New Paltz
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 4:53 pm
Above: Bocce, a 9-month-old German Shepherd, surveys the high water on Route 299 in New Paltz last week. Photo by Laura Cerrone.
On Friday morning, the Watershed Post team visited a journalism class taught by Times Herald-Record reporter Adam Bosch at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 - 2:01 pm
Sandbags outside Ricciardella's Restaurant this morning in Phoenicia. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
After the dire warnings of the past two days, the flooding isn't as bad as expected.
Ulster County Emergency Communications Director Arthur Snyder emailed at 12:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011 - 10:32 am
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that two people who drove into the Wallkill River's floodwaters in New Paltz yesterday morning had to be rescued by boat.
The Wallkill routinely floods the stretch of Libertyville Road and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Daniel Torres speaking at an anti-gas-drilling rally in New Paltz last June. Photo by Julia Reischel
Twenty-year-old Daniel Torres, who as a member of the New Paltz Board of Education is the youngest person ever elected in the town, has posted a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Hudson Valley Business posted a story this week about New Paltz's Unison Arts Center, which is struggling to survive in a moribund economy and might soon face the budget knives under new Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Unison, which has been around since the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 - 12:13 pm
As if village Mayor Terry Dungan suffering a stroke on Christmas Day wasn't bad enough: The longtime chief of the New Paltz volunteer fire department, David Weeks, has just resigned in the wake of a leaked email conversation between village elected... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 9:12 am
Interested in studying and practicing conservation in local forest landscapes? The Mohonk Preserve might be interested in you From NY Flora:
The condition of the Preserve’s forest have degraded due to more than 50 years of fire suppression, white-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:29 am
A photo of Paladino walking by the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston yesterday. From the Hudson Valley Chronic's Facebook page.
After kicking up a huge gay rights controversy with a few choice quotes issued on Sunday, Carl Paladino, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 - 3:48 pm
As if we hadn't had enough mysterious propane leaks around here lately: In the wee hours of Saturday, in the middle of a sold-out Labor Day weekend at Mohonk Mountain House, the hotel's gatehouse blew up. It's a miracle nobody was hurt, the Freeman... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 10:32 am
The new president of the New Paltz School Board, Donald Kerr, was charged with marijuana possession after being pulled over for reckless driving in 2008. Here's what was in his car, according to the Hudson Valley New Paltz Times:
The trooper says that... Read more
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