$800K from Albany to help Bread Alone rise
“It’s good for our business and it’s good for our employees. It means more jobs. It means that we can look at opportunities that we might not have been able to look at without it.”
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Kingston declares holiday at parking meters
The city is loosening up the parking rules until Jan. 2, Mayor Steve Noble announced this week.
UCCRA to Kingston: You’re out of time
The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency has turned down a request by Kingston Mayor Steve Noble to continue to accept single-stream recycling as the city transitions back to a dual-stream system. The decision this week leaves city officials scrambling for a way to process hundreds of tons of mixed recyclables with just two weeks before a deadline.
25 to life for the murderer Seth Lyons
Seth Lyons knew Anthony Garro for just a few minutes before he beat him to death.
Faso reflects on term, offers advice to Delgado
“This was an election where most of the Democrats and most of the people who voted for my opponent were motivated by opposition to the president,” said Faso.
Next year’s ‘Burning of Kingston’ cancelled as troops get better offer
The Burning of Kingston, the every-other-year celebration of the city’s Revolutionary War heritage centered around Kingston’s destruction by ravaging Redcoats
Ulster Town Board declares no environmental harm coming from solar farm plan
The Ulster Town Board last week cleared the path for the proposed Cypress Creek Renewables/Landau Creek Solar project to move forward, citing a negative declaration of environmental impact after developers responded to concerns from the public.
Wurts Street Bridge to close until February
The Wurts Street Bridge, which connects the City of Kingston to Port Ewen and beyond, is expected to be closed to traffic beginning Monday, December 17 through February 1, 2019, while crews perform maintenance operations, the state Department of Transportation announced this week.
Kingston man tried to steal thousands with fake-check scheme
Ulster County law enforcement officials say that a forged-check scheme uncovered by the District Attorney’s Office illustrates how social media and easily available software brings age-old scams into today’s world.
New warming center opens at Midtown Kingston church
What started in 2014 as an ad-hoc effort by a group of volunteers to provide emergency cold-weather shelter to Kingston’s homeless at a Clinton Avenue church has evolved into a fully funded county-program with, as of last month, a new home.