GHENT–Four of the six school districts in Columbia County have reported results in this year’s budget referendums and school board elections. Budgets were approved by comfortable margins in all four: Chatham, Germantown, Hudson and New Lebanon.
Ichabod Crane and Taconic Hills districts had not released results by 1 a.m. June 17.
All voters voted by absentee ballots this year because of the Covid-19 epidemic. But one school official said that the total number of voters was higher this election because the absentee paper ballots made it easier for people to vote. Each ballot included a stamped return envelope for the ballot. Read more…
Germantown Central School District Superintendent Susan Brown. Photo contributed
GERMANTOWN – Susan Brown, superintendent at the Germantown Central School District, announced her plan to retire on October 31. Mrs. Brown served the district as Elementary Principal from March 2005 through August 2013 and as superintendent since then. She is also a resident, parent and grandparent in the school district.
Mrs. Brown started her career in education at the Hudson City School District where she served as an elementary computer teacher for 11 years and associate principal at the Hudson Middle School until March 2005. She was dedicated to the children and families of the Hudson CSD, her own alma mater, until the opportunity at Germantown was brought to her attention. As a parent in the Germantown Central School District, she had firsthand knowledge of the small community school environment, with grades K-12 in a single building, so she decided to make a change.
In March 2005, Mrs. Brown joined the team at Germantown to continue the elementary educational philosophy, K-2 Learn to Read ~ 3-6 Read to Learn. Together she and her teachers used data from multiple measures of student achievement to implement individualized Academic Intervention Services (AIS) and monitored each child’s progress with the goal that all students be successful. During her tenure as principal, Mrs. Brown developed and implemented an after-school program, established new safety plans, chaired the district’s Technology Committee, implemented an Exceptional Student program, was a board member of the Germantown Student Education Foundation (GSEF), sat on the Education 2015 Committee, and was an integral member of the District Leadership Team. Read more…
HUDSON—So far 37 Columbia County residents have died of the coronavirus, according to figures provided by the Columbia County Department of Health (DOH) as June 15 at 3 p.m.
The DOH reports Columbia County has 422 confirmed positive cases of the virus with 39 active cases of Covid-19 currently in the county; 346 of the 422 cases have recovered from the virus; 11 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU.
County will no longer report tests results
County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said in the June 15 county-issued coronavirus update press release that the county will discontinue what has become an impossible task of trying to determine the total daily number of tests performed for Covid-19 on county residents. Read more…
HILLSDALE—Roads, local housing and cable television contract renewals dominated the regular June Town Board meeting on Tuesday, June 9.
Town Supervisor Peter Cipkowski informed the board that a change in protocol regarding speed limit change requests requires the request to go to the county engineer before the state Department of Transportation gets involved. For that reason the board voted again on previously passed resolutions asking for speed limit changes on town roads within the perimeter of the hamlet.
The board unanimously approved requests for a reduced speed limit to 25 mph on sections of Old Town, Cold Water and Maple and all of Poole Hill and Anthony Extension. The board also approved a reduced speed limit request to 35 mph on Wolfe Hill and to 30 mph on Mitchell Street. Read more…
HUDSON—Thirty-seven Columbia County residents that have died from the coronavirus as of June 12 at 3 p.m.
The Columbia County Department of Health (DOH) has received a total of 7123 PCR test results with 414 confirmed positive cases.
There are currently 38 active cases of Covid-19 in Columbia County 339 of the 414 cases have recovered from Covid-19; 10 of the positive cases are hospitalized with no one in the ICU. Read more…
