TOP LOCAL News
By NYVT MEDIA
July 1, 2024
By DOUG LAROCQUE NEW LEBANON – If you have done business with the Town of New Lebanon’s judicial system, for whatever reason, you most likely at least met Justice Jack Nevers, who has been on the bench for nearly 30 years. Mr. Nevers officially stepped down on May 30, partially for health ...
By DAVID LEE KINDERHOOK--An annual Juneteenth celebration was held on June 19 at Rothermel Park in the Village of Kinderhook. This is the third year of the federal holiday designation which commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, TX, received the word that they had been ...
Last of the series By DEBORAH E. LANS GHENT--Nature isn’t vindictive. Even though human actions have fostered many threats to our forests, the forests continue to provide their many benefits. Climate change, pollution and bad forestry management practices all take their toll, and yet (and ...
PHOTOS BY DAVID LEE Parade Grand “Marshas” Shaina Loew-Banayan and Halo Kaya Perez Gallardo. Children from the Catskill Montessori School wrangled their rainbow flags at the lineup of the parade. Parade grand marshas former Hudson Mayor Dick Tracy and OutHudson co-founder Charlie Ferrusi ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--The proposed Chatham-to-Hudson Bus, for which NY State made $200,000 available, thanks to help from Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D-106th) and Senator Michelle Hinchey (D-41st) (May 24 article by David Lee) may run only one or two days a week, according to options ...
By NANCY JANE KERN LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS were a favorite TV entertainment during my childhood, and a particularly amusing episode was about a huge mole. I think Porky Pig was planting a garden when he noticed his plants being magically pulled down into the ground and disappearing. We had a firm ...
HUDSON--Elsa Kortright-Torres has been hired by the Hudson City School District as executive director of Teaching and Learning, bringing extensive experience as an elementary school bilingual classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent, Hudson Superintendent ...
By DIANE VALDEN CAIRO—The Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA (CGHS/SPCA) and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) arrived just in the nick of time to save 13 horses from starvation. Last month, CGHS/SPCA cruelty investigators were contacted by a witness who reported that horses at a ...
By DAVID LEE HUDSON--In the realms of community service in Columbia County Gary Flaherty has made a reputation for himself, for his work on behalf of veterans and their families. Now after more than a decade as the Columbia County Director of Veterans Services, Mr. Flaherty is retiring June ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--A housing survey, opioid abatement funds, and 11 Warren Street received attention at the Columbia County Board of Supervisors meeting June 12. The board authorized applying to the Office of Community Renewal for a grant of up to $50,000, “to contract with a ...
By DIANE VALDEN COPAKE—The Town Board will go ahead with Eminent Domain Procedures to obtain the one remaining parcel needed to move forward with the Main Street Parking Lot Improvement Project. The owners of the three other parcels that make up the total .326 acre parking lot accessible off ...
PHILMONT—Philmont’s Climate Smart Task Force Chair Thomas Paino announced that Philmont’s application to become an official member of the Green Purchasing Communities (GPC) program has been approved. This program aims to make it easier for local governments to purchase commodities, services, and ...
By NANCY JANE KERN CHILDREN GO THROUGH PHASES of bad dreams and nightmares. Mine were about old water wells and my mother, with good reason, instilled the fear. We had two behind our farmhouse. One was possibly the original 1700s well dug into the shale hill behind the house. This shallow ...
PHOTOS BY DAVID LEE Kids from the Hudson Little League rode in the back of a pickup in the parade. Musicians from the Saints Brigade play a fanfare for the reviewing stand. Stilt walkers in the parade were from the group Extraordinary Arts of New Bedford, MA.
By MARY REDLER GHENT--Climate Smart Communities is a New York State program that encourages local governments to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. The Town of Ghent joined the program back in 2015 and has been working toward that goal ever since. The ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--Columbia County Jail offers everybody incarcerated there for more than a few days a tablet for online activities, Captain Patrick Delaney, the jail administrator, reported in a conversation May 22. Policy forbids incarcerated individuals from keeping cellphones, ...
By DIANE VALDEN LIVINGSTON—Livingston resident Edmund W. Metz, 58, is dead as a result of a fire police say was deliberately set in his house, shortly after 1 p.m. Friday, June 7. Columbia County 911 dispatched Livingston firefighters and Northern Dutchess Paramedics to the scene of a house ...
By EMILIA TEASDALE VALATIE—The price of garbage stickers in the village will be going up starting in the fall due to the higher price of the contract for garbage and recycling pick up. Village Mayor Frank Bevens announced at the Village Board meeting on May 14 that the bids for the new garbage ...
By LORNA CHEROT LITTLEWAY GHENT--The NY Democratic Party has a primary election for the 106th Assembly District. The contest pits 6-term incumbent Didi Barrett against Ward 1 Columbia County Board Supervisor Claire Cousin. In-person voting is on Tuesday, June 25. Early voting runs from ...
By NANCY JANE KERN IF YOU ARE DRIVING on one of our narrower, quieter, country roads and a fairly large, rusty-colored bird quickly flies across in front of you, it is probably a brown thrasher. For a size comparison, the cardinal is 8 1/2” long while the brown thrasher is 11”. The thrasher is ...
First in a series By DEBORAH E. LANS GHENT--Simply take a walk in the woods these days and the toll of the heavy winter and spring storms will be obvious. Trees uprooted, downed branches, large and small, everywhere. It all looks a bit chaotic. Which prompts the question: are our woods ...
EAST CHATHAM—The aroma of pasta and simmering sauce fills the Red Rock Volunteer Firehouse, 401 County Route 24, during Pasta Night, Saturday, June 15, 5 to 8 p.m. On the menu is pasta, meatballs, three sauces, the chef’s special salad, rolls, dessert and a beverage. The cost is $15 for ...
By HOWARD BLUE THE WEATHERVANE WHOSE image you see here probably sat on top of its building on Route 22 for decades. Because of the building's height, even if you spent hundreds of hours in it, you might not have ever noticed this beauty. But if you’re like the other hundreds of people who also ...
By DOUG LAROCQUE NEW LEBANON – A large part of the recent town board meeting on May 14 saw councilman Craig Sherkis arguing with Supervisor Tistrya Houghtling and Councilman Steve Powers over a motion to hire the engineering firm of Barton & Loguidice to prepare an engineering study on how ...
By DIANE VALDEN Fire damaged a garage containing an apartment at 6568 Hill Street, Stottvillle, May 24. Photo courtesy of Stottville Fire Co. #2’s Facebook Page STOTTVILLE—Firefighters from eight fire companies were called in to battle a blaze in a commercial garage with an apartment inside ...
By DAVID LEE The boat parade approaches the dock at the Hudson Riverfront Park. Among the boats were vessels from the Coast Guard, Naval Militia, the Sheriff''s Office and historic sail boats including the sloop Eleanor and the Apollonia. Photo by David Lee HUDSON--This year marks the 150th ...
By DOUG LAROCQUE ALBANY – For years, rescue squads around upstate New York have been pushing their state representatives to change the landscape for EMS. That push gained the support of lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle when the New York State Senate approved a package of ...
