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Friday
Mar
04
8:10 am
Catskill's cats to get Animal Planet airtime
Colin DeVries of the Daily Mail writes that the small-screen debut of Cat’n Around Catskill has been rescheduled for this Saturday. “Must Love Cats,” the feline-centric television series on Animal Pla...
Friday
Mar
04
8:02 am
Greene officials to discuss tax cap dangers
Greene County Legislature Chairman Wayne Speenburgh has called a meeting for next Wednesday, March 9, to discuss pertinent state government issues with local representatives, all Republican, and has i...
Friday
Mar
04
7:10 am
Seeger rally draws hundreds in solidarity
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Pete Seeger at Solidarity Rally for Wisconsin labor held in Newburgh on March 3. From Hudson Valley Labor website."][/caption]Union members ralli...
Friday
Mar
04
6:31 am
Friday headlines
BOS interest in DSS building grows Francesca Olsen of the Register-Star reports that the Columbia County Board of Supervisors is now expressing serious interest in purchasing and continuing its use o...
Friday
Mar
04
12:52 am
March 4, 2011 local almanac
The National Weather Service says today will have mixed sunshine and clouds and a high of 39F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be overcast (and dark). Low 31F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Astr...
Thursday
Mar
03
1:11 pm
Follow up protests in Albany this afternoon
In a follow-up to the March 2 arrests of 17 protesters in the state capitol, at least 15 of those arrested announced at noon on March 3 that they would be risking arrest again in a continuation of civ...
Thursday
Mar
03
12:53 pm
Pete Seeger heads union rally in Newburgh
Legendary folksinger Pete Seeger is joining hundreds of area labor union supporters at a Hudson Valley Solidarity rally Thursday, March 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the Newburgh Teamster Hall on Stone Castle R...
Thursday
Mar
03
10:28 am
Thursday
Mar
03
9:59 am
Skate Factory to close after 20 years of family fun
Skate Factory in West Ghent, a regional stalwart for local families for the past 20 years, will be closing in the coming month as its owners prepare for retirement. “It’s been a wonderful time and we’...
Thursday
Mar
03
9:44 am
17 charges with disorderly conduct at state capitol
The Glens Falls Post-Star reports that state police have said they would be charging the 17 protesters they arrested in the state capitol on March 2 with disorderly conduct, and arraigned the 17 bef...
Thursday
Mar
03
9:31 am
Why are teachers getting such short shrift?
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Why are teachers getting such guff? Journalists are starting to look into the current phenomenon."][/caption]The New York Times' Trip Gabriel has...
Thursday
Mar
03
9:10 am
Cairo nears completion of zoning law
Doron Tyler Antrim of the Daily Mail reports that the Cairo Zoning Commission has held what could be its final work meeting in a three-year process to write their town's first zoning laws, with the gr...
Thursday
Mar
03
8:54 am
Are NY mountain lions truly extinct, now?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="An Esatern Cougar, seen in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo of one captured (and stuffed) in Maine in the 1930s. From USFWS website."][/capt...
Thursday
Mar
03
8:35 am
Six Columbia businesses vie for Golden Apple
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Columbia County Council on the Arts' annual Arts Walk, as captured in a WGXC Newsroom image by John Lopez last December."][/caption]Six busi...
Thursday
Mar
03
7:10 am
Rescue farm in Chatham draws widening attention
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Little Brook Farm in Old Chatham teaches students the career potential in horse care."][/caption]Francesca Olsen of the Register-Star has a story...
Thursday
Mar
03
6:29 am
Thursday headlines
There's a lot of school budget talk going around this week... Budget Grade: Incomplete Jim Planck of the Daily Mail reports that Catskill School District Board of Education President Andy Jones is...
Thursday
Mar
03
12:48 am
March 3, 2011 local almanac
The National Weather Service says today will be mostly sunny a good deal of sunshine. Cold. High 27F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy. Low 13F. Winds light and variable. It wil...
Wednesday
Mar
02
11:42 pm
Germantown's Rollins accepts award
Video from The White House shows President Obama awarding the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to Germantown's Sonny Rollins and others in a ceremony at the White House Wedn...
Wednesday
Mar
02
5:03 pm
Protesters arrested in State Capitol in Albany
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Protesters sang before, and while being arrested in the State Capitol in Albany Wednesday afternoon, March 2, as seen in this striking image by t...
Wednesday
Mar
02
3:43 pm
Wednesday headlines PM
Senate says no thanks to Koch The Times Union reports that former NYC Mayor Ed Koch pushed his way into the face of Senate Republicans yesterday to reveal that the new legislative majority will reneg...