Classes topics include modern war, New York governors, Chinese medicine sociology, law, Euro dance, collage as memoir, cocktail party etiquette, easy bike rides and the Beatles.

The $52.9 million capital project ongoing in the New Paltz Central School District is progressing over the summer with a great deal of activity going on at the middle school.

A meet and greet, co-sponsored by the district and the New Paltz Athletic Association, has been scheduled for Monday, August 7 at 5 p.m. in the district office conference room at Lenape Elementary School. Parents, students and community members are invited to come meet Warren and welcome him to the district.

Newly-elected board members Kathy Preston and Teresa Thompson were sworn in by district clerk Dusti Callo, who then administered the oath of office to the board’s choice for their president, Michael O’Donnell, and vice-president, Alison Easton.

Members of the New Paltz United Teachers (NPUT) organization attended a recent school board wearing their signature red t-shirts emblazoned with the word “Respect” on the back.

Classroom lessons will be developed to support the new focus, with the period between Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Thanksgiving Day be used “as an opportunity to honor and respect indigenous peoples and their contributions to this region and the Americas, in an effort to build a more aware, inclusive and knowledgeable school community.”

It was a relatively small graduating class that filed onto the Carl F. Meekins Athletic Field at Highland High School for commencement ceremonies on a sultry summer evening.

Members of the New Paltz High School graduating class of 2017 claimed their diplomas inside the gym on the campus of SUNY New Paltz Friday evening, June 23.

Maria Rice will retire June 28, and return to work June 30. She said the arrangement would save taxpayer money.