Mayor Alex in the News
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By JoDee Kenney for Spectrum News
“Wojcik details how the village, a university host community, attracts tourists for events like Pride and leaf peepers. She also highlights how as the first openly LGBTQ+ and female mayor, community representation and activism helps leverage her experience in government and local partnerships, including with SUNY New Paltz, to improve infrastructure and community engagement.”
By JoDee Kenney for Spectrum News
By Terence Ward for Hudson Valley One
“‘What are your top three priorities?’ asked Stevie Susta.
‘The smooth continuation of government,’ Wojcik began, noting, ‘I text Tim [Rogers] sometimes a hundred times an hour’ to clarify questions about ongoing projects. Ensuring that long-term projects don’t fall through the cracks of transition is another priority; Wojcik referred to some of these as “public works for the people,” which include the skating area planned for Hasbrouck Park. Consolidation is another one: Wojcik hopes to ‘present the best information possible to put the question to bed once and for all.’ Housing is the third priority; 80% of village residents now rent, and many of those are burdened by rent that’s excessive given their income. Wojcik wants to ‘make sure everyone has a home they can afford.”
By William J. Kemble for Daily Freeman
“Wojcik is a SUNY New Paltz graduate who set down roots since earning a bachelor’s degree in 2007. She said she sees value in the joy that residents have in their community. That includes working toward providing benefits for youth who are growing up in the village.
‘I’ve been here since I was 18 and seen different groups try to make a skate park happen,’ she said. ‘In 2019, a group of high school kids had a petition and a little GoFundMe and it was like the stars aligned, and I have to push through that for them.’
‘Immigrants as well as trans+ people face a particularly uncertain future and need a local leader who actively creates spaces that feel welcoming and are truly safe,’ she said. ‘Accessibility means so much more than fixing our sidewalks, it means meeting ALL Village residents where they are at.’”
By Spectrum News staff
No pull quotes needed
By Michael Frank for Times Union
"’Car-centric’ thinking at the state and county level ‘is one of the root causes of vehicle-on-person fatalities and close-calls over the years,’ New Paltz Village Mayor Alexandria Wojcik said. ‘The (state) needs to stop applying one-size-fits-all car-centric solutions to our bike-and-pedestrian-centric community.’
By Nicki Hayes for Poughkeepsie Journal
Village of New Paltz Mayor Alexandria Wojcik said, “Harmony Hall embodies the Village of New Paltz's vision of what development should look like: dense, downtown, affordable, and providing housing for our community's most vulnerable residents — seniors. Seniors deserve the opportunity to age gracefully, in place, right here in paradise, aka New Paltz. Harmony Hall achieves exactly that. I am especially proud that Harmony Hall will provide much-needed affordable housing for seniors in our community, and I am thankful to Governor Hochul's leadership in helping make this project possible.”
By Emma Colton Fox News
The stickers are 'getting people to come out,' one election official says
Julia Reinstein
BuzzFeed News Reporter
“It’s all over everyone’s Instagram stories today — all the cool kids have the voting spider monster sticker right now.”
By Reid McCarter AV Club
Ulster County, New York voters are eager to get their hands on a contest-winning sticker
Back in July, Ulster County, New York hosted a competition to determine what its “I Voted” sticker would look like for this year’s General Election. In an expression of democracy that warms our hearts, a design by 14-year-old Hudson Rowan won the contest with a landslide 93% for his entry: A scream-laughing purple head with multicolored hair and teeth, bulging red eyes, and six cyan spider legs.
By PAUL KIRBY Daily Freeman
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Alexandria Wojcik declared on Twitter in July that she would get a tattoo of the “dystopian rainbow spider monster” if the design won Ulster County Board of Election’s “I voted” sticker contest.
So, recently, the New Paltz Village deputy mayor did just that.
“I think the design speaks to our unique times, as well as the importance of involving young people in every part of the political process,” Wojcik, who had the tattoo emblazoned on her right arm, said Monday. “When we make sure young voices are amplified, like with the sticker design process, the results are pretty awesome …”
Last week, Hudson Rowan, the 14-year-old Marbletown youth whose whimsical spider-themed design won first place in the Ulster County Board of Elections election sticker contest, was honored for his design which attracted international news and “inspired a nation.”
Rhea Nayyar
Hyperallergic News Reporter
The deputy mayor of New Paltz, New York, tweeted that she would get a 14-year-old’s design tattooed if it won Ulster County’s “I Voted” sticker contest. She actually did it
Fourteen-year-old Hudson Rowan’s entry for an “I Voted” sticker design contest in Ulster County, New York, went viral last summer, reigniting a voting fervor across the nation during this year’s midterm elections. The spider-y character, scribbled in acknowledgment of the chaos amongst us, became an overnight sensation that inspired Alex Wojcik, New Paltz’s deputy mayor, to memorialize it on her arm.