Hudson Confidential: Ulster’s Cornell Cooperative Director Is Retiring

Lydia Reidy, executive director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, will retire at the end of 2017, after nearly three decades in the job.Reidy, who worked 43 years for Cornell Cooperative Extension, has seen the Ulster County office grow from a staff of 20 and an annual budget of $575,000 when she became director in 1989, to a staff of 35 and an annual budget of more than $4 million today.Reidy recalls that when she took over as director, the agency was located [...]