Over 400 City of Kingston-paid employees named to annual ‘Sunshine List’

Community mourns loss of long-serving Kingston Police officer Bill Hackett

City Council meets for second night of budget deliberations

COVID-19 and first responders: How the pandemic has impacted Kingston’s emergency services

Kingston Police lay 104 charges due to ‘high-risk nuisance behaviour’

Community Soapbox: Racism and policing in Kingston’s recent past

United Way names Chief Antje McNeely as 2020 campaign chairperson

Youth Diversion receives $399,200 grant to expand initiative for at-risk youths

Chief McNeely addresses community outreach following terrorism-related arrests in Kingston

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Tori Stafford 2 Comments CAO Lanie Hurdle, Chief Antje McNeely, City of Kingston, City Staff, Commissioner Sheila Kidd, Deputy Chief Chris Scott, Fire Chief Shawn Armstrong, income, inflation, Kingston, Kingston Fire and Rescue, Kingston Police, Kingston Police Services Board, Mark Van Buren, over $100000, paige agnew, Peter Huigenbos, Province of Ontario, provincial government, public sector salary disclosure, Sunshine List

A dozen people employed through the City of Kingston brought home over $170,000 in salary for the 2020 year, according to the provincial government. On Friday, Mar. 19, 2021, the Government of Ontario published its annual public sector salary disclosure – the so-called Sunshine List of those public sector employees

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January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Jessica Foley 0 Comments Bill Hackett, Chief Antje McNeely, Kingston Police, Police Chief Antje McNeely, Retired Chief of Police, Retired Police Chief, William Hackett

The following is a message from Kingston Police Chief Antje McNeely on the recent passing of Bill Hackett, who served the community as a police officer for 44 years. He was 90 years old. Born in 1930, William (Bill) Hackett had a long and unsurpassed history of service to the

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January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Samantha Butler-Hassan, Local Journalism Initiative 1 Comment Chief Antje McNeely, City Council, City Council meeting, City of Kingston, Councillor Lisa Osanic, Councillor Rob Hutchison, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic cost, Desiree Kennedy, Downtown Kingston Business Improvement Area (BIA), Get Involved Kingston, Kingston Access Services, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), Kingston Police, municipal budget, open budget process, pandemic

The City of Kingston’s Treasurer and CFO Desiree Kennedy said she was disappointed by the lack of uptake in the municipal public budget engagement process that took place last fall. Overall, 397 people participated in an online survey that ran from October 19 to November 9, 2020. Approximately 60 people

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January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Tori Stafford 1 Comment Chief Antje McNeely, Chief Gale Chevalier, COVID-19, COVID-19 cases, Dr. Kieran Moore, emergency services, Fire Chief Shawn Armstrong, first responders, Frontenac Paramedic Services, impact of COVID-19, increased cleaning and sanitization, increased risk, Kingston, Kingston Fire and Rescue, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), Kingston Police, pandemic, personal protective equipment (PPE), sanitizing

Stay-at-home orders, arrows on the floors of business, lineups outside grocery stores – one need only look around to see the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted and changed a lot of things. But some of the impacts aren’t seen by the majority of citizens – the work and lives of our

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September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments Adminstrative Monetary Penalties, bylaw enforcement, charges laid, Chief Antje McNeely, City of Kingston, COVID-19, Dr. Kieran Moore, gatherings, high-risk behaviour, Kingston, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), Kingston Police, Liquor Licence Act, noise complaints, Nuisance Party By-law, parties, Principal Patrick Deane, Queen's University, street parties, University District

In working collaboratively with the City of Kingston, KFL&A Public Health, and Queen’s University to address high-risk nuisance behaviour, Kingston Police have responded to over 300 noise complaints and issued over 100 charges in the past two weeks. Kingston Police are addressing this behaviour through a tiered response strategy, and

Opinion Soapbox

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Community Soapbox 0 Comments Black Lives Matter, Black youth, Chief Antje McNeely, Desmond Cole, George Floyd, Indigenous people, Kingston, Kingston Police, Kingston Police data collection project, McBurney Park, people of colour, Queen's University, racial profiling, racism, Stephanie Simpson, Steven Maynard, systemic racism, vigil, William Closs

Editorial note: The following is a submitted op/ed piece by Steven Maynard and does not necessarily reflect the views and beliefs of Kingstonist. This past Tuesday, I joined hundreds of other Kingstonians in McBurney Park for a Black Lives Matter demonstration. The vigil was part of the global outrage over

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June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Jemma Dooreleyers 0 Comments 2020 campaign, Bhavana Varma, Chief Antje McNeely, COVID-19, COVID-19 Response Fund, Kingston, Local Love, United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFLA)

The United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) has announced that Chief of the Kingston Police Force, Antje McKneely, will be Kingston’s 2020 Campaign Chair. The 79th annual campaign season will kick off on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 virtually and will be continuing with the theme ‘Local Love.’

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March 29, 2019 Tori Stafford 0 Comments $399, 200 grant, at-risk children and youths, Bhavana Varma, Chief Antje McNeely, Family and Children's Services Frontenac Lennox and Addington, Intersections Program, intervention program, Kingston, Kingston Police, MPP Ian Arthur, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Ontario Trillium Foundation, Shawn Quigley, Steve Woodman, United Way KFLA, Youth Diversion

Representatives from a number of local agencies came together with excitement as MPP Ian Arthur announced a large grant through the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) would be going towards the expansion of a local initiative aimed at aiding at-risk children and youths. The announcement took place on Friday, Mar. 29,

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February 8, 2019 Tori Stafford 0 Comments arrests, Chief Antje McNeely, community outreach, Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, investigation, Kingston, Kingston Police, raids, RCMP, terrorism related charges

The following is a message from Antje McNeely, Chief of Kingston Police On behalf of the Kingston Police, I would like to thank our community for its patience and understanding with respect to the investigation by the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team that culminated in our city on Thursday,