Cheaper, greener power coming to New Paltz
There is a change coming to how electricity is supplied in New Paltz, and it is expected to bring down the cost and the carbon footprint for nearly everybody in town.
General News
Kingston woman helps lead drive to unseal adoptees’ birth certificates in New York State
Every January, state lawmakers convene for their annual legislative session accompanied by lobbyists for everything from banning cat declawing to new gun control measures. For 13 of those sessions, Kingston resident Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has showed up to push a proposition at once both simple and controversial — a law that would allow adoptees to have the same access to their birth certificates as any other New Yorker.
No tax increase? Woodstock Library says it’s possible
Woodstock Library trustees may present voters with a zero tax levy increase if it uses its surplus funding from prior years and finds cuts in other places.
New Paltz Police chief discusses policy for body camera use
A camera-use policy is necessary as officers prepare to use them while on duty. The policy, which will be used as training on the technology begins, will lay out when cameras may or should be turned off, how recordings are secured, and who may view them and under what circumstances.
New Paltz planners consider “boutique lodging facility” proposed for village
The new owner of the former Village Tearoom property at 12 Plattekill Avenue wishes to convert the home on the New Paltz property to a “boutique lodging facility” dubbed The Vanderlyn.
Kingston bus route changes begin Monday, July 1
UCAT will now be operating modified CitiBus routes. All City of Kingston bus service on the Red, Blue and Yellow (formerly the A, B and C) routes will be free of charge to passengers until the end of the year.
Three-story building proposed for Main St. New Paltz
Developers want to turn the former Moxie Cupcake building into a first-floor restaurant with a two-story boutique hotel with a rooftop deck and a view of the Ridge.
Yankeetown Pond subdivision may be headed to court
Sometimes, land-use issues are major, involving large developments that will permanently change a community. Other times, they are small and involve only neighbors. What the latter lacks in wider impact it makes up for in the intensity of feeling among those affected.
New Paltz business owner released after five-month detainment by ICE
Friends, family and supporters celebrated the release of Luis Martinez at Unison on Sunday after a judge found problems in the paperwork that led to his detainment.
Expanding cell phone coverage in Woodstock is a challenge
“The topography of the area that makes it beautiful makes it difficult to get cell coverage.”