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Shamrock Run and St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday in Kingston

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St. Patrick’s Day is officially March 17, but if you’d enjoy some Irish-accented fun a wee bit early, come to Kingston on Sunday, March 11.

Co-sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ Fr. Con Colbert Woulfe Division 1 and the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Division 5 of Ulster County, in cooperation with the City of Kingston, the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade – now in its 31st year – steps off from the Kingston Plaza in the Uptown Stockade area at 1 p.m., heads over to Broadway and down through Midtown to the Rondout District before breaking up into merry roving bands of revelers. Besides local dignitaries, parade VIPS for 2018 will include Paul Tully as Grand Marshal, Madison McDermott as Irish Princess, Jim Bruck as Mayor of the Day and Evan Naccarato as Bearer of St. Patrick. There will be plenty of marching bands, floats, community organizations and businesses participating as well.

For more info on the 31 st annual Kingston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, call (845) 338-6622, e-mail events@ ulsteraoh.com or visit www.ulsteraoh.com.

Since 1988, the Ulster County seat has traditionally kicked off the day of the St. Patrick’s Parade with the popular twomile Shamrock Run, anticipated to have as many as 5,000 participants this year.

Registration begins at 10 a.m. at the Governor Clinton Apartments at 1 Albany Avenue. Runners gather at Academy Green, where the race itself starts at 12:50 p.m. sharp. The Finish Line is at the foot of Broadway in the Rondout District.

The entry fee for the Shamrock Run is $25 if you preregister by March 10, $30 on Race Day. Funds raised benefit a different local charity each year; the beneficiary for 2018 is the Kingston Catholic School Children’s Program. For registration forms and other info, visit www.shamrockrunners.org.

Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck stages Ragtime

Interweaving incidents, real or imaginary, from the lives of famous historical personages into the narratives of fictional protagonists is no longer an uncommon approach among novelists. But when E. L. Doctorow published his masterpiece Ragtime in 1975, its seamless integration of larger-than-life characters such as Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Harry

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The Dude (Jeff Bridges), Donny (Steve Buscemi) and Walter (John Goodman)

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The Dude abides See the cult classic on the big screen as it celebrates its 20th birthday at UPAC this Friday

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aybe I am making this up, but, as a Coen fanboy, I remember the initial critical reception of The Big Lebowski as a lukewarm and scolding approval: funny, great and easygoing performance by Bridges (who was just then being declared the Great American Actor), but no match for the terse artistry of the Oscar-winning Fargo. A step down. No woodchipper, no statue back in the Tarantino Age. The present sucks at guessing the future.

The Coen Brothers love the feel of ominous complications that fail to culminate, patterns that do not hold, meanings that turn out to mean nothing. That love alone accounts for the thin plot of the still-delightful Burn after Reading; but The Big Lebowski remains their definitive statement on the pure sensuality of paranoia. It is also an unlikely-but-undeniable inductee into the class of movies that “everyone can quote,” joining the likes of The Blues Brothers, This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride.

For a mere $6, you can enjoy The Big Lebowski on the big screen again on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston. Bathrobe or bowling attire is encouraged.

Purchase tickets in person at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; at the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or online at www.bardavon.org.

– John Burdick

‘‘This is not ’Nam. This is bowling.

There are rules.’’

Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit and Admiral Peary with the intersecting stories of ordinary New Yorkers seemed like something fresh, new and audacious (this despite the fact that Doctorow had based it on an early-19 th-century German novella, Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas). Ragtime became a massive best-seller and impressed literary critics as well, winning the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for fiction.

While famous people supply the flash and ground the narrative in a particular historical setting – the opening years of the 20th century – it’s the three fictional families who provide the meat of the story: a bourgeois clan in New Rochelle whose younger members start stretching their wings while Father is off on an expedition to the Arctic; a Harlem musician who becomes radicalized after his Model T is

trashed by a group of racist firefighters; and a poor Jewish immigrant from Latvia whose talent for paper cutouts eventually leads to a career as a movie mogul. It’s children who bring these diverse families together and offer hope for a more humane future, even as World War I looms on the horizon.

Ragtime was made into a successful film

by Miloš Forman in 1981. Two of its eight Academy Award nominations were for the score by Randy Newman, none of which survived for Terrence McNally’s 1996 stage musical adaptation. Newman fans, don’t be too sad: The tunes by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens went on to win Tony Awards, along with McNally’s book.

Now Ragtime the musical has come to the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and running weekends through March 18. It’ll be worth going if only to find out how Up in One Productions,

with its typically lean budget for sets, is coping with the fact that a certain Model T Ford is practically a character in the story! The show is in capable hands, with Kevin Archambault both directing and doing choreography, and musical direction by Paul and JoAnne Schubert.

The cast includes Jovan Bradley, Mark Colvson, Maria Coppola, Andy Crispell, Jared Decker, Ryan Dutcher, David Foster, Alex Heinen, Jane Langan, Amy LeBlanc, James McTague and Elizabeth Thomas.

Performances of Ragtime begin at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, March 9, 10, 16 and 17, and at 3 p.m. on Sundays, March 11 and 18. Tickets cost $27 and $25. To purchase, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://bit.ly/2D5aQwd. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308, 3.5 miles east of downtown Rhinebeck.

– Frances Marion Platt

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Spring Market at the Soyuzivka Giftshop • Saturday, March 17th 10am - 4pm Ukrainian pysanky Easter eggs, embroidery, artwork, children’s books, cards and Soyuzivka gear. Stay for Ukrainian lunch!

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MUSIC Dregs revivified The Dixie Dregs will play (or rather blow the damn roof off) the Bearsville Theater next Saturday

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an, I have listened to a lot of crap in my life… and loved it, pored over it, married it, let it perform cultural violences upon me. Should I regret it? Could a hipster have designed a better program for a better me? I put myself to sleep every night for three years with the same three Kansas albums stacked on my automatic record changer, letting a pale American simulacrum of the already-dubious British castle-rock style write my dream code and program a set of musical values that would keep me, for the better part of 25 years, from finding anything at all to like about the Velvet Underground. Imagine how many reindeer games I was excluded from because of that!

But Kansas wasn’t an accident for me, or an arranged marriage in which I had no agency. Yes, music was harder to come by at the time, and you were mostly stuck with the records strewn on your bedroom floor, with what you could afford and with the consumer choices you often made blindly (to your great advantage, in some ways). Records were investments. You worked with them until they worked for

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The Dixie Dregs, from left, Steve Davidowski, Steve Morse, Andy West, Rod Morgenstein and Allen Sloan, are shown in 1977. The band has reunited for a brief concert tour which includes a show at Bearsville Theater on Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m.

you. Ironically, the on-demand, personalchoice-driven world has produced less robust and adaptable listeners, despite the surfeit, the everything-ever-on-tap proposition of Spotify and Apple Music.

We lack the toughness now to overcome a rough start: the commitment, the faith, the understanding that a relationship with new music takes time to grow.

But I was already, at 11 or 12, an experienced student of rock who was very much commanding his own ship of taste. I had British Invasion, Creedence, the James Gang, the proto-metal of Deep Purple, some country/rock, Jethro Tull, Stevie Wonder and much else under my belt.

My sharpening critical apparatus could already extrapolate much of the music that I did not yet know. I had been offered Pink Floyd and Roxy Music and had passed.

From the other direction, the Grateful Dead and Little Feat were on my radar; the latter, especially, was making moves toward being my Next Big Thing. I was 12. I was not into radio and missed a lot of broadening experience because of that, but I honestly preferred deep over broad: protracted immersion in the same damn 40 minutes of sound, over and over, night after night – and that made me who I am.

The essence of Kansas’ music – you might call it prog, but it is better understood as “classical rock” – was something I was looking for and not getting anywhere else. Oh man, it was full of holes and chronically guilty of naïve and laughable overreach. I knew that even then. The lyrics aspired to a blustering, allusive, quasi-spiritual pomposity that they weren’t quite up to, and for every 30 seconds of lithe and elegant electric ensemble counterpoint (for there is much of that in the music of Kansas), I had to internalize four or five minutes of lumbering, joyless prog mechanics (for there is yet more of that in the music of Kansas). I could have been listening to early Genesis; or, better yet, Gentle Giant; or, better even still, actual classical music – but I wasn’t ready for any of that yet. Kansas gave me that “classical” kernel I yearned for in a form and at a level that I was able to understand. I never questioned whether I was listening to the right stuff.

And I don’t regret a minute of my time with them. I do sometimes regret the

tendency of youth to identify with one band/brand at the expense of all others, to raise flags of allegiance and fight wars with rivals and to be hurt by the divergent or mocking tastes of others. But perhaps a tooth-and-nail, microfocused engagement with music would never happen without that fierce identification and the all-infor-now spirit of serial monogamy.

The problem with superfandom is that no music, except perhaps that of J. S. Bach, can provide all that you ask of it. And eventually you wake up to that fact, and your idols tumble and you replace them with your next tumbling idol until such time as you just don’t care anymore. Then, usually, you return to your first love, the Beatles.

The last band I asked everything of was XTC (look! prog logic in compact pop forms), and that took me into my early 30s. Since then, I have humbled myself and gone out of my way to like music that I used to hate. I swim in the river of music and never pause in one place for long. I have championed many bands and artists, but married none. And I can’t help but feel that something is missing from the experience.

When I first heard the Dixie Dregs, at the age of 16, they instantly became everything to me. There was no courtship, no feeling out, no initial reticence of unfamiliarity. Bang, there it was: what I had always been looking for. Kansas (with whom the Dregs have much in common) disappeared in a quite-sudden flash. My hunger for harmonic sophistication had, in the same period, led me down what was, for me, the red-herring path of fusion: modern jazz harmonic concepts washed down easy with funky grooves.

Advanced harmony, said Beethoven, is about the systematic expansion of the human ability to feel; and, except for the systematic part, that is my truth as well. Harmony is where my heart lives.

And while jazz is the great 20th-century achievement of harmony, it is not what I love, for reasons I may try to write about someday; I love “classical” harmony – specifically a line in it that I trace, in my own late-arrival innocence, from Bach to Chopin to Brahms and Ravel.

When I heard the Dixie Dregs, I suddenly cared much less about fusion, too. Funny, because the Dixie Dregs have

Blazing virtuosity has always been the basic bar to entry in this band.

always been widely regarded as an elite fusion band. Certainly, they come from that milieu. They were trained in that skillset (and met) at what was, in the early ’70s, the Berklee of the South: the Jazz Studies program at the University of Miami, where Jaco and Metheny held court. And the first Dixie Dregs album – a curiously thin-sounding but musically rich record called Freefall – was in fact in the fusion style, though far more compositionally autocratic than anything called jazz is supposed to be.

But the Dregs aren’t fusion. I’d call them classical rock, but that term is made redundant by a much-more-

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fitting descriptor at the ready: The Dixie Dregs are, specifically and precisely, Baroque rock. The Baroque mode – harmonic movement realized through the crisscrossing, fluid alignment and interlocking of independent melody lines – is what Steve Morse just calls music.

Beginning with their second record, What If – a career highlight as rich and lush in sound as Freefall was thin and cranky – Dixie Dregs records start falling into a predictable pattern. Each record contains at least one hard-rock song (including their biggest, or arguably their only, hit, “Cruise Control” – a riff so mighty they recorded it twice); one country/ bluegrass song; at least one fusion/ funk track; several harder-to-categorize modern chamber/rock pieces, often with a Celtic-leaning melodicism; and always one classical guitar workout, for, in the tradition of prog Steves (Hackett and Howe), Steve Morse is a pretty damn capable classical guitarist – in fact, I would imagine the most capable of the three Steves.

The ruse of diversity, however, is pure style play laid over the top of the band’s mono-mode: It is Bach rock, Bach boogie, Bach country (the irresistible bluegrass beauty “I’ll Just Pick” might in fact be Morse’s most overtly Baroque composition), Bach funk (“Ice Cakes,” “Kat Food”), Bach prog (Morse’s longform classical ballads were a highlight of each album for me – “Night Meets Light,” “Long Slow Distance,” “Day 444”) and, when Steve takes to the nylon-string, Bach Bach.

The Dixie Dregs dropped the “Dixie” for their last two records on Arista (coming from Capricorn) and went about as far as an instrumental rock band can hope to go. About the two ill-advised, hit-bid vocal tracks on their otherwise-excellent swan song – the bitterly titled Industry Standard – the less said, the better. The Dregs set the stage for the virtuoso hardrock movement of Satriani and Vai, with which they are often erroneously grouped.

The streaming servers have decided they are prog: close, but no cigar. Dregs fans are as likely to be found wearing Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever tee-shirts, but that’s not where it’s at either. They are – I will say it again – rock music’s premier, and maybe only, style-hopping electric Baroque chamber ensemble. Deal with it.

We hardcore fans had to blink in amazement when the news came out that the Dixie Dregs – “Dixie” restored – would be touring in their original lineup and playing in (or rather blowing the damn roof off ) the Bearsville Theater. There is a wink attached to the “original lineup” part, because, as only we lifers know, the original Dixie Dregs lineup is not the classic Dixie Dregs lineup, though it is only off by one. The Dregs’ two definitive keyboard players –Mark Parrish and the classic-lineup stalwart T. Lavitz – are both dead. The return of Steve Davidowski, who played only on Freefall, is just a trip, man. But remember: Blazing virtuosity has always been the basic bar to entry in this band. Steve D. will be fine, and will hopefully take a turn on soprano sax – an axe that both he and Lavitz played with distinction on one Dregs song each.

Previous reunions have featured only Morse and Morgenstein from the original lineup, accompanied often by Mahavishnu violinist Jerry Goodman and longtime Steve Morse Band bassist Dave LaRue. But now bassist and band co-founder Andy West and violinist/physician Allen Sloan are back. This is big news. Live, they plow with energy and precision through Steve Morse’s intricate-but-unfailinglypretty compositions. The solos are many but short. Each player wrote his own: their one shot at embedding a microcomposition or cadenza of sorts into Morse’s hyperdetailed and exacting songs.

But what made them a great live band, more than anything else, is the ecstatic playing of the band’s one true freelancer, drummer Rod Morgenstein. The spirit of this band lives in his joyful countenance.

Why, I am sitting here right now

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listening to “Day 444” from Unsung Heroes, Steve Morse’s staggeringly, dazzlingly beautiful Baroque hymn written upon the occasion and named for the day of the release of the Iranian hostages, and I am crying. Even today, as a fundamentally unschooled musician, I couldn’t count the meter of this complex song the same way twice, but I wouldn’t need to; I know every note and timbre and phrase by heart, every glance and crash of Rod Morgenstein’s garbage-can cymbal in the outro. Boy, did I put some time in on this music. Thank you, Radio Woodstock, for honoring the Bearsville’s rich legacy as a host of serious instrumental music, and thank you, Dixie Dregs, for making me what I am.

The Dixie Dregs perform at the Bearsville Theater on Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $50 to $95. For tickets and additional information, visit www.bearsvilletheater. com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

– John Burdick

Zombies rise again SRO this Friday at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock

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y second-favorite British Invasion band, the Zombies, got their shot at the big time by the agency of my first-favorite British Invasion band, the Beatles. A quintet of childhood friends from St. Alban, the Zombies landed a spot on a populist talent recruitment television program (Hertfordshire’s Got Talent?) on the week that George Harrison happened to be among the celebrity judges.

With the Beatle as opinion-leader, the Zombies won the contest and were awarded the studio time and industry bandwidth to release a single. That single, their first, would become an immediate hit and one of the two songs for which they are mostknown: 1964’s delicate, Rod Argentpenned British R & B-inspired smash “She’s Not There,” later tragically covered

by Santana and made a hit all over again.

Newly minted hitmakers on the basis of a 1.000, one-for-one batting average, the Zombies went all-in and suffered through several years of declining chart fortunes (scoring their modest third hit on paper and occasional oldies novelty “Tell Her No” somewhere in there) before agreeing to call it quits in 1968, when hard rock and hippie-rock and country/rock and everything except wannabe R & B and brainy Baroque/pop were taking over

ANDREW ECCLES

The Zombies

the big stage. But before calling it a day, this exceptionally gifted group of players and writers – fronted by rock’s own Mel Tormé in the figure of velvet-voiced Colin Blunstone – made their first proper fulllength (they were among the last of the true singles bands), which was also their swan song: 1968’s Odessey and Oracle, an exquisite, ultramusical tour de force of swanky, sophisticated psychedelic pop the likes of which even the Beatles and the Kinks are hard-pressed to equal.

But they were done, and they stayed done even when Odessey and Oracle’s closing track and the last song the original Zombies ever recorded – the brilliant-butunrepresentative R & B throwback “Time of the Season” – became a major hit several years later. They began with a hit and ended with one.

But as the years wore on, the Zombies’ reputation only g r e w.

Their masterwork asserted itself like a time-release capsule in the bloodstream of pop culture.

Suddenly, in the music and explicit endorsements of 21st-century thought leaders like the Shins and Of Montreal, the Zombies emerged as a major player in a reconstructed (and corrected) past.

And Rod Argent, who had always politely refused reunions, finally relented. Lacking only the late guitarist and record company executive Paul Atkinson, who died in 2004 after a long illness, the Zombies hit the road in the early 2000s, and the shows from this period reveal an astonishing fact: Colin Blunstone had lost precisely nothing as a singer. It defies explanation.

And they’ve remained active since, releasing new music, mounting Odessey and Oracle tours and finally reveling unambivalently in their influence, their achievement and the outright drooling

Their masterwork asserted itself like a time-release capsule in the bloodstream of pop culture.

adoration of people like me. The Zombies are a two-songwriter band: Keyboard whiz Rod Argent wrote their big hits and is the principal harmony vocalist and occasional lead singer, but bassist Chris White wrote a very large share of the band’s best songs, including the late-acting hit (and quite possibly their most beloved song in the present), “This Will Be Our Year.” Odessey and Oracle was ranked #100 in Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of all time; I’ve got it Top 10.

It sorta blows my mind to tell you that the Zombies are playing at the Levon Helm Studios on Friday, March 9 at 8 p.m., and that there are still some standing tickets left at $70. Levon Helm Studios are located at 160 Plochmann Lane in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.levonhelm.com.

– John Burdick

Dumpstaphunk plays Helsinki Hudson on Saturday

Heirs not only to the Neville polyglot musical tradition, but also to the very Neville name itself, Dumpstaphunk has been providing the jam and festival scene with an uncommonly high grade of funk for a number of years. They’ve fared well in the studio

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MICROTONAL FESTIVAL Saturday, March 24, 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall 203 SUNY Ulster is offering a special day of new sounds in its first Microtonal Festival. This event is for musicians and non-musicians, children and adults alike. There will be hands-on activities, performances, and lectures. Skip La Plante will build musical instruments from scratch. Jon Catler and Meredith Borden of the 13 O’clock Blues Band, show how to play instruments in ways you’ve never imagined. Henry Lowengard shows a presentation on microtonality and technology. All of this is preparing for For more information call 845-688-1949 www.sunyulster.edu

Saturday, March 17 at 4:00 p.m.

Microtonal music is the use in music of intervals smaller than a semitone, also called “microintervals”

the evening concert featuring the microtonal blues band, 13 O’clock. Free to the public. The instrument building workshops will have a $10 materials fee and require prior registration.

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Dumpstaphunk invades Club Helsinki in Hudson on Saturday, March 10 at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and $35. For tickets and additional information, visit www. helsinkihudson.com. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson.

David Byrne to play UPAC on Saturday night

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Ticket prices range from $15 to $40. All proceeds benefit the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Scholarship Fund. To purchase tickets, call the Fisher Center box office at (845) 758-7900 or visit http://fishercenter. bard.edu. The Fisher Center is located at 60 Manor Avenue in Annandale-onHudson.

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dition to the show, Rock for Our Lives attendees will have an opportunity to give a video shout-out to the Florida high school kids who started #neveragain as they prepare to change the world through their March 24 nationwide march.

For more information, visit www. colonywoodstock.com. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

Tal National plays BSP in Kingston on Monday

Celtic music talk, all-star concert on Sunday at Ashokan Center

Piano Plus to open its fifth season at Olive Library in West Shokan

A David Byrne performance would require no billing or promo at all if the cat were not so damned restless and various in his pursuits. The updates and reinventions are endless. An influential if not era-defining bandleader and songwriter, filmmaker, author and novelist, social critic, multimedia performance artist and eternal hipster who stays hip by feeding on the fresh blood of young hipster admirers, Byrne just doesn’t stop expanding. The exciting proposition now is that his current tour features a 12-piece band: the antithesis of an easy paycheck for this legend among legends.

David Byrne performs at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on Saturday, March 10. Tickets cost…I’m sorry, this show is already sold out, but we thought you should know about it anyway. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

– John Burdick

Bard Conservatory grad students perform three operas this weekend The Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music presents a triple bill of operatic rarities, all of which explore the rites and rituals of marriage in some ways. The program features three fully staged operas: Pulcinella by Igor Stravinsky and Full Moon in March by John Harbison, with James Bagwell conducting; and Svadba by Ana Soko-

A surprising outcropping of literally world-class serious music in the middle of nowhere, the Olive Free Library in West Shokan has, for the last four years, hosted the Piano Plus concert series, featuring elite pianists along with guest performers. The series will enter its fifth season with a concert on Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m., featuring Bard Conservatory Collaborative pianists JongSun Woo and Bethany Pietroniro playing Beethoven’s Op.109. Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 and Debussy’s L’isle joyeuse. The suggested donation is $12.

The Olive Free Library is located at 4033 Route 28A in West Shokan. For more information, visit www.olivefreelibrary. org.

Woodstock’s Colony Rock for Our Lives benefit on Sunday

Presented by Mazelco with musical performances by the Rock Academy, Robert Burke Warren and many others, Colony in Woodstock hosts Rock for Our Lives, a benefit for national, regional and local gun-safety laws for all on Sunday, March 11 at 6 p.m.

Tickets cost $15. All proceeds go to Everytown for Gun Safety, March for Our Lives – DC Official and New Yorkers against Gun Violence. In ad-

duction, part history lesson, Beatlemania preceded and inspired all the Pink Floyd and Doors tribute bands, not just the rich legacy of Beatles homages.

Beatlemania rides again, under the name Beatlemania Again, at Colony in Woodstock on Saturday, March 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the show. For tickets and additional information, visit www. colonywoodstock.com. Colony is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

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Positioned in the middle of some major scores and shock-value bookings at BSP, don’t overlook the highenergy esoteric rock ‘n’ roll of Niger’s Tal National. Manic in its sounds, elusive in its rhythms, with a quality that Americans will recognize as almostpsychedelic garage, Tal National’s newest Fat Cat Records release Tantabara is a significant contribution to the essential West African electricguitar music tradition.

Tal National plays at BSP in Kingston on Monday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., with world/psych vinyl selections from Drew of the Beverly. Admission costs $10. For more information, visit www.bspkingston. com. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston.

Woodstock’s Colony stages Beatlemania Again this Saturday

Celebrate the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, if not its precise calendrical occurrence, on Sunday, March 11 at the Ashokan Center, when the Vermont roots band Low Lily teams up with seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion John Whelan and fiddler Katie McNally, who has been dubbed “the new face of Scottish fiddling in the USA” by The Living Tradition. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the performance will feature traditional and original music from both sides of the Atlantic sung in sweet harmonies and played on two fiddles, accordion, guitars and mandolin. The players will lead a talk about the intersections of Irish, Scottish and American roots music at 2 p.m.

For additional information and tickets, including a package deal for the talk and the performance, visit https:// ashokancenter.org. The Ashokan Center is located at 477 Beaverkill Road in Olivebridge.

Beacon’s Towne Crier hosts Clancy Tradition next Saturday In the live-music biz, tribute shows are big – way big. Just note what the various crème de la crop local players have been up to in recent years: Recurrent tributes to Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Big Star, Traffic and more have made for some of the biggest nights at the local venues. This makes a fine time to recognize the primacy of Beatlemania, the grandfather of the phenomenon. Part band, part theatrical pro-

The Clancy Tradition celebrates the legacy of brothers Eugene and Pat Clancy, who first started performing with their family’s Ceili Band in Ireland in the 1950s before coming to America in the ’60s, where they toured

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Han will discuss how, with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, her team analyses data on animals, disease, and geography to pinpoint areas at risk of future disease outbreaks.

Her approaches have the potential to make disease forecasting a reality, preventing disease and saving lives.

The event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium, located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, NY. Seating is first come first served.

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The Clancy Tradition comes to the Towne Crier Café in Beacon on Saturday, March 17 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25.

For tickets and additional information, visit www.townecrier.com. The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon.

The Morton Memorial Library is located at 82 Kelly Street in Rhinecliff. For more information, visit http://morton.rhinecliff. lib.ny.us.

Fab Faux show coming to Levon Helm Studios

Friday, April 27 at 8 p.m. We tell you this now because you know how often shows at Levon’s tend to sell out. Seats cost $100, standing admission costs $65.

The Levon Helm Studios are located at 160 Plochmann Lane in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.levonhelm. com.

– John Burdick

Tony Kushner to talk about Leonard Bernstein & Spielberg’s est Side Story at Bard

Beach Boys to perform at UPAC next Sunday

Family infighting, warring legacies, a mastermind in absentia and hits, hits, hits: If it gets to bear the name the Beach Boys, it is probably worth seeing while you still can. Revered by highbrow snobs and pop fanatics alike, creators of some of the most indispensable studio art of the 20th century and a fair share of execrable pap as well, the Beach Boys are still concert favorites. They perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m.

Tickets range in price from $48 to $128. Purchase them in person at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, or the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088. For online ticket purchase and additional information, visit www.bardavon.org.

Bulgarian music at Rhinecliff library The Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff presents an evening of Bulgarian and Balkan music on Thursday, March 15 at 7 p.m., featuring Matt Schreiber on accordion and Georgi Petrov on guitar. Supporting their 2018 release Horoscope, the duo of New Orleans native Schreiber and Bulgarian-born Petrov draws from Bulgaria’s rich tradition of mixed-meter dance tunes and haunting melodies. The suggested donation is $5.

If the recently re-resurrected Beatlemania purports to be part-concert, part-broad-stroke cultural history, and if you could live without the shopworn history lesson, the Fab Faux may be for you. This band of New York City-scene heavies and session cats began in the failing days of the Beatles’ own century as gleeful, uncostumed-but-gear-accurate reenactors of the lads’ later studio work (in other words, the music that the Beatles themselves never performed live). The Faux, as we came to call them, would perform their astonishingly detailed and ecstatic tributes before stunned crowds at venues like the Bowery Ballroom and Webster Hall. When they needed a cornet for “Penny Lane,” it was Lou Soloff. When they needed a harp for “She’s Leaving Home,” it was the harpist from the New York Philharmonic. It was that kind of highend, that kind of top-shelf. It was, for me, a spiritual experience to hear that music played that well.

While Will Lee and Jimmy Vivino might be the most famous of the Faux by virtue of their high-profile television gigs, the stud singers in the ensemble (and try to imagine a Beatles tribute band without a few stud singers) are multiinstrumentalist Jack Pettruzelli (longtime Joan Osborne right-hand man) and the great drummer and songwriter Rich Pagano (who plays with Willie Nile and many others). While all five members take lead vocals and do quite well, Pettruzelli and Pagano are the real horses, when you need to go “Oh, Darling” or “Yer Blues.”

Twenty years in, I question whether the tribute game perhaps commands too much of the attention and resources of music fans of a certain age; but if there is one tribute band I love, this is the one.

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This January, the news dropped that Steven Spielberg is doing a big-screen remake of the stage musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein’s iconic music will be retained, but one of the most brilliant of contemporary playwrights, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), has come aboard to rewrite the screenplay. Kushner has collaborated successfully with Spielberg twice before, writing the scripts for Munich in 2005 and Lincoln in 2011.

This year being celebrated worldwide as the Bernstein centenary, Bard’s Fisher Center will be presenting a live talk with Tony Kushner on Friday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. The focus of the conversation will be the playwright’s relationship to the music of Leonard Bernstein, including the daunting task of adapting one of the composer’s most beloved works.

Like Bernstein, Kushner is a powerful advocate for social change in his life and work, asking audiences to identify with the marginalized through humanizing acts of imagination.

This event is bound to sell out early, so get your tickets now! Prices start at $25. To reserve your seat, visit http://bit. ly/2He0oFf.

Vassar to host HVP String Competition Originally started in 1966 by conductor Claude Monteux as a way to find string players for the orchestra, the annual Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP) String Competition has given a boost to the careers of many an outstanding musician in the decades since. Among the contest’s past winners are such stellar names as violist Marcus Thompson, cellist Fred Sherry and violinists Ani Kavafian Adela Pena and Judith Ingolfsson. The finals, held at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall, are open to the public, and it’s a great opportunity to catch orchestral and chamber music stars of tomorrow on their way up.

The 46th annual HVP String Competition returns to Vassar next weekend, with the First Round running all day on Saturday, March 17, the Semifinal Round on the morning of Sunday, March 18 and the Final Round beginning at 3 p.m. Nearly 30 up-and-coming young string players will compete. The 2018 first-prize winner will receive $3,000, a solo performance with the HVP during its 2018/19 season and a solo performance at the Musical Landscapes of Italy festival in August in San Quirico d’Orcia in Tuscany. This year’s judges are Juilliard String Quartet violist and Juilliard School professor Samuel Rhodes, violinist and Cornell University professor Ariana Kim and HVP principal cellist and SUNY-New Paltz professor Susan Seligman.

There is no admission charge, and the competition is open to the public. For more information, call the Bardavon box office at (845) 473-2072 or visit www. bardavon.org. Skinner Hall is located on the Vassar campus at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie.

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the second fantasy film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar. Sci-fi entries tend to be taken even less seriously than fantasy by dominant cinema tastemakers.

At its best, sci-fi is supposed to prod us to open our minds, to look at the cosmos from new angles, to ask the most elusive what-if questions. While it clearly straddles the horror genre, Annihilation, Alex Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screen adaptation of the first volume of Jeff VanderMeerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southern Reach trilogy, is a worthy entrant in the race for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s science-fiction thoughtprovoker. The incipient premise seems to be: What if DNA itself were as intrusive in a new environment, as ultimately uncontrollable and self-reinventing, as viruses?

Being able to thwart bacterial pandemics like bubonic plague after the development of antibiotics gave humankind a false and temporary sense of security. Viruses, with their ability to incorporate the DNA of their hosts and mutate new forms freely,

are another, much scarier story. The tiniest of organisms can be a far more formidable foe than a kaiju capable of toppling skyscrapers, and that fact has provided ample fodder for speculative fiction for as long as the genre has been around: Michael Crichton used it to scare the pants off us in The Andromeda Strain, H. G. Wells to offer ironical comfort in The War of the Worlds.

Science fiction also loves to ponder the ethical and health ramifications of genetic engineering; the entire narrative framework of Frank Herbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dune novels was built on an eons-long, intergalactic gene-manipulation project. The notion of playing God, of creating life, strikes a deep chord of unease in the human psyche â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the more so, I suspect, since we found out about the creepy medical research undertaken by the Nazis in their pursuit of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfectedâ&#x20AC;? master race. One can see that fear today in the popular pushback against GMO ingredients in foods.

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Annihilation takes us to a swampy part of America that has been invaded by something from another world (in the novel, the source is not so clear) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an intruder that is capable of merging with the DNA of earthly lifeforms and spinning off a bewildering variety of brand-new ones.

Some are exquisitely beautiful, like a pair of delicate antelopes with flowering horns.

Even the territory affected, bounded by a rainbowed, slowly expanding membrane known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shimmerâ&#x20AC;? and overgrown with multicolored mold, crystalline trees and a riot of blooms reminiscent of the luminescent forests of Avatar, is a visually spellbinding place to visit. But many of its hybrids are terrifying and lethal, such as an albino alligator whose teeth grow in multiple rows like a sharkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and a bearlike creature whose roar channels the screams of its most recent prey. And what it does to human visitors can be downright gruesome; this is not a movie for the squeamish.

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In 1710, 3,000 of the “Poor Palatines” were shipped to the British colony of New York. Two work camps were set up on the banks of the Hudson River, where they could pay for their passage with a year or two of indentured servitude. Those sites in Germantown and Saugerties are still known as East Camp and West Camp, respectively.

One would think that people with such firsthand experience of the life of a refugee would naturally feel powerful empathy for the plight of a slave torn from his or her homeland; but alas, in upstate New York, that was often not the case.

Like their fellow outcasts, the French Huguenots who settled New Paltz, the “Poor Palatines” went on to perpetuate the practice of human trafficking as they settled in other parts of New York State, until slavery was outlawed here more than a century later.

As part of the ongoing (and longoverdue) lifting of the veil from the subject of slavery in the North, the Clermont State Historic Site will host a lecture this Sunday afternoon, March 11, by Travis Bowman, senior curator with the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites, on the topic of “Slavery & the Palatines.”

Bowman will examine how slavery evolved in New York under the Dutch, British and American systems of government and how the institution was utilized at a local and personal level among the Palatine immigrants and their descendants in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys.

The talk begins at 1 p.m., and admission costs $5. Advance tickets are required and may be purchased at www. friendsofclermont.org. The Clermont State Historic Site is located at 1 Clermont Avenue in Germantown. For more information, call (518) 537-4240 or visit www.parks.ny.gov.com.

Daniel Barden was among those killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on December 14, 2012 in Newtown. The photo is shown in the documentary Newtown.

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ith student survivors in Parkland, Florida agitating to put the “well-regulated” back into the Second Amendment, it seems an appropriate time to offer audiences another opportunity to catch Kim Snyder’s 2016 documentary Newtown, if they missed it the first time around.

Using intimate testimonials from bereaved families of Sandy Hook Elementary School students and other affected residents, the film focuses on the community of Newtown, Connecticut in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. Next Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m., Stockade Works in association with the Bardavon will present a free showing of Newtown at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC). Director Snyder will be on hand for a question-and-answer session and a panel discussion about gun safety reform following the screening.

The names of the panelists were not yet available at presstime. To find out more about the presentation and to reserve tickets, visit www.stockadeworks.org/events/newtownscreening. To learn more about the film, read our piece by Jeremiah Horrigan at http://bit.ly/2oOqLea. UPAC is located at 601 Broadway in Kingston.

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Kane (Oscar Isaac) reappears suddenly, in a state of total amnesia, a year after having entered the Shimmer as part of a secret mission. Kane quickly goes into massive organ collapse, but is stabilized and unconscious when Lena awakes from a tazing to find herself abducted to the headquarters of the Southern Reach operation, just outside the Shimmer’s perimeter. Hoping to discover information that might save his life, she volunteers for the next party to penetrate the anomaly – this one all-female, which seems apropos considering that their mission is to get “to the lighthouse” where the alien object first struck ground.

Kane having been (in the movie version, not the books) the only investigator to emerge alive from the Shimmer, this is regarded from the get-go as a suicide mission. But the five women – paramedic Anya (Gina Rodriguez), physicist Josie (Tessa Thompson), geologist Cass (Tuva Novotny) and psychologist/Southern Reach commander Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) – are all running from their pasts, people with nothing much left to lose. We get just enough backstory on each to make some rudimentary sense of the profound effects that the Shimmer’s DNA-warping powers have on their psychological states once inside. Those effects, and the shifting boundaries of perception and reality, are intrinsic to the story’s drama.

Lost in the sauce, because Garland wrote the screenplay before VanderMeer’s two sequels came out, are the significant facts that Ventress is skilled in hypnotic suggestion and working a multilayered agenda. Annihilation’s ending seems to beg for a sequel, and how that will happen in a way that incorporates Ventress’ complicated history with the Shimmer and the lighthouse is a question that should tie readers in fan-theory knots for a while to come.

So, in a way, it’s a purer experience to come to this film without having read the books first. While I wouldn’t put it on the same level of excellence as Arrival or class it as Best Picture material, Annihilation is a solid piece of sci-fi filmcraft, teasing the brain with tough questions as it regales the eye with knockout imagery. May we soon see many more such, so that within our lifetimes, “genre film” will no longer be the kiss of death at awards time.

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Slavery & the Palatines lecture this Sunday at Clermont

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March 8-15 “YOU WILL NEVER FIND anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe Daylight Savings Time.”

– Dave Barry SATURDAY, MARCH 10

Beacon’s Howland Cultural Center presents The Mitten “Put on your mittens, you silly kittens, and you shall have some pie…” chants the nursery rhyme. Your children of all ages, especially 3 to 7 years, will be enthralled by this weekend’s performances of The Mitten: a family musical experience taking place on Saturday, March 10 at 10 a.m. and again at 3 p.m. at the Howland Cultural Center. Each show lasts 45 minutes. Children are admitted for free; adult tickets cost $10.

The Howland Cultural Center is located at 477 Main Street in Beacon. For tickets or more information, call (845) 831-4988 or visit themitten@brownpapertickets. com or www.howlandculturalcenter.org.

Easter/Passover/ Nowruz program at Millbrook Library Poet Amy Gerstler writes of spring spirit, “Suddenly the archetypal human desire for peace with every other species wells up in you!” Do you relate? Gather up your family of all ages and be a part of the Arts Mid-Hudson Folk Arts program and the Millbrook Library’s event about Easter, Passover and Nowruz taking place this Saturday, March 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the library. Family-friendly, free and open to the public of all ages, you and

sion takes place this Saturday, March 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Poughkeepsie Galleria’s center court. And you can even join in the dance flashmob at 1:30 p.m. by learning the moves here: www.youtube. c o m /w a t c h ? v = c 3 3OudXXq0! Go early for the sensory-sensitive environment and the sensory-friendly matinée at Regal Cinemas, and stay for the demos, performances, costumed characters and more. The event is free and open to all.

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Miss seeing ice skaters Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou and Soohorang, the white tiger Olympic mascot, on your Maskmaking/ screens or in the headlines? Well, perhaps they can serve as your Muses at hatmaking workshop this weekend’s event in Saugerties: at Maritime Museum On Saturday, March 10 from 4:30 to 8 Sea creature masks? Riding on a p.m. at the Kiwanis Ice Arena, join the St. Patrick’s Day parade float? Crack Skating Club of Saugerties for skating on! This weekend, families can get and painting! All ages are invited to two days of fun with the Hudson Rivpaint your own piece of art and skate er Maritime Museum (HRMM). On (not at the same time). Skate rentals, Saturday, March 10 from 1 to 3 p.m., art supplies and light refreshments children ages 5 to 14 years are invited are provided. The cost is $30 for Skate to craft a sea mask or a sailor’s hat. and Paint, or $25 for painting only.

Then, come back on Sunday, March 11 The Kiwanis Ice Arena is located at at 11:30 a.m. and wear your creation 6 Small World Drive in Saugerties. on the HRMM St. Patrick’s Day parade For more information or to register, float! The cost is $10 per child for just e-mail Lynda at aknelw@gmail.com Saturday crafting, or $15 per child for or visit www.skatingclubofsaugerties. both crafting and parade participation com/skate-and-paint. (less for HRMM members). Don’t be a SUNDAY, MARCH 11 chancer; space is limited, so register now!

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This event is free and open to the public, and begins with registration and social time until 2 p.m. Fishkill Recreation is located at 793 Route 52 in Fishkill. To RSVP, contact Seema Rizvi, MD at seema. rizvi1682@gmail.com.

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If your family includes a child with special needs, this workshop is for you. On Tuesday, March 13 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the Center for Spectrum Services presents “Making the Future More Secure with Caregivers of Dependents.” In addition to reviewing laws pertaining to minors as they age, such as required legal guardians at age 18 (surprisingly, not you!), the session includes “10 Basic Financial Steps for Special Needs Caregivers.”

This event is free and open to the public.

The Center for Spectrum Services is located at 70 Kukuk Lane in Kingston. For more information or to make a reservation to attend, call (845) 336-2616 or e-mail lsiuta@centerforspectrumservices.org.

Trauma training for adoptive/foster parents “I am Frustration. I am MemoryLost. Sometimes I read a line a dozen times before it sticks. My creative force has slipped. I type slower, speak slower, think at a snail’s pace. I’m Life shapeshifted by Post-Traumatic Stress bastardized by Fate,” expresses writer Chila Woychik. Adoptive, kinship and foster parents are invited to “C ircle of Trauma,” a free training about raising children with adverse childhood experiences and difficult past histories.

This free workshop takes place on Tuesday, March 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Old Dutch Church. Light refreshments and childcare are provided.

The Old Dutch Church is located at 272 Wall Street in Kingston. For more information or to reserve your spot, call (845) 679-9900 or visit http://affcny.org/adoptionfoster-events-ny/circle-of-trauma-ulster.

Sugaring roundup What’s fat-free, comes from a tree and tastes like Sunday morning?

Maple syrup! Here are some familyfriendly sugaring events happening this weekend. Follow the links for a full description of each event: • Saturday, March 10, 9-11 a.m.: Maple Sugaring Tour with Columbia Land Conservancy at Farm at Miller’s Crossing, 81 Roxbury Road, Claverack. Free. RSVP

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March 8, 2018 at (518) 851-2331, https://clctrust.org/ event/maple-sugaring-tour.

• Sunday, March 11, 1-3 p.m.: Kids’ Day in the Sugarbush with Mohonk Preserve at Spring Farm Trailhead, Upper 27 Knolls Road, High Falls. $5 per person. RSVP at (845) 255-0919, http://mohonkpreserve. org /events/kids%e2%80%99-daysugarbush.

• Sunday, March 11, 1-4 p.m.: Mystical Magical Musical Maple Sugaring at Seed Song Farm, 160 Esopus Avenue, Kingston. $10-$25 family; $5-$15 adults. (845) 9028155, www.seedsongfarm.org/events.html.

• Thursday, March 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m.:

Super Special Storytime: Making Maple Syrup at the Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers’ Turnpike, Gardiner. Free. (845) 255-1255, https://parks.ny.gov/events/ event.aspx?e=127-21197.0.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno’s crew’s Pi Day 3.14.18 features chocolate cream pie, broccoli/cheddar pot pie, shepherds’ pie, sweet potato pie and a pizza pie. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

In Her Words brings women’s history to life on Saturday

In honor of Women’s History Month, and updating historical material used in its successful 2017 run of monthly “In Her Words” women’s history tours, Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) in New Paltz will host a lecture and performance this Saturday, March 10 at 4 p.m., focusing on the lives of several women who helped shape local history. This presentation will feature actors portraying a number of remarkable women, performing creative monologues at Deyo Hall, located at 6 Broadhead Avenue.

Visitors will hear stories and watch performances of Manveht, an Esopus Munsee woman who signed the 1677 land deed; Catherine Blanchan (1629-1713),

one of the original New Paltz Huguenot settlers; Rachel, an enslaved African woman; Wyntje Hasbrouck (1708-1787), a Colonial woman who managed her own estate; Julia “Aunt Judy” Jackson (ca. 1800-1898), a freed slave and choir singer; Eliza Ackert (1830-1916), the first female editor of the original New Paltz Times; Progressive-era artist Julia McEntee Dillon (1834-1919); and Mary Jane Snyder Freer (1862-1931), the first New Paltz woman to vote in 1918.

Light refreshments will be served.

Tickets cost $20 general admission and $18 for seniors, HHS members and members of the armed services. To register, visit www.huguenotstreet.org/ calendar-of-events.

CALENDAR Thursday

3/8

Register Now: Hudson Valley Long Term Care Ombudsman Program Training. The Hudson Valley Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is looking for new volunteers to assist residents living in nursing homes, assisted living, adult homes, and family type homes in Dutchess, Ulster, Orange, Sullivan, Greene, and Columbia Counties, so that residents’ rights are understood and assured. Free training for the ombudsman program is taking place in Kingston at a five-day session on March 14-16 and 20-21. Attendance at all five sessions is mandatory. Info: gloria@hudsonvalleyltcop. org; 845-229-4680. Ulster County Office for the Aging, 5 Development Court, Kingston. hudsonvalleyltcop.org.

8am-5pm Old Dutch Village Garden Club Regular Meeting. Held the second Thursday of each month. All meetings are free and open to the public, visitors welcome. Info: 845-7581184 or olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com. St. John’s Reformed Church, 126 Old Post Rd N, Red Hook.

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

9am-10am T’ai Chi class. With Celeste Graves.

Unify the mind, body, spirit. Meets every Thursday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

Main Building at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, info.vassar.edu.

10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice. This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only.

No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@taraspayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10:30am-11:30am Beginners T’ai Chi Class.

With Celeste Graves! Learn with other new students. Meets every Thursday, $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

10:30am-3:30pm SUNY New Paltz Thursday Farmers Market. Sponsored by: Campus Auxiliary Services. Featuring pastries and baked goods, local and organic vegetables, ciders, coffee, homemade kombucha and hot cocoa, soup and artisanal honey. Plus, student clubs will be on hand providing knowledge and inspiration, like the Students for Sustainable Agriculture, Amnesty International and New Paltz Recycles. The SUNY New Paltz Farmers

Market occurs every Thursday outside the Lecture Center (or inside, if weather does not cooperate). Info: obachb@newpaltz.edu; 845-257-3447. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz.

12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Intuitive Guidance and Expert Tarot Readings with esoteric scholar Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins warmly welcome.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/half hour.

1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and cards are available, or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments. Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Healthy Ulster Council Meeting.

Held bi-monthly on the 2nd Thursday. Info: mmh62@cornell.edu. UCDOH , Kingston. healthyulstercounty.net.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm-7pm Free Holistic Healthcare Clinic.

Many holistic Practitioners will be volunteering their time monthly to provide services, including: massage, chiropractic, reiki, other energy and body work, acupuncture, craniosacral massage, deep tissue body work and hypnosis.

There’s also a prenatal and lactation specialist offering a breastfeeding cafe. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. healthcareisahumanright. com.

4pm-5:30pm Wassaic Project’s Art and Children’s Books. Guardians and their children will team up to work together on art projects inspired by children’s books. The Wassaic Project, 37 Furnace Bank Rdd, Wassaic. Info: 646-780-9352, paloma@wassaicproject.org, wassaicproject.org/. Free.

6pm-7:30pm Book Club: My Beloved World.

Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench.

All welcome to join, especially new comers!

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation.

Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-5895000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village

submission policy contact

e-mail calendar@ulsterpublishing.com. postal mail: Almanac Calendar Manager Donna Keefe c/o Ulster Publishing, PO Box 3329, Kingston, NY 12402 phone: (845) 334-8200 ext. 104, fax at (845) 334-8809. when to send

Almanac’s Calendar is printed on Tuesdays. We must receive all entries no later than the previous Friday at noon. what to send

The name of the event, time, date, location of event, a telephone number (for publication) and admission charge (specify if free). A brief description is helpful, too. how it works

Instructional and workshop listings appear in the calendar when accompanied by a paid display ad or by a paid individual calendar listing. Community events are published in the newspaper as a community service and on a spaceavailable basis.

Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

7pm Bingo! Meet the 2nd & 4th Thursdays,7pm.

Doors open at 6pm. Prizes & food. Sponsored by the Beekman Fire Company Auxiliarly Inc. Beekman Fire House, 316 Beekman- Poughquag Rd, Poughquag.

7pm Film, Fill the Void, Thursday Night Live.

The older sister of an Hasidic young woman dies in childbirth. Should the younger sister marry the windowed husband and raise the baby?

Admission is free. Everyone welcome. RSVP. Info: 845-255-9817; npshul@hvc.rr.com;jswartzb@ gmail.com. Jewish Congregation of New Paltz Community Center, 30 N. Chestnut St, New Paltz.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Lorkin O’Reilly.

Openers: Greg Farley of The Felice Brothers + Patrick Collins. Indie Folk Scottish style. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

7pm Tax Pollution: A forum on the carbon tax with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill. New York State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill and Economics Professor Sara Hsu discuss how a tax on carbon can reduce pollution while improving the economy. Info: 845-257-3447. SUNY New Paltz/College Terrace, New Paltz.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm Beacon Sloop Club’s 2018 Winter Lecture Series: The Art of Barrel Making.

Local cooper John Cox. will cover a brief history of barrel making, the entomology of the terms, the cultural heritage of coopering in the Hudson valley and a primer on barrel construction and mathematics. He will also display and discuss his 18thcentury hand tools and their use in traditional barrel crafting. Info: 845-463-4660.

Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. beaconsloopclub.org.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock, Inc, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions.

Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

8pm Water by the Spoonful. Mainstage Productions. Play by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed

by Jerry Ruiz. Info: 845-257-3880; boxoffice@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/Parker Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu. $18, $16/senior, $10/ SUNY New Paltz student.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Comics at The Underground. Stand Up Comedy. Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

3/9

9am Shamatha Meditation with Angelina Birney. Through shamatha meditation (calm abiding), we develop concentration, inner strength, stability and confidence, in addition to fostering numerous health benefits. Lama Angelina Birney completed a 3-year meditation retreat in the Karma Kaygu Tradition and has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 30 years. Free and open to all. Info: info@ tibetancenter.org; 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston. tibetancenter.org.

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun, lightly paced class. Meets every Monday and Friday. $3/class. Pine Hill Commu-

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9:45am-10:45am Woodstock Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Join us for homemade soups, salad and desserts. Take home soup. All are welcome. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail. com, newpaltzumc.org/.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Tarot Readings and Guidance from the Crystals with Mary. Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm-6:30pm Dungeons & Dragons. Join your Dungeon Master Patrick to create and play characters for a Storm King’s Thunder campaign.

Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org.

5pm-8pm Italian Dinner Fundraiser - Troop 8 Boy Scouts. Supporting Troop 8 - PHILMONT and a Trek of a lifetime. Sawkill Fire House, 896 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

5pm-7pm Kerhonkson Fashions. Presenting the clothing collection of local luminary Verna Gillis. Exhibit will display thru 6/01. Info: 845-687-5261; kaufmand@sunyulster.edu; arts. sunyulster.edu/art/muroff_kotler. SUNY Ulster/ Muroff Kotler Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge.

5:30pm Lecture: Krista Gulbransen of Whitman College: Prayer, Performance & Politics: Portraits of the Mughal Emperor Akbar Worshipping the Sun. Held in Taylor Hall, Room 203. Free and open to the public.

Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, info.vassar.edu.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. Long-held poses use props (blankets, blocks and bolsters) to support proper bone alignment while releasing muscular tension. Personalized adjustments will enable you to take get the maximum benefit of these powerfully therapeutic poses. Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

7pm-10pm Stissing Theatre Guild presents Will Rogers Follies, A Life in Review. By Peter Stone. Stissing Theatre Guild & Stissing Mtn High School annual production. $13/adults, $11/Seniors & Children. Info: 518-398-1272; stgboxoffice@gmail.com; tralynsta@yahoo. com. Purchase tickets on line at seatyourself.biz/ stgboxoffice --. Stissing Mountain High School, 2829 Church St, Pine Plains.

7:30pm Bard Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program: An Opera Triple Bill.

A luminous triple bill of operatic rarities, exploring the rites and rituals of marriage. Celebrate modernism and romance, imagined through the lens of impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his revolutionary company the Ballet Russes. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra. James Bagwell, conductor. Alison Moritz, director. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $25-$35, free for Bard students.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Cuboricua Salsa Band. Salsa! Latin Dance. Info: 845-236-7970.

The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Water by the Spoonful. Mainstage Productions. Play by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed

by Jerry Ruiz. Info: 845-257-3880; boxoffice@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/Parker Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu. $18, $16/senior, $10/ SUNY New Paltz student.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Johnny Nicholas &

ALMANAC WEEKLY Cindy Cashdollar. Finest Texas Blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Saturday

3/10

7am-12pm 65th Annual Charity Pancake Day Fundraiser. Hosted by Kiwanis Club of Middletown! Bake sale and raffle items too. Proceeds benefit charitable projects. Middletown High School, Gardner Ave. Extension, Middletown. kiwanis-middletown.org. $7/tickets at door.

8am-5pm Air & Après Ski and Snowboard Event. This one-of-a-kind show features some of the best skiers and riders in the country performing bold stunts and showcasing their technical skills. WThroughout the day athletes will be available to watch practice and meet at the Sam Adams Festival Village before hosting a noon demo session at the event site. The show will kick off at sunset around 6:30 PM and is appropriate for all ages. This event is free to attend so don’t miss out on an amazing day at Hunter Mountain and an unforgettable night sponsored by Sam Adams. Hunter Mountain, 84 Klein Ave, Hunter. huntermtn.com.

8:30am-5pm Meditation: Day of Stillness & Peace. A day of peaceful stillness at Dharma Drum Retreat Center, located in Pine Bush, NY! Learn how to meditate with a zen monk.

Dharma Drum Retreat Center, 184 Quannacut Rd, Pine Bush. dharmadrumretreat.org/. Scholarships available.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

9am-3pm Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Renewal Course. This is a recertification of the ACLS course. You must have an ACLS certification to take this course.

Completion results in a two-year ACLS certification from the American Heart Association.

A textbook (March 2016 edition of AHA ACLS) is required and AHA allows students to use the textbook when taking the written exam. You will be required to do a pre-course assessment in the text as well. For ages 18 and up. Preregistration and payment are required. Call 845-475-9742 to register. Sharon Hospital, Sharon. $125, $165 with text.

9am-1pm American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certification.

This class is appropriate for new or recertifying students. The textbook is required (February 2016 AHA BLS) and AHA allows students to use the textbook when taking the written exam.

This course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an automated external defibrillator and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner. Course completion results in a certification card from the AHA valid for two years. For students ages 16 to adult. Preregistration and payment are required. Call: 845-4759742 to register. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. $50, $65 with text.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation.

Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge.

845-246-3285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:3011am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

10am-2pm Rosendale Repair Cafe. Repair Cafe is a free community meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired. The guys and gals who do the repairs have skills in many categories: from electrical, mechanical & electronic to seamstressing and “nursing” dolls and stuffed animals, to woodworking and digital.

Whatever your area of interest and skill, join in as a “repair coach.” You don’t need to be a super expert and you’ll find lots of support from the other coaches. Or help out at the welcome table or in the “cafe”-very sociable! Info: 646-3025835. St. Peters-Rosendale, 1021 Keator Ave Rte 213, Rosendale.

ber-April - Live music - Community. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. Info: info@ kingstonfarmersmarket.org, bit.ly/2i8D44M. 10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-12pm New Baby New Paltz’s Saturday Social Circle. Meets every Saturday, 10am12pm. Info: 845-255-0624. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

10am-3pm Too Broke For Daytona Party @ Woodstock Harley-Davidson. Too Broke for Daytona? Broke Ass Daytona Party. Cocktails + Mocktails! Frozen T-shirt race for prizes! Free admission. Woodstock Harley Davidson, 949 State Route 28, Kingston. Info: 845-338-2800, julee@woodstockharley.com, bit.ly/2CrKlVK. 10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

11am-3pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Maple Sugar Tours. Pre-paid registration required. Walk-ins welcome if space allows.

Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, see an evaporator in action, and finish by participating in our taste test challenge to see if you can tell the difference between mapleflavored syrup and the real thing. Sugar Bush Tours: 11am, 1pm & 2pm; a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the Sugar Shack (terrain and weather conditions dependent) Maple Lane Tours: 12pm & 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the farmhouse to our new Sugar Shack after a tour of the sugar maple stand. Please wear boots and dress warmly! Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $8/3-17.

11am-4pm Adam’s Food Show. Within the Garden Show! Featuring dozens of local food vendors, sample their products, and gourmet food. Info: 845-336-6300. Free admission.

Kingston: Adam’s Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

11am Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. This opportunity is being offered at every Saturday in January, February, and March, weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity. Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee who will provide instruction on how to properly wear and adjust the snowshoes, and work with you until you are ready to confidently head out on your favorite trail. The lesson may last up to one hour. Snowshoes are available to rent for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.

Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. Three computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11:30am-12:30pm Life in Antarctica. Melissa Coggeshall talks about being to Antarctica and how to survive there. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

12pm-1:30pm Breast Cancer Options Metastatic Peer-Led Support Group. Features speakers & topics. For information or to register: 845-339-HOPE or email hope@breastcanceroptions.org. Christ the King Church, 2 Eugene L Brown Drive, New Paltz. Info: 845-339-4673, hopenemiroff@yahoo.com, bit.ly/1USVReh.

March 8, 2018 Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice.

1pm-2pm Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a citizen scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds who visit the feeders at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.

At the end of winter, we will send our data to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help other scientists learn about these birds as well. During the program we will use binoculars to observe birds and learn how to identify them as they visit our feeders. Then, we will make pinecone starter feeders for you to take home so you can continue your observations in your own yard.

This program is recommended for beginner and experienced bird watchers of all ages. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

1pm-3pm Museum Mates at the Hudson River Maritime Museum: St. Patrick’s Day Workshop. Create sea monster masks, tricorn hats and a water banner for the Kingston St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Families who participate in this Museum Mates can ride on the float (limited seating) and march in the parade - Sunday, March 11 at 11:30am. Registration required.

Info: 845-338-0071. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. hrmm.org.

1pm-3pm Opportunities for Outdoor Volunteering. The volunteering options are numerous. Help maintain parks and trails. Join creekside cleanups. Build a community garden.

Preserve and improve wildlife habitats. Be part of a citizen science program that captures important information on the health of the Hudson River. Investigate how Scenic Hudson parks can be excellent “outdoor classrooms” for students and other groups. Questions or RSVPs—contact aconeski@scenichudson.org; 845-473-4440, ext. 273. Newburgh Armory, 321 S. William St, Newburgh. newburgharmory.org.

1pm-2:30pm Free Creative Movement Dance Class and Dragon Dance. For boys and girls, ages 4 to ll. Taught by choreographer Linda Diamond. 4 Saturdays: March 3-24 Call to register. 845-679-2213 (ask for Dawn.). Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

2pm-4pm The Four Agreements: A Practical Workshop for Personal Freedom with energy healer and chiropractor Bruce Schneider.

In his bestselling book, Don Miguel Ruiz gives us four principles to practice in order to create balance and happiness every step of your life.

In this workshop, you will discover the specific beliefs and agreements that limit each of us and create needless suffering. The transformation occurs when we replace old agreements with new ones using the four principles when we choose to switch from pain and suffering to emotional clarity and happiness. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

2pm Matinees at Shadowland: Steamboat Bill Jr. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence & Marion Byron. This classic silent comedy is an infectious combination of satire and sight gags that climaxes with one of the most hilarious typhoons to hit the screen. BEWARE OF BARNACLE BILL Popeye. THE WIZARD’S APPRENTICE Fritz Feld. DOOM SHIP Chapter Ten of Adventures of Captain Marvel. Info: 845-647-5511. Shadowland Stage, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. shadowlandstages.org. $10, $7/child.

2pm Red Vs. The Wolf. A Comedy for Young Children ages 4 thru 10 by Judy Wolfman Tickets $8 for Children & Senior Citizens; $10 for Adults Approximately 40 Minutes in Length, followed by a Photo Op Meet & Greet with Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and Cast Presented by the Pan American Dance Foundation/New York Conservatory for the Arts, a non-profit organization. Info: 845-679-6900; WoodstockPlayhouse. org. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

2pm Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival.

A Woodstock Second Saturday event featuring guest poets. For info contact Phillip Levine at 845-246-8565 or pprod@mindspring.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. woodstockpoetry.com.

4pm Early Music at the Elmendorph. The Hudson Valley Consort performs music of the 17th and 18th centuries by Handel, Telemann, Corelli and Couperin. Dongmyung Ahn & Scot Moore, violins; Christine Gummere, cello; Dylan Sauerwald, harpsichord. Info: 845-758 1920, oumkhatoum@earthlink.net. Elmendorph Inn, 7562 U.S. 9, Red Hook. historicredhook.org. $15.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies. 845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

12:30pm-6pm Tarot Readings with Intuitive Guidance with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call ahead for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

4:30pm-6pm Nerf Wars - Grades 2-5. A Nerf battle in the library after hours and pizza! Preregister for this event 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@olivefreelibrary.org, bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. Free.

10am-2pm Winter Farmers Market. Winter Farmers Market - 18 vendors - Vegetables, Meat, Dairy, Bread - Every other Saturday . Decem-

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

5pm-8pm Laszlo Andacs Photography Exhibition, Opening Reception. Possibilities is a

4pm Gallery@TheFalcon Reception - Susan Lisbin. The Falcon Main Stage Gallery. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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March 8, 2018 unique photo exhibit. This skydiver/ artist prints on glass, metal, fabric, sand, wood, to create images. Roost Studios and Art Gallery, 69 Main St, 2nd Fl, New Paltz. Info: 845-5687540, Chirp@roostcoop.org, laszloimage.com.

Said. Exhibition of ink, gouache, and graphite on mylar drawings from several bodies of work created over the past decade. Matteawan Gallery, 436 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845 440 7901, info@ matteawan.com, matteawan.com.

5pm-9pm Beacon Second Saturday. A citywide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. In addition to displaying art from around the globe, the event often includes free gallery talks, live music, and wine tasting. Beaconarts.org. Downtown Beacon, Main Street, Beacon.

6pm-9pm Catskill Cabaradio. Pot luck Supper: 6 PM - 7 PM. Live Show: 7 PM - 8:30 PM. Info: 845-254-5469; info@pinehillcommunitycenter. org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $5/ suggested donation.

5pm-8pm Artist Reception: Inner Sense.

Paintings by Virginia Donovan. Exhibits through 4/8. Info: 845-838-2880. RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main St, Beacon. riverwindsgallery.com.

5pm-6pm Come Back Strong, Balanced Wellness after Surgical Menopause – A Discussion with local author Lori Ann King. Lori Ann King shares her story and wellness tips for menopause. A conversation for women and the men who love them. Info: 845-679-2213; Lori@ LoriAnnKing.com. Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

6pm-9pm Paola Ochoa: What the Thunder

7pm-10pm Jazz with Chris Pasin & Friends.

Trumpet player Chris Pasin will be joined by pianist Peter Tomlinson, drummer Chris Bowman and bassist Mark Usvolk. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe.com. No cover charge but donations are welcome.

7:30pm-9:30pm Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? Q&A w/ Travis Wilkerson.

Q&A with director and Vassar film professor Travis Wilkerson after 7:30pm screening of his documentary Did You Wonder who Fired the Gun? Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: (518) 822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, bit.ly/2o4S0R2. $9 general / $7 member + student.

7:30pm-10:30pm Hurley: Swing Dance with Live Band & Lindy Hop Performance. $15 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30-8pm with instructor Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. All are welcome. Held in the Schadewald Hall. Info: got2lindy.com; 845-2363939. Hurley Reformed Church - Schadewald Hall, 11 Main St, Hurley.

7:45pm-10pm Community Dance. Dance with renowned caller Eric Hollman and the “ContraKleznik” fiddle band! Contra and square dances, swing & klezmer. Refreshments. Temple BethEl, 118 Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-

0570, info@tbeny.org. $15/$12 TBE Members.

8pm Water by the Spoonful. Mainstage Productions. Play by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed

by Jerry Ruiz. Info: 845-257-3880; boxoffice@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/Parker Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu. $18, $16/senior, $10/ SUNY New Paltz student.

8pm PechaKucha #5. Fifth evening of storytelling in this simple format. 20 images are shown for 20 seconds each presenter talks along with them. Info: 845-258-6030, amitygallery110@ gmail.com. Donation.

8pm Kenneth Davenport Series for New

Great News From Gadaleto’s!

INTRODUCING TWO NEW MENUS! Our all day menu has all your old favorites and a few new surprises.

Our “classics” menu, available from 3pm to 5pm Wednesday through Monday,

is a three course prix fixe meal for $20 per person. all the old favorites...

and some new classics

246 Main Street New Paltz, NY 12561 www.gadaletos.com | 845.255.1717

bard college conservatory of music graduate vocal arts program presents

An Opera Triple Bill

Pulcinella Igor Stravinsky

Full Moon in March John Harbison

Svadba

March 22-25, 2018 Read to Resist!

Ana Sokolovi´c

A luminous triple bill of operatic rarities explores the rites and rituals of marriage. Celebrate modernism and romance, imagined through the lens of impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his revolutionary company, the Ballets Russes.

Bard College Conservatory Orchestra James Bagwell, conductor Jackson McKinnon, ’16, conductor Alison Moritz, director

March 9 at 7:30 pm March 11 at 3 pm sosnoff theater | Tickets $15–40 All proceeds benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program

Friday March 23

Saturday March 24

The Donahue Interview!

An Evening w/Colm Toibin

Hudson Valley Secrets

including the world premier of a story

by John Hersey!

Alana Massey Christopher Yates Larry Ruhl

Kleinert/James 8PM

Panels!

Spirituality Poetry It Occurs To Me That I Am America Differently Abled Breakfast at Joshua’s

My Body, My Words Memoir A Go-Go!

Bearsville Theater 8PM

Parties, Raffles, Goody Bags + Fun!

845-758-7900 fishercenter.bard.edu Michel Fokine and Vera Fokina in Ballet Russes Carnaval, 1914. Photographer: Atelier Jaeger. Bibliothèque musée de l’Opéra, Paris, France.

get your tickets: woodstockbookfest.com

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American Music: World Premiere of Susie Ibarra’s Talking Gong. Composer and Percussionist Susie Ibarra premieres newest work “Talking Gong” for piano, flute and Kulintang Filipino gongs. Info: peha@newpaltz.edu.

SUNY New Paltz/ Studley Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu. $8, $6/senior/faculty/staff, $3/ student.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. Jerry Garcia + more! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Bobby Harden’s Soul Blues Revue. Soul, R&B + more! Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Hudson Valley Comedy Roast Battle.

Hudson Valley Comedy Roast Battle titled; Roast Madness II, hosted by More-Than-Jokes Productions, in the Great Room located upstairs.

Limited seating. Info: 845-338-0333. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. morethanjokes.com. $10.

9pm Dumpstaphunk. 6pm doors. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-828-4800, austin.helsinki@gmail.com, ticketf.ly/2Dq1sEd. 25/35.

Sunday

3/11

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry Fister. For those who want to get up and go on a Sunday morning. Combines traditional asanas with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

8:45am-11:30am Spring Breakfast Buffet.

MENU: Buckwheat pancakes, scrambled eggs, ham, sausage, bacon, herring, Yukon gold home fries, fresh fruit salad, rolls, bagels. cream cheese, jellies, coffee cakes, juice, coffee, tea. Reservations are appreciated by March 8.

Info: 845-339-5969. Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor Hall, 37 Greenkill Ave, Kingston.

KingstonMaennerchorandDamenchor.org. $10, $5/under 12.

9am-1pm American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certification.

This class is appropriate for new or recertifying

students. The textbook is required (February 2016 AHA BLS) and AHA allows students to use it when taking the written exam. This course is designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an automated external defibrillator and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner.

Course completion results in a certification card from the AHA valid for two years. For ages 16 to adult. Preregistration and payment are required.

Call 845-475-9742 to register. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. $50, $65 with text.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-2pm Rosendale’s Winter Market. Offering crafts and food vendors. Info: rosendalefarmersmarketny.com. Rosendale Recreation Center, 1055 Route 32 South, Rosendale. rosendalefarmersmarketny.com.

10am 20th Annual Shamrock Run. From Academy Green to the foot of Broadway.

Followed by St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Check in across from Academy Green at Gov. Clinton Apartments, 1 Albany Ave. Registration 10am-12:30pm; Run starts 12:50pm sharp.

Academy Green Park, Albany Ave, Kingston. shamrockrunners.org.

11am-3pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Maple Sugar Tours. Pre-paid registration required. Walk-ins welcome if space allows.

Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, see an evaporator in action, and finish by participating in our taste test challenge to see if you can tell the difference between mapleflavored syrup and the real thing. Sugar Bush Tours: 11am, 1pm & 2pm; a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the Sugar Shack (terrain and weather conditions dependent) Maple Lane Tours: 12pm & 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the farmhouse to our new Sugar Shack after a tour of the sugar maple stand. Please wear boots and dress warmly! Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $8/3-17.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Dave Keyes Solo. Gospel Blues. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

11am-12pm Conversations over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

11am-3pm Food Show. Within the Garden Show! Featuring dozens of local food vendors, sample their products, and gourmet food. Info: 845-632-9955. Free admission. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

11am-1pm St. Patrick’s Day Open-House Workshop. Family workshop with horseythemed games and crafts for children 3-12.

Everyone can take a ride on the 3-D simulator.

Refreshments. No reservations needed. Come before the parade. Info: 845-294-6330. Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, Goshen. harnessmuseum.com.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation!

Pool Table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

FREE. 11:30am Museum Mates at the Hudson River Maritime Museum: St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Registration required. Info: 845-338-0071.

Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. hrmm.org.

12pm-3:30pm Bridal Party & Bridal Expo. 3 Dream Week Vacations will be awarded. Free admission. Advanced Registration Requested.

Please visit hvbridal.com. Vendor space available. Info: vendor@hvbridal.com; 845-7749240. Le Chambord, Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction. hvbridal.com.

12pm-2pm Adult Tallit Making. Adult Tallit Making - 12 pm to 2 pm on Sunday, February 11th, March 4th & March 11th. Please RSVP to 845-562-5516 if you would like to participate.

Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

12:30pm-6pm Astro-Tarot Readings with astrologer and tarot reader Diane Bergmanson. A unique and powerfully effective combination of astrology and the tarot cards brings a clear map and a gold mine of practical guidance to address any aspect of your life both in the

Summer camps & kids activities

Summer Camp at Mountaintop W oodworking, gardening, sum m er crafts, water play, adventure.

July 2—July 26 Four weeks

Open to children 18 months through 8 years of age.

Monday thru Thursday, 10am-2pm Register for one or more weeks.

68 Bandcamp Road Saugerties, NY 12477 (845) 389-7322 mountaintopenrollment@gmail.com www.mountaintopschool.com

$260/week

March 8, 2018 present day and on-going endeavors. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads folktales from around the world in this special story hour. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org.

1pm Slavery & the Palatines: A Lecture by Travis Bowman. Usually considered a “Southern” issue, slavery played a surprisingly large role in Colonial and Revolutionary era New York. Mr. Bowman will examine how slavery evolved in New York under the Dutch, British, and American systems of government and how the institution was utilized at a local and personal level among the Palatine immigrants and their descendants in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historic Site, 87 Clermont Ave, Germantown. friendsofclermont.org. $5.

1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Woodstock.

1pm-3pm Great Spring Hikes off the Beaten Track. Author Don Weise shares his favorite “off-the-beaten-track” trails, viewpoints, and destinations. Weather and time permitting, group hike to Sterling Fire Tower after the program. Registration required. Info: 845-3515907. Sterling Forest State Park Visitor Center, Tuxedo. palisadesparksconservancy.org.

1pm 31st Annual St. Patrick’s Parade. Steps off at Kingston Plaza in the historic Stockade District of uptown Kingston and continues through the City of Kingston to the Rondout section. Kingston Plaza, Kingston. ulsteraoh. com.

1:30pm-3:30pm Library Scrabble Club. Meets every Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm. Play is free and open to all. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz.

2pm Water by the Spoonful. Mainstage Productions. Play by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed

by Jerry Ruiz. Info: 845-257-3880; boxoffice@ newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/Parker Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu. $18, $16/senior, $10/ SUNY New Paltz student.

2pm-5pm The Rainbow Body Wellness Collective Open House. Open house with free mini sessions and snacks, The collective is a supportive group of women wellness practitioners offering a wide variety of healing & beauty services. Some modalities offered are Massage, Facials, Quantum Healing, Soulscape Life Coaching, Akashic Record Readings, Feldenkrais®, Microblading, Reiki, Angel Card Readings, and more. Rainbow Body Wellness Collective’s goal is to assist each being in coming to a greater place of balance, health, and wholeness in the mind, body, and spirit. The Rainbow Body

THE ART EFFECT

Formerly Mill Street Loft + Spark Media Project

Register now for summer programs!

Dutchess Arts Camp (ages 4 - 12) Junior Art Institute (ages 11-14) Senior Art Institute (ages 14-19)

FeelTheArtEffect.org • 845.471.7477

KIWANIS ICE ARENA Open 7 days a week with various times for public skating

Public Open Skating Admissions $6 for Adults, $4 for Children 6-18, Children 5 & Under are Free.

Public Drop In Hockey/Sticks & Pucks $8 for Adults, $6 for Children

JUNE 25 - AUGUST 17 AGES 8 - 18, CO-ED STONE RIDGE CAMPUS -

Tennis • Soccer • Basketball Portfolio Development • Fashion Design Figure Drawing/Painting

Skate Rentals - $3 a pair. Hockey and Figure Skates available

KINGSTON CENTER OF SUNY ULSTER -

Skate Sharpening - $5 a pair

Game Design & Coding: Beginner & Intermediate Robotics Design & Programming

Visit our website for the skate times for every public session

BIRTHDAY PARTIES • PRO SHOP 845-247-2590 | kiwanisicearena.com | 6 Small World Ave, Saugerties

Register Online Today!

See website for more camps.

sunyulster.edu/campulster • 845-339-2025

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March 8, 2018 Wellness Collective, 35 W Market St, Red Hook. rainbowbodyyogastudio.com/wellnesscollective.

2pm Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Orange County Government Center, Goshen. mhspp.org.

2pm Stissing Theatre Guild presents Will Rogers Follies, A Life in Review. By Peter Stone. Stissing Theatre Guild & Stissing Mtn High School annual production. $13/adults,

$11/Seniors & Children. Info: 518-398-1272; stgboxoffice@gmail.com; tralynsta@yahoo. com. Purchase tickets on line at seatyourself.biz/ stgboxoffice --. Stissing Mountain High School, 2829 Church St, Pine Plains.

2pm-4:30pm Practices of the Jewish Mystical Life: Exploring the Inner Landscape.

Chazzan Micha’el Esformes leads participants in a “hands-on” exploration of the inner landscape.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco

Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org. WJC Members/ Public.

2pm Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Parade. Wear green and cheer for the marchers in the 42nd Annual Mid-Hudson St. Patrick’s Parade. Info: 917-453-3554. Orange County Government Center, Goshen. mhspp.org.

2pm Red Vs. The Wolf. A Comedy for Young

Children ages 4 thru 10 by Judy Wolfman Tickets $8 for Children & Senior Citizens; $10 for Adults Approximately 40 Minutes in Length, followed by a Photo Op Meet & Greet with Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and Cast Presented by the Pan American Dance Foundation/New York Conservatory for the Arts, a non-profit organization. Info: 845-679-6900; WoodstockPlayhouse. org. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock.

2pm-3pm Bernstein Bard Trio. Clinton

Summer camps & kids activities 22nd Annual YMCA Kid’s Classic

MOUNTAIN LAUREL WALDORF SCHOOL SESSION DATES:

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Mohonk Preserve

Monday - Thursday: June 18 - 21, June 25 - 28, July 9 - 12, July 16 - 19 Ages 3 - 9 Outdoor Fun • Water Play • Crafts Stories • Songs • Games Water Play • Organic Snacks

SUMMER CAMP 2018

FEES: $250 per session For info, email Ms. Fridlich at: cfridlich@mountainlaurel.org

16 S. Chestnut St., New Paltz, NY 12561 • 845.255.0033 • www.mountainlaurel.org

YOUTH NATURE AMBASSADORS For High School Students Ages 13 and Up Interested in the environment and gaining work skills and community service credit? Work with your friends! Join the Youth Nature Ambassadors volunteer program for high school students ages 13 and up. Ambassadors will train to interact with the public, sharing information about the Preserve, answering questions, and facilitating family interactions with hands-on activities. They will also have the option to assist with the Preserve’s summer camp for children ages 4-10. For more information visit mohonkpreserve.org/youth-nature-ambassadors.

3 Week Campss

2 Week Camps

mohonkpreserve.org 845-255-0919

FARM SUMMER DAY CAMP Hands-on gardening, farm animals, games, music, storytelling, arts & crafts, and so much more.

Five camp sessions each with its distinct theme.

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www.woodstockdayschool.org (845) 246-3744 ext.120

Summer Adventure Camp Summer Adventure Camp For 3-11 ForAges Ages 3-11 SIX ONE SESSION WEEK SESSIONS A: June 29-July 10 Beginning SESSIONJuly B: 2 Monday, July 13-July 24 EndingC: SESSION Friday, August7 10 July 27-Aug

SPECIALTY CAMPS SPECIALTY CAMPS • Wayfinder Experience • Summer Adventure Plus • Rock Jam • •Wayfinder Girl to theExperience Power of Math • •Wild Earth Fairy and Elf Camp • •Into The Camp Forest Media • •Musica Mania Art Adventures • •Capture PhotoinCamp Hiking That! & Painting • Rock AcademyValley Summer Jam the Hudson

Alfred University Summer Residential Programs Summer Residential for High School Students ACADEMIC INSTITUTES · Art - Portfolio Prep · Astronomy · Athletic Performance Enhancement · Ceramic & Glass Engineering · Computer · Creative Writing · Equine Business · Exploration of Expanded Media · Robotics · Theatre SPORTS CAMPS · Equestrian – English & Western · Swimming Alfred University Office of Summer Programs 607-871-2612 Email: summerpro@alfred.edu

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2018 is off and running...

MAPLE HILL

FARMS is a family-run 5 generation farm who takes pride in creating the best maple products around.

Stop in for a taste...

135 Route 2 Prattsville, NY 12468 518-299-3604

Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

2pm-3:30pm Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field. Learn how to drop down and tune in, helping you focus your unique frequencies and increasing your potential to create positive change. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

2pm-4pm Useful Fruiting Plants for the Home Garden. The Stone Ridge Library will host an illustrated lecture featuring Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano of Hortus Conclusus. The snow date for the event is Sunday, March 18, also from 2-4 pm. The program will provide an opportunity to learn about landscaping the home and garden with a rich diversity of edible fruiting plants from around the world, and the underappreciated wild fruit from our native forest.

The program is free and open to the public.

Info: 845-687-7023. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

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2pm-4pm Ilusha Tsinadze Concert. Refreshments to be served after the performance.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 2:30pm-3:15pm Class of 1936 Distinguished Organists Recital Series. Recital on the world’s largest church pipe organ features Craig Williams, USMA Organist/Choirmaster. Info: 845-938-2308. West Point Cadet Chapel, West Point. westpoint.edu.

3pm-5pm LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration and Institutional Racism.

A working group of individuals educating the LGBTQ and wider community about mass incarceration and the “New Jim Crow.” 845-7977691 for info. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

3pm Bard Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program: An Opera Triple Bill. A luminous triple bill of operatic rarities, exploring the rites and rituals of marriage. Celebrate modernism and romance, imagined through the lens of impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his revolutionary company the Ballet Russes. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra. James Bagwell, conductor. Alison Moritz, director. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter.bard.edu. $25-$35, free for Bard students.

3pm-6pm Swing Dance in the Afternoon.

Dance to Crazy Feet. No experience necessary.

Free lesson 3pm. Band starts 3:30pm. Great dancing Floor! Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4542571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail. com, hvcd.info. $15, or $10 for students.

3:30pm Tower Music Series presents Trio la Bella. An organ concert. Free-will offering. (suggested donation $15). Info: towerseries@ hvc.rr.com, 845-452-8110. Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie, 70 Hooker Ave, Poughkeepsie. churches.rca.org/poughkeepsierc/towerseries/ sched.html.

4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast - Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome.

Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm.

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4pm-5pm U-Act (Ulster Activists) Meeting.

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4pm Fireside Talk Lecture Series: Emerson and Thoreau: the Transcendentalists and India. The lecture will be presented by Richard Davis, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies Programs at Bard College. Attendees will also have the opportunity to join Professor Davis for dinner following the lecture at 5:30p.m. The conversation with Professor Davis will continue over an a la carte dinner menu at Woodnotes Grille, also located at the Emerson Resort & Spa. Availability is limited. Contact Posie Strenz, 845-688-2828, ext. 7602, for reservations. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

5pm Artist’s Reception: Art from the Heart & Kidney. Jodi Yeaple-King. Paintings, Flower Arrangements, Jewelry. The show runs till April 18. Info: 845-565-2076. Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment, 6 Albany Post Rd, Newburgh.

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind. A perfect way to wrap up the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

5:30pm Second Sunday Supper. Meet and greet other members of the community, dine together. Free and held on the second Sunday of every month. Info: 845-687-9090. Rondout Valley United Methodist Church, 25 Schoonmaker Ln, Stone Ridge.

6pm Rock For Our Lives. A benefit for national, regional and local gun safety laws for all. Presented by Mazel Co with musical performances from Rock Academy, Robert Burke Warren and other special friends. 100% of proceeds to Everytown for Gun Safety, March For Our Lives – DC Official and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. Allages event. Colony, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. colonywoodstock.com. $15.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Michael Feinberg Quartet “Whatever Possessed Me”. Giant in NYC Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

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tion & E-filing. Free, volunteer run, tax preparation service for low to moderate income taxpayers, with special attention to those ages 60 and older. You do not need to be a member of AARP or a retiree to use this service. There are 20 Tax-Aide sites around the county. All sites offer a free electronic filing service for both Federal and New York State returns. Appointments are available starting the first week of February and continue through April 15th. Dial 211 (or 1-800-899-1479) for site locations, hours or an appointment. Phone lines will be open seven days a week from 9am-7pm. aarp.org/taxaide.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

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Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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the Student Manual. Space is limited to the first 20 paid registrants, on a first paid, first served basis. The registration deadline is Friday, March 16. Info: 845-340-3990 ext. 340; mdh268@cornell.edu.

premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Butterfly Sips Golden Nectar. Tai Chi Chuan at Fighting Spirit Karate in Gardiner Yang Style (short form).

Tai Chi Chuan is strength through softness: building stronger bones, resilient muscles and a dynamic energy body. It fills your reservoirs of chi. Instructor: Roy Capellaro, PT. 40+ years of Tai Chi experience, synthesizing knowledge of anatomy, physiology and the physics of gravity on the body. This short form of Tai Chi takes just 10 minutes to do as part of a daily routine. Three introductory lessons begin 3/20, then instruction continues for 9 additional sessions to complete the first one-third of Yang form. Tuesdays 9:45-11:00 am. Fighting Spirit Karate is on 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner. Register: roycapellaro@ gmail.com or call 845- 518-1070; 12 sessions/$240.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed

by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-343- 1000, tara-spayneuter.org.

Stream Management Funding Available. Eligible applicants include local, county, state or federal government agencies; 501(c)3 organizations; and secondary school districts, colleges, or universities. For-profit firms may submit funding applications in the research, assessment and monitoring category only. Applications must be submitted to the program office by 4:30pm, 3/23. For application materials, visit the website ashokanstreams.org/projects-funding/.

Funding for the Stream Management Implementation Program is provided by the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and administered

by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County. For more information, contact Leslie Zucker at 845-6883047;z5@cornell.edu.

Our World Remade: World War I Humanities New York (Mondays, through 4/23, from 6:30-8pm).

Hosted by the Woodstock Library, and The Friends of the Woodstock Library. Free and open-to-the-public reading and discussion group, led

now be in Poughkeepsie (7am) and Fishkill (7:30am) on Mondays. Appointment required.

Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org/ shuttle.htm. Shuttle is free, price of surgery ranges base on weight.

8am-5pm YMCA Announces Midtown Mechanics Earn-A-Bike Program. Young people in Kingston can ride a new bike this spring - one that they built! The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County announces “Midtown Mechanics 2018,” a bike repair class offering youth from 14 to 24 the opportunity to learn bike mechanics and earn their own bicycle. The program will run from February 5th to April 2nd. There is no cost to this program, but a commitment to attend all 8 sessions is required.

There will be a maximum of 10 students. All students will receive pizza dinner each night and a bike helmet, lights and lock on completion of the program. Applications for Midtown Mechanics are available at the YMCA Membership Office, or register online at ops1.operations. daxko.com/Online/2186/ProgramsV2/Search. mvc?category_ids=TAG40203. YMCA of Kingston, 507 Broadway, Kingston.

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun class, lightly paced. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

9am-9:50am Woodstock Senior Fit Dance with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30am Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Info: 845-303-9689. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. ssipkingston. org.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am Muffin Mondays. Freshly baked muffins with your coffee. Info: 845-254-5469. $1 each.

Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-12pm Woodstock Senior Drama with Edith Lefever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues and scenes, and offers public performances. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

2pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Painting with Jennifer Schimmrich. In addition to instructions, art supplies and periodic group exhibi-

by author and Woodstock resident Sheila Isenberg, the group will meet Mondays, March 12 through April 23, from 6:30-8pm at Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane in Woodstock. There is no class Monday, March 19. Registration is required. Books for the course are free and may be picked up at the library. Register by contacting staff at the Woodstock Library. Info: info@woodstock.org; woodstock.org; 845-679-2213.

CCE Ulster County 4-H Announces

Tractor Safety Certification Course for Teens starting in March. The course meets March 20 and 22, and April 3, 5, and 10, from 7 – 9pm at the Stone Ridge Firehouse located at 525 Cottekill Road in Stone Ridge. In addition, there will be driving practice on April 26 and 27, time TBA, and the Driving Test on April 29 at 8am, both held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds (249 Libertyville Road in New Paltz).The National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program enables young workers (ages 14-19) to obtain a U.S. Department of Labor Certificate of Training which is required to operate farm tractors and equipment. The registration fee is $40 for enrolled 4-H members and $50 for non-4-H members, which includes

tions, the calss offers freindship adn camaraderie. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians.

Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs.

Class is on-going and meets on Mondays. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12.

4pm-5:30pm Girls Inc at Family of New Paltz.

For girls ages 13-15 learn how to make Zines.

Free. 845-255-7957. Family of New Paltz, 51 N Chestnut St, New Paltz. girlsinc.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. 845-246-4317.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

5:30pm-6:30pm Meditation Sitting. Alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation.

Ongoing instruction is available. First timers always welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

5:30pm-6:30pm Learn To Meditate. Join in an hour of mindfulness - awareness practice Alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation Ongoing instruction is available. First-timers are always welcome. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

5:30pm-6:30pm STEAM Series: Fun with Art and Science. Fun with art and science with The Bard Center for Civic Engagement. Open to children of all ages and free. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/.

Contact library to register!

6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meetings.

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

6:30pm-8:30pm Our World Remade: World War I - Humanities New York. Hosted by the Woodstock Library, and The Friends of the Woodstock Library. Free and open-to-the-public reading and discussion group, led by author and Woodstock resident Sheila Isenberg, the group will meet Mondays, through April 23, from 6:30-8pm. Registration is required. Books for the course are free and may be picked up at the library. Register by contacting staff at the Woodstock Library. Info: info@woodstock.org; woodstock.org; 845-679-2213. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock.

7pm Notice Of Hearing - Planning Board.

NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Town Law, the Planning Board of the Town of Rochester, will hold a public hearing at its meeting, on the following matter: 2018-01 SUP Renewal of Special [..] You may view the latest post at townofrochester. ny.gov/2018/02/22/notice-of-hearing-planningboard-march-12-2018-7pm/. Town of Rochester Community Center, 15 Tobacco Rd, Accord.

Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman (3/17, 12:30-3pm).

Pranayama, Pratyahara and Dharana: Preparing the ground for Dhyana Meditation. A restorative yoga class of breathing practices and gentle poses designed to turn the attention inward to quiet the nervous system and foster concentration. Followed by a guided meditation. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit woodstockyogacenter.com, or call 845-679-8700. $40 workshop price, and Woodstock Yoga Members receive 10% discount. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Philadelphia Flower Show Bus Trip (3/6). Wonders of Water will celebrate the beauty and lifesustaining interplay of horticulture and water. Buses leave at 6am from the MAC Fitness parking lot located in the Kingston Plaza, and will return at approximately 9:30pm. The New Paltz bus will load at 6:15am at the NYS Thruway Park and Ride located at Exit 18 in New Paltz. Registration is $80/pp, which includes transportation and show admission. Space is limited - register early to reserve your seat! Completed registration forms with payment must be postmarked

7pm Glasco Fire Commissioners Meeting.

Held 2nd Monday of every month at 7pm. Info: 845-750-5229. Glaso Firehouse, 139 Liberty St, Glasco.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency. Gospel Review & Special Guests. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required.

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

9am-10am Woodstock Senior Dance with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise and celebrating life. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9am Safe Harbors of the Hudson Informational Tour. The tours highlight how Safe Harbors’ transformative supportive housing, award-winning contemporary art gallery and performing arts theater is instrumental to the revitalization of downtown Newburgh. All attendees will be entered in a drawing to win tickets to an upcoming concert at the Lobby at the Ritz! For more information or to RSVP for a tour contact Jen D’Andrea at 845-784-1107, or jdandrea@safe-harbors.org. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, 111 Broadway, Newburgh. safeharbors.org.

9am-10am Free Weekly Community Meditation. On-going on Tuesdays 9-10am. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive 10 minutes early. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Check website for cancellations: wellnessembodiedcenter.com. Wellness Embodied: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

9:30am-11am Iyengar Yoga Level I-II with Barbara Boris. For all students new to Iyengar Yoga. The basis of the method is taught in standing poses, and other fundamental postures.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

9:30am Serving and Staying in Place – SSIP/ New Paltz. Regular Tuesday social breakfast meeting for seniors who want to remain in their own home and community. Info: 845-255-0609.

Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz.

9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting.

Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP) is a social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties.

10am-2pm St. Patrick’s Day Parties at Office for the Aging’s Senior Friendship Centers.

no later than 2/26 to 232 Plaza Road (Hannaford Plaza) in Kingston. To register, log onto tinyurl.com/2018Philly. Info: 845-340-3990; email dm282@cornell.edu.

Pure Yang Qi Gong (Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm). Ancient meditative movements that align breath, body and intention. Gentle practice for all to build strength, flexibility and coordination. The Hot Spot, Plaza Rd, Kingston. $20 (pay what you can).

Info: gibbonscharlotte@yahoo.com.

Upcoming Classes at the Mountain View Studio. Saturday Kids Karate Class! Taught by Geoff. 7-12 years: 9:15-10 am 4-6 years: 10-10:40am Info call 347-9619763 or geoff@ stazfit.com. Monday Joint Lubricating Qi Gong. Taught by Marilyn St John.

Meets from 5-6pm. A slow gentle class to encourage mobility of all the joints Qi Gong reduces stress , increases flexibility and promotes general well being. $10. Tuesday Classes: 4:155pm Boxing Conditioning w/ Tom for kids ages 7-12 On-going every week by donation. Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense 5-5:45pm Boxing Conditioning for teens $8 per class Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense 6-7pm Boxing Conditioning for adults $10 per class Jumping rope, jogging, rounds on the bags, mitt work, defense. For Info: 845-679-0901, mtviewstudio@gmail. com, mtnviewstudio.com. All classes held at Mountain View Studio.

The day will include plenty of celebration of the “Auld Sod” and its culture, so be ready to wear the green! There is a suggested donation of $3 for lunch for those 60 and over and a $4 charge for those under the age of 60. Reservations are required by February 28th by calling the Senior Friendship Center nearest you. You can find contact information for each Senior Friendship Center at dutchessny.gov/aging, or by calling the Office for the Aging.

10am-10:45am Community Play Space. Rugs, toys and books are spread out for kids to play with after laptime. Everyone welcome. Meet new friends, see old friends. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-2551255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

10am-3pm Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek- Jenny Lane Loop Hike. This five-milelong hike includes some hilly sections, two stream crossings and lots of walking on exposed bedrock. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

10am-12pm New Mother’s Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas and babies (ages 0-8 months) for friendship, answers about your new baby, and socialization. (Siblings are welcome.) A different weekly discussion topic with Q & A. Continues through May 31. Info: 845-255-0624. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz. newbabynewpaltz.com.

10:30am Children’s Story Hours. Toddler Time Tuesday (18 months to 3 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

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18 12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility.Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. $1 donation.

1pm-3:30pm Esopus Artist Group. Ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free.

2pm-3pm Building Your Family Tree. With Moe Lemire. Learn the tips and tools available to research and build your family tree. Bring a laptop computer if you own one. Free. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

3:30pm-6:30pm Free Math Tutoring. Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Trigonometry, and Calculus AB (or college level Calc 1). Call to sign up 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Free.

4pm-5:15pm Stress Reduction through Meditation. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a great way to find inner balance and deep relaxation. This program is free and all are welcome.The event is on-going,e very Tuesday, 4-5:15pm, Info: 845-339-8567. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

4pm Scrabble. Come test your vocabulary against your friends and family. Info: 845-2464317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4:30pm-5:30pm Tunezday. A youth musical jam session! Bring your own instrument and let’s start making some music! An informal, fun way to make music together. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/. Free.

4:30pm 2017 - 2018 Harrington STEM Lecture Series. A Passion for Lakes and Ecological Puzzles: How Cyanobacteria, Cyberinfrastructure, Citizens and Scientists are Advancing Freshwater Science. Dr. Kathleen Weathers, Carey Institute, Ecosystem Ecologist. The public is invited to these lectures at no charge.

Info: lavaller@newpaltz.edu; 845-257-3784.

SUNY New Paltz Coykendall Science Building, 5 Wawarsing Road, New Paltz.

5pm-6:30pm Jennifer Herdt: The Ecstatic Pursuit of Happiness. A talk by Jennifer Herdt, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Yale University Divinity School.

The pursuit of happiness has entered a new heyday, assisted by positive psychology and a retrieval of eudaimonism, the ancient morality of happiness. But is this truly a retrieval of the ancient and medieval affirmation of eudaimonia as final end, or is it a veiled form of egoism?

Jennifer Herdt will argue that eudaimonism originally had an ecstatic character that is often missing today; distinguishing “welfare-prior” from “perfection-prior” eudaimonism helps to clarify the difference. Info: heathe@newpaltz. edu; 845-257-2981. SUNY New Paltz/Lecture Center 104, New Paltz.

5pm-6pm Snowga With Pamela Martin. Apres Ski Yoga class specifically for skiers and snowboarders to build strength and help prevent injury. $3/class. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

5pm-6pm Yoga. With Pamela Martin. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

6pm-8pm Night and Day: A Collage Workshop w/Melanie Hall. Create a pair of collages using decorative papers of interesting textures and luscious colors. Call the OFL 845-657-2482 to register. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@ olivefreelibrary.org, bit.ly/2gEg8tp. free.

6pm-7:30pm Wassaic Project’s Fiber Arts Skill Share. A new weekly workshop for fiber arts enthusiasts looking to share their skills and learn new skills. The Wassaic Project, 37 Furnace Bank Rdd, Wassaic. Info: 646-7809352, paloma@wassaicproject.org, wassaicproject.org/. Free.

6pm-8pm Getting Started with Rabbits Class.

Learn the basics of rabbit husbandry, breeding and management. At this class you will get an overview of what to feed rabbits, and what not to feed rabbits; portable vs. stationary systems; basic rabbit health and breeding considerations, and the economics of raising rabbits. Registration deadline: March 9. Info: 845-340-3990 x311; cad266@cornell.edu. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl.com/ Rabbit-Class. $20.

6pm The Ulster County Animal Response Team (UCART) March Meeting. A big thanks to Ann and Allison who have been working on a pet first aid presentation that we can use for review. It covers many of the topics we have gone

ALMANAC WEEKLY over in the past and puts it together. We will be reviewing it at the March meeting and bringing in our first aid mannequins to practice. The New Paltz Recycling Center is still accepting donated crates of all sizes in good condition, to be given out to those who need that extra crate, no questions asked. If you would like to attend our meetings for the first time, contact: ucart@ ulstercorps.org. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge.

6pm-7:15pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. A $10 drop-in community class to make Yoga financially accessible to all.

This class is open to all levels and is fun and informative. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter. com.

6:30pm-8pm Slide Night. An evening of Slide Night presentations by artists-in-residence Carlotta Origoni, Jackie Partridge, and Jayoung Yoon. Slide Nights have been a favorite WSW tradition. Every second Tuesday during residency terms, artists working in the studios present their work and projects to the community. Slide Nights are open to the public and located in the front room of their office building. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston. wsworkshop.org.

6:30pm-8pm The Creative Seed Artist Group.

A support group for artists to have a space to develop & share their work in progress- Actors, poets, playwrights & musicians welcome. Every Tuesday. Info: bluehealing or 203-246-5711.

By donation. Call ahead. Blue Mountain Co-op Retreat Center, Woodstock.

6:30pm Savvy Social Security Planning.

Cetera Investment Services, located at Ulster Savings Bank, would like to invite the public to attend a FREE educational workshop. Reservations are required for this workshop and may be done online at ulstersavings.com/workshops.

(Please use Workshop Promo Code UFG1031318 when you register for this event.) To register by phone, or further questions about the workshop, please contact Mary McCrindle at (845) 338-6322, ext. 3315 or mary.mccrindle@ ceterais.com. Ulster Savings Bank/Saugerties, 1 Twin Maples Plaza, Saugerties.

7pm-8:30pm Nerd Jeopardy! March Edition.

Just like the game show, except it’s all about books & everyone’s tipsy. Prizes include books, free drinks, and temporary glory. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 2067085795, chapmanchapman@gmail.com, bit.ly/2ChGx9D. 7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille. Hosted by Ben Rounds. Open Mic Nite makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents!

No cover. For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

7pm-8pm Scrabble Night. Every Tuesday!

Bring snacks to share starts 7pm. All welcome.

Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free.

7:30pm Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation. Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Musician and Philanthropist Peter Buffett Performs. The show features Buffett on piano and Michael Kott on cello and includes projected photos of family life in Omaha and video clips of Buffett’s work in film (“Dances With Wolves” fire dance scene), TV (commercials) and philanthropy. All proceeds benefit the Kingston, N.Y.-based Center for Creative Education. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $20, free/student.

8pm Concert Series: Student Honors Recital.

The annual concert of outstanding student performers selected by the Music faculty. Info: egnanl@newpaltz.edu; 845-257-2700. SUNY New Paltz/ Studley Theatre, New Paltz. $8, $6/ senior/faculty/staff, $3/student.

Wednesday

3/14

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required.

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

8:30am-9:15am Universal Prayer Group.

Sitting together a table, personal prayers will be shared aloud. All religious and spiritual beliefs are honored. MaMA. Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge.

9am-10am Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warm-ups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation.

Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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Planning your death “There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death and there’s being off the network.”

– Guy Almes

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o you push away thoughts of death with the same fervor that I employ resisting raisins? Despite the discomfort, do you have some ideas – or perhaps even just fragments – about what will happen after your passing? For example, how do you imagine your remains: a burial on land? Burial at sea?

Donation to science? Orbiting in a Tesla convertible? How about any funeral or memorial service elements? Do you envision a religious approach, or secular?

Or perhaps no service at all?

In my initial reflections about death after my Stage IV breast cancer “terminal” NIKKITA diagnosis, I specifically did not plan to leave any outlines or requests for a particular type of burial, funeral or memorial service. I felt that doing so would peg me as an egocentric control freak, a way of barking orders from the Great Beyond. I honestly believed my loved ones would be better off creating their own plans for me, based on their own needs. However, I soon learned how hard that can be on them.

Yes, someone takes care of our remains and other matters after we die. But the hardest question people say they agonized over amidst their tremendous grief is, “What would s/he have wanted?” Many carry this question for a lifetime; perhaps this is something that you live with yourself. So why do we want to saddle someone else with decisions that we could have determined ourselves while we are alive?

What if we remove the ambiguity and make some real choices? What if the very idea of crafting this end-of-life information is truly the most loving gift we can give to others?

Interested in dipping your toe? I encourage you to begin. And take it easy. This work can, and should, take meaningful time: They are our final wishes! My goto is the Advance Death Care Directive planning booklet by Sacred Crossings (http://deathcaredirective.com). It’s a slim 24-page workbook and costs $10.

I like it for several reasons. The range of topics feels wider than I could have ever come up with on my own. For example, the question about cremation includes choices of vessels for the cremation itself: pine box, bamboo/alternative casket, cardboard cremation box or other. The Life Review prompts, such as “My gratitude list includes,” or “Amends I have made and those I wished I could have made,” help to organize my reflections while keeping my answers manageable. There are checklists for completed documents to include in our “Death File,” so the papers are stored together in one place.

The simple questions and straightforward language keep my process flowing, not stuck in “overwhelm.” And the entire process unfolds at my pace. Additionally, I have found this material to be a terrific prompt for discussing these sensitive end-of-life topics with family, too. Referencing this material with a neutral “third party” booklet help temper the terror of tackling these topics for everyone in the conversation.

What is a step you can take right now, today? You can begin – or continue, if you’ve already gotten started – on one of the prompts I mentioned. Or, do you feel like encountering some incontrovertible truths? Reading these words means that you are alive, which means that at some point you will die (note: not because you are reading this). I appreciate this 2015 interview by Larry King with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson (who says, “It is the knowledge that I am going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive,”) and I encourage you to give it a listen – especially at 21:55, when Larry King asks, “What do you think happens when we die?” It’s available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2ZrklQQYU. Head On and Heart Strong!

Love, Erica Kids’ Almanac columnist Erica Chase-Salerno was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer in the Summer of 2015. To read more about her experience, visit https://hudsonvalleyone.com/tag/ericas-cancer-journey.

9am-11am Education Seminar – Curating Your Online Experience. Learn The How to’s of Blog Writing, Community Outreach, Brand Building and Reputation Management. Learn how to develop engaging content around your brand message, develop strategies to engage and collaborate with influencers in your industry, how to create and optimize content that influencers are willing to share PLUS learn the strategies and tools used to protect your brand reputation online.$30 Admission. Info: 845-255-0243.

Hampton Inn, 4 South Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz. newpaltzchamber.org. $30.

10:30am Children’s Story Hours. Preschool Wednesday (3 years to 5 years). Followed by crafts and music. Info: 845-331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston. kingstonlibrary.org.

10:30am-11:30pm Woodstock Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to

Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1/ donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11am Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation. Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Musician and Philanthropist Peter Buffett Performs. The show features Buffett on piano and Michael Kott on cello and includes projected photos of family life in Omaha and video clips of Buffett’s work in film (“Dances With Wolves” fire dance scene), TV (commercials) and philanthropy. All proceeds benefit the Kingston, N.Y.-based Center for Creative Education. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $20, free/student.

11am-12pm Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Candice Methe. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center presents Candice’ Methe’s vessels of clay are for sustenance. They are a document of her intent and a signifier of her connection to this life, both

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Houseplants for cats Catnip, wheat & rye are easily grown in pots

H

ow does your cat like your houseplants? I don’t mean how they look; I mean for nibbling, a bad habit of some cats. Bad for them and bad for you, because eating certain houseplants could sicken a cat or worse, and at the very least, leave the houseplant ragged.

One way to woo a feline away from houseplants would be to provide a better alternative.

Now what could that be? Duh! Catnip, Nepeta cataria: a member of the mint family – admittedly not the prettiest of houseplants, but hey, you’re growing this for your cat, not yourself. (Other Nepeta species, such as N. x faassenii and N. racemes, are less enticing to cats, even if they are more attractive to us.)

Catnip is very easy to grow outdoors, and can be grown indoors through winter. The main ingredient that could be lacking in winter is light; six or more hours of sunlight beaming down on the plant through a window would be ideal. Other than that, needs are the same as most other plants: regular potting soil coupled with a watering regime that keeps said soil neither sodden nor bone-dry, just moist.

Catnip plants are not hard to find.

Growing from seed is easy, except the plants won’t be cat-ready for weeks and weeks.

Established plants are quick and easy to multiply, so if you’ve got a friend with a potted plant – preferably overgrown, so that you both benefit – you can make new plants by slicing the rootball into two or more new sections, along with their aboveground stems, and then repotting each of them. Or clip off stems each a few inches long, strip leaves from their bottom portions and poke them into moist potting soil to root. Help these shocked plants or plant parts recover by keeping them in bright-but-indirect light for a couple of weeks (and protected from any cats).

That brings me to perhaps the worst potential pest of your new catnip plant: cats!

They’ll roll in it, releasing the strong aroma that drives them crazy, and nibble it to experience its narcotic effect. Outdoor plants tolerate such rambunctious playing; indoor plants, with less-than-perfect growing conditions, are more frail. You might want to limit playtimes to weekly visits.

Limiting playtimes might also keep the plant more enticing. Cats can habituate to catnip. And even then, only about 50 percent of cats fall under the spell of catnip – none of them as kittens.

Just mosey over to the local health-food store and purchase some whole grain such as wheat (sold as “wheat berries”) or rye. Soak a batch of these seeds in water for a few hours and then sow them in potting soil.

No reason to limit your cat’s botanical garden to catnip. Cats also like to nibble on grasses, which can be very pretty houseplants and lack the not-very-popular (to most humans) aroma of catnip.

It’s not clear why cats, which are carnivores, like that nibble; perhaps, some say, to past and present. Info: artlectures@hawkmail. newpaltz.edu; 845-257-3830. SUNY New Paltz/ Lecture Center 104, New Paltz.

11:30am-1pm Winter Walk With Pamela Martin. Walk the nearby rail trail. Have non cotton layers of clothes. Micro Spikes or Snow Shoes (Depending on conditions.) No Fee. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. This lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, more stretched out and walking taller than before. Let’s get rolling! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com. $18.

1pm Community Chorus Meet-Up. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation!

Every Wednesday. Everyone welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

1pm Sawkill Seniors Meeting. Monthly meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 1pm. The meetings begin with a guest speaker and formal format, followed by a raffle, socializing and refreshments. There will also be a Bingo or card game for those who wish to participate. Lunch will be served. Info: 845-546-0159.

Kingston Town Hall, 906 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo.

Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

3pm-4:30pm Advanced Chess Club. For experienced adult players. More info: 851-8171 or 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

3:30pm-5:30pm Teen Open Studio. Every Wednesday. Local artists facilitate art sessions to explore a variety of materials and techniques and build a sense of community for local teens.

Ages 13-18. Free. Info: info@drawkingston.org.

DRAW at the YMCA, 507 Broadway, Kingston. drawkingston.org.

4:30pm-6pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour. Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-6887811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5pm Cooking Demo & Dinner. A fundraiser in support of the PJ Library program. Minimum: $54 per person (includes two glasses of wine and $24 donation). Reserve on-line or call 845-3388131. Bruce Paley’s Bowery Dugout, 857 Ulster Ave, Kingston. ucjf.org.

5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service. Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions. Everyone welcome. 845-679-9534.

First Church of Christ Scientist, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock.

5:30pm-7:30pm Anniversary Ribbon Cutting and Mixer at Garvan’s. Join the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce at Anniversary

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induce vomiting to get rid of undigested animal parts. Perhaps, others say, for vitamins and minerals.

“Grasses” is a term I use quite liberally, to mean not necessarily lawngrass, but any plant in the grass family. Most convenient is just to mosey over to the local health-food store and purchase some whole grain such as wheat (sold as “wheat berries”) or rye.

Soak a batch of these seeds in water for a few hours and then sow them in potting soil in a decorative container. Depending on the temperature, green sprouts should soon appear against the dark backdrop of soil. Grasses grow quickly, given light, warmth and sufficient-but-not-too-much water.

The aforementioned grasses are annuals, and at some point in their growth, what with cat nibbling and aging, will start looking ragged. Have another pot ready with already-sprouting grass. And so on.

The grass serves well for us humans as well as our cats to enjoy. They’re very springlike in their appearance, even if confined to only a small pot: a microcosm of what’s to come.

– Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit his garden at www.leereich.com/blog.

Ribbon Cutting and Mixer to celebrate Garvan’s Anniversary Ribbon Cutting AND Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a couple of days early! Enjoy delicious appetizers, a cash bar, and friendly local professionals at this event. Please register online to attend. Free Admission. Info: 845-255-0243.

Garvan’s, 215 Huguenot St, New Paltz. newpaltzchamber.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. 845-563-8043 for more info.

Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh.

6pm-7pm Relatives As Parents Program Introductory Information Sessions. RAPP Support Groups assist those who have taken on the role as primary caregiver for a related child. These sessions are designed to introduce attendees to what RAPP can do and answer any questions about the program. Info: 845-6778223; jmc646@cornell.edu. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. ccedutchess.org.

6pm-7pm Effective Communication Strategies. A free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association about how communication takes place when someone has dementia.

LaGrange Library, 488 Freedom Plains Road, No. 109, Poughkeepsie. Info: 800.272.3900, info@alzhudsonvalley.org.

6:30pm-7:05pm Learn Remembrance. A very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament – Remember my name in the night) which connects you with the Divine within. All are welcome, RSVP please. Info: 845-679-8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

Free/donations welcomed.

6:30pm-8:30pm Yin Yoga and Sacred Sound with Jessica Caplan. This yin class will be slower, where asanas are held for longer periods of time. For beginners and advanced students.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacen-

ter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

6:30pm-7:30pm Pure Yang Qi Gong. Ancient meditative movements that align breath, body and intention. Gentle practice for all to build strength, flexibility and coordination. The Hot Spot Kingston, 218 Plaza Rd, Kingston. Info: 518 705 6582, gibbonscharlotte@yahoo.com. pay what you can.

6:30pm-7:30pm Ulster County Photo Club.

Photographers of all ages and skill levels are welcome to join this group. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6:30pm Gurdjieff Study Group. Meets on Wednesdays, 6:30pm in Stone Ridge. For information and directions, respond to Jim by email: gstudygroup@gmail.com.

7pm-10pm Calling all Trivia Nerds – Trivia Night. Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at our weekly Trivia Night! Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying extended Happier Hour Specials. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort. com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

7pm-8pm Come Back Strong. Local author, Lori Ann King shares her story and wellness tips for menopause. A conversation for women and the men who love them. Barnes & Noble/ Kingston, 1177 Ulster Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-4187083, lori@loriannking.com, goo.gl/3uFq2m.

7pm-9pm Volleyball. A pickup volleyball game.

Ongoing every Wednesday, 7-9pm. Enter the Center at the entrance on the left side, as you face the school from Lucas Ave. 845-616-0710.

Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. $6.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Jazz Sessions at The

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Falcon Underground. Sign Up & Sit In Blues Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

7pm-9pm Praxis Series Reading: “The Effect”

by Lucy Prebble. The Department of Theatre Arts presents a live reading of “The Effect,” a clinical romance by Lucy Prebble. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. Info: hardingl@newpaltz.edu; 845-257-3865. SUNY New Paltz/Parker Theatre, New Paltz. newpaltz.edu/theatre/productions/ praxis/.

7pm-8:30pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

7pm-11pm Chess Night. Free every Wednesday.

Players should bring their own boards & pieces.

Info: 845-658-9048. The Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale.

7:15pm-8pm Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice.

For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please. 845-679-8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. All male a cappella group, that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required.

Meets every Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org.

7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Wednesday.

Free admission. Info: 845-419-2737, albiebar@ aol.com. Woodland Pond, New Paltz.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Adam Falcon Trio.

Soul, Blues, R&B. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

Thursday

3/15

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required.

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

9am-10am T’ai Chi class. With Celeste Graves.

Unify the mind, body, spirit. Meets every Thursday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter. org.

9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

9:30am-10:30am Woodstock Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office is presently in Possession of Property believed to be proceeds of burglaries in the southern Ulster County area between January, 2012 and September 22, 2013. This property includes male and female jewelry, watches and coins. If you have had personal property stolen from you which has not been recovered you may make inquiry at the District Attorney’s Office investigative unit. The phone number is 845-340-3280. Property not identified will be auctioned by the County of Ulster pursuant to the applicable New York statutes.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Friday, March 30, 2018 at 4:00PM for POOR HOUSE MEMORIAL PROJECT, BID #RFPUC18-026. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

10am-12pm Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund Opens - deadline April 13, 2018. The Ulster County Cultural Services & Promotion Fund (UCCSPF) is a funding resource dedicated to maintaining the artistic and cultural assets of Ulster County. Financial resources for this program have been made available by the Ulster County Legislature and have been administered by Arts Mid-Hudson since its inception in 2008. Nonprofit arts organizations, as well as fiscally-sponsored arts events that meet the eligibility criteria set by the program’s guidelines, are eligible to apply. All applicants are encouraged to attend a free application information session to learn more about the program’s funding priorities and how to develop a competitive application. Information sessions are 90 minutes and include time for Q&A. Appointments for individualized feedback on potential initiatives will also be available. The deadline to apply is April 13, 2018. Info: grants@artsmidhudson. org; 845-454-3222. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. artsmidhudson.org.

646-780-9352, paloma@wassaicproject.org, wassaicproject.org/. Free.

10am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice. This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10.

6pm JCC Fairy Jars Class. Make your own glowing fairy jar. $10 for JCC members. $15 for non-members. RSVP by March 8th. . RSVP to 561-6602. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh. tbjnewburgh.org.

10am Successful Aging and OFA Services.

With OFA outreach coordinator Brian Jones.

Info: 845-486-2555. HRHCare Health Center at Amenia, 3360 Route 343, Amenia. dutchessny. gov/aging.

10am-3pm Vassar Indoor Farmers’ Market.

Main Building at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, info. vassar.edu.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only.

No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter. org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.

10:30am-11:30am Beginners T’ai Chi Class.

With Celeste Graves! Learn with other new students. Meets every Thursday, $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle Readings, Intuitive Guidance and Expert Tarot Readings with esoteric scholar Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins warmly welcome.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/half hour.

1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and cards are available, or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments. Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red hook.

1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm-5:30pm Wassaic Project’s Art and Children’s Books. Guardians and their children will team up to work together on art projects inspired by children’s books. The Wassaic Project, 37 Furnace Bank Rdd, Wassaic. Info: LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 3:30PM for Preventive Maintenance for Automated Logic HVAC Controls, #RFB-UC18-027.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. ulstercountyny.gov/purchasing Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC18-024 FLEET LEASING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR GREEN VEHICLES will be received on or before Friday March 30, 2018 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Business After Hours at Foster’s Coach House. Cash bar, free appetizers, Big Green 50/50 $10 Minimum>1/2 goes to RBK Scholarship Fund, 1/2 goes to Winner.

Info: 845-876-8052. Fosters’s Coach House Tavern, 6411 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. $10/ non-members.

6pm-8pm Craft & Create with Rachel Bertoni at the Glenmere Brewery. Design a set of earrings in your signature style under the direction of artist Rachel Bertoni of Bertoni Gallery while enjoying a flight of Glenmere’s handcrafted beer and a locally made spent-grain soft pretzel. Info: 845-324-8686. Glenmere Brewing Company, 55 Maple Ave, Florida. bertonigallery.com.

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. On the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics & Astronomy offer a free planetarium show. Followed by telescope observing (when the sky is clear) at the Smolen Observatory to the entire community including the general public. Tickets for the planetarium shows are required. They are available one week prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. Info: 845-257-3818 or pandyar@newpaltz.edu. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. bit.ly/2fKrjN0.

6:30pm-8pm 2018 Winter Lecture Series for Home Gardeners: What’s Going on with the Bugs. Cecily Frazier. The first part of this talk will discuss the invasive Jumping Worm: how to identify it, the damage it does, and what you can do. The second part will focus on the decline of insect populations and related reduction in the number of birds: theories on why this is happening, possible consequences, and what gardeners can do to help. Reg reqr’d. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston. tinyurl. com/2018-WLS. $15.

6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation.

Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-5895000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.

6:30pm Phoenicia Library 2018 Board Meeting. Everyone welcome. Meetings held monthly - every 3rd Thursdays, 6:30pm. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

7pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/senior/student/child.

7pm Town of Rochester ‘NOTICE OF HEARING - March 15, 2018 7PM’. NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Town Law, the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Rochester, will hold a public hearing at its meeting on March 15th, 2018, commencing at 7:00PM, at the Town of Rochester Community Center, at 15 Tobacco Road, Accord, NY, on the following matter: 2017-05 AV – [..] You may view the latest post at townofrochester. ny.gov/2018/02/22/notice-of-hearing-march15-2018-7pm/. Town of Rochester Community Center, 15 Tobacco Rd, Accord.

7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

7pm Wine Cheese and Magic! Thursday Night Live. Magic by Josh Strongin and a tasting of Kosher wines from around the world. Not your father’s Passover wine! Order for your Seder table. Admission is free, donation appreciated. RSVP. Info: 845-255-9817; npshul@hvc. rr.com;jswartzb@gmail.com. Jewish Congregation of New Paltz Community Center, 30 N. Chestnut St, New Paltz.

7pm-8:30pm Third Saturday Christian Open Mic (Coffee House). Come play or to listen. Doors open 6:30pm. Acoustic solo, duo, groups welcome, perform original Christian songs & hymns. Hosted by Patrick Dodge.

Refreshments available. Free will offering for SmileTrain. patrickdodgemusic@yahool.com.

Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Woodstock. smiletrain.org.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive envi-

March 8, 2018 ronment. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock, Inc, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.

7:30pm Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation. Emmy Award-Winning Composer, Musician and Philanthropist Peter Buffett Performs. The show features Buffett on piano and Michael Kott on cello and includes projected photos of family life in Omaha and video clips of Buffett’s work in film (“Dances With Wolves” fire dance scene), TV (commercials) and philanthropy. All proceeds benefit the Kingston, N.Y.-based Center for Creative Education. Info: 845-758-7900. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $20, free/student.

7:30pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Thursday night at 7:30pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Stu Hamm “Songs & Stories”. Legendary Bassist. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm-10pm Mind Train Poetry Sessions.

Listen or read. Every Thursday. For more information, contact 229greenkill@greenkill.org or 347-689-2323. Green Kill, 229 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. greenkill.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: bigBANG. Large Ensemble Jazz. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, & Geoff Harden.

Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Friday

3/16

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required.

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

9am Shamatha Meditation with Angelina Birney. Through shamatha meditation (calm abiding), we develop concentration, inner strength, stability and confidence, in addition to fostering numerous health benefits. Lama Angelina Birney completed a 3-year meditation retreat in the Karma Kaygu Tradition and has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 30 years. Free and open to all. Info: info@ tibetancenter.org; 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston. tibetancenter.org.

9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun, lightly paced class. Meets every Monday and Friday. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3.

9:45am-10:45am Woodstock Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Join us for homemade soups, salad and desserts. Take home soup. All are welcome. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

Info: 845-419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail. com, newpaltzumc.org/.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Pilates - Mixed Level with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. $1/donation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Readings and Tarot Card Readings with Mary. Every Friday at Mirabai. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

4pm-6:30pm Dungeons & Dragons. Join your Dungeon Master Patrick to create and play characters for a Storm King’s Thunder campaign.

Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Cookie Céilí. Listen to Irish/ Celtic music CDs and decorate sugar cookies fresh from Tivoli Bread and Baking! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@ gmail.com, tivolilibrary.org/. (While supplies last.) All ages. Happens in East Room.

5pm-7:30pm It Could be Worse: Uplifting Thoughts at the End of the World. Join us for an evening of readings with local luminar-

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NIGHT SKY

Pi Day and Universal Numbers

P

i Day is coming up next week, on the 14th. Of course, that Greek letter represents the ratio between any circle’s diameter and its circumference, which is roughly 3.14. You probably know number freaks who have memorized the number to 100 decimal places. I’m one of them. I must confess, though, that knowing so many digits is not only useless, also but probably indicates mental problems. But having never seen a therapist, I can’t say for sure.

A few years ago, Jet Propulsion Lab representatives answered a student’s question about how many digits of pi they use when calculating their spacecraft trajectories.

They said they used 3.141592653589793, or 15 digits. Why not more? They explained on their website: “Consider Earth. It is 7,926 miles in diameter at the Equator. The circumference, then, is 24,900 miles. That’s how far you would travel if you circumnavigated the globe.

How far off would your odometer be if you used the limited version of pi above (meaning only 15 digits instead of a few more)? It would be off by the size of a molecule. So, your error by not using more digits of pi would be 10,000 times thinner than a hair.”

If an Earth-sized circle’s circumference can be calculated to a molecule-width by using 15 pi digits, what could be the purpose of using (or knowing) 100 digits? None whatsoever. The pi business is strictly a numbers obsession.

Despite the fact that there are 30 trillion cells in the human body (far more than the number of stars and planets in our galaxy), human physiology is rarely associated with vastness. It’s astronomy that people most associate with enormous numerals.

Our numbers-fascination is relatively new. The word “million” didn’t come into general use until the 13th century. Before then, the largest number was a “myriad,” equal to ten thousand. The Greeks, who coined the term, would occasionally resort to myriads of myriads, and that was sufficient to express the most complex concepts.

A million seemed huge when we were kids. It became less intimidating only when we realized it was possible to count to a million in a few days. It’s really not so big: A million steps take you from here to Brooklyn. A vacation lasting a million seconds gives you only an 11-day reprieve from office misadventures.

In astronomy, we use “million” mainly in relation to the Sun, which is nearly a million miles wide and sits 93 million miles away. “Millions” also expresses the distance to the nearer planets. Venus is 26 such units, Mars 34. That’s about it.

Even less useful, astronomically, is the billion, which is a thousand million. We might say that Saturn is nearly a billion miles away from us, and that Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are a couple of billion. And the visible universe offers for our inspection about 150 billion galaxies. But that’s where a billion’s usefulness ends. The unit just isn’t very applicable much beyond Earth – although it’s convenient for taking our planet’s census of seven billion people, some of whom may contemplate the accumulated wisdom of the 60-to-100 billion people who have ever walked the face of this forgiving planet.

So we jump to a trillion. This is a million millions: suddenly a most valuable unit for government economists, physicists and astronomers. There are almost a trillion stars in our galaxy, and about the same number of planets. The light-year is equal to six trillion

ies John Kilb, Violet Snow and Sparrow. Free admission. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. Long-held poses use props (blankets, blocks and bolsters) to support proper bone alignment while releasing muscular tension. Personalized adjustments will enable you to take get the maximum benefit of these powerfully therapeutic poses. Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Info: 845-679-8700; woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck.

7pm Movie Night: Son of God. Free will donation. Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church of Bloomington, 11 Church St, Bloomington.

7pm-8:30pm Irish Music & Dance Celebration. Join us for a night bagpipes and Irish dancing by Catskill Mountain Pipes and Drums and the D’amby Project. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org/.

7pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/senior/student/child.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch.

7pm-10pm Night of Poker to Benefit the Woodstock Farm Festival. Play two rounds of Texas Hold ‘Em where all suggested dona-

tion proceeds will go to support the Farm Festival’s 11th season beginning May 30! Win the admiration of your friends and prizes that are more exciting (and more delicious) than cash!

A tax-deductible, suggested donation of $20 is the buy-in for both rounds, but each round will be a little over an hour if you’d like to come for just one. R & R Taproom, 104 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. rrtaproom.com.

7pm Documentary Screening of Newtown.

Screening of the 2017 documentary about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Post-screening Q&A with director Kim Snyder and panelists. Hosted by Stockade Works in association with the Bardavon. Free. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston. stockadeworks.org/events/newtownscreening.

7:30pm The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Bizet’s Symphony in C. James Bagwell, conductor.

Free. The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Third Ave, New York City. theorchestranow.org.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Michael Golden & The Outsiders. 60’s Inspired Rock. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Daniel Handler. Join a public conversation between Neil Gaiman, Bard Professor in the Arts, and Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), bestselling author of the beloved A Series Of Unfortunate Events and noted literary critic. Handler and Gaiman will discuss adaptation, collaboration, and the role of the writer as giver of advice. Part of a regular series of conversations at the Fisher Center hosted by Professor Gaiman. This event includes an audience Q&A. Signed copies of the authors’ work will be available for sale. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $25, free/Bard student, faculty, staff.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band. Roots & Blues Rock.

Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Ang ‘n Ed Acoustic Duo. Acoustic. Info:

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miles. Grasping what a trillion represents is like having a floodlight illuminate the path to understanding the cosmos.

One way to appreciate the enormity of a trillion is to count it out. Unfortunately, at the rate of five numbers a second, without stopping to eat or sleep, this exercise would still require three thousand years. A trillion seconds ago carries us back 31,000 years – to well before the dawn of recorded history.

Like Peter the Great, who had his wife’s lover beheaded and kept that head in a bottle of alcohol in her bedroom for her to contemplate, nature can also be perverse, though usually with greater subtlety. There’s no rhyme or reason for the numbers that biology or astronomy spring on us. Why does each cell in our body have 90 trillion atoms, roughly the same as the number of stars in our home cluster of galaxies? Why is there exactly the same number of Earth-Sun distances in a light-year as there are inches to the mile? Or the same number of atoms in a lungful of air as there are breaths of air in our atmosphere? Such connections are always interesting.

In any event, the trillion is the largest numeral we ever need to comprehend, for earthly as well as celestial use. But even a trillion is tiny compared with the largest number of things in the universe: the sum total of all subatomic particles such as electrons. That figure is a one followed by 86 zeroes. Still, this actual material that fills the cosmos is infinitesimally tiny when compared with the vastness of the space in which it dwells. If the observable universe were a cube 20 miles wide, 20 miles long, and 20 miles high, all the matter it contained would be as a single grain of sand.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

845-229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. hydeparkbrewing.com.

Saturday

3/17

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (3/12-3/25).

Participating Ulster County restaurants will offer dining deals! No tickets or passes required.

Reservations are strongly encouraged. Lunch $22.95, dinner $32.95. Beverages, tax and tip are additional. Presented by The Valley Table.

Info: 845-765-2600. hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter. com. $18.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation.

Meets every Saturday. All welcome. No charge.

845-246-3285 for more info. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9am-4pm Fourth Annual Snout to Tail Event with Slow Food Hudson Valley. On March 17 and 24, two consecutive Saturdays. Demos with three Culinary Institute of America chefs who will demonstrate many cooking and preserving techniques, including sausage and terrine making, curing and hot smoking. They will use a hog from the farm. Any participants who would like to observe the breakdown and fabrication of the hog on March 17 are invited to come early, at 9 am. Tickets to the event are by advance reservation only and include tastings and lunch both Saturdays. Admission includes both days, with Day 2 picking up where Day 1 left off. Kesicke Farm, 229 Middle Rd, Red Hook. slowmeathudsonvalley.brownpapertickets.com. $135.

9:30am-11am Centering Prayer. Open to people of all faiths. Info: 845-679-8800. Centering prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal rela-

tionship with God and as a movement beyond conversation. On-going, Saturdays from 9:3011am. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

10am-12pm New Baby New Paltz’s Saturday Social Circle. Meets every Saturday, 10am12pm. Info: 845-255-0624. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

10am-11:30am Eel Monitoring Training Day. Engage in firsthand research that may help biologists discover why populations of these important fish are declining. In the spring, use nets and traps to catch juvenile glass eels at our Black Creek Preserve (Ulster County).

After counting and weighing them, you’ll release them unharmed. Please wear warm clothes with quick dry fabric and bring a towel. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Info or RSVP: aconeski@scenichudson.org; 845-473-4440.

Black Creek Preserve. scenichudson.org.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-12pm Saturday Knitters. All ages and experience levels can participate and drop-in knitters are also welcome. Bring your own supplies. 845 687-7023 for more info. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. stoneridgelibrary.org.

10am-1pm Shandaken Community Gardens Seed Swap. Bring your organic and heirloom seeds for trade. Don’t have seeds to swap? Some will be available for purchase. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 10am-2pm New Paltz Repair Cafe. Repair Cafe

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is a free community meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired. The guys and gals who do the repairs have skills in many categories: from electrical, mechanical & electronic to seamstressing and “nursing” dolls and stuffed animals, to woodworking and digital.

Whatever your area of interest and skill, join in as a “repair coach.” You don’t need to be a super expert and you’ll find lots of support from the other coaches. Or help out at the welcome table or in the “cafe”-very sociable! Info: 646-3025835. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

11am-12:30pm Free Presentation of 17th Century Dutch Stylish Household Goods in the Hudson Valley. “Living in Style” a presentation based on a selection from the George Way collection of seventeenth century Dutch fine and decorative art. Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture, PO Box, Hurley. Info: 8453000000, INFO@HVVA.org.

11am Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. This opportunity is being offered at every Saturday in January, February, and March, weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity. Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee who will provide instruction on how to properly wear and adjust the snowshoes, and work with you until you are ready to confidently head out on your favorite trail. The lesson may last up to one hour. Snowshoes are available to rent for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center.

Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. Three computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11am-7pm Open Recreation. Pool table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

11am-3pm Hudson Highland Nature Museum: Maple Sugar Tours. Pre-paid registration required. Walk-ins welcome if space allows.

Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, see an evaporator in action, and finish by participating in our taste test challenge to see if you can tell the difference between mapleflavored syrup and the real thing. Sugar Bush Tours: 11am, 1pm & 2pm; a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the Sugar Shack (terrain and weather conditions dependent) Maple Lane Tours: 12pm & 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the farmhouse to our new Sugar Shack after a tour of the sugar maple stand. Please wear boots and dress warmly! Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum/Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. hhnm.org. $10, $8/3-17.

11:30am-12:30pm Science Saturday. Join us for exciting measuring of pH level. The acidity or alkalinity of substances will amaze you. Please RSVP for safety glasses. Info: 845-266-5530.

Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated.

12:30pm-3pm Yoga Immersion Workshop with Kate Hagerman. Pranayama, Pratyahara and Dharana: Preparing the ground for Dhyana Meditation. A restorative yoga class of breathing practices and gentle poses designed to turn the attention inward to quiet the nervous system

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and foster concentration. Followed by a guided meditation. All levels welcome. To learn more about Kate or to register for this workshop please visit woodstockyogacenter.com, or call 845-6798700. $40 workshop price, and Woodstock Yoga Members receive 10% discount. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

12:30pm-6pm Expert Tarot Card Readings and Intuitive Guidance with Stephanie.

Every Saturday at Mirabai. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/25 minutes.

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice.

1pm-2:30pm Free Creative Movement Dance Class and Dragon Dance. For boys and girls, ages 4 to ll. Taught by choreographer Linda Diamond. 4 Saturdays: March 3-24 Call to register. 845-679-2213 (ask for Dawn.). Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

1pm-4:30pm Free Workshop: Healing the Stories We Tell Ourselves. With Mother Turtle (Marisa Shuron Harris). Redefine the future, letting go of what is held in the past and moving forward through inspiration & symbolic work.

Bring pen & paper. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St.(Route 209), Stone Ridge. bit.ly/2BC7BPD. 2pm Mummenschanz: YOU & ME. Swiss mask theater troupe Mummenschanz pioneered their visual theater and inspired generations of showgoers across five continents over four decades.

A visually stunning spectacle that transcends cultural barriers and sparks the imagination. All ages. Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie. bardavon.org. $20, $10/12 & under.

2pm Book Signing & Demo: Erin Jeanne McDowell. Author of The Fearless Baker Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro. Foreword by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Info: 845-514-2300; sean@ bluecashew.com. bluecashew Kitchen Homestead, 37 North Front St, Kingston. bluecashew.com.

2pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

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Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/senior/student/child.

4:30pm-5:30pm Piano Plus Concert. Bard Collaborative Pianists: JongSun Woo & Bethany Pietromiro. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, programs@ olivefreelibrary.org, bit.ly/2xuq5Qj. suggested donation.

5pm-8pm Rhinebeck’s ArtWalk. Ongoing, every third Saturday of each month, 5-8pm.

Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

6pm-8pm Awakening the Dragon: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal the Primal Self with shamanic healer Adam Kane. Each of us has a spirit dragon within us, a fiery warrior yearning to co-create our reality and live life to our fullest potential. Sometimes we erupt in moments of anger and resentment and sometimes it lies sleeping and dormant leaving us meek or fearful. In this workshop and group healing we will discover, honor and heal our own dragon through ceremonial work. Adam will work with each participant to tap into and activate this powerful and primal energy within each of us.

Attendance is limited to 8. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25.

6:30pm-8:30pm Losing the Night at the Speed of Light. The canvas that is our night sky has been fading for the last 100 years. One of the major contributing factors is the growth of cities and a population jump from 76 million in 1900 to 282 million in 2000. Today a majority of the world’s population live in a light-polluted areas.

What is it, where does it come from, and what impact does it have on the natural and cultural world we live in? The program includes a slide show presentation about the effects of light pollution, and if clouds and weather cooperate you will head outside for a short light-pollution walk. Adults & youth ages 12 & up are welcome to attend. Reservations made on-line. Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park. eventbrite.com/e/ losing-the-night-at-the-speed-of-light-tickets43487145222?aff=erelexpmlt.

7pm-9pm Ars Choralis presents Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty. Ars Choralis & Riverview Baptist Church Choir present a concert of Lincoln’s favorite songs & excerpts from his letters & speeches. Riverview Baptist Church, 240 Catherine Street, Kingston. Info: (845) 679-8172, bpickhardt@gmail.com, arschoralis. org. arschoralis for online and outlet information.

7pm-8:30pm New Moon Crystal Sound Healing. Crystal vibrations reduce stress and help restore balance, and align our mind-heartcosmic connection. With Lea Garnier and Beth Ylvisaker. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20 exchange.

7pm Into The Woods. Book by James Lapine.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Marlboro High School, 50 Cross Rd, Marlboro. marlboroschools.schoolwires.com/domain/78. $12, $9/senior/student/child.

7:30pm-9:30pm Flash Company Irish Music.

A concert of traditional and contemporary Irish music sponsored by Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park. Info: 914-456-6700; achpny@gmail.com.

Musicians: Eric Garrison, Jim Pospisil, John Allers and Bryan Maloney. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt. 9 and Church St, Hyde Park. $12.

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7:30pm The Golden Age of Song. The post-war era of swing, bebop and rock n’ roll come alive in this revitalized retrospective featuring the works of Nat King Cole, Mel Torme and Chet Baker. Sneed pays tribute to this much-loved and timeless era of jazz with an ensemble joined by special guest multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold (Erykah Badu, Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill), an eclectic artist who has been featured on nearly 100 albums. Harrold recently starred as the trumpet sound of Miles Davis for the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of the 2016 biopic Miles Ahead. Bard College/ Luma Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. fishercenter. bard.edu. $45-$25.

7:30pm-10:30pm Folk Guild to Feature Amy Soucy. NY-based contemporary folk chanteuse who writes evocative songs. Featuring guestguitarist -Stephen Murphy! Hudson Valley Folk Guild Poughkeepsie Chapter, 67 South Randolph Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-5924216, HVFGPoughkeepsie@gmail.com, hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. $6.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Upstate Rubdown.

Opener: The Ladles. Americana Septet. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Sarah Potenza. Nashville Blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

8pm-11pm The Luck Of The Irish @ Club Pine Hill. DJ Storm Spinning. Snacks and NonAlcholic Drinks. $5 Suggested Donation. Info: 845-254-5469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $5/suggested donation.

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WůĞĂƐĞ ĂƉƉůLJ Ăƚ ǁǁǁ͘ŵŽŚŽŶŬũŽďƐ͘ĐŽŵ͘ Animal Caregiver Job Description; Love farm animals? Animal Care team members provide all the fundamental care required to ensure the physical and emotional health of our animals. Daily duties include cleaning stalls, feeding and watering of animals, and monitoring their health. This position is fast-paced, physically demanding, and requires someone happily willing to work in any weather conditions. It will keep you active! Requirements: Experience working with large farm animals required. Positive attitude, excellent work ethic, reliability, excellent physical fitness with the ability to lift 75 lbs. with ease, and willingness to work weekends. Please have a thorough understanding of Catskill Animal Sanctuary’s mission. Starting salary $15/hour with 90-day performance review. Benefits include paid vacations, health coverage, and the opportunity to join a friendly staff working together to end animal suffering. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value an inclusive workplace: people of color encouraged to apply. To apply: email cover letter, resume, and three references to Angie Siegel at jobs@casanctuary.org.

Established Restaurant in New Paltz looking for experienced, responsible prep/grill help. Full time.

Ask for Sal: 845-656-8388 Drivers: Home EVERY Night!! Make $1100/wk + Great Benefits! Local Position~Mr. Bult’s. CDL-A required. 315761-3725. Apply: www.mrbults.com Position available at small Kingston Notfor-profit: Administrative Assistant: 15 hrs/week. Starts Immediately. Salary negotiable. Resumes to: resumes.ucjf@gmail. com Requirements include: competencies in database management (entry, queries and creating reports); MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, & possibly Publisher); managing Google calendars and docs and social networking (Mail Chimp eblasts, Facebook, Instagram) a plus. Candidate must have pleasant phone manner and people skills.

Responsible for supporting the Executive Coordinator and will work with the Bookkeeper, board members and interface with volunteers. Other responsibilities include: arranging mailings, office machine maintenance, ordering office supplies and cleanings.

Pre-School Music Teachers/pt: Musical Munchkins is looking for that exceptionally talented individual who can sing and play guitar, lead parent music classes for babies

& toddlers with warmth, fun and passion, and perform at birthday parties in Orange County, New York. Saturdays, and some mornings, during the week (full training) during spring to begin for the fall school year. Excellent pay. Lots of growth potential. Resume and audition required: musicalmunchkinsoforange@gmail.com. www. musicalmunchkins.net Supervising Lifeguards, Lifeguards, WSI’s/ Swim Instructors, Attendants, etc. for Moriello Pool (Town/Village of New Paltz Pool) for Summer 2018. Appropriate certifications required. Application and information available at: Office of Town Supervisor, 52 Clearwater Road, New Paltz.

255-0604. EOE. CALLING ALL LIFEGUARDS!! - Pool season is almost here and we are in need of lifeguards. You must have the following certifications...Lifeguarding/First-Aid/CPR/AED. Please apply in person: Fairview Gardens Apartments, 90 Fairview Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401. 845-339-3811. Lake Katrine Apartments, 708 Neighborhood Road, Lake Katrine, NY 12449. 845-382-2030. Great starting pay and fun places to work.

Someone to Assist with Cats at Diana’s Cat Shelter in Accord. Reliable, trustworthy person to work Part-time weekdays &/or weekends as needed. Experience with cats helpful. Able to work independently as well as with a team. Call 845-626-0221.

Admin. Assist.– Shokan, NY. Provide admin. support, purchasing, meeting and event support, general record keeping and accounting to watershed program in Shokan, NY. Pay: $16/hr, 24 hrs/wk with benefits. Occasional eves., weekend. Appl. Info at: http://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/jobs CHAMBERMAID: PART-TIME. Must be reliable, attentive, have high standard of cleanliness & like to clean. Start immediately on Sundays w/increased hours as the season progresses. Nice working conditions and environment. Call Karen at The Woodstock Inn on the Millstream 679-8211.

Advertising Coordinators Needed to connect and follow up with businesses about being included in the Spring/Summer printed editions of the HudsonValleyNow Guide and the CapitalRegionNow Guide starting immediately and continuing thru mid-May. For more information, please call 845-790-5484.

Work From Home. Brand Ambassadors w/Kannaway, the hemp lifestyle company, share in the health & wealth of the legal CBD space. Full/part-time. Outstanding compensation. Visit www.HappyHempDays.com and text 845-532-0731 for more info.

Seeking Experienced Line Cooks, Dishwashers and Sous Chefs. Focusing on heritage and regional cuisine, using techniques such as smoking, curing and preserving. If you are looking to learn and be a part of something new, this would be a great opportunity. e-mail: botta@dutchalehouse.com Farmworker Div Crops II Needed. Job starts 4/13/2018 and ends 12/1/2018. Will Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack vegetable and fruit crops including; apples, peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, apricots, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, blueberries, rhubarb, grapes, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, peas, and pumpkins. May apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers to crops. Thin and prune crops, set up and operate irrigation equipment, load trucks, operate farm equipment such as tractors etc. and general farm work.

Will work outdoors in all types of weather.

Must be able to lift. Must have three months verifiable experience in the above. Housing provided for all those that are not within commuting distance. Transportation and subsistence expenses to the work-site will be provided by the employer upon 50% of the work contract. 12 temporary openings. $12.83 per hour, ¾ guarantee applies. Job is located in Highland, NY. Stop in your nearest one stop ctr or call 877-466-9757 and refer to job #NY1241504.

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POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly Rentals. We have Gray, White, Blue, Tan,

Green (pine-scented), Pink (rose-scented), Red & Blue Handicap Accessible. (We also have a few w/sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845-4176461 or 845-706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail.com

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SAUGERTIES: GREAT 5-BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH HOME on 1+ acres. Open-floor plan downstairs w/large kitchen, dining & great rooms. LR has fireplace, skylight, French doors & hickory floors. Master bedroom suite has full bath & walk-in closet, upstairs has 4-bedrooms & a full bath. Amenities include: exercise room w/hot tub, new Trex deck, gazebo, solar panels, huge backyard, 1-car garage. A short walk to Hudson River.

Only $278,500. Richard Miller, Win Morrison Realty, 845-389-7286.

WOODSTOCK HISTORIC STONE HOUSE IN TOWN — Built 1790 — Many spacious rooms, high ceilings, 3 fireplaces, 2½ baths, wide plank floors, completely restored, many possibilities, mint condition.

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Rosendale/ Tillson/High Falls/Stone

Ridge Rentals

2 Apartments: Main St. Rosendale. Huge 3-Bedroom Apt. full of windows. Renovated bathroom, granite counters, second floor porch. $1500 plus electric. Also, Brand New 1st floor 1-Bedroom; $900 plus electric.

Call 845-430-9476.

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Krumville/ Olivebridge/ Shokan Rentals

RUSTIC 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Woodstove. Skylight. New stove. Fresh Paint. Ample Parking. $850/month includes snow & garbage removal. First, last, security. References.

No pets. Available now. 646-662-5202.

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Saugerties Rentals

Beautiful Home in Woods; spectacular mountain & river views. Spacious 3-BR, 2.5 baths, den, deck, WIFI, screened porch, washer/dryer. Convenient (5 minutes) to village, shopping, Thruway. $2300/month plus utilities. 917-414-3022.

Beautiful 2nd Floor Apt. Glasco-Saugerties. Victorian style living room with bay window; New cabinets; Big bedroom.

20 minutes to Red Hook/Rhinebeck; $825 includes heat/hot water; no dogs; Contact afabiano@hvc.rr.com.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

UPSTAIRS BARN w/glass doors to deck overlooking garden & fields. Private. 1-Bedroom, cozy bathroom, large closet, spacious LR w/large windows & Parquay floors, washer/dryer. 1 mile to town. $1300/month.

Owner/Broker 845-417-5282.

FABULOUSLY NEWLY RENOVATED 1-BEDROOM w/skylights, aqua glass bathroom, wood floors, charming kitchen w/ stained glass & large gazebo. 1 mile to center of town. $1350/month. Owner/Broker 845417-5282.

COTTAGE BY A WATERFALL. Cozy. Private. Workroom, sunroom, LR, 1-bedroom w/large window facing stream, kitchen, all

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TRANQUIL ESCAPE Located at 526 Band Camp Rd, in OPt. 3/10/1 Saugerties and along with Mountain Sa views, you will find this updated, 3-BR, 2-BA Raised Ranch. This home boasts a spacious living room that opens to the dining area. The lower level has a large family-room with a gas fireplace, laundry room, BR & a full-BA, perfect for entertaining and guest quarters. The rear yard is private with outcroppings, a level garden and creative decking. Very convenient to Saugerties, NYS Thruway & Woodstock! Call Blanca Aponte! (845) 532-0310 ................................................................... $239,000 FR NYS Thruway (Exit 20): Take Rt. 212 W. to R onto Blue Mountain Rd. to L. onto Blue Mt/W Saugerties Rd to L onto Band Camp to #526 on L.

NEW!

ALMOST 9-ACRES IN SAUGERTIES! Yes, you read it right! This READY-TOBUILD lot is located just 5-minutes to the NYS Thruway (Exit 20). The land has been partially cleared & an access road was cut into the land. You can easily build on the knoll and have easy access to the street, or for more privacy, the land extends deep into the woods. The lot is in a quiet area of mature homes. The area is known for the beautiful streams, lakes and the many hiking trails. Not far from HITS (Horse Shows In The Sun), Woodstock and the Hudson River.

Call Greg Berardi! .........................$79,900

INFLUX OF CULTURE IN CATSKILL! Here is an opportunity to own a newly renovated retail space, an apt. above & well situated on Main St. Nothing was spared when renovating & includes; a radiant heated concrete floor & A/C w/its own unit.

There is a handicap-BA w/modern amenities. On the 2nd-fl is a renovated apt.& has a backyard. The apt has its own central A/C & natural gas heat. There is a garage on North Street at the back of the property w/steps down to a backyard for the apt. No snow shoveling here! The sidewalk has radiant heat! Get in on the Catskill renaissance! Call Lynne Gentile today! .......................................................................................$495,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 wood floors, 3 decks. 2.5 miles to center of town. Short/long-term. $1250/month.

Owner/Broker; 845-417-5282.

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West of Woodstock Rentals

Iconic Log Cabin. Live, work, sell, create in a charming 500 sq.ft. log cabin. Located in historic Brunel Park, on 4 acres in the town of Olive, across the Route 28 Scenic Byway from NYC watershed lands and the future Ashokan Rail Trail. Walk to Boiceville town center, to Bread Alone, or catch the UCAT bus. 15 minutes to Woodstock; 30 minutes to Hunter and 20 to Bellayre Mountains.

Sleeping loft. Generous living space. LShaped kitchen and full bath. Propane heat.

On site parking. Pet friendly. Available March 15. $1100/month includes utilities.

Plus One month’s security deposit. Seasonal rentals available. e-mail: CYNTHIANIKITIN@GMAIL.COM

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Green County Rentals

Palenville: 3-bedroom, 2 bath House.

Washer/dryer, woodstove, storage shed, quiet wooded area, shared vegetable garden, screened-in porch. Available March 1st, utilities extra, security and references required. $1000/month. Call 845-750-7025.

PRIME RETAIL SPACE IN SAUGERTIES! Bring your imagination & business to the hottest village in Ulster County & is within walking distance to all the activities Saugerties offers! The location has 3-large windows in the front area for great exposure. Original hardwood fl and exposed beams make this an excellent location for any business type. There is a private parking lot to accommodate 4-5 cars. This is very rare in the Village. There is a 2-BR-apt above the space. All the roofs have been replaced recently, with exception of the shed roof. Downstairs has new windows, both the hot water tanks and the furnaces have also been replaced within the past 3 years.

Call Michael Barros or Alan Kessler today! .................................................. $300,000

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Seasonal Rentals

New Paltz House for Summer. Bright, charming 3-bedroom house off Main St., New Paltz. Central air, electric appliances, wi-fi and phone. Seeking tenant for 10 weeks, 6/23-9/4/18. $5995 for entire period. $1000 refundable deposit. e-mail: ingridhug@aol.com

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Seasonal Rentals Wanted

WOODSTOCK/SAUGERTIES HOUSE RENTAL WANTED 7/15-8/31 OR August only. Approximately 2-bedrooms, rural, sunny location, good condition.

Quiet, clean, senior tenant, non-smoker, no pets, local references. Brokers protected. colordreaming2006@yahoo.com 928-554-4778.

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RENNER’S COUNTRY CRAFTS SHOP & STORE. 245 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro. 845-236-7378. Open 8 a.m.-9 p.m. all year. Black bunny rabbits for pets only; $45. Tarot, Tea & Palm Spiritual

SPRAWLING RANCH W/ NEW RED WATERFRONT PROPERTY PRIC UCED E! Located in Woodstock, just across from the very relaxing Sawkill Creek w/waterfront property included! This home has 3-BR, along w/vaulted ceilings, French doors, a screened porch, skylights & central A/C. Make this home a year-round or a part-time getaway, or even a part-time rental! Grow your own veggies & fruits in a lovely garden area. There is a studio/playhouse w/electric & insulation. Just a short drive to the center of Woodstock. Most of the furniture will remain. The owner is VERY MOTIVATED! PLEASE PRESENT ALL OFFERS! Call Toby Heilbrunn today! .............................................................................$171,000

/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

Readings; $45. Decorated Cinnamon Broom Room. African American Bridal item; $40.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)275-8545.

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CELL.: 845-399-9659

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Firewood for Sale

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Portable Toilet Rentals

TLK

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

LLC

Portable Toilet Rentals 845-658-8766 | 845-417-6461 | 845-706-7197

TLKportables@gmail.com tlkportables.com We e k e n d s • We e k l y • M o n th l y

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259.

Residential, Municipalities.

615

Hunting/Fishing Sporting Goods

GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Buying single piece or collections. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 914-3889286, leave message.

Made you look.

Our newspapers and websites reach over 50,000 readers a week. Go to 845-334-8200 or hudsonvalleyone.com to advertise.

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845-338-5832 CARPE DIEM SELLERS!

www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

Current market conditions ARE optimal RIGHT NOW if you’re thinking of selling!

Our exhaustive analysis of up-to-the-minute listing and selling data indicates a trend which can be hugely beneficial to homeowners ready to move. With 40 years of developing successful sales strategies, no one is better equipped than Westwood to advise you in taking advantage of this opportunity. Call a Westwood professional today for your personally designed marketing plan!

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COUNTRY MODERN - Simply fabulous and distinctively unique Woodstock contemporary nestled on 6 acres (2 deeds!) with stunning VIEWS from walls of windows in every room.

Graciously flowing floor plan features 10’ ceilings, bamboo & marble flooring, 25’ living room with fireplace, desirable main level BR + ensuite MBR up w/ adjoining office/den, gourmet kitchen, dining room, full basement + stone patio invites al fresco dining. MUST SEE! ..................................................$986,000

PEACE AND QUIET - Off the beaten path but not isolated on 1.5 pretty, naturally landscaped acres in the scenic Cherrytown Hills. Nicely private! Country style 2-story with a farmhouse vibe features abundant rustic ambiance, 24’ living room with native stone fireplace, country kitchen & dining space with brick fireplace, main level BR + 2 more up, 2 full baths, PLUS 2 car det.

Garage with finished space over for STUDIO or guests. ....................................... $450,000

WOODSTOCK INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR 2018 Two houses with three apartments on desirable Wittenberg Road with a cap rate of 11.35. A great place to park money and have a great income stream. Or else live in one part of the main house and rent the other. Owner previously lived in the bottom floor of the main house and rented the top floor. Top floor is vacant and main house will be delivered vacant.

Second house has a year’s lease of $1,600 (tenant paying all utilities, except for garbage) until May. Tenants willing to stay on. Money-making multi-families in Woodstock are as rare as neon signs in the village of Woodstock. ........ $325,000

MIDTOWN NEW PALTZ Is where you will find this wonderful 4 bedroom 2 bath Cape situated on a prime lot in a prime location of similar homes.

There are hardwood floors throughout the home, a screen porch over looking the back yard where you can relax while you enjoy watching the seasons change. Don’t miss the opportunity to take a look at the additional features this home offers while you live the midtown life! Call for a showing now! Asking ................................... $375,000

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

Gardiner Gables 2356 Rte. 44-55 Gardiner, NY 12525 TEXT P988065 to 85377

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ROOM FOR EVERYONE! - Perfectly spacious West Saugerties 2-story offers 2600+ SF and is ready for move-in! A wraparound mahogany “rocking chair” porch welcomes you. Features include massive eat-in kitchen, dining area with French doors to brick patio w/ built-in BBQ & wet bar, LR with cozy gas fireplace, radiant heat in sunroom, family/ media room, 4 bedrooms incl. ensuite MBR, 2.5 baths, some HW floors & enormous full basement. ...................................... $327,500

WOODSTOCK MID-CENTURY - Have it all! Distinctive c. 1954 “modern” home with separate guest house, studio & IG saline POOL w/ waterfall & yr-rd SPA. You can vacation at home! Spacious 3600+ SF main residence features 4 BRs incl. grand ensuite MBR, fabulous chef’s kitchen, LR w/ impressive brick fireplace, den & screened porch. Sweet cottage o’looks pool & sep. studio has kitchenette & full bath. Walk to town, too! MUST SEE!................. $699,000

www.westwoodrealty.com Kingston 340-1920

Woodstock 679-0006

Rhinebeck 876-4400

Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

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Buy & Swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252

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Musician Connections

Musicians/Songwriters; Looking for Musicians to collaborate with. You send a riff or a groove, I’ll send a vocal or B Section back.

BarScott1026@gmail.com, www. barscott.com

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Musical Instruction & Instruments

GUITAR LESSONS JOHN BERENZY Electric-Acoustic "A Brilliant Musician" — Guitar Player Magazine

646-662-5202

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Antiques & Collectibles

WANTED: VINTAGE COMICS Interested in the Golden Age; Silver & Bronze 1930s-1980s

$ CASH $ ON THE SPOT! TOP $ DOLLARS $ PAID! Also Seeking Star Wars Collectibles, Life-Size Advertisement Statues, Vintage Vinyl Records.

Call/Text Any Time 845-901-7379

www.coluccishandrealty.com

** Become a Fan of Colucci Shand Realty on Facebook **

WANTED-TOP DOLLARS PAID! We Buy Entire Estates or Single Items.

Actively Seeking Gold and Silver of any kind, Sterling, Flatware & Jewelry.

Furniture, Antiques through Mid-Century.

We Gladly do House Calls. Free Appraisals.

We also do Estate/Tag Sales.

35 years experience. One Call Does It All. Call or text anytime 24/7.

617-981-1580

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Estate/Moving Sale

Gardiner, NY. Antiques, paintings, collectibles, furniture, silver plate serving dishes, silver tea set, Stengel, Roseville, cranberry dishes and glasses, household appliances, lamps, Maria Theresa crystal chandeliers. Call for appointment. 914-489-9300 .

670

Yard & Garage Sales

RUMMAGE SALE FRIDAY, 3/9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. & SATURDAY, , 3/10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. SAUGERTIES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 67 Washington Avenue. Clothes, household, books, toys. Bag Sale Saturday. FYI: 246-7802.

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Legal Services

The City of Kingston has received a grant from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to assist residents who may be having difficulty meeting their housing financial obligations. If you are a City of Kingston homeowner and are having difficulty with mortgage payments, other housing costs, or need housing repairs, please contact the Office of Economic and Community Development (OECD). Additionally, the OECD will assist in identify either aid

or resources for a City of Kingston renter (tenant) who may be having difficulty with housing costs or other issues.

Some programs require income qualification. Contact Amee Peterson, 845334-3960 or Brenna Robinson, 845334-3924.

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Professional Services

*Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston.

Hair- 845-383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon.com Makeup- 845309-6860; www.jessicamitzi.com GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery. Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253 .

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Personal & Health Services

”The Right Hands for Every- body” Massage Therapy. Come have a unique experience, I provide not just “Eastern” and “Western” but hot stone and deep tissue, trigger point, and myofascial treatment as well. Please do book an appointment with me. Only $75 a session. Curtis D. Momber-Jackson, NYS LMT. 6 Wurts Avenue New Paltz NY 12561. Call: (845)399-4010 or email: astressfreehug@yahoo.com

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Art Services

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Real Estate

Specializing In Real Estate Throughout Ulster County & The Catskills Speak With An Agent today, Call: (845) 338-5252 www.MurphyRealtyGrp.com p se ou -4 H en ay 1 Op und S

SPECTACULAR TWIN PONDS TOWNHOUSE

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JUST LISTED

For more info and pictures, Text: M140662

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Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable.

Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured.

MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)6796242.

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T notch design for people on the run. Living space Top ce with feng shui flow! Very convenient 2 car garage w ge w op with entry into the kitchen for easy grocery drop - kitchen with recessed lighting, newer stainless ss steel appliances and backsplash, dining room is s large enough for the whole family. Wonderful sliding glass doors to take advantage of the view - pond and aerator, ahh so relaxing to listen to ! Living room has wood burning fireplace with built-ins on either side. 3 bedrooms up, master en-suite and laundry area...but wait... lower level functions as a family room / office space/ craft room, even a workshop! Visit the Open House this Sunday, call for more details & directions! $299,900 0

REMODELED GLENFORD HOME W/ WATERFALL !!

Co Country living at its finest, yet just minutes to o Woodstock, Kingston, shopping, all major commuter W o err routes! This home has been remodeled featuring rou g gorgeous refinished hardwood floors, a stone gor e fireplace in the living room, and a large dining room fire m that opens to an updated country kitchen. There is also two large BRs on the first floor with an updated bath. Upstairs boasts two spacious BRs and a large tiled bath with skylight. Plus there is a great 1 BR, 1 bath guest quarters, perfect for mother / daughter, or extended family! Outside is a wonderful park-like setting, with bluestone patios & a spectacular spring fed pond and a waterfall! $344,900

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Painting/Odd Jobs

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

NYS DOT T-12467

Incorporated 1985

*CONSCIOUS CLEANING, CONSCIOUS ORGANIZING!* ZEN ENERGY w/a DERVISH APPROACH. ATTENTION TO DETAIL. PUNCTUAL. METHODICAL. LET’S SHIFT THE ENERGY & PUT CLARITY & BEAUTY BACK IN YOUR HOME. ALLERGIC TO CATS. ROSENDALE-KINGSTON-SAUGERTIES-WEST HURLEYWOODSTOCK. ROBYN 845-339-9458.

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO. **Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured.

Call 679-3879

• Residential / Commercial • Moving • Delivery • Trucking • Local & NYC Metro Areas

Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253 QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980 • Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932 General Housecleaning Services done by dependable, reliable, honest individual with over 30 years experience. Will fit your budget and terms. All supplies included. Carol: 931-261-3912. Saugerties/Woodstock area.

Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling

Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)688-2253.

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Caretaking/Home Management

For more info and pictures, Text: M140747

Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured.

Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-6160872.

Located only minutes from New Paltz and Esopus, surrounded by 6.8 diverse and beautiful acres you will find a magnificent, impeccably renovated and restored stone home with modern updates.

Spacious rooms that include 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. One bedroom is on the first floor. As you step outside you find many amazing creations (Stone Structures) that the family has been working on for years. 3 car - 2 story Garage / Studio, gigantic stone chicken coop that has become an enclosed garden area, summer kitchen, woodshed and an amazing barn are many of the fabulous features. Garage has a full upstairs, makes the possibilities endless...

Artist studio or finish for a family member. Beautiful stream with a small pond run through the land. Truly a must see! $960,000

IMMACULATE RANCH ON 7+ ACRES

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This 3 BR, 2 full bath home has been completely renovated for efficiency. Well insulated walls, ceiling, doors, and windows. Backup home generator, Multi-fuel wood and oil furnace, Central air-conditioning, water softener and alarm system with mechanical monitoring. On the outside a spacious wrap around no maintenance deck, plenty of outdoor space to garden or put up an extra structure for the inspired artist. In addition, a large under house garage with a 10x10 foot door is a perfect space for large trucks, storage or hobby of choice. Perfect weekender home to move in and relax for years with little to no maintenance! $249,900

Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

HNI Builders

Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc.

Professional Craftsmanship for all phases of construction

www.stoneridgeelectric.com • Radiant Floor Tile

24 Months to Pay, 0% Interest (if qualified)

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• Roof De-icing Systems

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D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations.

Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017

Building Services

TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly rentals.

We have Gray, white, blue, tan, green (pinescented), pink (rose-scented), red & blue handicap accessible. (We also have a few w/ sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845-417-6461 or 845-7067197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail.com

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Gardening/ Landscaping

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Paramount Contracting & Development Corp.

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

SNOW PLOWING & SANDING Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

Down to Earth Landscaping Quality service from the ground up

Septic Systems • Drainage Driveways • Tree Removal Retaining Walls • Ponds

(845) 679-4742 schafferexcavating.com

Interiors & Remodeling Inc s ’ d e .

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Specializing in: Hardscape Tree trimming Fences Koi ponds Snow plowing

Benjamin Watson, Owner Phone: (845) 389-3028

From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

845-688-7951

www.tedsinteriors.com

HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal. Call Dave (845)514-6503- mobile.

House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts. 845-247-7365. GarysHauling. com

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JUST LISTED

Low-Rate Financing Available

HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (NewRefinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing.

Call 845-616-8574.

COUNTRY CLEANERS

JUST LISTED

Authorized Dealer & Installer

Cleaning Services

HOUSE CLEANING for a tidy sum. 845658-2073.

EXQUISITE 1874 STONE FARM HOUSE

HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available. (845)616-7470.

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Lost & Found

The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office is presently in Possession of Property believed to be proceeds of burglaries in the southern Ulster County area between January, 2012 and September 22, 2013. This property includes male and female jewelry, watches and coins. If you have had personal property stolen from you which has not been recovered you may make inquiry at the District Attorney’s Office investigative unit.

The phone number is 845-340-3280. Prop-

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March 1, 2018 erty not identified will be auctioned by the County of Ulster pursuant to the applicable New York statutes.

Sponsor

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Propane & Heating Oil

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Spirituality

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. (Never known to fail.) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3x).

Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank-you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank-you for your mercy towards me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

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Adoptions

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Animals

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Want to help but can’t adopt a cat? Don’t forget about our Foster Program! Visit our website UCSPCA.org, for details & pictures of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston (just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)331-5377.

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Pet Care

WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents.

The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-258-2725.

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed.

Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.