The largest award to the city is $1.2 million for “green infrastructure” improvements to three municipal parking lots in Midtown Kingston. The improvements include porous pavement and other elements to improve drainage and prevent runoff into the city’s sewage system, electric car charging stations and bike racks.
A stop-work order appeared last week on the door of Jamaica Choice.
The sign, located at the corner of North Chestnut (Rt. 32) and Sunset Ridge, let passing motorists know about businesses not visible from the road. Though it’s been up for years, the state DOT only recently noticed it.
“It’s good for our business and it’s good for our employees. It means more jobs. It means that we can look at opportunities that we might not have been able to look at without it.”
Saugerties police are searching for a man who broke into a home in the village and tried to take the homeowner’s pills at gunpoint.
The city is loosening up the parking rules until Jan. 2, Mayor Steve Noble announced this week.
Police departments that pursue state accreditation have to adhere to a set of standards. These include record-keeping policies, establishing an organizational system for stored evidence, fiscal management and personnel practices.
The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency has turned down a request by Kingston Mayor Steve Noble to continue to accept single-stream recycling as the city transitions back to a dual-stream system. The decision this week leaves city officials scrambling for a way to process hundreds of tons of mixed recyclables with just two weeks before a deadline.
Seth Lyons knew Anthony Garro for just a few minutes before he beat him to death.
Slowly but surely, work continues in Rosendale on the stretch of James Street between Madeline Lane and Parkcrest Drive that has been closed off to traffic since early February of 2018.