The prospect of a new eight-unit complex of single bedroom rental apartments in what has sometimes been considered the hamlet of Wittenberg met with “some volatility” from its neighbors on Wittenberg Road.
Against the backdrop of a presidential contest whose victor has proposed banning immigration from Muslim countries, a plan to resettle approximately 80 refugees throughout the Hudson Valley has drawn intense interest.
The $150-per-space fee would go to maintenance of public parking by the town, and would apply to businesses that can’t provide their own offstreet parking.
Solane H. Verraine is charged with killing her husband Johnny Asia by poisoning, a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs. Friends say Asia was ill and may have taken something to ease the suffering, but couldn’t imagine Verraine intentionally harming him.
A Facebook post last Thursday by High Falls resident Rod Bicknell has gone viral hereabouts, announcing that the Egg’s Nest restaurant will be reopening under new ownership in the spring of 2017.
A Phoenicia woman was charged with second-degree murder Friday night after, Ulster County Sheriff’s deputies said, she killed an as-yet-unidentified victim with what deputies called “a combination of alcoholic beverages and prescription drugs.”
The New Paltz Police Department is investigating a stabbing that occurred early Saturday morning at a bar in the Village
An additional 1.8 percent may be added to that increase if the absentee ballot count brings a reprieve for the Phoenicia Library, whose request for more funding was narrowly turned down on Election Day.
One board member said changing the focus of the holiday was important because “how America was discovered is our origin story. It introduces and codifies who is considered American and who is not. It is often a child’s first lesson about encounters between people of different races and cultures. We owe it to the children of this district to faithfully and bravely examine the version of history we’ve chosen to tell.”
“Our current zoning is as laid out in the ’60’s for cities of that era,” said Mayor Steve Noble. “That’s not the kind of nimble zoning we need today.”