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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  WOODSTOCK (NY) POLICE DEPARTMENT
The Town of Woodstock, referred to as "The small town known around the world" is famous for its arts, music, and cultural diversity.
The town is 80 square miles and is nestled in the heart of the majestic Catskill Mountains.
The town has a population of 7000 year round residents that swells to approximately 14000 in the summer months and is located 1 and 1/2 hours north of New York City.
www.angelfire.com /ab/woodstockpd/index.html   (374 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Woodstock (town), New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county.
The town is on the west border of the county.
New Woodstock -- A hamlet in the south part of the town at the convergence of routes 13, 52,65 and 80.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Woodstock-(town),-New-York   (296 words)

  
 Bethel, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town of Bethel was established in 1809 from the Town of Lumberland.
In the town the population is spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who are 65 years of age or older.
Because it was originally scheduled to take place in the Town of Woodstock in Ulster County, New York, that name persisted in spite of the change in venue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethel,_New_York   (679 words)

  
 Woodstock (town), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787.
Its reputation as an arts center contributed to the original Woodstock Festival's organizers planning their concert around the town.
Woodstock -- The hamlet of Woodstock and the principal center of local service for the town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodstock_(town),_New_York   (734 words)

  
 Investigation of Cancer Incidence among the Woodstock Asbestos Exposure Registry Population
Town and New York State (NYS) Department of Health (DOH) staff determined that strainers on faucets and showerheads were clogged with asbestos fibers.
A preliminary study of cancer incidence for the years 1973-1983 among Woodstock residents living in the census blocks that include the water district, conducted by the NYS DOH, is included among the studies summarized in Table 1 (Howe et al., 1989).
Thirty-nine percent of Town of Woodstock residents had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 23% of the population of Upstate NY excluding NYC.
www.health.state.ny.us /nysdoh/asbestos/woodstockreport.htm   (7562 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As their festival plans grew in ambition, they realized that the small town of Woodstock could not accommodate such a festival, and a site in Wallkill, in the neighboring county, was chosen for the three-day weekend event.
New York City police officers were recruited, and had to undergo intensive screening to demonstrate their ability to understand and peacefully cope with young, hedonistic, anti-authoritarian crowds.
Many remember Woodstock primarily as a disaster, as it was officially pronounced, a monument to faulty planning, a testament to the limitations and hypocrisies of hippie idealism, a nightmare of absurdities, ironies, and incongruities.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101333   (1297 words)

  
 Woodstock: History of an American Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
From the 1920s on, the town was known as a familiar art and cultural center, with two competing communities — Byrdcliffe and Maverick — working to develop a style of life that would integrate arts and crafts with advanced social ideas.
The conflict between the more traditional town, the conservative agricultural community, and the exiles from Greenwich Village, the artisans of the craft colony, waxed and wanted with each new generation, each side vigorously defending a way of life and inevitably benefiting from the continuing existence of the other.
Woodstock: History of an American Town is the result of fifteen years of research by the distinguished local historian Alf Evers.
www.bhny.com /nystate/ny166.html   (552 words)

  
 Woodstock, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woodstock, New York The name Woodstock is associated with two locales in New York.
Town of Woodstock - a town in Ulster County, New York
Woodstock - the site of a musical event in 1969 in Bethel, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodstock,_New_York   (121 words)

  
 Woodstock Journal - Letters from Woodstock
Woodstockers were stunned not long ago to get their new property assessments in the mail, each accompanied by estimations of how much their taxes will go up.
Woodstock is a fairly complicated place where it is quite in the main stream to be against excessive development.
An arsonist torched the Woodstock Playhouse in 1988, in the Gateway, and it was widely perceived to have been done to accomodate the construction of a large commercial property on the location of the torched theater.
www.woodstockjournal.com /letters-3.html   (2535 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Woodstock, New York)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Woodstock, New York The name Woodstock is associated with two locales in New York (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies).
Town of Woodstock - a town in Ulster County, New York (additional info and facts about Ulster County, New York)
Woodstock - the site of a musical event in 1969 in Bethel, New York (additional info and facts about Bethel, New York).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/woodstock,_new_york.htm   (65 words)

  
 Mohonasen History: The 60's World Around Us Woodstock Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Woodstock was conceived by four young partners – Michael Lang, then the manager of a rock band, Artie Kornfeld, and executive of Capital Records, and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman.
The location was changed from the village of Woodstock, to the town of Wallkill, then finally to a farm at White Lake in the town of Bethel.
The essence of Woodstock was bringing people of like mind together, into a place where they were gonna enjoy music, most of which they didn’t even know and had never even heard before.
www.mohonasen.org /staffdev/mhistory/Summersell2/mhwor60woodstock.htm   (1455 words)

  
 Arts of Woodstock - Art of Living, Great God Pan, Woodstock Festival, Byrdcliffe, Maverick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A largely forgotten Woodstock artist had something of a coming-out party this past weekend: The first exhibit of her work in 75 years was part of a major show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the city of her birth.
Historian and herbalist Anita Miller Smith was said to have used family money meant for a ball gown to settle in Woodstock, where she first dabbled as a landscape painter before cultivating the métier “Herb Lady of the Catskills,” as the New York Herald Tribune dubbed her in 1940.
Born in Philadelphia to Quakers and accepted into debutante society there, Smith was challenged in upstate New York to learn the ways of “mountain people” and earn acceptance into their “exclusive society” of quilting parties and the like.
www.woodstockarts.com /press_news.htm   (3038 words)

  
 Woodstock Inn on the Millstream New York Country Inn Motel Bed and Breakfast Woodstock Millstream
Woodstock Inn on the Millstream New York Country Inn Motel Bed and Breakfast Woodstock Millstream
Located in the Catskill Mountain Preserve, the Woodstock Inn on the Millstream is surrounded by beauty.
We are a charming country motel with a bed and breakfast ambiance.
www.holidayjunction.com /usa/ny/cny0059.html   (186 words)

  
 How Woodstock Came To Be...
The promoters approached the town planning board and were given a verbal go-ahead because of the zoning.
Woodstock Ventures was trying to book the biggest rock'n'roll bands in America, but the rockers were reluctant to sign with an untested outfit that might be unable to deliver.
During the summer of Woodstock, Wadleigh, 27, was gaining a reputation as a solid cameraman and director of independent films.
www.geocities.com /~music-festival/how-w.htm   (3122 words)

  
 Zero carbon is the goal for Woodstock - Boston.com
Woodstock is best known for the 1969 rock concert that borrowed its name and was held some 50 miles away in Bethel.
Last month, the Woodstock town board approved a nonbinding resolution that called for "implementing policies resulting in no net emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases" by 2017.
It's a rural town with no heavy industry, and residents generally tend to be more sympathetic to save-the-planet ideas.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2007/04/09/zeroing_out_carbon_emission_in_woodstock   (767 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Woodstock: Town in upstate New York marks a century of arts and oddballs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Woodstock: Town in upstate New York marks a century of arts and oddballs
White's outdoor festivals are sometimes cited as spiritual forebears of the famous Woodstock 1969 concert, held 60 miles away in Bethel.
Blelock and his sister are marking the centennial by rereleasing "It Happened in Woodstock." First published in 1972, the book is an idiosyncratic recounting of the town's history.
www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2002/2002-07-09.htm   (696 words)

  
 Woodstock, New Hampshire
In 1840, the town was renamed Woodstock by act of legislature, after a historic palace in Woodstock, England.
The largest decennial percent change was an increase of 16 percent between 1980 and 1990; population declined from 1950 to 1960 and from 1990 to 2000.
The 2005 Census estimate for Woodstock was 1,171 residents, which ranked 171st among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.
www.nhes.state.nh.us /elmi/htmlprofiles/woodstock.html   (338 words)

  
 Shandaken Ulster County New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Town, whose name is of Indian origin and is said to mean " land of rapid waters," is located in the Northwest corner of Ulster County, 25 miles northwest of the city of Kingston.
Bounded on the North by Town of Middletown, Delaware County; East by Town of Hunter, Greene County and Town of Woodstock, Ulster County; South by Towns of Olive and Denning, Ulster County; and West by Town of Hardenburgh, Ulster County.
Located along the Route 28 corridor within the Catskill State Park, the mountainous town lands are over two-thirds state owned and include Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskill range, at 4,220 feet.
www.nutshellrealty.com /shandaken_Ulster_County_New_York.htm   (195 words)

  
 Woodstock Land for Sale, but Yasgur's Legacy Lives
When Woodstock entrepreneurs Michael Lang and John Roberts were driven out of Wallkill, N.Y. (40 miles further down Route 17), the maverick dairy farmer rented his land to them for $50,000, despite personal threats against his life and a threatened boycott of his milk.
At one of the last town board meetings held before the event, Yasgur was present to defend himself from county and state safety officials.
Before Woodstock, the only thing Sullivan County could mark in its history books was an Indian raid during the Revolutionary War and the opening of the Ontario and Western railroad 100 years ago.
www.yasgurroad.com /landsale.html   (1350 words)

  
 :: Woodstock FAS ::
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary (WFAS) is a non-profit organization and shelter that works to end the systematic abuse of animals used for food.
Surrounded by the Catskill Mountains in the famous town of Woodstock, New York, WFAS provides sanctuary to cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and goats who have been rescued from cases of abuse, neglect and abandonment.
We are a place where visitors can come face to face with these animals that most only know as “dinner” and learn about the devastating effects of modern-day agribusiness on the animals, the environment and human health.
www.woodstockfas.org   (318 words)

  
 Cancer incidence and asbestos in drinking water, Town of Woodstock, New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Cancer incidence and asbestos in drinking water, Town of Woodstock, New York, 1980-1998.
New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, 547 River St. Rm.
Contamination resulted from asbestos-cement pipes installed in the town water system in the mid to late 1950s and the corrosiveness of the local water.
www.mesothelioma-asbestos.com /abs1.htm   (333 words)

  
 Woodstock
Bob Dylan was currently residing in Woodstock, New York at the time, and promoters had first chosen that location for the festival.
Although titled Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, it was obvious that most folks were there for the music.
Woodstock was to be the largest music festival ever.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3952/21410   (501 words)

  
 CNN.com - Flashing back to Woodstock - Aug 17, 2004
From a few days of love and music at Woodstock to continued violence in Northern Ireland, CNN looks back on the week of August 15th to 21st.
Tickets had been sold in advance, but as people flocked by the thousands to Woodstock from all directions, it was clear there was no possible way to charge at the door.
Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99 were criticized for replacing the free and easy atmosphere of the 1969 prototype with corporate greed and high security.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/08/13/twih.woodstock   (1075 words)

  
 1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert - How Woodstock Happened   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The promoters approached the town planning board and were given a verbal go-ahead because of the zoning.
Woodstock Ventures was trying to book the biggest rock'n'roll bands in America, but the rockers were reluctant to sign with an untested outfit that might be unable to deliver.
During the summer of Woodstock, Wadleigh, 27, was gaining a reputation as a solid cameraman and director of independent films.
www.woodstock69.com /wsrprnt1.htm   (3051 words)

  
 SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Woodstock Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
There was a sense of purpose in the upstate New York town of Woodstock from September 20—23, though it wasn’t always in the expected areas.
Sometimes the best show in town was at its center–you could choose between watching a one-man band, speaking with the "bike man" (the most prominent of the local eccentrics), or signing up to attend a medicinal marijuana party that a colorful sign assured would not be stopped by Osama bin Laden.
This is not to take anything away from the second annual Woodstock Film Festival, which occupied many venues within walking distance of the town square.
www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/143/film-woodstock.html   (575 words)

  
 Woodstock --  Encyclopædia Britannica
unincorporated village and town (township) in Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S., lying in the foothills of the southern Catskills near the Ashokan Reservoir.
The most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–17, 1969.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of, Marquess Of Titchfield, Earl Of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Of Cirencester
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077429?&query=the   (792 words)

  
 New York Visitors Guide
As one of the most popular cities in the world, New York is equippedwith a multitude of lodgings and accommodations.
Specifically, timeshares are an ample establishment to cater to the swarms of visitors that New York attracts everyday.
New York is also an extraordinary location if you want to sell timeshare.
www.visitnewyorkstate.net   (360 words)

  
 ENB - REGION 3 NOTICES
The Town Board of the Town of Southeast has embarked upon a process of updating its Comprehensive Plan and local land use regulations to protect the community character and environmental quality of the Town.
New landscaping along the north entrance road, at building entries, and at various infill locations.
The project is located along the east side of Anawana Lake Road (C.R. 103) in the Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, New York, approximately 3 miles north of the Village of Monticello.
www.dec.state.ny.us /website/enb2004/20041110/not3.html   (1591 words)

  
 Woodstock, NY. Photo guide.
Woodstock NY Through nearly a century of being an art colony, Woodstock has developed our region's greatest collection of independent shops.
Woodstock is part of a community of historic towns, some dating back to the 17th Century.
Visit Kingston, the original capital of New York State, and take the picture quiz (sample at left).
www.getawaythehudson.com /abouttown/woodstock/default.htm   (371 words)

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