Changes coming to Kingston police complaint procedure
The changes come as the city is weighing at least three excessive force complaints.
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Kingston GOP chair Joe Ingarra quits
The party faithful say last week’s election drubbing had nothing to do with it.
Kingston bus deal on the table: The route times they are a changin’ (maybe)
For those who’ve stood on Kingston street corners beginning to wonder whether they might have missed the hourly Citibus, help might be on the way.
There go the rails: Ulster County legislature votes to rip up tracks along Ashokan Reservoir
The legislation fulfills a December 2016 compromise which allowed Catskill Mountain Railroad to operate its tourist trains from Kingston to West Hurley while the county moved forward with plans to establish the Ashokan hiking/biking trail.
Sheriff: Don’t watch the NFL
Ulster County sheriff Paul VanBlarcum stirred controversy this weekend with a post on the sheriff’s department’s official Facebook page calling for a boycott of the NFL over the Veterans’ Day weekend in to protest some players kneeling during pre-game performances of the national anthem.
Can Wiltwyck Golf Club survive?
The fabled golf course in the town of Ulster is under severe financial pressure. Short of taking a Mulligan, the volunteer directors of the Wiltwyck Golf Club in the Town of Ulster say they have done everything they can think of to save the facility, including a discussion to sell it to the county government last July as an all-season recreation destination.
Formal complaint against Kingston cops expected in caught-on-video arrest
A local activist group plans to file a formal complaint against Kingston police officers who, they charge, used a Taser on a man 21 times during a 2015 scuffle on Broadway that was caught on a police dashboard camera and the man’s cell phone.
In Kingston, Dems keep 8-1 advantage on Common Council; Woltman unseats Berky
The blowout by Democrats in the ward races was offset by a single Republican victory in the County Legislature’s District 7, where Democrat-turned-Republican Brian Woltman defeated freshman Democratic lawmaker Jennifer Schwartz Berky.
UC Legislature: Jean Jacobs challenges Dave Donaldson
The race in county legislature District 6, which covers the city’s third, fifth and ninth wards, features a contest between Dave Donaldson on the Democratic and Working Families party lines and Jean Jacobs running on the Republican and Independence Party Lines.
UC Legislature: Woltman seeks to unseat Berky
The race for Ulster County Legislature’s seventh district was roiled last week by the release of a dashcam video of a May 24 incident involving Berky and Town of Ulster Police Officer Gary Short.