Students, environmental organizations and community members marked the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy with a march on Saturday, Oct. 30. The storm, which hit the northeast with such power that it took lives, destroyed homes and transit infrastructure, flooded subways and greatly impacted people from the NYC-metro area to the Hudson Valley.
For many residents, the structure is seen as the epitome of Poughkeepsie’s urban housing woes. It is rumored to be the headquarters of major gang operations and a hub for heroin distribution in the city. Since at least summer, the city police have maintained a presence at the building, including an active-duty officer parked outside at all times.
The law comes nearly two years after the Coast Guard proposal for 10 new anchorages on the Hudson sparked fierce opposition, culminating in over 10,000 public comments from concerned citizens and the plan’s withdrawal in June.
A group of 30 individuals, mostly SUNY New Paltz students, descended on a recent New Paltz Town Council meeting, eager to share their stories of police encounters gone wrong.
A quick-witted 17-year-old babysitter kept her cool and evacuated everyone without incident.
Ninety-one Americans die of an opiate overdose every day. Narcan, or naloxone, is a fast-acting treatment that can reverse the effects of an overdose. All first-responders carry it, but often, they arrive too late. For this reason, training programs for potential overdose witnesses have sprung up. Two will be held locally this November.
Is there or is there not enough parking in the village of Saugerties business district? Talk to residents, business owners or elected officials, and parking definitely is one of the major complaints you hear.
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp., owned by Canadian holding company Fortis Inc., is requesting a 21.2 percent increase in delivery revenues — a total of $63.4 million.
Precautions were taken to make the drill as realistic as possible without causing too much alarm— or possibly prompting an armed passerby from intervening; the oft-cited “good guy with a gun.”
Since 2010, O+ artists have changed the face of Kingston with 29 murals, prompting some to question why there is little public oversight compared with zoning laws governing property owners. The answer: Murals, though they last for years, are considered impermanent works of art, and are treated as works of art protected by the First Amendment.