The focus of Pat Ryan’s first State-of-the-County address at Kingston High School was programs and initiatives that would provide more economic opportunities to keep more young people in Ulster County after graduation. Ryan graduated from the school 20 years ago.
Wednesday, March 4: Former New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger & former Doe Jones Senior Vice President James Ottaway to discuss the future of the press at SUNY-New Paltz.
Contractor Joe Karolys, who the town spent most of 2019 fighting in court over the legality of several dump sites, is now being accused of diverting a stream, which has flooded the capped town landfill and two neighboring residential properties.
While other communities may treat the homeless like a problem that needs to be swept away, the Woodstock police have taken the role of providing assistance when needed and wanted as long as they are not causing friction within the community.
Janet and Darryl Greene’s new Trolley Stop Cafe is located in the heart of the Highland hamlet at 58 Vineyard Avenue, just off Main Street in the downtown area. It’s a family business, with Janet running the front of the house and Darryl in the kitchen. Daughters Alanna and Geneva provide table service and son Nathan helps out when he can. No strangers to the hospitality business, the Greenes were longtime owners and proprietors of the now-defunct Inn at Orchard Heights in New Paltz.
Pedestrians are being hit by cars on Main Street in New Paltz in much higher numbers recently, according to data presented to the New Paltz Village Board last week by Lieutenant Robert Lucchesi of the town police force — more than quadrupling in just two years. But village trustees say state officials oppose changes that would make the road safer.
Ulster County lawmakers say they anticipate a “hard conversation” about staffing levels at the Ulster County Jail in light of both the new bail reform law and a broader trend away from incarceration for low-level offenders. But Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa said this week he believes it’s still too early to predict what the long-term impact of the reforms on the jail population will be.
The Kingston Common Council is expected to begin deliberations next month on whether and how to adopt new regulations that would cap annual rent increases at some city apartments. The proposed rent stabilization rules are part of a broader effort by city officials to stem gentrification and displacement.
The Catskill Mountain News, the Catskills region’s oldest continuously published weekly newspaper, last week announced its immediate suspension in a letter from its publisher of the past two and a half years, Joan Lawrence-Bauer.
Police stage bank robbery; plain-clothes officers to be dispatched during peak nightlife hours to ticket public urinators; sewer plant needs repairs; fees to increase; and more.