brush had painted the Chinese glory of forsythia on every road in Awaughkonk when Will Nixon and I started our walk to Kingston. Our destination there was the Dutch Reformed Church in the historic Stockade district. Our ostensible purpose was to answer a question Will had: why did it take a century for early Dutch settlers...
After a slow start, the longstanding court case of the Town of Woodstock versus Sharon McGehee and Lio Magat of Aspects Gallery Inn and Spa on Maple Lane came to a very fast finish on Wednesday, May 8. “It’s essentially over,” Town Justice Frank Engel said before making a quip to the two attorneys in...
Voters in the Onteora School district will go to the polls 2 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the four elementary schools, Woodstock, West Hurley, Bennett, and Phoenicia, to consider a proposed budget of $51,609,440 for the 2013-2014 school year. This is a spending increase of $1,847,004 or 3.71 percent, however district officials released $3,462,334...
Rosalie Burgher, the retired Olive Free Library director who was awarded the Woman of Distinction Award for the 51st senate district at the 16th annual senate Women of Distinction ceremony at the state Capitol in Albany Tuesday, calls books, and libraries, a lifelong addiction. “I grew up in Idaho and our town library, I remember,...
