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

Clinton, N.Y. - The Hamilton College Theatre Department is hosting three lectures in a series called a oeArt and the Stage: Design for the Theatre.a They will all take place in Minor Theater on the Hamilton campus and are free and open to the public.A A The first event is a lecture/demonstration of scene painting techniques with Michelle Bonker on ...

It's been 40 years since Jim Fielder and his fellow members of Blood, Sweat & Tears took the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in White Lake, N.Y. But the memory of plugging in his bass guitar and turning around to face the biggest crowd he'd ever seen has never left him.

Originally printed 9/3/2009 Director Ang Lee's got something for the gays. After the harrowing down-low love story between two dude sheepherders in "Brokeback Mountain" - a resplendently put-together piece of cinema that broke hearts and box-office projections, proving that straight filmmakers can create better queer films than some queer directors ...

SUMMER OF PEACE LOVE AND HAPPINESS: Demeti Martin stars in this comedy about the historic Woodstock Festival.

Three days of peace and music. There is no better way to describe Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock," the ultimate summer hippie flick.

Sullivan County is moving ahead with more classroom space and a centralized location for training of emergency responders, officials say.

To mark the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the man who provided the upstate New York location for the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

WHITE LAKE, N.Y. - The New York Department of Transportation says they need to improve road conditions on Route 28, but the people in Forestport say they don't want a new and improved highway running through town if it means clear cutting trees and moving utility poles.

Likely it was Hunter S. Thompson who said, "If you remember the '60s, then you weren't there." More accurately, if you remember the '60s, you may find that decade all but impossible to describe, a tsunami of counterculture change that encompassed language, music, dress, hair, lifestyle and protest.

CASEY PHILLIPS: Considering it doesn't feature a single musical performance from the festival for which it's named, "Taking Woodstock" had an uphill battle to prove it could capture the spirit of Woodstock.

Lee as they were with his other changes of pace. The Taking Woodstock review collection suggests that it might be better to rewatch the real Woodstock, rather than see how one young man helped give Woodstock its home.

Ang Lee literally makes Woodstock the backdrop to his latest film. The famous music festival is both seen from a distance and heard from a distance.

From left, Kelli Garner, Demetri Martin, and Paul Dano drop some acid and stare at the ceiling in "Taking Woodstock." REVIEW Taking Woodstock Rated: R for graphic nudity, some sexual content, drug use and language.

It's a far-out hippie invasion, man, as thousands of people descend on little White Lake, N.Y., for the Woodstock Music Festival.

It's a far-out hippie invasion, man, as thousands of people descend on little White Lake, N.Y., for the Woodstock Music Festival.

It's a far-out hippie invasion, man, as thousands of people descend on little White Lake, N.Y., for the Woodstock Music Festival.

Dona t be misled by the title of Ang Lee a s a oeTaking Woodstock.a This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigha s documentary a oeWoodstock.a It is essentially a small, intimate film into which is fitted a peripheral view of the landmark event that took place on ...

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Jukebox Cruisers held its Sixth Annual Car Show and Clambake Saturday at Phifer Ice Dam Park in Franklin Township.

Editor's note: Below is the text of the editorial written on Aug. 23, 1969, and published in the Tallahassee Democrat regarding the Woodstock nation's emergence 40 years ago.