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April 3, 2025
GHENT-The SUNY Institute for Local News announces up to 20 paid internships this summer for current SUNY students, including May 2025 graduates, to work in local newsrooms as a continuation of their studies.Internship applications are open now and due by May 1. Information is at ...
ANCRAM—Programs for old and young residents of Ancram were highlighted in reports to the Town Board at its March 20 meeting.New Kids Camp Director Taylor Price, a teacher for three and a half years, gave the board an outline of this year’s town Summer Camp Program for kids ages 5 to 12 years.
HUDSON--On March 12, the Columbia County Board of Supervisors adopted a policy for utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) while conducting business on the county’s behalf. This policy prioritizes human judgment over AI and constrains AI users to stay within honesty, ethical, privacy, ...
HUDSON--In child care, it seems, the good news is to be found by visiting a provider and watching children learn, play, explore and grow, and the other news is to be seen in reports about the struggles faced by parents seeking to find care and providers struggling to make ends meet. The Columbia ...
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The Chatham Panthers varsity baseball team scrimmaged on a chilly Saturday afternoon, March 29,a double header with Voorheesville and Union Springs. Their regular season starts on Monday, April 7 with a game against Coxsackie-Athens. The Panthers were state champions in their class in 2022, 2023, ...
KINDERHOOK-Ichabod Crane Central School District announces petitions for candidates for the Board of Education are currently available. Petitions are obtained through District Clerk Mindy Potts, in the Central Office, located in the High School Building, 2910 Route 9. Three vacancies are to be ...
A first-of-its-kind tax credit to give small businesses in Coeymans some much-needed financial support is gaining momentum in Albany.Earlier this month, a large bipartisan group of New York state legislators joined business leaders and local news organizations in person at the State Capitol in ...
EASTON-When it comes to tariffs and New York State agriculture, “the only thing that is certain is the uncertainty.” That’s how Stuart Ziehm of Tiashoke Farms in Easton and Buskirk summed it up when speaking with NYVT Media.Tiashoke is a dairy farm, milking 1,100 cows daily. Mr. Ziehm says 18% of ...
HUDSON--A rally to show support for Ukraine was held on Saturday afternoon, March 22. A group of more than 200 people assembled in the 7th Street Park at 11 a.m. where flags were distributed and a march was organized. The group walked down Warren Street to the Columbia County Courthouse on 4th and ...
HUDSON-As The Columbia Paper set out to assess the effects of the Trump Administration’s activities on Columbia County the task took on the feeling of watching the first act of a painfully suspenseful horror movie. We are being teased (not in a pleasant way) with possibilities, questions without ...
Woman allegedly breaks in, steals and redecoratesGERMANTOWN—An Albany woman faces numerous felony charges in connection with unlawfully entering a Germantown home.State Police from the Livingston barracks arrested Mackenzie Golden, 44, from Albany on multiple charges, including second degree ...
HUDSON--There was a celebration at the Hudson Area Library on Thursday, March 13 for the opening of the Unity Community Cabinet, a source for the provision of nonperishable food and personal hygiene products, all free to people in need. The cabinet is the result of the work of Hudson High School ...
GROWING UP on our dairy farm meant spending much time outside despite the weather. My first recollection of high wind was the 1954 Hurricane Hazel. Winds in Columbia County reached over 100 mph with some terrific gusts recorded at 150 mph. My father walked down to the barn leaning into the wind ...
THE HUDSON AREA Library co-hosted, with the African American Archives of Columbia County(AAACC), the program “If This Old House Could Talk” about the Van Hoeson-Marriott House,located on US 66 north of Hudson, Sunday, March 9.The featured speakers were Ed Klingler, a restoration carpenter and ...
ANCRAM—A hike in usage, especially of digitalresources, was among the details relayed in a 2024report about the Roe Jan Community Library heard atthe March 20 Ancram Town Board meeting.The question is: Will these popular library resourcescontinue to be available in light of federal fundingcuts?Town ...
The Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts, 957 Route 82, West Taghkanic, held a dance recital on March 21 to raise money to benefit the Red Cross in its Los Angeles Fire Relief and Recovery work. It was a program of ten short dances featuring members of the academy as well as professional ...
HUDSON--Columbia County Engineer Ray Jurkowski reported “pretty active” planning forremodeling the interior of 11 Warren Street for county office space and foresaw construction beginningin September, while the County Board of Supervisors authorized purchasing “materials and services”associated with ...
By PATSY NICOSIA Times-Journal/Capital Region Independent Media ALBANY--Monday, March 3, in state Supreme Court, Sullivan County Judge James Farrell ruled that the state law that taxes wind and solar at one-third the rate of anything else is unconstitutional. While the state can appeal ...
MOST PEOPLE DO not realize we have two species of crows in our county. Our most common, usual crow is our American crow at 19” long, and our less common and smaller species is the fish crow at 15” long. The fish crow has been a southern bird until about the last 20 years when they have worked their ...
By DIANE VALDEN KINDERHOOK—A Kinderhook man was killed in a one-car accident on County Route 28, March 4 at 10:03 a.m. Columbia County 911 dispatched Niverville firefighters, Valatie Rescue and State Police to the scene. An investigation determined that a vehicle being driven by David ...
By EMILIA TEASDALE GHENT—The four villages in the county will hold elections on Tuesday, March 18. In three of the villages, Chatham, Valatie and Philmont, incumbent candidates are running unopposed. In Kinderhook, there are three people, new to the board, running for two open trustee ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--Issues pertaining to Hudson's waterfront, sites near it, 11 Warren Street, all of Hudson and Columbia County arose during a town hall/community conversation for Hudson's First Ward with that ward's Supervisor Randall Martin at the Chamber of Commerce building ...
By RUSS IMMARIGEON STARTING ABOUT 1903, the New York City-based Women’s Prison Association, which has thrived now for 180 years since its founding in 1845, initiated a 10-year campaign to establish a farming-centered prison for women in Valatie. Nowadays, surrounded by overgrown trees at the ...
By EMILIA TEASDALE KINDERHOOK—At their regular meeting on March 4, Superintendent Marie Digirolamo told the Ichabod Crane Board of Education that the district is facing “staggering increases in our health insurance costs,” less state aid and an increase in student need while enrollment ...
PHOTOS BY DAVID LEE Capital Region Independent MediaMarch 6, 2025CHATHAM–Marian Day has a backyard operation to make syrup for her family use. She has 3 taps in the sugar maples of her family property. She's collected about 30 gallons of sap. With a typical ratio of 40 gallons of sap to one gallon ...
By NANCY JANE KERN THE VERNAL EQUINOX marks the official start of spring and will happen on March 20, 2025. Can it only be two weeks away? We are enjoying the warmer sun, and nature seems to think it is already spring. A few days ago, I noticed buds coming out and small leaf tips on some ...
At the Farm at Miller's Crossing in Claverack, the cold late winter weather has made for a relatively short maple syrup season. For the sap to flow, the days can be warm but nights must get below freezing. Katie Cashen says that they started collecting sap some time in late February. On Monday, ...
