Letter: Why we need police patrols on the rail trail
“Only the ‘bad apples’ will be affected by the police patrol,” writes the safety/courtesy coordinator for the Hudson Valley Rail Trail. “Cyclists behaving responsibly should welcome them.”
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Susan Slotnick: Communing with De Kooning
He painted in a style referred to as Abstract Expressionism and was part of a group of artists known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko.
Letter: When it comes to environment, Dems are almost as bad as Trump
One letter writer argues that while progressives are united in their disdain for the current occupant of the White House, many seem to have a blindspot for the policies of Democrats like Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whore are “currently devastating our region’s environment and public health, is forcing toxicity and economic ruin on Hudson Valley residents.”
Nods to the past align with the technology of the future at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds
In the Hudson Valley, ag still rules! A big early-20th-century barn has popped up at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, reminding passersby on Route 9 that there’s much more there than the midway at the annual Dutchess County Fair.
Letter: Adjunct professors get short shrift
The pay is ludicrous — I’m teaching four courses in this spring semester for $10,000. For a typical class size of 20 students, that works out to a per course instructional cost of $125 per student, or $500-625 for a typical semester course load of 4-5 courses taught exclusively by adjuncts (and they do teach over one-third of the courses at New Paltz).
Accent on New Paltz: Helping others to help themselves
Not a day goes by without hundreds of Ulster County residents being helped by the staff and volunteers at Family of New Paltz and its parent organization, Family of Woodstock.
What reshoring may mean for the Hudson Valley’s economic growth
President Donald Trump has said that his America First policies can significantly — hugely! — increase the rate of growth of America’s gross domestic product. The average annual growth pf GDP over the past decade has hovered around two per cent. Trump is sure he can increase that to four percent. In fact, he recently told Fox News that with better trade deals the United States should be able to lift it to five per cent in a few years.
Ulster County’s most innovative public secondary school
The mission of the Hudson Valley Pathways Academy, a small publicly funded secondary school on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston, is to graduate students with both technical knowledge and real-world skills. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, that’s no small ambition.
Heads in beds, updated
A look at two local hotel plans, one traditional and one non-traditional. What do they have in common? Both would like a tax break from the county.
Poll: New Paltz Village Board candidates
Five residents are each seeking one of the two four-year trustee seats, including one incumbent. The election is May 2.