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America’s 250th anniversary brought parades, music, and fireworks to the mountaintop on Saturday, July 4, as Windham and Tannersville marked Independence Day with community celebrations that stretched from afternoon into night. The Overlook’s staff photographer Roy Gumpel captured the festivities in both communities. Windham Windham’s annual Independence Day celebration drew spectators to Main Street for […]

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The Overlook has been named a finalist for New LION Business of the Year, a national award recognizing young independent news organizations working toward financial, operational, and journalistic sustainability. The Overlook is one of four finalists for the award, alongside COYOTE Media Collective in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pittsburgh-based Informup, and La Conner Community […]

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Windham’s sandcastle contest has become an Independence Day tradition. Now in its sixth year since being revived, the contest drew dozens of families to CD Lane Park on Saturday, July 4, to craft unique sand creations and enjoy free ice cream. Part of a full day of festivities marking the nation’s 250th anniversary, many of […]

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A New York City TikTok influencer’s critical video about a Tannersville supermarket has drawn millions of views and fierce backlash, opening a broader debate over food access in Greene County’s mountain towns. Catherine Ebs, who has 1.6 million TikTok followers, posted the since-deleted video on Friday, July 3, documenting a trip to the Tops Friendly […]

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David Baron was sitting in the audience at Bearsville Theater last October when U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. gave him an unexpected shoutout from the stage. “I normally sit at the back and I enjoy that position,” Mullen said during a discussion following a screening of “Left Behind,” a documentary about five mothers seeking to […]

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James Lasdun, a Woodstock resident since the early 1990s, has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, and a memoir. He has also written screenplays and contributed to The New Yorker. In our conversation, Lasdun discussed his approach to writing “The Family Man,” an account of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh and the murders of […]

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Shandaken’s Planning Board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a 50-foot wireless tower at the Big Indian-Oliverea Fire Department, addressing a service gap in the area. The tower will provide Verizon service within 0.4 miles of the firehouse at 8 Firehouse Rd. Customers of other carriers will be able to use the network for emergency 911 […]

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The Onteora Board of Education backed a proposal Tuesday that would give students in grades 3 through 5 the option of taking state tests with paper and pencil rather than on computers. The measure was one of three New York State School Boards Association resolutions endorsed by the Onteora board. The proposals could be added […]

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Shandaken Chief of Ambulance Services Richard Muellerleile is retiring after nearly 15 years in the role to focus on his family and family business, Star Gas Products. Deputy Chief Mike Williams will serve as interim chief. Muellerleile, who also served as a town firefighter and worked as an EMS coordinator for Ulster County, announced his […]

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Ulster County and Bard College have installed 17 street-level air quality monitors at libraries, town halls, and other community hubs, creating a countywide network intended to give residents more localized information about the air they breathe. Most air quality measurements come from rooftop EPA monitors in densely populated areas. The project seeks to fill gaps […]

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To be clear, the FTC under Donald Trump and new boss Andrew Ferguson has been a dangerous embarrassment. Whether it’s the firing of both Democratic Commissioners, the politically motivated investigations, the extremist attacks on trans people, the agency’s useless attacks on porn, or its efforts to undermine free speech, the Trump FTC has largely been […]

One of the key tools in the tool belt of the anti-vaxxer has long been VAERS, the voluntarily reporting system for adverse events following vaccinations. People who don’t really understand how any of this works often get very, very confused about what VAERS is and is not. It does not contain confirmed outcomes caused by […]

Bari Weiss is seeking out friendly interviewers at the New York Times to try and “calm the firestorm engulfing her leadership of CBS News.” By “leadership” of course they mean censoring stories critical of the president, letting Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer (who he knows won’t press him on war crimes), firing a bunch […]

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in history. It’s also the most surveilled World Cup ever. If you’re visiting or traveling around host cities, then you and your face, behavior, movement and devices are being monitored by governments and private companies. The […]

It’s hard to believe that the same people who spent the Biden years screaming that Democrats were “socialists” out to destroy free market capitalism are now cheerfully handing the federal government ownership stakes in private companies. And yet here we are. Just as Trumpists have decided that their go-to strategy for trying to rile up […]

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ICE has already been operating like a paramilitary kidnapping squad. Officers roam through neighborhoods, stake out hardware store parking lots, and even occasionally enjoy some ethnic food just so they can raid the source of hospitality later. It’s nasty, disturbing, and definitely doesn’t resemble any of the things that have made America great. Now, the […]

Diana Ruiz Cabrera was several hours into her shift at the massive office-to-residential conversion at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown in mid-February when she slipped from a step ladder and fell on her back about five feet below, tearing several ligaments in her ankle in the process. She left the structure in tears, descending […]

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The nearly-Olympic-sized Red Hook Pool in Brooklyn can hold more than 4,400 people, but only one would-be bather turned out for a meeting Thursday night where Parks officials explained why the neighborhood’s summer lifeline has failed to open on time.  “This is not something you can foresee — this building is 90 years old, and […]

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