Kingston After Dark: Creatives coping with the COVID
Here in New York’s historic and sometimes hysteric first capital, the abrupt and complete cancelation of nightlife has made things catastrophically hard for working musicians.
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Pandemic prospects
The Covid 19 pandemic is putting the Hudson Valley healthcare system under unprecedented pressure. As the number of infected people inevitably rises, more deaths will be reported. More protective masks and a greater supply of protective equipment will help only to a limited degree. It is more than possible that a spike in the number of people requiring machine help in order to breathe will overwhelm the limited capacities of an already strained system.
One hell of a week
Locally, it all started with a couple of public officials doing a fist bump instead of a handshake, and before you know it practically every meeting, celebration or parade in Ulster County worth its salt was being postponed or cancelled. Ditto events, conferences and reunions. Young people at every educational level are being sent home from school, allowed to stay at colleges only if they have nowhere else to go.
Kingston Times letters (3/19-3/25)
The letters to the editor from the Mar. 19, 2020 issue of Kingston Times.
Letter: Issues with Biden
The letters to the editor from the Mar. 12, 2020 issue of Kingston Times.
Software firm Exago commits to Kingston
At a panel discussion celebrating the opening of its newly renovated 8800-square-foot workspace at The Fuller Building on Pine Grove Avenue in midtown Kingston, Exago CEO Mike Brody said last Friday afternoon that he expected his company to add another 26 jobs this year for a total of 90. In 2021, he said, 50 additional jobs were planned. In 2022, another 35 positions would be added, for a total of 175.
Thus spake Alan Ginsberg
With the walls of opprobrium from governmental agencies at all levels closing in on him, how did Alan Ginsberg, the embattled long-time owner of TechCity, the former IBM site in the Town of Ulster, respond? A four-page December 31 letter from the Albany law firm of Young/Sommer LLC to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional counsel seemed to indicate that the Ginsberg interests were throwing in the towel – but only on their own terms.
Kingston Times letters (3/5-3/11)
The letters to the editor from the Mar. 5, 2020 issue of Kingston Times.
Commentary: Kingston’s bluestone at risk
Last month, Mayor Steve Noble announced a plan entitled “Access for All” that will replace all of the city’s sidewalks to make them ADA compliant. While we support improving the city’s accessibility, this should not be at the cost of removing the city’s historic bluestone. Let’s not repeat the errors of urban renewal, in which hundreds of historic buildings were torn down in a misguided notion of progress. Additionally, we hope the mayor is aware of the significant carbon dioxide footprint of new concrete sidewalks.
Landlord and tenant
Exago moved last week to The Fuller Building from its office location at the corner of Wall and John streets in Kingston’s Stockade neighborhood. On Monday morning, about 20 people, some sitting and others standing, were working on their large computer screens in the middle of the space. A row of 21 windows on the structure’s parking-lot side flooded the room with light.
