Kingston teen shot in midtown; police seek info
The victim was treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen and later released.
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Delgado’s farm relief bill signed into law
Hailing it as both vital for helping family farms keep going and as an example of how laws can actually be made in our era of hyper-partisan politics, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado announced this week the signing by President Trump of the Family Farmer Relief Act.
Town of Ulster settles tax reduction case with owners of Home Depot parcel
Faced with the prospect of spending significantly more money fighting the case in court than capitulating will cost, the Ulster Town Board on Aug. 15 announced a settlement with Florida Samas Venture, Inc., to reduce the assessment on a property occupied by Home Depot from $6.91 million to $6.5 million.
K-town real estate still cooking
There’s little sign that the hot market for real estate in Kingston in 2019 is slowing. The latest Multiple Listing Service data from the first half of the third quarter of the year confirms that the substantial increase in median sales price over the previous year is continuing.
Route 28 concrete plant meeting to be held Thursday, Aug. 29
A previous meeting on the contentious proposal had to be cancelled due to overcapacity. The new location is a middle school. Anyone looking to speak will be disappointed though: It’s not a public hearing.
Planning board sets 9/11 special meeting, sets 9/4 cutoff for written comments on Kingstonian
The Kingston Planning Board may, at a special meeting set for Sept. 11, be ready to decide just how thorough a review the proposed Kingstonian condo-hotel-parking project will get. Or it may not.
Newburgh man convicted of attempted rape following child-sex sting
On September 8, 2019, Travis Sammeth made contact with an undercover police officer through an online website. He expressed interest in having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and made arrangements to meet with who he believed to be the 14-year-old girl and her stepfather. When Sammeth arrived at the designated location, the Hudson Valley Mall, he was arrested. In reaching their verdict, the jury found that Sammeth had the intent to engage in sexual intercourse with a minor and that his conduct came dangerously close to completing that intent.
East Kingston rock slides cause concern
According to Ulster Town officials, heavy rains over the past week have yielded no further encroachment by a rockslide on Main Street in East Kingston. A rockslide on Thursday, July 25 was followed by a minor slide on Friday, Aug. 9 at Callanan’s East Kingston quarry site. But at least one local resident has found fault with both Callanan and the municipal response, saying she feels like Town Supervisor James Quigley III is siding with the company over the people of East Kingston.
Alleged Ulster County heroin dealer charged with homicide in connection with overdose
In a first for Ulster County, an alleged drug dealer has been charged with criminally negligent homicide following an overdose death; in this case, it was heroin laced with fentanyl that killed a woman in May of 2018.
Kingston man wanted on parole violations found with gun, cocaine
A Kingston man wanted on a parole violation warrant was picked up with both a gun and cocaine by police in the Town of Lloyd, authorities said.