The Gossips of Rivertown
Monday, March 9, 2026

News from C-GCC

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Gossips received the following press release regarding a new Prison Education Program to be offered at Columbia-Greene Community College in ...
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Sunday, March 8, 2026

Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead

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The temperature outside is close to 60 degrees, daylight saving time had begun, and the first day of spring is less than two weeks away. As ...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Tonight's the Night

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Before you go to bed tonight, remember to turn your clocks ahead one hour. One hour of lost sleep tonight brings an extra hour of daylight e...

Foreclosure Update

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When Gossips reported last week on the status of the efforts to collect back taxes, the original list of 121 properties had been whittled d...
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Thursday, March 5, 2026

What Might Have Been

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Three years ago, the plan to relocate Lil' Deb's Oasis to 735-737 Columbia Street, the distinctive pitched roof building constructed...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Of Dormers and Historic Preservation

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At last Friday's Historic Preservation Commission, the HPC effectively approved the demolition of the house at 309-311 Union Street  and...

PSA: It Was Satire

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It has come to Gossips' attention that some people may have been misled by an item published by Hudson Common Sense in its satirical fe...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

What the HPC Should Never Have to Do

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Last Friday, the Historic Preservation Commission did something that runs counter to their expressed mission. Persuaded by photographic evid...
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A Tempest in a Teapot

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Facebook has been blowing up, as they say, with allegations and outrage surrounding a minor accident Margaret Morris, Common Council preside...

Parking: Something You May Not Know

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Back in the days of meters and quarters, when you had errands that took you to different blocks of Warren Street and you didn't want to ...
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Monday, March 2, 2026

Jennifer, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Ellen Thurston, who was known and admired by all of Hudson, died on January 5. A memorial celebration of her life is being planned for Satur...
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Carole Osterink
This blog takes its name from the 1848 novel by Hudson author Alice B. Neal. The original Gossips of Rivertown cast a gimlet eye on Hudson society in the mid-19th century. Two centuries later, the new Gossips carries on the spirit of the original, but in a different genre and with a different focus.
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