Register-Star

07/31/2025

He faces multiple counts, police say.

CHATHAM — An East Chatham man was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple weapons-related felonies, New York State Police said Thursday.

07/31/2025

The group proposing an initiative to overhaul the city’s government is considering a second petition to potentially place the measure on the ballot in 2026.

07/31/2025

Sales tax collection in the first half of 2025 increased in both Columbia and Greene counties compared with 2024, according to a report from state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

07/30/2025

A man who filed objections to a petition seeking to put a measure on November’s ballot to change the county form of government to include a county executive testified in court Tuesday that he received drafts of his objections from an attorney representing the clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

HUDSON — A man who filed objections to a petition seeking to put a measure on November’s ballot to change the county form of government to include a county executive

07/30/2025

A vehicle was struck by bullets multiple times in the incident, and no injuries were reported, sheriff's officials said.

STOCKPORT — A Stockport man was arrested and charged Tuesday with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at a vehicle in Stottville, the Columbia County Sheriff's Office said.

07/29/2025

“Jesus Christ Superstar” is a story as old as time that nearly everyone has knowledge of, but you probably have never seen it presented like this, Nippertown's Bill Kellert writes.

CHATHAM — What an interesting journey to have been privy to, participate in from the audience side, and observe the changes and growth that have occurred at Mac-Haydn Theatre in

07/29/2025

His body was recovered from the creek Friday.

HUDSON — The body of the man pulled from the Kinderhook Creek in Stuyvesant on Friday was identified as a Stuyvesant Falls resident.

07/29/2025

Bard College will sell off some of the properties it acquires through a recently announced gift from the Galvan Foundation.

HUDSON — Bard College will sell off some of the properties it acquires through a recently announced gift from the Galvan Foundation.

07/28/2025

"The nice thing about this program that I absolutely love is that it involves seventh-graders all the way to 12th graders, so they're building a bond and a relationship across grade levels and becoming friends,” Taconic Hills head coach Allison Stark says. “We’ve become a trap family. We work together, we look out for one another.”

Taconic Hills’ trap shooting team is a rather recent addition for the school, but it’s been a successful one.

07/28/2025

“All right, another day another diner,” Pat Fleming says in every intro of his restaurant review series with the same name.

The 28-year-old influencer, based in Albany, has been somewhat of an overnight success. Fleming has racked up around 4 million views for Another Day Another Diner across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, where he’s spent just over eight weeks documenting his visits to diners nearby the Capital Region.

One of his recent stops: Dan's Diner in Chatham

SCOTIA — “All right, another day another diner,” Pat Fleming says in every intro of his restaurant review series with the same name.

07/27/2025

Albany County was one of the early adopters of an animal abuse registry, doing so in 2011. A review of the registry run by the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society shows more than 40 listed individuals, with the latest addition stemming from an August 2024 conviction.

"We are huge proponents" of animal abuser registries, Humane Society CEO Ashley Jeffery Bouck says.

NEW YORK STATE — A French Bulldog named Gus died, and numerous other dogs and cats were removed from Halfmoon's A Time For Paws in June.

07/26/2025

“It got off our radar,” Hudson resident and member of the charter change initiative Robert Rasner said Friday. “It’s not a tragic mistake, but it’s a mistake, and I thought it best to own up to it.”

HUDSON — A proposal to overhaul the city’s government will not appear on the ballot in November after the group proposing the initiative failed to submit its second petition by