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Women’s Health & Fitness Expo on May 19 emphasizes slimming solutions

Every year around this time, Kingston hosts a convocation of high-profile wellness gurus called the Women’s Health and Fitness Expo. The big news this year is the popular event’s spacious new venue: Formerly…

Photo of Rebecca Miller Ffrench by Philip Ficks.

Author offers up old family recipes to evoke a delicious past & help the Phoenicia Library

Rebecca Miller Ffrench was trying to figure out how to recreate her local bakery’s apple-cider doughnuts at home, when her eldest daughter, Anna, made a helpful suggestion. “Why don’t you make the doughnuts…

Watercolor of the Benjamin Ten Broeck house by Nancy Campbell.

Flatbush hamlet is focus of Saugerties Historic House Tour this Saturday

Ever wonder how your own history is intertwined with the places around you? One way to find out is to go on the fourth annual Saugerties Historic House Tour this Saturday, May 12…

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Fighting for a good cause in Kingston

For many years, boxing matches were held at the Midtown Center in Kingston: the brick building with the crenellated tower that once served as the city’s Armory. In 2006, former professional boxer Billy…

Donald Fagan.

Soundout/Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration at Bearsville on May 18

Donald Fagen, Amy Helm, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Don Byron, Kate Taylor, Jerry Marotta, Mike & Ruthy, Aaron Freeman, A. C. Newman, Zee Avi, Simi Stone, Doug Yoel and Connor…

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…

D & H Canal Museum in High Falls.

Canal Museum opens; High Falls Flea Market resumes Sunday with antiques appraisal

One of the reliable signs that the warm weather has returned to the mid-Hudson is the reemergence of the popular Sunday Flea Market in downtown High Falls. Since High Falls hasn’t actually got…

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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…

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…

John Sayles, writer, producer and director, on the set of his most recent film, Amigo, which will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck this Saturday, Aptil 14 at 7 p.m.

Prose pros: John Sayles headlines Red Hook Literary Festival this Saturday

Red Hook is hosting its first Literary Festival on Saturday, April 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Red Hook Village Building, located at 7467 South Broadway. The headliner is John…

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