“I hope you don’t mourn the passing of these smelly, dingy saloons,” Bobby Downs wrote on Facebook. “They lived lives created from the music and energy swirling within. They marked time and created indelible memories.”
Some of the possibilities being considered are severe — schools could be ordered to use federal Title I funding to lower the opt-out rates instead of other programs. Schools could also be closed or converted to charter schools under the changes.
If there’s one thing that SUNY New Paltz knows how to do well, it’s how to make an incoming student feel welcome.
“What happens when somebody loses everything?” asks Sylvia Zuniga — not so rhetorically, since it literally happened to her when her home and hair salon, Androgyny House of Design, burned to the ground in October 2015.
After three years, steps toward an access road for emergency vehicles to Riccardi Elementary School in the hamlet of Glasco have been taken. Saugerties town government accepted a 50-by-200-foot swathe of land south of the school as a gift from propertyowner Jimmy Bruno at its August 15 town board meeting.
Jen Metzger, candidate for NY State Senate in district 42, invite members of the community to visit her campaign’s new office at a grand opening celebration this Sunday, August 26 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at 1 Henry W DuBois Drive in New Paltz.
Foes of a proposed gas-fired power plant in the town of Ulster were looking for support from town officials. They didn’t get much.
The Woodstock Town Board is considering replacing its street lights to yield projected savings of nearly $24,000 per year in energy and maintenance costs.
According to the language of the law, those taxes will not exceed 10 percent of the taxpayer’s property assessment, or $8,000.
New Paltz School District residents who feel that the swift replacement of the middle school principal represented a missed opportunity are, in the week of still more administrative openings, redoubling their efforts to inject transparency into the hiring process.