fbpx
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
    • Get Home Delivery
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Customer Support
    • Submit A News Tip
    • Where’s My Paper?
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
  • Holiday Gift Subscription
Hudson Valley One
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
Hudson Valley One
No Result
View All Result

Letters: Civics defined, Niagara Bottling, economic development

by Dan Barton
April 14, 2016
in Letters, Voices
0

ktx hudsonfultonstampThe definition of civics

Kingston Citizens has prevailed in the Niagara Bottling proposal: a very fine job.

I found this definition of Civics and I think it fits very well: “The art of being a prosocial problem-solving contributor in a self governing community.”

Yes, that fits Kingston Citizens quite well.

I expect there will be some grumbling about “naysayers” and “nimby” and public interference … understandable, of course, but will not be taken seriously.

At the very least, there can be no disagreement that Kingston Citizens did a fabulous job of informing the public and contacting the offices of power in a clear, full presentation of real costs to be weighed against benefits, which were, after all, not well defined at all.

The City of Kingston has been very well served and this community’s work has been widely noted with great respect.

Gerald Berke, KingstonCorridor.com, Kingston

Larger firms for higher wages

On Thursday, Feb. 12 on WGHQ’s Kingston Community Radio, talking with Ward Todd, I mentioned that the average wage for Ulster County residents is very low, about $13,000 less than Dutchess County residents. I told Ward that we need to do more to attract medium to large companies to the county, using the SUNY Ulster College’s Start-Up NY designation at TechCity (former IBM site). I mentioned that we are emphasizing small business and tourism development almost exclusively. This results in low average wages compared to Dutchess County.  We have very visible evidence of our low Ulster County wages: look at the Hudson Valley Mall where, one by one, stores are closing.

The lack of Ulster County and City of Kingston having an aggressive plan for attracting medium to large companies to the area is hurting the lives of our residents, especially our young people looking for good-paying jobs for raising a family. The Start-Up NY program at SUNY Ulster-TechCity offers 10 years of no income taxes for companies moving from out of state. Why don’t our leaders aggressively use this Start-Up NY designation to bring medium and large companies to the area?

Ralph Mitchell, Kingston

We did it together

Last week brought some great news: Together, we drove the dreaded Niagara Bottling Company from our midst, thereby removing, for now, the threat to our beloved Cooper Lake and our watershed.

We at SaveCooperLake would like to thank everyone who supported our efforts, including all Woodstock citizens who spread the word, the shopkeepers who displayed our posters, our donors, Jeremy Wilber and the Woodstock Town Board. We’d like to thank Michael Lang for letting us use his iconic dove for our posters and Paul Rubin of HydroQuest for his outstanding water report, and to Jerry Washington for providing invaluable assistance on water and traffic issues. All of us owe a debt of gratitude to Brian Hollander, editor of the Woodstock Times and Dan Barton, editor of the Kingston Times for making sure this critical issue got the coverage it deserved. Thank you to Michael Hein for encouraging the Town Of Ulster to take our concerns into account. And to KingstonCitizens.org and the Woodstock Land Conservancy, our grateful appreciation for your efforts.

Let’s every one of us give ourselves a big pat on the back. And now to the business of making sure this never happens again. Stay tuned …

SaveCooperLake.org – Richard Buck, Terry Dagrosa, Jenn Nelson, Cambiz Khosravi and Elizabeth Simonson – Woodstock

Tags: economic developmentKingstonCitizens.orgmike heinNiagara Bottling
Join the family! Grab a free month of HV1 from the folks who have brought you substantive local news since 1972. We made it 50 years thanks to support from readers like you. Help us keep real journalism alive.
- Geddy Sveikauskas, Publisher
Previous Post

Woodland Pond residents boogie to “Break the Chain” on Valentine’s Day

Next Post

Walking Woodstock: Comic Relief

Dan Barton

Related Posts

The history of race: America’s collective subjectivity
Op-ed

The history of race: America’s collective subjectivity

January 30, 2023
America has been good to the Curtins from County Cork
Columns

America has been good to the Curtins from County Cork

January 27, 2023
Calamar, Terramor, a song request and more letters from our readers
Letters

Calamar, Terramor, a song request and more letters from our readers

January 25, 2023
Onteora faces “unfathomable” choices as district’s enrollment dwindles
Education

Onteora faces “unfathomable” choices as district’s enrollment dwindles

January 22, 2023
Resistance: One young Iranian woman’s story
Op-ed

Resistance: One young Iranian woman’s story

January 26, 2023
Should we even be searching for another Earth?
Columns

Whether 200 billion or 800 billion, there are a lot of planets out there

January 20, 2023
Next Post

Walking Woodstock: Comic Relief

Trending News

  • New Paltz police chief responds to newly released body cam footage of Tyre Nichols’ murder 1.4k views
  • Who is Howard Harris, and why is he so angry at Woodstock town supervisor Bill McKenna? 1k views
  • Little Rabbit Wears Boutique gets “girly” in New Paltz 877 views
  • America has been good to the Curtins from County Cork 453 views
  • Three-story, mixed-use building proposed for Agway property in New Paltz 392 views
  • A long-suspected slave burial site in Lloyd to finally be preserved 387 views

Weather

Kingston
◉
28°
Wintry Mix
7:09 am5:09 pm EST
Feels like: 21°F
Wind: 8mph NE
Humidity: 93%
Pressure: 30.11"Hg
UV index: 0
WedThuFri
36/19°F
41/19°F
27/-4°F
Weather forecast Kingston, New York ▸

Subscribe

Independent. Local. Substantive. Subscribe now.

  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
  • Holiday Gift Subscription

© 2022 Ulster Publishing

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Contact Us
    • Customer Support
    • Advertise
    • Submit A News Tip
  • Print Edition
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
    • Where’s My Paper
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Log In
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing