The Columbia County Department of Health has released its weekly breakdown of COVID-19 cases by municipality and nursing home. Since last Friday, there have been 24 new cases, twice as many as in the previous week. Ghent Assisted Living saw the largest number of new cases with twelve. The other twelve were scattered about the county: three in Hudson, two in Claverack, and one each in Canaan, … {Read more...}

  CHAIRMAN’S PRESS RELEASE FIVE HOSPITALIZED FROM GHENT ASSISTED LIVING OUTBREAK The Ghent Assisted Living Facility has experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 that finds five residents hospitalized, Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said Thursday. One resident that had been hospitalized has since died. Currently, 10 residents have tested positive for the virus, … {Read more...}

Since Sunday, there have been five new cases of COVID-19 and one recovery, increasing the number of active cases by four to seventeen. There is one more person hospitalized with the virus today than Sunday, and one in the ICU when there were none on Sunday. The number of county residents in mandatory and precautionary quarantine remains the same as on Sunday. It has now been 126 days since there … {Read more...}

    Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman’s Press Release Columbia County Announces Police Reform Panel Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell announced today the formation of the county’s Police Reform Panel. The panel has been selected to conform to New York State’s Executive Order No. 203. Among its goals, the order mandates that local government … {Read more...}

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its breakdown of COVID-19 cases by municipality and nursing home. Since last Friday, there have been twelve new cases. Four of them have been in Hudson. The other eight are one each in Elizaville, Germantown, Ghent, Kinderhook, New Lebanon, Valatie, Barnwell, and Ghent Assisted Living, where previously there had been no cases of COVID-19. As … {Read more...}