Gardiner News

Thursday morning is usually spent preparing for the Thanksgiving feast - stuffing turkeys, peeling potatoes, baking pies.

Christmas is coming to Gardiner on Friday, Dec. 4 as the town kicks off its annual tree-lighting ceremony.

Last week, Ulster County Board of Elections conducted an official tally of Nov. 3's ballots, and that final look has firmed up vote counts in Gardiner, Lloyd and Marlborough.

Cost was a key issue at Monday's public forum on a proposed $51.4 million renovation of New Paltz Middle School.

NEW PALTZ - The Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz seeks private Hudson Valley gardens to feature in the seventh annual New Paltz Regional Garden Tour.

After about two hours of debate, the New Paltz Board of Education has the message that it wants to send the public about the proposed renovation of the New Paltz Middle School.

Steps are being made to eventually link the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail system to the Hudson Valley Rail Trail and across the newly opened Walkway Over the Hudson.

You are among the legions of local people who have used the new interchange between the New York State Thruway and Interstate 84 and landed - whoops - in the wrong lane, on the wrong ramp or on the wrong highway.

On the Record features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

Republican-backed challengers Carmine Mele and Richard Koenig appear to have won Tuesday's Town Board election in Gardiner by a slim margin.

Democrats were clinging to their majority in the Ulster County Legislature Tuesday, but Republican challengers apparently ousted Democratic incumbents in New Paltz and Lloyd, according to unofficial results.

Editor's note: The Poughkeepsie Journal is running a series of candidate profiles prior to the Nov.

The air is redolent of ripe apples, milled corn and mown rye. Ralph Erenzo, co-founder of Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner, New York, interrupts work in the fields to give me a tour.

Don't flush those old pills down the toilet. State officials say trashed medications and personal care products are tainting water bodies and seriously altering fish populations.

Why must we make life difficult for those who bother to step up and answer the call? Illustration by Francisco Caceres Few of us go through life expecting accolades for the commendable - OK, borderline valiant - things we do routinely each day.

Leaf program – Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Route 44/55, New Paltz. 1-2 p.m. Oct.

Four hundred years ago, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name.

Gov. David Paterson has signed into law a bill that expands the state-designated Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway by adding a 5.8-mile section of Route 44/55 in the Town of Gardiner.

Annette Battista threw caution to the wind the other day and jumped out of an airplane from an altitude of 13,500 feet -- with a parachute, of course.

GARDINER: A family barbecue is scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Park.