Should Lloyd be renamed Highland-on-Hudson? (with poll)
Town Council members are expected to pass a resolution to get the question of a name change placed on the ballot this coming November.
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Latest version of New Paltz “CVS Project” drops the drugstore
The new proposal retains a Five Guys restaurant, and includes a Mavis Tire location, an urgent care facility, two more sites for restaurants.
Why was Duck Pond drained? And how did it come to be built, anyway?
The Duck Pond at Mohonk Preserve has long been a favored spot for hikers, photographers or those just seeking a beautiful place for respite. But now that our recent long winter has finally ended, visitors enjoying a spring outing at Mohonk are finding that “Ol’ Man Winter” didn’t depart without leaving behind some collateral damage.
A memorial swim is held at Minnewaska for Terry Laughlin
For those who loved Terry, for his friends and family for all of those he touched, they can still find him somewhere in the water, just beyond that place where water turns to air.
Cider Week ends with Fathers’ Day tasting/pig roast at Twin Star Orchards in New Paltz
Though it may come as a surprise in these days when craft-beer microbreweries are popping up all across the map, the fastest-growing segment of the alcoholic beverage market in the US in recent years has in fact been hard cider.
Not everyone is happy about New Paltz’s single-trash hauler plan
By the end of June, only County Waste will be allowed to provide trash pickup in New Paltz. The town touts the savings and efficiency of the plan, but some residents resent being deprived of choosing whom they do business with. “If I wanted to live like that I would have purchased a residence in a homeowners’ community,” said one.
Sample fine local wines at Bounty of the Hudson
Saturday, June 16: The 80-mile-long Shawangunk Wine Trail that runs from New Paltz at its northernmost point down to Warwick in Orange County encompasses 13 Hudson Valley wineries. Every year they get together in one place to put on the Bounty of the Hudson Wine & Food Festival, a wine-tasting event that allows side-by-side samplings of the region’s best.
Two places in New Paltz to see movies under the stars this summer
Water Street Market has been showing free outdoor movies in its courtyard every summer Monday night for a decade now. The season is up and running already, with the last film slated for Monday, August 27. And this year, the third Saturday of each month will also bring an opportunity to view a free movie under the stars in New Paltz, at the Field of Dreams park pavilion, where the first of three Saturday night movie screenings this summer will be Saturday, June 16.
New Paltz school bus involved in crash, no students aboard
A New Paltz school bus collided with a minivan Monday morning on Route 9W in Ulster Park. The bus was free of students at the time, the driver having discharged them at Ulster BOCES shortly before the incident.
New Paltz builder has racked up awards for energy efficient construction techniques
In our area we have one of the highest concentration of “zero-energy” homes in the country mostly due to the work he has done.