Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct. 1: Have a clove affair with music, chef demos and a cornucopia of garlic-based foods including salsa, hummus, sauce, sausage, pickles, olives, cheese, as well as garlic caramels, fudge and ice cream!
The first Elting Memorial Library Fair was held on August 4, 1956. It raised $439. Another fair was held the following year, with profits nearly doubling to $833. Imagine what people at the time would have thought if they could have looked into the future to 2017, and known that not only is the Library Fair still a New Paltz tradition, but that last Saturday’s event on September 23 would be the 61st iteration of an annual fundraiser that now brings in some $30,000 each year to support the library.
Congregants of Kingston’s Temple Emanuel and guests will celebrate the life of former temple Rabbi Jonathan Eichhorn on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. at the shule on 243 Albany Avenue.
The Kohenet Institute, founded in 2005 by Hammer and musician and folklorist Taya Shere, has been training Hebrew priestesses, reclaiming the voices and traditions of women from biblical antiquity.
New Paltz’s founding families owned slaves, a fact the community continues to grapple with. Earlier this month SUNY New Paltz’s president announced the college would look into whether it should rename buildings named for the community’s founders. Last week, five writer-storytellers participated in “Reclaiming Our Time: A Live Performance by TMI Project,” delivering monologues after spending the night a former slave quarters in a historic Huguenot house.
The Highland native has written her first book, a young adult fantasy novel planned as the first in a series. Possibilities Publishing Company will release Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters on November 1.
Father Francis radically changed the spiritual life of Woodstock more than any Christian clergyman before or since.
The Kingston High School varsity field hockey team has a new coach for the first time in nearly two decades, but they’ve started the season pretty much how they always do — outscoring their opponents over four games by a combined score of 26-1.
A community presentation on internet awareness is Ensuring Youth Safety in Cyberspace. scheduled to take place in the Saugerties High School auditorium next Monday, September 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Entitled Ensuring Youth Safety in Cyberspace, the program is free to parents, guardians and the public.
With the 52nd Mum Festival just two weeks away, gardeners throughout the village of Saugerties and portions of the town are cleaning out flower beds to make room for the colorful fall plants for which the festival is named. Seamon Park, site of the October 8 fest, is the epicenter of the seasonal activity.