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Pine Bush UFO Fair to Return this Summer Theyre here! (Please read that in the creepy, little girl voice from The Poltergeist). Or should we say, theyre back. We all know the COVID-19 pandemic canceled big events that we loved around the Hudson Valley in 2020. Unfortunately, that included the popular Pine Bush UFO Fair. The Fair, that draws thousands of visitors and brings a ton of business to local Orange county shops, Since there was so much uncertainty surrounding COVID back then, there was...

“It’s a nice peaceful place out here, normally,” Bradfield said. In the first few days of February 2020, rivers across Southland swelled and burst. More than 2400 Gore residents were evacuated as well as people from Wyndham and Mataura. A state of emergency was declared and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visited. Bradfield was glad it was over, but the experience made him a bit nervous about the next flood. Secondary to the noise of the water and the speed of which it rose, another l...

Did Packers QB Aaron Rodgers See a UFO Near Newburgh, New York? Forget the Sunday Night Football intro, someone cue the X-Files theme song. Thats the music that will be ringing in your head when you hear this UFO close encounter from Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers who says he had an unexplained encounter near Newburgh, New York. Its no secret that the Hudson Valley is a hot spot for alien activity on the east coast. Pine Bush wasnt  We know all about the UFO and Paranormal Museum...

Don Rittner Another removal of Albany history hits the road By Don Rittner on December 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM   by Don Rittner   My first history/archeology project back in 1972 was relocating and preserving the Kings’s Highway, the first road between the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys that connected Albany (Fort Orange) to Skenectada (Schenectady). I took up the unfinished work of Schenectady City Historian William Efner who began this project back in the 1930s. Fortunately I was a...

Events coming up in the Capital Region FacebookTwitterEmail Food drive continues at Selkirk location BETHLEHEM -- The Bethlehem Grange No. 137 will continue to accept donations of non-perishable foods at its location, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk. Because of the need, the grange is continuing to host the food drive originally scheduled through Dec. 24. Suggested food items include cereal, peanut butter, macaroni and cheese, canned fruit, canned meat like tuna and ham, stew, dessert mix, applesauce, c...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 21:29 The federal government made several shifts in COVID policy this week: Requiring international travelers to test negative before flying to the United States, changing the guidance for vaccine eligibility, and releasing doses originally held back. ALBANY COUNTY — Patience was advised this week on both the state and local levels as residents clamored for COVID-19 vaccines while the supply remained limited. “It’s gonna take time, people. You have to be patie...

Angelys Ocana-McFarland was a bit overwhelmed, like a frazzled mom in a holiday movie. Besides the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been escalating and Christmas was right around the corner, the young photographer and her husband, Christopher McFarland, have been attempting to purchase their home in the Poconos. “If I would have known how difficult this would be, I wouldn’t have done it,” she said, jokingly. The truth, though, is that she most certainly would have made the move from Br...

Hudson Valley Describes D.C. Events With One Word Here are some of the words that your neighbors are using to describe what happened. As we all are still trying to process what exactly went down at the Capital in Washington D.C., we thought it would be somewhat therapeutic for us to all have a place to get some of our frustration off our chests. To do that we asked the Hudson Valley, from Poughkeepsie to Kingston to Pine Bush to Middletown, give us one word to describe what happened in Washingt...

3 Read / Add Comments With students set to return to the classroom - whether fully in-person or partially remote - this week, school districts will once again come face to face with the COVID-19 pandemic they battled for four months. In New York, the state has been monitoring school districts’ progress in combating the virus, posting daily data updates on how many teachers, staff members, and students have tested positive for COVID-19 since classes resumed in S...

School districts shut their doors for winter break last week after a four-month marathon effort to keep students in the classroom — at least some of the time — amid a global pandemic.  Superintendents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on masks, sanitizer and elaborate reports on classroom capacity in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus in their buildings. Were they successful? In New York, the public can find out exactly how many COVID-19 cases any school, public or priva...