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With emotions running high at the Tuesday, January 24 board of education meeting at Phoenicia Elementary, Onteora trustees chose a tentative date of February 21 as the evening they will choose from three proposed plans to reconfigure the grade and building structures of the district. Two of the proposed plans, which are all intended to deal with tight budgets and dwindling populations while enhancing educative possibilities, would close Phoenicia Elementary School, leaving the district with t...
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Rick Salzmann, a 37-year veteran of the Kingston Fire Department and its chief for the past 14 years, resigned abruptly rather than face termination over what Mayor Shayne Gallo called serious issues with “time and attendance” that came to light during an internal audit of department records.
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Patrick Bruce Metheny, the longtime Woodstocker known as Pat who has won a record 18 Grammy Awards at this point, holds a number of lofty mantles. He’s one of the last practitioners of the ECM brand of New Agey jazz/fusion, drawing rock elements into standard jazz formats, deep in the public eye. And yet Metheny’s also considered, within the jazz world itself, as a constant (and consistent) avant-garde experimenter, always pushing the limits sonically and improvisationally. He has got the cho...
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After a 19-month study, with little public engagement outside of the Steering Committee and Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), New Paltz Town Hall was filled with residents interested, concerned or wanting to express their thoughts on the proposed Government Efficiency and Effectiveness Project. This project was the result of a joint village and town grant award for $50,000 to study all government options. They hired Fairweather Consultants to guide them through the process and put together ...
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The Peruvian-born painter of three-dimensional murals, Victor Zorloza, has lived in Saugerties for two decades. He relocated from Lima, Peru, where he owned a large home and had a successful advertising agency, after his Connecticut-born wife, Lucy, was detained for three hours under frightening conditions by the rebel group “Shining Path.”
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