‘Speed dating’ event matches shelter pups with people
If you are in the market for a sweet, well-trained dog and are wondering where to start, why not start this Sunday with a “doggie speed dating” event to find your “pawfect” match?
Community
Crowd turns out to honor local military heroes in Saugerties
More than 70 men and women veterans and about 100 friends, family and government officials came to salute those Saugertiesians who gave their lives in service to their country.
The spirit of Ludwig lives on in New Paltz
Four years after his untimely passing at just age 34, Ludwig Montesa is still remembered fondly by his friends, which seem to include everyone who lived in New Paltz during his lifetime.
Woodstock Legion Post remembers Richard Quinn on Memorial Day
As the driving rain pelted about 100 onlookers, Woodstock American Legion Post 1026 corrected what members saw as a long held oversight on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, and commemorated the life of Richard Quinn, the last Woodstocker to have died in action, on July 12, 1970 in Vietnam.
Pride Parade & Festival in New Paltz
Sunday, June 4: Writer/activist Tim Murphy has been chosen as this year’s grand marshal.
Check out Goshen’s Historic Track, Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame
A leisurely ride down Route 207 in Orange County will take you to the region’s one and only historic harness racing track, commanding more than 20 acres in the middle of the village of Goshen.
Historic house tour along “The First Highway” in New Paltz
Saturday, June 3: Now’s your chance to step inside seven of the town’s most unusual and important houses and farms. Each year, the Wallkill Valley Land Trust conducts its popular and well researched “Houses on the Land” Historic House Tour, and each year the sites visited are thematically linked and impressive.
David O’Halloran, ranch owner, ex-county official, passes unexpectedly
The sudden death Tuesday, May 29, of David O’Halloran at age 56 has been met with shock and grief in the town where he was widely considered a leading citizen.
New mural at Schatzi’s in New Paltz kicks off charity fundraising campaign
With his cartoonish, deceptively crude Outsider/Pop aesthetic and ubiquitous presence on our streets and in our shops and restaurants, Ryan Cronin might fairly be called New Paltz’s answer to the late great Keith Haring.
Stockade FC ties Hartford City and gets partial payback for opening day loss
If Stockade FC didn’t mete out the measure of revenge they were hoping for when they boarded the bus for a rematch with Hartford City FC on Saturday, they did the next best thing, picking up a point in a 2-2 draw where all the scoring was done before the half.