Williams Lumber hopes to ship up to 100 carloads of lumber a year out of the former Lowe’s Plumbing on Smith Avenue, which it owns, next to CSX tracks in Midtown as “an economic alternative to the high cost of shipping by truck.”
A council committee will consider a memorializing resolution calling on state and federal officials to impose stricter controls on firearms and reject donations from gun rights groups like the NRA.
A local activist said last week that she has no idea why she was slapped with a trespassing summons following a March 5 protest in front of the Broadway offices of U.S. Rep. John Faso. But the building’s manager said she filed the complaint against Callie Jayne because the community organizer had ignored previous warnings to keep protests on the sidewalk and out of the parking lot at the 721 Media Center.
Ulster town officials this week revealed that their request to extend the public comment period on a proposed 20-megawatt electric-generating power plant had been denied by the project’s developer, Lincoln Park DG LLC.
The all-male congressional six-pack’s worst nightmare came roaring out of Cooperstown this week with Erin Collier’s announcement she’s entering the overcrowded Democratic fray for Congress.
Eric Francis Coppolino on the restrictions surrounding the Kingston High School walkout
Hundreds of students at Kingston High School participated in a nationwide walkout this morning in tribute to the 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. who lost their lives to gun violence on campus one month earlier.
Nanci Covello marvels when she realizes she’s been making raviolis for over 30 years. Covello started as a child in her grandmother’s kitchen, making pasta every week.
An interview with Sound of Ceres, who will perform at BSP March 30.
A total of seven Democratic candidates and one independent are currently vying for the opportunity to face first-term Republican John Faso of Kinderhook in the Nov. 6 general election. Collier, who will be 34 next week, said she was raised on a fifth-generation family farm near Cooperstown. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in agricultural economics and took a master’s degree in that field from Michigan State University. She works for the US Agency for International Development.