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Friday
Feb
25
6:16 am
Friday headlines
Start your engines: Wilzig wins track battle One of Columbia County's stranger stories, on a par with the Minnesota man who built his own stretch of interstate to drive on by himself, is coming to a...
Friday
Feb
25
5:41 am
February 25, 2011 local almanac
The National Weather Service says today will see a wintry mix with much wind . Rain and freezing rain this morning will later change to a mix of rain and snow. High around 40F. Winds NE at 20 to 30 mp...
Thursday
Feb
24
3:09 pm
Rip Van Winkle suicide a Germantown loner
State police say a Germantown man, aged 31, committed suicide on Thursday afternoon, February 24, by jumping off the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. A trooper at the Catskill barracks confirmed the fatal leap...
Thursday
Feb
24
9:02 am
State GOP now blocking nonpartisan redistricting
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has changed his tune on nonpartisan redistricting, and is now working to block a bill from Gov. Andrew C...
Thursday
Feb
24
8:36 am
Athens brewery gets Schumer BEER Act nod
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="198" caption="Crossroads Brewery, in Athens, will benefit if new Schumer-backed BEER act gets passed."][/caption]When he came to Greene County to meet with loca...
Thursday
Feb
24
8:19 am
Resigned ADA flubbed another case...
The Register-Star has a follow-up on the case of the assistant county D.A. who resigned his position after messing up a recent case in the Columbia County courts. Now, according to reporter Andrew Ame...
Thursday
Feb
24
8:04 am
Greene public transport talk shifts to silence
Proposed cuts to federal transportation grants are likely to end development of new public transit opportunities for low-income residents in Greene County, a report by Doron Tyler Antrim in the Daily...
Thursday
Feb
24
6:28 am
Thursday headlines
Local police delegation to honor hero cop The Daily Mail, like all Hudson Valley newspapers today, has a story about local police agencies sending reps for the giant service being held in Dutchess Co...
Thursday
Feb
24
6:04 am
February 24, 2011 local almanac
The National Weather Service says today will be partly cloudy this morning. A few snow showers developing during the afternoon. High 41F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent. Tonight wil...
Wednesday
Feb
23
5:00 pm
Copake finds shared services can be challenging
Officials in Copake, Diane Valden of The Columbia Paper reports, are wrestling with sharing services with neighboring towns... and coming up with unexpected challenges. During an update from Town Acco...
Wednesday
Feb
23
4:30 pm
Cuomo pulls back on banking oversight
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Instead of pulling back on education, health and other service cuts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first major budget changes were to lighten oversigh...
Wednesday
Feb
23
4:19 pm
Climate change still a priority, officials reminded
The Register-Star has a story up this week about a presentation on Climate Smart Communities by Mark Lowrey of the New York state Office of Climate Change last week that reminded listeners that, becau...
Wednesday
Feb
23
4:09 pm
NYS Association of Towns meeting this week
Wonder where many of your local town officials have been lately? If you started looking Sunday, you should have tried the New York Hilton first, where the New York State Association of Town's annual T...
Wednesday
Feb
23
3:54 pm
Gibson's votes drawing protests in Kinderhook
Congressman Chris Gibson's getting his first taste of home turf protests against his Republican majority lockstep votes to date in two separate incidents planned for Thursday, February 24 at his offic...
Wednesday
Feb
23
10:24 am
Wednesday
Feb
23
10:06 am
New eating options in Greenville
Andrea Macko reports in The Greenville Mountain View Pioneer (no website) about several new food possibilities in Greenville. A Subway restaurant opened Feb. 16 in the Bryant County Square, and Jim St...
Wednesday
Feb
23
7:10 am
Wall Street gives, Wall Street taketh away
The Albany Business Journal has a piece up about how a report to be released February 23 is expected to reveal that cash bonuses on Wall Street—a key economic engine for New York—dropped in 2010, maki...
Wednesday
Feb
23
6:59 am
Even EMS gets the close look for budget costs
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Greene EMS is under fire as it negotiates a new contract both for rising costs and its way of sharing costs between county and town, with county l...
Wednesday
Feb
23
6:40 am
County move to Wal Mart site stalled
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Former Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Art Baer, R-Hillsdale, was one of the committee members who voted to squash plans to study t...
Wednesday
Feb
23
6:23 am
Wednesday headlines
Siblings die in police shootouts 4 years apart The Lee Welch murder/suicide story that involved the murder of a Poughkeepsie city police officer is given an eerie shadow in the Daily Mail and Registe...