‘Speed dating’ event matches shelter pups with people
If you are in the market for a sweet, well-trained dog and are wondering where to start, why not start this Sunday with a “doggie speed dating” event to find your “pawfect” match?
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RUPCO makes Alms House all 55-and-over
One week before a crucial public hearing on the project, officials at RUPCO announced changes to a proposed supportive housing development at the site of the old Kingston Alms House. The new plan calls for all 66 units at the site to be restricted to residents aged 55 and over.
Hein pitches plan to reform county’s campaign finance laws
Flanked by good-government advocates County Executive Mike Hein on Wednesday, May 31 unveiled proposed legislation that would make Ulster the first upstate county to offer public matching funds for elections.
St. Joseph’s School to merge with Kingston Catholic
Starting with the next school year, Uptown parochial school St. Joseph’s will close and most of its students attend downtown Kingston Catholic, the Archdiocese announced Wednesday, May 31.
David O’Halloran, ranch owner, ex-county official, passes unexpectedly
The sudden death Tuesday, May 29, of David O’Halloran at age 56 has been met with shock and grief in the town where he was widely considered a leading citizen.
Kingston After Dark: Be yourself
Worth putting on your radar: Butchers Blind and The Sweet Clementines June 10 at The Anchor.
Stockade FC ties Hartford City and gets partial payback for opening day loss
If Stockade FC didn’t mete out the measure of revenge they were hoping for when they boarded the bus for a rematch with Hartford City FC on Saturday, they did the next best thing, picking up a point in a 2-2 draw where all the scoring was done before the half.
Pike Plan designers off the legal hook
More than a decade after it was conceived and six years after completion, the overhaul of uptown Kingston’s Pike Plan canopy remains mired in litigation. But the designers of the ill-starred restoration project are no longer liable, after a judge ruled that the city had missed a filing deadline by a month.
Graffiti in Kingston: Blight, brilliance or both?
The value of graffiti is very much in the beholder’s eye.
Two Kingston artists featured in Dubai exhibit
Andrew Lyght, a Guyana-born artist whose home and studio are located in a former mule barn in Ponckhockie, and Valerie Piraino, who left Brooklyn a year ago with her husband, Drew Piraino, to move into a house in Connelly, are two of the four artists represented in a Dubai exhibition that opened this month.