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Meetings & Events

  1. Town Board Meeting

    February 21 @ 7:00 pm
  2. C.A.C. Meeting

    March 4 @ 7:00 pm
  3. Planning Board Meeting

    March 7 @ 7:00 pm
  4. Climate Smart Community Task Force Meeting

    March 16 @ 9:30 am
  5. Town Board Meeting

    March 21 @ 7:00 pm
  6. C.A.C. Meeting

    April 1 @ 7:00 pm

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New 2019 Information

  • Public Notice - Berkshire Cable Corporation d/b/a Consolidated Communications Cable Franchise Application
  • Comprehensive Plan Public Hearing - February 9, 2019
    2019 Comprehensive Plan Update - Part I (254 kb)
    2019 Comprehensive Pan Update - Part II - Appendix (15.5 MB)
  • 2019 Budget
  • Employee Handbook
  • Financial Process Manual
  • Purchasing Policy
  • 2019 Fee Schedule

2018 Information

  • Winterfest Holiday Boutique (pdf)
  • DEC information about the Doodletown Wildlife Management Area: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/112438.html
  • DEC Doodletown WMA Habitat Management Plan: http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/yfidoodlehmp.pdf
  • Results of the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Survey
  • 2018 Columbia County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Management Plan
Background Materials for January 17, 2019 Town Board Meeting
  1. Agenda
  2. Supervisor’s Report
  3. Resolutions
  4. Year-end 2018 Cash Reconcilement
  5. Preliminary December Financial Report
  6. Employee Handbook
  7. Financial Process Manual
  8. Purchasing Policy
  9. Fee Schedule

Background Materials Archive

Recent Public Notice

Berkshire Cable Corporation d/b/a Consolidated Communications Cable Franchise Application
Date of Public Notice Event: March 21, 2019

Town of Ancram Notice of Public Hearing: The Ancram Town Board will hold a public hearing at 6:45 pm on Thursday, March 21 at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7, Ancram NY 12502 to solicit public comments on a proposed application by Berkshire Cable Corp. d/b/a Consolidated Communications for …

Public Notices Archive

The Town of Ancram is located in the southeastern section of Columbia County. The City of Hudson is approximately 20 miles to the northwest, the City of Albany approximately 50 miles to the northwest and the City and Town of Poughkeepsie approximately 35 miles to the southwest. The town was founded in 1803, and was originally part of Gallatin. In 1814 Ancram separated from Gallatin and became an independent Town. The name was derived from the Livingston homestead in Anchoram, Scotland. Robert Livingston, first Lord of the Manor was the son of a Scotch clergyman, born in Anchoram, Scotland in 1654. The town comprises 27,000 of the total 160,000 acres the Livingston family had held from the initial grant by the English Crown in 1686. Philip Livingston, grandson of Robert, founded the first iron works in 1743, the only one of its kind on the banks of the Roeliff Jansen Kill and in the NY Colony. There were four forges, a blast furnace and a refinery forge that employed 75 to 100 men at full operation. Three iron mines and a lead mine supported the iron works.
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Popular Links

  1. Adopted 2019 Organizational Resolutions
  2. Town of Ancram News – Summer 2018
  3. Comprehensive Plan Newsletter, March 2018 (pdf) Ancram Comprehensive Plan  Review & Accomplishments Newsletter, March 2018
  4. Comprehensive Plan
  5. Agriculture & Farmland Protection Plan
  6. Final Ancram Natural Resource Conservation Plan
  7. Heritage Resource Plan
  8. 2018 Ancram Directory
  9. Town Hall Directory
  10. Emergency Services
  11. Town Budget
  12. Assessment & Taxes
  13. 2018 Town Fees
  14. Town Board Meeting Documents
  15. Highway Department’s Facebook page – News, pending weather alerts & road conditions.
  16. Adopted Local Laws & Town Laws (incl. 414 Library Tax Disclosure Law, Right to Farm Law, Zoning Law, Unsafe Building Law etc.)
  17. Manuals, Policies & Procedures
  18. Protecting Scenic Ancram
  19. Everything You Wanted to Know About Building Permits
  20. Ancram Historic District Information
  21. Applications (Dog license, Building Permit, Solar Permit etc.)
  22. http://www.columbiacountyny.com – Columbia County NY Website

 

Photo by B. Docktor

The Ancram Freeground Cemetery, sometimes referred to on maps and the internet as the Ancram Old Cemetery, was established at the very end of the 18th Century. Because the cemetery was created before the 1803 incorporation of the town of Ancram, there are no town records of its establishment but it is widely believed that the one acre plot that comprises the cemetery was donated by the Livingston family. The Livingston’s settled in the area in the late 17th century and received a royal charter land grant from King George I in 1715 for 250 square miles of land. Most of that land, known then as Livingston Manor, is now Columbia County. Read more >

Recent News

Second Annual Winterfest Celebration – December 8, 3-6 pm

Published on December 5, 2018

Second Annual Winterfest Celebration - December 8, 3-6 pm Location: Ancram Town Hall SING (OR … [Read More...] about Second Annual Winterfest Celebration – December 8, 3-6 pm

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Ancram Weather Forecast

Winter Weather Advisory

Issued:
3:40 PM EST on February 19, 2019
Expires:
7:00 AM EST on February 21, 2019
Mostly Cloudy
Tuesday
Mostly Cloudy
High 33°/Low 12°
10%
Mostly Cloudy
Tuesday Night
Mostly Cloudy
High 33°/Low 12°
10%
Snow Showers
Wednesday
Snow Showers
High 29°/Low 25°
60%
Ice Pellets
Wednesday Night
Ice Pellets
High 29°/Low 25°
90%
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