Alternate member selected to the New Paltz Town Planning Board
New Paltz Town Board members have appointed Eli Duncan-Gilmour as an alternate member of the New Paltz Town Planning Board.
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Gardiner seeks grant for community solar project
Such a community-based installation “enables multiple customers to receive net metering credits from a single solar energy project” and “expands access to solar generation to any utility customers, including renters and customers who cannot install residential solar panels due to poor location, roof conditions [or] tree coverage.”
Unison Arts Center gets new director, plans new programming
“We’re spending a lot of time looking at what the community wants and what they need. We’re a community organization, and that’s who I want to listen to.”
Rosendale councilwoman plans State Senate run
Two-term Rosendale councilwoman Jen Metzger announced on February 15 that she had filed the official paperwork to launch a campaign committee as she explores a run for New York’s 42nd District State Senate seat.
New Paltz Middle School performs Mary Poppins Jr.
Feb. 23-25: More than 100 students will take to the New Paltz Middle School auditorium’s stage — and backstage, and even the auditorium’s floor — to present a gigantic and tuneful extravaganza.
New Paltz native Dawn Elliott is this year’s recipient of the Martha Washington Woman of History Award
The honor is bestowed each year by Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh, upon a woman in the Hudson Valley who has been influential in promoting the study and preservation of history in the region.
School bus hit by truck; students and driver ok
Students headed to school in the Wallkill School District got a shake-up Tuesday morning at the intersection of routes 44/55 and 208.
New Paltz Gulf Station wants to add more retail space
The gas station at the corner of Oakwood and Main in New Paltz could get a face lift, which will result in considerably more retail space in the front, if owner Michael Khorassani gets his way.
Bongiovi named Highland superintendent of schools
Thomas M. Bongiovi was hired last October as interim superintendent. His appointment through 2021 was approved unanimously.
New Paltz wants Sojourner Truth statue
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last November that, as part of an effort to erect more statues of women throughout the state, one of Sojourner Truth will be sited along the Empire State Trail. Town leaders in New Paltz think that it should be here, as New Paltz is the place she called home for 18 years, and they’ve both passed a resolution and launched an online petition to bring Truth home.