And so it came to pass that in the Year of Our Lord 2018 our humble columnist (that’s myself, in case you were wondering) found themself eating Annie’s organic honey Bunny Grahams in bed and pondering which of the 10 albums from tribal metal legend Max Cavalera’s Soulfly is the heaviest.
Few of the players who turned up on Saturday morning will get a call to come work with the first unit, and even fewer might get into a Stockade game this season. But with the team looking to build not only for the present, but also the future, club officials were pleased with what they saw on the frosty Dietz grounds.
A new activist group plans to focus on harnessing grassroots energy to address city-level issues like housing and police-community relations. Rise Up Kingston also plans to address big-picture issues, like racism, at a local level. The group will host a launch party and fundraiser at Rough Draft Bar and Books on Monday, April 16.
Born on his father’s farm in Highland six days before Germany’s Red Baron was shot down, Edwin Millard Ford, Kingston’s iconic historian, will mark his centenary with a gathering of some 125 invited guests at White Eagle Hall on April 15.
U.S. Soccer this week announced the first-round pairings for the 105th edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, with Kingston Stockade FC set to hit the road when it battles the Long Island Rough Riders Soccer Club of the Premier Development League (PDL) on Wednesday, May 9.
For the first time since before most of its players were even born, the Kingston High School varsity girls lacrosse team will open its season with a coach other than Deb Eaton at the helm.
After months of rigorous training, much of it indoors and behind closed doors, Kingston Stockade FC will open its third-ever season with a couple of friendlies, a warm return to the friendly confines of Dietz Stadium, and will then open the year by playing in the 105th edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup just days before the National Premier Soccer League season gets underway.
A talk on medical marijuana for seniors will be held Thursday, March 29 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at the Kingston Library Community Room, 55 Franklin St.
An interview with Sound of Ceres, who will perform at BSP March 30.
The story goes something like this: Legs Diamond, a mid-level bootlegger, somehow managed to gain control of Kington’s Barmann Brewery and ship its product via rail and truck to the various speakeasies he operated in this area and New York. More intriguing was that was Legs, after paying off willing city officials, ran subterranean beer lines along sewers to the scores of bars then operating (illegally) in the city.