“I definitely thought I was going to be a teacher my entire life, but this turned out to be better,” Gillian Murphy relates. “I had planned to get my Master’s in Education at New Paltz, but it didn’t happen because I fell in love with libraries. This is my calling.”
After sitting 2020 out due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kingston Stockade FC this week announced plans to return for their delayed fifth season this summer. Their 10-game slate will see the club pitted against National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) foes both new and familiar alike, with half of those battles taking place on their home pitch at Dietz Stadium in Kingston.
The Interfaith Earth Action, New Paltz Climate Action Coalition and the Caring for Creation Committee of the Reformed Church of New Paltz are sponsoring an Earth Day Unbound, an Atypical Earth Day Fair during Earth Week on April 19-25. The event is free, online at bit.ly/earthdayunbound and on Huguenot Street and the Walkill Valley Rail Trail between Broadhead Avenue and Mulberry Street in New Paltz.
The village webpage announcement states that the pickup will take place from Monday, April 19 to Friday, April 30.
A compilation of the latest sports news in the Kingston, Saugerties, Onteora and New Paltz school districts.
The City of Kingston Common Council voted unanimously to apply for the Underrepresented Communities Grant with the National Parks Service in the amount of up to $50,000 for the study of the early history of African-Americans in Kingston and Pine Street African Burial Ground.
The ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been copied from the April issues of the New Paltz Independent. To get a closer look at these newspapers of the past, visit the staff of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library at 93 Main Street in New Paltz, or call 255-5030.
Returning Head Coach Collin Martin will see his staff augmented in 2021 by three-time world champion and former New York Yankee Shane Spencer as hitting coach, and Rich Dubee, a pitching coach with two decades of coaching in the majors, including serving with the Philadelphia Phillies during their 2008 World Series run.
A compilation of the latest sports news in the Kingston, Saugerties, Onteora and New Paltz school districts.
After serving the Woodstock community for more than 30 years, The Good Neighbor Food Pantry has been asked to leave its space at the Woodstock Reformed Church by June 1.