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Rita J. Sheehan, author of Arcadia Publishing's 'Bethel,' has been the Bethel town clerk for 12 years.

Our review of Taking Woodstock , published December 15th, 2009, is also available.

Taking Woodstock: Ang Lee makes movies on a human scale, which presents an immediate challenge when trying to bring home the smaller details of a mammoth cultural event such as Woodstock.

Liberty Elementary students are commemorating the school district's building project with a project of their own: The Last Beam Project.

VANCOUVER a ' Here are some highlights from this week's DVD releases. Inglorious Basterds Two stars out of Five The Second World War is reduced to childish cartoon violence and boldfaced "good" and "evil" in this frequently offensive and gratuitous rewrite of history from the baby brain of Quentin Tarantino.

Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini has never been shy about inviting famous people to town.

Florika Dima sat in the front row of the brand-new conference room Sunday afternoon, in the brand-new U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Center being named for her late husband.

Supervisor Dan Sturm is 180 votes ahead of former supervisor Harold Russell, so Sturm's ultimate victory seems fairly certain.

Clinton, N.Y. - The Hamilton College Theatre Department is hosting three lectures in a series called a oeArt and the Stage: Design for the Theatre.a They will all take place in Minor Theater on the Hamilton campus and are free and open to the public.A A The first event is a lecture/demonstration of scene painting techniques with Michelle Bonker on ...

It's been 40 years since Jim Fielder and his fellow members of Blood, Sweat & Tears took the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in White Lake, N.Y. But the memory of plugging in his bass guitar and turning around to face the biggest crowd he'd ever seen has never left him.

Originally printed 9/3/2009 Director Ang Lee's got something for the gays. After the harrowing down-low love story between two dude sheepherders in "Brokeback Mountain" - a resplendently put-together piece of cinema that broke hearts and box-office projections, proving that straight filmmakers can create better queer films than some queer directors ...

SUMMER OF PEACE LOVE AND HAPPINESS: Demeti Martin stars in this comedy about the historic Woodstock Festival.

Three days of peace and music. There is no better way to describe Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock," the ultimate summer hippie flick.

Sullivan County is moving ahead with more classroom space and a centralized location for training of emergency responders, officials say.

To mark the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the man who provided the upstate New York location for the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

WHITE LAKE, N.Y. - The New York Department of Transportation says they need to improve road conditions on Route 28, but the people in Forestport say they don't want a new and improved highway running through town if it means clear cutting trees and moving utility poles.

Likely it was Hunter S. Thompson who said, "If you remember the '60s, then you weren't there." More accurately, if you remember the '60s, you may find that decade all but impossible to describe, a tsunami of counterculture change that encompassed language, music, dress, hair, lifestyle and protest.

CASEY PHILLIPS: Considering it doesn't feature a single musical performance from the festival for which it's named, "Taking Woodstock" had an uphill battle to prove it could capture the spirit of Woodstock.

Lee as they were with his other changes of pace. The Taking Woodstock review collection suggests that it might be better to rewatch the real Woodstock, rather than see how one young man helped give Woodstock its home.

Ang Lee literally makes Woodstock the backdrop to his latest film. The famous music festival is both seen from a distance and heard from a distance.