TOP LOCAL News
By NYVT MEDIA
August 26, 2024
By NANCY JANE KERN THIS WAS A HOT TOPIC GROWING UP and still is. Farmers must feed livestock and can only harvest in warm weather. Unfortunately, it is the same time that birds, animals, insects, and plants grow and reproduce. My family was conservation-minded and tried to balance the ...
By DIANE VALDEN KINDERHOOK—A Schenectady County man was killed in a motorcycle crash off County Route 28 near Apple Tree Court August 11 at 5:16 p.m. A State Police investigation determined that a motorcycle driven by Randall D. Collins, 31, of Glenville was traveling east on Route 28 in the ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--The Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) has begun to receive feedback from the state on its proposed redevelopment plan and is looking for a housing consultant, HHA Executive Director Jeffrey Dodson announced at HHA’s Board of Commissioners meeting July 22. At the ...
By DIANE VALDEN COPAKE—In his August 10 update on the status of Hecate Energy’s controversial industrial-sized Shepherd’s Run Solar Project, Copake Supervisor Richard Wolf wondered why “the developer still has not filed” a revised permit application for a scaled-down project? The answer may ...
By NANCY JANE KERN EVERY ABLE-BODIED PERSON should have to work one day in a mid-August, old-time, blazing hot hay field. I thought I had it bad stacking hay bales in a wagon behind a tractor and hay baler as a kid until my maternal grandfather, Frank Wambach, showed me something worse. He and ...
By DEBORAH E. LANS Second in a series HUDSON--This court feels different. The judge enters without pomp and opens the session by introducing herself and explaining some of what is on tap for the day: there will be two graduations. There are some visitors from the state court system, there to ...
CHATHAM–Representatives from local non-profit organizations were presented with donations to fund a wide-variety of community projects from the Bank of Greene County’s Charitable Foundation at the bank’s Chatham branch. These non-profit groups provide a wide range of assistance and services to ...
By DAVID LEE HUDSON--The Hudson Department of Youth runs a six-week summer camp for kids from July 8 to August 16 at Oakdale Park. The camp is free, and the campers are supplied with breakfast and lunch and a variety of activities including field trips, cooking lessons provided by the Sylvia ...
HUDSON—The Citizen Review Panel for Police Reform has completed the process of developing policies and procedures for filing a complaint against a police agency in Columbia County, Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell (Stockport) announced in an August 1 press release. In ...
HUDSON—Oakdale Lake Beach in the City of Hudson has been closed due to the presence of a blue-green algae bloom according to an announcement from the Columbia County Department of Health the afternoon of August 13 . The swim area will remain closed until the blue-green algae blooms have cleared ...
Another in the continuing series on housing in the area By DEBORAH E. LANS GHENT--In July, Pattern for Progress released its annual analysis of rental housing affordability throughout the Hudson Valley. The main takeaway is the “alarming reality” that “working tenants are struggling even ...
By EMILIA TEASDALE VALATIE—The Kinderhook Town Board adopted a Local Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Plan (CARP) at their meeting on August 5. The motion passed says that the town’s Climate Smart Task Force, “comprised of municipal officials and environmental volunteer community ...
By RICHARD BAZELOW Continuation from “A log book’s story, voyage of the whale ship” column on July 25. THE CITY OF HUDSON was started with whaling families and investors from Nantucket, Providence RI, and Martha’s Vineyard. They brought many of the needed skills with them. Still, it was far ...
By LORNA CHEROT LITTLEWAY HUDSON--About 100 people, mostly children, attended the Owl and Raptors program at the Hudson Library, 51 N 5th Street, Wednesday, July 24. The presenters were Annie Mardiney, owner of Wild Mountain Birds in Ulster County, and Emma Bloom, an exotic (any animal but dogs ...
By NANCY JANE KERN CAVES WERE ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES early man may have learned that food and drink could be cooled and stored for longer periods. About 10 feet into the earth the temperature is about 56 degrees Fahrenheit. This keeps food from freezing in winter as well as cooler in summer.
HUDSON—A memorial ceremony was held July 22 on the grounds of the Hudson Correctional Facility to honor the women and children buried in a long-overlooked cemetery on the site. This event is an initiative of Incorrigibles (https://stories.incorrigibles.org), a transmedia project that documents the ...
By DIANE VALDEN CATSKILL—A Columbia County man was killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash on State Route 9W, July 24 at 11 p.m., Troopers from the State Police barracks in Catskill responded to the scene. Their preliminary investigation revealed that a 2008 GMC Envoy driven by Thomas ...
By KAYLEE MILLER KINDERHOOK--The Village of Kinderhook’s Palmer Engine and Hose Company #1 has purchased a new customized fire truck. The Village Board passed a resolution two years ago approving the purchase of the new pumper engine, as the previous one was past it’s vehicle life expectancy, ...
By DIANE VALDEN ANCRAM—Approval of the minutes of the previous board meeting is usually one of the first items dealt with on any board meeting agenda and probably the most routine. But at recent Ancram Town Board meetings, the minutes have spurred controversy over what they do and don’t ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--The Columbia County Board of Supervisors tabled a proposal to create an animal abuser registry, adopted a policy for surveillance cameras, and requested OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) hold off planned reforms for possible modifications at ...
By DEBORAH E. LANS First in a series GHENT--The social scientist David Canter says that “to know a society, know its crime.” To think “of crime as generated by abnormal individuals that is [solely] the responsibility of law enforcement and the judicial system is to ignore the endemic ...
By DIANE VALDEN CANAAN—A 71-year-old New Lebanon woman, her name not released by authorities, died, possibly as a result of drowning in Queechy Lake last week. Columbia 911 dispatched Canaan firefighters and the Chatham Rescue Squad to the Adams Point Beach on Queechy Lake for a possible ...
By RICHARD BAZELOW WHEN YOU HEAR the words "golden age of American whaling" there is an air of romanticism about them. Advertisements in 19th century newspapers, or stories passed from person to person, lured many a young man seeking adventure. They came from sleepy towns in the rural Hudson ...
By NANCY JANE KERN IT WAS UNNERVING TO HOLD my great-great-grandmother’s rib. I looked at the hole the woodchuck dug into the family cemetery plot and suddenly knew how Hamlet felt when he held Yorick’s skull. I never met this grandmother, but it was another reason to dislike woodchucks ...
By NANCY JANE KERN BEYOND THE LARGE WHITE PINE TREE trooped a rafter of two wild turkey hens with their young poults. They walked with purpose straight to the dusty gravel driveway. The hot sun had dried it to an irresistible and veritable turkey spa. The pecking order was established through ...
PHOTOS BY SCOTT LANGLEY Attendees viewed dioramas and get information at the “Philmont Rising” booth, getting a glimpse of the proposed Canal Street parking lot. Architect Lyn Rice, from firm Rice + Lipka, (l) talks to residents about the plans. The Columbia Cruisers Car Show lined up along ...
By DOUG LAROCQUE Capital Region Independent Media NEW LEBANON--The future of the community center, walkable downtown and the Shaker Historical Preservation district were the major topics under discussion at the July 9 meeting of the town board. First up was the Shaker topic. A report was ...