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Blues tunes to rock Dutchman's Landing

Blues tunes to rock Dutchman's Landing

The summer concert series “Music in the Park” is continuing this week with the blues band, Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers.

Music in the Park is every Thursday at 7 p.m., rain or shine, through September 1.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be held in the Gazebo at Dutchman’s Landing on the Riverfront on Main Street in Catskill.

 

 

Study on NY's Hudson finds unsafe sewage pollution

(AP) - A new report on Hudson River water quality finds that sewage pollution makes the river unsafe for swimming 21 percent of the time at sites from New York City to Troy.

The study says that's three times as often as at beaches nationwide.

The report is by the environmental group Riverkeeper. It's based on monthly samples taken between 2006 and 2010 that were tested for bacteria linked to sewage. The samples came from 75 sites along the length of the 155-mile river.

There are only four designated swimming beaches on the Hudson. However, the report says there are more than 100 places where people go into the water.

The report says government testing must be improved and the Clean Water Act must be enforced to prevent sewage pollution.

Greenville teachers learn project-based learning in professional development workshop

Greenville teachers are learning a lot more about professional development this week.

Tech Valley High School in conjunction with Questar III and Capital Region BOCES started its 4-day workshop Monday.

A TVHS trainer and a faculty members will share what they and the faculty of the school has learned about teaching 21st century skills.

"The workshops include four days of intensive modeling of a project-based environment and leave with one project-based unit to implement with students," Trainer Laura Lehtonen in a statement. "The professional development will provide support for developing a project idea, alignment to state standards, rubrics to assess content and college and career readiness skills and establishment of business and community partners."

A previous four-day workshop was conducted in Scotia in July.

School hosts Electronics Recycling Day

School hosts Electronics Recycling Day

Columbia Greene Community College is holding an Electronics Recycling Day on Saturday, August 20.

Acceptable items including computers, monitors, televisions, laptops, modems, servers, cell phones, fax machines, copiers, cd players, IT equipment, audio, visual equipment, printers, GPS units, microwave ovens will be taken free of charge.

Electronics such as air conditioners and dehumidifiers will be taken, for a $10 charge.

It’s from 9 to 1 p.m. at the college on 4400 State Route 20 in Hudson.

Click here for more information.

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Library offers presentation on history of the American Flag

Library offers presentation on history of the American Flag

The Catskill Public Library is offering a presentation on the history of the American Flag. 

All ages welcome to this presentation at 6:30 Wednesday by Bill and Kathy Nieffer.

The library is located at 1 Franklin Street in Catskill.

Couple accused of stealing copper pipes

Couple accused of stealing copper pipes

A Coeymans Hollow couple is under arrest for stripping copper pipes out of two vacant buildings on Livingston Avenue in Albany. 

Michael Villanueva, 40, and Rose Melinda Ritchie, 23, were charged with burglary, grand larceny, and petit larceny.  The couple were arrested yesterday and arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court. 

Albany Police say Villanueva and Ritchie allegedly entered 480 Livingston Avenue through an unlocked window between June 23 and July 1 and stripped over 400 feet of copper pipe from the vacant house. The value of the copper is estimated at over $1000.

Police tell WNYT that the couple is also accused of prying of a wooden board from a second floor window at 261 Livingston Avenue yesterday morning, entering through the window, then cutting copper pipes from the interior of the vacant building. 

Hometown hero graduates Basic Field Artillery Training course

Hometown hero graduates Basic Field Artillery Training course

Army Pfc. Corey R. Vigneaux has graduated from the Basic Field Artillery Cannon Crewmember Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma.

The course is designed to train servicemembers to maintain, prepare and load ammunition for firing; operate and perform operator maintenance on prime movers, self-propelled Howitzers, and ammunition vehicles; and establish and maintain radio and wire communications.

Vigneaux is the son of Kathy M. Vigneaux of Minnerly Road in Coxsackie, N.Y.

In 2006 Vigneaux graduated from Coxsackie-Athens High School.