The Saugerties town ethics board is weighing a complaint that a senior town employee pressured subordinates to attend a 2015 Republican caucus and vote for his preferred candidates.
One week before a crucial public hearing on the project, officials at RUPCO announced changes to a proposed supportive housing development at the site of the old Kingston Alms House. The new plan calls for all 66 units at the site to be restricted to residents aged 55 and over.
New Paltz Village Board members concluded a year or more of wrangling over the conservation easement for the Mill Brook Preserve at their May 24 meeting, but it wasn’t clear that anyone at the table understood what they were voting upon when they approved the document.
Flanked by good-government advocates County Executive Mike Hein on Wednesday, May 31 unveiled proposed legislation that would make Ulster the first upstate county to offer public matching funds for elections.
Starting with the next school year, Uptown parochial school St. Joseph’s will close and most of its students attend downtown Kingston Catholic, the Archdiocese announced Wednesday, May 31.
After serving several terms as a county legislator from District 8 in Esopus, Republican Carl Belfiglio announced today that he will run for town supervisor in the November election instead of running for another legislative term.
A designer of guitars for Hard Rock Cafés worldwide. An interior decorator partnered with a fashion designer. A woman who used to dress up as a Jewish grandma to deliver bagels for a living. These are just a few of the unusual people selling antiques and vintage clothing at the Blue Barn Marketplace.
The accused confronted a man walking by a Saugerties restaurant in military garb, asked if he was a veteran, and removed the man’s jacket when he failed to reply.
Not long ago Jeff Beals was wrangling together a constitution for Iraq. These days, he is bringing order to a crowded classroom of students at the Woodstock Day School. Life has taken Beals, 40, on a winding path that most recently has brought him to a key role in this district’s grassroots movement and a possible run for congress.
More than a decade after it was conceived and six years after completion, the overhaul of uptown Kingston’s Pike Plan canopy remains mired in litigation. But the designers of the ill-starred restoration project are no longer liable, after a judge ruled that the city had missed a filing deadline by a month.