Ghent News

Taking a cue from moe and their now annually successful moe.down festival, the Pawnshop Roses are co-hosting their first annual "Let it Roll" Festival at Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, NY the weekend of September 18th and 19th.

Organic dairy farmer Dante Hesse is hoping the customers who lap up his milk by the quart at local New York farmers' markets will also invest in his future.

Imagine how Columbia County must look to someone living in Manhattan. Think about how good the air must smell, how long those vistas must extend, and how charming its farms, villages and people must seem.

Dante & Kristin Hesse of Milk Thistle Farm, home of what seems to be New Yorkers' favorite local organic milk, released an offering for small investors interested in helping them raise $850,000 to build their own bottling plant and expand their herd.

"The chevre was saltier and firmer than your typical log from the grocery store, perhaps because the cheesemaker hand-ladles each chunk, so the curd remains well unified." Only a block long, with some unfortunate scaffolding hiding the stands, the Carroll Gardens farmers' market is more of a neighborhood than a destination spot on Sundays.

Published: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 9:34 p.m. A man charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of simple assault last month in Henderson County District Court.

The Belgian authorities on Friday confirmed two more cases of swine flu in the country, bringing to four the total of cases identified in the last 48 hours.

Columbia County 911 has confirmed a fire that took place at the Ghent Fire Department.

Columbia County Bounty, which works to promote and support connections between area farms and restaurants, has scheduled its annual Chef to Farm Tour for the afternoon of Monday, May 11.

Many depression aids can be found in the garden. St. John's wort's medicinal uses were first recorded in ancient Greece.

Dante Hesse sells much of his milk directly to customers in New York City. He also has accounts with a few retailers.

At the end of yet another long upstate winter, with farm fields brown and trees leafless, it might be easy to forget this is a food-producing region.

Looking for relatives of John H. Whiteman,Civil War soldier from Ghent, NY., Hudson Valley Region of New York State.

The owners of a Columbia County farm where a tuberculosis-infected deer was found this fall are protesting a decision by the state to euthanize their entire herd of pet animals.

A Greenport man is dead after a one car accident early Sunday morning. The Columbia County Sheriff says Arthur Tieger, 80, of Greenport was killed when his car crashed on Route 66 in the Town of Ghent.

COLUMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF A MEDICAL CONDITION PLAYED A ROLE IN A FATAL CRASH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

A one car crash in Ghent just after midnight this morning has claimed the life of a Columbia County man.

Six Capital Region residents have won tickets to the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama through a statewide lottery held by Sen.

The subcommittee charged with deciding which departments will pack up and move to the county's recently-purchased Ockawamick School site in Claverack met Tuesday at the county Health & Human Services Building, ...

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.