The Town of New Paltz fireworks are scheduled to take place on Friday, June 30. As the celebration will not even be in the same month as the Fourth of July, supervisor Neil Bettez chose to call it a “town fireworks celebration” rather than reference the holiday.
A group of high school-aged artists, members of Roost Youth, are planning a second mural on Town of New Paltz property.
While Village of New Paltz residents wrestle over a zoning code that allows 50-foot-tall buildings in some areas, there’s a proposal to stick a 72-foot-tall cell tower on Cherry Hill Road.
The Ferris Woods proposal in New Paltz is for 60 two-bedroom senior citizen apartments built on 43 acres that would be accessed from the end of Brouck Ferris Boulevard, with an emergency access route running from the back of the nearby car wash on Route 299.
Appearing as “Super Yellow Crayon” at last week’s New Paltz Town Board meeting,” resident Lauren Aidan Koehler encouraged town council members to act with civility toward each other and other residents.
The Blue Moon Cabaret will be answering charges stemming from prostitution arrests on January 20, town police chief Joseph Snyder told police commissioners last week.
The popular restaurant has been closed for some time. “It will almost be a new building” when all is said and done.
The group’s leader accused the board of favoring landlords over tenants.
Robert Lucchesi, second-in-command at the New Paltz police department, will soon be FBI trained.
A large project including a CVS pharmacy and Five Guys restaurant proposed for the area has prompted renewed scrutiny of what’s permitted in that part of town.