2013: how the New York Times reports the Hudson Valley

New York Archdiocese to Close 24 Schools

“Upstate: Holy Name of Jesus in Valhalla, Our Lady of Fatima in Scarsdale, St. Casimir in Yonkers, Our Lady of the Assumption in Peekskill, St. Theresa in Briarcliff Manor, St. Joseph in Millbrook, St. Peter in Haverstraw, St. Joseph in Kingston and St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties.”

Is It Too Classy for Pancakes?

“But with 800 acres, a weekend house would carry a higher tax burden than he wanted. The land had not been farmed or cleared since the Civil War, leaving Mr. Turner with at least 20,000 mature sugar and red maples.”

Catskill Cultural Center Saved, and Renewed, Thanks to a Fiddler’s Tune

“The tune is ‘Ashokan Farewell,’ the bittersweet lament familiar to millions as the theme song that the filmmaker Ken Burns used for the emotional crescendos of his Civil War series.”

Contemporary Design Lands in Antiques Country

“Jason Roskey and Maggie Goudsmit founded Fern in Brooklyn in 2009 and moved upstate two years later, establishing a design and production studio in Germantown, N.Y. Their storefront in Hudson is strategically positioned on a street that includes two other furniture purveyors.”

Party at the Source, in the Hudson Valley

“Who needs the East End? On Saturday night, a high-profile gathering formed alongside a vegetable patch in Staatsburg, N.Y., not far from Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, where a wall was covered in photographs recently taken by Annie Leibovitz.”

Young, Rich and Relocating Yet Again in Hunt for Political Office

“In an interview, he dismissed any suggestion that his move to the 19th District was motivated by politics. ‘The Hudson Valley is my home,’ he said. ‘It’s where I work. It’s where I got married.'”

In Cluttered Home, a Dark Secret 3 Decades Old

“And so as mold crept up the walls and dark rumors circulated, Mr. Nichols kept living on Vassar Road, perhaps because he could not sell the house, perhaps chained there by its walled-up secret.”

Heading Upstate in Search of a Watery Eden

“This is much to the dismay of many locals in nearby Palenville, a hamlet with just over 1,000 residents. ‘We’ve had complaints of parties,’ said Lt. Adam Brainard of the Greene County Sheriff’s office.”

36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, New York

“When Stockade Tavern opened three years ago, selling sophisticated cocktails in a one-time Singer sewing machine factory in Kingston’s 17th-century Stockade District, the bar’s arrival foreshadowed changes for New York’s former capital.”

In Catskills, City Buyers Recolonize Bungalows

“‘We didn’t understand why the price was so low,’ said Ms. Schneider, a children’s clothing designer from Harlem. Then she saw it: a 400-square-foot semi-attached cabin, set among 21 other units in a former Catskills bungalow colony, now a co-op, called Spring Glen Woods.”

An Upriver Current

“Furious competition for fresh ingredients, he said, is one of the obstacles to opening a restaurant that seem to be insurmountable in New York, and nonexistent in Hudson. ‘The product here makes the city folks jealous.'”

James Truman, a Crown Prince in a New Kingdom

“He is a creative adviser to Francis Ford Coppola on his wine business and growing hotel empire; with the hotelier André Balazs, he has been running an organic farm upstate called Locusts on Hudson, which supplies organic foods to the Standard Hotel; and with Sunny Bates, an entrepreneur involved in the TED Conference, he started a short-lived circus that Ms. Bates described as a ‘kind of mashed-up TED, Burning Man and the circus coming into town.'”

Fight Over a Communications Tower Unsettles the Hudson Valley

“But a fight over a plan to erect a 190-foot communications tower on nearby Blue Hill in the town of Livingston, about two miles away, has roiled the usually serene landscape of Columbia County, where sharp elbows are reserved for vying over the ripest peaches at local farm stands.”

With More Glitz, a Club Is Reborn

“Operating at the Pawling location on a month-to-month basis, the club’s fate was unclear until Mr. Ciganer found the space in Beacon, a long-vacant, onetime industrial site near a bank, a post office and an Islamic center on Main Street.”

For Her Next Piece, a Performance Artist Will Build an Institute

“In the small town of Hudson, N.Y., she plans to construct a high temple to long-duration work in performance and other arts, a 33,000-square-foot center called the Marina Abramovic Institute that is to be the culmination of her life’s work: a place, she says, that can be a Bauhaus for our time, a mecca for artists, scientists and thinkers, as well as people willing to put on white lab coats and undergo three hours of mind-and-body cleansing exercises.”

Art You Can Live With

“As for Hudson, N.Y., that mecca of antiques dealers, he said, ‘People from Rhinebeck go to Hudson to rummage.'”

Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools

“‘If you want your kids to hang out with more Jewish children or have more tolerance,’ he added, ‘why would you pick a community like Pine Bush?'”

Revivals Victorian, Gothic and Civic

“Ms. Brooks joined dozens of former New Yorkers who in recent years have decamped for Newburgh, hoping to rescue one of New York State’s most notorious cities by way of architectural restoration.”

Will Play for Health Care (at Least at One Music Event)

“Joe Concra, a painter who helped start the festival three years ago in Kingston, N.Y., describes the exchange of art for health treatment as a barter system that recalls a time before co-pays and H.M.O.’s.”

Judd Hirsch’s Wind-Power Plan Unsettles Catskill Town

“Mr. Hirsch continued: ‘This one annoys the hell out of me because these people are making up stories that don’t have any relevance to anything in this world.'”

A Tasty (and Cheap) Escape to Dutchess County, N.Y.

“We arrived in the area midmorning, and immediately headed out on a self-devised tour of the area’s farm stores (ending with that mini-lunch in Rhinebeck).”

For Punch or Porridge

“Mr. Vogel, a founder of the Manhattan furniture company BDDW, left six years ago to set up his own woodworking shop, Blackcreek Mercantile and Trading Company in Kingston, N.Y., where he produces the ladles, as well as furniture and turned sculptures.”