The event was organized by a local liberal activist group in response to the congressman’s decision not to schedule any town hall meetings of his own. While it was billed as an educational forum, the event had the flavor of a progressive rally, with songs, chants and action items.
The official ribbon-cutting and tour of the steel-framed, slate-clad two-story $48-million Science Building on the northeast corner of the New Paltz campus will celebrate what the invitation calls “the burgeoning enrollments in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields” at the school.
Congressman Faso has decided that large town hall meetings are unproductive, staged and a waste of his own and everyone’s else’s time. I think he’s wrong on every count. These rallies may not represent all the voices of a bitterly divided people, but they are people and they have voices.
Thanks to geothermal heating at the highway garage, heat pumps in other facilities and some solar panels, the town has been able to reduce its carbon footprint substantially.
Despite the title, this is not a story about sex. How could it be? It takes place in Woodstock, and everyone knows Woodstock Is not sexy.
“Dating 101 — Let’s Have The Talk: How to talk to your teen about dating, violence, abuse and making good choices,” will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 in the Middle/High School Auditorium.
Maybe it’s already time to be talking not about too little water but too much — the more common condition in the New York City reservoir system in springtime.
“Our first estimates indicated at least a 10 percent increase. There’s now talk that it could be 12-or-15 percent.”
After years of delay, Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week dropped $8 million in a capital development grant at the state-owned Belleayre Ski Center at Highmount.
The cost would be $5.75 million.