Saugerties youth award recipients lauded as ‘what is right with the world’
The town, village, the school district, the Boys and Girls Club and Family of Woodstock teamed up a number of years ago to honor local kids for doing the right thing.
People & Places
Community remembers singer/songwriter/music educator Elizabeth Hunter
Hunter’s passing has sent powerful ripples through the New Paltz/Gardiner community, where many knew her as an accomplished singer/songwriter and the mother of what her husband Tim Hunter calls their “United Nations family.”
Saugerties Reformed Church picks as its leader a trailblazer with many careers
“When you go into a new organization, you spend a lot of your time exploring and discerning. The congregation and I will be working together how to be church in this place in this time. We have a lot to learn together.”
Former head librarian Jessica Kerr is named Woodstock Library director
“I love this community and am excited to lead the Woodstock Library forward with excellent service and innovative programming.”
Kingston’s ‘Santa Claus Lane’ residents go all out to light up the holiday
Each holiday season, Kingston puts on an impromptu display of Christmas cheer. Entire streets get into the act, of which perhaps the most famous is Santa Claus Lane, a.k.a. Derrenbacher Street, which runs uphill from Foxhall Avenue in the heart of Midtown near the railroad tracks.
The Saugerties VFW reborn
“The post was basically on life support.”
New Paltz police raise $3,705 for the American Cancer Society
The New Paltz police officers who participated in the American Cancer Society fund-raiser, “No-Shave November,” reached their goal and then some.
Kingston’s Donna Wilkes travels the world, by herself
“My children worry about me, they think I’m a wild gypsy woman.”
Meet new Family of New Paltz executive director Ivan Echenique
“It’s quite a privilege to be able to help people in need — especially in the community that you grew up in.”
Student profile: Juliana DeArce
She hopes to attend SUNY New Paltz for a major in communication disorders and may pursue a master’s in occupational therapy — an experience that she says was “a lot of fun” as a kid. “I really like to help other people, and I love working with people,” she says.