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“At Elf Camp, we have a tradition,” Head Counselor Brian Radcliff told Meghan, Jack and Nicole, drawing them away from the main group. “First, we hang up our stockings.” Full Story »

Hudson High School graduate Jené Luciani will be on hand to sign her new book, “The Bra Book: The Fashion Formula to Finding the Perfect Bra,” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Spotty Dog Books and Ale in Hudson. Full Story »

For as long as anyone can remember, the Edith Casey Stocking Fund has provided toys for needy children in Columbia County every Christmas. Unlike other years, an urgent appeal has gone out to the community for donations of new games, books, stuffed animals and toys. Full Story »

Anthony Lyman, 22, of Hyde Park was charged with second-degree menacing and unlawful possession of marijuana by the NYS Police Nov. 15. Full Story »

New York University Dental School students work on Hudson Intermediate School student Jason White as other students get their exams during a free dental clinic Thursday at the school. Full Story »

Rabbi Daniel Fried, of Congregation Anshe Emeth in Greenport, lights the first candle on the synagogue’s newly refurbished menorah to mark the beginning of Chanukah. Full Story »

The Taghkanic Town Board is well aware that January may come without election issues resolved; the board is looking at the possibility of a standstill. Full Story »

A group of Copake residents has assembled a committee to try to install a bus service that would make regular stops between Copake and the Wassaic stop on the Metro-North Harlem line. Full Story »

With the recent purging of New York state sex offenders’ accounts — including a number from Columbia and Dutchess counties — from the two largest social networking sites in the world, other smaller sites across the Internet are following suit. Full Story »

The outdoor wood boiler controversy that has been raging in the village of Kinderhook in recent months may have been put to rest Wednesday night. Full Story »

What if that holiday gift card you purchased for someone wasn’t a gift, but a curse? Full Story »

With the growing awareness of natural health care and its benefits, more people are becoming interested in chiropractic as a career. Full Story »

Back home, Meghan rummaged through the hall closet until she unearthed the box marked “Xmas.” In it she found ornaments, lights and the tree stand, all dripping bits of silver tinsel. Full Story »

If you ask people in Hudson where they like to shop, it’s likely that The Second Show will be high on their list. With a great selection of clothes, house wares, and furniture, and the unbeatable prices, The Second Show is doesn’t feel like a second-hand store. Full Story »

At the Valatie Village Board meeting Tuesday night the board heard from representatives of Delaware Engineering, an Albany-based engineering company, who were recently hired by the village to upgrade Valatie’s water treatment plant. Full Story »

The first substantial snow of the season arrived early Wednesday morning, blanketing the area with at least half a foot of the white stuff. Full Story »

A small screech owl found itself stranded outside Hudson Mayor Rick Scalera’s City Hall office window Wednesday. Apparently the reticent raptor landed on the windowsill and its left wing became stuck to the flagpole mounted on the building. Full Story »

Bids are in for the construction of the Hudson Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade, and the lowest being considered by the city has come in well below original estimates. Full Story »

A 17-year-old Hudson woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly hitting a minor and an adult in the face with a brick near the corner of Fifth and State streets in Hudson. Full Story »

The Columbia County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed its budget for 2010 at the full Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday night. Full Story »

The white card the dove dropped into Meghan’s hand definitely was not a bill. Please, don’t let it be some cruel joke from the snobs at school, she thought. With that guy loitering in front of her house, she couldn’t go home. She needed to figure this out on her own. Full Story »

The Friends of the Kinderhook Memorial Library will be hosting Bells & Motley Consort’s Musical Wassail Celebration of Christmas Past 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the library. Full Story »

Robert Kitchen and CLC’s Executive Director Peter Paden prepare to cut the ribbon officially opening Round Ball Mountain to the public. Kitchen’s family sold the 105-acre property to the conservancy so it could become the organization’s ninth public conservation in the county. Full Story »

A family of four was transported to Columbia Memorial Hospital after a hit and run accident on Warren Street during the Hudson Opera House’s annual Winter Walk celebration, said police. Full Story »

This map, provided by the Open Space Institute, shows the organization’s parcels which were acquired under OSI’s Farmland Protection program along the Kinderhook Creek Corridor. Full Story »