Woodland Pond resident and social activist Annette Finestone celebrates 100th birthday
Friends, relatives, neighbors and admirers celebrated the 100th birthday of Annette Finestone at Woodland Pond in New Paltz on Saturday.
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Stone Ridge activist links North Dakota fracking, New York pipelines
Asked for an “official” job title, Iris Marie Bloom calls herself a “citizen journalist” and a “galvanizer.” “Documenting social change movements as they happen is incredibly important,” she says.
Verlise Boutique in Highland offers on-trend fashions at affordable prices
“I love what I’m doing,” she says. “I listen to what people tell me they want, and am building the business little by little. I really like to help people dress, and feel wonderful in what they wear.”
Amazin’ Melts concocts grilled cheese masterpieces in midtown New Paltz
The effect of cheese on the brain has been compared to opiates. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but there’s a reason people believed it…
New Paltz Climate Action Coalition hires Suzanne Flaum as coordinator
The New Paltz Climate Action Coalition (NPCAC), which meets weekly at Village Hall, has been around for quite a few years now, and its most active volunteers — among them Dan and Ann Guenther and Miriam Strouse — have been around even longer.
Women’s Studio Workshop’s 20th annual Chili Bowl Fiesta draws a crowd to SUNY Ulster
The Chili Bowl Fiesta fundraiser put on each February by the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) just gets more popular and more successful every year.
Lecture series will focus on history of New Paltz
The refuge for the Huguenots that became the New Paltz we know today will be the subject of an eight-week PowerPoint presentation and lecture series about the history of New Paltz to be conducted by Carol Johnson with technical help from Margaret Stanne, her assistant in managing the historical collections at Elting Library.
New Paltz sets date for fireworks, scraps reference to Independence Day
The Town of New Paltz fireworks are scheduled to take place on Friday, June 30. As the celebration will not even be in the same month as the Fourth of July, supervisor Neil Bettez chose to call it a “town fireworks celebration” rather than reference the holiday.
Teen artists plan mural for New Paltz Community Center
A group of high school-aged artists, members of Roost Youth, are planning a second mural on Town of New Paltz property.
“Persist and resist” was the message at SUNY New Paltz “Not My Presidents’ Day” rally
Attendees were asked to bring a cardboard box to the event for the construction of a symbolic wall, which was knocked down at the end of the proceedings. The tumbling boxes were intended to signify a rejection of Trump’s exclusionary policies, and an adherence to the traditional American values of inclusion, diversity and equal rights.