Kingston
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 - 11:33 am
Suspected bank robbers who hit Key Bank in Uptown Kingston around 11am this morning may be speeding by you on a highway right now, according to the Times Herald-Record.
Police are asking passers-by to keep a lookout for a two men in a white Ford Taurus... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 7:19 pm
The latest from the Times Herald-Record about the search for 33-year-old Zach Green, who has been missing since Sunday:
By midday, police were almost certain that the 6-foot-2-inch, 220 pound man wasn’t near the Esopus Creek or along the railroad tracks... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 5:47 pm
All hands were on deck at the Kingston Fire Department last night, as a fire raged at the former St. Peter's Elementary School building on Adams Street. No one was hurt.
The Daily Freeman has video.
As does the Times Herald-Record.
Former alderman Richard... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 7:35 pm
In the New York Daily News today: A glowing profile of Kingston's emerging high-tech microbusiness community, complete with photos of swank lofts, breathless real estate price quotes, and paeans to the city's thriving art scene. (Oh yes. They even used... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Another arrest has been made in the Case of the Food Stamp Millionaires: 71-year old Anup Virk, the father of the man who owns the convenience store at the center of an alleged million-dollar scheme to buy food stamps from their customers at half price,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:15 pm
The Daily Freeman has been publishing some incredible stories about an ongoing effort to bust participants in a really simple scam: According to police, a Midtown gas station accepted food stamp cards in exchange for half their value in cash, which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 9:55 am
Big win for little Kingston publisher McPherson & Co. last night: Their latest novel, a tale of horse-racing in backwoods Virginia by author Jaimy Gordon, just won the National Book Award for fiction. It's the literary equivalent of the Academy Awards... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 - 10:07 am
Clark Richters, who runs the videoblog Kingston News, found yesterday that his camera wasn't welcome at one of Kingston alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes's regular meetings with her Fifth Ward constituents.
Richters writes that "it was a very informative... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 3:26 pm
File under: Their Diamond Shoes Are Too Tight.
McPherson & Co., a small indie publishing house in Kingston, is facing a tricky problem: A title slated for release on Monday, the novel Lord of Misrule by author Jaimy Gordon, has been nominated for a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 11:49 am
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
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