Frigid work for Kingston’s water department
The rapid onset and fierce grip of icy weather on the Hudson Valley has crews from Kingston’s Water Department and Department of Public Works scrambling to deal with a rash of water main breaks.
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Energy Square gets its tax credits; judge’s ruling means all-clear for alms house project
Court documents: Kingston murder suspect told cops how he brutally killed Anthony Garro Jr.
According to police, Seth P. Lyons laid out for them a horrific sequence of events that began with a missing cell phone and ended with Anthony Garro Jr. beaten to death, stripped naked and left beneath a pile of brush.
Mom says KPD used excessive force on her 17-year-old daughter
Activists showed up at a city police commission meeting on Wednesday to express frustration that Kingston wasn’t responding quickly — or forcefully — enough to a rash of complaints about excessive force, racial profiling and other issues.
Kingston sinkhole costs top $10 million mark
The Washington Avenue sinkhole may have been filled in but it continues to drain city finances. The latest project involves clearing a blocked sewer line caused by earlier work at the site.
Albany lays another $4.2 million on Kingston
The funded projects include a proposed mixed-use retail, hotel and parking facility in the Stockade District and the creation of a more scenic and more bike-and-pedestrian friendly streetscape in Midtown.
Uptown Kingston neighbors press Central Hudson to put gas regulator elsewhere
Plans by Central Hudson to install an above-ground gas regulator station on a residential street in Uptown Kingston have stirred controversy as neighbors expressed concerns about safety, impact on community character and whether the company had considered alternative sites.
Long a haven for homeless, Kingston killing site gets a cleanup
The railroad cut where Anthony Garro Jr.’s body was found last week has long served as a convenient shortcut for foot-mobile Midtown residents to get to work or shopping at Kingston plaza. But the sunken right of way running through densely populated neighborhoods has also earned a reputation as a gritty corridor where homeless alcoholics and drug users congregate, and prostitutes ply their trade.
Kingston slaying victim had a complicated, tragic and rich life
The circumstances of Anthony Garro Jr.’s demise, beaten to death beneath a bridge known as a hangout for homeless alcoholics, were a long way from his beginnings as the beloved adopted son of an Ivy League-educated scientist and academic and a special education teacher who struggled to help him overcome the aftereffects of alcohol-related brain damage done to him in utero.
New price for Kingston parking passes: $100 per year
Under the budget passed by the Kingston Common Council on Tuesday, users of nine municipal parking lots in the city will be able to purchase annual parking passes for $100 or monthly permits for $20.