Should school staff be trained in how to disarm a shooter? Could schools be made more secure? “We have to look at reality; we live in a terrifying world,” said one resident.

A generation that has grown up with mass shootings as a regular occurrence says enough is enough.

Ottaway is a journalist, newspaper executive, philanthropist and longtime friend of the college. Adams is a 1967 alumna of the theater arts program and an Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer, historian, speaker, musician and bestselling author of eleven books, including the forthcoming collection of essays, Sediddy: Attitude, Gratitude and Seeing Red.

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.

Thomas M. Bongiovi was hired last October as interim superintendent. His appointment through 2021 was approved unanimously.

A planned session on racial equity scheduled for the January 24 meeting of the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education didn’t go entirely as organizers may have intended, but community members organized around this issue appear to have gotten closer to achieving one of their goals, the establishment of a board committee that would oversee such issues in the district.

Some of the topics discussed include the district’s English as a New Language program, the racial equity initiative, the tragic loss of another student, and new standards.

Drug education never left America’s schools, but it hasn’t been stressed since the days of D.A.R.E. With record numbers of young people in rural areas dying of opiate overdoses, the Highland School District is stressing an all-grades substance abuse education program.

Issues of discrimination appear to be coming to a head in the New Paltz schools.