“It (poetry) just hits me, an image or a phrase, and it starts to write itself. Most of my ideas come just when I’m going off to sleep, when my conscious-mind, my analytical and logical mind, is dozing off and sleep brings things, other things, out, brings things to a head, the unconscious, and I write them down…”
The current permits are good 24 hours a day and seven days a week, but the mayor thinks that in the future they should instead be business hours only to keep them available for other drivers later in the day.
Tents shielding vendors from the summer sun line both sides of Church Street, with a narrow aisle between in which a constant stream of people walk back and forth. As they move from one booth to the next, visitors to the New Paltz Open Air Market, now in its third week, are clearly pleased by what might be described as the old farmer’s market on steroids.
Cyclists are unfairly and constantly demonized, especially any who wear spandex, according to a Highland resident writing in response to calls for police to monitor the rail trail for cyclists traveling at high speeds.
Moriello Pool in New Paltz should be open by midday, July 7, if all goes well, although the kiddie pool might not be ready for users quite as quickly.
Hot and humid weather with some rain didn’t appear to dampen the enthusiasm of the hundreds of attendees who streamed into Town Park for a picnic-style event culminating in fireworks.
Films are shown Mondays. Upcoming titles include: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Cinema Paradisio,” “Mask,” and “Lion.” Music is perform Thursdays. Upcoming acts include Cornbread Jam, Vicki Russell and The Big Distraction.
When it finally got dark enough for the fireworks to be seen to best advantage, Soul Purpose ceded the stage to Esme Ariel Hyman, whose soulful, belting rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has become a Fourth of July tradition in recent years. Then the rockets’ red glare began in earnest — along with plenty of other shimmering colors bespangling the sky. Once again, summer has officially come to New Paltz.
Once upon a time, street artists were widely regarded as mere vandals — as scourges to polite society. But graffiti has a long and honorable history, both as an artform and an expression of sociopolitical protest.
A friendly, familiar face to many in New Paltz after 15 years as manager/wine buyer at In Good Taste (not to mention as head chef at Main Course in its early years), Ken Maguire has nothing but good things to say about his former bosses, Deb and Rick Rauch.