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At least 171 Orange County public-school students tested positive for COVID-19 last week after socializing or traveling during spring breaks that stretched for 10 days for most kids. Nearly half of those new cases – 82 – were among high school students, according to test results the countys 16 districts reported to the state Department of Health on Friday. The tallies began with April 4 and didnt include any additional positive results that came to light later on Friday or over the weekend...

Down the Fairway: Pinehaven Country Club will be busy this season | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Share1 Picturesque and prolific Pinehaven Country Club will be busier than usual this summer, hosting two major tournaments as well as keeping its membership happy with its usual pristine playing conditions. Pinehaven CC, carved through the pine barrens of the Pine Bush in Guilderland and host to NYS Amateur Championships in 1998, 2002 and 2008, will entertain both the Symetra Tour’s local stop, the...

UFO Spotted Over New York? While driving into our sister station on Friday morning April 2nd, at approximately 4:55 AM, one of the DJs saw something in the sky over the Schenectady County Pine Bush, New York. There were two bright lights,  one in the upper east and another upper west quadrant of the trapezoid-shaped object. Check out his account of what happened. As I turned the corner onto Kings Road, I continued to look up in the sky hoping for a good enough view to snap a picture.  And ju...

School districts across the Hudson Valley are finding out how much federal aid they will get from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, dollars that can be used for a wide range of costs related to the pandemic. Needier districts will get substantially more money, as the allotments are based on the federal Title I formula, which measures the total number of school-age children in a district who come from poverty. In Dutchess County, more than $50.3 million is estimated, with each district r...

WASHINGTONVILLE – Parents rallied on Monday outside several Orange County school districts, asking that administrators allow full-time in-person schooling as an option for their kids.  On a chilly day that marked a year since New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered school buildings shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents gathered with signs outside the boards of education in Washingtonville and Cornwall, with rallies also planned for Middletown, Valley Central and Pine Bush. The...

Hudson Valley School to Host St. Patrick’s Day Blood Drive Upon hearing about St. Patrick’s Day, what’s the first idea that comes to your mind? To be honest, my mind automatically thinks about green beer, Irish pubs and those Kiss Me I’m Irish shirts. We can’t help but think about these things upon hearing about this holiday since this is what we have always known. I’ve always been interested in the saints of holidays and looked into St. Patrick. He was most known as the bishop in I...

Those who’ve paid attention to Jewish media world in the past week have seen the dramatic build up and sudden dissipation of the story about Tufts University junior Max Price, an outspoken pro-Israel member of the student government, and the Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine group. Price became the cause celebre du jour for one hot second in the ongoing debate about whether pro-Israel students are being targeted in an antisemitic way on American college campuses.

In honor of National Read Across America Day, here a few local bookstores that are worth checking out in the Hudson Valley.

Hudson Valley social media users posted photos wondering about a strange pillar in the sky.

Many are wondering what was in the sky Wednesday evening that was seen across the Hudson Valley.