New Paltz News

NEW PALTZ - The town is looking for members of the community to apply for vacant seats on the Environmental Conservation Commission, the Clean Water and Open Space Conservation Commission and the Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board.

Ian McCrum has been awarded a $1,000 Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz Educational Scholarship.

Nikki Koenig Nielson, left, received a $1,000 New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation Educational Scholarship award on behalf of her husband, Michael Nielson of Arcady Tractorworks and Arborculture, from foundation board Vice President Kathy Ferrusi of Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union.

Since last year, New Paltz's Elting Memorial Library has been financially propped up by a generous $100,000 gift.

Elizabeth Welter, 27, has been charged in the delivery of 5 ounces of marijuana to her home on Grove Street.

A 48-year-old man who shot himself in the head during a traffic stop on the New York Thruway in the Hudson Valley has died.

Named the most dysfunctional state legislators in the nation, New York lawmakers seem determined to live up to the title.

Elizabeth Welter, 27, has been charged in the delivery of 5 ounces of marijuana to her home on Grove Street.

A man shot himself Monday afternoon after being pulled over by a state trooper on Interstate 87 near New Paltz, police said.

Police say a 48-year-old man shot himself in the head during a traffic stop in New Paltz.

Jason West was bitten early and hard by the political bug. It's taken him to national prominence, and it's sent him crashing to the political ground.

A rally on behalf of securing passage of a single-payer national health-care bill will be held on the sidewalk near the entrance to the New Paltz Plaza on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A spokeswoman for the group sponsoring the rally, the Coalition of Concerned Citizens of New Paltz, said they favor passage of The United States National ...

NEW PALTZ - Valedictorian Annika Havnaer used her speech this evening to hearken back to the lasting lessons the Class of 2009 took from tragic events that occurred eight years before.

Police are investigating a collision that injured a New Paltz woman, her husband and their three children on Route 299 near the Stop and Shop Plaza on Tuesday afternoon.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County's Relatives as Parents Program is now offering Coffee and Conversation, a peer support group for adults, and the RAPP Kidz Club from 6-8 p.m. on the first Monday of every month at the Ulster County BOCES Conference Center, 175 Route 32, New Paltz.

It sounds like it might be fun, and for criminals, it can be. But victims of head-popping don't share the joy.

NEW PALTZ - New Paltz police are investigating a four-car crash that took place Tuesday on Route 299.

A woman and three children were injured in a three-car accident on Route 299 near the Stop and Shop Plaza Tuesday afternoon.

SUNY New Paltz's popular but financially challenged Language Immersion Institute will close its doors at the end of the summer.

Mark down Wallkill as the latest local municipality to take a crack at an environmental protection law.