Tag: kingston
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Parkour Gym Owner Leaps Into Business
If you’ve seen a group of students running around campus, jumping off of walls and railings, that’s most likely Dylan Johanson’s outdoor parkour class. Johanson is the owner and head coach at Innate Movement Parkour in Kingston. He’s been practicing the sport since he became interested in it in 2013. He describes parkour as “natural…
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Ulster County Rail Trails Interconnected Future
Wheels spinning, a family starts their vacation atop the Walkway Over the Hudson. They bike west towards New Paltz, passing through Highland. From there they can head south through Gardiner and Wallkill on their way to Walden. Or maybe they head north to Kingston, stopping in Rosendale on the way. From Kingston they can ride…
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Make a Difference Day New Paltz style
Make a Difference Day at SUNY New Paltz was kicked off with a donation drive in the Student Union Lounge. This is the seventh year SUNY New Paltz is participating in Make a Difference Day and the first time the event happened for longer than two days. Participants collected donations of personal care products and…
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Professors Pitch Prose at Inquiring Minds
Inquiring Minds, a local discount bookstore located off Church Street, hosted a poetry reading on Friday, Feb. 4. The event featured the works of SUNY New Paltz professors Frank Boyer and Howard Good. Due to anticipated inclement weather, poet Barbara Blatner postponed her participation in the event. “I didn’t want to get caught upstate,” said Blatner. …
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Election 2010
The votes are in, but it’s not over yet. The 2010 midterm election results are still trickling in locally and nationally, and it’s just the beginning of what looks to be two tumultuous years in politics. Here’s a summary of what’s happened so far. The predicted anti-Democratic wave has played out somewhat, and Congress is…
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Well-being with Meaning: Check out the O+Festival, October 8,9 & 10!
Check out the O+ Festival this October 8,9 and 10! This project is to stimulate an exchange of ‘medicine’ between artists and health care professionals in the Kingston area. As Denise Orzo, one of the coordinators for the event describes, “…It’s part art and music celebration, part urban renewal, part taking care of one another,…