New Paltz Turkey Trot offers an energetic start to the holiday
The 15th annual Turkey Trot, sponsored by Family of New Paltz, will take place Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22.
Community
Saugerties three-year-old awaits kidney transplant
In celebrating her third birthday on November 5, Leah Storm surpassed the expectations of Vassar Brothers Medical Center staff.
More than 250 take part in inaugural New Paltz Challenge River-to-Ridge Fall 5K
The opening of a trail through the flats to the foothills of the Shawangunks has created a world of possibilities, one of which was realized this past week.
Veterans and the fallen
Sergeant Richard Quinn Drive was recently named after the only Woodstocker to die in Vietnam, Richard Floyd Quinn — medic
Woodstockers remember veterans of all wars
On a cold, sunny Sunday morning the old church bell in the kiosk at the Community Center tolled 11 times at the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th month, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the World War I, The War to End All Wars (which, sadly, it wasn’t.)
Saugerties displays its sense of history on Veterans Day
The Lamouree-Hackett American Legion Post 72 held its traditional Veterans Day commemoration last Sunday, November 11 at the traditional 11 a.m. start time.
Finding a legal place to fly one’s drone in the Hudson Valley can be a challenge
“I’m going to take some pictures of Main Street,” says Carol Seitz, professional photographer and recently certified drone pilot, as she maneuvers the device by means of the controller plugged into her iPhone. We’re standing in the Phoenicia Park, which is a public space and currently unpopulated except for the two of us, and therefore a legal place to fly.
New Paltz senior-care facility unveils “wall of honor” celebrating local vets
Seven residents of the New Paltz Center, a senior-care facility on Jansen Road, were honored last Friday for their military service with the unveiling of a “wall of honor” including their photographs and an American flag flown over the U.S. Capitol in their honor.
AFFIRM at 25: New Paltz grassroots organizers look back at their victories
Grassroots activism has changed the way New Paltz and its surrounding townships look — not so much in what you see, but in what you don’t see: commercial and residential sprawl, elimination of woods, wetlands and the vast array of animals, birds and plant life that rely on those delicate ecosystems to thrive.
New Paltz United Methodist Play School celebrates 50th anniversary
It’s a familiar sight in the Village of New Paltz on Friday mornings, those little three- and four-year-olds hanging onto a rope to stay together as they navigate their way from the New Paltz United Methodist Play School on Grove Street over to Elting Memorial Library. There, storytime with Miss Bonnie awaits, after which the kids can choose a book to take home.