New Paltz

Upcoming Events in New Paltz

Memorial Day Weekend Barn Sale

May 25, 2013 - 9:00am - May 26, 2013 - 4:00pm
Fifth Friday Dance Meet Up: Big Joe Fitz & the Lo Fi's

May 31, 2013 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
The Maestrosities

June 1, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Annie & The Hedonists

June 8, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Maria Zemantauski Trio with La Nina Flamenco Dancer

June 15, 2013 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Mohonk Mountain Stage Readers Theater presents "Other Desert Cities"

June 21, 2013 - 8:00pm - June 29, 2013 - 12:00pm
Pirate School! with David Engel

June 22, 2013 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Wildlife Show with Andrew Simmons

July 7, 2013 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Fifth Friday Dance Meet Up: Cajun dance with Too Much Fun

August 30, 2013 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm

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Tuesday is Republican primary day for New York State

By Lissa Harris
4/23/12 - 2:23 pm

Tuesday, April 24 is the New York State presidential primary -- but with frontrunner Mitt Romney coasting toward the 2012 GOP nomination, the press isn't too excited about it.

"Every four years, the New York primary becomes less significant," the New York Times kvetches. "What if they held an election and no one came?" asks The Atlantic. "Primary? What primary?" Gannett scoffs. Read more

Four injured in head-on car crash in New Paltz

By Lissa Harris
4/22/12 - 11:34 pm

Two cars collided head-on on Route 299 in New Paltz around 11pm on Saturday night, when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 45-year-old Highland resident Jeffrey Davis left its lane and drifted into oncoming traffic.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reported the incident in a press release today. Sheriff's deputies report that Davis suffered from a medical condition that caused him to lose control of the car.

The other car, a Land Rover, was driven by Roberto Gottardello, a local writer who lives in Shokan, and who was a participant in last week's Woodstock Writer's Festival.

Each vehicle had a passenger. Both drivers and the two passengers (who were not named in the release) were transported to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie for their injuries.

Flood watch in effect for much of Catskills region

By Lissa Harris
4/22/12 - 10:31 pm

Heavy rains forecast across much of the region for tonight and tomorrow morning mean a flood watch for the eastern Catskills, as well as western New England.

An alert from the National Weather Service warns that Greene, Ulster and Schoharie County could see flooding tonight, especially on east-facing slopes: Read more

Ulster County taps local doc Carol Smith as health commissioner

By Lissa Harris
4/17/12 - 4:50 pm

Carol Smith. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.

Just announced by Ulster County executive Mike Hein's office: Local doctor Carol Smith, currently the medical director of occupational health services at Kingston-based urgent care center Emergency One, will take over as county commissioner of health and mental health.

Smith replaces departing commissioner LaMar Hasbrouck, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control, who is leaving Ulster County to be the state of Illinois's public health director.

Smith lives in Port Ewen.

From a press release issued today: Read more

Congressional candidate Joel Tyner headed for a Democratic primary

By Jason Dole
4/16/12 - 5:48 pm

Above: Joel Tyner and campaign volunteer Burr Hubbell hold a receipt for 2,350 signatures filed with the New York State Board of Elections. Photo by Jess Vecchione.

It can't be easy being Joel Tyner. While the four-term Dutchess County legislator has been touting his progressive record to voters across the Catskills and Hudson Valley, the more moderate Julian Schreibman, who has never held elected office, has been hoovering up endorsement after endorsement from county Democratic Committees. (In what must have been a cruel blow, Schreibman got the endorsement of the progressive-left Working Families Party. As longtime political observer Hugh Reynolds noted, "If anybody epitomizes the values of the WFP over a long career in politics, it’s Tyner.") Read more

Irene, goodnight: Name retired from storm list

By Lissa Harris
4/13/12 - 11:33 pm

Hurricane Irene over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011. Image by NOAA.

Hurricane Irene caused so much death and destruction in 2011 that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the name 'Irene' from the rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical storm names, to be replaced by 'Irma.'

(So much for what Daily Beast media critic Howard Kurtz infamously called the "hurricane of hype.")

A news release from NOAA states that Irene was responsible for 49 deaths, as well as $15.8 billion worth of damage in the U.S. alone.

Looks like NOAA left something out of their release, though: