KINGSTON –  Kingston has been selected to receive a $360,000 grant over four years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program.

The program will be administered through Ulster county Cooperative Extension and will seek to curb childhood obesity to encourage Kingston to become street safe for walking and biking to school, among other projects, said coordinator Kristen Wilson.

“We will also be working to establish food gardens in parks and in schools in the Kingston City School District,” she said. They will also work with the schools to review their vending machine policies, snack bar policies and the snack foods that are available.

Cornell Cooperative Extension is the lead agency for the local program, which will have a number of other participants.