Father and son runners Austin and Griffin Rynne bore the torch to the overlook at the Carmine Liberta Bridge in New Paltz on Tuesday morning, where games officials stopped for pictures with local dignitaries and trails advocates.
Feb. 4: Professor Glen Geher and his students will speak about the new book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us by Richard Prum (which is on the NY Times top ten books of 2017 list). The book revives interest in Darwin’s other major work The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, also known as Darwin’s “really dangerous idea.”
Last October the Boy Scouts of America opened up registration to girls interested in being Cub and Boy Scouts. Last Monday, young Sydney — a kindergartner at Myer Elementary in Hurley — joined Pack 103’s Den 1 at St. James Methodist Church in Kingston.
There are a number of craftspeople in the world who make handmade wooden bows for archery and hunting. But just a handful make Asiatic composite horn bows like those used thousands of years ago by nomadic warriors on horseback on the steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Jason Wayne Beever, a High Falls-based bowyer, is one of them.
The media system in the Frank Greco Memorial Senior Center is being revamped for the first time since the building’s construction in 1978.
The torch will make brief stops in New Paltz, Kingston, Saugerties and on the Walkway.
The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off Feb. 9 in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Police estimated the number of people at 1500 to 2000, comparable to the 2017 march. Both last year and this year, women, men, and children marched from Andy Lee Field to Bradley Meadows and then back to the town green, pausing to listen to speakers and musicians and to commune with friends. “I wanted to be around people who feel like me, and to get more hope from being together,” said one marcher.
The Shining Star Award for Individual Service will be awarded to Joseph Fay, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Ulster County since 1984.
The Woodstock march was one of over 250 held a year after the inauguration of Donald Trump.