Category: News

FEMA to Open Disaster Recovery Locations in Columbia County

The Columbia Paper is reporting that FEMA (The Federal Emergency Management Agency) will open two disaster recovery locations in Columbia County this week.

From The Columbia Paper:

Residents who have questions or still need to apply for assistance from FEMA as a result of Hurricane Irene should go to these locations:

*Copake Community Center at the Copake Park, Mountain View Road, September 20 through 22, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily

*Chatham Firehouse, 2 Hoffman Street, September 24 through 26, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Anyone with questions can also call the County Emergency Management Office at 518-828-1212.

Hannaford Cancels Plans for Store in New Lebanon

Bad news for the New Lebanon area, Hannaford Corporation announced that they will not be building the planned supermarket on Route 20 in New Lebanon as previously announced.

No specific reason for the change of plans was given and town officials seem to be in the dark as to what happened.

You can read the full story on The Register Star Online by clicking here.

Brooklynites Blessing the Hudson Valley With Hipness

I missed this article on gawker.com earlier this month but wanted to pass it along to everyone else who may not have read it.

Here is an excerpt:

“”You can’t keep a good creative down,” as the old saying goes. When pushed out of their community by covert gentrification,overt invasion, and other insidiousnesses, good creatives will simply move elsewhere and establish new, even more authentic communities. This is how the Land of NoBro came to pass.

What and where is this magical place called NoBro? As the New York Times suggests, it is, in some ways, a state of mind—a mixture of 1980s SoHo, 1990s East Village, and 2000s Williamsburg, where one can find communion with the universe and like-minded spirits. In the tangible, physical world, however, NoBro is Beacon, N.Y., one of the many towns scattered about the Hudson Valley that has apparently witnessed an influx of migratory Brooklynites in recent years.”

You can read the entire article on Gawker by clicking here.

Turning a Landfill into a Hiking Trail

CLCYesterday, the Columbia Land Conservancy published a proposal to convert the former Hudson landfill into a public recreation and natural area. The plan would create a network of walking trails that would link Hudson to Harrier Hill Park via the 714-acre Greenport Conservation Area currently located between the two.

The proposed natural lands would be within walking distance of downtown Hudson and would include educational programs about the varied ecosystems of the land and the history of shoreline settlement.