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Friday, August 22, 2014

More About 134-136 Warren Street

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A number of people showed up on Friday morning for the Historic Preservation Commission meeting, among them Ferol Barton Blake, who designed...

Not to Be Missed

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Mark Orton, on his blog Current Matters, comments on Mayor Hallenbeck's explanation of why two years have passed and there is still ...
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Curiouser and Curiouser

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A year ago , Per Blomquist presented to the Planning Commission his plan to demolish the houses at 248 and 250 Columbia Street and construct...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

More Images from the Mystery Album

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Since Sunday, Gossips has been publishing pictures from a family photo album that started out in Hudson and ended up in Mary Heinrich Aloi...
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Struggle Over Second and Warren

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At its meeting on Tuesday, the Common Council received as a communication a letter from Bruce H. Steinberg of Danian Realty in Chappaqua, NY...
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Not to Be Missed

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Scott Baldinger on his blog, Word on the Street, critiques the plans now being discussed for Seventh Street Park and those now being imple...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

More Images from the Mystery Album

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This morning, two more pictures from the mystery album, created by a family in Hudson and recently discovered in an antique shop in South B...
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Waiting for Action on the Weighted Vote

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Gossips has often kvetched about the inequity of the weighted vote in Hudson--the scheme that is supposed to achieve the democratic goal of ...
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Turn Your Radios On

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Today, on WGXC's @Issue, Debora Gilbert interviews congressional candidate Sean Eldridge. The prerecorded interview will be aired during...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Homage to Hudson Avenue

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On Sunday, I made the mistake of referring to the location of the Gifford-Wood Company in the 1910s as Hudson Street not Hudson Avenue. When...

Share Your Thoughts About Seventh Street Park

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Last night, at the Hudson FORWARD meeting, Sheena Salvino and Branda Maholtz handed out a few paper copies of the survey seeking the communi...
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More Images from the Mystery Album

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On Sun day , Gossips publishe d some photographs from an album that found its way to an antique shop in South Burlington, Vermont. There i...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Above the Fold in 1910

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This article appeared on the front page of the Hudson Register on August 26, 1910. When did newspapers stop making reference to classical my...
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Oil Spill Update

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The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a statement about the oil spill in Germantown: "DEC Statement on Germantown spi...

Oil Spill on the Hudson

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The Register-Star reported last night  that there was an oil spill on the Hudson River near Germantown. The spill, which was noticed shortly...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

A Week of Meetings Ahead

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On Monday, August 18, Hudson FORWARD holds its second meeting, at 1 North Front Street. At 6:30, there's a presentation by Victor Mendol...

Join the Local History Detectives

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On Friday, someone contacted Gossips seeking help in identifying the people in a family photo album. The album, made up of pictures taken i...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

West Wall Revealed

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As the demolition of the 1957 garage at the Armory continues, more and more of the original west wall of the building is coming into view. ...
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Not to Be Missed

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This article about the upcoming Democratic primary in New York appeared on Friday in The Nation : "How Zephyr Teachout Became a Contend...

Venus Elsewhere

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As the debate over the proper location of Venus was heating up earlier this week, a reader, in an email, pointed out that ours was not the o...
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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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