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...}

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. The CCDOH is reporting that, since yesterday, there have been three new cases of COVID-19, but comparing the number of active cases and the total number of cases reported today with what was reported yesterday reveals that there are actually four new cases. There are now two people hospitalized with the virus, and one in … {Read more...}

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been one new case of COVID-19 and no new recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by one to fifteen. One person remains hospitalized, and one remains in the ICU. The number of county residents in mandatory and precautionary quarantine remains the today as yesterday. There have been no … {Read more...}

CHAIRMAN’S PRESS RELEASE MIGRANT WORKER OUTBREAK CONTACT TRACING COMPLETE Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said Monday that the DOH has completed contact tracing necessitated by last week’s migrant workers’ COVID-19 outbreak. “Additional testing of individuals who reside at the farm have come back negative, so it appears the outbreak is limited,” he added. “It gets … {Read more...}