Gardiner’s annual celebration of itself -- Gardiner Day -- will be back in 2010 with a special focus on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington. “This year is going to be a little bit special because it’s going to be on Sept. 11,” explained Gardiner Day organizer Jewel Turner. Carl Zatz, another Gardiner Day organizer, wasn’t giving away too many of the festivals secrets. However, he did talk a little bit about what the Sept. 11 events would be like. “It’s not a m...
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Some American students pack textbooks in their backpacks; some may pack heat. “Carrying,” an exhibition of signs exploring the diverse laws governing guns on public university campuses throughout the country, is now on display in New Paltz. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz and the village and town of New Paltz are participating in the collaborative display of 50 signs -- each highlighting the gun laws of a different state -- dispersed throughout the community. A complete s...
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A crowd of Springtown Road residents and New Paltzians delivered a petition asking the Town Board to repeal its floodplains laws last week. “You passed a law, many, many laws, that take away our property values,” said Ray Lunati, who lives on Kargill Lane and is a signer of the petition. For the more than 25 people who did sign, the crux of the issue has to do with how the law has affected the sales price of their houses or the land they own west of the Wallkill River in flood-prone areas...
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New Paltz School Board members don’t have real power to dethrone their President, Don Kerr, despite whatever the public has to say about him, Trustee Patrick Rausch told a crowd last week. Rausch addressed a large group of citizens who came out to either support the embattled Kerr or to call for the president’s resignation. Roughly a month ago, Kerr pleaded guilty in Gardiner Town Court to reckless driving -- a lesser charge compared to the possession of marijuana and driving under the infl...
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