2,000+ new students settle into SUNY dorms
If there’s one thing that SUNY New Paltz knows how to do well, it’s how to make an incoming student feel welcome.
All posts by Frances Marion Platt
Sylvia Zuniga’s long battle to rebuild Androgyny House of Design
“What happens when somebody loses everything?” asks Sylvia Zuniga — not so rhetorically, since it literally happened to her when her home and hair salon, Androgyny House of Design, burned to the ground in October 2015.
New black box theater in New Paltz prepares for first season of plays this fall
Two regional premieres and a world premiere are in store for Paltzonians this fall, as the Denizen Theatre takes shape on the upper level of the Water Street Market.
Crazy Rich Asians having First World problems
The heroine teaches Economics at NYU (specializing, significantly to the plot, in Game Theory).
American premiere of John Cleese comedy shines at Shadowland
Runs weekends through September 9: Bang Bang! is feisty and fun and will make your face hurt from laughing.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival takes on difficult Richard II
August 19, 22 and 26: The unusual casting serves to highlight the play’s themes of identity: Who or what is a person born to be king, when kingship is taken away?
New Paltz takes another look at building joint town/village hall
The long-discussed goal of creating a joint home for New Paltz’s town and village governmental agencies is back on the drawing board, literally as well as figuratively.
New restaurant brings homestyle Japanese cuisine to Rosendale
Chef Etsko Kizawa has opened Soy, a restaurant showcasing Japanese home cooking at 419 Main Street in Rosendale.
Save Tillson Lake group holds ‘Float-In’ to protest dam removal
More than 100 people clad in red, white and blue shirts arrived at the 25-acre lake to launch about 60 kayaks, canoes, inflatables and other “floatables.”
Summer camp blends art and science, on a farm
The popular Farm Summer Day Camp at Phillies Bridge added a new focus this year: STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & math). “Campers will participate in exciting hands-on science experiments and use their creativity to construct gardens, animal habitats and more,” read the online sales pitch.