Mid-Hudson Cross-Fit wins Bed Race at Highland SpringFest
Hundreds of residents and visitors braved the Irishlike weather this past Saturday for the second annual Highland SpringFest. The weather held until just before the signature events of the festival, the Waiters’ Race and the Bed Race, both of which had everyone cheering, lining the sidewalks and enjoying some old-fashioned community fun and competition. “There...
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...
New Paltz Regatta draws record crowds
The weather gods were shining down on New Paltz this past Sunday at the annual community Regatta event, with blue skies, luscious spring sun and a cool breeze keeping the crowds, boaters and kayakers happy. New Paltz’s homegrown band Yard Sale led off the parade, which had more than a dozen handcrafted boats being pulled...
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...
Cancer survivors, friends ready for Relay For Life
When Relay For Life comes to SUNY New Paltz, cancer survivors and the people who care for them will have a chance to fight cancer on the racetrack this Sunday, April 28. It won’t be the first time. “We’ve been having the event in New Paltz, annually, since 2004. This last year was a big...
Walkway kicks off another world record effort
The nonprofit group Walkway Over the Hudson kicked off its drive to break another Guinness World Record this week by opening registration for people to participate in a May 4 effort to establish a new world record on Walkway Over the Hudson State Park. Organizers said the event, which coincides with New York State’s I...
Hundreds turn out in New Paltz to dance against violence against women
Hundreds of people took to the streets in downtown New Paltz as part of the Feb. 14 worldwide One Billion Rising event intended to raise awareness of the ever-increasing numbers of incidents of violence against women and girls (www.onebillionrising.org). Although the event — inspired by the writer/playwright Eve Ensler, author of the renowned Vagina Monologues...
V-Day in New Paltz features flash mob dance downtown for One Billion Rising
Inspired by the writer/playwright Eve Ensler, author of the renowned Vagina Monologues, dozens of local women are taking to the streets on Feb. 14, the day of love, to take part in the worldwide One Billion Rising: a global event intended to raise awareness of the ever-increasing occurrences of violence against women and girls. New...
‘Subzero Heroes’ dive to support Alzheimer’s awareness
A booming female voice blasts down the natural sloping amphitheater leading to the swimming hole at Highland’s Berean Park. “One, two, three — jump,” the voice shouts. Out on the frozen lake, a wide semi-circular gouge is cut into the ice. People dressed in outrageous costumes walk on a makeshift path of kitty litter out...
The importance of predators
In theory at least, the Shawangunk Ridge is home to bobcats and the occasional cougar. But who among us — even longtime diehard hikers — has ever caught a glimpse of one, aside from the stuffed and mounted specimens in the Mohonk Preserve Visitors’ Center? Not many, to be sure. As in most of wild...