Dam near Mt. Marion Elementary will be repaired
Seven years after it was breached by a tree which fell during Hurricane Irene, a dam on Plattekill Creek will be mended using funds from the NY Rising program.
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PCB cleanup in progress at Route 299 Central Hudson site
Before PCBs were outlawed by New York State in the 1970s, transformers containing the oily substance had been stored at the site.
Proposals are in for new Woodstock Library
The three architects chosen as finalists presented to library trustees and the public their proposals for a new Woodstock Library facility with cost projections ranging from about $4.9 million to $7.2 million.
New Paltz business owner wants to bury propane tank near Main St.
Yet another problem of Epimethean proportions now plagues the slow-speed construction of 51 Main Street in New Paltz, and for this one owner Dimitri Viglis is seeking intervention by village trustees, requesting the right to install an underground propane tank within three feet of a village-owned parking lot.
Activists: VDER plan a death star to solar in New York
A new state plan that often pays solar panel owners less for excess electricity should be dumped, activists say.
Sunflower market plans bloom
After a year of preliminary work, planning board and zoning board of appeals processes, and the delays inherent in all contemporary building projects, the remake and expansion of Sunflower Natural Foods in Woodstock is underway.
Molinaro in Kingston: Let’s remake state government
Marcus Molinaro was in town last week to make his case for why he should be the next governor of New York.
New Paltz Middle School welcomes new principal, Ann Sheldon
New Paltz Middle School will educate more than 500 students this year in grades six through eight. At the helm as principal will be Ann Sheldon, formerly the school’s assistant principal. And while the new position will bring increased responsibilities, she says, Sheldon doesn’t anticipate her daily activities will change all that much.
Kingston Police seek cemetery vandals
The Kingston Police Department is asking the public to help it find whoever’s responsible for two incidents of desecration at Wiltwyck Cemetery, one on June 17 and the other on Aug. 22.
SUNY New Paltz president: Buildings named for slaveholding families should be renamed
“These buildings were named for the original Huguenot patentees who were the first European settlers in New Paltz,” wrote college president Donald Christian. “Like other Europeans who settled in New York and other mid-Atlantic states, they enslaved Africans. The campus building names have been contentious on campus for many years, and official action to review them was long overdue.”