Kingston mayor Steve Noble credits strong fiscal discipline and higher-than-anticipated revenues for a windfall in the city’s reserve fund that will pay for additional paving projects this summer. But his Republican opponent in this fall’s election cites the city’s robust fund balance as evidence of overtaxation of Kingston property owners.
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has granted full project approval to HealthAlliance for the significant expansion of its hospital on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston.
After serving as interim county exec for several months, Reiter was tapped to lead the comptroller’s office. Both the county executive and comptroller at the start of 2019 left to take state jobs.
Patrick Ryan was sworn in as Ulster County executive on Friday, June 7, marking the first transition of power since the office was established a decade ago.
So far, over 100 municipal IDs have been issued, city says.
In April, Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino and Kingston Mayor Steve Noble expressed confidence that a deal to transfer full ownership of Dietz Stadium to the city was imminent.Two months later, a deal has yet to be struck, and some members of the Board of Education are questioning whether the district should proceed.
The Kingston planning board this week declined to make a key ruling on the scope of an environmental review of the Kingstonian, the proposed residential, parking and hotel project in Uptown Kingston.
An independent mayoral candidate says he sees racism and an effort to silence outside voices behind a move by city Democrats to challenge his nominating petitions and potentially remove him from November’s ballot.
County Executive-elect Pat Ryan will take office on Friday, June 7 and deliver his inaugural address in a ceremony in the Ulster County Courthouse in Uptown Kingston at noon.
Voters will be able to cast ballots at any of the centers regardless of where they are registered in the county. To accommodate the new system, state funding will pay for the purchase of “ballot on demand” printers that can produce ballots custom-tailored for voters election districts. The money will also fund electronic poll books that will automatically update every few minutes to prevent fraud by people voting at multiple sites.