The current version of the project is its third for the gated, age-segregated project on 53 acres. It calls for 130 individual cottage-like residences, and two four-story multi-unit residential buildings, which would have a total of 82 units between them. An assisted living facility would have 135 beds with varying levels of skilled care available, allowing residents of this development to remain there for the remainder of their days.
Alex Kellner of Kingtone Music at 282 Main St., whose unofficial slogan is “where a handshake still means something” is selling the last of his guitars, drum kits and pedals between, he says, 5 and 12 percent above their wholesale price.
Woodstock may be the first small town in the state to issue municipal identification cards, making it easier for undocumented immigrants and others without paperwork to conduct town and other routine business.
Shandaken building inspector and zoning code officer Howie McGowan told the members of the Woodland Community Association (WCA) that the 33-foot statue Sanjay Rawal proposes to erect in Woodland Valley is not permissible under the town’s building code.
There’s little sign that the hot market for real estate in Kingston in 2019 is slowing. The latest Multiple Listing Service data from the first half of the third quarter of the year confirms that the substantial increase in median sales price over the previous year is continuing.
A car crash this week in the village of Saugerties led police to a man they believe passed a counterfeit $100 bill earlier this month at a local auto parts store.
A previous meeting on the contentious proposal had to be cancelled due to overcapacity. The new location is a middle school. Anyone looking to speak will be disappointed though: It’s not a public hearing.
Topics include: Legion centennial celebration, traffic control issues, bluestone sidewalks.
There may be too much of a good thing. An audit of the past five years’ worth of Town of Lloyd books from state officials revealed that Town Supervisor Paul Hansut’s preference to save money in the budget when he can has been too successful: despite worries that the fund balance has been used too aggressively, staffers at the state comptroller’s office found that it’s actually grown by about $2 million in that time.
The Kingston Planning Board may, at a special meeting set for Sept. 11, be ready to decide just how thorough a review the proposed Kingstonian condo-hotel-parking project will get. Or it may not.