Jill Draper never planned on starting a local movement. The Kingston resident and small business owner said she only wanted to find a way to help local kids when she committed $500 toward erasing student lunch debt. And now, thanks to other generous donors, the debt district-wide is within reach.
“It will serve healthy locally-sourced sandwiches, soups, salads, wraps, ‘bowls’ and the like. As with their other location . . . overall, a business plan similar to Main Course. The New Paltz location will be open later than Poughkeepsie, will have outdoor seating and is likely to serve beer and wine.”
As with other recent Hudson Valley demonstrations, the crowd was in good spirits. It seems the very act of coming together temporarily alleviates the kind of anger and anxiety that thrives in isolation and on social media.
New Paltz Middle School hosted a public forum Thursday, Jan. 30 to provide up-to-date information on the progress of the $52.9 million capital project ongoing in the school district and its possible impacts on the schools and community in general.
On Thursday, Feb. 2, two vehicles failed to stay on the road while traveling on Rt. 32 and Kings Highway in separate incidents: in one case, a driver lost control and struck a house; in the other, the driver was attempting to adjust the passenger mirror when he lost control.
Local officials are expressing “disappointment” that a $75 million Belleayre Unit Management Plan (UMP) adopted five years ago for the state-owned Belleayre Ski Center at Highmount has yet to be implemented.
Roughly 1,000 people protested outside Republican congressman John Faso’s Kinderhook office and home last Saturday. If the mood that had driven the crowd to the congressman’s doors was grim, the protest itself was a peaceful, even buoyant affair.
Ulster town supervisor James Quigley says that the rumors of Health Quest taking over the former Macy’s at the Hudson Valley Mall are more than just rumors.
‘Betsy DeVos demonstrated a pre-disposition towards and long-history of support for charter schools and school voucher programs, which by their very nature siphon monies away from public schools…’
Neighbors of the NBR, which includes the stretch of North Chestnut Street from Broadhead to BOCES, were taken aback when they realized that its tenets include allowing buildings up to 50 feet in height, prompting the requested review.