Meet the new owners of My Market: Deval and Yamini Patel
Facebook posts announced their arrival and the reviews have been glowing...
Retirement on the move
The van in the Broadhead parking lot on Huguenot Street in New Paltz had Florida plates...
The heart of a first responder
He carries a pager connected to the Ulster County 911 dispatch, and is, essentially, on call 24-7...
Want to learn to drive a tractor? New Paltz’s Krista Benson will teach you
Ever since 31-year-old Krista Benson was small, she helped her father Lou in his hardware store, True Value in New...
Great, you’re composting. But are you doing it correctly?
“Those food scraps you have been dumping on an open pile are a health hazard. They attract flies, rats and...
The history of race: America’s collective subjectivity
Muncie today has a population of 63,000. Thirty percent live in poverty, about 10.5% are Black, 2.5% are refugees, only...
Resistance: One young Iranian woman’s story
Maedeh Ojaghlou, 28-years-old, arrived in New York City via Dubai from Tehran on an F1 student visa in August 2022.
The list of “very dangerous” books banned in the U.S. is long
Censorship, banning and shunning is not a new story in America’s schools, where backlash against advances in civil rights and...
Point of view: Reparations
The Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz had a celebration in the garden on October 22, the first in a...
Opinion: We don’t need more gun owners
There are more than 400-million guns in America. And though that number includes police and military, there are more guns...
Ryan makes his run
Rebecca and Pat Ryan are a 21st-century political power couple. She is healthcare policy wonk who has worked as a...
Victims of conflict become our neighbors
In Ulster County alone, there are over one thousand refugees from Afghanistan, and two notable organizations helping them resettle: New...
Dateline: Kyiv
9 a.m. EST, Thursday, July 7. Well known Ukrainian broadcaster, Peter Zalmayev, is talking to me on Zoom from a...
Point of view: Thoughts for Juneteenth
New Paltz is a monument to the Dutch, English and French Huguenot enslavers and their enslaved and post-emancipation indentured workforce....
Point of view: Meeting the sheriff
I met Ulster County sheriff Juan Figueroa for the first time at the Gardiner Library the night of the tornado...
Point of view: My abortion
On December 15, 2016, weeks away from president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration and his promise to nominate an anti-abortion judge to...
Hope in a stamp
The image of a Ukrainian soldier making an obscene gesture at the sunken Russian Black Sea flagship Moskva was designed...
Truth and reconciliation in one small town
If ever there has been a time for towns and cities in the United States to begin a truth and...
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