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...
Newcomers flock to fill vacant New Paltz School Board seats
In a year when familiar faces decided not to run for re-election, three hopeful newcomers will try to win two open seats on the New Paltz Board of Education. Board Vice President Rod Dressel and long-time member Edgar Rodriguez decided against running this year. In their place, computer data analyst Max Maurer, current New Paltz...
New Paltz Teen Photo Contest winners are announced
Six New Paltz high school and middle school students were awarded prizes in the third annual New Paltz Teen Photo Contest at a reception April 9 hosted by the Elting Memorial Library. Local photographers G. Steve Jordan, Matt Petricone and Lauren Thomas had the unenviable task of choosing the winners among 54 entries submitted by...
New Paltz High School stages spring musical “Grease”
With a 53-member cast filled with talented actors/actresses, singers and dancers, the New Paltz High School (NPHS)’s spring musical theatre production, Grease, is poised to have the audience laughing and dancing in the aisles. According to longtime NPHS musical director Nancy Owen, Grease was selected by NPHS choir director Nicole Ferrante. “Nicole has been doing...
New Paltz parents still looking to ban vacation homework
After receiving a lot of media attention and some recognition from school officials, the parents in New Paltz who started a petition to ban homework during holidays and breaks still believe they can make a change. Last week, parents met with principals Barbara Clinton and Richard Wiesenthal to see if vacation homework could end. Following...
New Paltz High School Winter Concert entertains a packed house
The New Paltz High School auditorium was transformed into a jazz-infused, musically inspired Winter Concert this past Thursday. Led by band director Ralph Schroer, the Jazz Ensemble wowed the crowd with sizzling renditions of “Peg,” followed by “Josie” and ending with “Kid Charlemagne,” all by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. Tal Schwartz...
Senior citizens gather for Thanksgiving at local elementary schools
Local senior citizens enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast of turkey and all the trimmings during the New Paltz School District’s annual Thanksgiving holiday meal. The event took place last Wednesday at Lenape and Duzine elementary schools. Other than the food, the seniors also enjoyed artwork and entertainment provided by the students. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for...
Drama Club performs original stage production based onpersonal accounts of World War II
The Drama Club at New Paltz High School is mounting an exciting, original stage production this weekend that is unlike anything that it has ever presented before: a pastiche compiled from new interviews, old writings, period songs and pop culture showing the World War II era from nearly every imaginable perspective, titled Shades of War....
NPASA looks to expand, reinstate after-school programs
Somehow, despite the odds, many of the extra-curricular clubs slated to be cut at New Paltz Middle School have survived. This might come as a surprise to people without younger kids — because the budget approved by voters eliminated them. So what saved them? It turns out to be a wellspring of charity. Behind the...
Changes await students and teachers in Highland, New Paltz
This week, students in Highland and New Paltz return to the classrooms for another year of lessons, textbooks and tests. But 2012-2013 will be a year of many changes — teachers and principals will get new performance evaluations, and students will learn in a different way with the implementation of the federal Common Core standards....
New Paltz School Board brings back Rod Dressel Jr. as its vice president
Ever since Bob Rich announced his resignation just before May’s New Paltz School Board election, the question of who might replace him has been up in the air. So too has the question of who’d replace KT Tobin as school board vice president. It turns out the answer to both of those questions shares the...
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,...