The Associated Press reports in The Daily Freeman that Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Hudson River SkyWalk on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge linking Greene and Columbia counties, is finished. Three viewpoints, 50 feet long by 10 feet wide, are now open on the mile-long sidewalk on the bridge. Eventually, there will be a pedestrian trail between the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and the Olana State Historic Site in Greenport. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.