New Paltz residents who prefer their garbage picked up at home will be required to do business with County Waste as of June 1, or just bring their trash to the recycling center on Clearwater Road.
Saugerties voters overwhelmingly approved a $62.4-million school budget for 2018-19 on Tuesday. The turnout was lower than usual, however.
KCSD school officials celebrated a clean sweep on Tuesday night as their $175 million budget proposal for the 2018-19 school year and three separate propositions all met widespread approval from voters, who turned out in fewer numbers than they had one year earlier.
When the law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2019, Ulster will join New York City and 10 upstate counties that have boosted the legal age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21.
A powerful storm pummeling Saugerties on Tuesday, May 15 elicited a tornado warning from the National Weather Service, produced hail the size of apricots, flooded Partition Street, caused a house fire on Abbotts Court and gave Saugerties’ Highway Department workers and emergency personnel plenty to do. According to Town Supervisor Fred Costello, no injuries were reported.
In a Gothamist article earlier today by writer Andres O’Hara, Brooklyn veterinarian Dr. Natara Loose said the virus can be deadly for up to 10 percent of dogs infected. O’Hara later tweeted that a person with two sick dogs is now in Kingston.
More than 900 voters in the Onteora Central School District braved the storms accompanied with power outages on Tuesday, May 15 to support the district’s 2018-2019 budget and school bus propositions.
Remaining power outages include approximately 20,800 in Dutchess County, 36,000 in Orange County, 4,700 in Putnam County and 3,800 in Ulster County.
The proposal is to build a new store and breakfast/lunch spot where the Lake Hill General Store, popularly known in its last incarnation as Murphy’s, once stood at the corner of Mink Hollow Road and Route 212 in Woodstock.
Voters in the Highland Central School District went to the polls today and approved a budget of $45.3 million for the 2018-19 school year, as well as an $8 million capital improvement project. Michael Bakatsias, Camille Adoma and Edward Meisel were elected to the school board.