A reader this morning impatiently (if the timing and use of ALL CAPS are any indication) asked:

WHY HAS'NT THE FREEMAN REPORTED THAT THE KINGSTON SUPER WANTS TO SPEND 125K FOR A ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS ? THIS BIT OF NEWS CAME FROM ANOTHER HUDSON VALLEY NEWSPAPER ON 4-12

Here's how I responded:

Because we haven't gotten to it yet. It correctly is characterized as a "bit" of news reported by our good friends at the Times Herald Record. The item, in its entirety as it appeared in the THR, with link back to the THR, follows:

Despite all the teaching positions on the chopping block, Padalino wants to spend $125,000 to restore an assistant superintendent for business position vacant since June 2010.

"As things are changing in education, the responsibilities in that office grow," he said.

http://ow.ly/afVXd

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William Kemble, the reporter who covered the Wednesday evening meeting, filed an immediate Web story that evening, then a longer version to supplant the initial story. On Thursday, he covered press conferences at 1 p.m. in Kingston (Hein announcement on use of fracking brine) and 3:30 p.m. in New Paltz (Don Kerr statement on dropping of charges against him)  and filed stories on each. He also wrote a story on the Olive Town Board delaying action on a hydrofracking local law.

There are only so many hours in a day and it was our judgment that, in addition to those four stories, Mr. Kemble would write his immediate followup to the Kingston Board of Education meeting on the decision of trustees to seek restitution from convicted former Det. Lt. Timothy Matthews for double dipping on the district payroll.