The Ulster Town Board last week granted site plan approval and a special use permit for expansion plans on a Hurley Avenue substation near John A. Coleman Catholic High School owned by Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.
Mayor Steve Noble is saying it may be time for the city to start its own industrial development agency to provide incentives for businesses to start in or move to Kingston. Noble’s remarks come as relations between Ulster County’s IDA and the administration of County Executive Mike Hein have frayed in a dispute over a contract and concerns over leadership at the quasi-governmental agency.
Shrinking officer ranks, three-year stalemate damaging morale, says PBA president.
The 30-year old Woodstock legislator will lead the majority Democratic caucus in a turbulent time. Mike Hein, Ulster’s first and only county executive, is on the way out after a decade at the helm. In the next few years, we’ll find out if Hein’s muscular style of governing is the new norm, or if the legislator will reassert some of its power.
Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will seek a second four-year term in office where, he said, he’ll build on the accomplishments of his current term while striking a balance between the need to expand the city’s tax base by attracting new residents and businesses and the need to protect the city’s working class neighborhoods from the impact of gentrification.
Prominent Kingston defense attorney Bryan Rounds will launch his campaign for county judge on the steps of the Ulster County Courthouse next week.
Already required in commercial buildings, the cost of adding sprinklers is now considered affordable enough to be mandated where people sleep. The village is considering requiring them in new construction and in rentals undergoing significant renovations.
The Kiwanis Ice Arena, the chilly jewel of Saugerties whose long-term fate has been a point of contention among town officials for nearly a decade, is still in need of repair or replacement.
‘We support the idea of allowing STRs, particularly if they’re owner-occupied. But there has to be a way to balance the positive aspects versus the negatives.’
Woodstock joins other communities in support of the Driver License Access Privacy Act, also known as Green Light NY, making its way through the state legislature.