On a sunny Monday morning in Uptown Kingston, Michelle Hinchey officially launched her campaign for state Senate, flanked by a Who’s Who of local Democratic elected officials, and standing in the same spot where her father — a legend in local politics — launched his political career 47 years earlier.
County legislators voted 18-2 to tighten up the definition of “refuse” in Chapter 304 of the county code on Sept. 19, prompted to action by instances of construction and demolition debris trucked in from downstate and New Jersey to communities like Saugerties and Rochester.
Today, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-Rhinebeck) called on Congress to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, citing the president’s admission yesterday that he discussed former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son with the president of Ukraine.
Is it worth the time and effort? The department superintendent says it isn’t. A village trustee disagrees.
Topics include: Speed indicator on Ulster Ave.; insurance hardball; praise for gas line contractor; bluestone sidewalks; beach weeds are gone.
The law was authored in response to a controversial construction and debris dumping operation in Saugerties, which has left the town suspended between conflicting town and county laws and unable, despite stop-work orders from the town, county and state, to stop the daily parade of debris-dumping trucks coming in from downstate.
Topics include: Legion centennial celebration, traffic control issues, bluestone sidewalks.
The coordinator, TV23’s lone paid employee, is doing a full-time job on part-time pay, said a member of the board.
Starting with this fall’s crop of legislators and county officials, legislators can serve no more than six full terms and executives and comptrollers no more than three.
Topics include: Autozone land transfers; new dog groomer on Rt. 212; Kings Highway recycling center; Malden Turnpike subdivision.