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City Room: Study Ties Albany's Distance From Voters to Its Corruption
It took no less than the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to demonstrate that out of sight is, indeed, out of mind.
Prune spring bloomers now for flowers next year
In this undated image shows a lopper being used to begin pruning clove currant in the spring as seen here in New Paltz, N.Y. The show is over: Spring blooming shrubs and vines have strutted their stuff.
Congratulations 2012 College Graduates
A Many college graduations have already taken place. Congratulations to those New City residents who recently received their graduate or undergraduate degrees.
Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair at fairgrounds May 26-28
Artem Repin's hand-carved flutes are sleek, polished works of art in African mahogany, curly maple, black walnut or other exotic wood.
170 mph biker loses license for a year
A Saratoga County man who hit 170 mph while driving on the Thruway will have no driver's license for at least 90 days after pleading guilty Wednesday, but warned he'd do it again, according to a prosecutor.
Flute maker finds instrument provides soothing connection
Photo provided Artem Repin carves Native American inspired flutes in his New Paltz workshop.
Education Groups Start New Campaign To Fund Schools
School officials from around the state joined with advocacy groups on Wednesday to announce the creation of a campaign to boost funding and seek reforms to education.
Tax-Cap Overrides Sought More By Average Wealth Districts
The majority of schools that sought to override the property-tax cap last week are classified as average wealth districts, and they had the worst result in getting voter approval.
Police investigate fatal hit and run in Shawangunk
A 67-year-old man has been charged with leaving the scene of a deadly hit and run accident Sunday.
Orange Confidential: Judge nixes Diana's 2010 sewer pledge
A state judge has invalidated a commitment to expand sewer service that Orange County Executive Ed Diana made two years ago before quietly dropping a lawsuit against the Village of Kiryas Joel's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct.
Two charged in Esopus break-in
Two people from New Paltz were arrested Thursday afternoon and charged in the burglary of an abandoned home on Union Center Road.
Student walkout in Highland budget defeat is muted
The Facebook alert went out Tuesday night as soon as the bad news started circulating: Come and protest the defeat of the Highland School District budget by walking out of high school at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
National Campaign to Promote Achievement Among Boys and Young Men...
Washington, DC May 16, 2012 The Boys Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog A ttention must be paid: Caring about boys and young men , dedicated to news, commentary and advice.
In New York, virtually all school budgets are approved except those seeking tax cap override
Voters in New York state appear to have approved virtually every school budget put before them that didn't raise taxes beyond new limits set by the state.
Non, the French are not better moms
Mothers and babies attend a rally in New York. The writers say that another faux mommy war is on the horizon.
Voters OK vast majority of budgets
Voters in school districts across our region went to the polls Tuesday to vote on 2012-2013 budgets and school board candidates.
At the polls, it's budgets against state cap on taxes
Two billion dollars in expenditures - half derived from property taxes - will be on the line Tuesday when the mid-Hudson's 34 school districts ask voters to approve budgets for the 2012-13 school year.
Gardiner and New Paltz to offer dog parks
All across the country, dog parks are being created in an effort to let the hounds run and play while their owners socialize and swap canine stories.
Gale McGovern remembered with music, laughter
Noted local activist Gale McGovern would have very much enjoyed the gathering held in her memory at the Rosendale Community Center last Sunday, May 6. As interfaith minister Puja Thomson opened the proceedings with the clear bell tone of a singing bowl, an invocation of thanksgiving and "light where there is darkness...hope where there is doubt.
35 years ago today, a May snowstorm slammed parts of New York
On the evening of May 8, 1977, a strong double-barrel low pressure system gathered strength across the mid-Atlantic region.