Ulster County Sheriff’s Department gets state grant for body cameras
Attorney General Letitia James today presented the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office with a check for $69,750 for body cameras. The grant will fund the purchase of 93 cameras.
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Ulster thrift stores band together to expand reach
Now, a number of local stores communicate and advertise via the “Ulster County Thrift Stores” Facebook page, which can be followed by shoppers looking for attractive sales and deals and area thrift store volunteers looking to exchange strategies for better sales.
Strict dumping laws mulled after East Kingston trash rash
This week, the Town of Ulster will set a date for a public hearing on what Supervisor James Quigley III said is “the strongest antidumping or illegal dumping law that we can possibly write.”
A new fire: This year’s Burning of Kingston takes a different tack
Without the battles (which never really actually in fact took place) there will be more of an emphasis on the real history of Colonial-era Kingston.
Faces of Kingston: Ethan Scott Barnett
I recently became casually acquainted with the outspoken and quite busy Ethan Scott Barnett, often found passionately chatting with a wide array of people around our city at night, and I suspected a great interview subject as well as interesting human had been found. Thank you to Ethan for taking time and agreeing to be this week’s Faces of Kingston subject.
Ulster County sheriff charts bold course to battle opioid crisis, including anti-withdrawal meds in jail
‘I’m going to be straight with you, I have my reservations,’ said Sheriff Juan Figueroa, who took office in January. ‘But what we’re doing isn’t working. We have to try a new approach.’
For first time in years, Kingston’s school enrollment rises
After more than a decade of declining enrollment that led to the closure of four elementary schools and a comprehensive redrawing of elementary attendance boundaries, the Kingston City School District is enjoying its first significant increase in its student population.
Landscapes meet abstracts in new High Falls show
Robert Hacunda, who grew up in Marlboro but has been many places since, provides the landscape part of this exhibit, which opens this Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Modern Art Gallery in High Falls with a reception from 5-8 p.m. Michael Nighswonger, born in California and a former North Carolinian who moved into town earlier this year after spending eight years in the Adirondacks honing his craft and building an inventory of work, brings the abstracts.
First Pat Ryan budget holds the line on property taxes in Ulster County
The spending plan includes new allocations on initiatives in line with Ryan’s progressive vision for county government while holding the line on taxes.
‘You simply have forfeited your right to live among the innocent’ – 25 to life for Stansberry Sr.
The alleged mastermind of a marijuana robbery scheme that ended in the shooting death of a Kingston man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison last week.