Mr. Wonderful's World

Some may be bemused, others amused, and some surely stunned. Mr. Wonderful was elected to the Board of Directors of the local library in January. Now, this bit of news has found its way into the local bleat The Register Star. You may be wondering why your author did not just link to this story? [...]

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State Cuts Continue to Library Budget
Here in Hudson, we just successfully passed a voter referendum to increase the City of Hudson’s support for our library for the first time in a decade. By a better than 60% margin voters here affirmed the importance of the library in our daily life.
Now we are faced with cuts [...]

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Yesterday was Hudson’s 13th annual Winter Walk, a three hour event up and down Warren St.
Our BeLo3rd business group made a number of efforts to attract the crowds down the street. For the first time Warren St. was car free its entire length. The parade started at Front St., instead of Third St. Merchant windows below Third featured special [...]

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We have been an admirer of the website The 12534 ever since we discovered that this site had the good sense to add Mr. Wonderful’s World to its list of “notable blogs”. Flattery does get you somewhere in these parts. Despite the pleasant ego inflation, it remained a mystery here at 114 Warren as to [...]

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Lighting for this three hour event that brings 15,000 people to Hudson’s Warren St.

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Bruce Edward Hall’s Diamond Street Hudson, New York – The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District1 is every new resident’s introduction to a part of the history of Hudson missing from conventional touristics materials. Turns out that Hudson has depended on weekend traffic far longer than the current economy of Manhattanites (and others) coming [...]

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Library Budget Question on the Ballot
Tomorrow, Nov. 3rd, is Election Day here and around the state. On the ballot in Hudson and Greenport is a proposition to increase support to the Hudson Area Library. I have been working on this initiative and pass along the following reasons to go to the polls and say, “Yes” [...]

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This morning I helped set up the Friends of the Hudson Area Library ArtsWalk activity tent next to the library. Here a few shots.

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Last night we went to a kick off event for Hudson’s Arts Walk weekends. This was an opening cum party for two artists.
GRAND OPENING AT BASILICA INDUSTRIA
110 South Front Street Artists:
Arthur Price and Earl Swanigan
5:00pm – 10:00pm
Entertainment: Walking the Dog Improv Ensemble Theater
The OFF LEASH! [...]

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Karen took these photos. What’s a guy to do when entertaining a grandchild via Skype?

Later…….. poor kid.

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