Town of Ulster budget comes in under tax cap
The $11.26 million spending plan that would increase spending by 0.57 percent over the current budget and would increase residential property taxes by 0.93 percent.
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Gardiner votes to override tax cap with .87 percent increase
This year’s tax cap is less than 1 percent, so many towns, facing mandated personnel increases, are overriding it.
Saugerties school district taking steps to stem post-election bullying
The 2016 presidential election is over, but some of the campaign rhetoric used by President-elect Donald Trump and intensified by some of his followers has some local children on edge.
Student columnist Kate Fishman takes a turn in the interviewee seat
The profiles Kate Fishman writes about New Paltz High School students are so well-written, the reader may not realize the writer is herself a student.
Kingston school district keeping an eye on student conduct after Trump victory
“Our building administrators are keenly aware of the rhetoric around the election this year,”
Renaissance: An Artisan’s Showcase and Home Design Centre opens in New Paltz
A place where antiques and vintage ephemera shared a space with consigned artwork.
Racist graffiti in SUNY New Paltz dorm galvanizes anti-Trump protest march
Spurred in part by anguish over the results of last week’s presidential election and partly by the appearance of racist graffiti on campus, hundreds of SUNY New Paltz students walked out of their classes at noontime last Friday for an energetic demonstration against the policies of Donald Trump.
Student profile: Ashley Curtis
“Dude, I don’t even know. What was good about high school?”
New Paltz High School Drama Club to perform Kaufman & Hart classic “You Can’t Take It with You”
The antics of this sweetly-but-alarmingly dysfunctional family will come to life once more in the Otto Grassel Auditorium at New Paltz High School on November 17 through 19.
Saugerties police add new vehicle, a converted ambulance, for special investigations
The Saugerties police converted a used ambulance from the Hurley First Aid Squad into a vehicle for its Special Investigations Unit using a $10,000 state grant. “This is the type of vehicle we could have used when we investigated the murders earlier this year,” says police chief Joseph Sinagra.