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Wednesday
May
25
5:45 am
Advocates push for single-payer health care legislation before end of session
Matthew Hamilton is reporting at Capitol Confidential advocates for a state-level single-payer health care system are stepping up their calls for legislative action before the end of the current sessi...
Wednesday
May
25
12:05 am
Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline project withdraws
Time-Warner Cable reports Kinder Morgan officially withdrew its federal application to build the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline on May 23. The company said a few weeks ago that the market for natura...
Wednesday
May
25
12:04 am
Low corn prices have farmers switching to grains
Cornell Cooperative Extension is holding field meetings on hay and small grain management throughout the area, including a May 26 workshop on pest management and agronomy of rye, wheat, barley and mal...
Wednesday
May
25
12:03 am
Gillibrand wants Wappinger Creek added to Superfund list
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand urged the United States Environmental Protection Agency to add Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County to the Superfund National Priorities List in a letter May 23. The desi...
Wednesday
May
25
12:02 am
Albany airport might be first to criminalize leaving security line
Jordan Carleo-Evangelist reports in The Albany Times-Union that Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple and Bart Johnson, head of TSA security operations at upstate airports, want to make it a crime to refu...
Wednesday
May
25
12:01 am
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 local almanac
Local weather forecast Today: Patchy fog before 7 a.m. Otherwise, sunny. High near 84. Wednesday night, partly cloudy. Low around 61. FORECAST FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS THURSDAY Mostly sunny. High near 8...
Tuesday
May
24
11:40 pm
Radio News: Researchers break wireless data transmission speed record
Science Daily reports that researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF used radio transmission to send the contents of a conventional...
Tuesday
May
24
4:00 pm
WGXC Local News Update Audio Link
DOWNLOAD or play the audio version of the local news update for Tue., May 24 (3:15). (Produced by Alanna Medlock.)
Tuesday
May
24
11:00 am
WGXC Local News Audio Link
DOWNLOAD or play the audio version of the local headlines for Tue., May 24 (8:58). (Produced by Philip Grant.)
Tuesday
May
24
7:00 am
St. Patrick's church in Catskill closing its doors
Katie Kocijanski is reporting in the Register-Star St. Patrick’s Parish Church in the village of Catskill will soon close its doors for good. The Roman Catholic Diocese made the announcement in Albany...
Tuesday
May
24
6:45 am
Local columnist Dick Nelson dead at 76
Kate Seckinger is reporting in The Daily Mail long-time local newspaper columnist Richard “Dick” Nelson has died at the age of 76. Nelson was a sports and outdoor journalist for more than 50 years, wr...
Tuesday
May
24
6:30 am
Plans for Hillsdale musical festival fall apart
Lorna Cherot Littleway is reporting in the Columbia Paper organizers of the Oldtone Roots Music Festival have withdrawn their application for a permit to stage a four-day, post-Labor Day music event i...
Tuesday
May
24
6:15 am
Advocates say PSC directive on home energy aid will help
William J. Kemble is reporting in the Daily Freeman advocates for low-income residents say a state Public Service Commission directive to change energy-assistance programs will help reduce the number...
Tuesday
May
24
12:05 am
Furgary Boat Club will soon open to the public
Roger Hannigan Gilson is reporting in the Register-Star Hudson Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton has announced the Furgary Boat Club, located in the city's North Bay, will soon be open to the public. The...
Tuesday
May
24
12:04 am
Faso debuts new TV ad condemning Heaney for attacks
Matt Hamilton is reporting at Capitol Confidential Republican John Faso is going after primary rival Andrew Heaney in his latest television ad, slamming Heaney for falsely attacking his record. Both F...
Tuesday
May
24
12:03 am
Buckle Up New York Campaign begins
The Daily Freeman is reporting the New York State Police will be on the lookout for motorists and passengers not wearing their seatbelts, beginning this week through Sun., Jun. 5. The effort is part o...
Tuesday
May
24
12:02 am
Red Hook eighth-grader to compete in National Spelling Bee
The Times Union is reporting Dutchess County eighth-grader Alexandra Snyder joins 284 other contestants this week for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Alex, 13, a student at Linden Avenue Middle Sch...
Tuesday
May
24
12:01 am
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 local almanac
Local weather forecast Today: Scattered showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1 p.m. Cloudy. High near 72. Tuesday night, a chance of showers, mainly before 7 p.m. Mostly cloudy, then gradu...
Monday
May
23
10:02 pm
Radio News: FCC confirms, LPFM stations do not interfere with full-power stations
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Once upon a time, the few opponents in Congress to the low-power FM bill then pending in Washington D.C., made up a fake compact disc a...
Monday
May
23
8:00 am
WGXC Local News Audio Link
DOWNLOAD or play the audio version of the local headlines for Mon., May 23 (6:42). (Produced by Philip Grant.)