Sullivan County is about to become the 54th community in New York to adopt the Climate Smart Communities Pledge.

In addition to dialing back the frequency of their salon appointments, another change seems to be in fashion with recessionistas: a switch from blonde to brunette.

The place to be this Friday evening, February 5 - especially if you care at all about the ways in which our local culture creators have been affecting the greater worlds of art, performance and photojournalism in recent years - is at the combined art openings taking place at SUNY-New Paltz's Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

Only months ago, dairy producers were slaughtering an average of 50,000 dairy cows a week because a milk glut made it impossible to sell their milk for what it cost to produce.

Kerry and Andrea Jett of Union announced the engagement of their son, Aaron Jett of Rosendale, N.Y., to Amy Strickland of Rosendale, N.Y. The future groom is a graduate of Hudson Valley Community College where he received an associates degree in electrical construction and maintenance.

According to the New York State Police at Ellenville, 28-year-old Dylan Walsh fo Rosendale, Ulster County, is being held in a jail outside Oakland, California after his arrest for being a fugitive from justice.

Michael Graves stars in the one-man-band production of "The Report of My Death ..." a docudrama about the life of Mark Twain.

Larry Coryell doesn't need to be the best guitarist in the room. "I want my students to be better than me.

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz has announced its exhibition schedule for the Winter and Spring.

A Saugerties woman, who fled to California in May 2009 after being indicted in Ulster County on drug charges, has been arrested.

An advocacy group alarmed over the mass die-off of bats with white-nose syndrome asked the Department of Interior today to close all bat caves and mines on federal land nationwide.

A man with a very long history of playing guitar, whose notes climb and fall, mix and match, tease and tug, rip and rock, used fairly straightforward language when asked recently to define two genres of music he has helped shape.

This winter, head to the kitchen to make food to keep your skin glowing. It's also where you'll find ingredients for homemade, cold weather beauty aids, Holly Shelowitz said.

Auditions for "Everyman" and "Noah and His Wife" will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 17-18 at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.

KINGSTON Most police agencies in Ulster County are now part of the Sheriff's Department's mobile communications system, which allows them to communicate with each other and a dispatcher in real time, instead of individually through a dispatcher.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this year will be marked locally not just with words spoken at ceremonies, but with actions.

Auerbach : "... seeing a considerable drop ..." KINGSTON In 2007, Ulster County collected more than $1 million from its hotel/motel tax.

The Rosendale Theatre Collective, which is working to raise money and purchase the historic Rosendale Theatre, will meet at 7 p.m. Jan.

It's the first Sunday of a new decade. Why cook? Come to a Pancake Breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon at the Highland Grange, 620 New Paltz Road in Highland.

The Jackson Browne concert I attended in November at the Broadway Theater at Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston was an incredible evening of storytelling and simplicity, with nothing but a lonely keyboard and about 15 guitars set up on stage.