Featured Community Businesses

Bacchus Restaurant, Brewery & Billiards

Open Daily serving Lunch, Dinner, and weekend Brunch. Late-night live music and large billiard room with pool, ping pong, foosball and darts. Over 40 years of hearty food and tasty drinks served in a warm neighborly atmosphere. We are the Hudson Valley’s original craft beer bar, now also brewing our own. Monday-Friday 11am-3am. Saturday and Sunday 10am-3am.
4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz
255-8636
www.BacchusNewPaltz.com

C. Glasner Design and Associates, LLC

Complete design & home restoration services, including antiques & fine art consultation. From 18th Century to modern styles. Local references. Free initial consultation.   Serving the Mid-Hudson Valley
845-527-5859
cglasnerdesign@aol.com

Main Street Bistro

Voted "Best Breakfast" in Best of the Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Magazine. Innovative American and Vegetarian cuisine. Our menu features wonderful gourmet breakfasts, homemade soups, unique salads & sandwiches, pasta, burgers, creative entrees, vegan dishes, and much more. Our in-house bakery provides freshly baked breads, muffins, brownies, and other delicious treats. Gluten-free bread available. Extensive beer & wine menu. Mon-Thurs 8am-4 pm. Friday 8am-4pm. Saturday & Sunday 7am-6pm.
59 Main Street, New Paltz
845-255-7766
www.mainstreetbistro.com

Mountain Brauhaus Restaurant

Celebrating more than 60 Years! Sauerbraten, Wiener Schnitzel, hamburgers & sandwiches, plus creative weekly specials including fresh fish, vegetarian and vegan dishes made with local produce. Located at the intersection of Routes 44/55 & 299, just below the Shawangunk cliffs. Open 11:30am, closed Monday & Tuesday.
Rte 44-55 & Rte 299, Gardiner
255-9766

Rusk, Wadlin, Heppner & Martuscello, LLP

General civil practice. Two locations.
255 Fair St, Kingston
331-4100
331-6930 (Fax)
Main St., Marlboro
236-4411
236-3190 (Fax)
RWHM.com
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Ganse House (Torsone's Funeral Home is on right); credit Collection of Vivian Yess Wadlin

Ganse House (Torsone's Funeral Home is on right)   credit Collection of Vivian Yess Wadlin

Renovate or Raze?

by
Winter 2013

Prior to a fire that took the top section of the turret of the Ganse House (current Highland Library building), the lovely home was an inspiration to the thousands of laborers who traveled along the Highland-New Paltz trolley line. Today, the building’s fate is being discussed by Highland area residents and the library board. The library long ago outgrew the building and in 2010 the residents rejected a referendum to bond for a new space on Commercial Avenue. It lost by fewer than 100 votes. The board is considering razing the Ganse building and putting the new library in its place. Other possibilities include another try for Commercial Avenue with fewer bells and whistles, or doing the construction elsewhere.

Opponents to razing it cite the loss of another lovely old building in the village and the loss of the potential to mend the fabric of the hamlet’s visual statement and history. Stay tuned.