Last November, about midway through the annual county budget adoption process, Ulster County comptroller Elliott Auerbach alerted legislature chairman Ken Ronk to what some might have considered a startling development.
Everyone knows places like NYC and San Francisco are doing well, but a recent analysis concluded that all the income gains are eaten up by cost of living.
t the Board of Education’s recent regular meeting, trustees heard a presentation from the district business manager asking the board to decide whether to put up a proposition this year to purchase eight school buses.
The Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership’s winter lecture series concluded last Thursday with “Fire on the Ridge,” a discussion of forest ecology and wildfire management with Gabe Chapin, forest ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, and Hank Alicandri, director of Sam’s Point in Minnewaska State Park Preserve.
The New Paltz Board of Education is still considering changes suggested last fall, including replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and changes to the curriculum to reflect inclusion of the original inhabitants of this region in the story of America’s founding.
Trustees are seeking permission from state legislators to try out instant-runoff voting, under which voters rank candidates in order of preference.
In the end it was the team that won it all. It’s become a tradition at little Highland.
The Chili Bowl Fiesta fundraiser put on each February by the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) just gets more popular and more successful every year.
“This is like a bad dream,” said Jessica Guerrero, Joel’s wife who is six-months pregnant. “I never imagined this could happen.”
The refuge for the Huguenots that became the New Paltz we know today will be the subject of an eight-week PowerPoint presentation and lecture series about the history of New Paltz to be conducted by Carol Johnson with technical help from Margaret Stanne, her assistant in managing the historical collections at Elting Library.