A real estate investor with extensive holdings in Uptown Kingston has filed an action with city zoning officials that could derail or at least seriously delay a proposed mixed-use development project in the Stockade District.
At a private event in October, an anonymous donor offered a $150,000 matching grant and any donations will count toward the match and can be used to pay for planning and architecture services. However, the $150,000 can only be used toward construction.
Supervisor Neil Bettez said that the fire department was called there due to an electrical problem, bringing focus to the many maintenance issues which need to be addressed in a structure intended to be temporary. The center is run by a nonprofit board in a town-owned building on school district land.
The new plans call for six acres of the landfi ll to be covered in panels, as well as six-and-a-half to eight acres adjacent.
The original closing was in reaction to reports of something not smelling right at the post office.
According to police chief Joseph Snyder, if someone comes to the town police station “in the middle of the night in need of recovery,” officers will call a Catholic Charities number to arrange transportation to a treatment facility. An officer will remain with the individual until a “soft hand-off” to the volunteer driver.
The City of Kingston Water Department plans a $12 million, two-year rehabilitation of the Cooper Lake dam, West dike, water intake and will utilize a temporary connection to the Ashokan Reservoir.
After determining that a large boulder sitting roughly 200 feet above Main Street in East Kingston is unlikely to move, Callanan Industries has resumed blasting operations.
A potential conflict of interest for Saugerties Town Justice Chris Kraft in the matter of accused illegal dumpsite owner Joe Karolys caused the trial on misdemeanor charges that Karolys accepted dumping of construction and demolition debris on his three Saugerties properties outside of a court-mandated 7 a.m.-3 p.m. window to be moved to Woodstock Town Court. Now, it seems another conflict of interest may result in the trial having to be moved again.
A 20-year-old SUNY New Paltz student died after a fall while hiking Monday night around the caves in Kingston’s Hasbrouck Park, city police said Tuesday, Nov. 19.