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Remarks to the Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce


The following is taken from an address given to the Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, March 31. The intended audience was the Chamber, but as a mission statement, and for those busi...

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It Takes a Village


How can we make the village a better place? We asked dozens of residents and all the candidates for village office this question last week, and received some interesting answers. Nobody seemed to i...

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Action!


It was too nice last Friday to be cooped up in the office. So I went AWOL, on a walk around the village. There’s something about that first really nice day of the year. It might even be chemical: I...

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Don’t Be Afraid to Invest in the Future


A drop of .5 percent. Not much right? It is if you’re talking about the gross domestic product of an economy the size of the United Kingdom, especially if any drop means a step back into a Great R...

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Students Are More Than Future Employees


More predictions of doom last week, as a nationwide test found only a third of elementary and high-school age American students have a solid grasp of science. The report was released the day after ...

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The Selling of the School Budget


After a tumultuous year that brought out the best and worst in Saugerties, prompt passage of the 2011-12 school budget this May would be in everybody’s best interest. But it won’t be easy. Accord...

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How’s Business?


We asked dozens of local businesses the above question over the past few months, and barring the notable exception of area builders and associated industries, the response was positive. Should this...

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Let Saugerties be Saugerties


I was once again reminded this week of the reasons for my conviction that Saugerties has the most coherent and most carefully considered local plan for economic development in Ulster County. Now th...

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Beginning 2011
Two very good things are happening in Saugerties next month. Both have been long overdue. The first is that a combined police force will for the first time serve both municipalities. The second is...
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Young Entrepreneurs


Juda Leah Atelier and Boutique. Root Notes. Sugartown Vintage Boutique. What do these three new village businesses have in common? They were all started in the last month by people in their ’20s....

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