In one school in the district, 20 percent of the students are from different countries. The proposal is meant to counter “misinformation” and ensure the students and their families understand it’s safe to attend local schools.
The Shandaken town board voted on October 2 to adopt a preliminary 2018 budget of $5,723,430, exceeding the state-imposed two percent tax cap for the second year in a row, after several years of minimal to no increase
Tax hikes range from 2.5–8 percent in the preliminary budgets of these three towns.
Kingston Republicans have severed ties with a county legislature candidate who criticized a mural depicting Native Americans for sending a potentially divisive “ethnic message,” rather than celebrating Kingston’s “original heritage.” Campaign Committee Chairman Jerry Brown said, “Her views are her own and have nothing to do with us.”
Candidate Jean Jacobs said the images send a potentially divisive “ethnic message,” rather than celebrating Kingston’s “original heritage.”
The 2018 Woodstock budget presented by town supervisor Bill McKenna is under the state tax cap.
At a recent forum, the consensus seemed to be that parents want the district to hire someone innovative, sensitive to cultural and economic diversity and willing to commit to living in the Highland district.
Overall spending is $324 million, a little less than $1 million below 2017 levels.
Visitors and the estimated 400 electric-car users in Ulster County can now power up at Saugerties’ first charging station, located in front of the Small World Park near the Kiwanis Ice Arena.
Is there still a place for public access television in a time when most anyone can record and post a video to a wide audience online?