Did life begin among the stars?
Finding glycine among the raven clouds of night, amidst the Milky Way that spreads across the heavens these very nights, is stunning.
Lifestyle
How to survive the health marketplace
Tips for getting the best insurance coverage in the individual market.
Bee yourself: Damn Good Honey Farm will help you raise a hive
“What can you do on a half-acre? Well, you can get into beekeeping.”
Rosendale waterway may be dubbed Kristic Creek
Streamy McStreamface, take a back seat: There’s a new frontrunner in the contest to name the small waterway that passes behind the Rosendale Recreation Center on Route 32.
CDPHP, Health Quest settle on contract
A local healthcare provider and a major regional insurer have settled a contract dispute that threatened to disrupt health services for hundreds of area residents.
Home and Garden Show to be held at Wallkill View Farm
The New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce is planning their first-ever Home and Garden Show at Wallkill View Farm, 15 Route 299, this Saturday, April 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
By Jove: It’s a great week to look up into the night sky
Let’s be honest: You don’t want to fiddle with charts, and you’d like your astronomy fun and easy. Well, here it is.
Medical marijuana slow to take off, with legal recreational use not happening any time soon
Three years after the state adopted a law enabling the use of medical marijuana, some 900 doctors are prescribing cannabis oil to more than 5,000 patients. But state health officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say that more can — and should — be done to make the treatment more widely available.
Interfaith Earth Day — At the intersection of theology and ecology
Practitioners of four faith traditions — Lutheran, Sufi Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist — will join in an Earth Day Observance at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper. Sponsored by the Woodstock Interfaith Council, the panel discussion will address spiritual approaches to stewardship of the environment, followed by an outdoor ceremony in view of the mountain and a community dinner prepared by monastery staff.
Jane Colden, America’s first female botanist, classified plants locally
The world was opening up to scientific study in the 18th century, and many men took up the study of botany. Jane Colden is the first female on record to have done so. And her Flora — Nov Eboracensis is one of the most extensive botanical studies of a single region carried out at the time.