Clean Sweep event aims to rid New Paltz of litter
The annual event will be held this year the morning of April 29.
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Kingston High School golfers take to the links
For duffers and experts alike, there is no greater sign of spring than the opening of local golf courses.
Girl scouts mark centennial with new patch
Vanessa Biegel, 11, a fifth grader from Saugerties, can probably tell you a thing or two you didn’t know about the women’s suffrage movement in the state, which was so strong that New York women won the vote in 1917, three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the American constitution in 1920.
Native American wigwam under construction on Huguenot St. in New Paltz
Historic Huguenot Street is constructing a replica Munsee Native American wigwam to celebrate the 340th anniversary of the signing of the 1677 land agreement between the Munsee Esopus sachems and the Huguenot refugees.
Saugerties baseball team wins five straight
It was quite a week for the Saugerties High School baseball team.
Earth Day at New Paltz church a cross between community picnic and environmental gathering
This year’s Earth Day Fair at the Reformed Church will be held Saturday, April 22.
A big family: Growing up in a cooperative community
They say you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family. But for residents of a Saugerties co-housing community, it seems it is possible to choose one’s extended family.
State Police, founded by a Kingstonian, celebrates centennial
The history of the troopers originates with a spectacular crime, a 1913 robbery/murder in Westchester County of a construction foreman delivering a payroll. The victim was able to identify his three assailants before dying from multiple gunshot wounds, but owing to the lack of a local police force, they escaped, never to be apprehended.
Spring Gala for St. Joseph’s Church features “experiential” auction
This year, the church will not hold a Festa in late summer.
Readings describe refugee kids’ pain and hope
“Home is a sensation of relief … a place where you feel comfortable walking around in your pajamas … where there are people who one minute are driving you crazy, and the next minute you know they love you.” — from an essay by a Kingston High School student