Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead

As February ends and March begins, and we anxiously await a snowstorm while spring comes ever nearer, here's what is happening.

• On Monday, February 27, the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners holds its regular monthly meeting at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person in the Community Room at Bliss Towers and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely. 
• On Tuesday, February 28, the Common Council Ad Hoc Parking Study Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. This is the first meeting of the committee, and it will feature a presentation of the findings of the parking study carried out last year. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at the Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street, and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.

• Also on Tuesday, February 28, the Hudson City School District Board of Education meets at 6:00 p.m. The meeting takes place in person only in the cafeteria at Hudson Junior/Senior High School. Given what's been happening at the school recently, the meeting is sure to be well attended. 

Update: The Board of Education meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 1, at 6:00 p.m., in the auditorium at Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School, 102 Harry Howard Avenue.

• On Wednesday, March 1, the Common Council Legal Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. At its last meeting, the committee took up the task of revising Article XIV of the city code, Community Character Preservation. That discussion is expected to continue at this meeting. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at the Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street, and on Zoom. Click here is join the meeting remotely.  

• On Thursday, March 2, the Common Council Ad Hoc Truck Route Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. At its last meeting, the committee decided it was time to start communicating with the municipalities--Greenport and Claverack--that would be impacted if trucks stopped passing though Hudson. Thursday's meeting might provide an update on those efforts. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at the Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street, and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
• Also on Thursday, March 2, the opening reception for the exhibition of Local Historic Maps and Atlases at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street, begins at 6:00 p.m. The maps in the exhibition, dating from 1740 to 2001, illustrate the ways Hudson has changed and stayed the same over its long history. 

• On Saturday, March 4, the sixth annual Oakdale Plunge takes place at noon at Oakdale Lake. Click here for more information about this event which raises money for the Hudson Youth Department Waterfront Program and the Hudson Fire Department's Water Rescue and Dive Team.

Update: Because of weather concerns on Saturday, the Oakdale Plunge has been postponed until Sunday, March 5. The plunging begins at noon.  

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