On Thursday, March 25 Hillsdale’s Conservation Advisory Council will present more than two years worth of research to town residents in the final version of their Natural Resource Inventory report. The extensive 203-page document has already been made available on the Town’s website and provides descriptions, maps, photographs, and […]
Humans have been intertwined with the life cycle of bees for at least 10,000 years. From the interior of Africa, where the very first recorded beekeeping techniques came via pottery containers, to the walls of Egyptian tombs where human and bee interactions are depicted in ancient forms of […]
My mom hasn’t missed an episode of The Bachelor since the show’s inception. Like the good fur child that I am, I usually stick around evfurrry Monday night to watch the women get cattier and cattier – sorry ladies I call it like I see it. Clearly this season Peter seems to enjoy […]
Former Webutuck Junior/Senior High School athletic director and coach for several sports teams, Charlie McSpiritt, recently was inducted into the Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame.
McSpiritt, whose wife, Janet, teaches in the Webutuck school system, worked at Webutuck HS from the fall of 1987 until the summer of 1993 when he joined the staff at Connecticut’s […]
For the better part of two years residents of Egremont, MA and congregants of the historic First Congregational Church of South Egremont have struggled to find a solution when it comes to the future of the 187-year-old building. Preservation efforts have included everything from fundraising and private sales to former congregants attempting to […]
Violence can breed many things: anger, hatred and perhaps most frighteningly, more violence. Two World Wars brought bitterness, dissidence, genocide and a perpetual sense of xenophobia throughout Europe and across the globe. Two Civil Wars over the course of 12 years had similar effects on Liberia. Corruption from the highest levels of government gave way […]
Cumberland Farms at the intersection of Route 44 Main Street and Maple Avenue was among several businesses who reportedly received counterfeit bills.
Local businesses reported receiving several counterfeit bills this past week in the Village of Millerton, NY, as well as the town of North […]
local firefighters fight back afternoon blaze at the four brothers plaza in Hillsdale, NY. Photo courtesy of Peter Cipkowski
What began as an early afternoon fire alarm from the Hillsdale, NY Fire Company became an outpouring of social media shock for members of the Hillsdale community and […]
The Town of Copake recently received a grant from the NYS Department State Office of Planning and Development to improve local quality of life in the town of Copake by developing revitalization plans for the Roeliff Jansen Kill, Bash Bish Brook, Taghkanic Creek and surrounding areas. These funds are provided under Title 11 of the […]
As I understand it, you humans enjoy gathering around your televisions and watching men twice the size of my father (and with twice the amount of hair) run into each other with silky pants in the pursuit of something made out of pigskin. This display of barbarism is not what you might call my can […]