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Viral video hero Zach Wahls reads from My Two Moms this Saturday in High Falls

Zach Wahls is a 20-year-old Civil Engineering student at Iowa State University. He’s an Eagle Scout and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church. He’s a state champion debater, and a beloved son…

Photo of Sarah Fimm by Heyrick Chasse.

Sparkle Park installation in Bearsville to raise awareness of human trafficking

Recording artist Sarah Fimm and friends are going to hang thousands of tiny mirrors and place hundreds of solar hummingbirds in the trees and shrubs behind the Bearsville Theatre next month and illuminate…

Reggie and Kim Harris.

“Building Bridges” concert in Woodstock to aid storm-stranded musicians

People like to find ways to contribute – ways that flow out of their lives to assist others in need. When some associates in the music world lost their bridge in last year’s…

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Hurley Founders’ Day this Saturday

The Hurley Heritage Society celebrates Founders’ Day on Main Street in the Village of Hurley on Saturday, May 5. Marc Fried will be the keynote lecturer, with “A Look Back in Time” as…

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Bookings: Hudson Valley signings & readings for the month of May

Evolution revolution: John Long discusses Darwin’s Devices on May 3 at Vassar Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us about the History of Life and the Future of Technology is professor John…

Photo of TMI’s Eva Tenuto and Sari Botton at last week’s Woodstock Writers’ Festival by Dion Ogust

TMI performance at Bearsville this Friday to benefit HOPE’s Fund

Those TMI divas of Starling Productions, who encourage people to share their deepest feelings with a crowd of eager listeners, have come up with another evening of thought-provoking entertainment and raucous fun. “Starlings…

Tim Rowan’s “Untitled” #122, 2012, kiln-fired bluestone, 11x11x11 inches.

In mineral time: Vly artist Tim Rowan’s stone sculptures

A walk into Tim Rowan’s studio at the end of a long, rocky driveway, situated deep in the woods above Stone Ridge, will give you the immediate impression that this guy communicates with…

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Workshops filling fast for Woodstock Writers’ Festival

Three-and-a-Quarter Days of Peace and Books: That’s the promise of the third annual Woodstock Writers’ Festival, occupying the village of Woodstock April 19 through the 22nd. The event gathers an impressive lineup of…

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Plant a Row for the Hungry with help from Cornell

The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County (CCE) has led a people-helping-people campaign to stem hunger in the region since 1995, when it launched Plant a Row for the Hungry (PAR), asking local…

Photo Taken at Sorella in Woodstock, one of the stores that will be participating in “spring in Bloom,” by Laurie Ylvisaker

Kleinert hosts Woodstock Fashion Show on April 14 to benefit Byrdcliffe

It will be a scene of pure “champagne and style” when the first-ever Woodstock Fashion Show fills the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts to bring in spring with the latest in ready-to-wear. Seventeen…

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