A public hearing was held on Jan. 16 and another will be held Feb. 6 on the project, which includes 46 apartments above a floor of retail space, and would be located on North Chestnut St. in the village of New Paltz.
The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off Feb. 9 in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Rattlesnakes on the Ridge, Reviving the American Chestnut, Citizen Science in the Hudson Valley and Raptors on the Ridge will be the topics of this year’s series. Lectures are held each Thursday in February at 7 p.m.; three at SUNY New Paltz and one at SUNY Ulster.
The plan to save Taliaferro Farms would involve a $387,000 payment from the town’s open space funds, Scenic Hudson and Ulster County to the property owner to forego development rights.
According to Castle, the germ of the idea for the story came from Rabbi Jonathan Kligler’s moving eulogy for New Paltz High School student Maya Gold, in which he urged local teens, “Look out for each other. Be brave. Risk losing a friend in order to help them.”
By contracting with a single trash hauler to service the entire town, local officials aim to cut costs and wear and tear on town and village roads. But some residents say they should be allowed to choose their own hauler.
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The program will provide bystander training for bar staff as it aims to prevent sexual assaults before they occur and reduce the overall number of sexual assaults that take place.
The Town of Gardiner has become the latest community in Ulster County to take the New York Climate Smart Communities Pledge, the first in a series of steps that qualify municipalities to obtain grants from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund to fund local projects to reduce their carbon footprint.
A proposal to subdivide property at 129 Plains Road in New Paltz has raised red flags for some nearby neighbors, who are concerned about how the proposal would impact both the view and the flow of water.