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.
Along with local resident Heidi Jo Brandt, club members have been raising money to add more activities for children.
With the help of a grant from the Hudson Valley Estuary Fund, the local theater group Arm of the Sea is hoping to transform the ruins of the Sheffield paper mill on the bank of the Esopus Creek adjacent to Tina Chorvas Park.
A local man and his group of supporters want to build an aquatic fitness center at the Cantine Memorial Complex. It appears they will have to do so without taxpayer money.
Police will be looking for drivers’ texting, talking on their cell phones, passing a stopped school bus, and other instances of distracted driving and issuing tickets.
Topics include: Faso’s troubling statements at town hall meeting, Trump’s foreign policy, don’t repeal health care law without a replacement, Saugertiesian’s foreign trip suggests need to invest in high-speed rail.
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.
Vanessa Biegel, 11, a fifth grader from Saugerties, can probably tell you a thing or two you didn’t know about the women’s suffrage movement in the state, which was so strong that New York women won the vote in 1917, three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the American constitution in 1920.
Police say they’ll enforce a little-known curfew law to combat the problem.
It was quite a week for the Saugerties High School baseball team.