Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead

We made it to March! Tomorrow, Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter will be four weeks old, leaving just two weeks to go. At the end of this week, in the night between Saturday and Sunday, Daylight Saving Time returns. As we move ever closer to the end of early darkness and this dreadful winter, here is what's happening.

• On Monday, March 2, the Hudson Industrial Development Agency (IDA) meets at 2:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at 1 City Centre, Suite 3o1, and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
• At 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2, the Common Council Safety Committee (Police and Fire) holds its monthly meeting. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
• Also on Monday, March 2, Mayor Joe Ferris holds a town meeting for the First Ward--his fifth and final town meeting in this round. The meeting takes place at The Spark of Hudson, 502 Union Street.

• On Tuesday, March 3, the Conservation Advisory Council meets at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
• On Thursday, March 5, the Common Council Services Committee (Youth Dept. and Senior Center) meets at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here to join the meeting remotely. 
• Also on Thursday, March 5, the opening reception for the exhibition Patriots of Hudson in the Revolutionary, observing the nation's semiquincentennial, takes place at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Room at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street. Registration is required; email brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org.

• On Saturday, March 7, the annual Oakdale Plunge, to benefit the Hudson Fire Department, the Hudson Youth Department, and Perfect Ten After School Program, takes place at noon at Oakdale Lake. (Plunger check-in begins at 11:00 a.m.) 

2024 Oakdale Plunge  Photo: Valerie Shaff

• Before you go to sleep on Saturday, March 7, be sure to set your clocks ahead an hour. At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, Daylight Saving Time returns.

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