(Editor’s note: while all these stories are true, the names, and some physical details have been changed.) Last March, Cynthia, a pale blonde 18-year old Woodstock girl was shooting up heroin every hour. Not a lot in each shot, just enough to maintain. Her parents were going mad with fear and worry, blaming themselves, each other, the culture of Woodstock, the malaise of America, and the failure of the police to stop heroin in Woodstock. Steve has been in Woodstock pretty much his whole l...
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The Onteora Central School District welcomes new and returning students on Tuesday, September 7. New teachers began their 2010-2011 school year on September 1 with orientation, and all the veteran teachers began on September 2 with two days of staff development. There will be no school Thursday September 9 in observance of the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah. Parents can find their children’s bus schedules, times and places for pick up and drop off, at their local elementary schools, at the M...
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Construction costs for the Woodstock Commons affordable housing development have been fully funded following the receipt of state grants totaling $2.4 million, the project’s developer, the Rural Ulster Preservation Company (RUPCO), announced recently. The grants, coupled with federal and state annual low-income housing credits and other funding sources, clear the financial way for groundbreaking on the $14.7 million project to occur next spring. In an August 31 interview, RUPCO’s executive d...
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Maybe it was a beginning. At its start Friday, August 20 at Woodstock Town Hall, the evening, dubbed “Kops and Kids,” and intended to create some sort of dialogue and familiarity among adversarial groups in town, included eight under-20-year-olds, a full time and five part-time police officers. Others joined in as the evening progressed. The kids called the cops “rookies.” “When this curfew stuff came up I was instinctively opposed,” said Woodstock Times publisher Geddy Sveikauskas, who had...
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