Alderwoman blocks Kingston parking kiosks
The president of the Kingston Common Council said that lawmakers on Tuesday, Feb. 7 voted to temporarily table a key element of Mayor Steve Noble’s plan to institute paid parking on municipal lots.
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Serial re-enterer to be sent back to Mexico
A Kingston resident who, federal officials say, returned to the U.S. after being deported back to Mexico for having entered this country illegally is being prepared to be sent back again.
Smorgasburg coming back to Kingston, but only one weekend a month
Smorgasburg Upstate will return to the Hutton Brickyards for a second season in 2017, with the extension of the popular Brooklyn-based food and flea market shifting its focus from every Saturday to Saturdays and Sundays once per month between May and October.
Ulster County man dies in wood-splitter accident
Deputies and detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of a Phoenicia man subsequent to an accident that occurred in West Hurley.
New web-based system augments HealthAlliance’s stroke care
Officials at HealthAlliance of Hudson Valley say that new technology will help fill gaps in critically needed specialties and save precious minutes when dealing with strokes and other neurological emergencies.
Kingston’s Jill Draper raising money to wipe out students’ cafeteria debts
Jill Draper never planned on starting a local movement. The Kingston resident and small business owner said she only wanted to find a way to help local kids when she committed $500 toward erasing student lunch debt. And now, thanks to other generous donors, the debt district-wide is within reach.
For NYC transplants, finding good work in the Hudson Valley can be a challenge
One of the ways to do so has been somehow to create one’s own job. Though that’s a tough road, thousands of people have tried to do it, combining their creative skills, business acumen, imagination and not a little tenacity.
Masterson’s paintings highlight ‘people of the fields,’ now on view in Kingston
Barbara Masterson, who lives on a farm at the top of a small mountain in the southern Ulster hamlet of Milton, had always painted landscapes. But one day in May 2015, when she was out painting on a neighboring farm in Marlborough, some migrant workers wandered into the scene and her subject began to change. “I just painted them in quickly,” she said. “It was kismet. I was just innocently painting and they just kind of appeared.”
Demonstrators at Congressman John Faso’s home ask him to oppose Trump’s plans
Roughly 1,000 people protested outside Republican congressman John Faso’s Kinderhook office and home last Saturday. If the mood that had driven the crowd to the congressman’s doors was grim, the protest itself was a peaceful, even buoyant affair.
Health Quest might set up shop at Hudson Valley Mall
Ulster town supervisor James Quigley says that the rumors of Health Quest taking over the former Macy’s at the Hudson Valley Mall are more than just rumors.