23+ hour, 58+ min ago   (575+ words) KINGSTON, N.Y. — The city’s efforts to implement a 3% occupancy tax for hotel, motel and short-term rental stays continues to move forward. The Common Council’s Finance and Audit Committee voted 4-1 to send the proposal for the 3% tax to the full Common Council…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (741+ words) KINGSTON, N.Y. — Property taxes are set to rise in the city for the third straight year, with lawmakers warning that the city’s 2027 budget is likely to blow past the state’s 2% property tax cap as the city faces budget pressures on multiple…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (88+ words) Daily Freeman Some campaign signs are more effective than others by John Darkow Kingston, Ellenville men arrested in federal crackdown 4 charged in Wawarsing baseball bat assault, state police say Tuesday afternoon shooting in Ellenville leaves man with serious injuries Ulster…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (87+ words) Daily Freeman Cartoonist’s take: “Time flies.” (Ed Wexler, CagleCartoons.com) Mid-Hudson Valley arrests report: Sept. 6, 2026 Mid-Hudson arrests report: Sept. 7, 2026 Mixed-use project in Kingston set to break ground With the wearing of the green, Hooley on the Hudson in Kingston celebrates…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (844+ words) WEST PARK, N.Y. — The “temporary suspension” that left 170 rural post box holders at the West Park Post Office in the lurch was used to shut down two other post offices in Ulster County in 2025, according to a Freeman review of data…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (298+ words) Daily Freeman NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, executive director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, will deliver the annual Dennis O’Keefe Memorial Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Coykendall Auditorium on the SUNY New Paltz campus, 1 Hawk Drive....

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (761+ words) WEST PARK, N.Y. — A month after the West Park Post Office was suspended, advocates who want to reopen the facility said that the lease issue the U.S. Postal Service cited as the cause is little more than an excuse to achieve…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (93+ words) Daily Freeman “Vote to light the darkness.” (Milt Priggee, WeAreGettingScrewed.org via CagleCartoons.com) Kingston restaurateur Frank Guido diagnosed with cancer, to sell Port of Call restaurant in Catskill Three men charged with gang assault at Dutchess County Fair Saugerties…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (98+ words) Daily Freeman “Baby buried in national debt.” (Steve Sack, CagleCartoons.com) Ulster Park man charged with murder for killing of woman Ex-Saugerties police officer sentenced to 5 years for sex abuse of minor Mid-Hudson Valley arrest report: Sept. 2, 2026 Mid-Hudson Valley arrests…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (720+ words) Being a good person does not mean you are universally beloved. Look at Joan of Arc, for example. She was very good, a future saint, and yet the French for whom she sacrificed her youth and her wardrobe — battle armor…...