It may just barely be spring, and it was April first, but Jeanette Wolfberg in The Columbia Paper reports that at the Hudson Common Council’s Youth and Aging Committee meeting, talk turned to summer swimming, including an exchange that started when Alderperson Tiffany Garriga (D-Second Ward) said that some people, “have issues with Oakdale Lake,” the Hudson swimming hole. Alderperson Bart Delaney (R-Fifth Ward) responded, “We get fed up with hearing that Oakdale Lake is dirty. It’s spring fed.” And then George Wood, former commissioner of youth, chimed in, “It’s cleaner than our drinking water.” Wolfberg then reports that "the men said that the lake was recently 'treated' fto control weeds and would be treated for them again." Garriga asked about the Hudson High School pool, and if it was available for local residents to exercise and cool off this summer. She was told it was not. Instead, a discussion took place about sending Hudson kids across the river to swim in an Athens pool. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.