The Kingston planning board this week declined to make a key ruling on the scope of an environmental review of the Kingstonian, the proposed residential, parking and hotel project in Uptown Kingston.
There’s even been talk of a mass resignation if their planning reviews continue to be countered by errant building permits, incomplete applications regarding the town’s land use ordinance, or no code enforcement.
Wednesday, June 5 at 1:30 in the afternoon, Saugerties Police responded to a 911 call reporting a dispute between an Ulster County Highway Department work crew conducting paving in Old Kings Highway, and a motorist who reportedly brandished a handgun during the dispute.
An independent mayoral candidate says he sees racism and an effort to silence outside voices behind a move by city Democrats to challenge his nominating petitions and potentially remove him from November’s ballot.
Thomas Auringer, the Kingston native seeking to expand his New York metro-area construction industry businesses into the Hudson Valley, was given an expensive slapdown by an appellate court last month.
County Executive-elect Pat Ryan will take office on Friday, June 7 and deliver his inaugural address in a ceremony in the Ulster County Courthouse in Uptown Kingston at noon.
State Police arrested a 27-year-old Hudson Valley man on the felony charge of Possession of a Sexual Performance by a Child. The search also turned up illegally possessed firearms by two other persons at the same address.
Saugerties High School has long offered a wide range of course options for the musically inclined, both instrumentalists and voice students. The school’s music program recently added a digital piano lab, giving students a chance to practice in a judgment-free zone.
“It feels like a gut punch to not be able to graduate on the field that we’ve been imagining for 12 years,” said senior class president, Evan Holland-Shepler.
“We get flowers delivered. Why not a cake?” mused Rigdzin Drolma, the proprietor of Me3 Bakery, an online business providing gourmet, elaborately decorated cakes to Woodstock and the surrounding region.