New Paltz News

It took no less than the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to demonstrate that out of sight is, indeed, out of mind.

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.

A Many college graduations have already taken place. Congratulations to those New City residents who recently received their graduate or undergraduate degrees.

Artem Repin's hand-carved flutes are sleek, polished works of art in African mahogany, curly maple, black walnut or other exotic wood.

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.

Photo provided Artem Repin carves Native American inspired flutes in his New Paltz workshop.

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.

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.

A 67-year-old man has been charged with leaving the scene of a deadly hit and run accident Sunday.

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 people from New Paltz were arrested Thursday afternoon and charged in the burglary of an abandoned home on Union Center Road.

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.

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.

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.

Mothers and babies attend a rally in New York. The writers say that another faux mommy war is on the horizon.

Voters in school districts across our region went to the polls Tuesday to vote on 2012-2013 budgets and school board candidates.

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.

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.

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.

On the evening of May 8, 1977, a strong double-barrel low pressure system gathered strength across the mid-Atlantic region.