Please take note that Cemetery Road is closed between houses 35 and 79 due to a culvert replacement. Please seek alternative routes. Thank you for your understanding.

Please take notice that the Town of Canaan, Columbia County, New York, seeks applicants for a position in the Town Highway Department, for a Temporary Laborer 2026 Pay $21.50 Applicants are asked to forward a letter of interest, and resume, to the Highway Clerk, Town of Canaan Highway Department, PO Box 34 Canaan, NY 12029 or pick up and return and application to the Highway Department at 1898 State Route 295, Canaan, NY during business hours. Applications or letters of interest shall be delivered to the Town of Canaan Highway Clerk on or before Thursday October 8th, 2026, by end of day. Christine Wemple Highway Clerk highwayclerk@canaanny.gov...

The Canaan Historical Society is pleased to announce that the Society has received a $10,000 matching grant from the Veillette-Nifosi Foundation of East Chatham to support window restoration, which is the next major phase of the restoration for the Society’s 1829 Meeting House.  The Meeting House serves as a museum, exhibiting Canaan historical family and business artifacts and as a gathering place for historic programs. This grant will be used to help reach the $75,000 goal for partial window restoration.  The windows involved are six triple-hung small paned glass windows and the Palladian window over the Meeting House front door.  The building’s stained- glass windows will be part of a future contract.  The Hstorical Society will have to raise $10,000 to earn the matching grant. Therefore, we are soliciting funds from the community to meet the match.  Contributions can be made online at CanaanHistoricalSociety.org or checks can be mailed to Canaan Historical Society, Post Office Box 111, Canaan, NY 12029.   The Society has a goal of finishing the exterior restoration by the building’s bicentennial in...

TAKE NOTICE, that I, Heather O’Grady, the undersigned Collector of Taxes of the Town of Canaan, County of Columbia and the State of New York, have duly received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes within the Town of Canaan for the year 2026, and that I will attend at the Town Hall at 1647 County Route 5 in the Town of Canaan on the following days: Monday and Wednesday, from 2:30 pm-4:30pm and for the month of January, Friday, 9:30am-12:00pm for the purpose of receiving payment of taxes listed on said roll. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that taxes may be paid on or before February 02, 2026 without charge or interest. Payment of taxes may now be done by credit/debit card. We will accept payments that are postmarked on February 2. On all taxes received after such date, there shall be added interest of 1% for each additional month or fraction thereof, thereafter until such taxes are paid or until the return of unpaid taxes to the County Treasurer pursuant to law. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to the provisions of the law, the tax roll of the Town of Canaan will be returned to the County Treasurer of the County of Columbia on the 1st day of June 2026. Heather O’Grady Tax...

2026 Transfer Station Stickers will be available beginning December 1, 2025 $25 per household. (Please bring proof of residency as well as license plate numbers.) On the same date, we will begin selling the 2026 County Recycle stickers which are $75.00 for residents under the age of 65, and $50.00 for those age 65 and older. If both stickers are purchased in a single transaction, there will be a $5.00...

Press release on clean energy upgrades