Kingston Mayor Steve Noble said Tuesday that the city will dramatically scale back a proposal to introduce paid parking kiosks in all city-owned lots. Noble also suggested that if the economics didn’t work out, the city may abandon the by-the-hour parking scheme for the currently free-of-charge lots entirely.
This is not your father’s real-estate market.
The Kingston High School varsity baseball team isn’t just ready for the season to begin; after a long winter and a wet start to spring, the Tigers are really looking forward to getting outside in the sunshine.
Topics include: Faso, Kingston parking, Pilgrim Pipeline protest
Tony’s Pizzeria on Broadway was pretty nicely packed on Monday, March 27 as the Kingston Land Trust held a gathering to present its new executive director, Julia Farr, and to rally itself for the year ahead.
The Ulster County exec held a health care forum, in which he rallied an already indignant crowd against “heartless” Republicans, while our congressman risked an unpopular vote.
The mayor said the Department of Public Works, which worked round-the-clock shifts for three days to cope with the storm, had billed $38,000 in overtime during the most recent payroll period.
A new report attempts to provide a snapshot of Ulster County’s raging heroin epidemic. But law enforcement officials conceded this week that collecting data remains a work in progress and the report likely undercounts the true toll of opioid abuse in the region.
With New York State moving swiftly towards legislation that would raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright sounded a dire warning that the sweeping changes to the state’s juvenile justice system could hinder the prosecution of violent crimes and endanger public safety.
Auerbach claimed that the cuts were intended to hamstring his ability to perform his duty as a watchdog on county finances and were enacted as retaliation for his scrutiny of spending by the Hein administration.