Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon Press Release | February 4, 2020
The Shaker Museum purchased the empty building at 5 Austerlitz Street in Chatham, NY last month, and received a $1,569,000 grant from Empire State Development through New York State’s Regional Economic Development Councils (REDC) initiative to support a project that will transform the building into a museum and community cultural center.
Hudson Valley 360 | January 29, 2020
Chatham Public Library offers the following programs in February. Note the library will be closed Feb. 17 in observance of Presidents Day. The library is located at 11 Woodbridge Ave., Chatham. For information, call 518-392-3666 or visit http://chatham.lib.ny.us.
Hudson Valley 360 | December 24, 2019
Chatham Public Library, 11 Woodbridge Ave., Chatham, offers the following programs in January. The library will be closed Jan. 1 and Jan. 20. Call 518-392-3666 or visit http://chatham.lib.ny.us for more information.
Berkshire Eagle, October 11, 2019
FilmColumbia is a festival for early adopters. While Sundance and Cannes are destinations for top-notch movie premieres, FilmColumbia has often been one of the next landing spots for those films.
“We are basically, in some ways — and I love this — a very modest, regional, local festival bringing to our neck of the woods films that might not otherwise play, and it doesn’t matter to us if they’ve been shown at many other film festivals,” said Laurence Kardish, co-artistic director of the Chatham, N.Y., festival. “In fact, that’s where we make our discoveries.”
News10.com | September 18, 2019
Wine is better when it’s local and at the Hudson-Chatham Winery in Ghent, an award-winning winery, they make it all by hand the old-fashioned way.
WAMC | August 31, 2019
A conservationist. A philanthropist. An avid supporter of the arts. These were just a few of the hats worn by a woman famous for her contributions to Columbia County. Judy Grunberg, of Valatie, well-known for her generosity to Columbia County, died Saturday after a battle with cancer. She was 86.
Kingston Daily Freeman | August 27, 2019
The 179th Columbia County Fair opens at noon Aug. 28 and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 2. The county fairgrounds are at 182 Hudson Ave. (Route 66), about 13 miles northeast of Hudson.
Rural Intelligence | July 31, 2019
When Janice and Rick Patterson met on the set of a video shoot in the ’80s, the chemistry between the two was unmistakable. He was a rangy sound engineer and she a striking segment producer and skilled photographer.
After they had their first child, they came to a house in Columbia County, first for weekends and later to live full time. It was a former cider mill with an adjacent churchyard, right in the center Old Chatham. Rick continued to travel the world working on documentary films while Janice stayed upstate and became an interior designer, operating from a tiny, unheated house with great bones.
HudsonValley360, June 20, 2019
Local watercolor artist Tim Paholak will have an exhibition of his abstract and figurative paintings, in the Joan Allen Art Gallery at Camphill Ghent in Chatham, through July 30.
Brewbound | June 5, 2019
Chatham Brewing, Columbia County’s first and finest brewery in New York’s upper Hudson Valley, has released two brand new beers; Hoperbole Double India Pale Ale and Hopaganda India Pale Ale.
