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Kingston school district sees changes at the top for 2010-11 year


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, dist...

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Logan ‘Basically, more nature’

Logan Connolly speaks for the trees and wins $1,000 scholarship


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...

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The snack monster makes its way down Broadway, hurling goodies to spectators. The show must go on

Rained-on Artists’ Soapbox Derby is Donskojs’ last


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 ...

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The Daily Freeman building on Hurley Avenue. Stop the presses

Freeman mulls printing paper up in Troy, cutting dozens of jobs


The Daily Freeman may cease printing in Kingston as part of an ambitious strategy to boost the 139-year-old newspaper’s online presence. Under a plan which is, according to Freeman Publisher Ira F...

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Maria Castaldo A howling shame

Woman faces animal neglect charges here, fraud charges in NYC


In most criminal cases the evidence — a gun, a bloody shirt, a sack of cocaine, for example — sits on a shelf in a storage room waiting for its day in court. But at the Ulster County SPCA’s no-kil...

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Betty Royale Vanderzee and Terri Gittens look over the Vanderzee family grave. Flesh and blood

African-American burial grounds tour reveals hidden and painful past


Imagine only 150 years ago you’re a Kingston-area African-American. Slavery ended in New York decades ago, but your life is not much better for being free — you’re likely toiling at a farm or, if ...

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URGENT Commander Detective Lt. Tim Matthews of the KPD speaks as Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum looks on at a press conference Tuesday announcing the arrests. URGENT breaks out broom

Task force cites neighborhood watch’s and aldermen’s help in drug arrests


Police say tips from a neighborhood watch group and city Common Council members helped drive an eight-month investigation that wrapped up Tuesday with the arrest of 12 alleged drug dealers who cop...

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Sevan Melikyan at Backstage Productions. Backstage news

Back Stage Productions gets new manager-- facility will see more venues


Though Wall Street’s Backstage Productions didn’t specifically hold any open auditions, thanks to a casual twist of fate they found a new, star-studded headlining talent with serious creds. Sevan...

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A view of the Pike Plan on one of its better days Raise high the roof beam, carpenters

Pike Plan canopy restoration will begin soon, officials say


Kingston city officials say that construction on the long-delayed Pike Plan canopy restoration will begin this fall. They say that this time they mean it. More than five years after the renovation...

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How it works. Gotcha!

State interlock law will change driving behavior, but the costs will strain local resources


New York State is about to embark on an ambitious plan to fight drunk driving with a new law which will significantly increase the financial and social costs of even a single DWI conviction. It ...

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