According to Castle, the germ of the idea for the story came from Rabbi Jonathan Kligler’s moving eulogy for New Paltz High School student Maya Gold, in which he urged local teens, “Look out for each other. Be brave. Risk losing a friend in order to help them.”
He’s mesmerizing, certainly; but that has mostly to do with the fact that he’s being portrayed by the great Daniel Day-Lewis, who, in his typically compulsive, hands-on approach to tackling a character, actually learned to sew evening gowns in order to portray an elite 1950s English fashion designer.
FDR sent in the Civilian Conservation Corps to build a camping area and a restaurant at Norrie Point called the Point Inn, which served diners from 1937 to the 1960s.
The Town of Gardiner has become the latest community in Ulster County to take the New York Climate Smart Communities Pledge, the first in a series of steps that qualify municipalities to obtain grants from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund to fund local projects to reduce their carbon footprint.
The Williams Lake Project, first proposed in 2007, is still in the early stages of construction. Developers recently unveiled their plans for 2018 construction, which included some changes to the design.
Sloop will be among the first tenants of the new $300 million i.Park City, the so-called “workspace of the future.” The new brewery is expected to be operational by May, with the new tasting room opening this summer, featuring local beer, foods from across New York State, event space and live music, with room for more than 300 people.
It’s a 200-acre farm in the Town of LaGrange, where, since 1990, nuns from the Society of the Sacred Heart have been making delicious cheeses from the milk that their cows, sheep and goats supply. They also provide hands-on agricultural education opportunities for campers young and old.
When Jane Goodall went to work for paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey in Tanzania in 1957, her only academic background was secretarial school. She approached her work in Africa with no preconceived notions, and ended up turning the field of primate biology on its head.
Interested in the issues surrounding open space preservation? The town of Gardiner wants you.
The Gateway Diner took First Place in the “people’s choice” Chili Contest at last Saturday’s Hudson Valley Rail Trail WinterFest. So if you voted for Pot #2 in the blind tasting, you helped make it a winner! Three Guys Pizza took Second Place, for the contents of Pot #1, and volunteers from the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Association (HVRTA) were in Third Place for Pot #11. There were 15 entries in all, in the centerpiece of the 20th annual WinterFest.