School election results

Cairo-Durham school election results: School Budget Passed 551-527; Library Appropriation Failed 477-581; Biomass heating system Failed 433-625. Board Member results: Greg Koerner-Fox – 584; Thomas Plank – 564; Beatrice Clappin – 537; Pat Ublacker – 512; Nicole Maggio – 472; Dean Pectal – 456; Sam Mozzillo – 338. The Daily Mail reports Catskill results: Catskill [...]

19th Annual Antique & Classic Bicycle Auction and Swap Meet

The Fallons have a long and respected reputation with the annual antique & classic bicycling auction Friday, April 16, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. at Copake Auction House, 266 Cty Rt 7A, Chatham. A recent addition is a day long Swap Meet before the auction. Browse their online catalog at www.copakeauction.com. Click on WGXC or WGXC Newsroom [...]

Copake Green for sale: $1.2M

Diane Valden in The Columbia Paper reports: The 122-acre cornfield between the hamlet and the Copake town hall–the proposed site of a controversial 138-unit senior and mixed-income housing development called Copake Green–is now up for sale [from Housing Resources of Columbia County]. The asking price is $1.2 million. And unless someone ready, willing and able [...]

Murphy posts appropriation requests online

U.S. Representative Scott Murphy (D, NY20), who represents Greene and Columbia counties, has posted his appropriations requests online. The projects from Greene and Columbia, and nearby, include: Preservation of Manufacturing Jobs through Renewable Energy and Creation of a Center for Sustainable Manufacturing, Hudson, New YorkAmount: $1,000,000On behalf of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation, I requested [...]

Official comment?

One of the best results from the recent redesign of the web sites of The Daily Mail and The Register-Star has been the increase in reader participation through online comments. Lately, the politicians and officials at the heart of many stories on the paper’s web sites are writing their own comments. Or are being carefully [...]

Pay raises for Columbia County employees

The Register-Star reports that the Columbia County Board of Supervisors voted for a two percent pay raise for county employees Wednesday night. Supervisors voting “yes” on the pay raise were: Chairman Roy Brown, R-Germantown; Jeffrey Braley, R-Austerlitz; Reggie Crowley, R-Copake; Deputy Chairman Larry Andrews, R-Ghent; Art Baer, R-Hillsdale; Ed Cross, D-Hudson2; William Hallenbeck Jr., R-Hudson3; [...]

Ghent planning board to unveil plans for Price Chopper store

The public can view the plans for a proposed Price Chopper store on Rt. 66 in the Town of Ghent at the Ghent Planning Board’s next regular meeting on February 3 at 7 p.m., according to an article in ccScoop by Mike McCagg. The 43,000 square-foot store, on land adjoining the existing Price Chopper Plaza, [...]

Greene and Columbia County candidate forums

Tune in live candidate forums this week THURSDAY: Claverack and AthensSATURDAY: CatskillSUNDAY: Copake and Greene CountyMONDAY: ChathamTUESDAY: Kinderhook WGXC will have live web streams of each candidate forum for everyone to listen to. In addition, WGXC will post archived recordings of these candidate forums as soon as possible at www.wgxc.org More details below. ((((( CANDIDATE [...]

Officials stressing One City Centre purchase

Check out that headline in The Register-Star by the usually smarter writer Francesca Olsen. If you read deep down in her story you see why the officials are stressing a future building purchase: they don’t want you to think about the tax increase they just passed. Five paragraphs in Olsen mentions “Local laws renewing an [...]

Today’s local headlines

Brown replaces Scheer as deputy on county boardFrom Parry Teasdale in The Columbia Paper HUDSON — Chairman of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors Art Baer (R-Hillsdale) shuffled the leadership of the board, with Germantown Supervisor Roy Brown (R) replacing Gallatin Supervisor Lynda Scheer, as a deputy chairman of the board. Baer’s announcement of the [...]

Today’s local headlines

Signs of the times McBride’s Resale Shop at 465 Main St. in Cairo was shut down this week. Read all about it in these two images. A sign on the building still calls it Main St. Cafe, though that business has been closed awhile. Over two thousand without power in Columbia CountyNational Grid reports over [...]

Today’s local headlines

Mistaken identity muddles Catskill candidacyThe Greenville Press (no web site) CATSKILL – Linda Fenoff scoops everyone with the story of Linda Overbaugh’s now potentially failed candidacy for Greene County Legislator. It seems there are two Linda Overbaughs in Catskill, and local Republicans claim a Board of Elections official put the wrong Overbaugh on the petitions [...]

Today’s local headlines

Proposal leaves DSS in HudsonFrom The Register-Star HUDSON – Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Art Baer (R-Hillsdale) and Hudson Mayor Rick Scalera stood together at a press conference Tuesday and announced a new proposal that would keep the Department of Social Services in Hudson. The county would buy the One City Centre building on [...]

Today’s local headlines

City wants to charge for parking at AmtrakFrom The Register-Star HUDSON – Jamie Larson writes that the Hudson Common Council will consider a new tax on mass transit use, charging for parking at the city’s Hudson train station to bring in $197,000 to the city. He only reports the interests of the city, though, and [...]