Mount Tremper News

John "Daido" Loori, 78, founder and abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, who died on October 9, was laid to rest at a cemetery at the monastery on Sunday following a three-day funeral befitting a teacher who was widely considered to be one of the most influential Zen Buddhist masters in the West.

The Emerson Resort and Spa in Mount Tremper expanded its collection of country stores with the addition of Emerson Antiques by Velsani.

Name: Aynsley Vandenbroucke Title/Occupation: Choreographer http://www.movementgroup.org and Artistic Director of Mount Tremper Arts: http://www.mounttremperarts.org/ 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Chicago and L.A. My father worked in theater so I grew up going to performances and peeking in on ...

Emerson Resort & Spa, in Mount Tremper, Ulster County, hired Patricia Ullmann as manager of the resort's spa.

PHOENICIA - A reception will be held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday at Ulster Savings Bank's 58 Main St.

It's enough that Tony Fletcher's new history of a city's effects on pop culture over a 50 year period, All Hopped Up And Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77, has an encyclopedic heft to it, pulling together a wealth of material not usually found together in such detail.

RHINEBECK: Oblong Books & Music will host a book discussion with Tony Fletcher, author of "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977," 7:30 p.m. Nov.

Since ancient times wise ones and sages have lived by the water. When they live by the water they catch fish or they catch humans or they catch the Way.

John Daido Loori, dharma heir to Zen Master Taizan Maezumi, died yesterday morning from lung cancer.

John Daido Loori, a photographer who found that snapping a picture mirrored the instant of spiritual enlightenment, inspiring him to start an influential Zen monastery in the Catskills, died on Friday in Mount Tremper, N.Y. He was 78.

Ulster resort promotes maintenance worker - Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper promoted Billy McDowell to operations manager.

I heard this morning from several people that John Daido Loori Roshi was stepping down as head of the Mountains and Rivers Order , "descending the mountain." And today the following announcement appeared courtesy of Monkey Mind : This past Sunday Roshi met with the Zen Mountain Monastery Board of Directors to let them know he feels it is time for ...

Following a decision by Verizon to deactivate a pay phone on Route 28, in Big Indian, an area that has little to no access to cellular communications, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein persuaded Verizon to reverse its decision.

Olaf Breuning, Faces , 2009, offset lithographic poster, 27 37.5 inches. Courtesy of Offset Project.

We're staying at the emerson this weekend to attend a wedding which happens to fall on our anniversary.

Up the gravel driveway past the Mount Tremper Arts sign on Old Route 28 to the small parking lot with only one car in it, a battered green Volvo station wagon.

Artists and others working in the creative fields are nothing if not innovative.

Artists and others working in the creative fields are nothing if not innovative.

Master gardeners are available in the Cooperative Extension offices for soil testing and plant and insect identification.

Ulster County officials say they're still not sure how many restaurants, camps and other regulated businesses are operating without permits, but they've called in help from the state Department of Health to sort through the mess.