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Long-predicted resurgence at foot of Partition St. underway
New business owners Brendon Wolf, and Christine Dempsey, along with Matt “The Pickle Guy” Gleason, are part of a business renaissance along the lower end of Partition Street. (photo by Robert Ford) A...
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Surveillance camera installed in village
(Photo by Robert Ford) In place for only about a month as part of a demonstration project, a surveillance camera at the intersection of Main and Partition Streets has already helped solve a crime and...
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Pet parade in the village next week
A pet parade is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. in the village of Saugerties. The procession will start at the corner of Market and Main Streets and continue for a quarter of a mile, ending at...
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Village ethics board draws great interest
Village Hall (photo by Dion Ogust) The village of Saugerties has a problem that many other villages and towns would envy; in searching for residents to volunteer to serve on an ethics board, rather...
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55-unit housing development back on the table
Kingston-based Premier Development, which received Village of Saugerties Planning Board approvals in 2010 to build a 55-unit senior housing complex on North Street, is once again before the board...
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55-unit housing development update
The developer of a 55-unit residential complex approved two years ago for senior housing wants the village to sign off on a change that would convert half the units to affordable “workforce” housing....
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Former mayor Robert Yerick passes
Robert Yerick (photo by Beth Blis) Robert Yerick, the saugerties mayor who, with a combination of old-fashioned managerial prowess and an engaging and feisty personality, saw the village through the...
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Feds to Saugerties: any Persians in the portfolio?
How did they know? (photo by Will Dendis) The village of Saugerties has been told that if it has any investments in Iran, it must divest itself from those investments if it wants to see any state and...
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RUPCO joins developer for 55-unit affordable housing project
This field would be the site of a 55-unit housing development (photo by Will Dendis) Developers for Country Meadows, a 55-unit project originally approved for senior housing, have added affordable...
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Should Saugerties save a relic of its industrial past?
(Photo by Robert Ford) It was a grand old home, built by a paper baron. Then it was an elegant restaurant. But ever since a fire gutted it in the early 1990s, the Dragon Inn, located just south of the...
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Mayor says Dragon Inn property will never host affordable housing
(Photo by Robert Ford) “As long as I am mayor, there will be no low-income housing at the site of the Dragon Inn,” Mayor William Murphy declared at the Feb. 4 village trustees meeting. At the Jan. 30...
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Wednesday is deadline for village candidates
Village Hall (photo by Dion Ogust)villa Tomorrow is the deadline for petitions for village office. Up for election are the offices of mayor and three trustee spots. So far only the incumbents have...
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Village Board will decide Dragon Inn’s fate
Artist Scott Harrison’s illustration shows what the building would look like without the 20th-century additions Mayor William Murphy is studying for a big history test. Sometime next month, he and the...
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Dragon Inn demolition likely
A battle between the village’s Historic Review Board and the owner of a 19th-century mansion over a proposed demolition may have became a moot point last week. A review by a state official and the...
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With playgrounds condemned, village seeks new insurer
The Lions Club playground (photo by Robert Ford) As local residents and service groups step forward to offer money and help to replace $250,000 in playground equipment condemned by an insurance...
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The fight to keep Dragon Inn standing
(Photo by Robert Ford) The race is on. The village Historic Review Board decided today to redesignate Clovelea (the Dragon Inn) a historic landmark after the village attorney said the original 2007...
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Emerald ash borer claims more Saugerties trees
The emerald ash borer’s rampage (artist’s representation) An iridescent Asian beetle responsible for the death of millions of trees in the Midwest is consolidating its hold over Saugerties ash trees....
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Saugerties playgrounds saved
(Photo by Mookie Forcella) The village’s insurance company bowed to public pressure last week, allowing three playgrounds it condemned last year to stand. Albany-based New York Municipal Insurance...
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And this year’s village art exhibit is…
Gus Pedersen is building all 35 lighthouses. (photo by Robert Ford) If Saugerties has a symbol everyone can agree on, it’s the lighthouse. So after a so-so reaction to last year’s Adirondack chairs,...
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It’s all about the storefronts
The village in 2011. Get ready for a repeat: these candidates all ran and won that year, and we’re getting the lighthouses back on the streets soon as well. (photo by Dion Ogust) No challengers filed...
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