Woodstock Library trustees unanimously approved a budget July 19 for September voter consideration that includes funding for Monday hours and a 2 percent raise for salaried staff, while keeping the tax levy increase at 1.5 percent.
Rocco’s Pizzeria at 4 New Paltz Plaza has branched out into fine dining.
It’s being presented as vital to protect New York Harbor from the expected increasing intensity of storms in an age of worsening climate change. But according to local environmentalists, the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to build a system of off-shore barriers and land-based dykes would have adverse effects on the Hudson River’s ecology.
The new principal of the New Paltz Middle School students, Ann Sheldon, assumed the school’s top leadership position on July 1. She previously served two years as assistant principal. Sheldon replaces Dr. Richard Wiesenthal, who retired at the end of the present school year.
In the wake of Eric Francis’ removal from the pages of Chronogram magazine and the airwaves at Radio Kingston, the veteran astrologer and investigative reporter claimed that his “deplatforming” was “political payback” for writing skeptically about the #metoo movement. In fact, a group of women did come together following publication of the piece, and their allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior led to Francis’ dismissal from both. But allegations of Francis treatment of women were already circulating before the “Take a Step Back” was published.
The event, which featured food and craft vendors, games, beer and live music, was scheduled for three more weekends this year.
Juan Carlos Alonso Vasquez, the chef at The Anchor bar, is the latest in a series of high-profile immigration arrests that have sharpened debate around the issue amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and those with criminal records.
While the town awaits the Woodstock Zoning Board of Appeals’ pending decisions on variances regarding the request for a bar/café at the new Woodstock Way lodgings in the center of town, fences and other already-built changes at the bagel café and wine bar going up on Mill Hill Road, and the advent of a new restaurant and store in Lake Hill, Woodstock has also been dealing with a host of other growing land use battles and proposals.
Maurice Hinchey, the long-time Saugerties resident, assemblyman and congressman who died last November, was honored today with the passage of a bill to name the Saugerties Post Office for him.
An attorney from the hauler Waste Management said the law, which requires all New Paltz residents to receive trash pickup from another hauler. County Waste, may not be legal because it amounts to a franchise, the proper process for that wasn’t followed. The mayor disagrees. “Imagine if losers of all our various publicly bid projects just used their muscle to intimidate when they weren’t awarded contracts because they bid too high,” he said.