The Ulster County Legislature voted 13-9 on September 14, to continue to contract with HealthAlliance parent WMC Health for pathology services, but not before several legislators, using the meeting as a forum, expressed outrage over the healthcare conglomerate moving inpatient mental health services out of Kingston.
Monika Cowley’s consultants will be reporting back to their client that going through the Town of New Paltz’s Planning Board will not expedite the building of a house along the private Colton Lane.
A massive development project could bring everything from single- and multi-family housing, a job incubator, public multi-use trails, camping and an amphitheater to Winston Farm, the site of the iconic Woodstock ’94 Festival.
Some of the people who rent out property in the Village of New Paltz are slowly coming to terms with a proposed law that would force them to renew leases for tenants except for “good cause,” which would include circumstances such as moving in a family member, or tenants breaking lease rules or local laws.
Last week, the New Paltz Village Planning Board approved the scoping document for the New Paltz Apartments project, despite concerns raised that too few members of the public weighed in during what some believe is the most important public hearing for a project of this magnitude.
Saugerties Village Trustee Donald Hackett said Village and Town officials are looking into pooling funding into purchasing a second water chestnut harvester as they continue to work to uproot the invasive weed from the Esopus Creek.
Village of Saugerties officials continue to struggle to find qualified candidates with management experience for the wastewater superintendent position.
The Town Board must vote by December 2021 on a decision whether to opt in or opt out for the creation of dispensary location in Gardiner, as well as cannabis lounge. The Town Board can decide to allow both kinds of venues, or just one, or neither.
A new development could see upwards of 190,000 square feet of industrial uses spread across 23.9 acres at 217 Malden Turnpike in Saugerties.
With the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kingston Common Council last week voted to return to virtual committee and regular meetings after two months of conducting business in person.