Hacked emails obtained and released by Wikileaks from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman show that high-level Democrats talked about how to keep New York Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout on the sidelines during last spring’s high-stakes New York presidential primary against Bernie Sanders.
The company’s founder, Calandra C. Cruickshank, grew up in the Town of Shandaken, still lives deep in the Catskills, and runs her business out of Kingston.
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On the afternoon of Nov. 4, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade swept into Kingston, after traveling north over the Wurts Street Bridge on Route 9W. It stopped in front of the Gov. Clinton Hotel before the president, on the eve of his re-election, gave a brief speech at Academy Green, across the street. Local businessman William O’Reilly was there and stepped right up out of the crowd to the president’s car to film the scene. “People have said, ‘I can’t think of your father without that black movie camera in front of his face,’” recalled his daughter Patricia Murphy, former president of Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK).
History, both local and global, is full of examples of public officials letting the public down. But here in Ulster County and specifically in both the City of Kingston and the Town of Ulster, the public has been excellently served by those responsible for drawing up next year’s budgets.
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$175,000 is expected to be raised by metering the city’s six parking lots in Uptown, Midtown and the Rondout.
Federal officials say they’ve brought down a Kingston-based cocaine trafficking organization that imported drugs from California via New York City for sale on local streets. Twenty-eight members of the alleged drug ring were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 13 in predawn raids in Kingston and Poughkeepsie. Police say three people named in the indictment remain at large.
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Rupco & Mary Stuart Masterson’s Stockade Works would like to transform the cavernous former MetLife building on Greenkill Avenue in Kingston into a TV/film production studio and training center.