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Woodstock veteran Arlo Guthrie plays a song at the original site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. Guthrie is schedule to play a set on the top of hill nearby but told reporters he wanted to play at least one song on the original 1969 site. Woodstock fans are expected to get back to the garden to mark the 50th anniversary of the generation-defining festival. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is hosting a series of events Thursday through Sunday at the bucolic 1969 concert site, 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NYSW102 NYSW102

August 15, 2019 at 3:24 am

Arlo Guthrie sings as Woodstock fans flock to concert site VIEW

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Tie-dyed pilgrims and white-haired Woodstock festival veterans converged at the generation-defining site to celebrate its 50th anniversary, while Arlo Guthrie came...

FILE – In this Aug. 16, 1969 file photo, grass and leaf huts are used as makeshift living quarters for some of the attendees at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at White Lake in Bethel, N.Y. Fifty years later, memories of the anarchic weekend of Aug. 15-18, 1969, remains sharp among people who were in the crowd and on the stage for the historic festival. (AP Photo/File) NYR815 NYR815

August 11, 2019 at 10:22 pm

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In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, photo, Ilene Marder Hinchey poses for a picture in Woodstock, N.Y. Hinchey was one of the 400,000 people who flocked to the three-day Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969 Bethel, N.Y. Fifty years later, memories of the rainy weekend Aug. 15-18, 1969 remain sharp among people who were in the crowd and on the stage. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NYR813 NYR813

August 11, 2019 at 10:20 pm

‘A waterfall of love’: Woodstock memories 50 years later VIEW

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — They helicoptered over crowds into the Woodstock festival and hiked in past abandoned cars. They danced at dawn on a muddy...

August 11, 2019 at 4:56 am

No chaos this time as Woodstock concert site preps for 50th VIEW

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won't be your hippie uncle's trample-the-fences concert. While plans for a...

August 7, 2019 at 10:33 pm

Woodstock photos are displayed for 1st time, 50 years later

As Jerry Garcia jammed and Janis Joplin wailed, Mark Goff captured images at Woodstock that no one ever saw. The 22-year-old photographer for an underground...

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July 8, 2019 at 3:15 am

Think globally, power locally: Hydro plants serve neighbors

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June 6, 2019 at 6:05 am

Training rollover kills West Point cadet, injures many VIEW

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — A vehicle loaded with West Point cadets on summer training overturned in rough, wooded terrain Thursday, killing one cadet and...

May 29, 2019 at 1:51 pm

Illinois advances legalized pot after home growing settled

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers working to legalize recreational marijuana hit a snag that other states have wrestled with: whether to allow people to...

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April 29, 2019 at 10:09 pm

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DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — Falun Gong practitioners found a peaceful refuge in the forested hills of upstate New York after their group was banned in...

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April 10, 2019 at 10:00 pm

EPA won’t make GE restart Hudson dredging for now

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency declined for now to make General Electric restart dredging in the Hudson River, triggering a wave of...