Plans call for Central Hudson to replace a circa-1930’s underground natural gas regulator located underground with an above-ground apparatus in a vacant lot. Neighbors fear it will cause pollution and be an eyesore.
City Comptroller John Tuey will take over the lead in the city’s negotiations with its largest employee union after Mayor Steve Noble stepped away from the bargaining table, citing a conflict of interest involving his wife and fellow city employee.
The uptown building, which currently houses school district offices, is being sold to a hotel developer.
Chef Graziano Tecchio hails from the Old World — Venice, Italy, to be precise — where he grew up learning how to fish, slaughter, butcher, garden, cook and prepare all foods from scratch from his father and other family elders.
The plan envisioned by the mayor would pull together public and private investment, previously planned improvements and newly conceived ones to create a more attractive, more stable and more user-friendly street.
Cuomo’s frivolous lawsuit over property tax deduction; a response to the mayor’s state of the city address.
Contractors began ripping up 11.5 miles of county-owned U&D tracks at the Ashokan Reservoir last week to create a rail trail. Meanwhile, the rail operation at the eastern (Kingston) end of the tracks reported just over 24,000 riders on its Polar Express run from Kingston Plaza to West Hurley last November and December.
When the previous vote was taken, aldermen believed a supermajority of seven votes was required for passage. The measure received five votes, but a court later ruled that was enough. Now, three aldermen are saying if the council had known a simple majority would be sufficient, the outcome may have been different.
The bookstore originally used the president’s alleged disparaging phrase for a display of books by African and Latin American authors, but after criticism, changed it to the older and decidedly unironic “E pluribus unum.”
Old Kingston is officially dead. After 99 years of buying, selling and swapping, Sam’s Surplus Store in Uptown Kingston is closing their doors.