Fire destroys home on Valdine Drive in New Paltz
A residence located at 12 Valdine Drive in the Town of New Paltz was completely destroyed by a fire that started just before midnight on Saturday, December 17.
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World War II veteran Dr. Paul Lurie looks back on Pearl Harbor, 75 years later
“Everybody seemed ready to enthusiastically do whatever they could. Politics just kind of evaporated.”
New Paltz Town hall demolition slated for next month; road closure to begin this week
Tearing down a building is not as easy as just hiring someone with a bulldozer and a wrecking ball.
Scenes from Jewish Congregation of New Paltz’s annual Hanukkah party
The event had the feeling of a family dinner — albeit a very large family — warm and festive and welcoming.
The perfect combination?
Two community banks serving Ulster and Orange counties, Wallkill Valley Federal Savings & Loan in Wallkill and Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley headquartered in Walden announced their merger last week.
Mumps outbreak continues; New Paltz Middle School student diagnosed with probable case
Statewide, there have been 147 confirmed or probable cases of mumps reported so far this year, compared with 24 cases in all of 2015. There have been 69 confirmed or probable cases at SUNY New Paltz.
Gardiner’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree commemorated at town hall
Made from a plank cut from the 2015 Rockefeller Center tree, the plaque depicts a Christmas tree carved in relief, accented by wood-burned details representing tree branches and the figure of Prometheus, placed atop the tree in place of a star. The 18-foot-tall gilded bronze figure of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center is located on the plaza there, at the base of the annual Christmas tree, overlooking the skaters on the ice rink below since 1934.
One of the two last surviving steamboats in the country is Kingston-bound
State money will fund “a traveling celebration,” a pilot project for “how boats, cargo, ideas and people influenced the region’s river, canal and ports.” These arts and culture programs will be held aboard the 1902-built SS Columbia. In order for those programs to occur on that locale, the venerable 208-foot-long steam-powered vessel has to be moored on the Hudson River, and specifically on the Rondout Creek.
New Paltz police raise $3,705 for the American Cancer Society
The New Paltz police officers who participated in the American Cancer Society fund-raiser, “No-Shave November,” reached their goal and then some.
Rosendale to offer free charging station for electric cars
The Town of Rosendale has decided to move ahead with plans to install a charging station for electric vehicles at the rear of the municipal parking lot behind the Rosendale Theatre.