TOP LOCAL News
By NYVT MEDIA
June 10, 2024
By DIANE VALDEN COPAKE—A crowd of about 50 people gathered on the pavement in the Copake Rapid Care parking lot, 283 Mountain View Road, with the temperature in the 80s under an intense springtime sun to witness the long-awaited grand reopening of the facility, Monday, June 3. The center had ...
By LORNA CHEROT LITTLEWAY GHENT--Kenneth Weinberg, a founder of Cannabis Doctors of New York, speaks at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Sunday, June 9 at 2 p.m., on the subject of “Medical Cannabis: Weeding Out Fact From Fiction.” The free event is part of the academy’s Conversations with ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--Some Columbia County youths who have not graduated from high school are getting GEDs (General Educational Development) and proceeding on to college and/or careers through the successful Beyond GED program, reported Adolfo Lopez, assistant director of Greater Hudson ...
By EMILIA TEASDALE VALATIE—It's right this way to the carnival this weekend in Kinderhook and the event could make the town some money. At their monthly meeting on June 3, the Town Board heard an update on plans for the upcoming carnival being held at the town owned park, as a benefit for ...
GHENT—New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar reminds New Yorkers that turtles are nesting in May and June and encouraged motorists to “give turtles a brake.” In New York, thousands of turtles are killed each year by unsuspecting drivers when ...
By DIANE VALDEN CRARYVILLE—A motorcyclist was killed in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of County Route 11A and State Route 23, May 25 at 9:30 p.m. Columbia County 911 dispatched Sheriff’s patrols, who determined that a 2023 Ford F-150 pickup truck, operated by Alan Ingraham, 75, of ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--The Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) and its Redevelopment Partners acknowledged that inspection of the land they plan to build on first is yet to come, confirmed that about half the new apartments they plan to construct will be for people with higher incomes than ...
By DIANE VALDEN COPAKE—A ribbon-cutting ceremony will herald the grand reopening of Columbia Memorial Health’s Copake Rapid Care Center at 283 Mountain View Road, which has been shuttered for a year and a half, Monday, June 3 at 1 p.m. The public is welcome, the Columbia Memorial Health ...
By DEBORAH E. LANS Final article in the series GHENT--Almost at the same moment that the state’s 2024/25 budget was adopted, the state’s Child Care Availability Task Force issued its April 2024 report making recommendations to address the child care crisis. Ironically, those recommendations ...
By NANCY JANE KERN THIS MEMORIAL DAY weekend there will be parades, barbecues, and family celebrations and the drumbeats penetrate our souls. I have been in so many parades I want to grab my old cornet, don my Ockawamick School band uniform, and march into the line. Parade music is ...
CHATHAM—The New York Beef Council (NYBC) invited New Yorkers to celebrate May as Beef Month in New York State at a press conference hosted in Albany on May 15. At the press conference, state Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball gave remarks celebrating New York’s beef producers, and ...
By DIANE VALDEN HUDSON—A Hudson man was arrested on felony drug charges near the intersection of First and Warren streets in the city, May 15, according to a press release from Columbia County Sheriff Donald J. Krapf. A several months-long narcotics investigation by the Columbia County Drug ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--This spring the Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) and its redevelopment partner are applying for an Empire State Development (ESD) Restore NY Communities Initiative grant to demolish the 135-unit income-restricted Bliss Tower and Columbia Apartments. Meanwhile, the ...
By DAVID LEE HUDSON--A gathering of elected officials from around the county and region convened at the Promenade Hill park on Friday, May 17 for an announcement of a state grant for the improvement of public transportation in Columbia County. At the podium, County Chamber of Commerce ...
By DOUG LAROCQUE NEW LEBANON--Looking at a nearly 9% hike in the property tax levy and needing a super majority of the votes cast on Tuesday, May 21, the voters in the New Lebanon Central School District overwhelming supported the final budget proposal put forth by the school board. The vote ...
By DAVID LEE HUDSON—On Friday morning, April 19, in recognition of April being National Donate Life month, a group assembled on the steps in front of the Department of Motor Vehicles on Warren Street in Hudson to bring attention to the importance of being an organ donor. The event was a ...
By PETER FLIERLNEW LEBANON--Monte Wasch and Sara Conley from the Lebanon Valley Community Corporation, a new 501(c)(3) charitable organization, were featured speakers at the meeting of New Lebanon Seniors at the new community center in the old fire station in New Lebanon on April 5.Mr. Wasch ...
By NANCY JANE KERN NEAR OUR FARMHOUSE was a small rocky pasture with a shallow pond for the horses. My father said he and his father used a team of horses and a drag scraper to deepen a small marshy area to create the pond. It took days to do this plus a lot of hand work too. It was a great ...
By DIANE VALDEN CHATHAM—Nine people were provided emergency aid by volunteers from the Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross following a structure fire at 667 White Mills Road, Lot #57, May 12 at 11:54 a.m. Columbia County 911 initially dispatched Tri Village firefighters along ...
By DIANE VALDEN ANCRAM—The idea to build a pavilion somewhere on town-owned property has been kicked around for more than a year without much forward movement. Now a pavilion plan seems to have gained some traction as evidenced by a “Summary of Pavilion Progress” report read at the April 18 ...
By DALE-ILA RIGGS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT where I live (New Lebanon) it is estimated 59% of the graduating seniors plan to go on to college, but fully 41% do not. What skills and job opportunities are students encouraged to explore? The number of jobs that are currently available to people with ...
By JEANETTE WOLFBERG HUDSON--The County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution asking the state to pass specific bills allowing the county to impose taxes of up to 4% for stays in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals (STR) at their meeting May 8. These taxes, says the ...
Fourth in a series By DEBORAH E. LANS GHENT--Childcare advocates agree that the dismal pay and lack of respect accorded child care workers account for the staffing challenges the industry faces. Until those challenges are addressed, capacity will remain inadequate, and parents will struggle ...
By NANCY JANE KERNLAST WEEK I found my first earthworm and started remembering the importance of these common creatures. As a child, they were prized as bait for fishing. I fished so much that one of my nicknames was “fish cake.” I fished for trout in our streams and bluegills, largemouth bass, and ...
By THOMAS SHANNON, Interim Columbia County Historian “The Rock of Gibraltar is no better symbol of strength and stability than the Germantown National Bank…” - 1928 advertisement in The Germantown Post. THE 1920S WERE an exceptional time in Germantown, the community rebounding from a ...
By DIANE VALDEN KINDERHOOK—State Police in Kinderhook arrested James D. Konderwich, 21, of Hudson for second degree sexual abuse, forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child, all class A misdemeanors, May 2. Troopers were called to Hannaford in the Town of Kinderhook and ...