A number of parents were tearful and angry because of a late-night email warning some of them that their children could be arrested for trespassing if they showed up at school the next day. The school district admitted it should have shown greater sensitivity.
Selina Woodstock, the burgeoning international work/stay company that bought The Lodge at Woodstock last spring — and has been mired in zoning conflicts ever since — filed a lawsuit against The Lodge’s former owner Michael Skurnick and his various business aliases from which it bought the property — and who it hired to manage its renovation recently.
The bank applied this week to build a 1536-square-foot branch in the Big Lots Plaza in Saugerties. This would be its third in northern Ulster County and seventeenth overall.
Half-ownership of Dietz Stadium is likely to remain with the Kingston City School District after it was determined that the City of Kingston wouldn’t need to have sole ownership to access over $2 million in grant funds for renovations and upgrades.
Voters will have a clear choice among the six candidates vying for three seats on the Woodstock Library Board of Trustees in the noon-9 p.m. Thursday, October 3 election, with voting at the Library, 5 Library Lane.
A Kingston man is facing felony charges following an investigation into heroin sales in the city.
On a sunny Monday morning in Uptown Kingston, Michelle Hinchey officially launched her campaign for state Senate, flanked by a Who’s Who of local Democratic elected officials, and standing in the same spot where her father — a legend in local politics — launched his political career 47 years earlier.
Hundreds of people, led by students, flooded the streets in downtown New Paltz this past Friday, demanding swifter action to address the rising tides of climate change.
The Shandaken Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) decided to open a public hearing on the petition of Sanjay Rawal challenging zoning officer Howie McGowan’s rejection of his request for a permit to build a 35-foot statue of spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy on private property in Woodland Valley.
County legislators voted 18-2 to tighten up the definition of “refuse” in Chapter 304 of the county code on Sept. 19, prompted to action by instances of construction and demolition debris trucked in from downstate and New Jersey to communities like Saugerties and Rochester.