“Hackerspace” Squidwrench sets up shop in Highland
Studio 81 is a small workshop occupying a space accessible by an alleyway on Vineyard Avenue in downtown Highland. Recently, a group of programmers, artists and electronic wizards — calling themselves Squidwrench — have started to meet there. They’re what’s called a hackerspace, or makerspace — a creative collective of young professionals who meet to...
Scavenger Hunt/Race benefits New Paltz United Teachers’ Scholarship Fund
The New Paltz United Teachers are hosting a Scavenger Hunt/Race this Saturday, May 18. The event will kick off at the New Paltz Middle School at 10 a.m. and end at Upstairs on 9 Café at the New Paltz Golf Course off Huguenot Street. According to Meri Lederer, the race will consist of teams with...
Nature at your doorstep – Dickie Barre
What does one make of a hike that begins at a graveyard? Only that the human lives, and deaths, that transpired here cannot be disentangled from the life of the place we enjoy on a perfect spring day, with the forest awakening around us. The graveyard is a small family plot, surrounded by hand-laid stone...
Personally speaking – Livia Vanaver
Ever since she and her husband Bill Vanaver and their dance/music troupe the Vanaver Caravan moved from Queens to the Hudson Valley, Livia Drapkin Vanaver has become a renowned dancer/choreographer/educator here and abroad. Just this past week she was asked to choreograph a five-minute dance routine to the tune “I Love New York,” which more...
Angels ‘n Earth offers local grave landscaping
For Rebecca Glaser planting flowers and landscaping around the gravesites of relatives has been a family tradition. “I would say the idea was instilled by my parents, because every year my parents would plant flowers at their family members’ sites over in Poughkeepsie,” Rebecca said. “I took somewhat of a backseat to that initially. I...
Wallkill Valley Land Trust’s walk and talk about box turtles
The Wallkill Valley Land Trust’s (WVLT) annual walk and talk will take place on Saturday, May 11 from 10 a.m. to noon on the Smith property in Gardiner. Anne Smith, with the help of biologist Joe Bridges, will discuss monitoring the Eastern box turtle. They have been monitoring the box turtle population on the Smith...
SpringFest 2013 in Highland on May 11
SpringFest will be held in the Hamlet of Highland on Saturday, May 11 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. This all-day event will feature live music, blessing of the bikes, a kids’ bike parade and bike rodeo, local food and merchant vendors, bed races, waiters’ races, water-4-life relay, a local art exhibit, pet show, jumpy...
Nature at your Doorstep – The Comeau Estate
Every town, large or small, needs green refuges within its boundaries, places to walk in any season that offer the possibility of solitude. Residents of New Paltz are fortunate in having a variety of refuges within walking or biking distance. Sometimes one needs, without embarking on a long car drive, to simply check in with...
Lloyd SpringFest returns May 11
The second annual Town of Lloyd SpringFest, slated for Saturday, May 11, may prove to be bigger and better than last year’s well-attended, community-centered event. According Kate Jonietz of the Town’s Events Committee, “It’s looking to be way bigger than last year, with so many returning and new participants and activities. There is literally something...
Gardiner looks to inform, aid elders with Senior Living Expo
It’s tough to know exactly what services Ulster County and Gardiner offer to senior citizens. People might be doing without pet assistance, adult day care, senior discounts and other stuff already available to them through government programs. That’s a situation the Gardiner Living Community Committee members hope to alleviate on May 14 with their Senior...
New Paltz Regatta to take place on Sunday, May 5
Bring on your fun, spirited competitive side and participate in the annual New Paltz Regatta on Sunday, May 5. The parade kicks off from Village Hall at 1 p.m. and proceeds to the Sojourner Truth boat landing. The Family of New Paltz duck race will take place at 1:30 p.m. and the homemade water craft...
Three candidates view for two Highland School Board positions
Highland voters can expect an experienced group of three candidates to run for the two open school board seats on May 21. This year’s race will pit incumbents Sue Gilmore and Tom Miller against their onetime colleague Vincent Rizzi, a former Highland Board of Education president. In a stunning turnaround, Rizzi lost his seat on...