Three men accused in the December 2018 murder of a man during an alleged marijuana robbery may get separate trials after prosecutors said in court this week they planned to use texts between two of the codefendants to make their case.
Every January, state lawmakers convene for their annual legislative session accompanied by lobbyists for everything from banning cat declawing to new gun control measures. For 13 of those sessions, Kingston resident Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has showed up to push a proposition at once both simple and controversial — a law that would allow adoptees to have the same access to their birth certificates as any other New Yorker.
A State Supreme Court justice approved the pistol permit over the strenuous objections, on the grounds of the killer’s repeated run-ins with town police, of Sheriff Juan Figueroa, Sheriff’s Chief Civil Administrator John McGovern and Saugerties Police Chief Joe Sinagra.
UCAT will now be operating modified CitiBus routes. All City of Kingston bus service on the Red, Blue and Yellow (formerly the A, B and C) routes will be free of charge to passengers until the end of the year.
In February, after Kingston Republicans failed to find a nominee to challenge Mayor Steve Noble, it appeared that the incumbent Democrat might have a free ride to a second term. Four months later, Noble has gone from no opponents to three.
“In light of statements and threats coming out of Washington, D.C., we are here to make a clear, unequivocal statement about our values as a county and about our values as a community,” said County Executive Pat Ryan. “We reject division, we reject fear-mongering, we reject xenophobia.”
The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office has formed a Conviction Integrity Unit to review cases with an eye towards identifying instances where an innocent person may have been convicted for a crime they didn’t commit.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation will next Thursday, June 27 hold its first of two dates of public information and feedback sessions of the coming cleanup of the old Dyno Nobel/Hercules Powder Co. site in Ulster Park, where explosives were manufactured for almost 100 years before shutting down in 2010.
Sheriff Juan Figueroa discussed the office’s policies at a recent meeting with a community group. His position represents a change from the former sheriff, who was cooperative.
The new law opens the door for rent control, caps security deposits, toughens regulations on evictions, bans “blacklists” of troublesome tenants, and more. The law was opposed by New York’s real estate interests, one of the most powerful lobbies in the state, and is the product of unified Democratic control of state government for the first time in over a decade.