GHENT » The “European-style Heavy Metal Fest” which was slated for Meadowgreens has been moved northwest of Schenectady to Pattersonville “due to unforeseen issue's [sic] at the Meadow Greens [sic],” according to the promoter’s impressively ugly website.
HUDSON VALLEY » According to this wire report in the Kingston Daily Freeman, home sales jumped in the first quarter of this year compared to 2009: “by 54.3 percent in Greene County, by 43.7 percent in Ulster County, by 42.9 percent in Columbia County, and by 8.8 percent in Dutchess County.”
HUDSON RIVER » General Electric says that Phase 1 of its EPA-ordered dredging projected cost $561 million (or about 3.6% their gross annual revenue). Poor things.