Carole Osterink writes The Gossips of Rivertown, a blog that is news and commentary (and takes its name from a novel by a Hudson writer). It’s a must-read for all of us who live here. This episode tune into Carole’s story, how she chooses what to cover, if she considers herself a journalist andtr advise if you want to start a hyperlocal news sources like it in your town. 

I hope you have something like it where you live. And I hope it’s written by someone like Carole. 

Hyperlocal newspapers & blogs (pls send in more!):

• A Little Beacon Blog (Beacon)


• Croton History & Mysteries (Croton)


• The Daily Catch (Red Hook and Rhinebeck)


• Daily Freeman (Ulster, Green & No. Dutchess Counties)


• The Gardiner Gazette (Gardiner):


• The Gossips of Rivertown (Hudson)


• The Highlands Current (Philipstown, Cold Spring, Garrison)


• The Hudson Valley Pilot (Rhinebeck)


• Hudson Valley One (Ulster County)


• Hudson Valley Post


• IMBY (several counties)


• Kingston Wire (Kingston) 


• Mid-Hudson News


• Ossining History on the Run (Ossining)


• Tgazette (Taghkanic)

Plus, Mat is recently interviewed on the Rhinebeck Scoop podcast about Cidiot.

There also are many good visitor and travel blogs to the Hudson Valley but that’s a separate list. Let me know if I should put one together. 

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