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The Hudson Bus Transportation Committee held it's first meeting Tuesday, where Hudson Mayor Rick Scalera told those in attendance that the purpose of the committee was to study the city's bus system, as well as ...

This place certainly does, and they came from far and wide, from cow pastures and city streets, for a chance to be an extra in Ang Lee's newest film, "Taking Woodstock." Inside the Immaculate Conception Church ...

Imagine a job interview where long hair gets you the gig, hemp necklaces are a badge of honor and a scruffy beard could get you noticed.

Do you have long hair? Do you own your own love beads? Do you look generally countercultural? If you can answer yes to any of those questions, Ang Lee's upcoming film "Taking Woodstock" needs you.

' Village residents will soon have to travel farther to buy groceries. The Great American grocery store at the corner of Main Street and Broadway is set to close by the end of next week, if not sooner, store ...

The high school softball team wrapped up its 2008 season Tuesday with a respectable 9 and 6 record, after losing in the Class D Sectional semi-final game to Hartford 6-0. Only two New Lebanon batters reached ...

Board of Supervisors Chairman Art Baer, R-Hillsdale, said Tuesday he estimates the net cost of the proposed move of the Department of Social Services at $13 million.

The Tannery Pond summer concert series begins this afternoon at 3 p.m. Pedja Muzijevic on piano, Soovin Kim on violin, Ed Arron on cello, and tenor Nicholas Phan will perform music by Haydn, Faur, Britten, and ...

“It's outrageous in Connecticut. New York is a little bit cheaper and now Massachusetts is a lot cheaper. $3.18 is a blessing for me. Back home in Fairfield County, we're paying up to $3.89.”

New Lebanon, New York is geographically just a few miles from the Massachusetts border, but the two places feel worlds apart when it comes to gas prices. via Capital News 9

“I wonder when it's going to stop”

Sweet stuff: Ted Ferguson checked the density of maple syrup in his Westmoreland, N.H., sugarhouse while Gibson Gitchell watched Saturday during the state's Maple Weekend. via Christian Science Monitor

“You can make a profit, but you have to work for it. I do it because I enjoy it. I have no other reason to be here.”

NEW LEBANON - On a recent warm, rainy day, tree sap trickled through hundreds of taps and down through miles of plastic tubing to Larry Benson's sugar shack. via Ithaca Journal

“It went from nothing to 'Boom!' in no time.”

A bottle of maple syrup is seen at Hand Hollow Sugar House in New Lebanon, N.Y., Monday, Feb. via Kansas.com

Slick roads were the cause of two fatal car accidents Friday. Laurie Covert from Averill Park died after crashing through the guard rails and going over an embankment on Route 150 in Schodack. via Capital News 9

DAY winter storm on Friday dumped nearly foot of snow on parts of the region, closed schools, snarled traffic and caused countless car accidents, including one in Columbia County that claimed a woman's life. via Daily Freeman

Bad weather played a part in the death of a Schenectady resident after she lost control of her vehicle on a snow covered road and crashed into an oncoming snowplow on State Route 20 in New Lebanon on Friday. via CBS 6 Albany

“She'd actually look at the child and talk to them. A lot of adults don't do that, and that's unfortunate.”

Carolyn Lehmann has been teaching the youngest students at Pine Cobble School for 58 years, and even now, in her late 80s and fighting for good health, she finds it hard to give up. via North Adams Transcript

Three people are hospitalized, one with a fractured skull, following a serious two-car collision in the sleet on Route 22 Saturday. via Register-Star

“If you could get to only one jazz concert this year, this is the one to hit.”

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. "Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire." John Forster Concert of two. via Berkshire Eagle

The town of New Lebanon is strictly enforcing their law against "junk," and for some, this is bad news. via Register-Star