West Hurley Hannaford opens
On Saturday, the first 200 customers will receive gift cards randomly valued between $5 and $250, product samplings from local vendors, door prizes, sweepstakes, and other activities.
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Saugerties baseball bat attack caught on video; four arrested
“These individuals are just thugs that went after someone else with baseball bats,” said the town police chief.
Be careful with hurricane-related giving, DA’s office urges
The Ulster County District Attorney’s Division of Consumer Affairs reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate money in the aftermath of the flooding in Texas to use caution before responding to those requests.
New Paltz’s founding families were slaveholders; should their names be stricken from college buildings?
In a response to a petition calling for a change to the name of the campus dining hall to honor a long-time employee, SUNY New Paltz president Donald P. Christian said he’d ask the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Council to look at the pros and cons or retaining or replacing the names of campus buildings named for the town’s earliest Huguenot settlers, who were slaveholders.
Moving-In Day at SUNY New Paltz welcomes 2,000+ new students
They’re baaaaack. More of them than ever, almost: nearly 1,150 first-year students and more than 900 transfer students were welcomed to the SUNY New Paltz campus on Moving-In Day last Thursday. According to university officials, that makes this one of the largest incoming undergraduate classes in the college’s history.
White’s Dairy Bar has been chilling out Eddyville since 1970
One thing — maybe the only thing — upon which this country can today peaceably unite is soft-serve.
Saugerties Lighthouse to undergo repairs
Later this summer or early fall work will begin on adding a new walkway out to the historic Saugerties Lighthouse, shoring up its foundation, and restoring the seawall that protects the building.
Gardiner’s cabin resort project faces opposition
The plan, dubbed “Heartwood,” would convert an old timber farm into a camping resort including a variety of amenities such that it’s been dubbed a “glampground,” a portmanteau of “glamor campground.”
Rural bus stop locations can be contentious
A former Saugerties School Board member is lobbying for a change, bringing to light issues of safety and driver discretion.
Hillary Clinton is coming to Rhinebeck
Hillary Rodham Clinton will be visiting Oblong Books in Rhinebeck Thursday, Dec. 7 to sign copies of her book What Happened, about the 2016 election.