Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recommended closing the Castle Point VA Medical Center and proposed other reductions in local healthcare services for veterans in the Hudson Valley region.
KINGSTON, N.Y. - Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan announced today the appointment of Loren M. Johnson as the new Director of Ulster County Area Transit (UCAT). Johnson brings to Ulster County 18 years of experience in providing servant leadership within private and public sectors, including state and local government, social services, public education and transportation.
The proposal, Ulster Connect, has been awarded a Phase One grant through the New York Clean Transportation Prizes’ “Clean Neighborhoods Challenge.”
On the two-year anniversary of Ulster County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, County Executive Pat Ryan signed an Executive Order establishing a commission that will develop a monument honoring frontline workers who risked their lives throughout the pandemic, and memorializing those Ulster County residents whose lost their lives to COVID-19
$1.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds are now available to local non-profit and veterans’ service organizations to aid in pandemic recovery
The Non-Profit Recovery and Resilience Grant program is being administered by the Ulster County Recovery and Resilience Division
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