People decry the state of modern politics, but its child’s play compared to when, in the late 19th century, the Republican-controlled Ulster County board of supervisors remade, for the sake of anti-immigrant sentiment, the county’s largest municipality.
Kingston Stockade FC chairman Dennis Crowley recently published an exhaustive account of what it’s like to start a new soccer club. “That’s the tricky thing that people are having trouble wrapping their heads around,” Crowley said. “Why would you share this information? That’s the point. You want to have a whole bunch of clubs.
Hopefully, next week won’t birth a racist paradise or nuclear war or any more references to Anthony Weiner ever again in modern times (let that be the last one). In case that doesn’t work for you, I do have plenty of good news about upcoming rock ‘n’ roll concerts to whet your appetite for life anew and help you face the days ahead.
“We got married in 1996, and at the wedding we had ministers, priests and parole officers”
‘At the risk of sounding tribalistic, I think Kingston is doing everything right …’
On the afternoon of Nov. 4, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade swept into Kingston, after traveling north over the Wurts Street Bridge on Route 9W. It stopped in front of the Gov. Clinton Hotel before the president, on the eve of his re-election, gave a brief speech at Academy Green, across the street. Local businessman William O’Reilly was there and stepped right up out of the crowd to the president’s car to film the scene. “People have said, ‘I can’t think of your father without that black movie camera in front of his face,’” recalled his daughter Patricia Murphy, former president of Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK).
Kingston dentist holds rally to promote oral hygiene technique
Kingston resident and former John A. Coleman Catholic High School JV boys’ basketball coach Les Lombardi was named as one of two conference honorees by the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), and will be enshrined in the “MAAC Experience” exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this month.
The hiring of a full-time, salaried executive director was necessitated by the museum’s dramatic growth.
‘I remember a time when you could save the entire world just with a joystick and one red button. People want that back.’