Parade, tree-lighting launch holiday season in Gardiner
The spirit of giving was much in evidence at the annual Christmas parade and community tree-lighting in downtown Gardiner last Friday evening.
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Adaptive Radiation gets world premiere at Denizen Theatre
For its second-ever production, New Paltz’s Denizen Theatre, the new black-box performance space, is hosting a world premiere.
Holiday on Huguenot Street returns this weekend
The event will feature live music, special holiday-themed stone-house tours, a tree-lighting ceremony, a paper lantern parade, a visit from Santa, a crafts fair, horse-drawn wagon rides and more.. It all happens Friday and Saturday, November 30 and December 1.
Gardiner mulls six-month moratorium on lodging facility applications
The delay in processing applications could affect some pending projects, such as the controversial Heartwood resort, if significant changes to the initial proposal are made by the applicant.
One year after house fire, all’s well that ends well for New Paltz family
This year, New Paltz resident Maria Savino and her 11-year-old daughter Ava are enjoying their time at home even more than most — because they nearly lost that home a little over a year ago.
High tea: Kingston’s T Salon introduces CBD-infused product line
Coming soon are chocolate truffles and sugar-free, gluten-free cookies, both infused with phyto cannabinoid.
Sustainably sexy: New Paltz shop offers “green” lingerie indulgences
Is it possible to lead a politically correct, environmentally “woke” existence and still be, like, glamorous and sexy instead of frumpy and lumpy as a bowl o’ granola? Melissa Orsini of Salix Intimates thinks so.
After defeating Rabbitt to tip State Senate blue, Metzger reaffirms her priorities
Election reform is one of the higher priorities on her agenda, along with the passage of some proposed legislation that has long been bottled up in Republican-chaired State Senate committees: the New York Health Act, the Reproductive Health Act, the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act, the Child Victims Act among them.
Rodents of Unusual Size screens in Rhinebeck and Hudson
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 16-17: Invasion of the swamp rats. Members of this furry caravan from South America grow up to 20 pounds apiece, reproduce faster than they can be hunted and are gnawing away at vegetation that helps protect the Louisiana shoreline from the impact of hurricanes.
Schatzi’s, Lola’s, Central Hudson win New Paltz Chamber’s 2018 Business Recognition Awards
On Thursday, November 15 at Garvan’s, the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce will once again confer its annual Business Recognition Awards to three local businesses and entrepreneurs who have been nominated by their peers as making notable contributions to the vibrancy of the town’s economy while being good corporate citizens.