Amanda Purcell reports for Columbia-Greene Media that the kerfuffle about the vigilante street painters continues in Hudson. Four Hudson residents were charged Oct. 18 with making graffiti, a class A misdemeanor, and with other violations of the city code. They painted a crosswalk on a street because the city's Department of Public Works had not yet painted a crosswalk there, and they deemed the intersection dangerous. This week the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office proposed to dismiss the case in exchange for a sentence of community service with the Department of Public Works. “Mandating it to be only with the DPW in this case can only be interpreted as punishment or retribution by the DPW,” defense attorney Susan Tipograph said Dec. 12. Tipograph represents 4th Ward Supervisor and Time & Space Ltd. co-founder Linda Mussmann and Time & Space Ltd. co-founder Claudia Bruce, two of the four crosswalk vigilantes. Earlier she said, “It seems like how this case is being dealt with seems different than what the general practice is in Hudson City Court.” That made Rob Perry, the head of Hudson's Department of Public Works, angry. “I doubt attorney Tipograph’s statement, as quoted in the Register Star, really 'seems like retribution,'" Perry said. “They had no problem playing the DPW worker in the first place.... Now they are opposed to actual DPW work.” Read the full story at HudsonValley360.com.