Kinderhook, New York

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers COLUMBIA COUNTY - Town courts and town assessment offices may soon be replaced by countywide entities, and the Pine Haven Nursing Home may become a joint public-private venture.

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers COLUMBIA COUNTY - Some elective work is not as bad a gig as it used to be.

Uploaded Monday, December 29 at 4:45 p.m. KINDERHOOK--For the second time in four months, the Ichabod Crane Board of Education has appointed a new member.

A fire truck totaled by a falling tree during the ice storm that started Dec. 11 will be replaced by the village of Kinderhook.

It's a race against time, and few succeed. To become an Eagle Scout, a Boy Scout must advance through all the ranks and complete 21 merit badges and a serious community service project before his 18th birthday.

New York Farm Bureau members have elected Dean Norton, a dairy farmer and agricultural consultant from Batavia, N.Y., as the organization's next president.

Posted December 16, 6:20 p.m. HILLSDALE--The Taconic Hills School District and the Hawthorne Valley School will remain closed Wednesday, December 17, as crews continue to repair damage from the weekend ice ...

Posted Wednesday, December 17, 11:20 a.m. HILLSDALE--The Red Cross will close the shelter it has operated at Ichabod Crane High School in Kinderhook as of noon today.

Posted Monday, December 15, 6:35 p.m. HILLSDALE--Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Arthur Baer has extended the state of emergency for Columbia County until further notice.

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers COLUMBIA COUNTY - Columbia County's volunteer firefighters are working around the clock as storm-related fires continue to be reported.

Posted Monday, December 15, 6:10 p.m. HILLSDALE--Of the more than 30,000 Columbia County customers who lost power in last week's ice storm, about 10,000 were still doing without as of Monday morning, December ...

Columbia County - More than 20,000 people were without power in Columbia County is morning.

Columbia County is shrinking and aging. That's what the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau show based on estimates of population in 2007 and released this week.

Firefighters from several companies quickly dispatched a basement fire in a two-story home on Gibbons Road Friday evening.

Pedestrians walk along an ice-covered street in Kinderhook, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008.

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers COLUMBIA COUNTY - The county Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $140,393,839 budget for 2009 at Wednesday's monthly meeting.

A Farm to School Guide and Directory for the Hudson-Mohawk area is now available online from Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Some public water supplies along Route 9 have been found to have elevated levels of arsenic.

The county-owned Pine Haven Home in Philmont may be moving north to become part of a major new senior living complex.