New Paltz Village Mayor Tim Rogers has provided our community with some insight into why a number of Plains Road residents might not want to be forced into giving up use of their individual water wells to become part of a proposed water district.
An assemblage of chili-makers, both amateur and pro, will compete in the ninth annual Local Ingredient Chili Challenge at Water Street Market this Saturday, January 28 from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free.
In the past two years, Start-Up New York has fallen woefully short of expectations, while the other state programs picking the economic-development winners have had a mixed record. Meanwhile, the modest UVANY network, which has scored its successes and failures without direct governmental funding, continues to enlarge its constituency.
The Friends of New Paltz say the Zero Place development is too large the zoning that allows it needs to be reexamined.
The 275-foot, three-span structure over Route 213 was demolished today with explosives placed on the structure to fracture the steel trusses. It’s being replaced with a new, single-span 230-foot structural steel bridge with a reinforced concrete deck and abutments founded on piles.
In New Paltz, a homeschooled student signed up for this year’s school play, but was later told she couldn’t participate because some rehearsals were done during school hours when she couldn’t be present.
Don Kerr filed the suit after charges that he received eight pounds of marijuana by mail were dropped. He cited damage to his reputation.
Thousands of pistol permit holders in Ulster County are facing a state-mandated deadline to renew the documents under provisions of the 2013 gun control law.
That volunteer firefighters are heroes is not an idea that’s often in dispute; these are the people who run into burning buildings at any hour of the day or night. However, much of the work that fire companies do to protect the safety of their neighbors is dusty, dry stuff that stays behind the scenes, and that suits them just fine.
With climate change and other forms of uncertainty, assuring water supply is an increasingly expensive proposition.