The moratorium on development in the gateway area of town near the Thruway in New Paltz is likely to expire before any new zoning regulations are passed, because Town Board members agreed last week to close the public hearing with no intention to vote on the code as written.
“The most challenging thing is managing patient care. People can be very apprehensive coming to a dentist, and it has to be painless.”
Once a separate hamlet lying between Ohioville and the Village of New Paltz, the Thruway Exit 18 gateway area now known as Putt Corners was originally spelled Put Corners. The name was conferred by 19th-century settler Napoleon Purdy, after his previous home of Putnam County. Purdy built a hotel at the crossroads around 1858, which was “a center of entertainment, lavish parties and dance lessons.”
Just a few minutes’ drive to the south of New Paltz, in the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge, recently-hatched kestrels are fighting for their lives.
Majestic Park needs a new pavilion; a fund allowing tax-deductible donations to local parks was suggested; pole-barn winterization needed.
Thoughts of the classmates who didn’t live to don the cap and gown mingled with the usual feelings of joy and accomplishment at this year’s New Paltz High School graduation.
The environmental review process on the proposed $42 million resort has to be completed before tax breaks are considered. When the resort project came up at a recent meeting, members and attendees discussed the accusations of corruption by County Legislator Joe Maloney of Saugerties, who connected campaign donations to tax breaks.
Highland High School’s class of 2018 received their diplomas yesterday evening at a ceremony at the school.
After 28 years at the helm, Bert Smiley is retiring. But his shoes will be filled by the next generation: Tom Smiley has been appointed chief executive officer and Eric Gullickson president.
A public hearing will be held Wednesday, June 27 to discuss the proposal.