Monday, October 19, 2020 CHAIRMAN’S PRESS RELEASE POSITIVE CASES RISE AT GHENT ASSISTED LIVING As of Monday morning, 24 residents of Ghent Assisted Living, Route 66, Ghent, have tested positive for COVID19 since the beginning of last week’s outbreak, Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said. Ten individuals are currently hospitalized, with two in the ICU. Two staff … {Read more...}

Town Board Meeting and Public Hearing for the 2021 Town Budget 6:30pm October 20, 2020. For zoom invitation contact [email protected] Monday October 19, 2020. There will be limited seating, please contact [email protected] or 518-398-7519 to reserve a seat. 2021 Gallatin Budget Public Hearing (1) 2021 Gallatin Budget Public Hearing Gallatin Town Board October 2020 … {Read more...}

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...}