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...
Enjoying the apocalypse
Is it just me, or does anyone else get annoyed when, on a day like today (Monday, April 16), when the high temperature in my town is supposed to top out at about 25 degrees above normal, everyone seems so happy about it? I feel like screaming, “It’s climate change, everybody, run for the Arctic,...
The first wave of spring wildflowers
It’s not too late to find the flowers of April in our woods and fields, but the mild winter and warm March weather has pushed the schedule of blooming two to three weeks ahead of normal, so get out soon if you hope to see them. Woodland wildflowers are often called “spring ephemerals” because they...
Six challengers vie for New Paltz School Board, incumbents bow out
Election Day for the New Paltz Central School District will bring a lot of choices. Voters will have to decide if they’ll support a tax-cap-busting $50.31 million budget, if they’d like the schools to buy $339,000 worth of buses and they’ll have to pick from a crowded field of hopefuls looking for a school board...
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...
New Paltz High School Mock Trial Team wins county championship
The undefeated New Paltz High School Mock Trial Team flexed its intellectual muscle again last week, winning the county championship in a meet held at the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston. The team defeated Rondout Valley High School and will now go on to the regional contest to be held in Rockland County this Saturday,...
It’s the economy: The grapes look to China
Representatives of a handful of Hudson Valley wineries sat in a brightly lit classroom in Kingston this month, listening to a pitch that could help them reach the biggest market on the planet. New York has cachet in China, according to Yaxin Zhang, United States representative for the New York State Wine Outlet. The state...
Joel Goldstein recounts his son Bart’s comeback from TBI in new book, “No Stone Unturned”
It’s every parent’s nightmare. Your baby grows up, gets into a car, a phone call comes or a policemen knocks on the door: “There’s been an accident.” This is what happened to the Goldstein family in December of 2001. Their son Bart, 16 years old, full of life and humor and a love of the...
SUNY New Paltz inaugurates Donald Christian as president
SUNY New Paltz should evolve to meet the challenges of a post-Great Recession America, and it can do so stressing educational quality, selective admissions and cross-disciplinary thinking, newly inaugurated collage President Donald P. Christian told his audience last weekend. “I tip my hat to the seven past presidents of the modern college at New Paltz,”...