It was high drama and fireworks at the New Paltz Republican Caucus last Wednesday night. It appeared that two Democratic candidates -- Toni Hokanson and Susan Zimet -- were the only two vying for the Republican endorsement, when out of the blue, the chair of the caucus, Peter Cordovano, was nominated and seconded from the floor. After Zimet was nominated by former town Supervisor David Lent and seconded by former county Republican Chairman Peter Savago, Hokanson was nominated by Linda Donova...
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Haunted by Gulf War ghosts, Frank Closky is healed by the spirits and artifacts of the Hudson Valley. Closky is the drifter protagonist of “Pancake Hollow Primer” (Codhill Press, 2011), a new work of fiction by Laurence Carr. Carr, also known as Larry, is a Highland resident and professor of creative and dramatic writing at SUNY New Paltz. On Friday, Sept. 16 beginning at 7 p.m., he will read from his work and sign his book at Inquiring Minds Bookstore at 6 Church Street in New Paltz. “Panca...
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Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz will enter into the fall with a new set of leaders, including a new executive director with connections to the Deyo and DuBois families. After months of searching for the right person to replace Eric Roth, an eleventh generation Huguenot descendant, Tracy Doolittle McNally, will replace interim leader Mary Etta Schneider as the new head of the historical society. McNally, who grew up in Westchester, remembers the first time she came to see the old coloni...
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Once the flats were passable, cyclists, pedestrians and motorists caught a glimpse of the havoc Hurricane Irene unleashed along the Wallkill River corridor, particularly the Ferrante family’s Wallkill View Farm. Once there were acres of sweet corn, swelling orange pumpkins and sunflowers decoratively gracing the sides of Route 299. Now there were black-and-grey silt-filled fields, stagnant bodies of water, cornstalks bent over as if scorched, a fetid, rotten smell of a hard-earned harvest fe...
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