The Daily Freeman is reporting unemployment rates in Mid-Hudson counties continued to decline last month, the state Department of Labor reported Tues., Dec. 23. Columbia County scored the lowest local jobless rate in November at 4.4 percent. That was down from 5.3 percent in November of 2013. In Greene County, the November rate was 6 percent, down from 7.4 percent in November. Unemployment in Dutchess, Ulster, Delaware, Sullivan and Orange counties also declined. The statewide unemployment rate in November 2014 was 5.8 percent, down from 6.8 percent the previous November.