Mayor James Sottile said this week that the city is approaching the finish line on a five-year effort to replace or reinforce the city’s most decrepit sewer mains. Currently, contractors are replacing major trunk lines around Clinton and Greenkill Avenues, Washington Avenue and Lucas Avenue. When those projects are complete, Sottile said 68 percent of Kingston’s sewage will be flowing through new plastic pipes. “Replacing infrastructure in the City of Kingston has been a priority since the ...
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Like most school districts across the state, the one in Kingston finds itself having to do more with less. As teachers and support staff prepare for the return of students in early September, district officials say they’re confident the school system will persevere. “We’re really just wrapping everything up now,” said Superintendent Gerard Gretzinger last week, noting that students in kindergarten through ninth grade return on Tuesday, Sept. 7, and high school sophomores, juniors and seniors...
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Through the eyes of a child are seen some of life’s most obvious ideals. Third-grade student Logan Connolly, 9, recently won a $1,000 scholarship from Kohl’s for pursuing just that. When Logan was 7, on his usual walk home from Chambers Elementary school through the serene, wooded path of Chambers farm one January afternoon last year, he saw something which he hadn’t seen on his way to school that morning: a crew cutting down his treasured maple trees. “I stopped in my tracks with my mouth ...
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Though several thousand disappointed soapbox derby fans stayed home and folded laundry Sunday afternoon as it rained like the dickens, hundreds of unflappable spectators donned their slickers and braved the elements to attend the 16th annual Kingston Artists’ Soapbox Derby. That same loyalty and determination to see the show go on is what Nancy and George Donskoj hope to see again within the next few months as they are asking the community to take over the derby responsibilities from now on....
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