Federal officials say they’ve brought down a Kingston-based cocaine trafficking organization that imported drugs from California via New York City for sale on local streets. Twenty-eight members of the alleged drug ring were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 13 in predawn raids in Kingston and Poughkeepsie. Police say three people named in the indictment remain at large.
The village is considering a few locations, but the main contender will be familiar to music fans (and anyone who has followed local development proposals for the last 20 or so years).
“Pranks have the potential to cause tremendous fear and disruption. Any threats will be treated very seriously and those responsible will face consequences.”
After the female was taken in custody, it was determined that the gun was a pellet gun that was indiscernible from a real handgun. It was also learned that the initial intent of the female was to commit “suicide by cop.”
Rupco & Mary Stuart Masterson’s Stockade Works would like to transform the cavernous former MetLife building on Greenkill Avenue in Kingston into a TV/film production studio and training center.
A move by Dutchess County officials to address overcrowding in its county jail is having fiscal repercussions across the river where the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office is poised to lose a major source of revenue — boarding Dutchess inmates.
The market boasts 38 food vendors and 27 handicraft and antique vendors, including both local businesses and visitors from New York City.
The latest court decision means more delays for the long-in-development project, which includes two hotels, an 18-hole golf course, a spa, a conference center, and multiple attached and unattached multi-unit lodges and duplex structures, to be marketed as time-sharing units.
City officials plan to use a new law and a new state grant to target hundreds of “zombie” properties in
“It is kind of ridiculous that these people must give up two weeks of their lives to get the money schools are entitled to,” said Saugerties school board vice-president Jim Mooney.