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KINGSTON, N.Y. — The city is considering a real-estate transfer tax to help fund a number of initiatives in its still-to-be-adopted 2023 Community Preservation Plan that include space conservation and historic preservation. During a presentation at the Common Council’s March Laws and Rules Committee meeting, Julie Noble, the city’s environmental education and sustainability coordinator, shared […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. – A group of 56 officials — including an Ulster County legislator, most Kingston lawmakers and three lawmakers from Dutchess County— are urging the state legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul to favor the proposed so-called Good Cause Eviction law. The officials signed a letter sent by Local Progress, a group made up of […]

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KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Common Council is considering increasing fines for cutting down a city-owned tree by five times, from $250 to $1,250. The council’s Laws and Rules Committee unanimously approved a resolution to increase the fines at its meeting Wednesday, Jan. 17. Michelle Hirsch, D-Ward 9, said property owners cutting down city-owned trees is […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The city Laws and Rules Committee voted unanimously to approve extending an inter-municipal agreement between the Kingston Police Department and the town of Ulster Police Department. The five lawmakers in the committee also approved extending the term of the agreement to two years from one upon the request of Kingston Police Chief […]

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KINGSTON, N.Y. — Mayor Steve Noble emphasized addressing the city’s housing crisis in his next term at his inauguration at City Hall on Monday, Jan. 1. In his State of the City address, Noble promised the city will approve the construction of 1,000 housing units over the next five years, along with an ongoing commitment […]

EXCLUSIVE: Amateur actress Ethel McGill, then 68, used all her thespian skills to pretend she had dementia as part of a long-running benefits and disability fraud that ended with her being jailed.

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KINGSTON, N.Y. — City lawmakers laid plans to make apprenticeship guidelines less prohibitive for small contractors, eliminating an annual graduation requirement that Common Council Majority Leader Reynolds Scott-Childress, D-Ward 3, said was “problematic.” At a Common Council Caucus meeting on Monday, Oct. 2, city aldermen said they planned to vote on an alteration to apprenticeship […]