Gardiner mulls 70-unit “eco-cabin” resort
The Tuthilltown neighborhood of Gardiner may soon be home to a 70-unit year-round ecotourism accommodation on the north bank of the Shawangunk Kill.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead… in Rhinebeck
The Center’s 2017 Spring Shakespeare Festival kicks off with a production of Tom Stoppard’s Beckettian black-comedy spin on Hamlet.
Retired California highway cop to give talk on suicide prevention at SUNY New Paltz
Some people, by the very nature of their professions, cross paths regularly with the despondent en route to harming themselves, and have thus acquired some useful intervention skills that they can share with others. One such person will be coming to SUNY New Paltz on Tuesday, April 4.
NPHS Drama Club to perform Stephen Schwartz’s musical version of Studs Terkel’s “Working”
The students in the cast seem excited to be participating in such a non-traditional piece of musical theater.
Free screenings of nonpartisan Electoral Dysfunction in Rosendale
Tuesday, 3/28: In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, “The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.” By November 2016, after that same body had handed him the presidency, he was tweeting a different tune: “The Electoral College is actually genius.” If you are befuddled by how our electoral system actually works, check out this free documentary screening, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Stone Ridge activist links North Dakota fracking, New York pipelines
Asked for an “official” job title, Iris Marie Bloom calls herself a “citizen journalist” and a “galvanizer.” “Documenting social change movements as they happen is incredibly important,” she says.
Anne Frank musical and discussion in Hyde Park
Opens Saturday, March 25: If you know someone who could use a reminder of what can happen to innocents in real life when ordinary people lack the courage to question authority, you might want to suggest an outing to see Half Moon Theatre’s newest production, “Yours, Anne.”
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is a love poem to the Rust Belt
Paterson doesn’t mind the dull routine of his work as a bus driver because it frees him to devote himself to observation.
Amazin’ Melts concocts grilled cheese masterpieces in midtown New Paltz
The effect of cheese on the brain has been compared to opiates. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but there’s a reason people believed it…
New Paltz Climate Action Coalition hires Suzanne Flaum as coordinator
The New Paltz Climate Action Coalition (NPCAC), which meets weekly at Village Hall, has been around for quite a few years now, and its most active volunteers — among them Dan and Ann Guenther and Miriam Strouse — have been around even longer.