This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Hugh’s Christmas list. As Hugh has detailed in the past, each one-line mention can require a hundred words of explanation. If you’re on the list, you know what he means. Otherwise- good luck!
Families began to line up outside the doors at about 11 Monday night, waiting in the cold for the doors to open the next morning at 9, where they could be ushered in from the cold to do their holiday “shopping” for their kids. This was not Black Friday and these weren’t the doors to the mall. Families were lined up and huddled in anticipation outside of People’s Place Food Pantry and Thrift Store on St. James Street in Kingston.
According to police, Seth P. Lyons laid out for them a horrific sequence of events that began with a missing cell phone and ended with Anthony Garro Jr. beaten to death, stripped naked and left beneath a pile of brush.
Activists showed up at a city police commission meeting on Wednesday to express frustration that Kingston wasn’t responding quickly — or forcefully — enough to a rash of complaints about excessive force, racial profiling and other issues.
It’s Charles Blaichman’s ninth purchase in the Stockade neighborhood. He plans to use the property for parking for four planned boutique hotels.
The school district sold its administration building to a hotel developer for $4.25-million. The price was significantly higher than expected and was part of a mini real estate boom in the Uptown section of the city.
We may have lost the battle, let’s win the war.
Globelamp (aka Elizabeth Gomez aka Elizabeth Le Fay) is in the Woodstock-Kingston area to record the follow up to 2016’s The Orange Glow, released on Wichita Records, at Bohemesphere Studios in Saugerties. ‘I’d never been to Upstate New York,” she says. “I like it here. It reminds me of the Taylor Swift album Red.’
The Washington Avenue sinkhole may have been filled in but it continues to drain city finances. The latest project involves clearing a blocked sewer line caused by earlier work at the site.
When government officials routinely appropriate rather large sums to balance their budgets, it seems to me the books weren’t really balanced in the first place. It’s like a floating crap game, with the public putting up the stakes.