Rosendale votes to override tax cap, budget up 3.4 percent
Total appropriations for next year are set at $4.58 million, $2.85 million of which will be raised through local taxes.
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International Pickle Festival in Rosendale this Sunday
A mind-boggling selection of the piquant and the puckery will be available for purchase and on display this Sunday, November 20 at the Rosendale Recreation Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Kaatsbaan hosts Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre this Saturday
Some of the genre-spanning versatility of Czech-born choreographer Dušan Týnek can likely be ascribed to his baccalaureate years at Bard College, where he studied the natural sciences along with dance.
Beyond words: Arrival is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller
Our critic calls Arrival, “the smartest movie that I’ve seen in any genre in a long, long time.”
Gardiner votes to override tax cap with .87 percent increase
This year’s tax cap is less than 1 percent, so many towns, facing mandated personnel increases, are overriding it.
Racist graffiti in SUNY New Paltz dorm galvanizes anti-Trump protest march
Spurred in part by anguish over the results of last week’s presidential election and partly by the appearance of racist graffiti on campus, hundreds of SUNY New Paltz students walked out of their classes at noontime last Friday for an energetic demonstration against the policies of Donald Trump.
New Paltz High School Drama Club to perform Kaufman & Hart classic “You Can’t Take It with You”
The antics of this sweetly-but-alarmingly dysfunctional family will come to life once more in the Otto Grassel Auditorium at New Paltz High School on November 17 through 19.
Documentary series by noted filmmaker examines environmental risks to Hudson River
The series of short films focuses on the transportation of crude oil, Indian Point nuclear power plant, PCB contamination and a project to transport electric power from Western New York to New York City.
Broadway-bound Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science at UPAC
Thursday, November 17: They say, “cooking is art; baking is science.” Celebrity chef/author Alton Brown takes that truism as a challenge in his live touring shows, treating his culinary tools and materials as a chemistry set, always ready for risky experimentation
The American Soldier at Red Hook’s Chocolate Factory
Based on actual soldier and family-member letters written from the American Revolution all the way through current-day Afghanistan, the play pays tribute to veterans and their families while examining the internal struggles that soldiers face when returning home from combat.