The state Department of Environmental Conservation will next Thursday, June 27 hold its first of two dates of public information and feedback sessions of the coming cleanup of the old Dyno Nobel/Hercules Powder Co. site in Ulster Park, where explosives were manufactured for almost 100 years before shutting down in 2010.
Sheriff Juan Figueroa discussed the office’s policies at a recent meeting with a community group. His position represents a change from the former sheriff, who was cooperative.
“Isn’t it fair and reasonable that the City of Kingston, with its burgeoning arts scene, now wants to create a policy for the future that is clear and fair to all who want to create public art in Kingston?” asks a reader.
Nearly 30 years after city historian Edwin Ford first identified an African-American burial ground on Pine Street and after repeated attempts by local historians to protect the site failed, it’s finally happened.
The new law opens the door for rent control, caps security deposits, toughens regulations on evictions, bans “blacklists” of troublesome tenants, and more. The law was opposed by New York’s real estate interests, one of the most powerful lobbies in the state, and is the product of unified Democratic control of state government for the first time in over a decade.
The city of Kingston today announced details of the annual Fourth of July celebration and fireworks on Thursday, July 4, held at Kingston’s Downtown waterfront. Food vendors will start serving at 4 p.m., with live music from 5-9 p.m. at T.R. Gallo Park.
Looking for something a little different and more challenging than another bar crawl on the weekends? Uptown Swing is a monthly night of hot jazz and swing dance in Kingston, typically at The Beverly (technically Midtown at 224 Foxhall) and presented in coordination with BSP Kingston.
A Nassau County-based real estate company has been expanding its holdings in the Hudson Valley and some tenants are not happy. The conflict is playing out against a backdrop of concerns about gentrification and renewed activism among renters which has already resulted in the passage of a state law increasing tenant protections.
Kingston’s school district has announced that Kira Milgrim is the valedictorian and Coleman Kane-Horrigan the salutatorian of the Kingston High School Class of 2019. The pair were narrowly separated by decimal points in their grade-point averages.
Kingston mayor Steve Noble credits strong fiscal discipline and higher-than-anticipated revenues for a windfall in the city’s reserve fund that will pay for additional paving projects this summer. But his Republican opponent in this fall’s election cites the city’s robust fund balance as evidence of overtaxation of Kingston property owners.