A meet and greet, co-sponsored by the district and the New Paltz Athletic Association, has been scheduled for Monday, August 7 at 5 p.m. in the district office conference room at Lenape Elementary School. Parents, students and community members are invited to come meet Warren and welcome him to the district.
A local resident advocated “for a certain group of creatures” noting that “dogs and cats are petrified by fireworks.”
To the Saugerties business community, Michael Persico is known as a sharp investor in the local real estate market and a community-minded business owner who held Chamber of Commerce mixers at his 50-acre estate in West Saugerties and donated the use of a building in the heart of the village for use as a visitor’s center. But federal prosecutors paint a very different picture of the 60-year-old Brooklyn native.
City officials say they’re willing to pardon an Uptown pooch which a city building inspector says bit her earlier this spring. But the dog’s owner, astrologer, radio show host and investigative journalist Eric Francis Coppolino, says he wants the charge against him thrown out and the city to institute a written dog policy and new training for inspectors, so both city employees and pet owners will avoid future conflicts.
A suggestion made at a prior Lloyd Town Board meeting that police officers monitor the Hudson Valley Rail Trail for unruly cyclists created considerable uproar online among members of the cyclist community.
The proposal had been subject to opposition from about 20 residents, who said such towers can cause ill health effects. In approving the new tower, the board cited its adherence to the zoning code, and noted that health effects aren’t something planners can take into consideration.
A contractor damaged a line at a Rt. 32 gas station in May, causing a spill that contaminated several local wells, including the nearby Comfort Inn, which had to distribute bottled water to guests. The leak was discovered by a DEC inspector who, during a routine inspection, smelled gas while using the restroom.
Say goodbye to that illegal turn to get past the herm in front of the Jean Hasbrouck house: Huguenot Street in New Paltz is now officially closed to vehicular traffic from that point to Broadhead Avenue.
The rail trail bridge spanning the Wallkill near Springtown Road in New Paltz is going to be torn down by early next month and the contractor will have until September 20 to prep the site.
Nutrients such as fertilizer washed downstream or material washed out of poorly working septic systems upstream feed the algae. Should the blooms invade the swimming area, the beach will be closed.