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Letters to the editor: January, 15 2025 (A good read, President Carter, Selfish neighbors and more)
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Haunted by the Afterlife at SUNY New Paltz
From a distance, 23-year-old Risa Oshinsky’s BFA thesis project at SUNY New Paltz looks like an intricate Calder mobile...
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Letters to the editor: January, 8 2025 (2025, PFAs, capital project and more)
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Winter settles in
Early winter was relatively mild and snowless, but the later half has been anything but. Arctic cold has come down...
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Skating on the Wallkill, New Year’s Eve dance, farm fire and more from the headlines 100 years ago
The entries have been copied from the January 1925 issues of the New Paltz Independent...
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The day after the election
It was a fair and democratic presidential election. It’s time to move on, forget the gloating coming from friends and...
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Letters to the editor: December, 25 2024 (Mill Brook Preserve, health divide, artificial turf and more)
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New sky patterns coming in 2025
As we approach 2025, we may be surprised that the sky will offer patterns and spectacles very different from what...
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1000+days of war; catching up with Peter Zalmayev
Peter Zalmayev with journalism students at Samoa National University. Well known Ukrainian-American broadcaster Peter Zalmayev has left Ukraine for the...
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Letters to the editor: December, 18 2024 (Thanks, SUNY New Paltz, drinkable water and more)
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Letters to the editor: December, 11 2024 (A plastic-free holiday, Winston Farm, money pit and more)
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The winter solstice
The solstices have always been, are now, and forever shall be, important times...
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Letters to the editor: December, 4 2024 (local newspapers, aquatic center, health divide and more)
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Christmas Committee, hickory nuts, Clintondale Grange and more from the headlines 100 years ago
Now home to the Jewish Congregation of New Paltz, 100 years ago it was the home of the New Paltz...
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Letters to the editor: November 27, 2024 (Duck Pond, housing, empathy and more)
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Syncing your life to the Evening Star
Venus is now starting an extraordinary cycle...
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Letters to the editor: November 20, 2024 (A lost ring, HomeShare, parking ticket fiasco and more)
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Have a smear, far or near
This is the first time I've tried cannabis that wasn't supposed to go in my body...
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Letters to the editor: November 13, 2024 (Elections, Duck Pond, HomeShare and more)
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Unsolvable mysteries
After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory non-answers...
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