Pride celebration in New Paltz
The Village of New Paltz and the youth action team of the Maya Gold Foundation organized an impromptu Pride in the Park festival last Saturday and hundreds of locals attended.
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Edutainment pioneer Steven Schragis celebrates a new chapter in a varied career
Last year, Schragis was concerned about the fate of his One Day University. What pivot could he make to ensure the continued survival of his innovative and hitherto successful national adult education enterprise? He had one inescapable problem. “…. A world where large crowds couldn’t gather was a world that couldn’t support our business,” Schragis wrote recently. “Or so I thought.”
Ulster County Fair 2021 dates announced
After a year without fried dough, truck pulls, and carnies, the fair will be returning to New Paltz this summer. The Ulster County Fair 2021 dates are August 3 to August 8.
Saugerties Farmers’ Market celebrates 20th season
The Saugerties Farmers’ Market opened on Saturday, May 29, to a cold drizzle. While not up to its usual spring crowds, a surprising number of customers did brave the cold, damp weather to buy the fresh vegetables, fruit, baked goods, breakfast snacks and wines offered. Two new products, hemp extract and tacos, were added to the lineup.
Live music, hot meals return to relocated Woodstock Farm Festival
The Woodstock Farm Festival is back for the season, in a new location and bigger than ever. Better yet, some of the popular traditional elements that were missing last year due to COVID-19 – sit-down dining, live music, hands-on activities for kids – are happening once again.
Free LGBTQ+ Pride celebration in New Paltz on Saturday, June 5
The news of the demise of this year’s Pride Festival was short-lived, with a homegrown event rising up to fill the vacuum created when organizers from the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston pulled out just a couple weeks before the festivities.
Saugerties American Legion marks Memorial Day
The Saugerties American Legion holds its Memorial Day service on the actual day, May 30. But due to inclement weather, the activities were moved inside the Lamouree-Hackett Post #72 dining room, which was standing-room only.
Student mural to be displayed in New Paltz park
Four local New Paltz students will see a mural they created on display at the Peace Park.
Hudson Valley high schoolers tell their quarantine stories, in their own words
We interviewed ten teens from schools around the region throughout March and April of this year, asking them similar questions. How did you relieve stress? What are your thoughts about online school? How did the pandemic test your friendships?
Women’s Studio Workshop exhibition honors late founder Anita Wetzel
For those of us who’ve been cheering on the Women’s Studio Workshop since its founding in 1974 as a collective designed to give struggling women artists a safe place to learn, practice and thrive in a male-dominated field, the news this spring of the passing of one of its “foremothers” comes as an unthinkable blow.
