Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson reflects on 2025

KINGSTON — Many of the issues that city council has grappled with for years were still around in 2025 and they were joined by a bunch of new problems. Speaking in a year-end interview, Mayor Bryan Paterson said the last 12 months seemed to bring a near never-ending string of crises and challenges that, although national or international in scope, had an effect on the local community. “The craziness that we’ve seen in the world around us in 2025 has just been unlike anything tha