Noah Eckstein

A coalition of Woodstock business owners is asking town officials for a stronger role in planning for the Route 212 overhaul, saying construction during peak tourism season could disrupt the summer revenue many downtown businesses rely on to survive the winter. Melissa Gibson, co-owner of the cannabis dispensary HERbal Woodstock, and Lea Haas, owner of […]

A state Supreme Court judge temporarily blocked the Town of Ulster from moving ahead with its review of Zena Homes until the town answers a zoning question at the center of the dispute: Does the Planning Board have authority to review the project, or does the Town Board need to take it up instead? The […]

A “well-involved house fire” in Zena on Saturday, May 23, drew firefighters from Woodstock and five other departments, while two others remained on standby, authorities said. No injuries were reported.  Firefighters were dispatched to the Meher Circle home at 7:49 p.m. and battled the fire for almost five hours. It was sparked by the improper […]

An Eastwoods Drive couple who have publicly argued that their road is too narrow to serve as access to the proposed Zena Homes subdivision received a warning from the developers over road use, along with a $1,040 maintenance bill. Eddie Greenberg and Evan Kleinberg, the developers behind Zena Homes, sent a May 15 email to […]

The Bearsville Bluegrass Festival has been postponed because of forecasts for severe weather in the region, organizers said. The festival, originally scheduled for May 24, will now take place from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at Bearsville Center on Tinker Street in Woodstock. Organizers said the decision was made to ensure that visitors […]

The Woodstock Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday to resume environmental testing at 10 Church Road in Shady, seeking to remediate a dispute over thousands of cubic yards of construction and demolition debris dumped near private wells, streams, and the town’s public water supply. The resolution authorizes the town to hire an independent environmental engineer to […]

Tannery Brook Road north of Ohayo Mountain Road in Woodstock will close for about two months beginning April 14 as Ulster County replaces Sully Bridge over the Saw Kill. Drivers will be detoured east on Millstream Road, north on West Hurley Road, west on Route 212, and south on Tannery Brook Road, according to an […]

Bread and Puppet Theater will perform at the Woodstock Playhouse on April 18 in a fundraiser organized by Stop Zena Development, a coalition opposing the proposed Zena Homes project. The 30-lot subdivision, planned on about 626 acres spanning Woodstock and Ulster, has become a flashpoint in a broader fight over environmental review, emergency access and […]

It was the kind of brilliant October day that speaks to life, not its end. The temperature was in the mid-60s and the sky an unblemished blue as Jim Reynolds gathered with family and friends on the second Saturday of the month at Woodstock Cemetery to bid farewell to his life partner. It was only […]

Woodstock will mark Earth Day this year by multiplying it sevenfold. From April 18 to April 25, the town will host its first “Earth Week,” a series of events that aims to bring together the community’s many environmental efforts. “I was thinking about all the different groups in this town that are fighting so hard […]

Woodstock officials are raising concern about mounting safety risks at Big Deep and Little Deep, the local swimming holes that draw swarms of local and out-of-town visitors in the summer months. Members of the Woodstock Environmental Commission said at their March 18 meeting that visits to the sites off Zena Road and Route 212 last […]

Woodstock officials stepped back from a potential hike in summer camp fees, saying they want to avoid a “hardship” for families even as the program’s budget gap widens.  “What I want to start off with is to assure the public and parents that the town board has heard that increasing the cost of the camp […]

The owners of Happylife Productions bought the former Tinker Street Cafe at 59 Tinker St. from local entrepreneur Lizzie Vann for $999,000, securing a long-term future for their Woodstock-based arts and culture store after several years as tenants. Artist Mike DuBois and his wife and partner, artist Kelly Sinclair, said their lease was nearing its […]

Woodstock’s town board voted unanimously to name former Councilman Reggie Earls to fill a vacant seat on the Town Board on Tuesday, plugging a spot left vacant when Anula Courtis was sworn in as town supervisor on Jan. 1. Before the vote, Courtis opened her first meeting as supervisor with a brief declaration that the […]

Anula Courtis was sworn in as Woodstock’s town supervisor during a New Year’s Day ceremony at Woodstock Town Hall on Jan. 1. Laurie Osmond and Lily Korolkoff were also sworn in as members of the Woodstock Town Board. The oaths of office were administered by Ulster County Comptroller March Gallagher, marking the start of a […]

Philip Sinagra, the Woodstock police officer who sued town officials in March over how he’d been disciplined, put the town on notice that he intends to file a new lawsuit claiming town officials defamed and retaliated against him. Sinagra’s Notice of Claim, a legal prerequisite to suing a municipality in New York, seeks more than […]

For 15 years, Martha Frankel has treated the Woodstock Bookfest like a writerly dinner party, inviting authors from around the world into town, feeding them well with her cooking, goodie bags and wit, and building a literary weekend centered on conversation and ideas. Next year, Frankel will pause the festival to re-center her attention closer […]

Incoming Woodstock Supervisor Anula Courtis filled two key roles in her administration and roiled local politics by rejecting weeks of work by a Town Board colleague to redesign the town’s website. Courtis named Daniel Gallant, 49, a development consultant to arts organizations, as deputy supervisor, and former Saugerties Art Commission Chair Yvonne Rojas-Cowan, 51, as […]

Efforts by Bearsville Center owner Lizzie Vann to redevelop the former Woodstock Library site moved closer to reality Tuesday as the Town Board set a Dec. 16 public hearing, even as the meeting devolved into sharp disputes over federal relief money, infrastructure spending and control of town technology assets. The unanimous vote on Vann’s project […]

A $30 million project to rebuild the full length of Tinker Street, from the Village Green, got a show of conditional support this week, as the Environmental Commission heard from supporters who described a project aimed at improving traffic safety – especially for pedestrians and bicycle riders.  “Tinker Street has been determined not safe,” Complete […]

Bearsville Center owner Lizzie Vann’s plan to redevelop multiple parcels, including the former site of the Woodstock Library, cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle last week as the town’s planning board endorsed a proposal to redraw a zoning line so that the entire project falls within the Hamlet Commercial District. Vann’s Project Regeneration aims to convert […]

A small brushfire that erupted in Bearsville on Monday prompted warnings by Woodstock firefighters that ashes from wood stoves can stay hot for days, sometimes even igniting full house fires. This week’s fire started after ashes were dumped over a bank into a stoney area filled with old ash, brush, and leaves. Firefighters arrived quickly […]

The Woodstock Environmental Commission is urging the Town Board to take immediate action to remove what it estimates to be roughly 200 truckloads of contaminated construction debris at 10 Church Road in Shady—material the group says poses a potential threat to the public water system and nearby private wells. No scientific analysis to date has […]

A routine public hearing this week about Woodstock’s 2026 budget spiraled into a broader clash over power, pay and transparency, as board members questioned Supervisor Bill McKenna’s authority to put forth a resolution seeking to reclassify the town’s first deputy town clerk as town clerk. Meghann Reimondo was appointed first deputy clerk on Aug. 19, […]

A long-running debate over a proposed 30-home subdivision off Eastwoods Drive continues after the state Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed in late October that the Town of Ulster—not Woodstock—will oversee the project’s environmental review. The decision, announced just before the Woodstock Planning Board’s Nov. 6 meeting, leaves Woodstock with authority over road and wetlands permits […]