Tag: holiday

  • Gardiner Couple Donates Tree to Rockefeller Center

    Gardiner Couple Donates Tree to Rockefeller Center

    By Kristen Warfield When retired SUNY New Paltz facilities worker Albert Asendorf and his family moved to their home on Route 44 55 in Gardiner in 1957, the tree in their front yard was a mere 6 feet tall. Over the past 58 years, however, it has done a lot of growing – so much…

  • Passover Celebration in SUNY New Paltz

    Passover Celebration in SUNY New Paltz

    When Danielle Weisbord, a sophomore at SUNY New Paltz, found out the college was only allowing students one day off this year for Passover, she was upset she wouldn’t be able to go home to celebrate. However, when she found out that near campus a Passover Seder would be held, she was glad she would still be able…

  • SUNY Stony Brook Slashes Vacation Days

    StonybrookSecond-year Julianna Sebade once again spent Easter Sunday in her SUNY New Paltz dorm, doing homework and surfing the web. “I usually spend religious holidays with family,” Sebade, who is from Far Rockaway said. “We go to mass and all have dinner together but I haven’t been able to go home for Easter the past…