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Hudson community activist Peter Frank drafted the following open letter, in which he shares his thoughts about the flaws in the proposed City Charter revision: by Peter Frank I am a longtime proponent of the council/manager model for city government. The recent Hudson Charter Change proposal, which would adopt that model, has done a service…
(HUDSON, N.Y, March 27, 2024) – At its meeting last night, the Hudson City School Board accepted an offer from the Hudson Development Corporation (HDC) to purchase and develop the John L. Edwards School as a centralized community hub for Hudson residents. The Hudson Development Corporation (HDC) – a nonprofit with the mission of promoting,…
(COLUMBIA COUNTY, N.Y.) – On October 25, 2021, Columbia County Sheriff David P. Bartlett announced that an Alabama company, Black Creek Integrated Corporation, was selected as the new records management system for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO). On August 18, 2021, the Board of Supervisors, on Bartlett’s urging, approved a $57,000 contract with the…
by Seth Rogovoy (CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Douglas J. Cuomo’s Savage Winter, a contemporary reimagining of Wilhelm Müller’s poetry cycle Winterreise, will bring down the curtain on PS21’s Modern Opera Fest on Thursday, September 9, at 7pm. In Savage Winter, composer Cuomo has created a thought-provoking opera that mirrors the complexity of modern life and relationships.…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Works by Don Voisine, Robert Palumbo, and Lisa Ivory go on view at Pamela Salisbury Gallery on Friday, September 4, with an opening reception at 5-7pm. The artworks will remain on view through Sunday, October 4, 2020. Don Voisine’s Time Out exhibit highlights recent paintings and works on paper that reflect…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Twenty-five residents of Hudson will be selected to receive $500 per month for five years as part of HudsonUP, a new universal basic income (UBI) pilot program founded by The Spark of Hudson and the Humanity Forward Foundation. The program is being designed to benefit the community of Hudson and to demonstrate…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson, civil rights attorney and activist Mark Mishler, retired NYS Investigator Joyce St. George, Chatham Village police chief Peter Volkmann, and others will be taking part in a livestream Zoom Forum on Saturday, August 29, 3-5pm, to discuss the power of citizens to reclaim the criminal justice system, increasing…
( HUDSON, N.Y., May 12, 2020) – Sixteen creative workers will share a total of $8,000 in stipends in a second round of funding from the Hudson Arts Emergency Program, a community-funded, WPA-style project, supporting individual artists for projects that speak to life in Hudson during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. The first round of funding…
The Emergency Cultural Task Force (ECTF) is an effort launched by the Hudson Development Corporation (HDC) to assess the needs of the city’s arts and culture community posed by the COVID19 crisis, and to determine what efforts might be taken to help our community now, in the short term, and in the long term. The…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Renowned landscape painter Stephen Hannock will take part in Colloquium 2018: Making Art, Making Artists: Mentoring from Cole and Church to Today in the Arts Center Theatre at Columbia-Greene Community College (C-GCC) on Thursday, March 1, at 7pm. The discussion will be moderated by Yura Adams, an artist and art educator currently…
