Kenneth C. Crowe is reporting in the Times Union a 52-year-old man was reported fighting for his life after being pulled from Oakdale Lake in Hudson Thu., Aug. 6. The man went into the lake in an attempt to retrieve a soccer ball kicked into a non-swimming area of the lake, city police said. The unidentified man went into the lake tethered by a rope, and was lost when someone either lost their grip on the rope or he slipped out of the knot. He went under in the portion of the lake that is 12 to 15 feet deep. It took members of the Hudson Fire Department, Hudson Police Department and the Greenport Rescue Dive Team 26 minutes to find the man in the murky water and pull him out. He was taken to Columbia Memorial Hospital where, according to police, "...he is fighting for his life." Read the full story in the Times Union.