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Friday

Jan

20

12:01 am

Friday, January 20, 2012 local almanac

Jan 20, 2012 12:01 am • Staff

Weather right now READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in studio. FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page. MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Un...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:10 am

Wikipedia shuts down to protest proposed law

Jan 19, 2012 12:10 am • Noah Reibel

[caption id="attachment_10211" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Rep. Chris Gibson is not supporting SOPA/PIPA. Photo by Tom Roe at Chatham Middle School."][/caption]Anyone trying to pull up a W...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:08 am

Cuomo, teachers, disagree on evaluations

Jan 19, 2012 12:08 am • Noah Reibel

Governor Andrew Cuomo used his budget address on Tue., Jan. 17, to unveil a series of non-budget related proposals, including a five-year plan to take over increases in Medicaid from counties, a new p...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:07 am

Cuomo campaign has $14 million on hand

Jan 19, 2012 12:07 am • Noah Reibel

The Albany Times-Union reports that Andrew Cuomo has amassed $14.4 million in campaign contributions and has posted a list of the Governor's biggest donors on its Capitol Confidential page. NYPIRG als...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:06 am

Bats still beseiged by fungus

Jan 19, 2012 12:06 am • Noah Reibel

The Times-Unions' Brian Nearing writes about the bat plague "White Nose Syndrome." Since first appearing five years ago near Albany, the disease has swept through the eastern U.S. and the U.S. Fish an...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:05 am

Price Chopper recalls store-brand cheese

Jan 19, 2012 12:05 am • Noah Reibel

Price Chopper recalled some of its store-brand shredded cheese Wednesday. The recall comes amid concern there may be shredded plastic fragments mixed inside. Any 16-ounce bags of the grocery chain's "...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:04 am

Three arrests in Columbia County break in

Jan 19, 2012 12:04 am • Noah Reibel

Bryan Fitzgerald of the Albany Times-Union reports that three Columbia County teen-agers were arrested Tuesday after they broke into a Stuyvesant Falls home, restrained a 13-year-old and robbed the ho...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:03 am

Chatham man's body recovered

Jan 19, 2012 12:03 am • Noah Reibel

Bryan Fitzgerald of The Albany Times-Union reports that police have recovered the body of a 45-year-old Chatham man who jumped off the Normans Kill Bridge on Tuesday night. The man, whose identity has...

Thursday

Jan

19

12:01 am

Thursday, January 19, 2012 local almanac

Jan 19, 2012 12:01 am • Staff

Weather right now READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in studio. FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page. MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Un...

Wednesday

Jan

18

12:04 am

Grattan wants to televise county meetings too

Jan 18, 2012 12:04 am • admin

Kinderhook Republican Supervisor Pat Grattan recently announced he wants to televise local Kinderhook town board meetings, and now that he is also the chairman of the Columbia County Board of Supervis...

Wednesday

Jan

18

12:03 am

Local funding flat in Cuomo budget proposal

Jan 18, 2012 12:03 am • admin

New York Governor's budget proposal address at The Egg in Albany at 2 p.m., Tue., Jan. 17 was streamed live (see video below) on the WGXC Newsroom through http://www.governor.ny.gov/. Funding for town...

Wednesday

Jan

18

12:03 am

Prattsville reports recovery progress

Jan 18, 2012 12:03 am • admin

Prattsville's website has a large section of recently updated "progress reports" of the town's efforts to recover from the floods associated with Hurricane Irene last August. For instance, a Fri., Jan...

Wednesday

Jan

18

12:02 am

New York Senators back controversial internet bill

Jan 18, 2012 12:02 am • admin

The ProPublica website reports that New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) H.R. 3261 (the Senate version is called Protect IP Act or P...

Wednesday

Jan

18

12:01 am

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 local almanac

Jan 18, 2012 12:01 am • Staff

Weather right now READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in studio. FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page. MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Un...

Tuesday

Jan

17

11:12 pm

Wind Advisory for Wednesday

Jan 17, 2012 11:12 pm • admin

The National Weather Service issued a Wind Advisory for the entire region from 10:29 p.m., Tue., Jan. 17 through 3 p.m., Wed., Jan. 18. Winds from 20 to 35 mph are expected, with gusts up to 55 mph.

Tuesday

Jan

17

10:29 pm

Pulitzer in the Catskills?

Jan 17, 2012 10:29 pm • admin

A contributor to Jim Romenesko's media blog suggests that The Watershed Post, the Catskills new blog, might be up for a Pulitzer Prize this year for its coverage of the floods surrounding Hurricane Ir...

Tuesday

Jan

17

12:05 am

Cuomo pressures unions to adopt teacher evals

Jan 17, 2012 12:05 am • Noah Reibel

Glenn Blain The NY Daily News reports that Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned New York that the state could lose close to $1 billion in federal school funding if it makes no progress on a system t...

Tuesday

Jan

17

12:02 am

Police believe they've identified bridge jumper

Jan 17, 2012 12:02 am • Noah Reibel

Tom Casey in The Daily Mail reports that police believe they've identified an apparent suicide victim whose body was pulled from the Hudson river after he jumped from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge last We...

Tuesday

Jan

17

12:01 am

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 local almanac

Jan 17, 2012 12:01 am • Staff

Weather right now Hosts: Please announce the current temperature in Hudson, which is in Studio A in Hudson. Please properly credit any other local temperatures you announce on the air. The temperatur...

Monday

Jan

16

7:38 pm

Winter Weather Advisory until 10 a.m. Tuesday

Jan 16, 2012 7:38 pm • admin

The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory throughout the region from 10 p.m. until 10 a.m. Tuesday. Snow, freezing rain, sleet, rain, and ice are expected. The storm should turn to...