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ALMANAC WEEKLY

A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & Classifieds | Issue 50 | Dec. 10 – 17 Nature

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erhaps it started with Dawg music, the progressive, jazz-informed bluegrass associated with the mandolinist David Grisman and such cohorts as Tony Rice and Daryl Anger. And perhaps the long-running chops comedy of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones was its next big expression, followed closely by the more compositionally ambitious chamber folk and quasi-classical efforts of Edgar Meyer – often in collaboration with Yo Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor, who has himself tried his hand at sweeping, Coplandesque orchestral suites. But somehow, situating the Punch Brothers in this great tradition of newgrass and contemporary roots/classical fusion just doesn’t feel quite right.

The difference isn’t all that hard to locate. The Punch Brothers hit the

THE PUNCH BROTHERS KILL LIVE. Their gravely excellent records don’t even begin to hint at Thile’s goofball energy and wit (the reasons, one assumes, that he was tapped to replace Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion). stage looking like a youngish traditional bluegrass quintet. Within a few notes, they make it apparent that their chops

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are conservatory-grade and that their repertoire and style matrix are demonstratively broad: all still consistent with newgrass and the musically inclusive legacy of Grisman. What takes a few numbers to recognize is that the Punch Brothers are all about songs – very serious songs – in a way that most progressive bluegrass is not.

But wait: If you’re imagining listenerfriendly, graciously updated folksongs with a bit of a modern groove and a contemporary jones – songs of the kind that Chris Thile made with his first big project, Nickel Creek – then take a very sharp left from there into a world of real difficulty, (con)fusion and art.

The Punch Brothers do serve up the occasional sophisticated swing tune, like the lecherous and musical-theater-

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inspired “Patchwork Girlfriend” (from 2012’s Who’s Feeling Young Now?). Even less frequently, they burn barns in the traditional fashion of the people with such live-favorite bluegrass wigouts as “Rye Whiskey” (from 2010’s Antiphogmatic).

But the vast majority of the grooves on the Punch Brothers’ vinyl are dedicated to unadulterated, unapologetic, virtuoso art song: texturally and harmonically complex compositions with very few solos; long, through-composed song forms atop which float Thile’s legato and (sometimes) infuriatingly slow-developing melodies.

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p.m., $40, Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock; www.bearsvilletheater. com.

Mick Lynch plays Tivoli’s Carpenter Shop Theatre this Saturday

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ARS CHORALIS TO PERFORM WELCOME YULE CONCERTS IN KINGSTON AND WOODSTOCK

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rs Choralis’ 20th annual holiday concert, “Welcome Yule: Sing Joy!�, will be performed at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Kingston at 7 p.m. on Saturday, December 12 and at the Overlook Methodist Church in Woodstock at 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 13. The award-winning chorus, led by artistic director Barbara Pickhardt and assisted by Harvey Boyer, will perform a diverse array of music to capture the spirit of the holiday season.

The concert will feature Bob Hurd’s Misa del Pueblo Inmigrante, with soloists Jim Ulrich and Sheila France, guitarist Greg Dinger, percussionist Karen Levine and pianist Andrea Shaut. Other concert highlights include a medieval Mummers’ Play, the Ars Choralis Men’s Chorus singing Franz Biebl’s stunning “Ave Maria,� Eric Whitacre’s “Alleluia� and Franz Schubert’s “Benedictus es, Domine.�

Advance tickets for the concert cost $18 for adults and $9 for students age 18 and under are available at Catskill Art and Office Supply and the Golden Notebook in Woodstock, DIG in Saugerties and Mother Earth’s Storehouse in Kingston, as well as from chorus members. Tickets can also be ordered online for pickup at the door at $19 and $9.50. Tickets at the door cost $20 for adults, $10 for students.

The Redeemer Lutheran Church is located at 104 Wurts Street in Kingston. The Overlook Methodist Church is located at 233 Tinker Street in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.arschoralis.org.

Consider “Familiarity,� the first track on 2015’s T-Bone Burnett-produced The Phosphorescent Blues. To put it simply, if you have never heard the Punch Brothers before, then you have never heard anything like this before, these ten minutes of woven, Modernist string arpeggios, polyrhythmic chunking, arcing melodies with forestalled resolutions and stylistic disjunctions (dig that Palestrina-by-wayof Brian-Wilson a capella chorale about four minutes in). But if you are familiar with their previous records, “Familiarity� is unironically just that: Except for some subtle drumming and a hint of electric guitar (both Punch Brothers firsts), this is business as usual – albeit some of the strangest and most stubbornly original business out there.

The Punch Brothers kill live. Their gravely excellent records don’t even begin to hint at Thile’s goofball energy and wit (the reasons, one assumes, that he was tapped to replace Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion). While the records can be a demanding-if-notgrueling listen even for folks like me

who relish the difficulty, the fellows are genuine crowdpleasers live. They always play a handful of surprising covers.

Thile has been an unabashed indie-rock fanatic for years. Nickel Creek covered Pavement’s “Spit on a Stranger,� for Pete’s sake, and the Punch Brothers’ live take on Of Montreal’s “Gronlandic Edit� is a thing of inexplicable rightness. But even when playing such forbidding epics as “Familiarity,� the band’s combination of sheer instrumental prowess and strict commitment to their novel ensemble concept is slack-jaw-stunning to be in a room with. Maybe this is what roots music sounds like on Venus.

The inimitable-so-don’t-even-try Punch Brothers will be at the Bearsville Theater – bridging the gaps between Levon’s barn, Bowery Presents and the Maverick Concerts as if they were born for it – on Monday, December 14. Gabriel Kahane opens at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $40 and are available at www.bearsvilletheater.com.

The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock. Thile will be back in the Valley in a couple of weeks for

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a duo date with the brilliant jazz piano renegade Brad Mehldau at the Falcon in Marlboro on December 29. Look for a preview of that concert in next week’s Almanac Weekly. – John Burdick Punch Brothers, Monday, December 14, 8

Celtic singer and songwriter Mick Lynch performs at the Carpenter Shop Theatre in Tivoli this Saturday, December 12 at 7 p.m. One half of the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Dublin duo Storyman (formerly the Guggenheim Grotto), Lynch has also released a pair of striking raw and unadorned solo records, most recently Aliens, Ghosts and Lovers.

Tickets for this performance cost $20 and include a copy of Lynch’s new CD. Reserve tickets by e-mailing micklynchofficial@gmail.com. The Carpenter Shop is located at 60 Broadway in Tivoli.

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tano and Marlan Barry, will perform music from the 15th through the 18th centuries, including Celtic and Gypsy melodies as well as some modern tunes, on Saturday, December 12 at 6 p.m. (cocktails, performance, dinner) at a location to be disclosed to ticketholders.

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Larry Campbell & Theresa Williams play Bearsville this Saturday

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or a guitarist of such reputation in the roots/rock world, Larry Campbell’s actual personality on the instrument is refreshingly modest and understated. The “Oh wow” factor in his playing is a slow burn, and it usually kicks in when he reaches for other instruments. Campbell’s song-first ethic is as apparent in his work as leader as in his voluminous credits as sideman. He is just a toneful, unshowy and eminently versatile player in his genres, and cheers to us all for recognizing that as a value superior to the various modalities of shredding.

The music that he makes with his wife, singer/songwriter/guitarist Theresa Williams, is lucid, unfussy roots/rock and traditional melancholic folk played with honesty, grit and experience. Theresa often sounds like Lucinda Williams, with the laryngeal burrs sanded down a good bit; Campbell’s singing somewhat resembles Richard Thompson’s in register and in timbre.

Larry Campbell and Theresa Williams perform at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock this Saturday, December 12 at 9 p.m.

Visit www.bearsvilletheater.com for more information and ticket links. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

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Unison in New Paltz hosts Soul Purpose this Saturday The popular local horn band Soul Purpose returns to the Unison Arts Center for a night of music and dancing on Saturday, December 12 at 8 p.m. Nearly 20 years into their run as an in-demand dance band, Soul Purpose has pieced together a diverse-

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or call (845) 255-1559. Unison is located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz.

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Memorial concert for Lee Shaw this Friday

Jazz pianist Lee Shaw left behind a legacy of devotion to creating beautiful music when she passed away on October 25. The 89-year-old internationally renowned pianist, composer and bandleader will be honored at a memorial concert on Friday evening in Schenectady, hosted by AlbanyJazz. com. The event, produced by Shaw’s longtime trio members, drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel and bassist Rich Syra-

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Hallelujah Choruses on the horizon Start practicing for Handel’s Messiah performances in Kingston and Hudson

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f you wish to sing in Handel’s glorious Messiah this holiday season, you will have two choice opportunities to do so. The Bardavon continues the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (HVP)’s 56th season on Saturday, December 19 at 2 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston with a special holiday performance of Handel’s Messiah with guest conductor Christine Howlett. Guest vocalists from Cappella Festiva will join the HVP to perform George Frideric Handel’s most popular choral work, for a total of 130 instrumentalists and singers on the UPAC stage. Audience members will be invited to sing along. A pre-concert talk with Maestro Howlett and members of the orchestra will take place one hour before the concert for all ticketholders.

Prices for $20 Handel’s Messiah are $25, $35 and $50, depending on location.

Student Rush tickets will be available for $20 one hour prior to the concert, subject to availability. Tickets can be purchased at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072, and the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

Meanwhile, the Hudson Opera House hosts its Messiah Sing on Saturday, December 19 at 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, located at 369 Warren Street in Hudson. Supported by a string ensemble and vocal soloists, participants become the choir, conducted by Gwen Gould. The suggested donation is $15.

Students aged 18 and under get in free. For more information, visit http:// hudsonoperahouse.org.

but-stylistically-focused repertoire of soul, R & B, blues, swing and funk.

The band features Dr. Lori Morris on soprano saxes, flute, percussion and vocals; Rich DeCrosta on trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, vocals and percussion; Robert Gerhards on guitar and vocals; James Prosser on keyboards and piano; Steve Turowski on drums; Carrie Wykoff on vocals; and Francis Ralston on bass.

cuse, promises to be a touching gathering of longtime friends, students and bandmates of the influential and much-beloved area musician.

The concert, featuring Shaw’s original music and the standards that she loved to play, will be performed by seven bands comprised of many musicians who shared the stage with her, including Joe Barna, Bill Delaney, Peg Delaney, Mike DeMicco, John Esposito, Matt Finck, Otto Gardner, Gene Garone, Nick Hetko, Chris Kyle, Pete Levin, John Medeski, Patti Melita, Peter O’Brien, Lou Pappas, Chris Pasin, Brian Patneaude, Sarah Pedinotti, Jason Rogers, Adam Siegel, Jeff “Siege” Siegel and Rich Syracuse.

Local radio deejays Tim Coakley and Bill McCann will serve as emcees for the evening. A trailer of the recent film celebrating Shaw’s life, Lee’s 88 Keys, will be presented by director Susan Robbins, and a slideshow of photos from Shaw’s life will be shown.

Shaw, an Oklahoma native, was inducted into her state’s Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993, joining Dizzy Gillespie,

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he more scientists study endangered elephants, the more we can appreciate their intelligence, their inventiveness, their capacity for play and empathy – and the more appalling their slaughter for mere human adornment seems. While progress has been made to contain and outlaw the ivory trade in some countries, each year more than 30,000 elephants are still illegally killed for their ivory. Worse, elephant poaching also funds terrorism in Africa.

National Geographic has made a fascinating documentary about the global ivory trade titled Warlords of Ivory, to be screened this Friday, December 11 at 7 p.m. at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The film follows investigative journalist Bryan Christy as he uses GPS devices hidden in fake tusks to track ivory kingpins, East Asian importers and the rebel militias that benefit from poaching activity.

Filmmaker Katherine Carpenter will be on hand for a live question-and-answer session following the 50-minute screening.

Merritt Bookstore will also offer a selection of books highlighting the plight of elephants.

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“Lee Shaw personified love and beauty in every way,” says Siegel. “Her compositions and lyrical, swinging piano-playing were direct reflections of the beautiful person that Lee was inside and out. Lee was a role model not only for women, but for any person seeking the best out of life. Her grace, humility and concern for others will never be forgotten.”

The Lee Shaw Memorial Fund has been established to create an annual scholarship award to a high school pianist pursuing Jazz Studies in college. Contributions may be made payable to the Swingtime Jazz Society and mailed to Patti Melita, treasurer of the non-profit organization, at PO Box 232, Troy, NY 12181-0232. Please place “Lee Shaw Scholarship Fund” in the memo line.

– Debra Bresnan Lee Shaw Memorial Concert, Friday, December 11, 7-11 p.m., free, Unitarian Universal Society, 1221 Wendell Avenue, Schenectady; http://uuschenectady.org, www.albanyjazz.com.

Old Dutch Church presents Mendelssohn Club of Kingston

Each December, the Mendelssohn Club of Kingston presents a standingroom-only concert at the venerable Old Dutch Church in Kingston. This year’s concerts fall on Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12;

both begin at 8 p.m. Admission costs $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and students.

The 112-year-old Mendelssohn Club of Kingston was founded in 1903 “to promote interest in choral group singing; to promote friendship, sociability and culture among friends of music; and to lawfully do any and all things necessary, suitable and proper for the accomplishment of these purposes.” The Club is named for the great German composer whose songs and choral works were popular when the first glee clubs, many of them all-male, were founded in his name in the early years following the Civil War in New York and Philadelphia.

The Old Dutch Church is located on Wall Street in Kingston. For more information, visit http://mckny.org.

Service of Lessons & Carols with Kairos Kairos: A Consort of Singers, under the direction of Edward Lundergan, will present its annual Service of Lessons & Carols at the Holy Cross Monastery, located at 1615 Route 9W in West Park. The service will take place on Sunday, December 20 at 3 p.m. and will intersperse readings from the Old and New Testaments with seasonal motets, hymns and carols from the Medieval to the present.

The service will conclude with a performance of J. S. Bach’s Cantata 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (Awake, calls the voice to us) with full orchestra.

The cantata performance is the fourth and final in Kairos’ 2015 Bach Cantata Series, now in its tenth year. A holiday reception will follow the service, and all are cordially invited to attend.

The service is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted and will be matched by the Holy Cross Community to benefit a local Hudson Valley charitable organization. For more information, visit www.kairosconsort.org or call (845) 2569114.

Woodstock Playhouse hosts Well-Strung Christmas this Saturday

This Saturday evening, December 12, the Woodstock Playhouse will present a special performance by the charismatic all-male string quartet Well-Strung, fusing pop and classical music from Madonna to Beethoven with some caroling cheer.

A Well-Strung Christmas, Saturday, December 12, 7:30 p.m., $30-$60, Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill

Road, Woodstock, (845) 679-6900, www. woodstockplayhouse.org.

Bard benefit with Dawn Upshaw, Mary Stuart Masterson In a benefit for the Scholarship Fund of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and singers of the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, pianists of the Conservatory Postgraduate Piano Fellowship Program, actress Mary Stuart Masterson and the Chancellor Livingston Fifth-Grade Chorus present “A Winter Songfest,” a program of festive songs and ensembles on Sunday, December 13 at 3 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Tickets cost $15, $20 and $100 for the general public and are free for the Bard community with ID. To purchase tickets or for more information, call the box office at (845) 758-7900 or go to http://fishercenter.bard. edu. Bard College is located in Annandaleon-Hudson.

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Dec. 11 - 20 8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sat (12/19 only) • 3pm Sun Tickets: $24 Adults • $22 Seniors • $15 children under 12 An undisputed Christmas classic, this heart-warming play based on the 1947 film brings all the joy of the holidays right to the stage. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. A Rhinebeck Theater Society Production directed by Russ Austin.

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FREE PUBLIC EVENT Warlords of Ivory Friday, December 11, 7 p.m.

This gripping National Geographic documentary explores the global ivory trade, how poaching funds terrorism, and what is needed to protect Africa’s elephants.

Using GPS devices hidden in fake tusks, investigative journalist Bryan Christy reveals ivory kingpins, East Asian importers, and the rebel militias that benefit from poaching activity.

Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the Cary Institute auditorium.

Q&A with experts to follow the screening.

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Sat., Dec. 12 and Sat., Dec. 19 at 11 am The CENTER’s original musical adaptation of Dicken’s classic tale. Join Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge and some wacky ghosts as they find the true meaning of Christmas. Enjoy a live theater show with your favorite holiday songs performed

by Kids on Stage, The CENTER’s after school workshop program. Directed by Lisa Lynds. Join us after the show on Dec. 19 for treats and a visit from Santa!

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Frozendale on Saturday

Photo of Bill Brooks by Lauren Thomas

Rosendale’s annual Frozendale celebration returns to Main Street this Saturday, December 12. It officially runs from 12 noon to 6 p.m., but some downtown businesses will get on the festive bandwagon much earlier, with the Alternative Baker handing out free hot cider and cookies beginning at 7 a.m.

At 9 a.m., the ImmuneSchein Tea Haus will offer tea and cookies; Victoria Gardens will give out free treats as well, and conduct wreathmaking lessons on the half-hour until 6 p.m. Yoga Yoga will raise funds for refugees in Europe with a 9:30 a.m. class and a crafts fair from 12 noon to 4 p.m. At 10 a.m. the Rosendale Library will open its Holiday Booktique, and Ann Van Damm will read holiday stories for children there until 10:30. A tattoo art show will open at 11 a.m. at Guts ’n’ Glory Ink, and rumor has it that a wild Krampus will be lurking about the premises.

Frozendale’s annual Winter Gift Sale gets underway at 12 noon at the Creative Co-op and TRANSnDANCEnDRUM. Santa Claus and his elves will hold court at Bill Brooks’s Barber Shop, from which free hayrides will depart every half-hour from 12 to 2 p.m. Also at noon, Visions of Tibet will offer tea and raffles, cookie-decorating will begin at the Rosendale Café and the Town of Rosendale will repeat its annual tradition of handing out free collectible

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his Saturday afternoon, Time & Space, Limited (TSL) in Hudson will present a reprise screening of the broadcast that launched the increasingly popular Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series nine years ago: Julie Taymor’s magical, kid-friendly production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. It’s shortened and presented in English, but as sterling a recounting of the grand opera as could be imagined (we took our kid when he wasn’t yet 3, and he still remembers it fully!)

The next afternoon, on Sunday, December 12, TSL will present the National Theater of London Live simulcast of its new take on Charlotte Brontë’s romantically full Jane Eyre, which London critics have been raving about all year.

Finally, rounding out as full a spectrum of programming, there will be special screenings of Ingmar Bergman’s still-stunning 1961 masterpiece about mental illness, angst and the role of the spirit in our modern world, Through a Glass, Darkly, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons (with future screenings being planned for the rest of the remarkable trilogy that it starts off ).

– Paul Smart The Magic Flute, Saturday, December 12, 12:55 p.m., Jane Eyre, Sunday, December 13, 1 p.m., $20, Through a Glass, Darkly, Saturday, December 12, 2:30 p.m., Sunday, December 13, 1:15 p.m., $8, TSL Warehouse, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, (518) 822-8100, www.timeandspace.org.

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At 1 p.m. the Garden House will begin selling stuffed baked potatoes for $3 each, cooked in the wood-fired outdoor hearth in the restaurant’s front garden. At 2 p.m. you have your choice of catching a free matinée screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? at the Rosendale Theatre

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Lace Mill hosts Made in Kingston

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great party and a terrific opportunity to buy local”: That’s how organizer Pat Courtney-Strong sums up the Made in Kingston holiday shopping expo hosted each year in the city’s reviving Midtown neighborhood. A New Urbanist planner by trade, Courtney-Strong is all about repurposing old industrial buildings; so it makes perfect sense that Made in Kingston 2015 will be held at the Lace Mill, RUPCO’s new renovation project providing workforce housing for artists at 165 Cornell Street.

The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. this Thursday, December 10 in the first-floor common areas of the apartment complex, with proceeds benefiting the Lace Mill Community Fund. A $5 donation at the door covers food, beverages and live musical entertainment.

Participating artists and businesses this year include Jane Bloodgood Abrams (fine art), American Made Monster Studio (sculpture/props/set design), Ameribag (Healthy Back Bag), Anything Goes Vinyl (handbags), ARTBAR (gallery), Bailey Pottery (ceramic kilns), Jerrice Baptiste (children’s books), Baron’s International Kitchen (gourmet foods), Carole Amper Hats, Boneshaker (tee-shirts), Cornell Street Studio (gallery), D’vorah Darvie (home décor), Ellipse Designs (designer fashions), Kingston Candy Bar, Kevin Godbey (photography), Moe Goergen (canine wear), ImmuneSchein (elixirs), Karmabee (stationery/tee-shirts/baby clothes), Keegan Ales (craft beer), Michael Lalicki ( jewelry/home décor), Michael’s Candy Corner, Karen Levine (home décor), Bruce McPherson (books), Milne’s At Home Antiques, Crystal Moore (leather goods), Olivieri’s Arts, Crafts and Coffee, Linda Piazza (jewelry), Lauren Piperno (fine art), Jessica Poser (fine art), R & F Paints (encaustics), Jay Teske Leather Co., Deborah Mills Thackrey (photography), Tonner Dolls and Urban Apis (honey/beeswax products).

Check it out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/made-in-kingston-778554718875383.

– Frances Marion Platt

Pantry for a pawprint mold.

Happy Hour at the 1850 House starts at 4 p.m., as will the Redwing Blackbird Theater’s puppet performance, a 30-minute Lenape tale adapted from the book Rainbow Crow. Half an hour later the Rosendale Improvement Association Brass Band and Social Club will begin cranking out the Dixieland tunes in front of TRANSnDANCEnDRUM, then lead the line of march to by the Big Cheese for the annual Mac & Cheese Bake-Off. Anyone can enter and compete for the prizes donated by local businesses; you just have to fill out an entry form and drop off your cheesy masterpiece between 4:30 and 4:50 p.m. Taste-testing gets underway at 5 p.m. sharp, and spectators are invited to consume all the entries after the winners are announced. For Bake-Off entry forms, e-mail frozendale2011@ gmail.com. You can also use that address if you’re interested in volunteering for the event.

For more details on Frozendale 2015, visit www. facebook.com/ f r o z e n d a l e - i n - r o s e n d a l e -1 2 1 2 1 5 854340541275188/?pnref=story.

– Frances Marion Platt

Winter Wonderland in Catskill The Village of Catskill, long a gateway to the Catskills and West as well as one of the Hudson’s great river ports, is in the midst of what can now be called a bona fide revival. New restaurants are opening up on its Main Street, alongside new stores, a growing lodging industry and the rising promise of Rob Kalin’s Catskill Mill project, which stretches from Main Street down to the scenic creek that’s turning into a draw for new residents snatching up historic properties in and around town. It’s getting harder to find parking on weekends as well as working weekdays these days.

On December 11 and 12, Catskill hosts its annual Winter Wonderland on Friday evening and all day Saturday: not in competition with neighboring communities for the first time in memory. Shops will be open with special decorations and refreshments; carolers will serenade those out and about. There’ll be a People’s Choice Awards window contest and Small Business Raffle, live

entertainment, refreshments and various special events.

Friday evening, expect readings at the Community Center and Bridge Street Theatre, a violinist at 394 Main, Celtic music at 5:30 p.m. at the Magpie Bookstore, a wandering guitarist, an art reception at Rip’s Gallaquarium and Tarot readings at the General Store of Catskill. On Saturday, there will be pictures with Santa and crafts for kids presented by Lowe’s at the Community Center, a traveling puppet show theater, a Winter Vendors’ Market highlighting local produce at Kirwan’s Game Store, an art opening at the Frisbee Agency, magicians, face-painting, bike raffles, a special matinée and magician at the Catskill Community Theater, musician Brian Dewan, a brass quartet and a Chocolate Caliente Posada (Hot Cocoa Procession) at La Casa Latina, near the 6 p.m. tree-lighting spot by the County Office Building.

Talk about a grand chance to see the new, rising Catskill, along with a bit of its history.

– Paul Smart Winter Wonderland, Friday, December 11, 5-9 p.m., Saturday, December 12, 10

a.m.-6 p.m., free, Main Street, Catskill.

TNTappers this Sunday in New Paltz The TNTappers, a regional troupe of tap-dancing senior citizens including retired New Paltz High School teacher and coach Franklin Davis, will perform this Sunday, December 13 at 2 p.m. at the New Paltz Community Center.

The Community Center is located 3 Veterans’ Drive in New Paltz, behind the former Town Hall on Route 32 North. For more information, call (845) 255-2512.

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Kate Hamilton exhibition at SUNY-Ulster's Muroff-Kotler Gallery

Super-size me Kate Hamilton’s giant clothing art on view at SUNY-Ulster

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ging, allowing them to be raised and lowered like sails on a boat. At the moment, in the configuration in which the rigging was last left, the garment appears to be dancing on its own, arms bent at the elbow, an invisible wearer swaying to an unheard beat.

The giant shirt shares the gallery space

two-story-high, blackand-white-striped boatneck tee made of sailcloth and sized for a giant hangs from the ceiling in a corner of the Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNYUlster in Stone Ridge. The sleeves of the enormous shirt are suspended from rig-

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with two more colossal constructions suspended from the ceiling: a room-height, unbuttoned camisole of translucent white sailcloth spilling onto the floor – its bodice cleverly boned with actual whalebone – and an 18-foot-long pair of pristinewhite sailcloth overalls, one strap artfully dropped as the garment appears to float off towards the sky, only contained by the ceiling in the room.

The exhibit is called “Between the Lines” and the huge garments are the work of New Paltz-based artist Kate Hamilton.

A costumer for art performances, dance, opera and theater in New York City and abroad, her gallery exhibitions of enormous attire take clothing to the next level: off the actors and onto its own stage. Clothing becomes metaphor for human experience in her hands, and the unexpected sight of the shapes so familiar to all of us rendered huge breaks through our usual associations.

Walking into the gallery at SUNYUlster, dwarfed by the gigantic garments,

one’s childlike sense of wonder is evoked.

The reaction is one that Hamilton says she hears often from gallerygoers, who tell her that the experience of interacting with the huge items of clothing reminds them of when they were little and adults were big. That sensation is heightened with the garments into which one can enter: Standing inside the black-andwhite-striped “shirt-house,” as Hamilton refers to it, suggests the childhood e xperience of being in a fort or hidden away in a “secret space.”

The first time that Hamilton created a huge garment – which, by the way, she sews on a regular Singer home sewing machine – was for the set of a stage show in Zurich. “I didn’t know how I was going to do it, and it was a challenge,” she says. “But it was exciting to try something where you have to figure it out, and because I knew how to make clothes, I knew that if I expanded the pattern pieces they would still work together. I knew exactly what it would

The first time that Hamilton created a huge garment – which, by the way, she sews on a regular Singer home sewing machine – was for the set of a stage show in Zurich.

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interesting; I was curious about exploring the difference between something tiny and something big.”

– Sharyn Flanagan “Between the Lines,” through Friday, December 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free, SUNYUlster, 491 Cottekill Road, Stone Ridge; (845) 687-5000, www.sunyulster.edu, www.katehamiltonstudio.com.

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MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE HOSTS ART FORAY

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ooking for an excuse to get somewhere magical this week, and do a bit of cultural shopping while you’re at it? The ever-intrepid and inventive Wired Gallery of High Falls is hosting another of its popular Art Foray sales event at the Mohonk Mountain House this week, December 8 through 13. Among the 18 artists and master craftspeople exhibiting and selling works will be jewelers and ceramicists, photographers and quite a few painters.

Mohonk’s daily 4 o’clock Victorian tea will also be open to all, as well as those magnificent grounds and many cozy spots for a bit of quiet reading or mulling over gift choices. Who can resist? Just remember to mention “Art Foray” at the gatehouse this Mohonk Community Week and get in for free.

– Paul Smart Art Foray, Tuesday-Sunday, December 8-13, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., free, Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz; www.thewiredgallery.com.

become in terms of its shape, but what I hadn’t thought about was structure and gravity; it can’t stand on its own.”

She raised that first giant shirt using tent poles. “And when I looked at it, it just made me laugh,” she says. “It made me happy. And that happens every time I put them up, now; there’s something about the interaction people have with them that makes them happy.”

Hamilton says that her work is always experimental. Her gallery exhibits sometimes include elements of performance art, offering a chance for viewers not only to engage with the work, but also to have impact upon it.

For the opening reception of “Between the Lines,” she invited the students of Michael Asbill’s 20th-Century Art History class to make original art to project onto the garments using overhead projectors.

Cheyenne Rossler, one of the students, says that Hamilton gave them free rein to do whatever they wanted to do; but after hearing from the artist that the stripes on the shirt referenced lined paper in her mind, and that the black-againstwhite striping was suggestive of the contrast of death and life (more on that in a bit), it inspired many of the students to use text along with visual images for their projections. Some of the students employed thoughts about grieving and others made observations about the roles that clothing plays in our lives. A video of the experience plays at the exhibit, and the students’ projections are attached to the windows of the gallery for viewing while the show is up: through Friday, December 11.

The exhibit is a personal one for

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Hamilton, dedicated to the memory of her Mom, Helen S. Hamilton, who passed away a year ago. As playful as the giant black-and-white shirt seems to the viewer entering the gallery, it has associations for the artist that go to a much deeper level, created as it was during a year of coping with devastating loss by working through it. Whether that comes through for the viewer is questionable, says the artist, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter, with the observer free to make his or her own associations. “It’s an experiential thing,” she says. “It brings up the questions of structure, of clothing as shelter...and it asks the question of what’s bigger than us, or are we so expansive that we think we’re that big...you can think what you want to think.”

But for the artist, it’s part of a memorial.

Not only was her Mom fond of wearing similar striped shirts (as is the artist herself ), when the black-and-white lines began to suggest lined paper to Hamilton, that made her see the shirt as a communication vehicle, she says, on which she could write to her Mom by projecting letters to her onto it: that desire that we have when losing someone still to be able just to talk to them. She was intrigued with the concept, but being a private person, didn’t really want to put

her personal thoughts out there for all to read. The project with the students at SUNY projecting their own voices through thoughts and images onto the shirt at the opening seemed like a good way to explore the idea.

And in working through her grief, Hamilton also wanted to honor the things that her mother loved to do. Her Mom was an illustrator who loved to weave, so Hamilton took a drawing class and a weaving class at the Women’s Studio Workshop, although neither were things she herself really enjoys doing. “I was just trying to understand,” she says. In the weaving class, she learned how to spin thread from mulberry paper, which can then be woven into any type of shape. “So I wrote a letter to my mother, cut the letter up, and spun it into thread and wove these tiny shirts...shirt after shirt after shirt.”

The exhibit at SUNY-Ulster includes six of these palm-sized intimate little treasures, the last one with a strand of inked paper left hanging to reveal the process of their making. Having always worked on a grand scale, Hamilton found it difficult to work so tiny. “It took a lot of time, and gave me a lot of time to think and to just sit there and do this little tiny thing. I’ve always liked to work faster, and I’ve only worked large until this, but it was

What goes down when seven Buddhist monks from the Labrang Tashikyil Monastery in Dehra Dun, India pay their second visit to the Tibetan Center at 875 Route 28 just west of Kingston, as is happening from this Friday to next Wednesday, December 11 to 16? Well, among other things, this Saturday they’ll chant prayers, blow long horns and make an offering to welcome, in absentia, their exiled spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They’ll dismantle a Chenrezig sand mandala that they created in 2013, dispose of it in a body of moving water and begin to assemble a new one. The monks will dance, tell stories, meditate, conduct workshops and – lest anyone imagine that they’re still mentally stuck in some medieval outpost in the Himalayas – deliver an informational PowerPoint presentation about their home monastery (and a fundraising pitch for their work).

What can a visitor do at the Tibetan Center while the distinguished visitors are in town? Dine with the monks, watch the mandala-making in progress, learn how to set up a Buddhist altar, practice traditional butter sculpture techniques using Play-Doh, join a meditation session, get your home or business blessed, take a workshop in Tibetan language or cooking and lots more. All activities are open to the general public, with donations strictly voluntary and based on what participants feel that they can afford.

For more info, visit www.tibetancenter. org/events.

– Frances Marion Platt

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STAGE maybe even friendships, that we don’t actually need.” The Bard production will be performed by Sobelle and directed by David Neumann, with scenic installation design by Steven Dufala.

Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 17 through 19, plus a 2 p.m. Saturday matinée. Tickets cost $45 general admission, $15 for students and children (suitable for ages 8 and above), and can be ordered online at http://fishercenter. bard.edu or by calling the box office at (845) 758-7900. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is located on the Bard College campus, at 60 Manor Avenue just off Route 9G in Annandaleon-Hudson.

– Frances Marion Platt

Sparks in the dark HVSF performs Northern Lights: Winter Tales by Hans Christian Andersen this week at Beacon’s Howland Center CRAIG SCHWARTZ

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Geoff Sobelle to perform The Object Lesson at Bard

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need to see Geoff Sobelle’s much-lauded theater piece The Object Lesson.

The one-man show will be performed on Thursday through Saturday, December 17 through 19, at the black-box-style LUMA Theater in the Fisher Center at Bard College, where Sobelle is a faculty member when he isn’t being co-artistic director of the “renegade absurdist outfit” rainpan 43 or a company member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company and core teacher at the Pig Iron School. The Object Lesson is described as “a funny, sweet

or conspicuous consumers and pack rats, the obsessive/ compulsive, the anal-retentive, the disorganized and the merely untidy, ’tis that dreaded time of year when we must clear out a year’s worth of accumulated “stuff ” from our dwellings in order to make room for new Christmas acquisitions (or just to invite people over without shame). If you are a prisoner of your own possessions but find clutter-elimination experts more terrifying than clowns or zombies, maybe you

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and meticulously crafted examination of our relationship to the many objects we encounter during the course of our lives” and “a performance that unpacks our relationship to everyday objects: breaking, buying, finding, fixing, trading, selling, stealing, storing and becoming buried under a world of things.”

Originally commissioned by Lincoln Center’s LCT3, The Object Lesson won the 2015 Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design “for creating an immersive environment built from the material debris of an individual life. For sparking curiosity in the audience about the need, meaning and weight of their own lives’ objects.” The Guardian called it “a hugely enjoyable, highly intelligent, ultraconnected meditation on our attachment to the past – old things and emotions,

What was your favorite fairy tale as a child? I remember being entranced by “The Tinderbox,” though always befuddled as to whether the three magical dogs with eyes as big as teacups, dinnerplates and windmills were proportionately enormous or just had gigantic eyes and were otherwise dogsized. But perhaps what’s left out is just as important as what’s kept in to make a good fairy tale memorable.

Hans Christian Andersen’s storytelling flair was lean and mysterious and often quite dark in ways that sometimes get sanitized to protect children’s tender sensibilities. But kids’ imaginations can cope with a surprising degree of weirdness and peril when entering the realm of fantasy. One of Andersen’s bleakest stories, “The Little Match Girl,” is used as the unifying narrative device in the new play Northern Lights, Mona Z. Smith’s adaptation of Andersen works that also include “The Wild Swans,” “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” “The Snow Queen” – and, yes, my cherished “Tinderbox.”

“On a snowy winter night, a match flares,” reads the official synopsis. “In

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a child’s small hands and limitless imagination, that one flickering match becomes a thousand brilliant lights, each illuminating a fantastic story to chase away the cold and the dark: tales of princesses and beggars, castles and caves, goblins and witches, soldiers and angels.” Sounds like the Scandinavian variant of the Arabian Nights, with the doomed street urchin standing in for Scheherazade. Works for me!

You can catch a staged reading (ergo, no mutant dogs need be auditioned) of Northern Lights: Winter Tales by Hans Christian Andersen this week at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon and St. Mary-in-the-Highlands Church in Cold Spring, performed by some very talented folks from the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. From Tuesday through Friday, December 8 to 11, the show will be performed at 7 p.m. at the Howland Center. On Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, it will move to St. Mary-in-the-Highlands, with performances at 2:30 and 7 p.m. both days. Cookies and conversation with the Hudson Valley-based playwright, Mona Z. Smith, will follow both matinées at the church.

Tickets cost $40 for matinées and $50 for evening performances, with applicable discounts for seniors, members of the military, students and children. To order, visit http://hvshakespeare.org/whatsplaying/buy-tickets.html.

– Frances Marion Platt

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Sanity clause Miracle on 34 th Street onstage at Center for the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck next two weekends A possibly delusional man recently discharged from a psychiatric rehab facility finds a job as a departmentstore Santa, becomes entangled in the lives of several co-workers and the young daughter of one of them and ends up in court fighting efforts to have him permanently committed to a mental institution. He goes by the name Kris Kringle and proclaims himself to be the real Santa Claus while infuriating his bosses by advising some Macy’s customers to shop elsewhere. If Miracle on 34th Street had been written in 2015 instead of 1947, it might’ve turned out a black comedy (with sardonic narration by David Sedaris), a bleak tragedy about America’s broken mental health care system or even a macabre horror movie with a rampaging slasher Santa. Instead it’s a light, frothy, old-fashioned confection about faith, honesty and the true meaning of Christmas giving.

Imagine that.

Catching a stage version of this uplifting holiday screen classic might be just the antidote to our daily deluge of depressing news of violent incidents around the world. This month at the Center for the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, the Rhinebeck Theatre Society is presenting Miracle on 34th Street in a production directed by Russell Austin. Doug Hoffman stars as Kringle, with Alina Gonzalez as Doris Walker, Janey Langen as Susan (the little girl played by Natalie Wood in the original movie) and David Foster as Fred Galey among the 30+-member cast.

The show opened on December 4 and will continue on weekends through December 20. Curtain time is 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays (except December 19), with matinées at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 19 and all Sundays. Tickets cost

See Tchaikovsky ’s beloved holiday ballet this weekend in Kingston, Poughkeepsie or Tannersville

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t’s inevitable. Resistance is useless. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat; and it just isn’t a proper holiday season if you don’t catch at least one performance of The Nutcracker. It’s time to take a load off those relentlessly gifthunting feet for a couple of hours and let some talented local kids and their balletically trained adult mentors do the hoofing while you drink in the sugarplummy spectacle. Here are three fine opportunities in our neck of the woods:

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie: The New Paltz Ballet Theatre performs its 17 th annual production of The Nutcracker, featuring New York City Ballet dancers Daniel Ulbricht and Erica Pereira, beginning at 2 and 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, December 12 and at 3 p.m. this Sunday, December 13. The ballet’s dreamlike journey through the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of Sweets is created in part by the colorful costumes and scenery of renowned designer Ray Delle Robbins of the Houston Ballet. The staging and choreography are by the New Paltz Ballet Theatre’s artistic directors, New York City Ballet alumni Peter Naumann and Lisa Naumann. Tickets cost $30 general admission, $27 for students and $25 for Bardavon members, and are available at the Bardavon box office, (845) 473-2072, the Ulster Performing Arts Center box office, (845) 339-6088, or via Ticketmaster, (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more info visit www.bardavon.org.

Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston: The long-running annual production of The Nutcracker by the Catskill Ballet Theatre has become a tradition for many families and schools in the area: Tiny tykes who got their first stage experience scampering out from under Mother Ginger’s voluminous skirts have grown up to dance lead roles in CBT productions many years later. For 2015, Jennifer Moll-Safonovs dances the Sugar Plum Fairy, Norbert Nirewicz the Nutcracker Prince and Isabella Keesler and Kaitlyn Nero alternate as Clara. Performances begin at 8 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12, with a 2 p.m. matinée this Sunday, December 13. Tickets cost $30 general admission, $25 for seniors and students and can be purchased at the UPAC box office, (845) 339-6088, or via Ticketmaster, (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more info visit http://catskillballet.org.

Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville: The Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory New York performs Tchaikovsky’s classic holiday ballet based on a tale by E. T. A. Hoffman this Saturday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m., presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation. Tickets cost $30 general admission, $25 for seniors and $7 for students if purchased at the door; $25, $20 and $7 if booked ahead at https://app.arts-people. com/index.php?ticketing=cmf#nutcracker up to five hours before the performance. In an unusual twist, Herr Drosselmeyer, the kindly godfather who bestows the magical Nutcracker doll upon young Clara, will be cast as a woman: Auntie Drosselmeyer will be portrayed by Margo Sappington, Clara by Sydney Henson and the Nutcracker Prince by Orlando Harbutt.

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NATURE

Kernel of truth Cary Institute predicts 2017 Lyme disease spike to follow 2015’s bumper acorn crop

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ave you noticed more acorns underfoot this fall than usual? It’s not your imagination. According to Michael Fargione, manager of field research and outdoor programs at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, we’re experiencing a “mast year” for acorns in our region, meaning that the crop is much more abundant than usual.

“Mast” refers to the seeds of woody plants that are eaten by wildlife, he explains. Acorns and hickory nuts, for example, are classified as “hard mast,” reflecting their hard-shelled, protective outer covering, while “soft mast” has seeds surrounded by fleshy pulp: Think berries, stone fruits and apples. And while white and black oaks and hickories produced only modest amounts of seeds this year,

the red oaks in our region were prolific, producing huge quantities of acorns.

Many trees and shrubs in our area also had greater-than-usual soft-mast crops in 2015.

For local wildlife, this means an abundance of food. A mast year helps wildlife fuel their southern migrations or stock their winter larders.

For us, it means not only that the going might be difficult on some hikes – Fargione says that some of the forested sites at the Cary Institute have been like “walking on marbles” due to the volume of fallen acorns – but it could also mean an increased chance of getting Lyme disease two years from now.

But that’s not something to panic over, he adds. “You should be careful whenever you’re out in areas where there are ticks, whether it’s a high year or a low year. It

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The reason there’s believed to be an increase in Lyme disease two years following a mast year is because animals that feed on seeds do better with an increased supply of food, so the summer following a mast year will bring an increase in seedeater populations as well as the predators that feed on them, including ticks.

For example, the summer after a big acorn crop, the white-footed mouse population explodes, says Fargione, increasing the likelihood that newly hatched black-legged ticks will take their first blood meal from a mouse.

“Mice are very efficient at infecting ticks with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, so with the ticks that are out there having an easier time finding

a mouse to feed on, there will be more ticks getting the Lyme spirochete. Then the following year – two years after the mast year – those ticks will produce their own offspring. And more ticks means the probability of a human encountering a tick is going to be higher.”

The theory is still speculative at this point, he adds, but persuasive research backing up an increase in Lyme disease two years after a mast year was developed by Cary Institute disease ecologist Rick Ostfeld, who specializes in study of the West Nile virus and Lyme disease. Ostfeld is one of a number of scientists at the Cary Institute who conduct research in the ecological field.

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NIGHT SKY

The year’s best meteors Don’t miss Sunday night

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he year’s very best night to watch the sky? It’s this Sunday, the 13th. You’ll see the finest meteor shower of 2015. These are the Geminids, the sky’s “Old Faithful.” Their trustworthy one-a-minute frequency has created reliable December sparklers for the past century.

Someone at a deli recently asked, “What did you think of the Leonids?” Whoa, the Leonids, last month? They were a dud, a zero, just as we expected. You see, most meteor showers deliver just a few shooting stars per hour. Not worth our time. True, it was the Leonids that gave us the best shower of our lives in a predawn spectacle on November 18, 2001 that produced five brilliant meteors every minute. But the Leonids only do that a few times a century.

They’re not expected to perform well again until 2099.

News media often carry headlines saying, “Watch meteors tonight!” But nearly all of those showers are hype. In truth, this year, when it comes to a solid, worthy spectacle, we had only the Perseids on August 12, and now the Geminids.

Geminids are much slower than those other showers because they don’t strike us head-on. They come at Earth sideways. At 20 miles per second, they lope along at half the speed of the Perseids. It’s very appealing.

Instead of sharp, brief zaps across the sky, we get leisurely streakers.

These meteors are also the most mysterious in the known universe. All other showers are debris from comets: skimpy stuff less dense than ice. Strangely, Geminid meteors are twice as dense, yet nonetheless a bit too lightweight to be bona fide metal/stone asteroid material. So what could they be?

There are other oddities, too. All other major meteor showers have been observed for centuries or millennia. But the Geminids were unseen as recently as the Civil War, when they started as a modest shower that delivered only 20 meteors per hour. Over time they’ve grown increasingly rich; now they deliver one to two a minute.

Despite decades of searching, the source of these strange fireworks was unknown until 1983, when NASA’s infrared-detecting satellite IRAS found a small body moving in exactly the same path as the meteoroid swarm. Named Phaethon, it has a speedy orbit that carries it far within the orbit of Mercury and then out past Mars into the

At 20 miles per second, Geminids lope along at half the speed of the Perseids. Instead of sharp, brief zaps across the sky, we get leisurely streakers.

are at the core of the organization’s mission. Structured educational programs examining an aspect of ecology are offered year-round; winter lectures are held in the auditorium on-site and the outdoor programs that Fargione coordinates the rest of the year are held out on the grounds.

Nobody really knows the reason why there are cycles in acorn production, he says, but it may be linked to warmer spring temperatures during oak flowering.

“We haven’t identified all the factors that are involved in making a mast year, but certainly there’s a close relationship between weather conditions when the trees are blooming and whether or not we have a bumper crop of acorns. It’s not unlike a lot of other trees and plants that bear fruit: Weather conditions are a factor.”

And it’s not that a mast year is such an unusual thing; it’s just that it’s an irregular event and difficult to predict.

“We may have one good year, then two or three years where [acorn production] is moderate or even poor,” says Fargione.

There is some speculation that the sporadic nature of mast years is actually an adaptation of the plant, he says, at least when it comes to hard mast. “If the trees produce irregular crops of acorns, the things that eat the acorns can’t track it and build their populations up. And unlike soft mast, hard mast can’t germinate into a viable plant once it’s consumed, so an increase in animals that eat all the acorns means a decline in hard-mast trees.

Boom-and-bust crop cycles may be one way hard-mast trees cope with being the target of so many hungry critters.”

– Sharyn Flanagan Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Route 44), Millbrook; (845) 677-5343, www.caryinstitute.org.

Opera singer-turnedpoet Roger Roloff reads his new poems this Saturday in New Paltz It is refreshing to encounter a body of work that honors the traditional forms of rhymed couplets and sestinas and sonnets and so on.

This is what a reader will find in Roger Roloff ’s newest book of poetry, Heartwood: New and Selected Poems. It isn’t that the old familiar rhythms and structures are necessarily easier to read than more freeform poems, although the mind accustomed to hearing song lyrics naturally makes sense of such elements without even understanding why. And Roloff ’s work is anything but simplistic. But there is something reassuring when you notice the pattern and begin to anticipate the next twist of wording that falls on just the right beat.

Trained as an opera singer, Roloff brings this traditional poetic sensibility to the page. He agrees that his background does have something to do with informing the style, “because we sing in phrases determined by the length of the breath,” he explains. “This goes right to the heart of spoken poetry, which is for much of my work pentameter: It’s all about the length of a single breath. These forms aren’t imposed; they come from the language.

Most of the meter is iambic; I sometimes change and do anapestic or trochaic or word substitutions that vary the meter.

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asteroid belt. Since Phaethon does not develop a cometlike tail nor shed material when approaching the Sun, it was assumed to be an asteroid, a rocky body.

Fine – except asteroids don’t disintegrate to produce meteor showers: curioser and curioser. Maybe Phaethon is a true rocky asteroid that suffered enough collisions to fill its lopsided orbit with debris. Or else, maybe Phaethon is an odd, unique has-been comet, one that completely lost its icy outer covering and is at present just a comet-core that has perhaps acquired a coating of interplanetary dust grains. Either way, the mystery material – which leaves no trails – puts on quite a show.

Also unlike the Perseids or Leonids, Geminids don’t ask you to wait until the hours before dawn. They’re well-seen all night long, although they’re particularly abundant around midnight. If that holds no appeal, no problem; you ought to see one every few minutes even if you venture outdoors at 8 p.m.

Try to get away from lights to a place with an open expanse of sky – not just breaks between trees. Bring a folding chair to be comfortable. Take in as much sky as possible.

This year the Moon is thin and harmless and conditions are perfect. Be patient and keep your eyes glued upward. If it’s clear Sunday night, you will see meteors.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

This all comes from how we speak.

Likewise, how we sing – some of us.”

A singer since childhood, he spent more than two decades onstage as a baritone in some of the world’s great operatic productions, such as playing Wotan in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and numerous

other works.

“My degrees are not in Music. I always enjoyed the liberal arts. I have a BA and MA in Liberal Arts, and what’s called an ABD: all but dissertation. I would have completed it at Stony Brook, but at the

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Flowers for a winter windowsill African violets aren’t quite so fussy as they’re reputed

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nd now, with a bow to my feminine side, a little something about African violets: houseplants that have traditionally been thought of as old ladies’ flowers. Still, I’ll admit it: I like African violets. They offer so much for what little effort I make in growing them.

Mainly, what they offer is flowers, and at a time – now and throughout fall and winter – when flowers are at a premium. I have only one variety, but if I were really into African violets, I could be choosing plants with white, pink, blue or purple flowers, or blue with white picotee, or white blushed pink or…any one of a number of flower colors and color combinations. And then there are varieties with ruffled, scalloped, quilted or variegated leaves, and plants that range from few-inch-wide miniatures to over a foot-wide large.

My African violets are standard-issue blue-flowered, flat-leafed, medium-sized plants. As I said, I put little effort into growing them.

If you study up on growing African violets, though, you’d think them very exacting in their requirements. For starters, they’re said to need special potting soil, well-drained but, with the addition of extra peat or sphagnum moss, consistently moist. They’re said to need bright light – preferably a north- or westfacing window, or fluorescent – but not too bright. Direct sun will allegedly burn their leaves. Avoid getting water on the leaves or it will leave a dark spot. Avoid getting water at the base of the plant (the

crown) or it will rot. Avoid overwatering.

Avoid underwatering. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: Avoid cold water.

Moving on to the air around the plants: Avoid chilling the plants, moving them away from cold windows at night or stuffing some newspaper between the plants and the window. But also don’t keep the plants too warm. Also, ramp up the humidity by growing them in the basement or setting them above trays filled with pebbles and water.

Whew! That’s effort. I don’t do any of that.

I use the same potting soil for African violets as for all my other plants (except succulents), from tomato seedlings to fig trees to bonsai Ficus. My plants sit happily in south and west windows, some in a cold room with nothing to stop the flow of cold from the glass. My watering is whimsical, leaving them sometimes sitting in too much water and other times in bone-dry soil. I pay no special attention to water temperature or to whether or not water gets on the leaves.

My African violets are growing and flowering just fine.

Perhaps my African violets grow too well because every a couple of years or so, they get so overgrown that they’re

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anything. I decided to reinvent myself. I retreated, and it was a strategic retreat to our place in New Paltz. My wife and I had this place since 1987. I devoted my time to gardening and was allowed to use the woodlot behind our house. I immersed myself in the country life that I had come from when I grew up. It was good to get back. It opened up many creative visions of the kind of poetry I wanted to write.”

Roloff, like many of his favorites – Wendell Berry, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wilbur, Robert Frost and Alfred, Lord Tennyson – takes inspiration from the rural life that he has fashioned, noting its seasonal pursuits of gardening and woodskeeping. “And Longfellow,” he adds, “who was very underrated. He was quite a

blossoms. I cloned the plants with stem cuttings, which took up a lot of space and were slow to root. So, I’m thinking, “Why not leaf cuttings for the begonias also, this spring?”

Begonias can be multiplied by cutting the fleshier parts of leaves into triangular sections, each with a major vein, and sticking each triangle upright in a rooting mix. Or another approach is to cut across the large veins on the undersurface of a begonia leaf, then lay the whole leaf on the rooting mix, pinning it down to maintain contact with the mix. In either case, with moisture, a clear tent, bright light et cetera, roots and new plants develop.

Again, fascinating.

A few years back I sowed dustlike seeds from a begonia plant. The seedlings matured into a few plants that were mounds of green, dripping all summer long with fire-engine-red

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 our website at HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

mythmaker for his time. People who know my work assume that I’ve taken hikes a lot, and that is true; but fully half of the poems I’ve written have come from right out my back door. That’s what turned me on as a writer. I do much of my work by a woodstove in the winter, when things slow down and I’m able to think consecutive thoughts. You know how frenzied the life up here can get. It provides a good place to sit and work, and also a good place to get rid of the things I don’t like because the woodstove is right there.”

Roloff belongs to a small poetry group in LaGrange, on the other side of the river. “We get together once a month and kind of dissect a poet. This month we’re going to do Robert Creeley. It’s primarily a poetry appreciation group. They’re a little reticent about forcing their work on everybody.”

Meanwhile, public reading is something that the poet enjoys. When asked whether he imagines communicating

with an audience as he’s in the process of writing, he says, “I lean more towards self-examination. When people listen to these poems, they’re actually overhearing me. What I say in the poems is essentially me talking to myself.”

His poems celebrate the Earth and all sorts of human interactions with it.

Nature and work and simple joys fill his lines, along with unending curiosity and questioning – and some beseeching, mixed with a measure of humor. “I don’t write the same thing twice; I do stray outside that boundary. But I must say that the important thing is to look into a person’s own heart and write, and to be as truthful as possible. I think this is the big thing for a poet: to say the truth beautifully. It may be not so beautiful a truth, but to put it out there, it has to be done in such a way that it does have its own beauty. I’m big on craftsmanship. It takes me a long time to write. It comes from inside, and if people can put up with that, good.”

Roloff ’s other books of poetry include Gathered from the Wild: Poems of a Wanderer, The Poetry of Earth, Natural Gifts and Illuminations. He credits his wife Barbara Petersen not only for the photographic images that illustrate his poems, but also for inspiration and for being the ideal partner. “Someone who is creative needs that. She is that person.”

Read more about Roger Roloff at www. rogerroloff.com/about.htm.

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spilling up and out of their pots. Then it’s time for one of the coolest things about growing them, and that’s propagating them.

I do so by cuttings, but not by the usual stem cuttings. African violets hardly have a stem; the crown, or whorl of leaves, is a foreshortened stem, too short for a stem cutting.

I propagate them with leaf cuttings, typically taken in spring. Nothing complicated here: Just pull off some leaves and poke the leaf stalks (petioles) into a rooting mix of potting soil or equal parts peat and perlite.

Water thoroughly, make a plastic tent or use an upturned clear jar to maintain humidity, and move the whole setup to a bright location (definitely not full sun this time, or plants might cook!).

All that’s needed is patience. In a few weeks, from the bases of the leaf stalks appear new shoots, on their way to becoming whole new plants. Fascinating.

The reason that I or you can make a whole new plant from part of a plant is because of totipotence.

Roger Roloff's Heartwood time my voice was coming into proper maturity to sing, so I jumped from that pursuit to an opera career. And it worked out. I sang as a pro for 21 years. As for longevity, so much depends on each voice and conditions in the opera world. I was always a freelance guy, depending on a general director of an opera company.

When those people were gone, it was all different. New administrations meant new singers. Opera is a very political business.

I could see things were cresting. I retired in 1996.”

When asked how he made the transition from being so heavily involved in opera to writing poetry, he said, “I turned to this other form of singing, which I had been doing all along, but hadn’t published

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It’s up to the skilled gardener to provide the conditions that prompt a plant part to develop into a whole new plant.

– Lee Reich

Poetry reading: Roger Roloff, Saturday, December 12, 4 p.m., Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz; (845) 255-5030, www.eltinglibrary.org.

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MOVIE Counting the costs One vote and two thumbs up for Suffragette

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ccording to Board of Elections commissioner Vic Work, only 33 percent of eligible Ulster County voters cast their ballots last month. That’s pretty pathetic compared to most countries where people get to vote at all. People who complain that the choices typically offered them on Election Day are uninspiring do have a point; but I’ve long maintained that if you can’t be bothered to exercise your right to vote, you forfeit all right to complain about the results.

How do you shake some sense into acquaintances who insist that their one vote won’t matter? You could Google them the statistics that show how often a single vote has determined the outcome of an election, or only a handful of votes. Or you could invite them to the movies for a powerful, moving dramatization of what it cost the women of England to secure that franchise.

The movie in question is Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette, set in London in the years preceding World War I. It’s here that you’ll learn, if you hadn’t already, the difference between suffragists and suffragettes: At the time of our story, the former had been politely petitioning Parliament for the vote for decades without success.

The latter, largely inspired by the fiery Emmeline Pankhurst’s exhortations to take direct action, peeled off their kid gloves and starting throwing bricks through shop windows in posh neighborhoods, shouting “Votes for women!” “Suffragette” was the turnof-the-century pejorative equivalent of today’s eight-letter F-word, and more and more women at the time – the film’s fictional heroine included – were starting to say, “I’m not a suffragette, but…”

As often as not the militant suffragettes got dragged off to jail, where many were stripped, beaten, humiliated or forcefed. Then they’d head back out onto the streets and start all over again, gradually upping the stakes to force the press and government officials to take their demands seriously. By modern standards, some of their actions could be defined as terrorism; but it’s the sort of “terrorism” that we see today practiced by groups like Greenpeace. And considering the terrible conditions confronting workingclass Englishwomen of the time, genteel protest was a luxury that they could no longer afford.

Carey Mulligan is brilliant as Maud Watts, a wife and mother in her mid-20s who has worked since childhood for a few shillings a week in the same laundry mill where her mother was scalded to death when Maud was 4.

Carey Mulligan is brilliant as Maud Watts, a wife and mother in her mid-20s who has worked since childhood for a few shillings a week in the same laundry mill where her mother was scalded to death when Maud was 4. And for years she has been sexually abused by her supervisor (Geoff Bell), but Maud has no means of redress. Still, she doesn’t think much about the right to vote making a difference in her difficult life until she gets accidentally caught in the middle of a suffragette action and discovers that one of her co-workers, Violet Miller (AnneMarie Duff ), is one of the brickthrowers. Violet tries to recruit Maud to the Women’s Political and Social Union and Maud resists, knowing that her husband Sonny (Ben Whishaw) is unsupportive of women’s suffrage; but her curiosity and burgeoning sense of outrage eventually get the best of her.

When Violet is unable to keep an appointment to testify before Parliament about hazardous working conditions at the laundry because her alcoholic husband has beaten her black-and-blue, Maud shyly takes her place and makes what appears to be a good impression on David Lloyd George (Adrian Schiller), then chancellor of the exchequer. But the commission that he heads lets the women down, a riot ensues and Maud is among the women beaten and arrested. Before

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Suffragette is a sort of survey course on the struggle for voting rights for women in England, so necessarily it compresses a terrifying laundry list of workplace dangers, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, class divisions, substandard housing, environmental health hazards and other socioeconomic problems into 106 minutes of screentime shorthand about a small group of women. As such, it’s less of a deep character study than one might wish, but the principals are by no means one-dimensional. Duff is especially luminous as the grimly determined, downtrodden Violet, and it’s a true pleasure to watch Helena Bonham-Carter display her true acting chops in a role that isn’t a cartoonish harridan for a change: the cell leader/radicalized pharmacist Edith Ellyn, who grinds remedies with her mortar-and-pestle by day and explosives by night.

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Suffragette ends with a scrolling list of the years in which women in various countries finally got the vote. You’ll walk out with a sense not that the war for women’s rights has been won, but that in many ways and places it still rages on unabated – and that being able to have a say in what happens to you still matters a very great deal.

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“I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.”

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Misty Copeland documentary, A Ballerina's Tale, in Rosendale With dormant gardens and no snow yet, I started thinking about ways to liven up the space around our house, and I realized that I still had my hummingbird feeder up! I began to wonder how I could attract more birds to our yard, so I reached out to birder enthusiast extraordinaire Mark DeDea, president of the John Burroughs Natural History Society and caretaker/giver at the Forsyth Nature Center in Kingston.

In addition to creating edible garlands, such as stringing popcorn, apple and cranberries in a tree, DeDea suggests making your own suet concoction mixed with ingredients such as rolled oats, yellow cornmeal, peanut butter and even

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hrough movement, I found my calling. Through ballet, I found my voice.” This quote alone from Misty Copeland – the first woman of color to hold a principal dancer position in a major ballet company – makes me want to run out and see the documentary about her. A Ballerina’s Tale is shown this Sunday, December 13 at 3 p.m. at Rosendale Theatre. Admission costs $10 for members, $12 for non-members and $6 for children age 12 and younger. The Rosendale Theatre is located at 408 Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 658-8989 or visit www.rosendaletheatre.org. To learn more about the film, visit www.aballerinastale.com.

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or bluebirds a meal. But please do not use any Asiatic bittersweet, as that will only help in spreading this undesirable invasive. Better yet, visit a local nursery and purchase a small specimen of one of these species and keep it indoors for the winter to add a little holiday cheer, and then plant it as a family in the spring and provide years of attractive habitat to birds in your backyard.”

Looking for doable building projects with the kids or grandkids? How about building a birdhouse? “If your backyard habitat is conducive to building a nest box for a screech owl or a wintering box for bluebirds, it could be a fun and timely project; or build a birdfeeder! There are many simple designs online.”

DeDea says that the enjoyment of backyard birding can actually be a part of a larger scientific effort. “If folks do feed the birds, they may be able to help citizen science locally as well. We can

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Outside, the colorful outdoor inflatables add a modern flair complementing traditional seasonal elements, such as the wagon ride with Shawangunk views; and Minard’s sells real Christmas trees, wreaths and kissing balls at prices that keep you feeling jolly. Inside, the barn is open to visitors, and guess who wants to

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f you have fun creating gingerbread houses at home with the kids, you’ll want to check out the Gingerbread Exhibition at the Ulster County Historical Society, which features historical sites in Ulster County modeled in gingerbread!

Its last day is Saturday, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the exhibit costs $10 for the general public, $7 for seniors and children under 12, $5 for Society members, $25 for families and free for children aged 4 and under.

The Ulster County Historical Society is located at 2682 Route 209 in Stone Ridge. For information, call (845) 338-5614 or visit http://ulstercountyhs.org.

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always use ‘feeder watchers’ in either of the Christmas Count Circles that are centered in Ulster County and conducted by the John Burroughs Natural History Society. Global data collections such as the Great Backyard Bird Count take place in February and link families to useful tools like allaboutbirds.org and ebird.org.”

For more information about local birding outings or the upcoming Christmas Count Circles, visit www.jbnhs. org, and you can always stop to say “Hi!” to Mark at the Forsyth Nature Center, located at 157 Lucas Avenue in Kingston.

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see you? Santa! He’s seated right in the middle of the room, ready to chat or take a photo together. Tables are set up for kids to get face-paint and to make fun crafts such as sand art and suncatchers, which my daughter was thrilled to create. And you can still buy a variety of fresh apples,

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My daughter especially enjoyed trying a sample of the pear cider.

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December 10, 2015 Old King Cole by Iza Trapani, local author, is a fun retelling of the classic nursery rhyme that includes a host of peers from the Mother Goose canon, such as Humpty Dumpty and Little Red Riding Hood. Perfect for ages 2 to 5 years. $15.95. http://izatrapani. com.

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13, all are invited to attend the Community Hanukkah Party from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 331 Verplanck Avenue in Beacon.

For more information, call (845) 831-2012, extension 3, or visit https:// beaconhebrewalliance.org.

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Sparkle at Boscobel in Garrison Sparkle at Boscobel sounds like pure winter magic, with acts such as internationally renowned ventriloquist Jonathan Geffner on Fridays, December 11 and 18 or Holiday Jazz with the Libby Richman Trio on Saturdays, December 12 and 19, along with magician Margaret Steele, sparkle gardens and more. Tickets include all lighting displays and attractions and cost $15 for adults, $10 for children aged 3 to 11 years, $45 for a fourpack for two adults and two children and free for children under age 3.

Boscobel is located at 1601 Route 9D in Garrison. For tickets or more information, call (845) 265-3638 or visit www.boscobel. org.

Charles Dickens program at Esopus Library in Port Ewen This Friday at the Town of Esopus Library, you may hear a “Bah, humbug,” but you’ll feel cheered spending the evening learning about the life of author Charles Dickens, Victorian England and hearing dramatic readings from his holiday classic. “Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol” takes place on Friday, December 11 at 6 p.m.

This program is free and open to the public.

The Town of Esopus Library is located at 128 Canal Street in Port Ewen. For more information, call (845) 338-5580 or visit http://esopuslibrary.org.

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Kids’ Holiday Painting Party at Poughkeepsie’s American Stardom Dance Academy Interested in a winter art activity for your kids that you don’t have to clean up? On Saturday, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the American Stardom Dance Academy, children ages 5 and up are invited to attend the Kids’ Holiday Painting Party. Each child will make two snowflake artworks on canvas. The cost is $10 per child, and snacks and beverages will be provided.

Ages 5 to 10 years must have a guardian on-site, and all participants need to bring smocks. Advance reservations are required.

The American Stardom Dance Academy is located at 40 Vassar Road in Poughkeepsie. For tickets or more information, visit http://amsullivanarts. wix.com/artasticholiday.

Christmas with the Ellisons at Knox’s Headquarters Have you heard? The Ellisons would like you to join them for Christmas festivities. “Who are the Ellisons?” you ask, furrowing your brow, thumbing through your address book. Why, they’re your friends from the 18th century whose house was used during the Revolutionary War by Major General Henry Knox!

Let me explain. This Saturday and next, December 12 and 19 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site, visitors will be treated to a candlelight tour of the 1754 Ellison mansion by costumed interpreters, the historic house decorated in 18th-century holiday style. Admission costs $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors.

Knox’s Headquarters is located at 289 Forge Hill Road in Vails Gate. For more information, call (845) 561-1765, extension 22, or visit http://nysparks.com.

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Holiday festivities at FDR site and Val-Kill in Hyde Park Wallace Center hosts tenth annual Children’s Reading Festival is the season to visit mansions bedecked with holiday greenery, sparkly lights and shiny baubles, and Hyde Park’s historic sites are no exception. This Saturday, December 12, the Roosevelt-related historic sites get in on the act. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Home of FDR (Springwood) will be open to visitors free of charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both the Home and the Roosevelt Library study will be decorated for the holidays as they were during the Roosevelt presidency. Special activities will include live readings from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Springwood.

A couple of much-anticipated annual family-friendly highlights take place that afternoon at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center. One is the opportunity, from 12 noon until 4 p.m., for kids to make holiday cards for sailors on the USS Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (www.ddg-roosevelt.navy.mil) while they wait their turns to have free photos taken with Santa. Photo sessions are available from 1 to 3 p.m., and refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon.

Also happening from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Wallace Center is the tenth annual Children’s Reading Festival, presented by the Roosevelt Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District. Bring your budding bookworms to meet Ulster County-based kid-lit superstar Iza Trapani at 1:30 p.m. She’ll be reading from and signing copies of her two latest books, Jingle Bells and Baa Baa Black Sheep. At 2:15 p.m., Lu Ann Schnable Kaldor and Eve S. Gendron, author and illustrator respectively of The Angels on My Tree, will take over, followed at 3 p.m. by Lisa Thiesing, author of The Viper and A Dark and Noisy Night. Featured books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store in the Wallace Center.

December 12 will also involve an Open House at Val-Kill, the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, with free admission from 1 to 7 p.m., plus refreshments and music provided by the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historical Association.

There will be no onsite parking at Val-Kill from 4 p.m. on, but a free shuttle will be running from the Wallace Center.

For more information about these and other events at the FDR sites, call (845) 229-5320, (845) 486-7745 or (845) 229-6214 or visit www.nps.gov/hofr or www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center are located at 4079 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park.

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12 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., both children and adults are welcome to work with Tom Hanford at the NorthEastMillerton Library. Reservations are required.

The NorthEast-Millerton Library is located at 75 Main Street in Millerton.

For more information or to RSVP, call (518) 789-3340 or visit http:// nemillertonlibrary.org.

Frozendale in Rosendale The Frozendale Daze festival means free hot chocolate, a Redwing Blackbird Puppet Theater show for children, a free matinee of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? an open wreath-making workshop with Victoria Gardens, a mac & cheese contest and much more!

Frozendale takes place all day this Saturday, December 12 along Main Street in Rosendale. For more information, call (845) 658-3131 or visit www. facebook.com/frozendale-inrosendale-121215-854340541275188/ timeline.

Gingerbread historic houses at Ulster County Historical Society If you have fun creating gingerbread houses at home with the kids, you’ll want to check out the Gingerbread

Exhibition at the Ulster County Historical Society, which features historical sites in Ulster County modeled in gingerbread! Its last day is Saturday, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission to the exhibit costs $10 for the general public, $7 for seniors and children under 12, $5 for Society members, $25 for families and free for children aged 4 and under.

The Ulster County Historical Society is located at 2682 Route 209 in Stone Ridge.

For more information, call (845) 338-5614 or visit http://ulstercountyhs.org.

Wayfinder Experience’s Living Legends at Sudbury School Got a kid who really gets into roleplaying, foam swords and an epic storyline that keeps building every time players return for more? Then take a look at the Wayfinder Experience’s Living Legends program this Saturday, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Sudbury School. New players pay only $10; returning players pay the regular $40 fee. Participants should bring lunch and dinner.

The Hudson Valley Sudbury School is located at 84 Zena Road in Kingston.

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call (845) 481-0776 or visit www. wayfinderexperience.com.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13

Holiday Hunt at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie The Locust Grove Estate challenges you to a Holiday Hunt. Explore this lavishly decorated historic mansion to find unique gifts exchanged by the Young family. What a great way for children to engage in the details of this historic site! And when they’re finished, cider, cookies and holiday stories await them at the Visitor Center.

Locust Grove is open from 12 noon to 4 p.m., so arrive by 3 p.m. to do your hunt. Admission costs $8 per person, and children under 4 years get in free.

Locust Grove Estate is located at 2683 South Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 454-4500 or visit www.lgny.org.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno completes another circle around the sun this week. She and her husband, Mike, live in New Paltz with their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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Plumbing the depths Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner to read from his new book, Woodstock – Everyday History, at G olden Notebook and Catskill Interpretive Center

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ichard Heppner has what you’d call a passion for history – specifically local history: the common events and gathered lore that make up a sense of place. In our time, a sense of place is not easy to come by, what with the ever-increasing mobility of the population and intrepid social alienation serving to keep us from putting down deep roots and simply relating to each other. It’s refreshing to know that somebody is keeping track, maybe even helping us to stay on track by understanding where we’ve been.

As Woodstock town historian since 2001, Heppner has written extensively on life in and around the village, in the published titles Women of the Catskills and Legendary Locals of Woodstock (co-authored with Janine Fallon-Mower). He contributes regularly to area publications and has compiled a series of essays originally written for Woodstock Times. In this new book, Woodstock – Everyday History, are pieces that zero in on the human-sized details of village happenings.

Eighteen entries detail life in the Catskills village, some honoring its founders with their reasons for settling there, others commenting on how world events affected the local citizenry. None are the oft-repeated stories of the bigger-known dealings for which Woodstock has made

its name; rather, Heppner reports of the perhaps less “newsworthy” things that regular people have engaged in, such as ice skating on the Millstream and swimming in the Sawkill against Kingston Water Board orders. Readers will find out about a controversial CETA-funded snowman that was built on the Green and summarily demolished in outrage and a quiet murder with To Kill a Mockingbird overtones that took place in Zena.

It seems that Woodstock was always occupied by citizens who had minds of their own and who reacted to worldly events with their own sometimescontroversial flair.

And everybody has always had their opinions and were willing to voice them: what to do about traffic or why, in 1907, the town voted to go “dry” well ahead of the 18th Amendment forcing the nation into Prohibition.

In a chapter about the late Alf Evers and his classic works, Woodstock: History of an American Town and The Catskills from Wilderness to Woodstock, Heppner writes of his own self-effacing embarrassment at having his name even mentioned in the same sentence as the icon. His admiration for the elder historian’s astute command of history – indeed, the vast amount of research that Evers managed to accomplish before digital archiving of information was common – is boundless.

He remarks on the importance of such a

“In my college years, I worked for my future father-in-law as a plumber. I think I’ve been in every house in Woodstock. Every basement, every crawlspace. You get to know a town that way."

body of knowledge being built on “years of curiosity and a thorough exploration of individual pieces that ultimately shape and form the whole.”

Originally born in Kingston, Heppner was relocated in the mid-’60s as a “kicking and screaming teenager.” His mother was an artist who wanted to live in Woodstock, where he would soon meet his future wife whose family has much deeper roots in the village. “In my college years, I worked for my future father-in-law as a plumber. I think I’ve been in every house in Woodstock. Every basement, every crawlspace. You get to know a town that way,” he says. He outlines two purposes for doing the book: one, to highlight the common folk and their lives. “There’s that mystical connection to a concert that never happened here,” he says. “Woodstock has

a great history. It doesn’t need to invent anything.”

And the second, perhaps more important reason: to let people know how they can bring their own everyday history forward – their ancestry, photographs, diaries and all the stuff that has been collecting in attics for years. “It’s important to get that out there through the library, the local historical society or to self-publish or transcribe a diary – so that we know about the everyday people who lived here. To be an effective member of the community, you need to know where you’ve been.

Where did we come from? How did we get here? If you watch the evolution of things over time, you understand them better.

So if something new comes along – we don’t want to build this or we don’t want that in our back yard – you have a basis for argument for or against something if you know your history.”

Heppner loves all aspects of research, especially when he’s forced to pore through old newspaper records and library microfilm entries. Digging for stories always leads him to other curious incidents, just as a visit to his grandmother’s attic might have done.

He’s avidly supportive of the Historical Society’s mission: to archive the dayto-day happenings alongside the larger backdrop of society. In taking command of our own histories, he maintains, we “raise the truth about our past above nostalgia and manipulation by commercial interests.”

“Our approach to authority goes way back,” he says. “In light of the recent Niagara bottling issue, for example, Woodstock’s been fighting Kingston forever over the water supplies. Kingston owns the water rights and property access.

One day Woodstockers decided en masse to go down and bathe in the Sawkill!”

When asked what kinds of changes he has seen over the years, he says, “Things change, and they sort of remain the same. For example, at one point Woodstock gave up what they would take from the land – in its quarries and tanneries – and realized they could make money by what people saw in the land. It’s all happening again: We’re debating how you can control things a little bit better, such as the Airbnb thing.”

Heppner holds the rank of professor emeritus at Orange County Community College where, for 25 years, he served as a faculty member, chair of the Arts and Communication Department, associate vice president of Liberal Arts and vice president of Academic Affairs. As a Board member of the Historical Society of Woodstock and the Woodstock Memorial Society (Artists’ Cemetery), Heppner continues to support the community that he holds dear.

Woodstock – Everyday History, recently launched at a Historical Society fundraiser, is now available at the Golden Notebook or online at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com.

– Ann Hutton Woodstock – Everyday History: author appearance, Saturday, December 12, 4 p.m., Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock; (845) 679-8000, www.goldennotebook.com.

Book-signing/discussion, Saturday, December 19, 1-3 p.m., Maurice Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 Route 28, Mt. Tremper; www.catskillinterpretivecenter.org/cic-events.

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7:30AM-9AM Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce Breakfast. December breakfast speaker is Dr. Alan Roberts, newly appointed President of SUNY Ulster. Info: 845-338-5100.

Best Western Plus, Kingston, $30.

8AM Senior Exercise for Early Risers with Diane Colello. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9:15AM-10:15AM Free Story Hour at High Meadow School. For ages 4 years and under.

On-going. 845-687-4855. High Meadow School, 3643 Main St, Stone Ridge.

9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After 50 with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Woodstock.

9:30AM The Wiltwyck Quilter’s Guild Month Meeting. This will be their Holiday Bruncheon.

Susan Stessin-Cohn will present a program, “Joy of Hexies”. Grace Community Church, Lake Katrine.

10AM-2PM Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters.

Drop in any time between 10am & 2pm! Info: 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

10AM-7PM Santa Claus at the Poughkeepsie Plaza. Through 12/24. Hours are 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays; 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays; and 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays. Info: www.poughkeepsieplaza.co. Poughkeepsie Plaza, 2600 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

10:30AM-6PM Wired Gallery’s Art Foray at Mohonk Mountain House. Holiday Season kicks off with art and a free access to the resort during Wired Gallery's Art Foray, from Tuesday, December 8 through Sunday, December 13, 10:30 am-6pm. A variety of affordable, galleryquality works as well as Mohonk’s spectacular grounds, daily 4 o’clock Victorian tea, and plenty of discounted Holiday shopping.Exhibit will feature works of local artists and artisans.For free admission mention "Art Fo ray" at the Gatehouse). Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

11AM-12PM Feldenkrais Ongoing Community Class. Led by Tatiana Light. Meets on Thursdays, 11am - 12pm. Call 845-679-6299 for short telephone interview. Leave message when to return your call. Method of international reputation helping Healing, Longevity andImproved Balance and Movement Coordination.Gentle and effortless exercise with immediate relaxation effect. Mountainview Studio, depending on registration Classes will start on January 2016, Woodstock.

12PM-6PM Along the Farm/Art Trail with Debbe Cushman Femiak and Elizabeth Ocskay.

Refreshments served; featuring fresh produce from local farms and local wines. Emerging Artist Jim Muhlhahn will be featured in a solo exhibit in the workshop room. Show datesare Dec. 1-30.

Info: www.wallkillriverschool.com, or 845-4572727. Wallkill River School Art Gallery, 232 Ward St, Montgomery.

12:30PM Old Dutch Village Garden Club Christmas Luncheon for Members. Info: olddutchvillagegc@gmail.com. St. John’s Reformed Church, Red Hook.

1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players.

Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Rescue Squad Bldg, Rt 212, Woodstock.

1PM-2PM Hearing Loss Support Group. The goal of the group is to provide information and support to those who have or live with someone who has hearing loss. Hearing loss can be an isolating condition. Info: 845-255-1255 or www. gardinerlibrary.org Gardiner Library, community

4:30PM-7:30PM Sketch Class. Short pose. No instructor. December 3, 10 & 17. A traditional sketch class format with a variety of progressively longer timed poses. Info: 845-679-2388. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rte. 212, Woodstock, $40 /3 classes, $20 /1 class.

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e-mail calendar@ulsterpublishing.com. postal mail: Almanac Calendar Manager Donna Keefe

5PM-8PM Made In Kingston. Attendees will receive a map directing them to the artists, who will set up their wares in the 1st floor common areas of the apartment complex. $5 donation at the door covers food, beverages and musical entertainment. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

c/o Ulster Publishing, PO Box 3329, Kingston, NY 12402 phone: (845) 334-8200 ext. 104, fax at (845) 334-8809.

5PM-6PM Hour of Code - An hour of beginning coding for kids from ages 7 to 12. Work together to learn basic computer programming skills using fun games & activities from code.org. For kids ages 5-11. Space is limited. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli.

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5:30PM-9PM 50th Anniversary of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress. Featuring Woodstock-based singer Lindsey Webster, along with stilt walkers, a roving magician, specialty food stations, a craft beer and spirits tasting room and silent auction. Special guest: DaymondJohn, from Shark Tank. RSVP. Info: 845-565-4900. Anthony’s Pier 9, New Windsor.

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.

5:30PM-7:30PM Locust Grove’s ‘Sunset Sensations’ Charles Fells of The Artist’s Palate. Enjoy samplings from Hudson Valley chefs and wine pairings from around the world. Info: info@ lgny.org. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, $29.

5:30PM The Yankee Town Pond Project video.

The video is a hybrid of nature-based art video and a documentary. Info: 845-586-2611 or www. catskillcenter.org. Erpf Center, Arkville.

6PM-7PM Create a Lightsaber. Every jedi needs a lightsaber, come make your mini lightsaber at the library to be ready for the new Star Wars Movie!

Ages 8 and up. Info: 845-691-2275. Highland Public Library, 30 Church St, Highland.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org.

Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6PM-8PM Adult Craft Program: Fused Glass Night Lights. Using the fused glass method, we will design and make colorful night lights that can be used to brighten the cold winter nights.

Supplies provided. Registration required. Info: 845-331-0988. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

6:30 PM -8 PM Free Bhagavad Gita Class.

On-going Yoga Philosophy Class taught by Ira Schepetin. Learn the subtleties of Indian Advaita Vedanta Philosophy by studying this perennial classic. OK to drop-in at any point in the series.

Donations appreciated. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Billy Martin’s Festival of Percussion (Avant Garde Fusion). Info: www. liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: Steins; Gate - Gekijoban. Info: 845-2558811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM Ostrander Elementary Winter Concert.

Info: www.somemusic.org Ostrander Elementary School, 137 Viola Ave, Wallkill, free.

7PM-8:30PM Meeting of MECR. (Middle East Crisis Response) A group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East.

Info: 845 876-7906 or www.mideastcrisis.org.

Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

7PM First Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ulster Hose Co.#5. Come have some hot chocalate, cookies and candy canes with Santa. Ulster Hose Co. #5, 830 Ulster Ave, Ulster.

7:30PM-10:30PM Bibi Farber, solo. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s Inc, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

7:30PM Woodstock Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners Meeting. Regular monthly meetings on the second Thursday of each month.

Info: 845-679-9955 or www.woodstockfiredept. org. Fire Co. #1, 242 Tinker St, Woodstock.

7:30PM Word of Mouth Poetry Series: Davida plus Open Reading w/ 5 minute limit. Hosted by: Teresa Costa. Info: 845-331-6713. Artbar Gallery, 672 Broadway, Kingston.

8PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Ulster County residents (with ID) enjoy a 50% off discount. Info: 845-647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas

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Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park.

8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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5PM-8PM Stocking Stuffers. A special grouping of wonderful original paintings and drawings by professional artists will be available at affordable prices. Info: 518-943-0380 or www.mgalleryonline.com. M Gallery, 350 Main St, Catskill.

5 PM-9 PM Sparkle 2015. The gardens and grounds will showcase beautiful lighting displays.

Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus, Snow Queen Stilt Walker, Ice Carving Demonstrations, the illuminated Hoop Dancers and caroling with The Taghkanic Chorale. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-265-3638. Boscobel, Garrison.

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5PM-9PM Winter Wonderland. Info: rip@ Ripvanwagoner.com. Caroling and musicians, readings at the Community Center and Bridge Street Theatre, a violinist at 394 Main, Celtic music at Magpie Bookstore (5:30pm). A wandering guitarist Mark Patton, tarot readings at theGeneral Store. Info: rip@Ripvanwagoner. com. Main Street, Catskill.

10AM 5th Day of Chanukah. Share the Joys of Chanukah with the seniors at Mountain Valley Manor Adult care facility! Join them as they give out gifts, Sing Chanukah songs, Light the Menorah, Doughnuts, Music. Info: 845-331-1176.

Mountain Valley Manor, Kingston.

5:30PM-8:30PM Celebrating the Return of the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. Performance of a traditional welcoming dance, introductions and a Tibetan Dinner.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

9:45AM-10:45AM Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-5PM The Winter Book Sale. Seasonal books, recent novels, biographies, cookbooks, art and photography books, poetry. Books galore for kids and young adults, as well as large-print books, music CDs and DVDs. Info: 845-876-4030.

Starr Library, 68 West Market St,Rhinebeck.

10:30Am-6PM Wired Gallery’s Art Foray at Mohonk Mountain House. Holiday Season kicks off with art and a free access to the resort during Wired Gallery's Art Foray, from Tuesday, December 8 through Sunday, December 13, 10:30 am-6pm. A variety of affordable, galleryquality works as well as Mohonk’s spectacular grounds, daily 4 o’clock Victorian tea, and plenty of discounted Holiday shopping.Exhibit will feature works of local artists and artisans.For free admission mention "Art Fo ray" at the Gatehouse). Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:30PM-6PM Tarot and Crystal Readings and Energy Healing Sessions with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday and Monday. $50 for Crystal Reading and Chakra Clearing; $75 for one hour energy healing session. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

4PM Knitting Club “Knit Wits.” Saugerties Public library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 845-246-4317, x 3.

4:30PM-6PM Chess & Go Club - an evening of Eastern and Western games of logic and strategy!

Chess and Go boards provided. This program is for all ages and open to all! Info: 845-757-3771.

Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All welcome. Children 7 and under must be with an adult. Duplos available for younger kids. Every Friday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

5PM-6:30PM Book Signing and Reception with Rebecca Rego Barry. Have a glass of wine to toast local author Rebecca Barry’s first book, Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places (2015). Come hear the many tales of unearthed rare and antiquarianbooks..

Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6PM-8PM Special Evening House Tour. Spend a festive evening at the fully decorated mansion, with costumed guides, music, and shopping. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historic Site,1 Clermont Ave, Germantown.

6PM-8PM Phoenicia Community Chorus. An opportunity to join with friends and sing both great works and songs that are just fun. No need to read music! Info: 845-688-2169. Phoenicia Festival Office, 90 Main at Bridge Street, Phoenicia.

6PM Cookies & Carols. Sip cocoa, share your favorite treats, and sing along with local duo Roger & Lenn. Donations of food and personal care items to share with local food banks will be accepted. Info: 845-758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S.Broadway, Red Hook.

6PM-8:30PM Light up the Hamlet of Highland.

Santa’s Workshop will be open for a visit with Santa. Special performances, hot chocolate, candy, toasted marshmallows, games, giveaways, caroling with tree lighting at 6:20pm. Toy Drive for Lloyd PBA Toys for Tots. Info:845-691-2144 x100. Vineyard Ave & Main St, Highland.

6PM-9PM Catskill Mountains Acoustic Slow Jam, A group of friendly acoustic musicians meets once a month to play Bluegrass, Old Time, Irish, and Catskills fiddle tunes. Info: 845-2545469 or www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill.

6PM-11PM New Paltz Rock Open House. Stop by and see who we are and what we do.Band playing at 7pm, Jam Session at 8pm, Open Mic for Kids.

New Paltz Rock, 122 Main Street, New Paltz.

6:30PM-8PM Tabletop Games - An evening of tabletop games of all sorts. Carcassonne, Quoridor, Forbidden Island, Bananagrams, Fluxx.

Bring your own game to teach us, or come ready to learn a new one! Info: 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

7PM-10PM Happy Blues Hour- Dylan Doyle Band. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s Inc, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

7PM Film Night: Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1988). Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

7PM Annual Chanukah Candle Lighting. The Storycrafters, an award-winning husband and wife story-telling duo from Hudson, will perform.

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included The Tashi Kyil Monks Visit The Tibetan Center(12/10-12/17).In partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana, seven monks from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery in Dehra Dun, India are touring the United States to teach the Dharma, educate the public about the culture and religion of Tibet, and to raise much needed funds for their monastery. This is the monasteryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third USA Tour and second visit to The Tibetan Center. See individual listings or log onto www. tibetancenter.org/events/.

East European Singing Workshop ( First Meeting - 12/16, 6pm). A Capella choir and Accompanied group singing. Learn about different languages and cultures through traditional folk songs, various choir pieces, Balkan rhythms and polyphonic style from the East European traditions.Ages 12 and up, for all genders.Possible locations: Woodstock or Rosendale. We will meet if at least 5 people sign up.Please call or email to sign up!!! Please let me know which location do you prefer. Thank you! $15. (First meeting is by donation.)Contact: 845-532-0852Fufaeg@ gmail.com. More info: giliben.weebly.

com.

Volunteers Needed! for Family's Holiday Gift Distribution.

Volunteers needed for setup and bagging:Wednesday December 16th &Friday December 18th at the Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingstonand to assist with distribution:Monday - Wednesday December 21-23rd, 2015at Family, 39 John St, Kingston.Volunteers are needed December 16th, 18th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd to assist with our annual Holiday Gift Drive distribution for our clients. If you can help out for a 3 hour shift any of these days please email volunteers@familyofwoodstockinc.org or call Beth at 331-7080.

Christmas at Clermont Open House (12/19, 11am-4pm).A great day for families. Visit the mansion at its holiday best for free self-guided tour. Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Ave, Germantown, 518-5374240.

Come to Made In Kingston (12/10, 5-8pm). $5 at the door gives you access to an array of music, fine art, photography, jewelry, home dĂŠcor, designer clothing, gourmet food, vintage and

All are invited. Congregation Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston.

7PM Book Reading: Jeffrey Diamond. author of Live to Air, a crime thriller set in the world of television news. Info: 845-255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

7PM Screening: Warlords of Ivory â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nat Geo Documentary. Following the 50-minute screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmaker Katherine Carpenter. Merritt Bookstore will also offer a selection of books highlighting the plight of elephants. The event will be held at the Cary Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auditorium,2801 Sharon Turnpike (Rte. 44), Millbrook. Info :845-6777600 or freemanp@caryinsitute.org. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come first served 7PM 3rd Annual Christmastime Concert.

Presented by New Paltz Musicales. Benefiting Family of Woodstock. 100% of all donations will be given to Family. Info:(845-255-0051. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, 90 Route 32 South, New Paltz, $15, $5 /12 & under.

7PM Zydeco Dance with Zydegroove. Beginnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesson 7pm. Band plays 8pm - 11pm. Sponsored

by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: 914-388-7048 or www.hudsonvalleydance.org .

White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, $15, $10 /fulltime student.

7PM-11PM Memorial for Lee Shaw. To honor the memory of the late great internationally renowned pianist, composer and bandleader Dr. Lee Shaw (who passed away at age 89 on October 25th), 21 musicians will come together to remember and celebrate her life and music. Info:914466-9782. Unitarian Universalist Society, 1221 Wendell Ave, Schenectady.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Jim Weiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PRoJECT PERCoLATOR (Roots Rock). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Friday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists LewScott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7:30PM Dutchess County Singles Dance. 7:30 pm Free Dance Lesson; Dance: 8 pm to 11:30 pm. Music from 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the Present by DJ Johnny Angel also a light dinner buffet with desert and coffee. Info: 845-464-4675; dcsingles30@yahoo.com. Southern Dutchess CountryClub, 1209 North Ave, Beacon, $22.

7:30PM A Tuna Christmas by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard.All performances start at 7:30 PM and will be held at Woodland Pond at New Paltz, 100 Woodland Pond Circle in New Paltz. All performances are open to the public; no reservations necessary! We are counting on seeing you there! General admission at the door is $15 .

7:30PM Senior Dance Concert. An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the graduating seniors in the Bard Dance Program.

Res reqrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

7:30PM Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. An evening of live theater, opening night will feature a live broadcast on Q92, 102.3 WSUS and streaming on iHeartradio, wherethe live

more, all produced right here in our burgeoning arts district. Keegan Ales and local restaurants are generously donating refreshments. www.madeinkingstonNY.com or Facebook/Made In Kingston. The Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

Mitten Tree in Accord.

Bring mittens, gloves, scarves and hats and adorn the trees at Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm, who will give them to Family of Ellenville, a program of Family of Woodstock, for distribution to area residents in need.

The clothing drive runs until 12/13.

Open seven days a week. Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm, 647 Mettacahonts Rd , Accord. For more information, call 845-626-7849 or visit www.bellschristmastrees.com.

Register Now! Feldenkrais Ongoing Community Classes. Classes will start January 2016, Thursdays, 11am - 12pm . Method of international reputation helping Healing, Longevity and Improved Balance and Movement Coordination.Gentle and effortless exercise with immediate relaxation effect. Call to register and for short telephone interview. 845-679-6299.

Leave message when to return your call and your telephone number. Mountain

Upcoming Events at Staatsburgh:Special Evening House Tour (12/11, 6-8pm). Spend a festive evening at the fully decorated mansion, with costumed guides, music, and shopping; & Holiday Whodunit ( 12/13,12/20 & 12/27, 1-4pm). Children become detectives to solve a history mystery. Costumed interpreters throughout the house provide clues to help kids find the solution.Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr, Staatsburg,845-889-8851.

Kingston Public Policy/Politics Book Club. Are you passionate about politics and policy? Tired of talking only to those you agree with? This book club is designed to be a a nonpartisan, all-inclusive group--liberals, conservatives, libertarians, progressives, anarchists and any we're missing--all welcome. We agree on books and meet monthly for an informed, civil, non-ad hominem discussion of the issues.

Look us up on Meetup.com and join there--or send an email to pubpolicybookclub@gmail.com.

Upcoming: Winter wonderland Parade & Tree Lighting (12/12, 5:30pm). Anyone wishing to participate, please call 845-331-3549. Rain date 12/13. Info: www.esopus.com.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Cats. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear clean-

audience will be part of the broadcast! Info: 845610-5900. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf.

Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-679-8800. St. Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

8PM Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company in Con ert. Info: www.thelin.org The Linda, 318 Central Ave, Albany, $17.

9:30AM-4PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Gertrudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nose Hike. Seven mile outing, participants will walk on various historic carriage roads and two footpaths. Pre-registration is required.

Info: 845-255-0752 Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Naure Center, Gardiner, $10/per car.

8 PM Hudson Valley Folk Guild Seasonal Holiday Concert. Info: 845-758-2681, or www. hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt. 9 and Church St, Hyde Park, $12, $10 /senior.

8 PM Maybrook Wind Ensemble Annual Winter Concert. Cornwall United Methodist Church, 196 Main St, Cornwall.

8PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Info: 845-647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Wonderful Life. Play by Frank Capra.

Presented by Shandaken Theatrical Society.

Adapted by Philip Grecian. Directed by Gordon W. Brown. Info: 845-688-2279 . Shandaken Theatrical Society, 10 Church St, Phoenicia, $20, $15 /senior/student.

8PM Salted Bros. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony CafĂŠ @ Wok â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park.

9 PM Holidelic Holiday-Funk Party. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

9PM Jane Getter Premonition. Info: www. keeganales.com/ Keegan Ales, 20 St. James St, Kingston, $18.

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Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream.

Handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts.

11/27-11/29 & weekends through 12/20. Info: 914-806-3573 or 646-256-9688. Pablo Glass on the Millstream, 10 Streamside Terrace, Woodstock.

9AM-3PM 10th Annual Holiday Fair Huge assortment of themed gift baskets and holiday items. Katsbaan Reformed Church Hall, 1800 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties.

9AM-12PM Cookie Walk. $6 per pound, homemade cookies. Hosted by the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fellowship. Info: 845- 895-2952. Reformed Church of Shawangunk, 1166 Hoagerburgh Rd, Wallkill.

9AM Saugertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 845-246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

9AM-2PM American Heart Association BLS Healthcare Provider CertiďŹ cation 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.Preregistration and payment are required. Info: 845-475-9742 Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $75.

9:30AM-11AM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every

10AM-6PM Wreath Fineries at the Wineries.

Special holiday food & wine tastings, souvenir wine glass, handmade grapevine wreath and ornaments. Tickets: 1 or 2 days, designated driver and couples. A Shawangunk Wine Trail event.

Info: 845-256-8456 orwww.shawangunkwinetrail.com.

10AM-4PM Olive Free Library Holiday Craft Fair. Shop for handmade local crafts and enjoy a hot lunch. Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary.org/calendar Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

10AM-4PM Holiday Craft Show. Handmade items by local crafters. United Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, , 9 Vance Rd, Rock Tavern, free.

10AM-2PM Cookie, Candy and Ornament Sale.

Purchase delicious sweets, live table centerpieces and handmade ornaments for holiday giving.

Fill a tin with homemade cookies $8 or 2/$15.

HP Community Garden merchandise for sale.

Proceeds support 19 local families for theholidays.

Info: 845-229-2820. Historic St. Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Open every Saturday, 10am-9pm. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10AM-12PM Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point Preserve: Feed the Birds. Make a snack that will help energize the birds in your backyard as the colder weather sets in. Recommended for children of all ages, accompanied by a parent or guardian. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-647-7989.Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point Area, Cragsmoor, $10 /per car.

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Males, $120 and up; females, $150 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only. Info: 845-343-1000. tara-spayneuter.org.

The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown.

New York Triathlon Expo Coming to Citi Field in 2016 (3/19, 10am-6pm).

Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are still available. nytriexpo.com/ sponsors/ for more details. For tickets: www.eventbrite.com.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holiday Book Sale at Elting Memorial Library. Hundreds of like-new books for holiday gifts. Discounted 70% to 80% off published price. Thru12/22  Open during library hours. Elting Library, New Paltz.

The Sussin Family Christmas Lightshow (runs every night through New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve). Complete with music until 9 ppm and without music from 9 - 10 . The Sussin home,123 Patch Rd, Saugerties. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/sussinlightshow or @sussinfamilyxmaslightshow on Instagram.

10AM-3PM Hudson Valley Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market Sponsored by Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest.

Info: www.greigfarm.com/hudson-valley-farmers-market.html. Greig Farm, Pitcher Ln, Red Hook.

10AM-4PM Annual Holiday Fair! The fair will include local childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s author/illustrators Iza Trapani, reading from her new book Old King Cole, and illustrator Durga Yael Bernhard reading from The Dreidel that Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Spin: A Toyshop Tale of Hanukkah. Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

10AM Life Drawing at Unison. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559. An extra three hour life-drawing session every other Saturday at 10 am to give professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models under controlled lighting. Thereis no instruction.

Cost $20. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

10AM-5PM Makers-on-Hudson 7th annual Craft Fair. Unique handmade items. Sponsored by the Hudson Valley Etsy Team. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon.

10AM-5PM Voices of the Stones Rock Gem and Jewelry Show. Free admission. Questions contact Carole 914-388-1351. Courtyard Marriott, 500 Frank Sottile Blvd, Kingston.

10AM-4PM The Winter Book Sale. Seasonal books, recent novels, biographies, cookbooks, art and photography books, poetry. Books galore for kids and young adults, as well as large-print books, music CDs and DVDs. Info: 845-876-4030.

Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10AM-12PM Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, 845-687-7023.

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10:30Am-6PM Wired Gallery’s Art Foray at Mohonk Mountain House. Holiday Season kicks off with art and a free access to the resort during Wired Gallery's Art Foray, from Tuesday, December 8 through Sunday, December 13, 10:30 am-6pm. A variety of affordable, galleryquality works as well as Mohonk’s spectacular grounds, daily 4 o’clock Victorian tea, and plenty of discounted Holiday shopping.Exhibit will feature works of local artists and artisans.For free admission mention "Art Fo ray" at the Gatehouse). Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

10:30AM-11:30AM Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Info: 845-399-2805. Meet outside Cornell St PO, Kingston, 845-339-0637.

Winter Vendors Market, magicians, face painting, bike raffles. Special matinee and magician.

Info: rip@Ripvanwagoner.com. Main St, Catskill.

12:30PM-3:30PM Holiday Celebration Free horse and wagon rides with Santa, photos, crafts and refreshments. Tree Lighting at the church. Info: 845-469-2583. Sugarloaf Methodist Church, 1387 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf.

12:30PM-6PM Tarot Readings with Stephanie.

Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100.

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

1PM-5PM Athens Victorian Stroll 2015. Features ACC Members Small Works Holiday Show & Sale, Live Music and Dance Performances. A Victorian Santa and horse drawn trolleys harkening back to our 19th century roots. Map available at Cultural Center. Info: Athens Cultural Center, Athens.

1PM-2:30PM Local Authorfest! Meet and greet and book signing with local authors.*After the Authorfest, stick around for Winterfest!

Hot chocolate, craft vendors, Santa Claus and more!Tree-lighting at 4:30pm! Info: 845-7573771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

11AM Waiting is Not Easy! Storytime. Gerald and Piggie and are best friends. InWaiting is Not Easy!, Piggie has asurprise for Gerald, but he is going to have to wait for it. Info: 845- 485-2224.

Barnes & Noble, 2518 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

1PM-5PM 21st Annual Holiday Open House.

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the Peter Alberghi. Info: 845-341-4179. SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall mansion, Middletown.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Recurring event every Saturday. 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). Donations appreciated. Info:sarah@womenspowerspace. org My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

12PM Penny Social . Drawings begin at 2pm.

Hosted by the Sunday School of the Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church. Info: clintonavenueumc@yahoo.com or 845-331-7188.

Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church, 122 Clinton Ave, Kingston.

12PM-6PM Winter Wonderland. Pictures with Santa, crafts for kidsat the Community Center (12-3 pm), a traveling puppet show theater, a

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11AM-2PM Ulster County SPCA Holiday Pawty.

Get your pet’s photo with Santa Paws! Plus refreshments, raffles, and lots of last-minute Christmas gifts available! Ulster County SPCA, Kingston.

11AM-4PM Historic Ulster County in Gingerbread Exhibition. See the creative gingerbread houses and structures built to represent many of the treasured historical sites here in Ulster County. Info: 845-338-5614 or www.ulstercountyhs.org. Ulster County Historical Society, 2682 US-209, Kingston, $10, $7 /senior/under 12, $25 /family.

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1PM Anime Club. Students from Bard College’s Anime Club will share their passion for the popular genre with tweens and teens. learn about Japanese culture, practice Japanese language, draw comics, play related card games like Yu-gioh. Info: 845-758-3241. Red Hook PublicLibrary, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

1PM-2PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will perform a Ceremonial Symbolic Welcome of HH the Dalai Lama (he is welcomed to every Buddhist Ceremony) and Mandala Offering. The monks will chant prayers and blow long horns.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.dmission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. TheTibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

1PM-3PM Opening Reception: “Small Works Holiday Art Show.” Featuring paintings by instructors. Exhibits through 1/26. Info: 845-5652674. Mt. Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus Gallery, 26 6 Albany Post Rd, Newburgh.

1PM-4PM Reiki & Lunch. Reiki sample session by donation & 10% discount on lunch.GomenKudasai Japanese Noodle Restaurant,232 Main St, New Paltz / www.GKnoodles.com or 845255-8811.

1 PM -3 PM Book Signing: Julie Peacock, co-author of The Soup Club Cookbook. She co-wrote The Soup Club Cookbook with her friends and neighbors Courtney Allison, Tina Carr and Caroline Laskow. The book evolved from their actual soup club that has been going strong since 2011. Home Goods of Margaretville ,784 Main St, Margaretville. For additional information, please e-mail homegoods@catskill.net, call 845 586-4177 or visit: hgom.net.

2PM-5PM Talk About Dying. A free community workshop to talk about death and dying: your ideas, feelings, intentions and end of life choices.

Pre-registration is requested as space is limited.

Info: TalkAboutDying.com. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

2PM-3:30PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will perform a Dismantling Ceremony for the Chenrezig Sand Mandala they created in 2013.

The sand will be conveyed to a waterway for dispersal, as a blessing for the world and sentient beings. A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.Admission by donation. Info:845383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going every Saturday, 2pm in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906, 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

2PM Senior Dance Concert. An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the graduating seniors in the Bard Dance Program.

Res reqr’d. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, 2PM New Paltz Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker. Info: 845- 473-2072. Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $28.

2PM Evergreen Chorus A cappella women’s chorus. A musical treat complete with holiday refreshments. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-677-8550.

The Fountains at Millbrook, 79 Flint Rd, Millbrook, free.

2PM It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

An evening of live theate. Info: 845- 610-5900.

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf, $30, $15.

3PM-5PM Art Opening: Hands-on-Art: Experimentation in the Studio Free and open to the public Light refreshments will be served. Exhibit

is a collaboration between Kingston High School’s Art-in-Education Program & Women’s Studio Workshop. Show exhibits thru 1/10.Kirkland Hotel, RUPCO building, 2 Main St, Kingston.

3PM-7PM Candlelight Tour at Hill-Hold. The parlor will host the traditional holiday tree with the famous antique toys. Cooking over the open hearth. Refreshments will be available. Admission: $2 per child and $3 per adult. Hill-Hold in Campbell Hall. Info: 845-615-3830 or www. hillholdandbrickhouse.org.

3PM-6PM Holiday Open House. “Hudson River Musings” explores atmosphere and luminosity in landscapeSmall works, art classes and gift certificates for holiday gift giving. Info: 845-5164435. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, 43 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

3:30PM-4PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will perform an Opening Ceremony for Medicine Buddha Mandala.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

4PM-6PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will begin creating a Medicine Buddha Mandala, to be displayed at the center over two years. All are welcome to watch the process, now, and until its completion on 12/16.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. In partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana. The Tibetan Center.

Call for details. Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

4PM -7PM A New Windsor Colonial Christmas atThe Edmonston House.Come visit the Revolutionary War headquarters of Major General Gates and St. Clair, decorated for the holiday season as it would have looked during those final years of the Revolution. Light refreshments, music, storyteller, friends and family will be here for a celebrationof the holiday season.The Edmonston House, 1042 Rt 94, Vails Gate.

4PM The White Hart Speaker Series: Carolne Roehm- “At Home In The Garden” . RSVP Required rsvp@oblongbooks.com The White Hart Inn, 15 Undermountain Rd, Salisbury, free.

4PM-7PM Celebrate Christmas at Knox’s Headquarters. Tour the elegant 1754 Ellison house decorated for Christmas and staffed by Revolutionary War era costumed interpreters. Info: 845-561-1765 ext. 22. Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site, 289 Forge Hill Rd, Vails Gate.

4PM Booksigning: Richard Heppner, author

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4:30PM-9PM Holiday Spirit Festival Kevin McCurdy’s Holiday Spirit Festival is an original, one of a kind, family holiday event. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Holiday Spirit Festival is like no other event. Info: 5PM Woodstock Library Forum: “Shakespeare Was Not For An Age , But For All Time.” Presented by New Genesis Productions Youth Theater.

Free admission. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2213.

5PM-9PM Beacon Second Saturday. Join 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. Art exhibits from around the globe, the event oftenincludes free gallery talks, live music, & wine tasting. Info:Beaconarts. org. Main Street, Beacon.

5PM-7PM Teri Roiger & John Menegon Bass & Voice Duo. Ester Wine & Spirits, 57 North Front St, Kingston. Info: 845-331-1921 or www. esterwine.com.

5PM-8PM Opening Reception: Winter Fruits10th Annual Holiday Sale and Celebration.

Open Studio, both a storefront gallery and a working studio for artists Dina Bursztyn and Julie Chase will display and have for sale their newest crop of work.Also on view, the newest additions to the ArTchaeological Museum, an ongoing permanent installation. In addition to the artwork of Bursztyn and Chase, there is an array of toys, handicrafts, and vintage offerings from around the world, and a curated collection of used books.Open Studio,402 Main Street, Catskill.Info: 518-943-0180 or catskillstudio@ gmail.com.

5PM-8PM Buffet Chili Dinner. Complete with sides, dessert and beverages are included. Raffle tickets: $10. Each, Drawing at 7 pm. Info: www. barrettartcenter.org. Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St, Poughkeepsie, $15.

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4PM-8PM Sloop Clearwater’s Open Boat. Come and see the progress made on the historic sloop Clearwater, enjoy music, boat tours, children’s activities and more. Bring your instrument and a potluck dish. Info: 845-265-8080 or www.clearwater.org. Hudson River MaritimeMuseum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

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5 PM-9 PM Sparkle 2015. The gardens and grounds will showcase beautiful lighting displays.

Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus, Snow Queen Stilt Walker, Ice Carving Demonstrations, the illuminated Hoop Dancers and caroling with The Taghkanic Chorale. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-265-3638. Boscobel, Garrison.

5PM-8PM Stocking Stuffers. A special grouping of wonderful original paintings and drawings by professional artists will be available at affordable prices. Info: 518-943-0380 or www.mgalleryonline.com. M Gallery, 350 Main St, Catskill.

5:30PM Winter Wonderland Parade and Tree Lighting. Parade goes on Broadway to West Stout St. After the parade there is a gathering at the Gazebo in Port Ewen. Mr. and Mrs. Claus will greet the children and hand out cookies. Donate new coats, hats & gloves. Medrex, Broadway, Port Ewen.

5:30PM Booksigning: Mitch Ditkoff, author of “Storytelling at Work.” Info: 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6:30PM 7th Night of Chanukah. Public Menorah Lighting & Family Party. Chocolate Chanukah gelt, gifts for all children, arts ‘n’ crafts, music, smiles & much much more! Hot dairy buffet will be served. For more info and reservations.

Info: 845-331-1176. Agudas Achim, 254 Lucas Ave, Kingston.

6PM Byrdcliffe Guild’s Benefit Performance: Raphael Garritano and Marlan Barry of Sol Sonata: The performance will be preceded by cocktails, with dinner after. All proceeds support future arts programming at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.Tickets: $65 includes dinner and performance. Space is limited, RSVP by calling 845-679-2079 or www.woodstockguild.org/ solsonata.html. Location/ address to be given to ticket holders.

6PM Catskill Cabaradio. Pine Hill Community Center,287 Main St,Pine Hill. Free.845-231-3275 or todd@pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

7PM Saturday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sonando (Latin Dance). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or

845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-11:30PM The Original Open Mic in Stamford! Stop in and play or be entertained.

The Gallery is open from 2:00 to 11:30 pm, on Second Saturday. Come early and take a tour of the artwork.f this speaks to you, and want to give it a shot, call 607-652-4030. Tour The Gallery at www.touhey.com. Feel free to bring a plate and or beverage to share responsibly. $5donation / musicians free. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford.

7PM-8:30PM Third Saturday Christian Open Mic (Coffee House). Come play or to listen.

Meets every third Saturday, 7pm. Doors open 6:30pm.Acoustic solo, duo, groups welcome, perform original Christian songs & hymns.

Hosted by Patrick Dodge.Refreshments available.Free will offering for Smile Train - info:www. smiletrain.org. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Info: patrickdodgemusic@yahool.com, Woodstock.

7PM Welcome Yule: Sing Joy! Ars Choralis’ 20th annual holiday concert. The award-winning chorus, led by artistic director Barbara Pickhardt and assisted by Harvey Boyer, will perform a diverse array of music to capture the spirit of the holiday season. Info: RedeemerLutheran Church, 104 Wurts St, Kingston, $20, $10 /18 & under.

7PM Screening of Jon Bowermaster’s The Hudson: River at Risk. The evening also includes the premiere of Bowermaster’s latest film, High Voltage, Dark Shadow about the proposed transmission towers and the threat they pose to the Hudson Valley. Following the screening, Jon Bowermaster moderates a panel discussion with Riverkeeper’s Kate Hudson, Hudson River Educator Tom Lake, and local farmer and environmentalist Greg Quinn.$10 suggested donation to benefit One Ocean Media Foundation, Producer. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

7PM-10PM Album Release Party: Aliens, Ghosts + Lovers. New album by Mick Lynch. Admission includes live music session and CD.Limited seating available. Reserve by emailing: micklynchofficial@gmail.com. Carpenter Shop Theater, 60 Broadway, Tivoli, $20.

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Res reqr’d. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

7:30PM A Tuna Christmas by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard.All performances start at 7:30 PM and will be held at Woodland Pond at New Paltz, 100 Woodland Pond Circle in New Paltz. All performances are open to the public; no reservations necessary! We are counting on seeing you there! General admission at the door is $15 .

7:30PM It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. An evening of live theate. Info: 845610-5900. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf, $30, $15.

7:30PM Senior Dance Concert. An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the graduating seniors in the Bard Dance Program.

Res reqr’d. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, 7:30PM The Nutcracker. Catskill Mountain Foundation, in cooperation with the Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory New York, presents the world’s favorite ballet. Info: www.catskillmtn. org/events. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville, $30, $25.

7:30PM A Well-Strung Christmas. Back by popular demand. The charismatic all-male string quartet . Info : 845-679-6900 or www.woodstockplayhouse.org/#! Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $60 /royal tier, $40 /golden circle, $30 /green tier.

7:30PM Rhinebeck Choral Club’s Winter Concert. Special guests -The Mid-Hudson Rainbow Chorus. Info: www.rhinebeckchoralclub.org. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck, $10, $8 /student.

8PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Info: 845-647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

7PM Saturday Night Live Music & Noodles: No Brakes , Bluegrass Night. 2nd set at 8:30pm.No cover, $5 donations to musicians recommended. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com.

Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

8PM Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents Miracle on 34th Street. The play, directed by Russell Austin. . Tickets are $24 for Adults, $22 for Seniors, $15 for Children 12yrs and under.

For tickets, call the CENTER box office at (845) 876-3080 or visit www.centerforperformingarts. org. Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

7:30PM Senior Dance Concert. An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the

8PM It’s A Wonderful Life. Play by Frank Capra.

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W. Brown. Info: 845-688-2279 . Shandaken Theatrical Society, 10 Church St, Phoenicia, $20, $15 /senior/student.

8PM Hot Dancing & Concert- Soul Purpose.

Info: 845-255-1559 or www.unisonarts.org.

Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, $15.

8PM Joey Eppard Raised by Wolves. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8PM-11PM Painted Blue Sky. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s Inc, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

8:30PM Dance Republic. Info: 845-687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

9 PM Holidelic Holiday-Funk Party. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

9PM Larry Campbell and Theresa Williams.

Info: 845-679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 297 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Sunday

12/13

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream.

Handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts.

11/27-11/29 & weekends through 12/20. Info: 914-806-3573 or 646-256-9688. Pablo Glass on the Millstream, 10 Streamside Terrace, Woodstock.

8AM Skiing and Riding Santa Day On-Mountain. Info: 518-310-2725. A free lift ticket will be given for anyone dressed as Santa for the day. All skiing and riding Santas will be required to preregister. A minimum donation of $20 is requested and will be given tothe local food pantry at Hope Restoration Church. Windham Mountain Resort, 19 Resort Drive, Windham.

10AM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon. Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound (Gos/Rock). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10AM-6PM Wreath Fineries at the Wineries.

Special holiday food & wine tastings, souvenir wine glass, handmade grapevine wreath and ornaments. Tickets: 1 or 2 days, designated driver and couples. A Shawangunk Wine Trail event.

Info: 845-256-8456 or www.shawangunkwinetrail.com/events/. .

10AM-11AM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will offer a program: Meditation (Medicine Buddha) & How to set up a Buddhist Altar.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.

Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

10AM-2PM Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market. 61 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Sunday. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 orwww. skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

10:30AM Christmas Schedule: Saugerties United Methodist Church. Worship. Info: 845-246-7802. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

10:30Am-6PM Wired Gallery’s Art Foray at Mohonk Mountain House. Holiday Season kicks off with art and a free access to the resort during Wired Gallery's Art Foray, from Tuesday, December 8 through Sunday, December 13, 10:30 am-6pm. A variety of affordable, galleryquality works as well as Mohonk’s spectacular grounds, daily 4 o’clock Victorian tea, and plenty of discounted Holiday shopping.Exhibit will feature works of local artists and artisans.For free admission mention "Art Fo ray" at the Gatehouse). Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

11AM-4PM Women Empowering Women's Annual “Ladypalooza” Holiday Art & Craft Faire.Over 20 local vendors, with a portion of the proceeds going to Mid Hudson Valley Planned Parenthood.The Barn at Cucina,109 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock. Free.

11AM-12PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks will offer a program: Tibetan Language & Alphabet (for High School age students & older).A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.

Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

11:30AM-12:30PM Free Bhagavad Gita Class.

On-going Yoga Philosophy Class taught by Ira Schepetin. Learn the subtleties of Indian Advaita Vedanta Philosophy by studying this perennial classic. OK to drop-in at any point in the series.

Donations appreciated. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

12PM-4PM Candlelight Tour at Hill-Hold. The parlor will host the traditional holiday tree with the famous antique toys. Cooking over the open hearth. Refreshments will be available. Admission: $2 per child and $3 per adult. Hill-Hold in Campbell Hall. Info: 845-615-3830 or www. hillholdandbrickhouse.org.

12PM-5PM Annual Candlelight Tour of Homes.

The self-guided tour features a diverse assortment of over a dozen public and private spaces within and beyond the City of Newburgh’s East End Historic District. Info: newburghhistoricalsociety.

com, or 845-561-2585. 1830Captain David Crawford House, 189 Montgomery St, Newburgh, $30.

12PM-4PM Washington’s Headquarters Annual Holiday Open House. Stroll through the same rooms General and Mrs. Washington did during the winter of 1782, the last winter of the Revolutionary Salmagundi Consort. Cookies and cider served by an outdoor fire. Info: 845-5621195 or www.newburghhistoricalsociety.com/.

Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh, free.

12:30PM-6PM Tarot Readings with Mary. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minute.

12:30PM-4:30PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Winter Echo Walk. This approximately five-mile round trip walk is a great way to warm up, get outside and fight cabin fever.

Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752 Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Naure Center, 1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm.

Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

1PM-4PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Selected Art Workshops, including Butter Sculpture (using play dough), Sand Painting, Tibetan Prayer Flags, and Mani Stones.

A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.Admission by donation. Info: 845-3831774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

1PM 4PM A New Windsor Colonial Christmas atThe Edmonston House.Come visit the Revolutionary War headquarters of Major General Gates and St. Clair, decorated for the holiday season as it would have looked during those final years of the Revolution. Light refreshments, music, storyteller, friends and family will be here for a celebrationof the holiday season.The Edmonston House, 1042 Route 94, Vails Gate.

1PM-5PM 21st Annual Holiday Open House.

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the Peter Alberghi. Info: 845-341-4179. SUNY Orange, Morrison Hall mansion, Middletown.

408 Main St, Rosendale, $12, $6 /12 & under.

3PM Rhinebeck Choral Club’s Winter Concert.

Special guest Jim Barbaro. Info: www.rhinebeckchoralclub.org. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck, $10, $8 /student.

3PM The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents A Winter Songfest Performed by Dawn Upshaw and Friends. Sosnoff Theater of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Tickets are $15, 20, and $100.

Info: 845-758-7900 or fishercenter.bard.edu.

3PM Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents Miracle on 34th Street. The play, directed by Russell Austin. . Tickets are $24 for Adults, $22 for Seniors, $15 for Children 12yrs and under.

For tickets, call the CENTER box office at (845) 876-3080 or visit www.centerforperformingarts. org. Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

3:30PM 8th Night of Chanukah, Woodstock Public Menorah Lighting at the Village Green.

Apple cider, Latkes, doughnuts, music gifts for every child! Info: 845-331-1176. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock.

4PM-6PM First Annual Unison Holiday Showcase. Featuring the work of 21 selected participants. The unique decorative and utilitarian pieces include a variety of ceramics, fiber arts, wearables, fused glass, framed watercolors, oils and photographs. Info:www.unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

4PM Book Reading: F.J. Gouldner, author of Holidays with the Ripper. Info: 845-255-8300.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

4PM Christmas Carol” Sing & Dinner. Info: 845-246-7802. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

4PM Welcome Yule: Sing Joy - Ars Choralis’ 20th Annual Holiday Concert. The awardwinning chorus, led by artistic director Barbara Pickhardt and assisted by Harvey Boyer, will perform a diverse array of music to capture the spirit of the holiday season. Info: OverlookMethodist Church, Woodstock, $20, $10 /18 & under.

1PM-4PM Holiday Whodunit. Children become detectives to solve a history mystery. Costumed interpreters throughout the house provide clues to help kids find the solution. Info: 845-889-8851.

Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr, Staatsburg.

4PM-6PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Tibetan Cooking Class. A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

2PM The TNTappers, a regional troupe of tapdancing senior citizens including retired New Paltz High school teacher and coach Franklin Davis. New Paltz Community Center,3 Veterans Dr,New Paltz. Info: 845- 255-2512.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Hosted by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums invite all to drum and dance. Free, donations appreciated. On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm.

Community Center (last room in the back of the building), Woodstock.

2PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Info: 845-647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $34.

2PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park.

2PM It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

An evening of live theate. Info: 845- 610-5900.

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf, $30, $15.

2PM Author Event: Mark Morganstern and Brent Robison will read excerpts from their fiction featuring Hudson Valley settings. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St., Woodstock 2 PM A Course in Miracles Study Group.

This study group is open to all students of the course, whether you are a beginning student or an advanced teacher. Every Sunday at 2pm.

Potential group members may contact Arthur at acimwoodstock@gmail.com Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

2PM It’s A Wonderful Life. Play by Frank Capra.

Presented by Shandaken Theatrical Society.

Adapted by Philip Grecian. Directed by Gordon W. Brown. Info: 845-688-2279 . Shandaken Theatrical Society, 10 Church St, Phoenicia, $20, $15 /senior/student.

2PM The Nutcracker. Catskill Mountain Foundation, in cooperation with the Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory New York, presents the world’s favorite ballet. Info: www.catskillmtn. org/events. Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville, $30, $25.

2:30 PM Opening Reception: Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963. Dr. Quincy Mills of Vassar College will give an introduction to the exhibit followed by a performance by the Dutchess Anti-Slavery Singers.The Auditorium, 105 Market St, Poughkeepsie. Info: www. poklib.org or 845-485-3445.

4PM Senior Dance Concert. An evening of Senior Projects in dance, this concert represents a culmination of four years of work by the graduating seniors in the Bard Dance Program.

Res reqr’d. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

6PM-9PM Grateful Dead Tribute band August West. No cover, 21+.Uncle Willy’s Inc,31 North Front Street (@ Wall Street) Kingston, 845-8538049.

6PM Tasty Tunes” Open Mic. Meets every Thursday night at 6pm. Sign up for musicians begins at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Each musician gets to 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first) of family friendly music. Taste Budd’s Café, 40 West Market St, Red Hook.

6PM-6:30PM Beginner Swing Dance Lesson.

6:-6:30pm Beginners Lesson; 6:30-9pm: Dance.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-2550614. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

6:30PM-9PM Free Swing Dance to The Bottoms Up Dixieland Band. 6-6:30pm Beginners Lesson; 6:30-9pm: Dance. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845 255-0614. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

7PM “A Christmas Tapestry of Song, “ Reception to follow performance. Info: 845-677-3485.

Lyall Memorial Federated Church, 30 Maple Ave, Millbrook.

7PM College Youth Symphony. Under the direction of Dr. J. Evans, the symphony will present an evening of classic works. Info: www.newpaltz. edu/music or 845-257-2700. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Steve Guyger (Blues Harmonica). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8PM Holiday Cabaret - Hedda Lettuce. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

3PM-6PM Candlelight Evening. Costumed Tableaux Vivants of holidays through history, glittering decorations, and wassail in the historic kitchen. Info: 518-537-4240. Clermont State Historic Site, , 1 Clermont Ave, Germantown, $12, $5 /12 and under.

8PM December Star Party. View the night sky away from the lights of the cities and towns of our area! Bring your own telescope or view the stars through one brought by our members. RSVP. Info: www.midhudsonastro.org. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram, free.

3PM “A Ballerina’s Tale.” The documentary about Misty Copeland, a ballerina who happens to be African American, Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or 845-658-8989. Rosendale Theatre,

8 PM Doug Marcus. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

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8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-9:50AM Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Bring a mat.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 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: ssipkingston.org or 845-399-2805. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston.

10AM-12PM Adult Art Workshop. Oils, Acrylics, Brushes supplied. $45 per 18 week semester, or $5 drop-in fee. Crafters free of charge. Judith Boggess, Instructor. Info: 845-657-9735. Shokan.

10AM-12PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Meditation (Chenrezig) & How to set up a Buddhist Altar. A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Wodostock.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

12:30PM-6PM Tarot and Crystal Readings and Energy Healing Sessions with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday and Monday. $50 for Crystal Reading and Chakra Clearing; $75 for one hour energy healing session. Info: 845-679-2100.

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

1 PM Needlework Group. On-going every Monday, 1pm. Info:845-338-5580, x1005. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

2PM-4PM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. In addition to instruction, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the class offers friendship and camaraderie. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for minimum contribution of $2.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM Math Help with Phyllis Rosato. All ages welcome. From kindergarten to calculus.

Every Monday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

4:15PM-5:30PM 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, 4:15-5:30pm. $12/class. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford.

5:30PM Booksigning: Scott McVay, author of “Surprise Encounters.” Info: 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM Meeting of ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Committee) A Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Info: 845-4758781 or www.enjan.org. New Progressive, 8 Hone St, Kingston.

6PM-7PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Tibetan Language & Alphabet (for High School age students & older). Admission by donation.

Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

6PM-7PM Backgammon Club with Christian.

Come learn how to play backgammon, or better your game and make new friends. All ages. Every Monday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30PM-8:30PM Mid-Hudson Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. Info: rainbowchorus1@gmail.com or 216-402-3232. This four-part chorus of LGBTQ & LGBTQ-friendly singers always welcomes new members.Sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses all voice parts needed. Ability to read music not req but helpful. Rehearsals every Mon, 6:30-8:30pm.

No charge for first rehearsal. LGBTQ Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston, $25 /month.

7PM Open Poetry. 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7PM Leptondale Elementary Winter Concert.

Info: www.somemusic.org Leptondale Elementary School, Wallkill, free.

8PM Punch Brothers. Info: 845-679-4406.

Bearsville Theater, 297 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Tuesday

12/15

9AM-10AM Senior Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and

older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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.

10AM-12PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Meditation (Tara) & How to set up a Buddhist Altar.A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. All Day: Continuing the Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala; House & Business Blessings;( Mo Readings; The Monks’ Store.

Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

10AM The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Meets every Tuesday. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Call 845-744-3055 for more information. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

10:30AM Together Tuesdays with Francesca.

For kids birth through preschool. Story, craft, and play. Come join the gang of local parents. Every Tuesday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

1:30PM-3PM Israeli Folk Dancing with Josh Tabak. Steps will be taught at the beginners level or adjusted for participants. Meets every Tuesday Beginner material offered. Each class is geared towards the experience of the participants. Donation suggested. No experience required, just the joy of dancing to Israeli music. Info: 845-2551559 or unisonarts.org. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

2PM Booksigning: Mark Morganstern, author of “Dancing With Dasein and Other Stories.” Info: 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

4PM-7PM Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day. On-going every 3rd Tuesday. 4-7pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7PM. Info:www.rvhhc.org Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

6PM-8PM Monthly Pain Management Workshop. Topics covered will include discussions on pain and the body’s healing chemistries, inflammation and the immune system, and how lifestyle factors such as exercise, hydration, and nutrition affect our health. Topical BioMedics, 6565 Spring Brook Ave, Rhinebeck, free.

6PM-8PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Tibetan Cooking Class. A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks. Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org.

Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

opportunity to work with experienced models under controlled lighting. $15.Info: www.unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

ship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12noon. Web: www.kingstonnyrotary.org.

Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

8PM Bard College Symphonic Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Red Hook School Concert Choir.

Conducted by James Bagwell. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $5, free /Bard community.

1PM-5PM Holiday Candlelight Tour at Mount Gulian Historic Site. The Dutch Colonial home of the Verplanck family is decorated decorated in different fashions. Info: 845-831-8172 or www. mountgulian.org. Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling St, Beacon, $8, $6

8PM Open Mic Nite. Join host Ben Rounds and take your shot at becoming the next Catskills Singing Sensation! No cover. Tuesday is also Burger Night at the Cat - only $8. Info: 688-2444 or www.emersonresort.com. Catamount Restaurant, Mt. Pleasant.

3:30PM Math Regents Prep. Every Wed. @ 3:30pm Certified Math Teacher - Don’t fail Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St, Ellenville, 877-576-9931.

8PM Short Astronomy Member Presentations Annual holiday party and short member presentations. 3-4 short talks on various astronomy topics including about places in our solar system that have or are believed to have liquid water outside of the earth. Info:www.midhudsonastro.org. SUNY New Paltz, Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz, free.

8PM-9PM Jewish Mysticism. Study of Tanya with Rabbi Hecht. ree. Every Tuesday on going.

All are welcome. Info: 845-679-7148. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

8PM Bill Ross. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Wednesday

12/16

9AM-10AM Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. Gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM Rip Van Winkle (RVW) Hiking Club: Partridge Run. Town of Berne in the Helderbergs (Note: This will be either a hike or snowshoe, depending upon conditions). Moderate hike: 5.5 miles, 4.5 hours. Info: 518-895-8474 or www. newyorkheritage.com/rvw. Berne.

10AM-12PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Meditation (Medicine Buddha) & How to set up a Buddhist Altar. . A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.

Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

10:30AM Art Hour with Francesca. Ages 3 to 103! Frannie will cook up something creative to do each week. Every Wednesday. Info: 845-6887811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

11 AM Knitting Circle. Wednesdays. Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

6:30 PM -7:30 PM Tea and Stones. Second Tuesday of every month. Explore a different stone from their vast collection. You’ll learn about their healing qualities, some history and folklore and ways to incorporate them into our daily life. Info: 845-473-2206. DreamingGoddess, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

11:30AM-1PM Nonviolent Communication Practice Group (NVC) in New Paltz. Learn Compassionate Communication as founded by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. Meets the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month, 11:30am-1pm. To register: PracticingPeace-NewPaltz.com. New Paltz.

7 PM-9 PM Open Mic. On-going, Tuesdays, 7-9pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 845-246-5775.

12PM The Lyme Wellness Series - Creative Self-Nurturing. Each session begins with an informal period (12-12:30) for meeting and sharing resources with others and sharing resources with others living with Lyme or other tick-borne and chronic illnesses. Workshopsbegin at 12:30 with professional guest speakers. Info: lymewellness@gmail.com. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veteran’s Lane, New Paltz, $10 / suggested donation.

7PM-8:30PM Singing Just for Fun! New Paltz Community Singers. Everyone welcome, everyone gets to choose songs. Going 20+ years. Meets 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. Info: genecotton@gmail.com. Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. Manheim Blvd, New Paltz.

7PM Plattekill Elementary Winter Concert.

Info: www.somemusic.org Plattekill Elementary School, 1270 Route 32, Plattekill, free.

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12PM Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellow-

4 PM-6 PM Homework Club at Woodstock Library. For 1st-6th graders. The Children’s Room becomes a study hall with snacks and homework help. This is a drop-off program. On Wednesdays. Info: 845-679-2213. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

4:45PM-6PM The R.E.A.D. to Dogs program.

Each reader signs up for a 15 minute session of reading to a trained dog, certified by Therapy Dogs International. Info: www.gardinerlibrary. org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

5PM Get Crafty. Paper ornament making series.

A different ornament will be made at each session using a variety of folding and cutting techniques.

Wednesdays, December 2 through 16. Res reqr’d.

Info: 845-758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

5:30 PM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Wednesday 5:30-6:30pm Everyone welcome.

845-679-9534. First Churchof Christ, Scientist, 89 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM The Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks: Ceremony to Conclude Creation of the Medicine Buddha Mandala. A program offered by the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monks.

Admission by donation. Info: 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston.

6PM-8PM Ukulele Circle. Pull up a ukulele and learn a song! This is a friendly group who welcomes all comers. Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

6PM East European Singing Workshop. A Capella choir and Accompanied group singing.

Learn about different languages and cultures through traditional folk songs, various choir pieces, Balkan rhythms and polyphonic style from the East European traditions.Ages 12 and up, for all genders.Possible locations: Woodstock, NY or Rosendale. We will meet if at least 5 people sign up.Please call or email to sign up!!! Please let me know which location do you prefer. Thank you! $15/ admission (first meeting is by donation).

Contact: 845-532-0852Fufaeg@gmail.com. More info: giliben.weebly.com.

6 P M - 9 P M Home Food Preservation Class:Boiling Water Bath. Nothing says Holidays like Homemade Gifts! Make tasty gifts for friends and family while learning safe methods of food preservation!Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, Kingston,845-340-3990 or cad266@cornell.edu.$30.

6PM-8PM Woodstock Community Chorale. An opportunity to join with friends to sing both great works and songs for fun. No need to read music!

Info: 845-688-2169. Kleinert/James Gallery, Tinker St, Woodstock.

6:25PM-6:50PM Learn Remembrance. Info: 845-679-8989. Every Wednesday, 6:25-6:50pm.

Remembrance is a deep practice to connect with the Divine in your heart. Spiritual practice (see separate listing) at 7, immediately following this introduction, all are welcome ifyou attend or not.

RSVP. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, free /donations welcome.

6:30pm-8pm Open House with Hettie Barnhill. Hettie invites you to come meet and learn more about upcoming group classes and private lessons for 2016 (Dance, Acting, Vocal). Unable to attend and still interested, then please email HettieBarnhill@gmail.com. Refreshments will be served. Event held at 71 Main Street, New Paltz, (2nd Floor), www.HettieBarnhill.com.

6:55PM-8PM Silent Spiritual Practice. Info: 845-679-8989. Every Wednesday, 6:55-8pm.

Group is for both people who currently have a silent spiritual practice such as meditation or Remembrance and those who would like to start such a practice. Q&A to follow.Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, free /donations welcome.

7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission-no dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm.

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

7PM “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. Info: 845-679-5906 or jan@kagyu.org.

On-going every Wed, 7pm. This free 90-minute program includes 30 minutes of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by one of eight lectures on the history, practices andprinciples of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 8 wk curriculum. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock, free.

7PM Wallkill Senior High School Winter Concert. Info: www.somemusic.org Wallkill Senior High School, Auditorium, 90 Robinson Dr, Wallkill, free.

7PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo (Swing Jazz). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Tango Night! Join Nina Jirka every Wednesday night for tango. Tango basics will be taught from 7-8 p.m. and intermediate tango follows from 8-9 p.m. Info: www.unisonarts.org or call 845-255-1559. Unison Arts, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $10 /suggested donation.

7PM Presentation by Scholar Edythe Ann Quinn, highlighting material from her book, Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Hills Community, Westchester County, New York, on Wednesday, December 16, at 7 pm. Through detailed letters, recruit rosters, and pension records, Dr. Edythe Ann Quinn shares the story of 35 African American Civil War soldiers from The Hills community in Westchester County. The letters the soldiers sent home formed the basis of Quinn’s book.

Charwat Room at Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market St, Poughkeepsie.Info: www.poklib. org or 845-485-3445.

7:30 PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. Meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. An evening of singing, fun & fellowship.A male a cappella group that sings in the American “Barbershop Style”of close fourpart harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org. St. Andrews Church, 110 Overlook St, Poughkeepsie.

7:30PM Rosendale Theatre’s Music Fan Film Series: Heart Of A Dog (Two showings, 12/15 & 12/16, 7:30pm). Laurie Anderson’s “wildly inventive” film. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

8PM Fishin Chicken. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

8:30PM-11PM Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza

7PM Open Mic. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

7PM Open Mic with Cameron & Ryder . Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Info: helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

7PM-10PM Jazz Jam. Every Tuesday, 7-10pm.

452-3232. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop . Meets every Tuesday night, 7pm-8:30pm.Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz.

7PM Live @ The Falcon. Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango & Salsa. Lessons & Dance! Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30 PM-9:30 PM Life Drawing Workshop.

Offered every Tuesday to give professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models under controlled lighting. There is no instruction. Info: www.unisonarts.org or call 845-255-1559. Unison Arts, 68 MountainRest Rd, New Paltz, $55 /series of 4 classes, $15 /per class.

7:30PM Rosendale Theatre’s Music Fan Film Series: Heart Of A Dog (Two showings, 12/15 & 12/16, 7:30pm). Laurie Anderson’s “wildly inventive” film. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

7:30PM Life Drawing at Unison. On-going.

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Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio with Syracuse/ Siegel Duo + Special Featured Guest. Featuring Bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Info: 679-7969.

Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill

Thursday

12/17

8AM Senior Exercise for Early Risers with Diane Colello. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9:15AM-10:15AM Free Story Hour at High Meadow School. For ages 4 years and under.

On-going. 845-687-4855. High Meadow School, 3643 Main St, Stone Ridge.

9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After 50 with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Woodstock.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

10AM-7PM Santa Claus at the Poughkeepsie Plaza. Through 12/24. Hours are 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays; 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays; and 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays. Info: www.poughkeepsieplaza.co. Poughkeepsie Plaza, 2600 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

11AM-12PM Feldenkrais Ongoing Community Class. Led by Tatiana Light. Meets on Thursdays, 11am - 12pm. Call 845-679-6299 for short telephone interview. Leave message when to return your call. Method of international reputation helping Healing, Longevity andImproved Balance and Movement Coordination.Gentle and effortless exercise with immediate relaxation effect.

Mountainview Studio, depending on registration Classes will start on January 2016, Woodstock.

11AM-12:30PM Soup Sale at the Rhinecliff fire Company! Soup from the Rhinecliff Ladies Auxiliary. To order ahead, call 845-876-6149 beginning at 10:45am. Rhinecliff Firehouse, corner of Shatzell and Orchard, Rhinebeck, free.

12PM-6PM Along the Farm/Art Trail with Debbe Cushman Femiak and Elizabeth Ocskay.

Refreshments served; featuring fresh produce from local farms and local wines. Emerging Artist Jim Muhlhahn will be featured in a solo exhibit in the workshop room. Show datesare Dec. 1-30.

Info: www.wallkillriverschool.com, or 845-4572727. Wallkill River School Art Gallery, 232 Ward St, Montgomery.

1PM-5PM Holiday Candlelight Tour at Mount Gulian Historic Site. The Dutch Colonial home of the Verplanck family is decorated decorated in different fashions. Info: 845-831-8172 or www. mountgulian.org. Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling St, Beacon, $8, $6.

1PM-4PM Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Most players are elementary and intermediate players.

Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1

donation requested. Rescue Squad Bldg, Rt 212, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM Story Circle. Come with a story to tell or an open heart and ears for listening. This timeless form of entertainment casts its spell. Info: 845-254-5469 or www.pinehillcommunitycenter. org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill, free.

4:30PM-5:30PM Meditation Support Group.

Every Thursday. Walk-ins welcome. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5 /donation.

4:30PM-7:30PM Sketch Class. Short pose. No instructor. December 3, 10 & 17. A traditional sketch class format with a variety of progressively longer timed poses. Info: 845-679-2388. Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Rte. 212, Woodstock, $40 /3 classes, $20 /1 class.

5:30PM-7:30PM Locust Grove’s ‘Sunset Sensations’ Anthony Moustakas of Gourmet to Go. Enjoy samplings from Hudson Valley chefs and wine pairings from around the world. Info: info@ lgny.org. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, $29.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org.

Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6PM Ant-Man Info: programs@olivefreelibrary. org or 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

6:30PM The Phoenicia Library Board Meeting.

Everyone welcome. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoneicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30 PM -8 PM Free Bhagavad Gita Class.

On-going Yoga Philosophy Class taught by Ira Schepetin. Learn the subtleties of Indian Advaita Vedanta Philosophy by studying this perennial classic. OK to drop-in at any point in the series.

Donations appreciated. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:30PM Board of Trustees Meeting. Public welcome. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: Departures. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.

GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM Singing Songbirds Performance. special guests Peter and Judith Muir of the Institute of Music and Health as they present an enchanting evening of song with the Singing Songbirds’ seasonal finale. Complimentary refreshments will be served. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-677-8550.

The Fountains at Millbrook, 79 Flint Rd, Millbrook, free.

7PM Cafe Singer Holiday Showcase hosted by Barbara Dempsey and Dewitt Nelson. Barbara and Dewitt welcome Eric Squindo and Bill Kelly to the Cafe stage. Info: 845-687-2699 or www. highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7:30PM The Object Lesson. Theater artist Geoff Sobelle fills and transforms the LUMA Theater with seemingly countless boxes and bins labeled and arranged just so. Info: www. fishercenter. bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $45.

8PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Ulster County residents (with ID) enjoy a 50% off discount. Info: 845-647-5511 or www. shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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9:45AM-10:45AM Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1PM-5PM Holiday Candlelight Tour at Mount Gulian Historic Site. The Dutch Colonial home of the Verplanck family is decorated decorated in different fashions. Info: 845-831-8172 or www. mountgulian.org. Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling St, Beacon, $8, $6 /senior, $4 /child.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All welcome. Children 7 and under must be with an adult. Duplos available for younger kids. Every Friday. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

5PM Friends of Phoenicia Library Meeting.

Please attend if you want to volunteer at the library or help organize fun fundraising events.

Info: chandeen.santos@gmail.com. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

5 PM-9 PM Sparkle 2015. The gardens and grounds will showcase beautiful lighting displays.

Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus, Snow Queen Stilt Walker, Ice Carving Demonstrations, the illuminated Hoop Dancers and caroling with The Taghkanic Chorale. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-265-3638.

6PM-8PM Phoenicia Community Chorus. An opportunity to join with friends and sing both great works and songs that are just fun. No need to read music! Info: 845-688-2169. Phoenicia Festival Office, 90 Main at Bridge Street, Phoenicia.

6:30PM Swing Dance Workshops with with Joe & Julie Donato. 6:30-7:15pm & 7:15-8pm.

Admission $20 both/$15 one. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www. hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-454-2571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM “A Christmas Festival of the Voice” Concert. Presented by St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice (FOV). This concert will feature the Phoenicia Community Choir and the Woodstock Community Chorale, under the direction of FOV Director Maria Todaro. Suggested admission is $15 for adults and $5 for students. Proceeds will benefit St. Gregory’s and FOV. St. Gregory’s, 2578 Rt 212, Woodstock.

7PM Movies With Spirit: “4 Little Girls.” Spike Lee’s gripping documentary about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala, in 1963, which killed four girls at Sunday school.

Info: 845-389-9201 or gerryharrington@mindspring.com. New ProgressiveBaptist Church, 8 Hone St, Kingston, $5.

7129 or www.MikeHermansolo.com. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill, free.

7PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Dr, Hyde Park.

7PM Friday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists LewScott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7PM Storytelling with Janet Carter. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

7:30PM Unplugged Open Mic at Unison. Are you a musician, poet, dancer, creator or spontaneous unscripted performers looking to take the stage?

Performers will have 10 minutes to display their talents. Info: 845-674-3222 or unisonarts.org.

Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7:30PM The Object Lesson. Theater artist Geoff Sobelle fills and transforms the LUMA Theater with seemingly countless boxes and bins labeled and arranged just so. Info: www. fishercenter. bard.edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, LUMA Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $45.

8PM Gus Mancini. 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8PM-8:30PM Beginner Swing Dance Lesson.

Beginner’s lesson 8-8:30pm; Dance 8:3011:30pm. Admission $15/$10 full time students.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-4542571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

8PM-10:30PM Pure Acoustic Music. Featuring Dented Fenders, Jeff Loeber, Brian Hutson, Graham Dawson, Andy Shapiro. Info: 845-8767007. Morton Memorial Library & Community House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff.

8PM Christmas Songs in and out the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook. Benefit for Maddie’s Mark. Info: www.levonhelmstudios. com. Levon Helm Studio, Woodstock, $60 / seating, $35 /standing room.

8PM Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents Miracle on 34th Street. The play, directed by Russell Austin. Tickets are $24 for Adults, $22 for Seniors, $15 for Children 12yrs and under.

For tickets, call the CENTER box office at 845876-3080 or visit www.centerforperformingarts. org. Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

8PM It’s A Wonderful Life. Play by Frank Capra.

Presented by Shandaken Theatrical Society.

Adapted by Philip Grecian. Directed by Gordon W. Brown. Info: 845-688-2279 . Shandaken Theatrical Society, 10 Church St, Phoenicia, $20, $15 /senior/student.

7PM Book Reading: Lowell Thing, author of The Street That Built a City: James McEntee’s Chestnut Street, Kingston and the Rise of New York.

Info: 845-255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

8PM Greetings! Play by Tom Dudzick. Directed

by Shadowland Artistic Director, Brendan Burke.

Comedy. Info: 845-647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

7PM Christmas@TheFalcon. Hosted by Brian Collazo of Live Society & Freedom Bremner. Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-10PM Open Mic. Hosted by Mike Herman.

Enjoy a great night of music and fun. Free admission - refreshments available. Info: 607-588-

8:30PM Swing Dance to Dan Shaut's Classic Jazz Quintet. Beginner’s lesson 8-8:30pm ; Dance 8:30-11:30pm. Admission $15/$10 full time students. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-454-2571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

Resolution No. 434 November 17, 2015 Authorizing The Acquisition Of RightOf-Way Interests At South Putt Corners Road, In And For The County Of Ulster, New York, At A Maximum Estimated Cost Of $176,260.00, And Authorizing The Issuance Of $176,260.00 Bonds Of Said County To Pay The Cost Thereof Referred to: The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Belfiglio, Briggs, Gregorius, Maio, Maloney and R. Parete) Chairman of the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee, Dean J. Fabiano, and Deputy Chairman Peter M. Loughran offer the following: WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 433 dated and duly adopted on the date hereof, the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York has established Capital Project No. 336 for the acquisition of right-of-way interests at South Putt Corners Road in the Town of New Paltz, including incidental expenses in connection therewith (Department of Public Works (Highways and Bridges); and WHEREAS, said capital project, as proposed, has been determined to be a Type II Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, which regulations state that Type II Actions will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment; and

WHEREAS, it is now desired to authorize the financing of such capital project; now, therefore be it RESOLVED, by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total voting strength of the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: Section 1. The acquisition of right-of-way interests at South Putt Corners Road in the Town of New Paltz, including incidental expenses in connection therewith, in and for the County of Ulster, New York, is hereby authorized at a maximum estimated cost of $176,260.

Section 2. It is hereby determined that the plan for the financing of the aforesaid maximum estimated cost is by the issuance of $176,260 of bonds of the County hereby authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law; provided, however, that to the extent that any Federal or State or other grants-in-aid are received for such specific object or purpose, the ultimate amount of bonds to be issued pursuant to this resolution shall be reduced dollar for dollar.

Section 3. It is hereby determined that the period of probable usefulness of the aforesaid specific object or purpose is thirty years, pursuant to subdivision 21(a) of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law. Section 4. The faith and credit of said County of Ulster, New York, are hereby irrevocable pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same respectively

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE New York State CDBG-DR Application Available Review The Government of Ulster County announces that it intends to submit an application for New York State Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program funds on or about December 18, 2015 for the following project: Carmine Liberta Bridge Replacement.

Activity: New York State CDBG-DR funds will be used to construct a new bridge and water main improvements as part of replacement of the Carmine Liberta Bridge across the Wallkill River in the Town and Village of New Paltz, NY. Objective: To ensure safe and resilient transportation access for all users of NYS Rt. 299 corridor west of the Wallkill River.

Location: Carmine Liberta Bridge over the Wallkill River, NY Route 299, New Paltz, NY Amount: $490,000.00.

A copy of the application will be available for review at the Ulster County Courthouse, 244 Fair Street, Kingston, NY 12401, Thursday, December 10, 2015 through Thursday, December 17, 2015, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

All citizens, particularly persons of low and moderate income and residents of blighted areas, as well as those affected by the project are encouraged to submit their views and proposals

by Thursday, December 17, 2015 to the Ulster County Government at the following address:

Dennis Doyle Ulster County Planning Department 244 Fair Street Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 340-3339 ddoy@co.ulster.ny.us Additional information regarding the availability and use of CDBG-DR funds is available upon request at the above contact.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the resolution published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, on November 17, 2015 and approved by the County Executive on November 24, 2015, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitution.

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legal notices become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds becoming due and payable in such year. There shall annually be levied on all the taxable real property of said County, a tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same become due and payable.

Section 5. Subject to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, the power to authorize the issuance of and to sell bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance and sale of the bonds herein authorized, including renewals of such notes, is hereby delegated to the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer. Such notes shall be of such terms, form and contents, and shall be sold in such manner, as may be prescribed by said Commissioner of Finance, consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 6. All other matters except as provided herein relating to the serial bonds herein authorized including the date, denominations, maturities and interest payment dates, within the limitations prescribed herein and the manner of execution of the same, including the consolidation with other issues, and also the ability to issue serial bonds with substantially level or declining annual debt service, shall be determined by the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer of such County. Such bonds shall contain substantially the recital of validity clause provided for in Section 52.00 of the Local Finance Law, and shall otherwise be in such form and contain such recitals, in addition to those required by Section 51.00 of the Local Finance Law, as the Commissioner of Finance shall determine consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 7. The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only if: 1) Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or 2) The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of publication of this resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication, or 3) Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Section 8. This resolution shall constitute a statement of official intent for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.150 2. Other than as specified in this resolution, no monies are, or are reasonably expected to be, reserved, allocated on a long term basis, or otherwise set aside with respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.

Section 9. This resolution, which takes effect immediately, shall be published in summary form in the official newspaper(s) of such County, together with a notice of the Clerk of the County Legislature in substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Local Finance Law. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the resolution published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, on November 17, 2015 and approved by the County Executive on November 24, 2015, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitution.

Dated: December 10, 2015 Kingston, New York Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Resolution No. 436 November 17, 2015 Authorizing The Issuance Of An Additional $65,000.00 Bonds Of The County Of Ulster, New York, To Pay Part Of The Cost Of The Reconstruction Of Leggs Mill Bridge, In And For Said County Referred to: The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Belfiglio, Briggs, Gregorius, Maio, Maloney and R. Parete) Chairman of the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee, Dean J. Fabiano, and Deputy Chairman Peter M. Loughran offer the following: WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 62, dated and duly adopted on February 17, 2015, the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York has established Capital Project Nos. 444 and 445 for the reconstruction of the Alligerville Bridge and Leggs Mill Bridge for the Department of Public Works (Highways and Bridges Division); and WHEREAS, said capital project, as proposed, has been determined to be a Type II Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, which regulations state that Type II Actions will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment; and WHEREAS, by a bond resolution dated

February 17, 2015, duly adopted on said date, the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, authorized the issuance of $1,125,000 bonds of said County to pay the cost of the reconstruction of the Alligerville Bridge on Alligerville Road, over Rondout Creek in the Town of Rochester (Capital Project No. 444) and the Leggs Mill Bridge on Leggs Mill Road, over the Esopus Creek in the Town of Ulster (Capital Project No. 445), including incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, in and for said County of Ulster, New York; and WHEREAS, it has now been determined that the maximum estimated cost of such class of objects or purposes is $1,190,000, an increase of $65,000 over that previously authorized; and WHEREAS, it is now desired to authorize the issuance of an additional $65,000 bonds of said County for such class of objects or purposes, being, in particular, for the Leggs Mill Bridge on Leggs Mill Road; now, therefore be it RESOLVED, by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total voting strength of the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: Section 1. For the object or purpose of paying additional costs of the reconstruction of the Leggs Mill Bridge on Leggs Mill Road, over the Esopus Creek in the Town of Ulster (Capital Project No. 445), including incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, in and for said County of Ulster, New York, there are hereby authorized to be issued an additional $65,000 bonds of the County of Ulster, New York, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 2. It is hereby determined that the maximum estimated cost of such class of objects or purposes is now determined to be $1,190,000, and that the plan for the financing thereof is as follows: a. By the issuance of the $1,125,000 bonds of said County authorized to be issued pursuant to a bond resolution dated and duly adopted February 17, 2015 as described in the preambles hereof; and b. By the issuance of the additional $65,000 bonds of said County authorized to be issued pursuant to this bond resolution.

Section 3. It is hereby determined that the period of probable usefulness of the aforesaid class of objects or purposes is twenty years, pursuant to subdivision 10 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law, calculated from the date of issuance of the first serial bonds/bond anticipation notes for said class of objects or purposes. It is hereby further determined that the maximum maturity of the serial bonds herein authorized will exceed five years.

Section 4. Subject to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, the power to authorize the issuance of and to sell bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance and sale of the bonds herein authorized, including renewals of such notes, is hereby delegated to the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer. Such notes shall be of such terms, form and contents, and shall be sold in such manner, as may be prescribed by said Commissioner of Finance, consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 5. All other matters except as provided herein relating to the serial bonds herein authorized including the date, denominations, maturities and interest payment dates, within the limitations prescribed herein and the manner of execution of the same, including the consolidation with other issues, and also the ability to issue serial bonds with substantially level or declining annual debt service, shall be determined by the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer of such County. Such bonds shall contain substantially the recital of validity clause provided for in Section 52.00 of the Local Finance Law, and shall otherwise be in such form and contain such recitals, in addition to those required by Section 51.00 of the Local Finance Law, as the Commissioner of Finance shall determine consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 6. The faith and credit of said County of Ulster, New York, are hereby irrevocable pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same respectively become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds becoming due and payable in such year. There shall annually be levied on all the taxable real property of said County, a tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same become due and payable.

Section 7. The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only if: 1) Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or 2) The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of publication of this resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication, or 3) Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Section 8. This resolution shall constitute a statement of official intent for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.150 2. Other than as specified in this resolution, no monies are, or are reasonably expected to be, reserved,

allocated on a long term basis, or otherwise set aside with respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.

Section 9. This resolution, which takes effect immediately, shall be published in full in the official newspapers of such County, together with a notice of the Clerk of the County Legislature in substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Local Finance Law. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the resolution published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, on November 17, 2015 and approved by the County Executive on November 24, 2015, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitution.

Dated: December 10, 2015 Kingston, New York Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Resolution No. 438 November 17, 2015 Authorizing The Issuance Of An Additional $5,000.00 Bonds Of The County Of Ulster, New York, To Pay Part Of The Cost Of The Purchase And Installation Of Energy Efficient And Economically Conscious Lighting Fixtures At The Ulster County Law Enforcement Center, In And For Said County Referred to: The Ways and Means Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Belfiglio, Briggs, Gregorius, Maio, Maloney and R. Parete) Chairman of the Public Works and Capital Projects Committee, Dean J. Fabiano, and Deputy Chairman Peter M. Loughran offer the following: WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 239 dated and duly adopted on June 16, 2015, the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York has established Capital Project No. 456 for the purchase and installation of energy efficient and economically conscious light fixtures at the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center (Department of the Environment); and WHEREAS, said capital project, as proposed, has been determined to be a Type II Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, which regulations state that Type II Actions will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment; and WHEREAS, by a bond resolution dated June 16, 2015, duly adopted on said date, the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, authorized the issuance of $12,237 bonds of said County to pay the cost of the purchase and installation of energy efficient and economically conscious lighting fixtures at the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center, including incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, in and for said County of Ulster, New York; and WHEREAS, it has now been determined that the maximum estimated cost of such specific object or purpose is $17,237, an increase of $5,000 over that previously authorized; and WHEREAS, it is now desired to authorize the issuance of an additional $5,000 bonds of said County for such specific object or purpose; now, therefore be it RESOLVED, by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total voting strength of the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: Section 1. For the specific object or purpose of paying additional costs of the purchase and installation of energy efficient and economically conscious lighting fixtures at the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center, including incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, in and for said County of Ulster, New York, there are hereby authorized to be issued an additional $5,000 bonds of the County of Ulster, New York, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 2. It is hereby determined that the maximum estimated cost of such specific object or purpose is now determined to be $17,237, which specific object or purpose is hereby authorized at said maximum estimated cost, and that the plan for the financing thereof is as follows: a. By the issuance of the $12,237 bonds of said County authorized to be issued pursuant to a bond resolution dated and duly adopted June 16, 2015 as described in the preambles hereof; and b. By the issuance of the additional $5,000 bonds of said County authorized to be issued pursuant to this bond resolution.

Section 3. It is hereby determined that the period of probable usefulness of the aforesaid specific object or purpose is ten years, pursuant to subdivision 13 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law, calculated from the date of issuance of the first serial bonds/ bond anticipation notes for said specific object

or purpose.

Section 4. Subject to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, the power to authorize the issuance of and to sell bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance and sale of the bonds herein authorized, including renewals of such notes, is hereby delegated to the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer. Such notes shall be of such terms, form and contents, and shall be sold in such manner, as may be prescribed by said Commissioner of Finance, consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 5. All other matters except as provided herein relating to the serial bonds herein authorized including the date, denominations, maturities and interest payment dates, within the limitations prescribed herein and the manner of execution of the same, including the consolidation with other issues, and also the ability to issue serial bonds with substantially level or declining annual debt service, shall be determined by the Commissioner of Finance, the chief fiscal officer of such County. Such bonds shall contain substantially the recital of validity clause provided for in Section 52.00 of the Local Finance Law, and shall otherwise be in such form and contain such recitals, in addition to those required by Section 51.00 of the Local Finance Law, as the Commissioner of Finance shall determine consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 6. The faith and credit of said County of Ulster, New York, are hereby irrevocable pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same respectively become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds becoming due and payable in such year. There shall annually be levied on all the taxable real property of said County, a tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same become due and payable.

Section 7. The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only if: 1) Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or 2) The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of publication of this resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication, or 3) Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Section 8. This resolution shall constitute a statement of official intent for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.150 2. Other than as specified in this resolution, no monies are, or are reasonably expected to be, reserved, allocated on a long term basis, or otherwise set aside with respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.

Section 9. This resolution, which takes effect immediately, shall be published in full in the official newspapers of such County, together with a notice of the Clerk of the County Legislature in substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Local Finance Law. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on October 20, 2015, approved by the County Executive on November 13, 2015, and filed with the State of New York on November 23, 2015, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be herinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: December 10, 2015 Kingston, New York Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Local Law No. 14 of 2015 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 1 Of 1996 (A Local Law To Prohibit Soliciting, Peddling Or Vending On Any County Owned Property), To Allow For Use Of County Owned And Leased Building Space By Veterans And Disabled Members Of Ulster County BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The County of Ulster has previously provided space for disabled citizens to sell various items such as newspapers, pens, and gum to visitors and employees of the Ulster County Office Building, therefore providing a small income to the seller. This practice allowed for a symbiotic relationship between the disabled citizen of the County of Ulster and the users of the building.

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SECTION 2. Section 2. of Local Law No. 1 of 1996 is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 2.

Excluded from the foregoing provisions of Section 1 is the County fairgrounds property on Libertyville Road in the Town of New Paltz, except for those portions which are part of the pool and pool parking lot.

Excluded from the foregoing provisions of Section 1 are those county owned or county leased buildings that the County Executive deems having appropriate space to lease to disabled persons or veterans of the United States Military for the purposes of selling goods or services and the letting of such space shall conform with the policy set forth by the Ulster County Legislature.

This exclusion includes the installation of a kiosk providing information and promoting businesses owned by disabled persons and veterans.

SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, subsection or other part of this Local Law or its applications shall be adjudged by a Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or otherwise invalidate the remainder of this Local Law which shall remain in full force and effect except as limited by such order or judgment.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the New York State Secretary of State.

Adopted by the County Legislature: October 20, 2015 Approved by the County Executive: November 13, 2015 Filed with New York State Department of State: November 23, 2015 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on October 20, 2015, approved by the County Executive on November 13, 2015, and filed with the State of New York on November 23, 2015, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be herinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: December 10, 2015 Kingston, New York Ulster County Legislature Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Local Law No. 13 Of 2015 County Of Ulster A Local Law Of The County Of Ulster, New York, Known As The “False Alarm Reduction Act” BE IT ENACTED, by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York as follows: SECTION 1. TITLE. This Local Law shall be known by and may be cited as the False Alarm Reduction Act. SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature hereby finds and declares that false alarms drain resources of the Ulster County Sheriff, police officers, and other first responders such as firefighters and emergency services workers. Each false alarm amounts to a waste of taxpayer money without any public safety benefit and otherwise imperils the rest of the public who may need actual assistance. The Ulster County Legislature hereby further finds it important and necessary to ensure that the alarms being called into the Ulster County Sheriff, police officers and other first responders such as firefighters and emergency services workers must have valid permits issued by the Ulster County Sheriff. For those reasons, and in furtherance of enhancing the public’s health, safety, and general welfare, this law is enacted. Therefore, the alarm permit fees together with fines levied in accordance with this Local Law shall be used to offset the administrative and operational expenses caused by the large number of responses by the Ulster County Sheriff, police officers and other first responders.

SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Alarm System” shall mean a device or series of devices, including but not limited to devices interconnected with a telephone and/or radio frequency method such as cellular or private radio signals, which emit or transmit a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition and intended to summon the Law Enforcement and/or fire protection and/or medical emergency service and/or Emergency Services which perform services in Ulster County or a Municipality therein. “Alarm System” shall not include any personal alarm device nor any vehicle alarm device unless the vehicle is permanently located at a site where the

device or devices constituting the Alarm System are intended to summon Emergency Services to.

“County” shall mean the County of Ulster.

“County Attorney” shall mean the Ulster County Attorney.

“Commissioner of Finance” shall mean the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance as defined in the Ulster County Charter.

“Dispatched” means a verbal, electronic, or written communication to Law Enforcement or Emergency Services made through the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office, 911, or local law enforcement dispatch and caused through an Alarm System which actually causes a police officer, firefighter (paid or volunteer), ambulance corps volunteer or employee, rescue squad worker (paid or volunteer), or auxiliary member of any police or fire department or ambulance corps or rescue squad to physically leave the premises such person is at or change directions in their motor vehicle with the plan to respond (or actually responding) to what is determined to be a false alarm.

“Emergency” shall mean (i) a need for prompt medical services; and/or (ii) a need for prompt police services due to an impending or actually occurring trespass, break in, robbery; and/or (iii) a circumstance perceived by a human witness or believed by a person based on his or her actual observation or the observation of another human reporting such human’s personal, for anything described in (i) or (ii).

“Emergency Services” shall mean a fire department, district, company, ambulance corps, or rescue squad.

“False Alarm” shall mean an automated action which emanates from an Alarm System in a structure and causes a call or signal to come into an Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office, 911, or local law enforcement dispatch where a person therein contacts Law Enforcement or Emergency Services and dispatches Law Enforcement or Emergency Services to such structure (whether the Law Enforcement personnel or Emergency Services personnel actually arrive at such structure or not) without any actual emergency existing at that structure.

“Law Enforcement” shall mean the Ulster County Sheriff and the Deputies who work under the Sheriff, and members or officers of any City, Town, or Village police department, or the New York State Police. Law Enforcement shall also include the dispatchers, civilian or otherwise, who answer the phones at any structure or portion thereof used by Law Enforcement to dispatch police officers or Emergency Services to potential emergencies.

“Municipality” shall mean any City, Town, or Village wholly contained within the County of Ulster and Ulster County.

“Owner” shall mean the person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation which has legal title to the real property where the false alarm emanates from.

“Police phone number” shall mean emergency communications or any phone number designed to be answered by Law Enforcement or Emergency Services.

“Sheriff ” shall mean the Ulster County Sheriff.

“Statement” shall mean a written invoice stating a fine. Such statement shall include a statement that the addressee or his or her attorney or a tenant of the addressee acting with the written (notarized) approval of the addressee may appeal the fine provided for in the invoice in the process authorized under law. Statements shall be served personally upon the addressee or may be served certified mail return receipt requested along with a copy sent first class mail at the address of the property owner.

“Structure” shall mean a physical improvement to real property which has an alarm in it placed there by or under the control of an owner or tenant of the structure.

SECTION 4. EXEMPTIONS. The requirements of this Local Law shall not apply to any Ulster County municipality that has enacted local false alarm reduction legislation.

SECTION 5. FALSE ALARMS PROHIBITED. False Alarms caused by an Alarm System are prohibited. It is the responsibility of the property owner to ensure that their Alarm System is properly licensed, in proper working order and does not cause a False Alarm.

SECTION 6. PERMIT REQUIRED; APPLICATION; FEE; TRANSFERABILITY; FALSE STATEMENTS (A) A person commits a violation if he or she operates or causes an alarm system to operate that results in a call to the Ulster County Sheriff, police officers, and other first responders such as firefighters and emergency services without a valid permit issued by the Ulster County Sheriff.

A separate permit shall be required for each alarm system.

(B) It shall be the responsibility of the alarm system installer at the time of installation or activation to submit an alarm permit application form together with the required fee(s) to the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Department on behalf of and at the expense of the user, unless the installer has confirmed that the user already holds a valid permit. It shall be the responsibility of the alarm company that monitors the alarm system to ensure, prior to commencing any such service

contract, that there is a current alarm permit.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, the alarm system user shall be deemed the permit applicant and permit holder for purposes of this Local Law. (C) Upon receipt of a completed permit application form the Ulster County Sheriff shall issue an alarm permit to an applicant unless the applicant has, (1) Failed to pay any penalty assessed pursuant to this Local Law; or (2) Had an alarm permit revoked and the cause for such revocation has not been corrected at the time the permit application is received by the Ulster County Sheriff.

(D) Every permit for an alarm system shall include the following information: (1) The name, address and telephone number(s) of the person who shall be the permit holder responsible for the proper maintenance and operation of the alarm system and payment of fees and assessments pursuant to this title; (2) For each alarm system located at the alarm site, the purpose of the alarm, to wit: burglary, robbery, personal hostage or panic; (3) Street address and nearest cross street of the building in which the alarm system is housed.

(E) Any false statements made by applicant in conjunction with the obtaining of an alarm permit shall be sufficient cause for the Sheriff to refuse to issue a permit.

(F) An alarm permit holder shall advise the Ulster County Sheriff of any changed in the information contained within the permit application.

(G) An alarm permit may not be transferred to another person without the filing of a new permit application.

(H) An alarm permit holder shall advise the alarm company that monitors the permit holder’s alarm system of the Ulster County Sheriff Department’s telephone number upon receiving the permit number from the Ulster County Sheriff.

(I) The Ulster County Sheriff may revoke an alarm permit if it determines that: (1) There is a false statement made in the application for a permit; or (2) The permit holder has violated any provision of this Local Law; or (3) The permit holder has failed to make timely payments of any penalties or fees pursuant to this Local Law; or (4) The permit fee, if paid by the applicant by check, is dishonored; or (5) There are five (5) or more false alarms in a year and satisfactory documentation or repair of the alarm system has not been submitted.

(J) A person whose alarm permit has been revoked may be issued a new permit if the person: (1) Submits an updated permit application and pays a permit fee of $50.00 dollars; and (2) Pays or otherwise disposes of all penalties issued to the person pursuant to this Local Law; and (3) Submits proof that the alarm system has been inspected and properly maintained.

SECTION 7. PENALTIES, PAYMENT, AND COLLECTION THEREOF. (A) Penalties for False Alarms. When Law Enforcement or Emergency Services are Dispatched to a false alarm, the owner of the real property Law Enforcement or Emergency Services was dispatched to, shall be liable for a civil penalty in the following amount in any calendar year: $0 for the first and second false alarm; $50 for the third false alarm; $200 for the fourth and each and every subsequent false alarm(s); Civil penalties shall be made payable to the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance and deposited by him or her into a segregated fund as established in this law for the benefit of the Office of the Sheriff of Ulster County.

(B) Penalties for operating an alarm system without a valid permit. When Law Enforcement or Emergency Services are Dispatched to a false alarm and the alarm system is in operation without a valid permit, the owner of the real property in which the alarm system is situated shall be liable for a civil penalty in the following amount in any calendar year: Upon the first false alarm, a warning shall be issued to the homeowner and such homeowner shall have 14 days to obtain a permit; $100.00 for the second false alarm; $200.00 for the third and each and every subsequent false alarm(s); (C) Reporting of False Alarm. When Law Enforcement employed by the County of Ulster are dispatched to what he or she ascertains to be a False Alarm such Law Enforcement employed by the County of Ulster shall, within seventy two hours of being dispatched, report the same to his or her immediate Supervisor in the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office. Such Supervisor shall enter such False Alarm into a database to be maintained by the Ulster County Sheriff or his or her designee of reported False Alarms. Such database shall contain the information required by the Sheriff. Law Enforcement other than Law Enforcement employed by the County of Ulster or emergency service may also report the same to the Ulster County Sheriff ’s Office pursuant to any procedure established by the Sheriff of Ulster County and agreed upon by the Chief of Police, or if there be none, Officer in Charge of such police department of such City, Town, or Village. Such procedure shall

be in writing and filed with the Sheriff of the County of Ulster and shall call for any report to be made to the Sheriff within seventy two hours of the dispatch occurring. To the extent that an intermunicipal agreement is determined to be necessary to effectuate any purpose of this law, the Chairman of the Ulster County Legislature is hereby authorized to sign the same upon the approval by the County Attorney and Counsel to the County Legislature of such agreement or agreements or amendments thereto.

(D) Upon the occurrence of the first False Alarm, if the alarm system is operated without a valid permit or a third False Alarm if the alarm system is operated with a valid permit, in a calendar year the Sheriff shall cause a Statement to be mailed to the property owner instructing the property owner to return the fine in the designated amount, made payable to the Ulster County Commissioner of Finance. Such Statement from the Sheriff shall require the fine to be paid within thirty days of the date of the Statement sent from the Sheriff. Such Statement shall be mailed within thirty days by the Sheriff.

(E) Appeal process. If the addressee of the Statement desires to appeal the fine and/or revocation of permit, the fine and/or revocation of permit shall be stayed pending the appeal. The Appeal shall be made in writing to the Sheriff of Ulster County or an employee of the Ulster County Sheriff ’s office designated to hear such appeal or alternatively to an attorney appointed by the Sheriff with the consent of the Ulster County Attorney to hear such an appeal. Appeals may be in writing or by personal appearance within thirty days of the date of the Statement sent from the Sheriff. Upon filing an appeal, the individual hearing the appeal (designated herein as the “hearing officer”), shall send written instructions to the property owner stating when the appeal shall be heard (either upon written submission or orally or both). The hearing officer shall render a decision on the appeal within thirty days and shall send such decision, which shall constitute a final determination pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, to the property owner where the structure was on which the False Alarm emanated from.

Thereafter, if the decision is that the fine and/ or revocation of permit is upheld by the hearing officer, such fine shall be payable within thirty days of the decision of the hearing officer and such revocation of permit shall take effect immediately upon the decision of the hearing officer.

An aggrieved party may institute a proceeding or action pursuant to the provisions of Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules to challenge such final determination by the hearing officer.

If no appeal is taken, the mailing of the Statement by the Sheriff or his or her representative shall constitute a final determination appealable pursuant to this law or otherwise pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.

(F) Levy on Tax Bill. The Commissioner of Finance or any Ulster County employee authorized by him or her is authorized to levy on the county tax bill of any property owner any unpaid fine authorized and finally determined under this Chapter.

(G) Civil Action. The County Attorney is authorized to commence a separate civil action to collect any fine authorized under this Chapter.

(H) Dedicated Fund. Fines received or taxes paid as a result of this Chapter shall be deposited by the Commissioner of Finance into a dedicated account and utilized by the Sheriff of Ulster County or the Director of Emergency Communications/Emergency Management subject to appropriation by the Ulster County Legislature pursuant to law.

SECTION 8. GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY/NO SPECIAL DUTY CREATED. Responding to or failing to respond to an alarm does not create any special duty by Ulster County; nor does it create any special duty by any municipality within Ulster County. Any and all liability and consequential damage resulting from either (a) responding; or (b) the failure to respond to an alarm system signal is hereby disclaimed and governmental immunity is retained.

Responses by Law Enforcement, fire department and/or medical emergency response may be based on factors such as availability of police, fire and/or medical emergency units, priority of calls, weather conditions, traffic conditions, emergency conditions and staffing levels. No duty to respond to an alarm is represented herein as being made or promised.

SECTION 9. SEVERABILITY. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section of part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this Local Law shall be on January 1, 2016.

Adopted by the County Legislature: October 20, 2015 Approved by the County Executive: November 13, 2015 Filed with New York State Department of State: November 23, 2015

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New Paltz;, PART-TIME OFFICE HELP. Must haveflexible hours and able to work the summermonths. Excellent people skills, computer knowledge,and more. Apply in person: Southside Terrace Apartments, 4 Southside Ave. Leasing Office.

HELP WANTED Full Time position for ground personnel with a tree service.

Chainsaw operator/experience required.

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LICENSED SECURITY GUARDS NEEDED. Apply at Shire Reeve Assoc. 318 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845)331-7444. Ulster & Dutchess Counties.

Monday, December 21st

HELP WANTED for senior citizen doing assorted tasks like house cleaning, gardening, shopping. Once a week for 3-4 hours. $12/hr.

Located in Palenville. (518)678-3450.

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Monday, December 28th Please call your sales representative at (845) 334-8200 for more information.

WOODSTOCK FERAL CAT PROJECT NEEDS TRAPPERS.We are a local not for profit organization committed to reducing future feral cat populations through spay/ neuter. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in contributing to our mission by humanely trapping feral cats to have them spayed/neutered, â&#x20AC;&#x153;TNRâ&#x20AC;?, please call (973)713-8229.

We NEED YOUR HELP to assist in the upkeep of a Thrift Shop in Highland for the 1st United Methodist Church. Part-time- perfect for someone who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the work or the pay- none. Dedicated staff of 3 right now. Your help is much needed. Thank You. Please contact B. Vashey at 691-7300 or Pastor Dawber at 338-3833.

The absolute final deadline is Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Monday at 11 a.m. in Woodstock and New Paltz; Tuesday in Kingston.

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DRIVER WANTED, P/T-F/T, Woodstock Taxi. Applicants must be very flexible as to availability. Driver scheduling changes daily.

Shifts will include weekday hours as well as on call weekend hours. Clean license & thorough knowledge of Woodstock and surrounding areas a must. Class E license (very easy to obtain) required. Local residency gets first consideration. During business hours, please call 679-TAXI. Ricciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barber Shop in New Paltz is looking for PART-TIME, possibly FULL-TIME help. Must know how to do flat tops and skin fades. Must be a responsible reliable worker. Call Ricci 845-849-4501.

FULL-TIME FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST NEEDED in busy, fun family chiro office. Must love kids. Send resume w/ cover letter to: lester.chiropractic@gmail. com or fax 845-255-4220.

PART-TIME OFFICE CLERK for Town of Woodstock Building Department. Professional clerical experience a must. Job requires use of computer, office systems, answering phones, meeting the public. Applications may be obtained on line, www. woodstockny.org, or at the Town Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 845-679-2113 x 14. Applications must be received by December 17, 2015.â&#x20AC;?

Personal Assistant: An occasional collegeeducated typist to do two hours of dictations on Saturdays and Sundays at a time convenient to theapplicant. First-rate spelling and grammar essential, and superior knowledge of any Western European languages a plus. You will type a Word document into a computer. Please send resume to nevans@ overlookny.com

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FOSTER HOMES NEEDED FOR KITTENS AND PREGNANT CATS.The WOODSTOCK FERAL CAT PROJECT is a local not for profit organization committed to reducing future feral cat populations through spay/neuter. We often find orphaned kittens who need a loving home un-

til they are old enough to be adopted. Some orphaned kittens are so young that they require bottle feeding. We affectionately call them â&#x20AC;&#x153;bottle babiesâ&#x20AC;?. We recently placed three pregnant cats in three wonderful homes. The cats gave birth and when the kittens are weaned (no longer nursing), we will look to find loving homes for the kittens and their mothers. If you are interested in fostering or would like to learn more about fostering, please call (917) 282-2018 or email DRJLPK@AOL.COM. Short of Time? Need odd jobs done? Errands run? Let me do them for you. Responsible, reliable adult. Reasonable rates.

Have van. New Paltz area. Contact Scott, 917-747-0315 DIANAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed for Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Dianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CAT Shelter in Accord.

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New Paltz Community-- this Appâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for You! Hugies & Hipsters * Pub Owners & Pub Crawlers * Dentists & Patients * Shoppers & Shops * Chefs & Diners * Baristas & Coffee Lovers... Get Connected! Find us at: https://newpaltz.mycityapp.mobile Local businessesâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; contact us for our annual ad rates- 845-527-4100.

DEAR BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN- We at Hardscrabble Flea Market & Swap Meet would like to congratulate you on being picked from over 100 businesses in your field. We believe we can help each otherWe have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/ business cards & flyers or â&#x20AC;&#x153;show how to doâ&#x20AC;? projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers.

And, if you have leftover merchandise youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to sell- this would be a perfect way to unload it. Please give John a call for more details- (845)758-1170. Spots are $12-$35.

ULSTER PUBLISHING POLICY It is illegal for anyone to: ...Advertise or make any statement that indicates a limitation or preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, handicap (disability), age, marital status or sexual orientation. Also, please be advised that language that indicates preference (i.e. â&#x20AC;&#x153;working professionals,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;single or couple,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;mature...professional,â&#x20AC;? etc.) is considered to be discriminatory. To avoid such violations of the Fair Housing Law, it is best to describe the apartment to be rented rather than the person(s) the advertiser would like to attract. This prohibition against discriminatory advertising applies to single family and owner-occupied housing that is otherwise exempt from the Fair Housing Act.

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OUR COMPLETE DREAM HOME! Has beautiful landscaped gardens and tall stately trees encircling this stunning WOODSTOCK Colonial with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths RQ RYHU DFUHV 7KH VW Ă&#x20AC;RRU holds a family room with a VWRQH ÂżUHSODFH DQG WKH OLYLQJ room has French doors that lead out to the deck. The new gourmet kitchen has every stylish amenity you could ever wish for; granite counters and breakfast bar, high-end appliances and built in pantry. The dazzling sun room is open to the kitchen with a gas ÂżUHSODFH FDWKHGUDO FHLOLQJ DQG )UHQFK GRRUV WR WKH PXOWL WLHUHG GHFNV D PDVWHU VXLWH ZLWK ZDON LQ closets, an exercise and play room and central air. Call MaryEllen VanWagenen ............ $449,000!!

CAN YOU FIND THE NOTCH? This cedar-sided Saugerties cottage, listed by Victoria Hoyt, is on Notch View Boulevard and has 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and is totally renovated with hardZRRG Ă&#x20AC;RRUV DQG FXVWRP ZRRGZRUN 7KHUH are many built-in features, including wardrobes, shelving, pocket doors, wine shelves, and more! On those chilly days, the woodstove in the kitchen provides a warm and cozy feeling, while looking out the sliding doors and enjoying the seasonal views of the beautiful Catskill Mountains. The gourmet island kitchen has vaulted ceilings, a breakfast bar, bluestone counters, double ranges and a separate dining area. A luxurious whirlpool bath with an oversized tub and shore, tiled steps and tin ceilings, on demand hot water and much more, check it out today! .......$149,900

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DOUBLE DUTCH DOOR As you come up to this charming Woodstock Farmhouse, on 4.5 acres, your arrival will be welcomed by hand crafted Double Dutch Doors. This lovely warm and inviting antique farmhouse has 3 bedrooms and 3 baths, also a rocking chair porch!

Special attention has kept this property a lasting picturesque scene of Woodstock in the early 1900â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. As you enter this home, WKH FHQWHU KDOO IR\HU VHSDUDWHV WKH OLYLQJ URRP ZLWK D ÂżUHSODFH EHDPHG FHLOLQJV DQG ZRRG Ă&#x20AC;RRUV 7KH QG Ă&#x20AC;RRU KDV EHGURRPV DQG D IXOO EDWK %HKLQG WKH NLWFKHQ LV DQ RIÂżFH DQG IXOO EDWK ZLWK D private entry that also has access to a bedroom and a bath that is above the 2 car garage. Call Mary Ellen VanWagenen ..................................................................................................$499,000 I CAN SEE FOR MILESâ&#x20AC;Ś And you can with this 2.7-acre lot located at the end of a dead end street in lovely Hunter NY. Sugar Loaf Trail is 5 minutes from Hunter Mountain with Incredible Views and Very private! This land has been approved by the DEP for Water & Septic. Location is the main attraction this lot has to offer, the skiing in the Wintertime at Hunter Mountain is 13 miles away and Windham Mountain is only 26 miles. In the summertime, you have a direct shot to North Lake in Tannersville for swimming. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about the history of Onteora Park and the surrounding area will make this the perfect spot for your future Dream Home!

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with 1000â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of more adjoining acres. At the end of the Cul-de-Sac, you will drive down on the winding private driveway and be greeted by the mountain views & open meadows. Walk up onto the 180â&#x20AC;&#x2122; covered wrap around porch and enter this custom built 4 BR, 3 full bath farmhouse. Large open kitchen with center island, cooktop & large breakfast room. Romantic brick ďŹ replace is not only in the living room but also in the Master Bedroom Suite. Come on over and take a look, just a couple minutes outside the village of New Paltz.

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ELDERLY CARE. HHA. 25 years experience. Excellent references. Live in or out.

Will run errands, doctors appointments, cook meals, etc. Call Dee @ 845-399-1816 or 845-399-7603.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133

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CoachMarkWilson.com Certified Triathlon/Fitness Coach, Mark H. Wilson, is available for private or group training in swimming, biking or running. For more info call (914)466-9214 or e-mail CoachMarkWilson@gmail.com

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evening features the talents of our amazing guest artists, I Nyoman Windha and I Gusti Ayu Agung Warsiki (courtesy of the College of the Holy Cross & ISI Denpasar) under the direction of Artistic Director I Nyoman Suadin, plus a processional Beleganjur by Gamelan Chandra Kanchana & Gamelan Giri Mekar, a Gender Wayang interlude, & a demonstration of Balinese vocal chanting style. Tickets available at the door only by suggested donation - more if you can/less if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Bard students, staff, faculty, and kids 16 & under are free of charge. Info: on FB @ Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana at Bard College or call 845 688-7090 *Workshops for Beginners with Ibu Tzu return mid-January. Watch this space for details.

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Car Services

STUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the pay. Always ready to get you there.

Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Airport transportation starting at $50. Call now for the Holidays! 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr.com Look for me on Facebook.

Events

Tillson-Rosendale American Legion Auxiliary, Springlown Rd, presents NO COOK FRIDAYS, 2nd Friday of the month 5-8 pm. We cook you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. December 11 look for our Soup Sale; $8 a Quart and/or cup of soup and sandwich. Reserve if you like 845-853-9052.

Balinese Gamelan Orchestra Concert at Bard College - Fri., Dec. 18!Please join us at 8 pm in Olin Hall for our Annual Winter Concert of Balinese Music and Dance. The

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/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

ULSTER COUNTY MORTGAGE RATES Mid-Hudson Valley FCU 800-451-8373 30 Yr Fixed 15 Yr Fixed 10 Yr Adj

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3 ACRE BUILDING LOTS. Contemplating dividing 28 acres into 3 parcels on Horsenden Rd. Mostly wooded, 6 minutes to town.

22 acres; $145k; 3 acres; $55k; 3 acres; $64k. Email: woodrckt@yahoo.com

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STOREFRONT AVAILABLE w/parking lot. Located within the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walkable core. Ideal location for retailer, clothing boutique, coffee shop, barber, cafe, legal firm, medical office, technology startup. Details- call Mary (845)417-7733.

PROFESSIONAL BUILDING SPACE(S) for rent in New Paltz.

Ideal for: Masseuse Chiropractor Beauty Salon, etc.

For more details call 845-853-5595

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Gardiner/ Modena/ Plattekill Rentals

SAUGERTIES: Residential/Commercial; 3.5 miles to Woodstock. 37 acres & residence. Well, pond, electricity, bluestone quarries, mountain views. Access from town road. $462,500. Call 845-246-1415. FOR SALE BY OWNER- Listing #24040645

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT, MODENA: near Junction 32 & 44/55. Second floor of converted 19th Century barn. Parking.

Snow-plowed. Trash, recycle weekly. 1-year lease, 1 month security. No smokers, no pets.

References. $675/month excluding utilities.

845-883-0857.

BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME, located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home.

MODENA: 1 PLUS BEDROOM,. New floors, kitchen, fresh paint, bright. Convenient to SUNY, Gardiner, Bridge, Han-

nafordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 44/55 & 32. $1100/month includes heat & hot water. Sam Slotnick, Real Estate Sales Agent, Century 21 Alliance, 845-6566088. e-mail: samsk100@aol.com

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Wallkill Rentals

Furnished Room in Wallkill, NY, 15 minutes from SUNY NP. Queen bed, dresser, TV, comfy chair. Includes cable, wifi, heat, elec. Shared bath. Off-street parking, country setting, private road. $125 per week. Call joe or jaci at 845-895-2179 or email to joeandjaci@gmail.com

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: HOUSE #1: DELIGHTFUL, PRIVATE HOUSE. Serene surroundings, large porch, large kitchen, mirrored LR, 3-bedrooms, large den, 1.5 Bathrooms, numerous closets. $1100/month. APARTMENT #2; BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM airy, spacious apartment. Large kitchen, many closets, private balcony, 2 entrances, serene surroundings. $950/month.

APARTMENT #3; BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM, airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month.

Call (570)296-6185.

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Milton/Marlboro Rentals

Marlboro; mountain views, COZY 1-BEDROOM Country cottage. No dogs. References. Trash pick-up. Individual or couple preferred. Heat included. $1050/month.

845-795-5778, LM.

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New Paltz Rentals

2-BEDROOM CONDO IN VILLAGE; remodeled kitchen, river view, reserved parking, balcony, hardwood floors, lots of closet space. Heat/HW/maintenance included, laundry in complex, quiet neighbors. Great for mature professional or small family. $1450/month, 1 month security, references/ credit check. No smoking or pets. Available January for 6-month or 1-year lease. Call 845-430-2077.

PICTURESQUE STREET; Shared House.

Private part of lovely house on quiet street in village. Garden views, porch, everything new, privacy, off-street parking, 1-block to college. $895/month plus share of utilities.

Call 845-430-5336.

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NEW LISTINGS!

“HUGE HUDSON RIVER VIEWS” JUST LISTED!! SAUGERTIES Breathtaking VIEWS of the Hudson river. 3 BED / 3 BATH OVER 2000 SQ. FT. CONTEMPO. HARDWOOD. GOURMET KITCHEN WITH CENTER island,wood CABINETS, stainless commercial grade APPLIANCES. beautiful manicured yard, paved patio, outside decking, master bedroom balcony to take it all in. Wide open floor plan. COZY FIREPLACE IN L/R. Large dining room with French doors OPENING TO REAR DECK AND VIEW. Second floor offers the laundry room, full bath, three bedrooms which includes the Master bedroom of your dreams WITH LARGE WALK-IN. Gorgeous MASTER bathroom with AIR jet tub and glassed in STEAM shower. finished Bonus room WIRED FOR MEDIA ROOM. HOME EQUIPPED WITH SOLAR ENERGY & GENERATOR. ..... Asking $489,000

“COUNTRY CHIC!” JUST LISTED!! SAUGERTIES

TIS THE SEASON…..

It’s time to start planning your Real Estate strategy for 2016! With the market stabilized, NOW is the time to seriously consider your buying & selling options. With over 30 years as an industry leader, we know this market! You can TRUST our seasoned advice and cutting edge technology to get you to your Real Estate goal. Call your Westwood professional today!

1920s Cottage , 2 Bedrooms-- 2 full Baths, Living room has a wood-stove which charms you as you enter into this open space. New eat in kitchen, large enough for your dining table, making the dining room a “make it your own” room. First floor bedroom with so much natural light with many windows & skylight, also an attached full bath and laundry. Second story delights you with a master suite that’s Cozy and Comfortable, spacious enough without being a burden. Fully fenced yard with a workshop/potting shed. Just enough of a privacy fence to sunbath or entertain on the deck and enjoy nature around you. Band Camp road is a lovely country road, 20 mins to hunter to ski or take in the summer concerts, 7 min. to the village of Saugerties or Woodstock. Affordable and Adorable!! ................................................................................................ Asking $165,000 R E A L T Y

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SUNNY ROOM for Rent. Quiet wooded setting close to college. Separate entrance, deck and heat control. Share large kitchen. $740/month- utilities, Washer-Dryer & wifi included. No smoking. Call Glenn 845-2554704.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

845-246-9555 www.helsmoortel.com

PO BOX 88, RT 9W, BARCLAY HEIGHTS, SAUGERTIES

RENOVATED MOBILE HOME for rent.

2-bedrooms, washer/dryer, 2 full baths.

Non-smoking property. No pets. Located on quiet country road in Gardiner. Call 845-255-2525.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; $480/ month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call (914)474-5176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

(845)255-6029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

Beautiful 1-BR Village Apartment. Upper-floor apartment in a great old house; very nice neighborhood; perfect for quiet, responsible individual; no smoking; no pets; 1 month security and references required; private back porch, garage space, heat, hot water; also includes snow/garbage removal; $1,075/month; available January 1. Call anytime before 8PM 845255-7612.

WOODSTOCK GEM - Premier 5.7 acre site in finest location with glorious gardens, koi pond, barn, in-ground POOL & enchanting stone pool house. Meticulously maintained & updated early clapboard 2 story offers 2300+ SF of gracious living space featuring fabulous gourmet country kitchen, fireplaces in 23’ LR & formal DR, family/media room, den/home office, wide board & slate floors, ensuite MBR + 3 add’l BRs, 2.5 baths & greenhouse, too!

SUPERB! ......................................$1,075,000

STONE RIDGE LANDMARK - Stunning c.

1815 Gothic Revival in the heart of historic hamlet. Abundant original detail combined with thoughtful updates. Impressive triple gable design, ornate woodwork, gorgeous wide board floors, fireplaces in 23’ LR & formal DR, French windows, cathedral family/media room, EI country kitchen, 4 BRs, 2.5 baths, inviting stone terrace, central AC. Fenced & landscaped 1.5 acres.

RARE FIND! .................................$399,000

WEST HURLEY RANCH - Enjoy easy one level living in this move-in condition ranch just minutes to Woodstock village. Gracious midcentury floor plan features beautiful hardwood floors, living room with bay window & cozy brick fireplace, dining room, well designed eatin kitchen with adj. laundry area, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths PLUS 20x15 bonus room in finished lower level. Attached garage & fenced play & pet friendly yard. .................... $255,000

THINK SUMMER - It’s so easy to beat the summer heat when the in-ground POOL is just out the back door! Very well maintained Kingston ranch home in great location features 20’ living room with cozy stone fireplace, dining room, eat-in kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, finished lower level family/rec room with handy wet bar, wood floors, central AC, central vac, deck & 2 car garage, too! GREAT VALUE!............. $199,900

Apartment for rent; 1-BEDROOM with kitchen, living room and full bath. Newly remodeled. $750/month, utilities included, plus security deposit. 845-389-5832.

LARGE 2-BEDROOM w/OFFICE, separate entrance, new kitchen and bath.

Washer/dryer on site. Large yard. $1300/ month plus utilities. 215-983-3445.

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2016 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-2557205.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in private home. Includes utilities, cable and high speed internet. Walking distance to SUNY and town. No pets or smokers. $1000/ month, 1½ month security. Available immediately. Available 1/1/16. Call (914)4759834.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT. Walking distance to college. Heat & hot water included. Off-street parking. No smoking. No pets. $740/ month. Available now. Call 845-2550839.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT, first floor, separate entrance in 1870s barn. Full bath, wood floors. $960/month includes heat, hot water, electric. Gas for cooking & fireplace extra. NO DOGS. 5 minutes by CAR outside village. Please call 845-255-5355.

www.westwoodrealty.com New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

Kingston 340-1920

Woodstock 679-0006

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Stone Ridge 687-0232

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Browse ALL Available Residential • Multi-Family • Land • Commercial • Multi-Use • Rental Properties

(845) 338-5252

www.MurphyRealtyGrp.com

BEAUTIFUL TWIN MAPLES CONDO

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Beautiful second floor condo with a bright, open layout featuring a cathedral ceiling, fireplace in the living room and a master bedroom with walk-in closet. Sliding glass doors from the living room lead out to a private deck overlooking a wooded area, perfect for entertaining. This 2 BR condo is in move-in condition and comes furnished!

Your mortgage will be less then most rents, and you can call it your own! Conveniently located, close to all major commuter routes, this is a must see! $121,500

Aff Affordable classic Cape - Looking for a 3/4 BR home complete with full bathroom on the 1st ho and 2nd floors? How about a detached 2 car brick garage? Living room with wood-burning fireplace? Large eat-in kitchen? Second floor den? Sweet back porch and a nice back yard?

All under $160,000?? Come and get it! Easy to show, call for an appointment!

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TILLSON ESTATES RANCH

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Rosendale/ Tillson/High Falls/Stone

Ridge Rentals

ROSENDALE ROOM FOR RENT/HOUSE SHARE. Furnished room available (share kitchen and bath) in artsy cottage. Excellent location, easily in walking distance to town and Rail Trail/Tressle. Parking, washer/ dryer on site. Two sweetest-ever cats also included, so no further pets, sorry. $600/ month. 845-323-2193 or email jefferss@ sunyulster.edu Stone Ridge; 2BR Duplex for rent in rural setting. 2BR, 1Bath, W/D, DW, woodstove.

No Pets, No Smoking. Very Quiet road, $975/month plus utilities. (845)658-9706.

HIGH FALLS: 2-BEDROOM HOUSE on quiet street. Kitchen, dining room, living room, closed-in porch, 1-car garage & cellar space. Walk to restaurants. No smoking. No pets. $1050/month plus utilities. 2 months security. References. Available soon. Call (845)705-2208.

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

KINGSTON: Uptown Studio & Efficiency APARTMENTS. Bus routes, convenient to shopping areas, utilities included. Reasonable. 845-338-4574.

PORT EWEN: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT available. Newly remodeled. Offstreet parking. Hot water included. Quiet area. Near marina. Garbage removal included. NO SMOKING. 1 year lease. 201-2891135.

PORT EWEN: STUDIO APARTMENT available. Newly remodeled. Off-street parking. Quiet area. Near marina. Designated parking. Garbage removal included.

1 year lease. No smoking inside. 201-2891135.

KINGSTON, UPTOWN CONVENIENCE; 2-BEDROOM, newly renovated, 1st floor. $850/month plus utilities. References & security. No smokers, no pets. (845)417-1325 or (845)338-0807.

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Saugerties Rentals

Saugerties Village: CHARMING SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM. First floor, quiet, well-maintained, walk to town. Off-street parking. $900/month includes electric, hot water, garbage removal. Tenant pays for heat and cooking gas. 845-453-1082.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT, second floor. On horse farm. Clean, sunny, creative space. Marble foyer, cathedral ceiling, French windows, ENERGY EFFICIENT. Available now. $850/month plus utilities.

(845)532-5080.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT w/small bedroom. In Saugerties- walking distance to swimming & shops. $875/month in-

Beautifully maintained ranch home with loads of curb appeal situated on a quiet road in Tillson Estates located in the Town of Rosendale.

This home boosts a new bright white kitchen with stainless appliances, a gas range, vinyl replacement windows, gleaming hardwood floors and a large level fenced yard. The fencing is two years new. There is a full basement for extra storage and an attached 1-car garage. An extra bonus is a cozy stone fireplace with wood insert to keep you warm! $179,900

cludes heat & electric. References & security required. For inquiries call (845)594-9257.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

Woodstock/Lake Hill. Comfortable furnished rooms in historic house near Cooper Lake and NYC bus. Available monthly. Private phone, internet. Piano, cats. $500$625 includes all. Work exchange for very handyperson. Cat considered. homestayny@msn.com. 845-679-2564.

Rare Woodstock Cottage. Charming Woodstock Artist Cottage. Secluded yet close to Bearsville and Woodstock. 1-BR + small office, wood burning stove, hardwood floors. Well insulated, new efficient oil heating system. $1400/month, first, last + security deposit. Call 512-413-1818.

Willow: Halfway between Woodstock and Phoenicia. Serene, streamside, 2-bedroom plus loft. W/D, hardwood floors, skylight. $950/month plus utilities. Security, references. 845-688-2271 SPACIOUS, EXTRA LARGE STUDIO w/ deck in Woodstock. $1100/month includes all utilities, trash, WiFi. Landlord is NYS licensed R.E. agent 845-802-4777.

2-BEDROOMS, SUNNY, LOVELY, Lake Hill apartment. Eat-in kitchen, good closet space, deck, back yard, separate entrance & driveway. Pets welcome. No smoking. $900/ month plus utilities. References required.

First & last month plus security. 845-6792505 RENOVATED SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM. Fresh paint, pecan floors. Lovely space. All brand new appliances & windows. $1250/ month includes heat, electric, water, trash, sewer, maintenance, plowing. Located off NYC bus route. 845-802-4777.

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West of Woodstock Rentals

Fleischmanns: 2-bedroom house, Main Street. $650/month plus utilities. 1-month security, no smokers. Pets upon approval.

845-254-4998 Shokan: Large One Bedroom Apt., $750/ month, 960 sq.ft.; Also, Large two bedroom Apt., $1200/month, 1200 sq.ft., 7 miles west of Woodstock, peaceful, calm, quiet, country setting. Please, No smokers or pets, utilities not included. Walk to Ashokan Reservoir, 1-year lease, two months security, pictures on craigslist.org search Shokan. Call 845-481-0521.

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Vacation Rentals

Peaceful Holidays on 2 wooded acres, 3 miles Woodstock. Elegant log home; living room w/ fireplace, dinette, eat-in kitchen 2-bedrooms, 1.5 baths, laundry, cable. $120/night, 2-night minimum. 718-479-0393. Call only.

CLASSIC KINGSTON BRICK CAPE

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Seasonal Rentals

Between Woodstock & Saugerties; Artist Lake Retreat. 2-bedrooms, 1000 sq.ft. duplex, (separate wing of large house w/own entrance.) On 7 very private acres. Mountain views, 14 acre lake, high ceilings, skylights, beautifully furnished. Available now5/15. Short-term. Details 845-246-7598.

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Rentals Wanted

Responsible, mature woman, non-smoker, no pets, seeking to rent quiet apartment.

Or to rent a single story house (1-bath okay) with option to buy after one year. In Village of New Paltz on a quiet, country-like street.

Please call 845-896-4001 ext 318.

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Senior Housing

READY NOW!

1 brm. apt. for senior 62 or older or handicapped/disabled Bright & clean Rent slides to income

845-688-2024

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$159,900

ADORABLE ROSENDALE AREA RANCH A Adorable 3 BR 2 full bath ranch style home with aan oversized 2 car detached garage with a built in aattached shed. This home has had several updates over the past few years which include newer roof, siding and gutters, updated 200 amp electric, newer door, and almost all windows with the exception of a couple. Newer stainless refrigerator, new range, and so much more. This home is sure to please and has a warm welcome feeling when you open the door. Close to Kingston, Rosendale, and New Paltz. $155,000

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Snow Plowing

SNOW PLOWING starting at $40

(845) 331- 4844

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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.

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

For Sale

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: Leg curl & leg extension w/weight stack, Smith Machine, Hip Sled, Universal adductor/abductor machine. Please call George at (845)255-8352.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

Moving Must Sell; 80” maroon, contemporary sofa, $500 OBO. Custom built, solid oak, lighted china hutch, $750 OBO. Call 845-246-8938.

ANTIQUES & JEWELRY HOLIDAY SPECIAL! 15% off. Hyde Park Antique Center, 4192 Albany Post Road, booth 127. Also, trained Englishman Stephen Whiting’s Furniture Repairs & Restoration. Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday or by appointment. 845-750-2676.

RENNER’S COUNTRY CRAFTS SHOP & STORE. 245 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro.

845-236-7378. Open 8 a.m.-9 p.m. all year.

Dwarf bunny rabbits for pets only; $35.

Tarot, Tea & Palm Spiritual Readings; $35.

Decorated Cinnamon Broom Room. African American Bridal item; $40.

90” BROWN LEATHER COUCH. Beautiful, deep, super comfortable. In good-very good condition. No tears but normal wear & some scratches. Need to see & sit in. Asking $1500 or best offer. 845-246-7598.

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Firewood for Sale

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

FIREWOOD 845.339.WOOD

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Studio Sales

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream. Beautiful handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts. November 27-29 (Friday-Sunday), and weekends through December 20. In Woodstock at 10 Streamside Terrace. For more information, call (914)806-3573 or (646)256-9688.

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Buy & Swap

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps,

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CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)2460214.

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)3897286.

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Musical Instruction & Instruments

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Real Estate

HUDSON VALLEY

&CATSKILLS COUNTRY properties Put Yourself In The Best Hands

Fingerstyle Guitar for solo performer.

Taught at NYC’s Mannes College of Music & Guitar Study Center. Break out of “Pattern Playing”, create instrumental breaks, improvise accompaniments. Susan Hoover, 845-679-7887.

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Antiques & Collectibles

WANTED TOP DOLLARS PAID. We buy entire estates or single items. Actively seeking gold and silver of any kind, sterling, flatware and 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- 617-9811580.

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Estate/Moving Sale

New Paltz Moving Sale. Fri/Sat, Dec 1112, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Quality, lightly used furniture: glass-top dining table + 6 chairs, oak barrister bookcase, metal sleigh bed + mattress, antique oak rocker, much more.

Albany Post Road to Outlook Farm and follow signs.

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Vendors Needed

FLEA HARDSCRABBLE

MARKET & GARAGE SALE 845-758-1170 • Call John

OPEN EVERY SUNDAY 8-4pm

Stop Guessing - Call Us To Learn What Your Home Is Worth

VILLAGE GREEN REALTY

#1 In Ulster County Sales* www.villagegreenrealty.com kingston new paltz stone ridge windham woodstock

845-331-5357 845-255-0615 845-687-4355 518-734-4200 845-679-2255

Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. *According to Ulster ŽƵŶƚLJ D>^ ^ƚĂƟ ƐƟ ĐƐ ϮϬϭϭͲϮϬϭϰ͘

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Counseling Services

LAURIE OLIVER....

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness. Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance.

Spirit communicator. Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

March thru December

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Handmade Wood Chip Roses, Whole Sale and Retail

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

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Yard & Garage Sales

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Personal & Health Services

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Art Services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol (845)687-7813.

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Our Pet of the Week is Bagel; 10-year old hound mix who’s extremely sweet & enjoys long walks. We recommend a home w/no young children. Mojo; very smart, athletic 3-4 year old brindle Shepherd mix who’d love to join your family. He’s great w/cats, dog selective, and is very obedient. Macy; another great dog waiting to meet you; she’s a 3-4 year old Australian Shepherd mix & she needs lots of room to run. We have a GREAT SELECTION OF CATS too; Luna; beautiful gray kitty w/yellow eyes sweet disposition. Atomic Tangerine; big orange guy who has some vision issues but does well w/his eye drops. He’s mellow & would do well in just about any home. Mr. Dewy; handsome orange boy w/some extra toes on his paws, which means good luck! We also have a FRIENDLY GROUP OF RABBITS: Brady; lovable orange/gray lop eared male w/an excellent disposition. We also would like to introduce you to Mercury; sleek little 1-year old black bunny who’s a bit shy.

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