Greeting card workshop - Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer's Turnpike, Gardiner. 2 p.m. Feb.

Agribusiness officials are hatching a plan to package and deliver more of Ulster County's farm products to big consumer markets, including New York City.

Spring won't just bring flowers to Gardiner, but hopefully it will bring a new take on tourism, Deputy Supervisor Warren Wiegand said.

STONE RIDGE - 'Landscape2,' an exhibit featuring photographic works by Hudson Valley artists Jared Handelsman and Phil Underdown, opens at Ulster County Community College's Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery on Thursday and runs through Feb.

Don McLean, you lied to us. Or, at the very least, you misled me. His "American Pie" hit the airwaves in 1971.

Ulster Financial Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Ulster Savings Bank, announced the addition of Greg Corio as a tax consultant in the bank's 226 Main St.

The New Paltz Town Board has passed a moratorium preventing any new residential structures or subdivisions within the flood plain for the next three months.

Temecula, CA - " State University of New York's New Paltz School of Science and Engineering received an "OptoGreen Grant" to fund its projects with The Solar Energy Consortium , which call for "The Greening of New York State Farms." Opto 22 , a developer and manufacturer of hardware and software for industrial automation, remote monitoring, and ...

AMONG the sleek new group of domestic distillers, Cheryl Lins is an original. Wearing a baseball cap, flannel-lined jeans and wire spectacles, she flits from store to cocktail bar, towing her cardboard box of goods, selling to old customers and looking for new.

A space heater caused a basement fire Sunday in a home on Plains Road that injured a woman, fire officials said.

Bruce Blatchly hoped state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Spargo would just go away.

This week, Upstate Films will bring forth the story of the American soldier. "The Good Soldier" looks at five combat veterans from the four major conflicts of the last 70 years - World War II, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Iraq war - and focuses in on the mentality behind being a soldier.

The largest supplier of ice cream in eastern New York is keeping its operations in Ulster County after two economic groups contributed $1 million toward the company's expansion.

People will sing about the little town of Bethlehem - where "silent stars go by" - for Christmas, but we may not be able to see them sparkle.

Barbara Whitney Petruzzelli of Gardiner, director of Curtin Memorial Library at Mount Saint Mary College, has been selected to receive the Spirit of Librarianship Award from The Academic and Special Libraries Section of the New York Library Association.

Thursday morning is usually spent preparing for the Thanksgiving feast - stuffing turkeys, peeling potatoes, baking pies.

Christmas is coming to Gardiner on Friday, Dec. 4 as the town kicks off its annual tree-lighting ceremony.

Last week, Ulster County Board of Elections conducted an official tally of Nov. 3's ballots, and that final look has firmed up vote counts in Gardiner, Lloyd and Marlborough.

Cost was a key issue at Monday's public forum on a proposed $51.4 million renovation of New Paltz Middle School.

NEW PALTZ - The Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz seeks private Hudson Valley gardens to feature in the seventh annual New Paltz Regional Garden Tour.