Fireworks a go this year in New Paltz, but more volunteers needed to sustain them
Keeping the annual July 4 festivities going has proved to be a perennial challenge.
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Former sheriff pitched plan to board ICE detainees at Ulster County Jail
Sheriff Paul VanBlarcum made the proposal in the waning days of his administration last year. But, despite facing a $900,000 shortfall in projected revenues from fees paid by other agencies to house inmates at the facility, both County Executive-elect Pat Ryan and Sheriff Juan Figueroa said this week that the idea was a non-starter.
Village of New Paltz election is May 7
Village of New Paltz residents will get to choose among several candidates for trustee when they head over to the firehouse to vote on May 7, but the incumbent mayor faces no opposition this year. Tim Rogers is completing his first four-year term as mayor. Don Kerr and Dennis Young are also seeking second terms, as trustee, and voters will be measuring their accomplishment against the promises offered by Alexandra Wojcik and Michele Zipp.
Francois Barcomb of New Paltz set to compete in Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament
The tournament episodes will begin airing Monday, May 6.
Poughkeepsie man found guilty of murder in crash that killed New Paltz woman
The case stems from an incident on July 1, 2018 on Route 299 in the Town of Lloyd where Williams, travelling in excess of 100 MPH while fleeing from police, struck and killed Danielle Pecoraro, 39, of New Paltz.
New Paltz Regatta returns
The New Paltz Regatta returns for its 64th iteration on Sunday, May 5. With any luck, the sun will shine, but even if it rains again as it did at last year’s event — and the event the year before — the show will go on.
Democrat Ryan takes Ulster County exec post in landslide
Pat Ryan scored a decisive victory — and claimed a mandate for a progressive county government — in Tuesday’s special election to fill the remainder of former county executive Mike Hein’s term.
Longtime Lloyd Town Clerk Rosaria Peplow retiring
Town of Lloyd Town Clerk Rosaria Peplow will be retiring on May 5. Peplow has served as the town clerk
Naomi Aubain’s Furniture Fixitor repairs or repurposes any kind of wooden furniture
Got a family furniture heirloom that needs some TLC? A dresser whose drawers stick or have bowed bottoms, a wooden chair that’s pulling apart at the joints or whose cane seat is stretched and sagging, a cabinet with chipped or stained veneer? There’s a business operating out of a garage on Henry W. DuBois Drive in New Paltz designed with just your needs in mind.
State sued over carriage roads, visitor’s center plans in Minnewaska
A New York City-based reporter is suing to stop construction on carriage roads and to create a new visitor’s center at Minnewaska State Park, saying that the land should instead be part of the State Forest Preserve where preservation is the priority over recreation. It’s instead part of the Palisades Interstate Parks Commission, created by an interstate company one attorney for the State says doesn’t need to comply with the New York constitution.