Bethel News

Attendance at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a performing arts center and museum built on the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, increased in 2009, according to a press release.. Bethel Woods hosted four sold-out concerts this year - the Bethel Woods Music Festival and Dave Matthews Band on the Pavilion Stage; plus Richie Havens and John ...

In a court session on November 17, Judge Frank LaBuda postponed a decision on whether to dismiss challenges to more that 90 Hasidic voters who have recorded their local addresses as being in bungalow colonies.

Sullivan County towns are seeking public input on their recently drafted farmland protection plans.

THE old saying goes that if you can remember Woodstock, you weren't there. But Paul Kantner's memory isn't so bad.Kantner is founder and bandleader of Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off Jefferson Starship and tomorrow night he leads a bill of bands celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the moon landing of music festivals.

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

MONTICELLO The towns of Bethel, Liberty, Callicoon and Delaware are seeking public comment on their recently drafted Farmland Protection Plans.

He calls the shells that whistled over his head in the European night "whispering death." They were a symbol of something bigger than anything the kid from Sullivan County could imagine some 65 years ago.

A much-ballyhooed registration drive from Hasidic groups in the Town of Bethel might have spurred a surge in absentee ballots, but is not expected to change the outcome of Tuesday's races.

Soprano Kate Hurney and pianist Katherine Addleman, assisted by Carolyn Steinberg on flute, will commemorate the anniversaries of Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn in a concert titled 'They Went to London,' at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m. The event is presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance .

Quartetto Poesia y Clave will perform a free show at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Events Gallery at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock on Aug. 18, 1969. Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, Tell me, where are you going? This he told me.

Sullivan County Legislator Dave Sager and a group he founded formally challenged on Thursday 150 voter registrations of primarily Hasidic seasonal residents in the Town of Bethel.

Last week saw the PBS premiere of Latin Music USA , the four-hour documentary created by WGBH and the BBC about "American" music in the broadest sense of the word.

One of the many thorny issues surrounding the Toronto Reservoir is well on the way to being settled.

It was the best of times and the worst of times. Jack and Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King were dead, martyred by assassinations.

Sullivan County is considering a proposal to change the way it funds trash disposal.

The chairwomen of the Republican, Democratic and Conservative parties were in attendance, which is not a common occurrence in local politics, especially with important local elections just weeks away.

Sullivan County is getting ready for an anticipated increase in applications for federal heating assistance this winter, as officials work to avoid the fiasco of 2007 that left more than 1,200 people without help because their applications went unprocessed.

The weather, especially the sky in its many moods, has attracted artists for centuries.

Two teenage boys living at the Abbott House, a residential home for boys in Bethel, have been charged with assault following a fight in which one youth stabbed the other.