Samantha Simmons

A local cheese packaging company is finally brie-ing itself. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons recently toured Hudson Valley Creamery’s facilities after it won gold at the World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin.

First-term Mayor Dorcey Applyrs said the city’s law enforcement and other departments are prepared.

Catholic Central School and Notre-Dame Bishop Gibbons will combine their high school students in the 2026-27 school year.

Lawmakers in Rensselaer County are not expected to attend tonight’s State of the County.

Todd Albright's new album, Blues for Dexter Linwood, set to be released on April 17th is a reprise of jazz and blues from the 1920’s and ‘30’s.

In an effort to highlight Women’s History Month, a local sensory gym is hosting events meant to celebrate and include neurodivergent individuals.

On this week's 51%, we kick off Women's History Month and preview an exhibit about Ulster County’s first elections with women voters in 1918. Women in New York won the right to vote a few years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The Ulster County exhibit, opening March 11 on the second floor of the county office building in Kingston, features archival voter rolls and artifacts from the county board of the elections as well as the League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region, giving a glimpse into the lives of the everyday women who jumped at the opportunity to vote.

Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello says she will veto legislation meant to protect renters.

On this week's 51%, we kick off Women's History Month and preview an exhibit about Ulster County’s first elections with women voters in 1918. Women in New York won the right to vote a few years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The Ulster County exhibit, opening March 11 on the second floor of the county office building in Kingston, features archival voter rolls and artifacts from the county board of the elections as well as the League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region, giving a glimpse into the lives of the everyday women who jumped at the opportunity to vote.

Rensselaer County Legislators are pushing back against a move by County Executive Steve McLaughlin regarding department head attendance.