An effort is underway to establish a free food/community fridge in New Paltz, behind Snug Harbor facing out towards the Rock and Snow parking lot. This project has been organized by Mariabella Rivera-Todaro and Jasper MacDonald of the local non-profit, Millions of Butterflies. The fridge will be hooked up to the electrical outlet on the red barn behind Snugs and Rock and Snow.
New Paltz town historian Susan Stessin-Cohn has, with the help of SUNY student interns, put together an online exhibit about the Zion AME church that stood on Pencil Hill Road.
Sports cars, classic cars, hot rods and novelty vehicles lined Partition and Main streets in Saugerties last Sunday, with even a few along Market Street.
Settled and Serving in Place is a grassroots organization with chapters throughout Ulster County that aim to help seniors stay in their own homes.
The Friends of the Woodstock Library have announced that “Renascence,” the 90th-anniversary Woodstock Library Fair, will be held on Saturday, July 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the library lawn.
More than 500 cars are expected to participate in this year’s Sawyer Motors Car Show on Sunday, July 11.
Saugerties celebrates Independence Day with parade and fireworks.
Saugerties resident Lorenzo Beronilla will compete on the inaugural season of Top Chef Amateurs, a spinoff of Bravo’s longtime staple Top Chef. The episode will air Thursday, July 8.
As his career as a Saugerties Central School District teacher comes to a close, Thomas Miron is still making an impact by selling off his neckties as a fundraiser for shelter dogs. “Rescuing one animal won’t change the world, but it will change the world for that one animal, and maybe yours too,” he suggested.
This year’s annual Fourth of July parade in Saugerties will return to tradition and include some 50 local organizations participating. The parade steps off on Sunday, July 4 at 1 p.m., but participants should be prepared to line up starting at noon to get positioned and ready to go.