Pat Ryan scored a decisive victory — and claimed a mandate for a progressive county government — in Tuesday’s special election to fill the remainder of former county executive Mike Hein’s term.
Voters will go to the polls next Tuesday, April 30 to choose a county executive for the remainder of 2019. Democrat and former 19th District congressional hopeful Patrick Ryan will face Ulster County Conservative Party Chairman Jack Hayes, running on the Republican line. The winner of the special election will fill the vacancy left when Mike Hein resigned in February to take a post in the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Another election in November will choose a county executive for a full four-year term.
Last year, other law enforcement agencies paid $730,000 to place inmates in the county jail. In 2017, boarding fees amounted to $900,000. But those days may be over.
Police say a registered sex offender and another resident of a Janet Street home sold heroin and fentanyl from the house. A local alderman, meanwhile, said that the house had been a persistent source of neighborhood complaints in the year leading up to the bust.
Ulster County is moving to foreclose on a major portion of the former IBM plant in the Town of Ulster after the owner missed an April 18 deadline. The move marks the latest blow to plans to redevelop the sprawling former industrial complex under the leadership of owner Alan Ginsberg, who purchased the site in 1998.
The Kingston Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit concluded an investigation yesterday into the sale of heroin and fentanyl from a residence on Janet Street in the City of Kingston with the arrests of two men and a woman.
The owners of the Guido Restaurant Group will open a new eatery at the site of the former Redwood at 63 North Front St. in Uptown this June, a release stated Tuesday, April 23.
Ulster Commons is a 14.66-acre property with six lots along Ulster Avenue, five of which are already developed; the hotel would be built on the sixth lot. Already at Ulster Commons are a CareMount Medical building, a branch of Ulster Savings Bank, a recently opened Smoothie King, a Tractor Supply Co. store and a vacant fast food restaurant building that was briefly a Hardee’s.
Two members of Kingston’s Historic Preservation Landmarks Commission have resigned in protest after Mayor Steve Noble decided to replace two fellow commissioners on the volunteer board that oversees preservation efforts in the city.
As the city’s planning board is working to decide just how extensive the environmental review for the Kingstonian should be, an engineer for the developers of the site said this week he believes his bosses will pull the plug on the $53 million proposed residential, commercial and parking project if planners demand they produce a full environmental impact statement.