"The Riverfront Antiques and Design Center, located in a massive former factory, houses two dozen shops that have managed to spiritually capture the manic, classy, grungy, glamorous, artistic fury of the early days of Hudson’s turn-of-the-century artistic revitalization, all under one roof. It is a wild place to shop." (Rural Intelligence, June 2016) Come see what all the excitement is about! 24+ designers, antiques dealers, artists, and makers in the former L&B Factory in Hudson. Open daily 10-5, individual business hours vary but all are open Fri-Sun. 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson NY www.hudsonradc.com hudsonradc@gmail.com

2015 ROE JAN RAMBLE BIKE TOUR Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 10:00 AM Start Location COPAKE MEMORIAL PARK 305 Mountain View Road COPAKE, New York SPONSORED BY THE TOWNS OF ANCRAM, HILLSDALE AND COPAKE ALL RIDERS PARTICIPATE FREE - NO ADMISSION CHARGE FOUR RIDES TO CHOOSE FROM- 10, 25, 35, 50 MILES RIDERS HAVE THE OPTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE COPAKE-HILLSDALE EXTENSION OF THE HARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL http://www.firstgiving.com/hvrta/2015-roe-jan-ramble-bike-tour

Seth Rogovoy’s aggregated local/national news

Celebrating the best of Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess, and Litchfield Counties

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The Spencertown Academy, home of the Arts here in the hamlet.

The Facebook page for the Spencertown Country Store - a great place for a bite to eat.

St Peter's Presbyterian Church in the hamlet of Spencertown.

To stop a Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project ( high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (K. M.) to traverse NY with fracked gas. Description Our Broader Mission: To stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York and to promote sustainable, renewable sources of energy. Our Current Mission: To stop the Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project (a high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (Kinder Morgan) to run from Wright, NY into Columbia County, NY into Berkshire County, Ma through to Dracut, north of Boston, bringing fracked gas that threatens the climate and the environment. The proposed pipeline path runs through hundreds of private properties and through some of the state’s most sensitive eco-systems and would likely be paid for through new tariffs on our electric bills.) How? — By organizing the impacted landowners, towns, concerned citizens, and others to resist the pipeline project — By creating space for groups and individuals to find and share information, organize, collaborate, and plan. Please explore our Facebook page and contact us with any questions or suggestions.

To stop a Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project ( high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (K. M.) to traverse NY with fracked gas. Description Our Broader Mission: To stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York and to promote sustainable, renewable sources of energy. Our Current Mission: To stop the Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project (a high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (Kinder Morgan) to run from Wright, NY into Columbia County, NY into Berkshire County, Ma through to Dracut, north of Boston, bringing fracked gas that threatens the climate and the environment. The proposed pipeline path runs through hundreds of private properties and through some of the state’s most sensitive eco-systems and would likely be paid for through new tariffs on our electric bills.) How? — By organizing the impacted landowners, towns, concerned citizens, and others to resist the pipeline project — By creating space for groups and individuals to find and share information, organize, collaborate, and plan. Please explore our Facebook page and contact us with any questions or suggestions.

To stop a Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project ( high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (K. M.) to traverse NY with fracked gas. Description Our Broader Mission: To stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York and to promote sustainable, renewable sources of energy. Our Current Mission: To stop the Kinder Morgan/TGP Northeast Expansion project (a high-pressure gas pipeline planned by Tennessee Gas (Kinder Morgan) to run from Wright, NY into Columbia County, NY into Berkshire County, Ma through to Dracut, north of Boston, bringing fracked gas that threatens the climate and the environment. The proposed pipeline path runs through hundreds of private properties and through some of the state’s most sensitive eco-systems and would likely be paid for through new tariffs on our electric bills.) How? — By organizing the impacted landowners, towns, concerned citizens, and others to resist the pipeline project — By creating space for groups and individuals to find and share information, organize, collaborate, and plan. Please explore our Facebook page and contact us with any questions or suggestions.

Updates and information about the new Claverack Free Library project.

short stories, memoir, verse and art by local writer Sean Patrick Springer

A compendium of cultural news and observations by Seth Rogovoy

Town's website

The homepage for the Town of Austerlitz and Hamlet of Spencertown.

The Town of Kinderhook is a remarkable and extraordinary place. Henry Hudson, while moored on the river that today bears his name, noticed the Mahican Indian children gathering on the shore, and coined the name of our Town—Kinderhook—Dutch for “Children’s Corner.” While many years have passed since those early encounters, the passage of time has been kind to the oldest Town in Columbia County.

Town of Claverack government site

Triform Camphill Community, in Hudson, New York, is a residential community for young adults with developmental disabilities. It includes a dynamic mix of over 110 people spanning many generations, cultures and ranges of ability. Forty young adults with social, mental, physical and emotional disabilities, live and work side-by-side with full time volunteer resident staff and the staff’s families on a 500+ acre biodynamic/organic farm in beautiful Columbia County, NY. Triform is a model of care where young men and women with Autism, Down syndrome, and other developmental and neurological disabilities participate in dignified, purposeful work, share in warm, supportive relationships and make meaningful contributions to the well-being of everyone in the Triform community. Triform is changing the way we understand and appreciate the capabilities of people with special needs. Triform is a forerunner and model in the disabilities field, where the ideals of inclusion and the development of individual potential are in the forefront. Triform’s programs promote confidence, self-worth, independence and achievement on many levels. The Triform special needs community offers an enriching social, intellectual and cultural life for its students, and year-round vocational opportunities in organic and biodynamic farm and gardening. Triform is among a select group of farms in the US certified by Demeter, which is regarded as the highest level of organic farming certification in the world.

Patrick Wang's two-part film, "A Bread Factory," to premiere on Labor Day at Time & Space Limited, where it was filmed in 2017.

VERA is a member-run group promoting business and community in historic Valatie, NY. V.E.R.A.'s primary purpose is business promotion, drawing local residents and visitors to our historic Main Street, to enjoy our landmark waterfalls and the human-scale of our village. Our goal is to create a vibrant and attractive downtown that supports existing merchants while attracting new business to the Village of Valatie.

*former Vaudeville Theatre designed and built with Live Acoustic* The Valatie Community Theater was built in 1926 for Vaudeville performances, and as a “movie house”; it was acoustically designed for “live” sound without amplification. The theatre currently operates today with live performances as well as screening occasional films. The Valatie Community Theatre exists to develop, encourage and produce theatrical talent and provide an opportunity for expression in the art of theatre. The VCT also hosts an annual summer Youth Theatre Workshop.

Every Sunday in Valatie from 10:00AM until 2:00PM Tierra Farm Hosts the 2015 Valatie Farmers’ Market The Village of Valatie’s 2015 Farmers’ Market is located at Martin H. Glynn Park across from the MHG Municipal Building on Church Street. DIVERSE LOCAL FOOD | LIVE MUSIC | FACE PAINTING (for kids) Every Sunday, Valatie Farmers’ Market. @ 3211 Church Street: “Glynn Square Park” * across from MH Glynn Municipal Bldng * across from the First Presbyterian Church A broad range of locally grown produce, desserts, pasture-raised meats, cheese, pesto, fresh cut flowers, Fair-Trade Coffee. Live Local Musicians perform under the gazebo! MORE INFO: 3211 Church Street: "Glynn Square Park", Valatie, NY 12184

The Valatie Fire Department is 100 percent volunteer. Our members protect the Village of Valatie and the Town of Kinderhook. Our apparatus includes two pumpers, a mini pumper and an aerial ladder truck.

The Valatie Free Library serves the village of Valatie, the hamlet of Niverville, Kinderhook Lake, and surrounding rural Kinderhook in Columbia County along the scenic Hudson River Valley of New York State. Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm at the Library. The public is welcome to attend.