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June 11, 2025
HUDSON--In its 68th year of bringing chamber music to New York's Hudson Valley, Clarion Concerts will wrap the 2024-25 season with its annual fundraising concert on June 14 at 3 p.m. The concert and post-concert reception will take place in an antique barn at a private residence in Ancramdale ...
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HILLSDALE--Concerts at the Church presents a Father’s Day concert in the park featuring the Eagles Stage Band on Sunday, June 15, 3 p.m. in Roeliff Jansen Community Park Hilltop Barn, State Route 22. The Eagles Band was founded in 1936 and is the oldest continuing performance ensemble in the ...
AUSTERLITZ--The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society has announced the winners of its first Regional Student Poetry Contest. Open to students aged 13-18, living in Columbia and Berkshire counties, the contest awards first, second, and third place prizes in each of three categories: 13-14 years, 15-16 ...
With the Cobleskill United Methodist Church’s food pantry seeing record demands, it’s reaching out to the community for help.In the 1980s, the CUMC operated a food pantry out of a cupboard in its church office.Today the pantry serves an average of 30 families a week in a bustling operation that ...
CHATHAM—The Mac-Haydn Theatre, 1925 NY-203, opened its 56th season with the charming musical revue, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “A Grand Night for Singing,” playing through June 15. This celebration of the legendary Rodgers & Hammerstein songbook offers a fresh take on some of the most beloved ...
To the Editor:I am writing to respond to the recent letters by former Congressmen John Faso and Chris Gibson, Matt Murell, chair of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors and Abbie Hodgson, Taghkanic, regarding creation of a county executive.Columbia County government is administered by the Board ...
Assemblyman Scott Bendett (R-107th) and Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D-106th) brought the Chatham Boys Varsity baseball team to the state Capitol on May 29 to present them with a New York State Assembly resolution congratulating them on winning the New York State Public High School Athletic ...
Martin Silver of Dairy Queen in Ghent presented Our Community Cares, Inc. with a check in the amount of $1452.84, proceeds from DQ in a day in May. “We are extremely grateful to Martin and his staff for the constant support of our community,” said OCCi’s President Dawn Steward. This was the 13th ...
AUSTERLITZ—The Austerlitz Historical Society presents the next in its 2025 season of free talks, “Anti-Rent Wars and Forgotten Hudson Valley” at the Austerlitz Church in Old Austerlitz at 11550 State Route 22, Sunday, June 8 at 2 p.m.The 1852 church is air-conditioned.On December 12, 1844, Sheriff ...
GERMANTOWN--The Germantown Central School District also held a revote on June 17 and the budget also passed, meeting the supermajority vote with: 525 yes votes to 344 no votes. A statement from the district after the revote said, “On behalf of the Board of Education and the district, we would like ...
A motorcyclist was hurt in a collision with a piece of farm equipment on State Route 66 near the intersection with Soller Heights Road, Ghent, May 28 at 4 p.m. State Police report that a 2013 Harley-Davidson motorcycle operated by Park Stalker, 40, of Chatham was traveling north on State Route 66 ...
The month of May made the weather record books as one of the 10 wettest ever with rainfall in excess of 6+ inches, according to local weather officials. A photographer captured the result of all that rain—flooding at Stoddard Field on County Route 5 in Canaan, May 31 when the Stony Kill overflowed ...
CHATHAM—Equine Advocates’ Public Open Days, where visitors get to spend the day in the company of the 80+ horses, ponies, donkeys and mules that reside there, are popular events and the next one Saturday, June 7 promises to be extra special.Greg Gattine, morning show host and program director at ...
HUDSON—The Friends of the Hudson Area Library have announced that the Novel Affair Cocktail Party, held on Tuesday, May 20, raised $2,700 in support of the Hudson Area Library.Hosted at the Neverstill space on Warren Street, the event brought together library supporters, neighbors, and book lovers ...
HUDSON--The Republican Women of Columbia County (RWCC) was awarded the Caring for America Award at the annual NYS Federation of Republican Women conference in Albany. Jody Nesbitt, president of the club accepted the award on behalf of the group. This award is presented to individual clubs who have ...
COPAKE–The Roeliff Jansen Community Library welcomes celebrated author and dog cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz for a special installment of the library’s Roe Jan Writers Series on Wednesday, July 9 from 6 to 7 p.m. Ms. Horowitz will read from and discuss her latest book “The Year of the ...
HUDSON--Columbia County is adding a new public transportation route between Chatham, Ghent, Stockport, Greenport, and Hudson. The service starts on June 10 and will run on Tuesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.The service is funded by New York State through funding secured by New York State Senator ...
PITTSFIELD, MA–This month, Greylock Federal Credit Union will be hosting two free workshops on the topics of estate planning and preparing to buy a car (in Spanish).On Tuesday, June 10, the credit union will host the virtual workshop, “Estate Planning (I’m not dead yet!).” The session, which will ...
HUDSON — On Thursday, June 12, 6-7:30 p.m., the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street, will host a celebration of the library’s new and ongoing LGBTQ+ archive. This collection, much of it consisting of oral histories of local people who identify as LGBTQ+, has been developed in the past year ...
HUDSON – The Hudson City School District has announced its Hudson Senior High School high honor, honor and merit roll members for the 3rd quarter of the 2024-25 school year.To earn honor roll recognition at Hudson Senior High School, students must meet the following academic qualifications: high ...
GHENT–Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School welcomes Katherine Collins as the speaker for the Class of 2025’s commencement on June 14.Ms. Collins is the first Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and founder of Honeybee Capital. After many years as a professional investor, she set out to ...
CHATHAM – The NAMM Foundation has honored Chatham Central School District with its Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) designation for outstanding support and commitment to music education. Now in its 26th year, the BCME is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for ...
Chatham High School welcomed 24 students into its National Honor Society chapter during an induction ceremony held in the CHS auditorium the evening of May 13. In order to be eligible for National Honor Society, these students have demonstrated outstanding qualities in the areas of scholarship, ...
COPAKE—Hecate Energy submitted its response May 20 to the state Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission’s (ORES) finding that its new application was incomplete February 21. Now ORES has 60 days to either issue a notice of complete application or request additional information.Hecate ...
NEW LEBANON – Capital Region Classical presents David Leisner, guitar on Saturday, June 7 at 7:30pm at The Darrow School, 110 Darrow Road.The program includes: Bach, “Sarabande (BWV 997)” and “Allemande (BWV 996)”; Duarte, “English Suite, Op. 31”; Schubert, “Liebesbotschaft,” “Ständchen,” ...
COPAKE–The Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 Route 22, is proud to present a special screening of “Food and Country,” a compelling new documentary from celebrated food writer and former Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl. The screening will take place on Saturday, June 14, from 2 to ...
SPENCERTOWN--The Rooted Voyageurs will kick off their 4th season of presenting free live theater at outdoor spaces this summer at outdoor venues in the community. This season’s performance will be “A Midsummer Night's Dream” directed by The Rooted Voyageurs Artistic Director and Co-founder Devante ...
AM–Ancram Center for the Arts, 1330 County Route 7, under the leadership of Co-Directors Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, announced its 2025 season which includes, in addition to its renown storytelling programs, a regional premiere, three site-specific original performances, and two staged ...
COPAKE–The Roeliff Jansen Community Library’s “Party at the Mountain,” the annual gala known for camaraderie and fun, will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, at the Catamount Lodge, at the foot of the Catamount Mountain Resort, in Hillsdale.While enjoying the view and live music ...