Robin Jacobowitz News Today

KINGSTON, N.Y. — School district officials have their doubts about the city’s ability to have Dietz Stadium renovations completed by Aug. 30 of next year, saying municipal officials have not provided straight answers regarding documents dealing with the project’s timetable. During a meeting Wednesday, school board members questioned the sequence of partial information given by […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. –  In an unexpected move, the Kingston Board of Education unanimously selected second-year Trustee and one-month Vice-President Marie Anderson as full-time president a month after the board was deadlocked in a vote between two others — the former president and another candidate who resigned on Monday. The appointment was made Wednesday in an […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — School district Trustee Herb Lamb has resigned from the Board of Education and says he will be filing a complaint against up to four of its members for unspecified reasons. Lamb said Monday during a telephone interview that problems leading to the resignation date to at least to the 6-3 vote against […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The candidates seeking to become school board president are in solidarity with the ability to speak freely about systemic racism in society, rejecting contentions from a mayoral candidate that comments made at rallies should disqualify someone from leading the district. Steven Spicer, who has been president for two years until encountering a […]