2018: how the New York Times reports the Hudson Valley

Brooklyn’s Favorite Pot Dealer Returns

“The motor home, like a fiberglass boat, bobbed and weaved and rocked up the Taconic State Parkway for three hours all the way to Germantown.”

Judge Says New York’s Bail Law Treats Poor Unfairly

“The ruling by the judge, Maria G. Rosa of State Supreme Court in Dutchess County, was issued on Jan. 31 in the case of Christopher Kunkeli, a 32-year-old mechanic from Poughkeepsie, who was arrested in October and charged with shoplifting a vacuum cleaner from a Target store.”

Huma Bahbha Takes an Ax to Her Exhibit at the Met

“‘We couldn’t afford New York City,’ she said. The street where she ended up in Poughkeepsie’s downtown was very quiet on a winter Saturday, and some boarded-up businesses were visible.”

Photos From the ‘March for Our Lives’ Protests Around the World

“Poughkeepsie, N.Y.”

3 Women Grew Up Surrounded by Art. Guess What Their Jewelry Looks Like.

“Discussing her career rise — from a design department assistant at David Yurman to overseeing her own atelier in Germantown, a small town along the Hudson in upstate New York — Ms. MacGill credits her father as the key motivating figure.”

$850,000 Homes in Kentucky, New York and Michigan

“Called the McComb House after its original owners, this property was designed by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer following his work on housing at nearby Vassar College.”

In This ‘Magnificent Seven’ Version, Only One Democrat Survives

“As the candidates took the stage last week at Congregation Emanuel of the Hudson Valley, one woman grumbled to her husband: ‘I wish we could spread them around the state.’”

In the Hudson Valley, a Home With Centuries’ Worth of Stories

“‘I was feverishly Googling for old stone farmhouses’ within easy reach of New York, she said, when she found a new listing for just such a place, built in 1752 in Germantown, N.Y.”

A Congressional Candidate Used to Be a Rapper. Will it Matter?

“‘Is a guy who makes a rap album the kind of guy who lives here in rural New York and reflects our lifestyle and values?’ said Mr. Benjamin, a longtime political science professor, adding that he personally did not consider rap music to be ‘real music.’”

She Pulled the Plug From Fiance’s Kayak. Now She’ll Get Some of His Life Insurance.

“Ms. Graswald and Mr. Viafore, who had shared an apartment in Poughkeepsie, had each been married twice before.”

A Store Where You Can Shop for Denim and Home Goods, or Take an Art Class

“In 2016, they ran the memorably named retail experiment PorkShopTBD, selling work by eight artist friends in a storefront two doors down from the Hudson restaurant Lil’ Deb’s Oasis.”

Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York

“This sprawling art park in Ghent rivals in size the long-established Storm King Art Center farther south.”

Your Next Trip? It’s Written in the Stars

“Walkway Over the Hudson, the bridge-turned-linear-park between Poughkeepsie and Lloyd on either side of New York’s Hudson River, has added Starwalks this summer, deploying scientists and teachers along the span to talk about special themes, offer nighttime photography tips and staff the telescopes (free).”

He’s a Rhode Scholar. The G.O.P. Keeps Calling Him a ‘Big-City Rapper.

“The video ads have injected elements of race and identity in a contest already fraught with national implications: The race between Mr. Delgado and the Republican incumbent, Representative John Faso, is thought to be a tossup, so both parties are heavily invested in the district, which covers much of the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions.”

How Sandra Spannan, Decorative Painter, Spends Her Sundays

“Most of the week Ms. Spannan lives in Harlem with her daughters, Fiona Jarvis, 14, and Kaya Jarvis, 12, and their cat, Panda. On weekends, while the weather is good, she piles the girls, their friends and Panda into an army-green Jeep and heads to her house in Monroe, N.Y.”

$1.4 Million Homes in Massachusetts, New York and Missouri

“It is about 10 minutes from the city of Hudson, N.Y., and two hours from the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan.”

Forget the Suburbs, It’s Country or Bust

“Freeing up a chunk of income enables some people to chase their dreams, allowing them to open a business or live the kind of life they might not have been able to in the city.”

The Church Settled Sexual Abuse Cases Against This Priest. Why Is He Still Saying Mass?

“On Dec. 2, Father Timone warmly greeted parishioners before Mass in Middletown, and afterward sat in a pew chatting and offering advice. There was no hint of scandal.”

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