The Flower Kart opens on the corner of Main and Plattekill
Linda Saylor is a nurse who has always liked flowers. So, perpetually teased by her co-workers, she decided to do what they always figured she’d do. “Have a flower cart in New Paltz,” laughs Saylor. So, with her daughter Trish, an incoming New Paltz High School senior, she has gotten a permit for a cart...
Arm wrestling event benefits the Breast-Feeding Initiative
It was definitely the Best Show in Town this past Friday evening as BRAWL took its outsized and outrageous concoction of cabaret, theater and arm-wrestling into the courtyard of the Water Street Market in New Paltz. A couple hundred people thought so too, as they packed the little courtyard to watch MC’s Lady Thumb-Prince and...
TV crew films on Church Street in New Paltz
Did you happen to notice the “new” used bookstore on Church Street? It’s got a pale-pink sign announcing “Vivien’s Used Books? And did you by chance notice the 30-or-so men and women milling around inside and outside of the “new” store holding 35mm cameras, with lights, sound equipment, dollies and a fire-engine red Porsche convertible...
Willie Dixon has made an impact on the local youth sports scene
Not only can the ubiquitous Willie Dixon always be recognized by the hats he always wears, but by the company he keeps. That company — local youth sports teams — have seen Dixon in a variety of roles on various fields of play…all of them inspirational. So, let us count the ways Dixon has impacted...
SeaHawks return as DUSO champions
Yes, it’s Summer at Moriello Pool, and the SeaHawks are back…with a vengeance. Last year’s runaway DUSO champions (undefeated at 6-0 in the dual-meet season and winners by 300 points in the league finale last August) return nearly everyone from last season, including double titlists Abigail Santos (who also was one leg of the DUSO...
Kosiner Brothers open up shop at Water Street Market in New Paltz
Jed and Brock Kosiner have always done things together. They worked at Paddy McGee’s Restaurant in Island Park, Long Island as teenagers; and after Jed graduated from Hofstra in 2005, joined brother Brock in New Paltz (who graduated this past December from SUNY), and both worked in New Paltz’s alternative organic restaurant, Karma Road (with...
Highland High School graduates 130
That seemed to be the theme running through the Highland High School 2012 commencement exercises…”Family”. From High School principal Pete Harris through salutatorian Carl Adamczak to valedictorian Xiang Ying Shuai and winding up with guest speaker Scott MacFarlane from the Class of 1994. It was all about family — parents, teachers, brothers and sisters, cousins...
New Paltz High School graduates 178
With the New Paltz High School chorus singing a sweet version of “In My Life” — the Beatles poetic paean to remembrance — the noble seniors of 2012 marched forth to claim their independence this past Friday at the Larry Johnson Gym. It seemed to be the theme running through speeches by salutatorian Melanie Schmidt,...
New Paltz and Highland best of the best for Spring sports 2012
Cora Butler capped one remarkable season by winning the State Division 2 long jump title with a best-ever 18-3, which was made more dramatic by the fact that she fouled on her first jump and jumped “only” 16-0 on her second. So, talk about pressure for the top-seeded D-2 long jumper, when she just put...
On the path to Jai-Ma Yoga with Ami Hirschstein
When Ami Hirschstein was a SUNY-New Paltz student in sociology, she was on the verge of “losing it.” So, she turned to the ancient Indian practice of yoga. “I was stressed out full-time — taking lots of credits, making internships, I really would have gone under if not for yoga.” Hirschstein took her first classes...
Highland boys’ soccer at .500
It’s been awhile since the Highland boys’ soccer team was playing .500 ball. Half-a-decade at least. But that’s where they are midway through September and after five games played — the Huskies, with their 3-0 shutout of Port Jervis on Saturday, are 2-2-1. With “new” old-school head coach Frank Alfonso toughening their “tudes,” the boys,...
New Paltz football crushes Onteora and Rondout
Alright, they’re not exactly Marlboro. But the way the New Paltz football team ran all over both Onteora and Rondout — in the space of just five days — certainly bodes well for another Huguenots’ run at a Section 9 title. And run they did. Against Onteora it was close to 500 yards on the...