At times, town board meetings can be short, dry, and predictable. Rochester’s Aug. 3 meeting was not one of those. On the agenda was the public hearing for a proposed regulation of Airbnbs … more

Flash back to April 2016: The beginning of the month brought a freakish snow and bud-killing frost that affected most, if not all, the farmers of the Rondout Valley. It killed apple, peach and … more