SUNY College at New Paltz News

In an age when being healthy is considered cool, Binghamton University is sitting at the loser table of the college community.

NEW PALTZ - Police arrested two men after they allegedly robbed a SUNY New Paltz college student at gunpoint Wednesday.

Legislative leaders Tuesday said their staff would work over the weekend to digest a revised proposal from Gov.

Michael Turturro, an accountant at Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGovanni & Weddell, was the recent keynote speaker for the New Paltz College Business Consortium.

In an effort to ease the financial burden of college students, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the New York Urban League have awarded four outstanding college seniors internships at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and $2,000 towards his or her college education from the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation.

The state's Board of Regents issued a wide-ranging plan Monday to strengthen training of teachers and induce them to teach in high-needs schools.

Myth means falsehood, as opposed to fact, for most moderns, but myth once told the story that explained the gods, creation and human behavior.

Students who are intoxicated and need medical aid will be able to receive help without getting in trouble with the law if the Good Samaritan policy is passed.

Spencer Murphy performs with New York City band The Element during a summer 2008 hometown show in Clinton Square in Syracuse.

BEACON - Young virtuoso flutist Claire Chase will give a concert for young people at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon.

Anyone trying to determine what Republican victories in the Hudson Valley on Tuesday - as well as in closely watched governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia - portend for state and federal elections next year might be tempted to study the parallels to the 1993 elections and their aftermath.

The Poughkeepsie Journal is doing a series of candidate profiles for the Nov. 3 election.

Judelson, Giordano & Siegel, an accounting and business consulting firm in Middletown, was a major sponsor at the recent Hudson Valley Estate Planning Day at SUNY New Paltz.

Higher education has been one of the biggest victims of the recession. Endowments have been decimated by the stock market collapse, state funding has been cut and, to top it off, more students are applying to college and more of those applicants need financial aid.

Although Gov. David Paterson has called the rise in swine flu cases in New York a "disaster," the mid-Hudson region has yet to report significant outbreaks.

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Is your administration using "the economy" as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already over-burdened faculty? Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the best investment you can make right now.

There is no time like the present when it comes to curbing, stopping and possibly reversing the devastating pandemic of global climate change, according to the organizers of the New Paltz '350' Climate Fair, slated for this Saturday, Oct.

Editor's note: The Poughkeepsie Journal is running a series of candidate profiles prior to the Nov.

A 23-year-old man now being held on misdemeanor stalking charges in Ulster County Jail has been identified by police as a person of interest in connection with an attempted rape near the SUNY New Paltz campus last month.