Patricia R. Doxsey

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Ulster County Legislator Liminia Grace Harmon said Friday she will not seek a second term as the Legislature’s District 20 representative. New Paltz Village Trustee William …

KINGSTON, N.Y. — For nearly 60 years, the Dutchess County Community Action Partnership has been giving a helping hand to friends and neighbors in need across the county. Each year, the agency assis…

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Only two county residents weighed in during a public hearing Tuesday, Dec. 17, on a proposal to rename the Ulster County Office Building after former County Clerk Nina Postupack, with one opposing the plan and the other supporting it.Kingston resident Phil Cosme said that to name the building after Postupack, who died […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — While volunteering at an Ulster County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals eight years ago, Nicole Couse met Marvin, a hound-mix puppy who had been brought to the shel…

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County lawmakers approved the purchase of a $2.9 million mobile command center for the county’s Department of Emergency Services. Legislators on Tuesday, Dec. 17, appr…

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County lawmakers earlier this month approved more than $1 million in spending for equipment for the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, including additional body-worn and dash cams and new mobile sonar equipment.At their Dec. 19 meeting, members of the county Legislature passed three resolutions to bond a total of $1,010,782.Of that total, […]

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Taxpayers in the Northern Dutchess towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck will see a decrease in the property tax rate in the upcoming year but, because the overall amount to be raised by taxes will increase under the $629.4 million county budget for 2025, the decrease in rate won't necessarily translate into […]

KINGSTON, N.Y.— Property owners in 15 of Ulster County's 21 municipalities will see their property tax rates decline this year, while in five municipalities the tax rate will rise.The town of Olive will see no change in their property tax rate in 2025, while property taxpayers in the towns of Gardiner, Kingston, Marbletown, Rochester and […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — When county lawmakers meet on Jan. 14 to establish the Legislature's framework of operations for the coming year, they will do so under new rules of decorum that both outline how legislators must comport themselves and give legislative leaders new powers to remove violators from meetings.Legislators adopted the new rules in an […]

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County has been awarded a $2 million grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to help offset the cost of construction of the county's new Emergency Communications Center in New Paltz.Construction of the center, which will be the county's first major new construction project since the Ulster […]