Local officials argue that eliminating free Sunday parking would increase revenue for the village itself, and would potentially increase revenue for local business owners, as well. However, many residents are skeptical.
Saw Kill Brook, which SUNY New Paltz students may know as “The Gunk,” has tested high for the bacteria enterococcus and will be tested for e. coli next.
The Save Tillson Lake group is fighting the Palisades Interstate Park Commission’s plan to remove an earthen dam, which would drain the man-made lake in Gardiner. The group was not happy that Riverkeeper, one of the most prominent environmental groups in the Hudson Valley, is supporting the plan. A Riverkeeper habitat manager argues that the plan would restore the natural flow of the Palmaghatt Kill, a tributary of the Wallkill River, which would benefit several species of fish and invertebrates.
The idea of changing the name of Lloyd to Highland-on-Hudson was suggested at a recent public meeting, but local officials
A new shop has opened up in downtown Highland, called Ice Bros Frozen Treats. Operated by the Hovling family of Clintondale, it’s now your local source for the Real Thing, Italian-icewise.
Rudi Azank has spent over half his short life thinking (obsessing) over Samuel Beckett’s paean to “nothingness” in the Irish ex-pat’s French language play “Waiting For Godot” (“En Attendant Godot,” written in 1948 and performed in too many places and languages to try to count).
Well over a hundred people rallied in front of Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz yesterday as part of a nationwide set of protests against the separation of immigrant families at the border.
The 3,500-square-foot visitor center and plaza includes a single-story building housing bathrooms for visitors and office space for New York State Parks staff.
Last week, leaders of the town and village of New Paltz learned that $200,000 in what’s called SUNY impact aid is headed this way. The aid helps defray the costs incurred by the town servicing the college.
New Paltz High School’s Class of 2018 graduated last Friday, so Cameryn Lesko-Jelley’s days of profiling her fellow seniors for the New Paltz Times on a weekly basis are done. But one story remains to be told in these pages: Lesko’s own.