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Wednesday

Mar

20

12:55 am

Village election results

Mar 20, 2024 12:55 am • Staff

Porcupine Soup reports that Democrats prevailed in village elections in Athens, Catskill, and Coxsackie on March 19, according to unofficial results from Greene County Board of Elections. Republicans...

Wednesday

Mar

20

12:34 am

Cascades to reopen as food truck

Mar 20, 2024 12:34 am • Staff

Tiffany Greenwaldt-Simon reports for HudsonValley360.com that Sarah Spohler, a fan of the Cascades restaurant in Hudson, has bought the brand and will reopen it as a food truck. The restaurant closed...

Wednesday

Mar

20

12:11 am

Jet Blue not returning to Stewart

Mar 20, 2024 12:11 am • Staff

Mid-Hudson News reports that Jet Blue airlines will not be returning to Stewart International Airport. Since Jet Blue left the Newburgh airport in 2020, officials there have been hoping to lure them b...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:58 pm

Supreme Court hears New York case

Mar 19, 2024 12:58 pm • Staff

Kevin Frey reports at New York State of Politics that on March 18 the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a First Amendment case between the National Rifle Association and the former head of New Yor...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:51 pm

Coxsackie, Catskill schools removed from targeted list

Mar 19, 2024 12:51 pm • Staff

Roger Hannigan Gilson reports in the Times Union that the Coxsackie-Athens and Catskill school districts have been removed from the state’s “Targeted Districts” list after their standardized test scor...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:43 pm

Catskill restaurant moving to Leeds

Mar 19, 2024 12:43 pm • Staff

Liz Montgomery reports for Porcupine Soup that the Piccolo Trattoria restaurant is moving from Main St. in Catskill to Main St. in Leeds. The restaurant is moving into the Murphy’s Law Public House, w...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:59 am

Village elections today

Mar 19, 2024 12:59 am • Staff

March 19 is election day in many local villages. Unlike most elections, villages directly administer their elections rather than the county board. Citizens should check with their local village hall f...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:55 am

Tannersville gets funds for affordable housing

Mar 19, 2024 12:55 am • Staff

Andrea Macko reports in Porcupine Soup that on March 18 Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $10 million in state funding to develop workforce and senior housing at the former Cold Spring House hotel site in T...

Tuesday

Mar

19

12:21 am

Legislators working on budget in Albany

Mar 19, 2024 12:21 am • Staff

Mid-Hudson News reports that state lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly are now working out budget proposals with the April 1 deadline for approval getting near. Governor Kathy Hochul has propose...

Monday

Mar

18

12:55 pm

Voting Tuesday in Athens

Mar 18, 2024 12:55 pm • Staff

Cassie Abel reports for HudsonValley360.com that three candidates are competing for two two-year terms as village trustees in the Athens election this week. Democrats Gail Lasher (an incumbent) and Jo...

Monday

Mar

18

12:43 pm

Presidential primary voting begins next week

Mar 18, 2024 12:43 pm • Staff

Mid-Hudson News reports that while many villages have elections on March 19, voting in New York’s Presidential primary election begins March 23 and continues through April 2 this year. Analysts have s...

Monday

Mar

18

12:11 pm

Group protests Israeli policies at three local McDonald's

Mar 18, 2024 12:11 pm • Staff

Mid-Hudson News reports that local members of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement protested outside of three Hudson Valley McDonald’s locations on March 16. The group is a Palestinian-led move...

Monday

Mar

18

12:55 am

Catskill school brings back teacher

Mar 18, 2024 12:55 am • Staff

Andrea Macko reports in Porcupine Soup that the soap opera at Catskill High School continues this week, with the teacher and musical director of the school play back in school, and Marcus McGregor, th...

Monday

Mar

18

12:43 am

Cairo-Durham students sent home early

Mar 18, 2024 12:43 am • Staff

Cairo-Durham schools closed their Middle School/High School campus early on March 18 because of a water issue. After students began arriving for school, the district released a statement that said, th...

Monday

Mar

18

12:33 am

Molinaro, Stefanik, Tonko, Ryan agree on Tik Tok bill

Mar 18, 2024 12:33 am • Staff

On March 13, all four local Congressional representatives voted to block the Tik Tok app from operating in the United States. Both Republicans Elise Stefanik and Marc Molinaro, and Democrats Paul Tonk...

Tuesday

Mar

12

12:55 pm

Catskill High play delayed amid employment issue

Mar 12, 2024 12:55 pm • Staff

On March 12, Catskill Superintendent of Schools Dan Wilson released a statement to parents and the community delaying the school play. Instead of this weekend, the "Cinderella" musical will be perform...

Tuesday

Mar

12

12:49 pm

Massachusetts juvenile threatens Hudson teen

Mar 12, 2024 12:49 pm • Staff

Mid-Hudson News reports that a juvenile who lives in Massachusetts has been charged by police after sending threatening text messages to a 17-year-old girl and her friends in the City of Hudson. The s...

Tuesday

Mar

12

12:11 pm

Amtrak budget does not get slashed

Mar 12, 2024 12:11 pm • Staff

Kevin Frey reports at New York State of Politics that last week Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed a budget bill that largely maintains Amtrak’s operational funding, after Republicans had...

Tuesday

Mar

12

9:20 am

WGXC Daily News: 20240312

Mar 12, 2024 9:20 am • Produced by Philip Grant.

Today's audio daily news update.

Tuesday

Mar

12

6:00 am

WGXC Better Weather: 20240312

Mar 12, 2024 6:00 am • Produced by Joe Demanso.

Click above to download or play the "Better Weather." Produced by Joe Demanso of the Catskill Makers Syndicate.