Mount Tremper News

It's enough that Tony Fletcher's new history of a city's effects on pop culture over a 50 year period, All Hopped Up And Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77, has an encyclopedic heft to it, pulling together a wealth of material not usually found together in such detail.

RHINEBECK: Oblong Books & Music will host a book discussion with Tony Fletcher, author of "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977," 7:30 p.m. Nov.

Since ancient times wise ones and sages have lived by the water. When they live by the water they catch fish or they catch humans or they catch the Way.

John Daido Loori, dharma heir to Zen Master Taizan Maezumi, died yesterday morning from lung cancer.

John Daido Loori, a photographer who found that snapping a picture mirrored the instant of spiritual enlightenment, inspiring him to start an influential Zen monastery in the Catskills, died on Friday in Mount Tremper, N.Y. He was 78.

Ulster resort promotes maintenance worker - Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper promoted Billy McDowell to operations manager.

I heard this morning from several people that John Daido Loori Roshi was stepping down as head of the Mountains and Rivers Order , "descending the mountain." And today the following announcement appeared courtesy of Monkey Mind : This past Sunday Roshi met with the Zen Mountain Monastery Board of Directors to let them know he feels it is time for ...

Following a decision by Verizon to deactivate a pay phone on Route 28, in Big Indian, an area that has little to no access to cellular communications, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein persuaded Verizon to reverse its decision.

Olaf Breuning, Faces , 2009, offset lithographic poster, 27 37.5 inches. Courtesy of Offset Project.

We're staying at the emerson this weekend to attend a wedding which happens to fall on our anniversary.

Up the gravel driveway past the Mount Tremper Arts sign on Old Route 28 to the small parking lot with only one car in it, a battered green Volvo station wagon.

Artists and others working in the creative fields are nothing if not innovative.

Artists and others working in the creative fields are nothing if not innovative.

Master gardeners are available in the Cooperative Extension offices for soil testing and plant and insect identification.

Ulster County officials say they're still not sure how many restaurants, camps and other regulated businesses are operating without permits, but they've called in help from the state Department of Health to sort through the mess.

Another summer is under way at YMCA Camp Ockanickon off Stokes Road, and Keith VanDerzee looks as excited as a kid jumping into Lake Stockwell for the first time.

Woodstock residents and Town Board members clashed over the draft Comeau easement at the board's June 16 meeting, as councilman Chris Collins expressed fervent support for the proposed conservation deed and charged supervisor Jeff Moran with advancing "fictitious" arguments against it, although Collins later acknowledged that he had incorrectly ...

A Mount Tremper man has been charged with having sexual intercourse with an underage girl, state police said.

Woodstock has been the "Colony of the Arts" attracting artisans, writers, and nature lovers since 1902 - but we'll always remember it best for the summer of 1969.

On the Record features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.