The CMRR is also asking Ulster County to allow the railroad to cross Route 28A in Stony Hollow, where its track has been paved over, and to continue renovating track to MP 10.01 near the Ashokan Reservoir.
Local law-enforcement officials say the state’s new red-flag law will give the public a valuable tool to prevent mass shootings by getting guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people. But gun-rights advocates worry that the law will deprive law abiding gun owners of due process and leave them vulnerable to abuse or harassment.
The fate of the Boiceville post office’s current closure seems to be in a temporary limbo.
Recusals and changes of venue have slowed down efforts to close several dumps in Saugerties. The dumps have been cited by the town for accepting material from outside the area and by the DEC following tests that revealed harmful contaminants.
Saugerties town and village officials, along with officials in the other 44 states where the plant has become an ecological nuisance, have scratched their heads for nearly a decade over how to efficiently and cost-effectively quell the plant without promoting its spread — any segmentation of the milfoil plant can lead to further growth.
Advocates and opponents of a proposed new 12,000-square-foot library will square off.
The location was closed Sept. 7 due to a “foul odor.” For the time being, operations have shifted to the Shokan Post Office.
Events are scheduled throughout the area from Sept. 14 to 22, including displays of electric vehicles, test drives, a parade and workshop on tax credits.
Five weeks after stones falling from a CSX train damaged vehicles and injured two people on Abeel Street, and one day after U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer held a press conference in Kingston to demand action from the company, railroad workers cleared debris from a trestle across the Rondout Creek. But CSX officials have yet to respond to Schumer’s demand for safety netting under the bridge — and a full accounting of the July 30 incident.
A state of emergency in East Kingston was declared earlier this week by Ulster Town Supervisor James Quigley III to allow for the immediate erection of a 10-foot high concrete wall along Main Street in the hamlet to prevent residences from being impacted by a rockslide.