The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office is recommending time in state prison for Connor Chargois, a Saugerties High School student who was caught, police said, with a cache of illegal guns and ammunition in his basement in February after making threatening social media posts.

Neighbors of a proposed horse riding academy off Glasco Turnpike packed a town planning board meeting to complain that the facility, given its close proximity to a residential and commercial area, would cause crowding, pollution and traffic problems.

Maurice Hinchey, the long-time Saugerties resident, assemblyman and congressman who died last November, was honored today with the passage of a bill to name the Saugerties Post Office for him.