TOP LOCAL News
By DAVID LEE
June 18, 2025
HUDSON—2025 Pride Weekend in the city is June 20, 21 and 22, with the featured events being the Pride Parade and Festival, Saturday, June 21Columbia County’s 15th annual Pride Parade lines up at Seventh Street Park at 1 p.m. with step-off at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The parade travels down Warren ...
VALATIE—The Village of Valatie Board met on May 13 and approved a $10 fee to be added to property owners’ water and sewer bills for the new meters that the village has been replacing. Mayor Frank Bevens pointed out that this is something done in other municipalities to help cover the cost of the ...
The 30th annual Hudson Flag Day Parade stepped off on Saturday, June 14, with seventy-two units ranging from scout groups and little league baseball to marching bands and a fly-over by the antique airplanes from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. The parade route started on Greene Street near the Seventh ...
There was a Hudson No Kings rally in the Seventh Street Park in Saturday, June 14. It was organized by Stockport residents Louise Roback, Judy Nelson and Judy Polkow and attracted by anecdotal estimates more than 300 people. Everything was very impromptu and unscripted.The rally in Chatham was one ...
NEW LEBANON – The numbers that made up the revised version of the 2025-26 New Lebanon School District budget proposal proved to be more palatable to district voters than the original version.The latest draft, that contained a nine percent jump in the tax levy, was approved by a 516-235 margin. That ...
CLAVERACK—The Claverack Historical Society and Klocke Estate collaborate on a semiquincentennial commemorative event called “Sunset and History.”The occasion takes place at the Klocke Estate, 2554 County Route 27, Wednesday, June 18 from 4 to 6 p.m., and featuresa curated exhibit of ...
PITTSFIELD, MA–Greylock Federal Credit Union has announced the promotion of Ashley Thompson to branch manager of its Lanesborough branch.“I’m so proud to see Ashley take this next step in her career. Through her many years with Greylock, beginning with her first job as a Float Teller on Saturdays, ...
AUSTERLITZ--Columbia County Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Spacious Skies Woodland Hills Campground. This special event occurred on Saturday, May 3 at the campground at 386 Fog Hill Road. The chamber joined Spacious Skies as they celebrated another season of camping in ...
To the Editor:The article “New Lebanon School Board pares down budget proposal” (Doug LaRocque; the June 5, 2025 Columbia Paper) a couple of important facts were missed.The “cuts in staff” cited in the proposed new budget are limited to vacant positions. These vacant positions were included in the ...
Amanda Lefton announced more than $3 million was awarded to 45 not-for-profit land trusts across the state. The funding, made available through the Conservation Partnership Program, will support 61 projects designed to support land trusts and their ongoing work, which complements the state’s ...
HUDSON–A new assessment of the historic First Presbyterian Church identified more than $1 million in necessary restoration work to steeples, masonry, woodwork, electrical and safety systems.First Presbyterian Church was completed in 1837 at Fourth and Warren streets. In 1876 an addition was ...
DELHI--Kaitlyn Stagno, Germantown, was among a group of exceptional students who received a Citizenship Award from the O'Connor Center for Community Engagement at SUNY Delhi. These awards recognize students who possess the qualities of a good citizen with a sense of responsibility to the campus and ...
HUDSON—This Juneteenth, (June 19) five years since the founding of the Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition, will be celebrated with a full day of reflection, storytelling and cultural joy. Centered on the theme Honoring Home, this year’s Who We Be! community archival project, Archiving Home, begins ...
CANAAN—The Columbia NE Repair Cafe comes to Canaan, Saturday, June 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Canaan Town Hall, 1647 County Route 5. The Repair Cafe is part of the third annual Canaan Community Day Celebration happening across the street at Stoddard Park, County Route 5, 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is ...
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HUDSON—Hudson Flag Day Parade and Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary, Saturday, June 14.The day’s events include: *Noon to 9 p.m. Waterfront open with vendors, DJ music at the gazebo, bouncy houses and swing ride for kids, Minnie and Mickey pose for pictures with kids, balloon artists, ...
AUSTERLITZ--The Millay Society at Steepletop, 440 East Hill Road, announces the first of five open day weekends celebrating the centennial of the property’s purchase by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen Boissevain. Highlighting the weekend will be a ...
GHENT–Evlyn Pilgrim, class of 2025, of Claverack, and Benjamin Glatt, class of 2010, of Bracebridge, Ontartio, Canada, will each receive this year's Henriette Reiss Award for Artistic Endeavor to further arts education and support the completion of a novel, respectively. This award is given ...
SPENCERTOWN–Spencertown Academy Arts Center’s 20th Hidden Gardens celebration is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, with a self-guided garden tour to some of the most dazzling private gardens in the region, an outdoor market, and a botanical-themed art exhibition.“After a hiatus last year, fans of ...
NEW LEBANON – The seat that has been open for two months on the New Lebanon Town Board has been filled with the appointment of Scout Metzler to that position. Metzler was chosen after the board interviewed three candidates out of all the applications they received.He fills the seat formerly ...
SPENCERTOWN—Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces the winners of its tenth annual Young Writers’ Contest. The goal of the contest is to encourage creative writing among students in grades 9-12 (including homeschool) living in Columbia County and Berkshire County, MA.“It was a great year for the ...
HUDSON—The Columbia County Youth Bureau Leadership Award Banquet was held Wednesday, May 21, at the Hudson Elks Club, with Columbia County Youth Bureau Executive Director Dan Grandinetti serving as master of ceremonies.Twenty-three students from all 6 county public school districts, Hawthorne ...
To the Editor: Since I don’t live in or near Copake, I haven’t felt right about voicing an opinion on Hecate Energy’s latest proposal for the Shepherd’s Run Solar Facility. After all, it’s not my view that the project would change.I would, however, like to add some information from Bill McKibbben’s ...
CLAVERACK--When The Columbia Paper reported on aspects of justice recently, we neglected to address the animal world. Yet, as Immanuel Kant wrote: “We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals,” and it is a staple of the modern science of criminology that cruelty to animals is either ...
STOCKPORT—State Police from the Livingston barracks responded to a 911 call reporting a possible kidnapping in the Town of Stockport, June 5. The caller, a 16-year-old female, claimed that a 13-year-old girl had been abducted by unknown individuals in a white van on Atlantic Avenue.Troopers, along ...
CHATHAM—An American Red Cross emergency shelter was activated in the Village of Chatham after residents of a 12-unit apartment building on Pat’s Lane in Stottville were displaced by a fire that started in one apartment, Wednesday evening, June 4, according to a press release from Columbia County ...
KINDERHOOK—The Ichabod Crane Board of Education moved closer to a final plan for a proposed capital improvement project at their June 3 meeting. The project, which includes upgrades to all school buildings and the sports fields, could be put before district voters in December after board approval ...
KINDERHOOK--On Saturday afternoon, June 7, at the Kinderhook Carnival, a special announcement was made dedicating the pavilion at Volunteer Park in the name of former town supervisor Doug McGivney who died on April 4, 2025 at the age of 87. He was the town supervisor from 1999-2010. A Democrat, he ...
Bash Bish Bluegrass Band will play in the beautiful, grassy setting behind the Church of St. John in the Wilderness, 261 NY-344, Copake Falls, on Saturday, June 28, 4 to 6 p.m. If it rains, concert will be held inside the church. Come, tap your feet, clap in time--family-friendly. Assistance for ...
On May 31 at 10:09 a.m., Chatham Fire Department, Chatham Rescue Squad, Chatham Police and State Police patrol units were dispatched to a single-vehicle rollover on the northbound side of the Taconic State Parkway in the Town of Chatham. A 2006 Ford Econoline van driven by Carl A. Hamilton, 54, of ...