Avi Salloway, the bandleader for Billy Wylder, stops by this week. The eclectic and brilliant band will be performing at BSP Kingston this Friday, March 29 as part of its Strike the Match record release tour. The 7:30 p.m. show also features W. M’Bollo and Daturo Road.
Kingston school district officials last week said that they were hoping to trim a further $2.6 million from their nearly $182-million draft budget for the 2019-20 school year. They stopped short of calling the budgetary situation a crisis.
A city-sponsored survey shows broad support for maintaining the Pike Plan canopies among those who live, work and shop in Uptown Kingston. But a majority of property owners whose buildings abut the netowk of covered sidewalks on Wall and North Front streets want to see them removed.
A State Supreme Court ruling will put Rupco’s proposal to build 66 units of affordable senior housing at the site of the former Kingston Alms House back before the city’s planning board.
For a year, the Town of Esopus has been working on its new comprehensive plan, and now the results are in.
It begins on April Fool’s, but it’s not a joke — as a result of the collapse in the global market for recyclables and the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency’s decision to stop accepting the city’s single-stream recycling, dual-stream recycling will commence Monday, April 1, the city announced March 13.
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will have two attorneys on hand to explain tenant rights and how they can represent themselves in court, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Kirkland Building, 2 Main St. in Uptown Kingston.
The party’s convention didn’t produce a candidate for the April 30 special election to fill the county’s top job. Weeks later, it was announced that county Conservative Party Chair Jack Hayes would step into the breach. His opponent will be Democrat Pat Ryan, also of Gardiner, who rose to prominence in last year’s bid for Congress.
A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered in connection with two town of Ulster gun store robberies. “We don’t want to see innocent people get hurt,” said the ATF.
The Kingston High School boys’ varsity basketball team is two wins away from the state championship. Last week the team took care of business, winning their first Section IX, Class AA title in six years, and then punched their ticket to the final four with a commanding win over a perennial powerhouse.