New Paltz to hold Phool’s Parade on May 19
The annual Phool’s Parade will take place this Saturday, May 19 at 2 p.m. The art parade will begin at the New Paltz Middle School and end at Hasbrouck Park. Participants are encouraged to get as artsy and creative as possible. Dress up as an iconographic artist; decorate yourself as an art subject or famous...
Gardiner Cupcake Festival set for May 19 at Wright’s Farm
The Gardiner Cupcake Festival will take place this year on May 19 from noon to 6 p.m. at Wright’s Farm in Gardiner. The festival features a variety of cupcake vendors who combined will bring over 30,000 cupcakes. New to the festival this year is a cupcake-eating contest, in addition to the ever-popular amateur cupcake contest....
Gardiner and New Paltz to offer dog parks
All across the country, dog parks are being created in an effort to let the hounds run and play while their owners socialize and swap canine stories. This phenomenon has hit southern Ulster County, where the Town of Gardiner is poised to officially open its dog park on May 12, and in New Paltz, where...
Protect the Hess Farm in Gardiner
Supporters of open space and local farms will enjoy a “community farm dinner” in Gardiner on Saturday, June 9 to raise funds for the town’s newest farmland protection project — the Hess farm. The Town of Gardiner has again joined with the Open Space Institute (OSI) to protect this family farm, a 74-acre working farm...
Residents approach their local boards to question chicken laws
To animal husbandry, or not to animal husbandry? That is the $64 question right now as residents from various municipalities ranging from urban to rural are clucking at their zoning boards wondering whether keeping chickens is kosher, and how they can have their hand in the proverbial egg basket. Last month, Kingston zoning code enforcement...
SpringFest in Highland to feature bike parade, bed race and waiters’ race
SpringFest 2012, slated for May 12 in the Lloyd hamlet, is poised to be an all-day extravaganza of fun, activities, hysterical bed races, waiter races, a kids’ bike parade, jumpy castles, face-painting, prizes, local food vendors and live music into the night. The day starts off at 10 a.m. with a “Blessing of the Bikes,”...
116 years of Mohonk weather records show strong warming trend
Folks on both sides of the global warming debate have been known to accuse one another of “junk science” — of crunching some numbers in ways that support their arguments while ignoring others. But here in the mid-Hudson, we are privileged to have as a neighbor an entity that collects climate data in a manner...
Management at Snug’s brings in new energy, creativity and culture
While Snug Harbor still retains its biker-bar, pig-roasting, pool-hustling atmosphere where everyone is welcomed, it has begun to evolve into a multidimensional watering hole complete with drawing nights, bingo nights, open-mic night and the best of the local best bands performing every weekend to dancing throngs of fans or soon-to-be fans. Part of this metamorphosis...
Arbor Day celebration in New Paltz
The Village of New Paltz celebrated Arbor Day last Friday with members and volunteers of the Shade Tree Commission planting hundreds of donated trees. The project was evidence that New Paltz is on its way to once again being designated as a Tree City USA. “It’s a distinction of honor for the community,” said commission...
Milton True Value offers more than just hardware
Jeff Paladino, owner of Milton True Value on Route 9W and also a councilman for the Town of Lloyd, has turned a family-owned business into a one-stop shop for contractors, homeowners, landscapers, gardeners and even for those planning a backyard party or event. Despite the economy having been circling the drain for several years running,...
Water Street Market seeks artists for chalk festival
Remember when you were young and the pavement was your canvas? The Hudson Valley Chalk Art Festival is calling for local artists to participate in this year’s event. Water Street Market in downtown New Paltz is hosting The Hudson Valleys First Ever Chalk Art Festival from July 20-22. For three full days, twelve professional chalk...
New Paltz gears up for its annual homemade boat race
This year’s annual New Paltz Regatta, slated for this Sunday, April 29 at 1 p.m., is poised to rock the Wallkill River and the crowds in downtown New Paltz. Deb Rauch, owner of In Good Taste, along with her Regatta team of Theresa Fall of Water Street Market and Kathy Combs of 36 Main, have...