Plans are underway for a memorial performance by local musicians on Friday, December 16, to honor virtuoso guitarist Johnny Asia, who died on November 19 at his home in Phoenicia. His wife, Solane Verraine, remains in custody at the Ulster County jail, accused by the sheriff’s department of poisoning her husband with alcohol and prescription drugs.
While the steel superstructure and stone-and-concrete pilings of the 413-foot bridge itself remain structurally sound, the old wooden ties underlying the bridge approach on its west side are badly rotted, some of them split for their entire length.
An upcoming run of performances of a classic Agatha Christie play at Kingston High School has stoked controversy, both for the story’s origins and for a billboard on the school’s Broadway campus which depicted a noose, long a symbol of racism.
Local businesspeople reflect on changes they’ve seen. “It’s extraordinary when you think back to what it was just a few years ago.”
The proposal would last nine months and affect pending projects in the Thruway area, including the CVS/Five Guys development. The moratorium would allow the town to tweak its zoning laws, which might exclude projects now on the table.
The most wanted criminals in Saugerties are not the murderers or bank robbers the phrase may conjure up. Instead, the list usually includes people charged with issuing bad checks, driving while intoxicated, and failure to pay fines.
Set up inside the nearly 1,500-square-foot fellowship hall at the Lutheran Church on South Manheim Boulevard, the fitness center is a joint venture started by a collective of like-minded individuals who all used to work out at CrossFit 299 in Highland before that business closed its doors. Wishing to continue their training in each other’s company but without a place to go, the idea for a self-run gym was born.
As of November 30, there are 29 cases confirmed at SUNY New Paltz. According the the New Paltz superintendent, the New Paltz High School student who was ill has since recovered and there are no other infected students, media reports to the contrary.
The allegations against Ulster Savings Bank are contained in lawsuit filed in federal court by the Fair Housing Justice Center and three black “testers,” who reported discriminatory treatment ranging from steering them away from white neighborhoods to offering them less attractive loans than less qualified white clients — over the course of a two-year investigation.
Headed to Washington in six weeks with a solid 10-point win, Congressman-elect John Faso says he hopes to forge bipartisan relationships, much like Chris Gibson, the Kinderhook neighbor he will succeed in about six weeks.