Community Notebook

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Queens of the Catskills

By Jay Blotcher

Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in To Wong Foo, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.

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Art of Business: The Grounds Keepers

By Ann Braybrooks

In the past three years, Muddy Cup coffeehouses have opened in Hudson, Albany, Beacon, Catskill, and Kingston. By summer, there will be locations in Poughkeepsie, Schenectady, and New Paltz.