Renowned newspaperman and Livingston resident (and fixture of The Cascades and Le Gamin in Hudson) Don Forst has died, according to The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/donald-h-forst-feisty-newspaper-editor-dies-at-81.html
Don was always good for a contrarian take on the news of the day. Back in the 1990s, I had cause to interview him for a brief Intelligencer item for New York Magazine; at the time, he was said to be on the short list for NBA commissioner, an idea he found bemusing. It was a pleasure to get to know him as a neighbor instead of a boldfaceable name; he will be missed.