HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton has presented her daughter with the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill award, which Clinton herself was awarded in 1995.

BEACON, N.Y. (AP) — The sloop Clearwater is marking a historic milestone this week.

The ship that annually sails the Hudson River is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its keel laying ceremony on Thursday.

The Clearwater was made to look like the Dutch sloops that used to carry supplies up and down the Hudson River. The late folk singer Pete Seeger and other environmentalists wanted the ship to be a symbol of the river's rebirth and a floating classroom.

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — The sloop Clearwater is set to sail on the Hudson River.

The sloop will kick off its spring season Saturday with a public sail from its Kingston home port.

The Clearwater was made in 1969 to look like the Dutch sloops that used to carry food and other supplies up and down the Hudson River

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome," which has been quoted by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was made popular by folk singer Pete Seeger, has been declared a part of public domain.

BEACON, N.Y. (AP) — The Sloop Clearwater has had to cancel its scheduled voyage to Washington, D.C., to lobby on environmental matters because of rough conditions on the Atlantic Ocean.

The Hudson River sloop set sail Monday from Croton-on-Hudson for the nation's capital to deliver petitions and municipal resolutions urging Congress to protect New York's rivers and other American waterways.