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Darryl Clark (25).Photo by Rich O’Corozine
The program

New Paltz and Highland football previews


Continuity. That's the word in New Paltz and Highland football. Once New Paltz got around to hiring a coach that was committed to building a football program and began a Pop Warner feeder station, ...

September 01, 2011 01:56 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A new SUNY student (on right) brings her dorm-size aquarium to school. Photo by Lauren Thomas.
Welcome back students


SUNY New Paltz welcomed 1,195 new first-year students to the College during the annual moving-in day on Monday, Aug. 22. The new students were joined on Tuesday by 685 transfer students, for a tota...

August 25, 2011 11:04 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Frank Alfonso.
Back in town

Frank Alfonso -- the “new” Highland boys’ soccer coach


Highland has just picked itself a plum. A “plum” good coach, that is, in Frank Alfonso. And from where does this Alfonso fellow come from, you may ask? Why from right there in Highland...Alfonso ha...

August 18, 2011 11:18 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elting Memorial Library volunteer Alma Sloan reads to Aidan McGahey and Maya Brendli as part of the library’s Summer Reading Program. Photo by Lauren Thomas.
Readers’ rewards

Summer reading programs in Gardiner, Highland and New Paltz


In the hottest months, all the cool kids can be found at the local library. “Come on in. You’d be surprised by what your library can do for you. We have many resources -- [including air conditionin...

August 04, 2011 11:03 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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(L-R): Arts & Crafts campers Jessica Gentile, Jessica Martell, Maggie VanValkenburgh and Brandy Marks display their sock puppets at Berean Park in Highland. Photo by Megan Labrise.
Park it here

Summertime, and the living is easy at summer camp in Highland, New Paltz and Gardiner


When school’s out for summer, kids in Lloyd, New Paltz and Gardiner don’t park in front of TVs -- they head to the park. The Town of Lloyd Recreation Department, led by Director Frank Alfonso, pres...

July 21, 2011 01:40 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Emily Rosakranse climbs to the platform. Photo by Lynn Salig.
High anxiety

Catch a fully-body high at the Trapeze Club at Stone Mountain Farm


When I was small enough to fit comfortably in a playground swing, I could spend hours there. I would pump my legs until I reached the highest physical point in the equipments’ apex, close my eyes, ...

July 14, 2011 01:14 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Brittney Alessi, an Ulster BOCES cosmetology student, applies makeup to a model prior to the recent Ulster BOCES Student Fashion Show. Alessi is a student at Wallkill High School. Photos by Valerie Havas/Ulster BOCES Community Relations
In style

Creativity is in Vogue at Ulster BOCES student fashion show


Where can you find the hottest fashions? Paris, London, Milan and on the runway at the annual Ulster BOCES Student Fashion Show, recently staged at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge. The event showcased t...

July 07, 2011 01:16 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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These students were part of the group that received Presidential Award letters signed by Barack Obama. Each of these awardees made the high honor roll for four marking periods. Photo by Lauren Thomas.
Moving on up

New Paltz Middle School grads on to high school


To the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” the 165 New Paltz Middle School “graduates” entered one-by-one-by-one-by-one from a side door at the SUNY-New Paltz gym at the Health and Wellness Center o...

June 30, 2011 02:02 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Best of the best in New Paltz. Photos by Rich O’Corozine/Collages by Lauren Thomas
Best of the Best

New Paltz and highland Spring 2011


Yes, it’s that time of the year once again when we presumptuously choose the Best of the VERY best of the New Paltz and Highland Spring athletes. So, the votes have been cast and here goes...the Be...

June 23, 2011 12:05 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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New Paltz pitcher Brian Krebs. Photo by Rich O’Corozine.
The season that was

New Paltz and Highland baseball and softball


For New Paltz baseball coach Sam Phelps THIS was the season; the season to do it all -- a MHAL title, and finally a Section 9 championship. Especially after last season when the Huguenots made it t...

June 16, 2011 02:25 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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