Esopus News

As the largest, most conspicuous proposed development in recent memory, the hotel/convention center proposed for the site of the former Cantine Mill on Partition Street has elicited no small amount of opinions.

PORTEWEN: A program called "The Joys of Winter Hiking" will be held 6:30 p.m. Dec.

Fitzell lives in Brooklyn and his work has also appeared in The Villager and Downtown Express newspapers and The Independent Film and Video Monthly magazine, among others.

Democrats were clinging to their majority in the Ulster County Legislature Tuesday, but Republican challengers apparently ousted Democratic incumbents in New Paltz and Lloyd, according to unofficial results.

On Huguenot Street, at the west end of New Paltz, six original stone houses and a cemetery, along with a reconstructed stone church, reflect the lives of a French-speaking Protestant community that settled there in the early 18th century.

Just like potatoes, some apples are much better for baking whole than others. But which kinds are best? NPR's Guy Raz and I decided to do a side-by-side comparison with different kinds of apples to see which ones baked up best - and worst.

"Sasha, the Tail Waggin' Tutor" will be the featured guest from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Interactive Museum, 23 Center St.

Though devoutly worshipped by fans, jazz drummers don't often lead groups; the late Art Blakey 's long-running Jazz Messengers are a prominent, if rare, exception.

Ulster County Legislator Philip Terpening collapsed and died last night during a candidates forum in Esopus.

'On the Record' features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

Police arrested and charged the 28-year-old man who held his sister hostage in a Port Ewen apartment for more than two hours Thursday.

PORT EWEN: A Washington, D.C., man was sent to Benedictine Hospital in Kingston for a psychiatric evaluation Thursday after he was involved in a three-hour police standoff in the Town of Esopus.

PORT EWEN - Esopus town officials and dignitaries kicked off today what will apparently be the largest municipal solar power system in the state.

A fallen candle started a fire that sent one person to the hospital and displaced a family of six Monday night, officials said.

It's the kind of crib only a robber baron could feel comfy in - 42,000 square feet of marbled archways and tiled floors, stocked to the gunwales with exotic statues, gewgaws and paintings.

Ulster land trust hires new leader - The Wallkill Valley Land Trust announced the appointment of Christie Ferguson as its new executive director.

While they aren't always perceived this way, local colleges are major economic engines, providing good-paying jobs and infusing the area with youth, some of whom come from far away but wind up making a home right here in the Hudson Valley.

State police say an elderly driver blacked out at the wheel and crashed into a wall at the Marist Brothers Monastery on Route 9W in Esopus Thursday morning.

He was the best friend Marist College will ever have. A man you probably never heard of named Raymond Rich has bequeathed the Poughkeepsie college his home on the Hudson.

WHO: J. Wilson Tinney, 92, Ives Hill Retirement Community, has had a fascination with boats since he lived in Esopus, along the Hudson River, for most of his life.