Ancram News

The writer Donald Westlake died at age 75 on New Year's Eve while on vacation in Mexico, falling victim to a heart attack as he and his wife were heading out for dinner.

The roar of the Roeliff Jansen Kill mixed with the roar of flames of the iron works in Ancram, owned by Robert Livingston Jr.

Divers work at Lower Rhoda Pond on the Copake/Ancram border to recover the body of 22-year-old man from Turkey who drowned there early the morning of December 30.

The southeastern corner of Columbia County is a little closer to getting cell phone service, thanks to the efforts of some dedicated residents and U.S. Rep.

Straw was paying tributes to Benazir on the eve of her first death anniversary, on behalf of the British parliament at the Moses Room of the House of Lords at a cross-party reference meeting organised by the ...

An 18-inch Chinese jade Bi disk from the Neolithic period occupies a prominent place at the Tom Swope Gallery in Hudson.

Posted Monday, December 15, 6:35 p.m. HILLSDALE--Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Arthur Baer has extended the state of emergency for Columbia County until further notice.

Santa Claus will still make an appearance in town this December, though it will be at the firehouse instead of the Town Hall.

County supervisors Wednesday authorized the distribution of $1,054,803.16 in mortgage taxes, collected over the past six months, to the 23 municipalities within the county.

Ancram voters elected two Democrats and a Republican to the Town Board Tuesday. Ancramdale dairy farmer James P. Miller, a Republican, won a three-year term, and Democrats Donna Hoyt, proprietor of the Ancram ...

Madeleine Israel Passing the Comprehensive Plan is the most important task that will face the new Town Board, Madeleine Israel told the Register-Star editorial board in a recent interview.

Strange things have been happening in Town Clerk Monica Cleveland's office at the Town Hall when she is not there.

The $1.5 million purchase of the former Ockawamick School building was approved by the county Board of Supervisors Wednesday with only the five Hudson supervisors opposing the action.

THE WORD 'SCARY' comes up a lot these days, about the election and global warming, but mostly about the economy.

Jack Lindsey, the new Town Board member appointed Friday by Gov. David Paterson, is a registered independent who will not be a candidate in the fall election, he told the Register-Star Saturday.

In a town where 10 used to be considered a good turnout for a caucus, 133 Republicans packed Town Hall to nominate three candidates Monday to run for three open Town Board seats in November.

At 1,513 people, Ancram is the fourth-smallest town in Columbia County, and smaller than two of its villages.

The Ancram Fire Department #1 has plunked down $300,000 on the bar next door, the Ancram Tavern.

While most other town boards have set workshops and are already in thick of planning the 2009 budget, Ancram is falling behind.

Cellist Yehuda Hanani has lived in Spencertown for more than 20 years. But he spends a lot of time on the move, from Tel Aviv to Tokyo to Tanglewood with stops in between to look in on his students at the ...