Lacking the city funds that were available in years past, the Kingston Sculpture Biennial has been shrinking. This year’s show was the smallest yet, with 24 pieces clustered along lower Broadway and the Rondout waterfront. Unfortunately, it’s now even smaller, since vandals destroyed Tatana Kellner’s piece, Blue Line, consisting of a long strip of hand-woven blue plastic bags positioned over a row of bricks on Company Path, just a week after the opening, on July 16. This year’s exhibition, wh...
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Races for Kingston’s nine Common Council seats are taking shape in a busy political season which will end with at least five new city lawmakers. With the deadline for nomination petitions passed, the current slate of candidates is likely to be the one voters see on September’s primary ballot, barring the entrance of independent candidates who have until August to file petitions. The departure of five aldermen from the council, including three who stepped down to run for mayor, has led to a sc...
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Right about now, local home gardens are bursting with cucumbers, zucchinis, corn and more, ripe for the picking. Last Thursday, Kingston Land Trust’s Dig Kids celebrated their first harvest season by parading from the Everette Hodge Community Center’s garden on Franklin Street to the gates of the South Pine Street City Farm. There, they and their guests enjoyed a barbecue of Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats-donated burgers and hot dogs prepared by program volunteers and the Maple Ridge ...
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A Kingston gang member convicted of conspiracy in the execution-style slaying of Charles “C.J.” King Jr. received the maximum sentence in Ulster County Court on Tuesday. County Court Judge Don Williams sentenced Jarrin “Phat Boy” Rankin to 12-and-a-half to 25 years in state prison, after delivering a blistering appraisal of the 21-year-old’s defendant’s character and actions in the months leading up to King’s murder on Feb. 9, 2010. “You were the puppeteer who pulled the strings of fellow gan...
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