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September 19, 2025
GHENT–Thanks to the incredible generosity of customers and teammates, Market 32 and Price Chopper are proud to announce a total donation of $57,313.45 in support of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The recent in-store round-up campaign raised $47,313.45, and Market 32 and Price Chopper ...
KINDERHOOK--The results of the Town of Kinderhook 2025 Community Survey are complete and available for review in a report detailing the public input collected. The survey was conducted over the summer by the town’s Comprehensive Plan Committee and their planning consultant to measure general public ...
Union members have come out with signs and a large blow-up rat, near and across the street from the Village of Valatie water towers on Route 9 and Albany Avenue for the last week. In May, the Village Board awarded work to re-coat the water tower to the lowest bidder, Advanced Coating, for about ...
To the Editor: The Town of Claverack adopted a wonderful Comprehensive Plan in 2008. It's time to do something to actually implement it. It was based on extensive community input and expert guidance, just what we needed then. And because not much has been done since, many of the areas of weakness ...
To the Editor:What gives us hope? Hope is not a naïve emotion. It is a sober responsibility. It is what we do when the odds are long and the options are limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, it is the commitment of those who believe ...
WORCESTER, MA--The College of the Holy Cross welcomed Christopher Dalton, Old Chatham, as a member of the college’s Class of 2029.At 837 students, the Class of 2029 includes students from 39 U.S. states and territories and 15 different countries. This incoming class represents one of the most ...
Dean’s List: SNHU MANCHESTER, NH--It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) congratulates the following students on being named to the summer 2025 dean’s list. The summer terms run from May to August.Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum ...
ONEONTA--Samantha Lantzy ‘28, Valatie, earned the Empire 8 Women's Tennis Player of the Week honor on September 2. Ms. Lantzy made her debut at the No. 1 singles spot after a dominant debut season in 2024, helping lift the Hawks to a 7-0 sweep over their cross-city rival, SUNY Oneonta. She made ...
Calendar of EventsTo have an event listed here, send the information (including date, time, street address and cost if any) via email to news@columbiapaper.com at least two weeks before the event. Because of the high volume of workshop listing requests, we can list only workshops that are free, ...
COPAKE–The Columbia County Libraries Association will host Braver Angels: Skills for Disagreeing Better on Wednesday, September 24, from 6–7:30 p.m. This free workshop, presented by Braver Angels Hudson River Valley and held at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library, invites community members to ...
KINDERHOOK--Concerts in the Village opens its 16th Season 2025-2026 on September 28 with important solo works of J. S. Bach: the “Goldberg Variations,” a true milestone in the history of music, and the translucent “Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1.” For these two journeys CITV welcomes pianist Sophia ...
ELMIRA--Elmira College recently announced this year's recipients of its annual Key Award. This year's award was given to 807 students in 18 states as well as Canada. A tradition that goes back to 1935, the Key Award is presented to outstanding students in their junior year of high school or ...
NORTH CHATHAM—The North Chatham Free Library (NCFL) announces both Open Studios Tour and The Art Shop on Sunday, September 28. Both events begin at the Library Annex at the North Chatham Trolley Station, 103 Depot Street, 4287 Route 203.Love visual arts and the North Chatham Free Library? Now you ...
NORTH CHATHAM--North Chatham Free Library (NCFL) announces a free program, entitled “Medicare 101” on Friday, September 19 at 10 a.m. This event is located at the Library Annex at the North Chatham Trolley Station, 103 Depot Street.Are you approaching age 65 and exploring the process to apply for ...
SPENCERTOWN—Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents All Write, Columbia: Nonfiction Writers Conference beginning Thursday, November 6 through Sunday, November 9. This four-day intensive writing conference will focus on both the craft and the business of writing memoir and nonfiction essays.
PITTSFIELD, MA–More than 200 individuals, a mix of children and adults, made their way through the Youth Party on Monday, August 4 at Greylock’s Community Empowerment Center (CEC) – and that was just day one of Greylock’s Wealth Builders Youth SummerFest, a week-long series of events held August ...
NEW LEBANON–The length of councilman Scout Metzler’s appointment, debate over the scheduling of budget workshops and eventual vote on the proposed 2026 budget and presumed full-time versus part-time status of the town supervisor all played a role in the September meeting of the New Lebanon Town ...
KINDERHOOK—The Ichabod Crane Board of Education had a long discussion about including air conditioning (AC) in the primary school to a proposed capital improvement project at their regular meeting on September 9. They looked at the cost of adding AC to all the buildings in the district. That would ...
HUDSON--The United States of America’s 250th birthday is coming, and Columbia County is gearing up for “celebration and reflection” programs, said County Historian William Better in a conversation August 26. Among the organizations working on these events are the 250th Committee (which Mr. Better ...
TAGHKANIC--The idea of the “commons” – natural or other resources accessible to all and self-governed – is not new, but there was no communally-governed forest in Columbia County until recently. After three years of planning, Taghkanic now hosts our first such area, 502 acres of hardwood forest ...
One of the Golden Harvest apple picking teams was working in the orchard on Monday, September 12. They were picking macouns. Nigel Nugent unloads his bucket into the bin. The buckets are carefully emptied from the bottom so as not to bruise them. These pickers are from Jamaica and are here at ...
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THE SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY, a multi-arts presenter venue, opened its 20th annual books festival over the Labor Day weekend. Saturday’s events included talks by three authors – Peter Canellos, Bonnie Yochelson and Lisa Lerer -- about their recently released new books. Canellos penned a historical ...
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LENOX, MA–Shakespeare & Company presents the New England Premiere of “Mother Play: a Play in Five Evictions” by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel, directed by Ariel Bock, running through Sunday, October 5 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.A sharp-witted, darkly comedic exploration ...
CATSKILL–The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has announced that leading Cole collector and long-time supporter Rick Sharp has donated $175,000 to enhance the 2nd floor gallery in the 1815 Main House of the Thomas Cole Site. The funding will be used to create a new visitor experience, including ...
COPAKE–The Roeliff Jansen Community Library, in partnership with the Roeliff Jansen Historical Society, will host author Maryann Barto on Wednesday, September 10, at 6 p.m. for a talk on her new book, “The Hill: Trying Times.”Drawing from the stories and traditions of her own family, Ms. Barto ...
PITTSFIELD, MA–Greylock Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to appoint Stanley Walczyk as director emeritus in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the credit union.In April 2025, the Board of Directors voted to confer the director emeritus designation on Mr.
COPAKE—Registration for the Roe Jan Ramble is open. This annual fun, non-competitive, community cycling event, in its 13th year, will be held Saturday, September 20. This event offers a variety rides that will take riders through Copake, Hillsdale and Ancram based on skill level and age, and it ...