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The Newburgh ICE Warehouse: What the Federal Government Still Has Not Explained
Public records connect a $35.5 million federal lease in Newburgh to DHS and ICE, but the building’s exact mission, capacity, opening date and local impact remain unexplained.
4 days ago4 min read


The Freeze Killed the Crops. The Bills Didn’t Get the Memo.
After April’s freeze damaged Hudson Valley orchards and vineyards, federal disaster status opened emergency loans, not automatic grants.
5 days ago7 min read


A Quiet Place Part III Is Filming in Greene County
A Quiet Place Part III is filming in Durham, bringing John Krasinski’s blockbuster horror franchise back to the Hudson Valley.
Jul 312 min read


What Is OnSemi Allowed to Release Into Gildersleeve Brook?
A reopened wastewater permit comment period concerns one narrow change: whether the Total Dissolved Solids limit should be 510 milligrams per liter instead of 500. Comments are due July 31.
Jul 313 min read


An Injured Hawk Got a Sheriff’s Ride to the County Fair. The Right People Were Waiting.
A young red-tailed hawk was found wobbling beside a Greene County road. A sheriff’s ride and an extraordinary wildlife rescue network gave him another chance.
Jul 305 min read


Cementon: The Town Everyone Had Plans For
Cement built a community beside the Hudson. Nuclear power nearly remade it. Coal, waste and redevelopment plans followed—all while residents kept building lives on land outsiders kept trying to redefine.
Jul 2910 min read


The Flood Watch Became a Flood Emergency: What Is Closed, Evacuated and Still Dangerous
Historic rainfall has triggered flash flooding, evacuations, water rescues, road closures and power outages across parts of Columbia, Greene and the greater Hudson Valley. Here is what residents need to know now.
Jul 272 min read


A Pine Plains Family Called in the Bigfoot Hunters. What They Found on Camera Might Be Something Stranger.
NOT BIGFOOT. WORSE. A local's dispatch from the strangest corner of Dutchess County I've lived in this valley long enough to know a few things for certain: the leaves turn in mid-October, the Thruway will always be under construction, and somewhere between the Taconics and the Catskills, there is always — always — a Bigfoot story developing. This week's installment comes out of Pine Plains, and I'll be honest with you: I expected the usual blurry-shape-in-the-woods routine. W
Jul 274 min read


TROUBLE AT THE RAMBLE How a Family Feud Put Levon Helm's Legendary Barn on Ice.
I've lived in Woodstock for going on twenty years, long enough to know that when somebody says "there's trouble at The Barn," they don't mean the goats got loose. They mean The Barn — Levon Helm's barn, the one on Plochmann Lane, the one where a half-blind, half-deaf, throat-cancer-ravaged drummer from Turkey Scratch, Arkansas rebuilt his entire life out of plywood, faith, and Sunday night gospel harmonies. I've sat on those bleachers. I've felt that floor shake. And I never
Jul 225 min read
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