Known for being a political hotbed, New Paltz is oddly quiet during this election cycle with the exception of the County Legislature race and a dark horse opponent, Kevin Kelly, a rare book dealer who has decided to run against veteran town justice James Bacon.
The preliminary budget to be offered at the November 7 budget hearing will have money for trucks and technology, and some of what’s needed at the rescue squad.
Democrat Dave Clegg and Republican Mike Kavanagh, seeking the post of Ulster County district attorney at Nov. 5’s election, offer voters competing visions of the role of the county’s chief law enforcement officer.
The new gateway was officially dedicated in a ceremony featuring a number of those who were instrumental in the trail’s creation and many members past and present of the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Association.
A roundup of local family activities.
On Election Day 2019, in addition to the names of candidates seeking reelection, Town of Gardiner voters will be faced with a ballot question: a referendum on whether or not the Gardiner Library should receive its first budget increase since the library opened eleven years ago.
New Paltz is a community caught between a push to design a more pedestrian-friendly community and a desire to make it easy for tourists to drive here since their dollars are desired but there’s no convenient public transportation.
In the Rosendale Town Board race, three incumbents are running uncontested: John Hughes, Ernest Klepeis and Chris Pryslopski. All three names will appear on the Democratic line, and Klepeis and Pryslopski on Republican and other lines as well.
Ulster County Democratic District Attorney hopeful Dave Clegg is dealing with the fallout this week after a George Soros-backed political
This year, the New Paltz High School Drama Club is doing an original play that some of the students helped write. It is called, The Journey to Home. Act I tells the story of the Orphan Train, Act II tells the story of Georgia Tann and it ends with the immigration crisis and the separation of children and their parents at the border. It goes up October 24-26.