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TALK ON DEMISE OF HUDSON RIVER FISHERY AT BEACON INSTITUTE

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or centuries, the Hudson River set the rhythm of life for generations of fishermen who relied on its bounty for their livelihoods. Despite the Hudson’s reputation as an environmental success story, its long tradition of commercial net fishing is over. Environmentalist John Cronin will explore the loss PHOTO RECOVERED BY HOWARD GOODMAN of the Hudson’s commercial fishing culture in a talk titled, “The Hudson Riverman: The Long Life and Untimely Death of an American Icon,” on Thursday, May 15 at 7 p.m. at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries of Clarkson University.

Cronin, who was the Beacon Institute’s founding director, CEO and the River’s full-time Riverkeeper for 17 years, has worked as an advocate, legislative and congressional aide, commercial fisherman, professor, author and filmmaker. The talk will include excerpts from his award-winning documentary The Last Rivermen.

The story of the Hudson riverman’s swift decline coincides with the rise of industrial pollution, which began to contaminate populations of striped bass, catfish, eel, perch, carp and sturgeon by the 1960s. It was undeniable evidence of highly toxic levels of PCBs in fish, particularly the striped bass, that first forced New York State regulators to institute closures of the Hudson River fisheries in 1975. Collapsing fish populations shut down the entire net fishery in 2010.

“Hudson rivermen understand the estuary in ways that only those who live and breathe the river can,” said Cronin. “Their culture was ruined by a continuing combination of ‘corporate abuse and regulatory failure,’ a state court judge found in 1976.”

The talk will take place on Thursday at the Institute’s Center for Environmental Innovation and Education at Denning’s Point in Beacon. The evening is free and open to the public, but online registration at www.bire.org is requested.

Free monthlong passes for Ulster residents at Mohonk Preserve As part of the ongoing campaign to make Ulster the healthiest county in New York, the Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free one-month pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week, which ends on Sunday, May 11.

Visitors with proof of Ulster County residency may obtain their passes at the Preserve Visitor Center on Route 44/55 in Gardiner from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Sunday, May 11 and at the Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11. The membership passes will be good through June 9. Passes must be picked up in person, with the exception of minors, whose parent or guardian may pick up a pass on their behalf.

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Actor, comedian, writer and producer Bill Cosby was born William Henry Cosby Jr. on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bill Cosby to perform at the Civic Center in Poughkeepsie

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ill Cosby, who comes to Poughkeepsie for a singlenight performance benefiting the Mid-Hudson Civic Center on Thursday, May 15, draws a smile to everyone’s lips. One generation knows him from his late-1950s and early-1960s comedy recordings, while the next recalls his being the first black TV star on I Spy, alongside Robert Culp. There are those raised on the Fat Albert cartoons, and then the iconic and still-great-inrerun Cosby Show of the 1980s. He has also been a regular on Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

People admire Cosby for having gone back to college to get a teaching degree that he used both to teach and to inform his comedy work, as well as for his many awards and the books that he has written along the way – including the current bestselling memoir, I Didn’t Ask to Be Born, But I’m Glad I Was. Moreover, he has been married to the same woman for 50 years now, and stays close with his five kids and growing numbers of grandchildren.

Cosby’s known for the way that he plays his smarts and quick ability to talk about many subjects with his deep sense of history and humanity, of humility and the gentle enabling elements in a bit of selfdenigration. His takes on Noah, bullying, scary movies, softhearted Dads who give cake for breakfast and the logic of childhood provided an instant antithesis – and antidote – to all things political that he witnessed and played against over his long career.

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“cultural, recreational and education opportunities to the Hudson Valley,� the Civic Center sponsors others’ performances, events and activities – which Cosby will be supporting with his performance. Talk about a treat for all levels of a family, and oneself. – Paul Smart Bill Cosby, Thursday, May 15, 8 p.m., $65/$55/$45, Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie; (800) 745-3000, (845) 454-5800, www. ticketmaster.com, www.midhudsonciviccenter.org.

Oliva Contemporary Dance Project this Saturday at Kaatsbaan The Kaatsbaan International Dance Center presents the Oliva Contemporary Dance Project on Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. Selected from more than 60 applicants, the Oliva Contemporary Dance Project (OCDP) is a co-recipient of Kaatsbaan’s annual Upstream Residency Program. The Upstream Program, offering companies weeklong residencies and performance opportunities at Kaatsbaan, encourages and promotes new and emerging companies from all forms of dance. Residencies allows artists unfettered time to create new work and hone existing choreographies.

The Oliva Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 2012 in New York City by artistic director Michele Oliva and is co-directed by Francesca Dario. The company seeks to develop a new movement language that alters and disrupts classical form and technique.

In addition to OCDP, Oliva is a guest teacher for workshops in Italy and around the world. He currently teaches at the Broadway Dance Center and Peridance Capezio Center in New York City. Dario received much of her formal training in Italy. She has performed with numerous companies throughout Europe and the US. The evening’s program will offer the

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world premiere of lightISlife, the latest of OCDP’s work. Using actual objects of light, the dancers will explore their own emotions and investigate what happens when those thoughts and feelings come to light and intersect with others. Oliva’s movement vocabulary is always inspired by the music that he uses. Once he has created a specific phrase, he offers it to the dancers to interpret individually using their own unique styles and musicality.

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Francine Prose reads new novel in Rhinebeck this Saturday Best-selling author Francine Prose will give a free reading of her book Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, on Saturday, May 10 at 7 p.m. at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck.

Prose has written numerous best-selling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading like a Writer. Her novel Household Saints was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty into a musical of the same name, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the fall of 2007. Her highly anticipated latest novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, is a story of love, art and betrayal, the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.

Oblong Books & Music is located at 6422 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.

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Mythic and wild And the Kids play the Anchor in Kingston this Friday

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What good fortune this turned out to be for the happening young indie band And the Kids!

The Northampton trio’s O+ set coincided with the BRAWL – or rather, with the end of the BRAWL and the dismissal of its audience. Without other means of egress, the large and roused BRAWL crowd had no choice but to filter past the stage in BSP while And the Kids performed. To the surprise of no one who has seen them, And the Kids took care of the rest like fishing in a bucket, arresting the BRAWLers and everyone else within earshot with their dramatic, electric, alien-siren pop.

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And the Kids convert listeners to fans at a rate approaching 100 percent, but the BRAWL scene made for an especially congenial and receptive target. Theatrical in a way that seems less like theater and more like genuinely dangerous ritual, the glitter-faced, all-female And the Kids appeal directly to a mythic and wild place in the mind: They are strident and spangled, lithe and aggressive, animalistic and fantastic, displaced in time and tradition. It’s pop music for a different race, a different species that it aims to coax into being.

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(and in the opinion of at least one Hudson Valley music writer, triumphing bloodily… not that it’s a competition). On May 9, And the Kids returns to the Anchor in Kingston as part of a Lagunitas O+ party that also includes the Parlor and Matt the Knife.

– John Burdick And the Kids, the Parlor, Matt the Knife, Friday, May 9, 9:30 p.m., $5, the Anchor, 744-746 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 8538124, www.facebook.com/theanchorkingston, www.andthekidsmusic.com.

Joe Louis Walker plays the Falcon in Marlboro this Friday A Blues Hall of Fame inductee and triple-threat guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Louis Walker celebrates the release of his new Alligator album Hornet’s Nest with a live performance at the Falcon in Marlboro on Friday, May 9. Walker has been described by NPR as “a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues.”

The show begins at 7 p.m. and the suggested donation is $20. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro.

For more information, call (845) 2367970 or visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Studio Red Hook hosts Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill this Friday

The innovate Irish music duo Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill make a stop at Studio Red Hook on their Northeast and Midwest spring tour. Hayes, esteemed by NPR as “one of the best fiddlers on the planet,” recently played

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Amy Helm record-taping concert at Levon Helm Studios this Saturday

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my Helm, daughter of music legend Levon Helm, will perform two shows at the Levon Helm Studios on May 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m., both of which will be recorded for a future live record release. The shows will feature Helm and her band the Handsome Strangers performing a selection of original material and covers, many of which will appear on Helm’s forthcoming debut studio record, due for release later this year.

Tickets for the live record-taping shows cost only $25 and are available now at http://levonhelm.com. Levon Helm Studios are located at 160 Plochman Lane in Woodstock.

for Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney’s memorial, with Paul Simon. Cahill is an American master guitarist.

He and Hayes have released three albums together, most recently with their new band the Gloaming.

Their local appearance takes place at Studio Red Hook at St. Paul’s Parish Hall, at Fisk Street and Broadway in Red Hook, at 8 p.m. this Friday, May 9. Tickets cost $34 and are available at http:// studioredhook.com.

Experience Soundbath this Saturday at Unison in New Paltz Collectively known as Soundbath, Steve Gorn, Thomas Workman, Peter Blum and Naaz Hosseini return to Unison on Saturday, May 10 at 8 p.m. for an evening described as “a cross between a horizontal soundbath and a concert.” Participants who wish to “get horizontal” are advised to bring their own yoga mats and/or blankets.

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At least three members of this group identify as sound healers or therapists, and all are masters of exotic and world instruments: Gorn’s bansuri flute, Workman’s panoply of world wind instruments, Blum’s bells, cymbals and bowls and Hosseini’s non-Western vocal virtuosity.

Tickets in advance cost $22 general admission, $18 for Unison members; at the door, they go for $26, $22 for members. Students get in for half-price with a valid ID. Unison is located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz. Order tickets online at www.unisonarts.org or call (845) 255-1559 for more information.

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Zydeco dance at White Eagle Hall in Kingston on Friday The White Eagle Hall at 487 Delaware Avenue in Kingston will host an evening of Zydeco dance on Friday, May 9 from 8-11 p.m. A free lesson will

be offered at 7 p.m. Enjoy authentic old time Southwest Louisiana Zydeco with Preston Frank and Big Daddy Zydeco. Admission costs $15 or $10 for full-time students. All are welcome and no partner is needed. For more information, call (845) 255-7061 or visit www.hudsonvalleydance.org.

Mohonk Preserve HEALTHY ULSTER SPRING 2014 sign up May 5-11 The Preserve is offering a free, one-month membership to Ulster County residents.

Visitors with proof of residency may obtain their passes at the Preserve Visitor Center from 10am-4pm Monday, May 5th through Sunday, May 11th and at the Spring Farm Trailhead from 10am-4pm Saturday, May 10th and Sunday, May 11th. The membership passes will be good through June 9, 2014. Passes must be picked up in person, with the exception of minors, whose parent or guardian may pick up a pass on their behalf. Go to www.mohonkpreserve.org/events/healthy-ulster-spring or call 845-255-0919 for details.

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im Rooney, guitarist, singer, music producer/publisher and the first manager of Albert Grossmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bearsville Studios, returns to Woodstock for a book-signing and lots of music beginning around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8 at the Bluegrass Clubhouse, the ten-year-old Thursday-night gathering at the Harmony CafĂŠ in the Wok â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll Restaurant at 52 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. There he will perform with hosts Saturday Night Bluegrass Band: Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluck, Guy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foochâ&#x20AC;? Fischetti, Geoff Harden and Bill Keith, with Eric Weissberg sitting in on banjo.

Rooney has cajoled singer/songwriter Pat Alger, former Woodstocker and longtime collaborator, to make the trip, and Happy Traum has promised to forestall other plans to join in for the evening. Along with Keith, all were members of the Woodstock Mountain Revue, so a vague sort of semi-reunion may materialize.

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IN AN INSPIRED BIT OF CASTING, Eve is portrayed by that most wraithlike of contemporary actresses, Tilda Swinton.

Though she looks like death-warmed-over in nearly any part, she brings an indefatigable joie de vivre to this undead character

In the twilight of their years Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive is a wry, elegiac tale of vampires outliving their heyday

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hese days, when one describes the work of an independent filmmaker, the term “quirky” is often among the first adjectives that leap to mind – in fact, it almost seems to have become obligatory. But there was a time when it was not so. The earliest American indie films, in the ’60s and ’70s, tended to elude mainstream funding (and audiences) because they were too serious, too earnest, arty and intellectual – or too political. The “quirky” bit didn’t really come into the critics’ lexicon in a big way until the downtown-Manhattan indie boom of the 1980s. And, probably more than any other filmmaker of the day, it was Jim Jarmusch who put the quirk in the new cinematic aesthetic.

Jarmusch’s big breakthrough film, Stranger than Paradise, set the template for his low-key, mournfully staged, ironically humorous shaggy-dog-story style of storytelling. Most of his films are arguably road movies, although the enervated, socially fringy characters in them tend not to be going anywhere of significance or doing much of anything, really. There’s a lot more talk than action

Vampires Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive

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It’s hard to say what it is about Jarmusch’s oeuvre that gets under the viewer’s skin so persistently, or how a movie can be so engaging when it breaks all the accepted rules of drama. Sitting

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down in a dark theatre to watch one is like stepping into another dimension where time slows down enough for us to pay attention to all the odd minutiae of daily life that normally fly by and escape our notice.

That’s a fair description of the lifestyle of Adam and Eve, the vampire protagonists of Jarmusch’s latest effor t, Only Lovers Left Alive.

We don’t know for sure if they are really supposed to be the progenitors of the human race, but we do know that they have been around for many centuries.

They can move faster than the eye can see or in languorous slow motion, and they’ve seen it all. They have had time to master all the arts and sciences and serve as mentors to humanity’s greatest geniuses.

But eternal life brings with it a sense of ennui, along with despair that humans – to whom Adam (Tom Hiddleston, in a role originally intended for Michael Fassbender) refers contemptuously as “zombies” – have made such a royal mess of the talents and resources that they were given, or had their best ideas (notably the technological breakthroughs of Nicola Tesla) suppressed by society. Much more so than the characters in a certain much more commercial series of recent vampire flicks, Adam and Eve lead a twilight existence, both literally, in that they go out only at night, and figuratively, in that their best days seem to be behind them.

Living on the grim, deserted outskirts of Detroit as a brilliant, reclusive rock star in the modern era, Adam has become depressed enough to contemplate suicide – attainable, in this version of vampire lore, by use of a wooden bullet. But he gets a new lease on life when Eve, the eternal soulmate whom he has married at least four times, flies in from Tangier to cheer him up. In an inspired bit of casting, Eve is portrayed by that most wraithlike of contemporary actresses, Tilda Swinton.

Though she looks like death-warmed-

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over in nearly any part, she brings an indefatigable joie de vivre to this undead character: Eve loves to dance, can speedread and instantly memorize books in any language, appreciates music from any era (though she describes herself as a “Stax girl” with an especial fondness for early R & B) and can tell the age and provenance of any human-made object just by fondling it.

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by Jeffrey Wright. Eveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connection in Tangiers is Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yes, that Christopher Marlowe, who according to Jarmusch wrote everything attributed to Shakespeare.

Also in the small, uniformly strong cast are Mia Wasikowska as Ava, Eveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loose cannon of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sisterâ&#x20AC;? who creates a crisis when she drops in uninvited on the primal coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s domestic bliss in Detroit, and Anton Yelchin as Ian, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;zombieâ&#x20AC;? who lends Adam a hand when he needs some â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s recording equipment, a vintage guitar or a wooden bullet. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you what line from Only Lovers Left Alive audiences will most likely be quoting for years to come, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a major spoiler; but it does involve the latter two supporting characters. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know it when you hear it.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chiaroscuro nocturnal cinematography of two wildly disparate cities, half a world apart, is exquisite.

Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not shot in black-and-white like the early works of Jim Jarmusch, his latest retains the moody, melancholy atmosphere that characterized his early films, leavened by plenty of dark, witty, rueful, tongue-in-cheek humor. And yes, it can still fairly be described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;quirky.â&#x20AC;?

Only Lovers Left Alive is an elegy for two prodigiously talented people who have loved well and long and lost pretty much everything but each other, in a world that no longer deserves them. For the rare viewer who can savor a movie in which almost nothing happens, this comes highly recommended. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frances Marion Platt

Rosendale Theatre screens A Day at the Races this Sunday

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Harpo, Groucho and Chico return to Rosendale in A Day at the Races (1937) on Sunday, May 11 at 2 p.m. A major hit for MGM, the film also stars Maureen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan, Alan Jones and Margaret Dumont and features classic Marx Brothers routines like TutsiFrutsi Ice Cream and the ebullient â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chillun Got Rhythmâ&#x20AC;? musical number.

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in collaboration with Got2Lindy Dance Studios, the screening of A Day at the Races is a tribute to dancer, choreographer and teacher Frankie Manning, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated in 2014. The Lindy hop sequence in â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chillun Got Rhythmâ&#x20AC;? is performed by the absolutely marvelous Whiteyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lindy Hoppers, of which Manning was a leading member. After the film there will be short panel discussion about the life and work of Frankie Manning.

Admission costs $9 for members, $10 for non-members and $6 for children 12 and under. The program will last approximately two hours. Immediately following the program, a swing dance party will be held next door at the Belltower (separate admission charge). For directions or more information, go to www.rosendaletheatre.org or www. got2lindy.com or call (845) 658-8989.

A Day at the Races is ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 funniest films of all time, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chillun Got Rhythmâ&#x20AC;? was nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Dance Direction in 1937. The sequence features a delightful cameo appearance by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Frankie Manning revolutionized the course of the Lindy hop with his innovations, including the Lindy air step and synchronized ensemble Lindy routine.

As the Swing Era declined, Manning began a career with the US Postal Service, which lasted for 30 years until his rediscovery by a new generation of swing dance enthusiasts in the mid-1980s. He won a 1989 Tony Award for his choreography in Black and Blue and continued to teach and choreograph until his death in 2009, shortly before his 95th birthday.

be screened this Saturday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. A question-and-answer session with the director will follow.

In Bombay, a city of brutal working conditions and success stories so unreal that they could be fairy tales, Raja Menon sets out to make a movie about the men and women who quietly serve the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealthy: the sort of film that Bollywood would never make. To tell his story about the working poor, Barah Aana, Menon enlists two foreign producers, a star cast and a hardworking, seasoned film crew. Battling crowds and corruption, the determined team overcomes every obstacle to get the film made and finance its release. But how will they convince people who see extreme hardship every day to pay the high price to see it fictionalized onscreen? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a struggle faced by indie filmmakers everywhere, given a new curry-flavored spin for these multiculti times.

Tickets for Bombay Movie at Upstate Films Rhinebeck this Saturday cost $15 for adults, $14 for seniors and students and $13 for members. A post-screening reception will be held at Cinnamon Indian Cuisine, just down the road from the theatre, following the film and discussion.

To confirm the start time and obtain more information, visit http://upstatefilms.org/ special-events. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frances Marion Platt

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OVER THE LAST YEAR, FRANK ACCOMPANIED Mohonk Preserve forester Ethan Pierce and researcher Shanan Smiley on several expeditions into the surrounding forest, taking pictures while they collected data.

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n Andrea Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s YouTube video Cuts, the camera scans a photographic image of a green forest as it is being sliced by a laser cutter.

The whine of the machine and the glittery fractures that appear in the clear Plexiglas surface convey a sense of menace and violence, even as you realize that actual trees arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being cut down and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only the illusion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; first, that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re viewing an actual forest, second, that the surface consists of three-dimensional plastic rather the paper of a photograph â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being desecrated. The piece is as much about perception as it is a metaphor of the fragility of forests and powerful forces of technology, hinting at the interweaving complexities of the contemporary world and the challenges inherent in saving the planet â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not the least of which is our misperception of the forest itself.

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Part of Andrea Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Systems:Tree series. Frank is in the midst of accumulating an extensive archive that eventually will capture particular locations in the Shawangunks throughout the seasons and otherwise document changes through time.

Frank, an artist who is an assistant professor of Art at SUNY-New Paltz, is showing two new pieces at the Team Love RavenHouse Gallery, located in New Paltz, related to the local forest. One of the pieces is a collaged photograph of a mossy log that is 13 feet long. Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new work represents an approach based on research and science, rather than sentiment, as the best way to express her deep concerns about the damage to the environment caused by human activity.

Over the last year, she accompanied Mohonk Preserve forester Ethan Pierce and researcher Shanan Smiley on several expeditions into the surrounding forest, taking pictures while they collected data. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned that invasive species are a big problem. If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t manage the forest, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have lots of vines and a completely different forest, which has nothing to do with what we have now,â&#x20AC;?

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said Frank. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re losing the complexity, and complexity is life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little shocking to understand what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing and know how dire the situation is.â&#x20AC;?

Besides decaying logs, her subjects include burnt-over areas and oldgrowth forests, located mainly in the Shawangunks as well as near Nyack.

She is in the midst of accumulating an extensive archive that eventually will capture particular locations throughout the seasons and otherwise document changes through time.

In Systems: Tree, Frank has painted out sections of the collaged digital photograph. She said that, because the complexity of the sustainable systems in nature transcends our comprehension, by pasting many small pictures together, as a way of following and concentrating on a detail and then isolating that feature in the digital images by blocking out the background with white or gray paint, she hopes to create a system of engagement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intuitive. Painting is a system that helps us understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there. The piece makes the forest more readable. Also, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to enjoy it.â&#x20AC;? Gallery-owner Cornelia Calder said that smaller pieces in the series, which help provide a context, will be available to viewers on request.

Frank, who studied painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in her native Munich, Germany before

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moving to New York City, where she received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design and participated in the highly competitive Studio Program of the Whitney Independent Study Program, is fascinated by the intersection of technology and nature as well as the local and global. She has recently had solo shows in New York, Boston, Venice, Italy and Goppingen, Germany and taught for nine years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied system dynamics and produced a book of interviews with 33 researchers, each of whom specialized in a particular technology; collectively, the interviews enable the reader to make connections across t h e d i ff e r e n t disciplines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m offering the reader these different pieces of a puzzle and putting them in a book, which is unusual,â&#x20AC;? she said.

While at MIT, she got â&#x20AC;&#x153;super-interestedâ&#x20AC;? in system dynamics and audited some courses on the topic. The notion of â&#x20AC;&#x153;thinking in systemsâ&#x20AC;? pushed her work in new directions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and also her method of exhibiting it. For example, in her show in Italy, Frank juxtaposed work related to the extinction of species with her series on global trade. Exhibiting the two disparate series â&#x20AC;&#x153;forced the viewer to think about these together and how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re implicated.

Our ways of thinking seem so natural, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re learned. We have to challenge our societal paradigm and our habits. Our ideas of how the world should be and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good need to be reconsidered.â&#x20AC;?

The global trade series evolved after Frank spent several months in Venice on an artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residency and became fascinated by the large container ships docked near the Lido, which formed such a contrast to the beautiful, historic city. She went out on a boat with a friend and began shooting them, which led to a project photographing freighters around the world.

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through June 29, Team Love RavenHouse Gallery, 11 Church Street, New Paltz; (845) 389-8263, www.tl-rh.com.

SUNY-New Paltz unveils Tom Otterness’ Gulliver next Thursday If you don’t instantly recognize the name of Tom Otterness, here’s a clue: Ever been down in the A/L train subway stop at 14th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and noticed a bunch of small figures mischievously stashed away doing various sorts of business all over the place? Or walked up from Battery Park City along the Hudson, where hundreds more of these small figures group together in strange, pointed narratives?

On Thursday, May 15, Otterness installs a 36-foot-long outdoor sculpture, Gulliver, smack-dab in the middle of the SUNY-New Paltz campus, just in time for the college’s commencement weekend. Located on the Fine Art Building Plaza at the center of campus, near the Sojourner Truth Library, with views of the Shawangunk Ridge in the distance, it will stay up through the New Year. The bronze sculpture is made up of a short geometric torso and long tubular legs ending in large feet, surrounded by smaller Lilliputians.

The Otterness sculpture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Dick Polich: Transforming Metal into Art” at the school’s Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which follows the legacy of the Beacon-based art foundry founder and owner at whose sites Otterness has been working for years, and where Gulliver was cast in 2002. “Dick Polich: Transforming Metal into Art,” including work by Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Graves, Isamu Noguchi, Martin Puryear and many others, opens in late August, following the run of the Dorsky’s annual regionwide overview exhibit, curated this year by Ian Barry of Saratoga’s Tang Museum.

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Gulabi Gang screening, Q&A with director at WAAM this Sunday

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rom the Nigerian bush to the shadowy corridors of the Vatican to the fictional land of Westeros, the subject of violence against women has recently welled to the surface of public consciousness to a degree not seen since Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will was published in 1975. An upsurge in gang rapes in India – especially one notorious incident on a bus in Delhi in 2012 that proved fatal – has fueled worldwide concern about the issue and helped spur the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women to reach consensus, after long delay, on policies toward the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls It’s heartening to know that not all of India’s women are taking these outrages lying down. In fact, there’s a popular movement in rural Bundelkhand that boasts 150,000 members: women dressed in hot-pink saris and armed with sticks, fighting rape, domestic violence and honor killings under the charismatic leadership of Sampat Pal Devi. They’re called the Gulabi Gang, and the award-winning Mumbai-based filmmaker Nishtha Jain has made a highly praised documentary of the same name about the struggles of this audacious group of female vigilantes.

This Sunday, May 11 – the day after its screening at the New York India Film Festival – Gulabi Gang will be shown at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. Nishtha Jain will be on hand for a live discussion and question-and-answer session following the 5 p.m. screening. Got a Mom who’s a real survivor? Take her to see this eye-opening film for Mothers’ Day! Tickets cost $10 general admission, $7 for members. To find out more about this event at WAAM, visit www.woodstockart.org/ documentary-film. To watch the official trailer for Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av39YJTnMM8.

– Frances Marion Platt

each arrives at a certain place and time.”

With her Systems series, Frank is now focused on the area around New Paltz, and her fascination with the local meant that she was excited to have the opportunity of showing locally. “I’ve always engaged with my environment,” she said, noting that she was a participant in a Germanybased group called the Department of Public Appearances while she was living in New York City, making work related to her experience as an immigrant and specifically focusing on her German background. “I respond to where I am and try to use the available tools. After I got this job at SUNY-New Paltz, my focus shifted to nature.” In fact, her move to the mid-Hudson Valley was perfectly timed, considering her growing concern about climate change and the degradation of the environment – besides the fact that the community is ideal for raising her fiveyear-old daughter.

Frank is already shooting for another series, called Search of Tree-Climbers, in which she aims her camera straight up through the trees into the sky. The series is related to “this idea of perfection and wanting to escape from Earth.” She’s also working on another project called Feedback, which is related both to her love of systems and the community. It involves having conversations with people about

the community’s challenges and then having them do a “systems drawing” to illustrate their concerns and thoughts. “By making a map, we can see how people fit into the larger picture. We did one with colleagues, seeing how we could figure out how to work together. Looking at everything together is impossible, but at least we can try,” she said, noting that many of the world’s problems stem from producing something without considering the repercussions. “With this piece, New Paltz is a case study of how we can transform our ways of transporting waste, so we are living sustainably. It’s thinking big and small.”

Frank’s photographic pieces are the latest in a series of experimental art shows at the Team Love RavenHouse Gallery, which is located in a space adjacent to the offices of Team Love Records, an independent record label founded by Calder’s husband, Nate Krenkel, 11 years ago. The Gallery (directly across from the synagogue) also hosts music events and talks related to the art on display.

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show with a storytelling night. The Gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment.

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“From Water to Wall,” an art exhibition of work by Marist College students, will pop up in Poughkeepsie at 330 Main Street on May 11 to showcase ten young, emerging Hudson Valley artists. The exhibit will run until May 22, with a reception on May 17 from 5 to 8 p.m.

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he idyllic vista of the Storm King Art Center’s sweeping lawns punctuated by modern sculptures has enchanted motorists traveling north on the New York State Thruway for decades. It’s a pastoral vision imbued with urban sophistication: Mark Di Suvero’s soaring, asymmetrical assemblages crafted of industrial steel beams, for instance, bear a clear kinship to the bold gestural painting Zhang Huan, Three Legged Buddha, 2007. Gift of Zhang Huan and The Pace Gallery of Abstract Expressionism, a movement rooted in the lofts of lower Manhattan. fragment of a gold-plated Buddha that was stolen from a Tibetan monastery during Arriving at the sculpture park in Mountainville and venturing on foot across its the Cultural Revolution – represent a departure from the formalism that otherwise 500 acres of rolling fields and woods, the vision remains intact. The placement of monumental works such as Alexander Calder’s Arch, a black stabile in which folded rules. The image seems imbued with violence, but Zhang Huan himself interprets planes of steel carve out dynamic forms in space, and Alexander Lieberman’s Adam, it differently. In an interview with Pernilla Holmes posted on his website, he noted an arrangement of giant orange cylinders perched on a hilltop, maximizes their that he once strapped a black plastic mannequin leg to his left leg (the artist achieved dramatic, elemental character, as if each work were a personage in an ancient Greek fame in the 1990s as a performance artist, first in China, later in New York) and drama and the field, sky, copses of trees and drenching daylight were the stage. considers a third leg to be “an origin of life and mythical power.” The worn patina The most intimate space is the courtyard abutting the museum, which is of the Tibetan Buddha fragment moved him; he writes of a similar piece installed populated with the smaller welded-steel pieces of David Smith: brushed-steel in London that, “According to the world of Samsara, Buddha is human, human is Buddha. Causality produces effects. I hope that this Three-Legged Buddha from the Cubistlike assemblages of geometric volumes and more delicate, linear pieces with figurative imagery that read as East will bring harmony to London and the world.” multiple drawings in space. At the Huan, who converted to Buddhism after his return to China in 2005, is the featured other extreme are more recent works artist of a new exhibition at Storm King. Titled “Zhang Huan: Evoking Tradition,” the show features more than 15 sculptures and works-on-paper inspired by Buddhist that tamper with the land itself, such as Maya Lin’s Wavefield, in which the imagery and related themes. Six of the large-scale sculptures are displayed outdoors, earth is sculpted into rolling wavelike including one, Milly’s Temple, that incorporates a traditional Chinese gateway, on forms, and Andy Goldsworthy’s view for the first time. fieldstone Wall, which – very unwallBorn in 1965, Zhang Huan was traditionally trained as an artist in Beijing, but rebelled against the Chinese regime with his radical performance art, in which the like – weaves around tree trunks and focus was often his naked body. For example, one piece consisted of sitting on a plunges into a pond.

Storm King was founded in 1960 as public toilet for three hours covered in fish oil, honey and flies; in another he hung a showcase of Hudson River landscape bound and gagged from the ceiling while blood dropped from incisions made in his painting, but after co-founder Ralph body.

Ogden visited Smith’s studio at Bolton After moving to the US, he continued to stage large-scale performances, including Landing and bought 13 works, the a 1999 piece at the Seattle Asian-Art Museum about his difficulties acclimatizing concept shifted to showcasing modern to America, in which 56 nude people posed on a scaffold pelted the artist, seated sculpture. Strolling over the extensive, perfectly groomed grounds, one discovers a below them in a child’s pool, with loaves of bread. In his current work, he often uses incense ash and plays with massive scale, fabricating his sculptures with the help of pantheon of Modernist sculptors, from Smith to Louise Nevelson to Anthony Caro to Roy Lichtenstein to Donald Judd. However, more recent acquisitions represent a 100 employees in his Shanghai studio. departure from the orthodoxy of abstract form and steel or wood, employing a rich More in keeping with the traditional landscape theme of Storm King is a special variety of media. They include works such as Stephen Talasnik’s Stream: A Folded installation by Virginia Overton consisting of a nearly-500-foot-long slender brass tube that follows the curves and contour of a sloping hill. As the grasses grow waistDrawing, a 115-foot-long tilting structure, part cave, part rollercoaster, crafted out high, they’ll eventually hide the steel supports of the piece, which will seem to hover of meshed bamboo; and Alyson Shotz’s Mirror Fence, a 130-foot-long picket fence covered with mirrors, which dissolves the plane of the fence into snippets of reflected in space like a floating line. The Brooklyn-based artist, who was born in Tennessee, space. The subtle interaction with the site and the viewer’s perambulations account noted in a recent article in Art in America that the brass will change color as the for much of the interest of these more recent works. seasons pass, further integrating the tube into the landscape. It also will transmit The anomaly is Zhang Huan’s giant Three-Legged Buddha, an immense figurative sounds, much like a musical instrument, and enable visitors to communicate by work in copper that dominates the landscape like Soviet-era propagandist monuments speaking into one end and listening at the other, creating “an intimate space in the depicting Communist leaders and heroic soldiers. It consists of the lower half of a vast landscape,” according to Overton. crouching body with three roughly modeled bent legs and sandaled feet, one of – Lynn Woods which rests on a bald head with closed, meditative eyes, half buried in the ground.

“Zhang Huan: Evoking Tradition” through November 9 & “Overlooks: Virginia In contrast to the unexpected weightlessness of Menache Kadishman’s two massive Overton” through November 30, Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturblack rectangles, one of which, hanging off the edge of its tilting partner, seems to day/Sunday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Memorial Day & Labor Day, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., levitate in space, Three-Legged Buddha is solidly earthbound, though the legs and $15/$12/$8, Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Road, New Windsor; www.stormkfeet are represented as dancing above the Earth. ing.org.

Its politically charged, East-meets-West sensibility – the piece was inspired by a

Born in 1965, Zhang Huan was traditionally trained as an artist in Beijing, but rebelled against the Chinese regime with his radical performance art

Helena Baillie & Marka Gustavsson perform this Sunday at Unison Helena Baillie and Marka Gustavsson will serenade audiences with the music of Mozart, Bartók, Alessandro Rolla and Lazlo Weiner on violin and viola as part of the Second Sunday Salon Series at the Unison Arts Center on Sunday, May 11 at 2 p.m.

Baillie, a London-born musician, plays violin and viola. A prizewinner in international competitions including the Munich ARD, Banff and Tertis, Helena has performed throughout Europe and the US, where her performances are regularly broadcast on Performance Today for American Public Radio.

A dedicated chamber musician, Marka Gustavsson has performed in major halls across Europe, Canada and the US, as well as Japan and Israel. She has been a

frequent guest artist of chamber music festivals including Bard, Mostly Mozart, Skaneateles, Portland, Bennington and Newport. She has appeared as a guest of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, on WQXR’s Showcase Concerts, with the Yale Faculty Artists’ Series, at Banff and in Wall-to-Wall festivals at Symphony Space. Gustavsson holds a teaching position at Bard College and Conservatory, where she oversees the Chamber Music Program; with the Colorado Quartet

she has served as faculty and co-artistic director at the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Quartet Institute.

Advance tickets cost $20 general admission, $15 for Unison members; at the door, they go for $25 and $20. Students get in for half-price with a valid ID. Refreshments will be sold. To order tickets, visit www.unisonarts.org or call (845) 255-1559. Unison is a notfor-profit multi-arts center located at 68 Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz.

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Under the direction of professor Roger Panetta of Fordham University, FoHK volunteers recorded more than 50 oral histories of people in the community, including IBMers themselves and others who did business with the company.

When the mainframe ruled Kingston: The IBM Years now on view at Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery

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In 1952, IBM started working with the US Defense Department to design and build a supercomputer for the North American Defense System. SAGE, headquartered in Kingston, was one of the most important projects in IBM history and was later described by a University of Pennsylvania professor as one of “four monumental projects that changed the modern world.”

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Typewriter assembly line at the IBM Kingston plant in the 1950s. This was the final testing phase of the assembly.

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n his highly influential study of the corporate suburbanization of America in the 1950s, The Organization Man, sociologist William H. Whyte reported with amusement that IBM employees told him that the acronym really stood for “I’ve Been Moved.” Among the sprawl communities spawned by the construction of industrial parks to which “Beemers” might be relocated for the company’s convenience were, of course, the newer neighborhoods fringing Kingston, New York.

When a company as massive as IBM hits its boom years, its impact on the shape of cities large and small has profound reverberations, persisting even long after its role in the world and national economy has significantly declined.

The Friends of Historic Kingston (FoHK) have put together an ambitious exhibit documenting Kingston: The IBM Years, currently on view in the organization’s Gallery at the corner of Wall and Main Streets in Uptown Kingston.

The show spotlights some of IBM’s signature achievements during its 40year stay in Ulster County, including the SAGE air defense system and System/360 mainframe, but with an equal focus on the people who worked for the computer giant and the lives and neighborhoods that they created for themselves locally.

Under the direction of professor Roger Panetta of Fordham University, FoHK volunteers recorded more than 50 oral histories of people in the community, including IBMers themselves and others

who did business with the company.

The exhibit will include one of the earliest electric typewriters produced in Kingston, and rare vintage photographs of the SAGE project, the testing floor for the System/360 mainframe and the typewriter assembly line. IBMers have lent their employee badges and scrapbooks filled with mementos. Also included in the exhibit will be new photographs, commissioned from Hudson Valley photographer Stephen

Benson, of post-World War II residential, commercial, civic and religious structures, from Cape-style houses in Whittier in Ulster Landing to ranch houses in Rolling Meadows in Hurley, plus Kingston’s Temple Emanuel on Albany Avenue and the M. Clifford Miller Junior High School in Lake Katrine. An illustrated book, co-published with Black Dome Press and featuring an essay by novelist Gail Godwin, accompanies the exhibition.

Admission to Kingston: The IBM Years, which will run though October 31, is free.

Check the FoHK website at www.fohk.org for hours and details of associated talks and programs.

– Frances Marion Platt

Talk on British takeover of New Netherlands this Saturday in Port Ewen How was it that 350 years ago the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands became the English Colony of New York?

Anne Gordon, Ulster County historian and Klyne Esopus Museum trustee, will explain all as she delivers the Spring

Lecture of the Ed and Ruth Ford Speakers Series on Saturday, May 10.

The British takeover marked a notable shift in the fate of the two empires.

Prominent in the discussion will be Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant, whose role in the Dutch capitulation has been hotly debated. Gordon will also delve into the stubborn “Dutchiness” of Ulster County and its people, despite the ascendancy of the English power.

The lecture begins at 4 p.m. at the Esopus Town Hall’s Community Room at 284 Broadway in Port Ewen. Attendees should park at the lower level on the north side of the building. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served afterwards.

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James Jerry Falanga started making mozzarella professionally in 1939, at the age of 23; and after 50 years of operating the business, he sold it to Joe Tippa

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throwback to old times, Falanga’s, a 75-year-old Poughkeepsie company, is still making fresh, handmade creamy-white mozzarella. It’s a mild-but-flavorful complement to basil and tomatoes (of course), atop pizza or, to modernize it, in a grilled ciabatta

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panini with roasted peppers. I eat mine mostly plain, when it’s not the peak of tomato season, and I’m kind of addicted.

James Jerry Falanga started it all in 1939, at the age of 23; and after 50 years of operating it, he sold the business to Joe Tippa. Tippa operated a store on Main Street selling Italian and Greek specialty foods, but closed it more than 20 years ago to concentrate on wholesaling the mozzarella cheese, which he still makes five to six days a week in his basement – licensed as a commercial kitchen, but with a quick commute and lower operating costs. Tippa has since expanded to grated Romano and Parmesan cheeses, as well

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as the mozzarella in little one-ounce balls called bocconcini (“mouthfuls”) and a burrata style with a creamy center; the “burr” in burrata comes from burro, or butter, for the cheese’s richness. He also makes mozzarella rolls from scratch, filled with prosciutto, pepperoni, sun-dried tomato or spinach/roasted garlic – the latter especially popular in the summer months, he says.

The original mozzarella was made from the milk of water buffalo, many centuries ago when the Italians began to import the beasts from India. Mozzarella may or may not have been created as a result of a happy accident, when fresh cheese curds fell into some hot water somewhere around Naples. The cheese had to be eaten right away because of lack of refrigeration; but even with modern technology, the fresher the better.

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To make mozzarella, raw or unpasteurized milk is preferred for best taste and texture. The milk is treated so that it forms curds, which are then heated until they become stretchy strings, or pasta filata, which is then shaped into balls of various sizes or flattened and filled to make a flavored roll.

Until not too long ago, what most of us Americans knew as mozzarella was a rubbery, low-moisture, long-keeping, lowGREG O’BEIRNE flavor product best used cooked into a dish like lasagna or pizza. Fortunately, the fresh stuff is easier and easier to find these days; and for the semi-adventurous, you can make it yourself at home with just good milk, rennet, citric acid and a little time and

Falanga’s, a 75-year-old Poughkeepsie company, is still making fresh, handmade creamywhite mozzarella effort. I’ve made it myself a few times.

Homemade, the mere freshness of the cheese is irresistible, but be forewarned: It takes a lot of milk to make a little bit of cheese, and it goes fast.

Fresh mozzarella made right is a thing of beauty and needs little to no embellishment to be wonderful. I’ve been known to tear down the plastic wrapper and piggily munch on it, taking a few appetizing bites in the car on the way home.

Joe Tippa makes a lovely salad from small cubes of his cheese with cherry tomatoes, chopped red onion, chopped

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As soon as he told me his recipe, I had to make some – although, lacking the fresh peppers and basil, I had to sub red pepper flakes and a pinch of dried basil from the spice rack. It was still a thoroughly delightful lunch.

But if you’re a Falanga’s fan, or would like to be one, don’t try to like its Facebook page. There isn’t one – nor a Twitter feed nor Instagram account. There isn’t even a website. “That’s too sophisticated for us,” says Joe, who calls himself “completely computer-illiterate.” However, son Eric, who helps out, does plan to make a website, Joe says.

You will have to satisfy yourself for the time being with calling the dairy at (845) 485-2676 or looking for it at local stores. Try the Hurley Ridge Market in West Hurley, the Boiceville Market, Mother Earth’s Storehouse’s Kingston or Poughkeepsie locations, Rhinebeck Health Foods, Peck’s Market IGA in Pine Plains, McEnroe’s Organic Farm Market in Millerton and Marona’s Market in Millbrook.

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This Saturday, the Wallkill Valley Land Trust will conduct a guided expedition to find and document box turtles on the 65-acre Smith Property in Gardiner, where the Smith family, with the aid of biologist Joe Bridges and the general public, have been monitoring the creatures’ movements and habits since 2005. This handsome box turtle was spotted by Denise Edkins.

Grand Cayman and felt as if you were in the presence of dinosaurs, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Adventure tourists flock from all over the world to places like Costa Rica, Mexico and the Caribbean islands to snorkel amongst the sea turtles or to lurk nearby their buried nests by moonlight, watching for the hatchlings to emerge and struggle heroically down the beach to the sea before predators can pick them off.

But you don’t have to travel to exotic distant shores to commune with these ancient and mysterious reptilians. Many smaller species still trundle their quiet,

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Each box turtle’s shell pattern is as distinctive as a fingerprint box turtles on the 65-acre Smith Property in Gardiner, where the Smith family, with the aid of biologist Joe Bridges, have been monitoring the creatures’ movements and habits since 2005. The general public is invited; you’re just asked to preregister.

With their high-domed carapaces and distinctive orange-on-black rosette patterns, Eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina) are among the most charming of their kind. They’re not aggressive like snapping turtles, and can be picked up even by a child with no greater peril than that the animal might express its alarm by urinating on you. Indeed, WVLT’s annual Turtle Day is a kid-friendly event, with young folks successfully spotting turtles in years past. Your kids may even get to see a pair mating, this time of year.

The Smiths also train Australian

cattledogs to track the creatures by their scent during seasons when the grass is too high to spot them, and have placed electronic transmitters on several turtles in order to monitor their movements via telemetry. The data gathered at the site over the years add to the body of scientific knowledge about this species – for example, reinforcing herpetologists’ observations that female box turtles will return to the same site year after year to lay their eggs, trekking as far as two-thirds of a mile each way.

Each box turtle’s shell pattern is as distinctive as a fingerprint, so when you find one, your hosts will photograph it and compare it with past sightings to identify the particular animal. Many individuals are seen multiple times in subsequent years, ranging far and wide. A few with notable “personalities” have been given names, but mostly the Smiths’ turtles are known by their numbers. Last year’s count totaled 70 adult turtles and seven hatchlings.

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reezy Hill Orchard and Cider Mill in Staatsburg will host the 18th annual Spring Wassail Balkan Dance Party on Saturday, May 10. It starts at 2 p.m. and continues well into the night, says Elizabeth Ryan, who has farmed the site since 1984 and produces cider from its bounty. The event will feature Balkan food, music and dance along with cider-tastings, including the launch of a new hard cider aged in bourbon barrels, and a traditional Celtic candlelight ceremony in which the assembled will sing to the apple trees to ensure a bountiful harvest.

The Celtic ceremony was inspired by Ryan’s travels in England. “The word ‘wassail’ was originally was-hael, which means ‘to your health,’” she says. “In its oldest tradition, in preChristian England, they went to the biggest tree in the orchard and drank hard cider. The other part of the tradition is a huge bonfire, which we also do. The idea was: You’re lighting the darkness and ushering in a new year.” Ryan explains that the ceremony was traditionally held in the dead of winter, but carrying on the tradition now in spring, they’re ushering in a new cider year, accompanied by the singing of the oldest version of an authentic wassail song.

So where does the Balkan part of all this come in? “In 1977, I went to Bulgaria to study its legendary Balkan singing,” Ryan says. “We were one of the first American groups to go. I fell in love with the people and the culture, and traveled there a lot.

Since then, I’ve been involved in producing events and working with traditional musicians from the Balkans.”

Ryan was also farming apples during those years, and once the Celtic Wassail began to become an annual event, the Balkan performers she knew wanted to be involved. “So we started ‘Balkanizing’ the party,” Ryan says.

“The Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band plays hard-driving Balkan brass. They represent Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Romani traditions,” she says. “Then we have Seido Salifoski, a Macedonian Roma who has played dumbek in Balkan and Middle Eastern styles for 30 years, who brings his group, Romski Boji. And you never know whom he’s going to show up with.”

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– Frances Marion Platt Turtle Day, Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Smith Property, Gardiner; (845) 255-2761, info@wallkillvalleylt.org, www.boxturtlesny.com.

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New additions to the performers expected are still being added. “We also have a very famous Bulgarian bagpiper, Nedyalko Ketev, who lives in New York City, and Korinya, a New Paltz-based band of young Ukrainian performers who have just released a selfproduced CD.” Other performers include the Bosilek Bulgarian Folk Dance Ensemble and the Vanaver Caravan Kids with Bill and Livia Vanaver, and dance teacher Steve Kotansky will lead an afternoon dance workshop for attendees to learn Bulgarian dance steps.

“The whole thing feels very much like a wedding or a DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY house party,” says Ryan. “I’m Apple blossom (above) and Zlatne Uste Balkan interested in bringing music Brass Band (left) off the stage and putting it into context. In the Balkans, music is extremely up-close and personal. The boundaries between the performers and the people are very thin. I wanted to have people not just hear this music in bars in New York; I wanted to do what they do over there all the time, which is be outside, dancing. It’s about a 12-hour dance party that usually goes until midnight.”

The spread of food that includes wood-fired pizza and a lamb roast is included with the price of admission. Tickets cost $60 for adults with advance purchase ($70 at the gate), $15 for ages six to 17 and free for kids under age six. Admission after 8 p.m. costs $25 and does not include dinner. Camping costs $10 extra. But Ryan emphasizes that it’s not even a “break-even” event for the orchard, whose policy is to have a sliding scale available: Nobody will be turned away.

Ryan has also managed Stone Ridge Orchard in Stone Ridge for years. Just last week, she says, she finally closed a deal to purchase the site, once the center of considerable community controversy when it was slated for demolition in order to develop the land. When the housing market collapsed, the land was put up for sale, and after a long period of negotiations and raising $1.3 million with the help of Friends of Stone Ridge Orchard and four land trusts, Ryan says, they’ve purchased the land with plans to open the Rail Trail through it – along with other ventures to be announced.

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Friday to Sunday, May 9 to 11: Mothers’ Day Weekend at Frost Valley YMCA camp, including guided nature hikes, meditation and yoga. Mom admitted free with one full-paying family member. Frost Valley is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville.

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Van Cortlandt Manor’s Lightscapes is a massive walk-through evening exhibit of springtime motifs glowing with light, creatively crafted from recycled and reclaimed materials.

Our entry line was long, but kept moving, and it consisted almost entirely of families with children. As we walked through the exhibit, we heard kids of all ages determining the components of the art pieces, such as milk jugs and clear plastic party cups, while marveling at the quirky mushrooms, counting colorful ladybugs, delighting in a stroll through the caterpillar tunnel and imitating the insect-buzzing sounds emitting from the speakers. The sheer scale of Lightscapes is part of the overall effect of immersing the viewer in an offbeat world of springtimeimagination-meets-Earth-Day. The hospitality tent includes locally made sweet and savory refreshments for sale, and a gift shop loaded with a variety of springtime merchandise for children and adults. Tickets for Lightscapes cost $16 for adults, $12 for children ages 3 through 17, and admission is free for members and children under 3 years.

Tickets purchased on-site cost $2 more per ticket. It’s advised to purchase tickets in advance to guarantee admission. Buying tickets to events such as Lightscapes helps to support the historic preservation of Van Cortlandt Manor for years to come.

Van Cortlandt Manor is located on South Riverside Avenue in Croton-onHudson. For more information, call (914) 631-8200 or visit www.hudsonvalley.org.

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Friday and Saturday, May 9 and 10 at 7 p.m., Sunday, May 11 at 2 p.m.: Little Women performance by 90 Miles off Broadway at New Paltz High School, located at 130 South Putt Corners Road in New Paltz.

Ticket prices range from $10 to $15.

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Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.: InnerLight Health Spa Open House, featuring free classes on the hour including zumba, yoga, hip-hop and bboy and $10 mini-sessions of massage, reiki, makeup and tarot. InnerLight Health Spa is located at 1 East Dorsey Lane in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 229-9998 or visit www.facebook.com/innerlighths.

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Planet-gazing from the Walkway My favorite astronomer and fellow Almanac columnist Bob Berman leads a talk on the Walkway over the Hudson this Saturday, May 10 at 8:15 p.m., with telescopes available for attendees to use for seeing this special appearance of all of the planets except Venus. The cloud date is Sunday, May 11. Admission costs $5 and is free for Walkway members. Tickets may be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com; at the Bardavon Opera House, located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie; or at the gate on the night of the event. Walkway entrances vwwc

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Funds are being raised for enhancements at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in Galeville, such as benches and an informational kiosk: a wonderful project promoting the only National Wildlife Refuge in the Hudson Valley, and a great way for local families to support this larger effort. For more information or to make a donation, contact Mark DeDea at forsythnature@ aol.com or (845) 339-1277. To learn more about the organization, visit http://jbnhs. org.

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The New Paltz Bike Swap is a chance to clean out, make some money or get a good deal on a bike. The Swap takes place on Saturday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the New Paltz Middle School, located at 2 South Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz. Admission is free. Seller check-in begins at 9 a.m.;

Saturday, May 10, 6 to 8 p.m.: Date Night: Parents’ Night Out child dropoff for ages 6 and up at the Treehouse takes place on alternating Friday and Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. and includes fun arts and crafts for kids with ceramicist Casey Taylor, along with a pizza dinner. Admission costs $30 per child, or $40 for two siblings. Upcoming dates are Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 24. The Treehouse is located at 17 Church Street in New Paltz. For reservations or more information, call (845) 255-0345, email treehousehandcraft@gmail.com or visit www.treehousenewpaltz.com.

Sunday, May 11, 10 to 11:30 a.m.: Mothers’ Day Nature Hike for all ages at the Hudson Highlands Outdoor Discovery Center, located across from 174 Angola Road in Cornwall.

Admission costs $7 for adults, $5 for children. For more information, call (845) 534-5506 or visit http://hhnaturemuseum.org.

Sunday, May 11, 1 p.m.: Mothers’ Day Tea at Clermont State Historic Site, located at 87 Clermont Avenue in Germantown. Admission costs $12 and is free for children under 5 years.

Activities include a garden tour and tea party. For reservations or more information, call (518) 537-4240 or visit www.friendsofclermont.org.

Sunday, May 11, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Mothers and grandmothers are admitted free all day at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, located at 75 North Water Street in Poughkeepsie.

Admission for all others over 1 year costs $7.50. For more information, call (845) 471-0589 or visit www. mhcm.org.

Sunday, May 11, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.: Mothers’ Day Brunch and May Celebration at Whirligig Farm, located at

1375 Hurley Mountain Road in Hurley. Activities include a seedling sale at 9 a.m., a homemade Mothers’ Farm Brunch at 11 a.m., May festivities at 1 p.m. and more. For more information, call (845) 902-8154 or visit www.facebook.com/whirligigfarm.

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The event is free to attend, but monetary donations to the Caring Hands Soup Kitchen are encouraged. The swap is being organized by Kingston’s Brianne Olsson and will include vendors specializing in vintage apparel and accessories, as well as gift items. At 5 p.m. participants can table their apparel and accessories, and the swap will promptly start at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be available.

Attendees are also encouraged to bring extra “professional-style” apparel and accessories for a Career Clothing Free Store that will launch on Sunday, May 11. The Free Store is for people who can’t afford career clothing or need to dress up for a job interview. The store will offer “Dress for Success” tip sheets and resource guides for job-seekers.

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o paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, defense secretary under W, there are the known knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns.

Donald, you forgot about the unknown knowns. Let’s talk about gardening, not war, and the knowns that need to be better-known.

Visitors to my garden (actually workshop attendees) were oohing and aahing over some 18-inch-high stalks, each capped with a crown of leaves beneath which dangled a circle of red blossoms. Aptly named crown imperial, Fritillaria imperialis, deserves to be more widely known. No one seemed put off by

the skunky aroma that suffuses the air even feet away from the plant; I like it.

Perhaps crown imperial would be better-known if the bulbs didn’t go for more than ten dollars each. My garden’s profusion of crown imperial stalks is more an indication of my green thumb than my wealth. They all arose from a single bulb that my father gifted me more than 20 years ago. I learned to propagate them by bulb-scaling, which involves digging down into the ground to remove scales from the bulb, then mixing the scales with barely moist potting soil. After a couple of months’ storage at warm temperatures, followed by a couple of months’ storage at cool temperatures, the scales can be

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potted up, to be nursed for a season before planting out.

Every year I make new crown imperial plants. Will I ever have too many?

Crown imperial also has some unknown known kin. You have to see Persian lily, Fritillaria persica, to appreciate it. A written description – foot-high stalks lined with nodding, small, plum-purple-to-gray/ green flowers – doesn’t do justice to the beauty of this bulb. I hope to start multiplying this one also. Another unknown known is Fritillaria michailovskyi, this one with nodding bell-shaped flowers with yellow-

tipped purple petals.

Among crown imperial’s kin is also a known known: Guinea hen flower, F. meleagris, with large, nodding checkered flowers. Even White Flower Farm sells these bulbs for less than a dollar each.

No wonder they are better-known.

Let’s segue over to unknown knowns among fruits.

Right now, a billowing wave of white blossoms lines my driveway: the blossoms of Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosum), a shrub that can grow eight feet high and wide. The show matches that of any other flowering tree or shrub.

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Mars, though fading rapidly, is still brilliant. It’s that bright orange star out all night. Saturn arrives at its closest to Earth for the entire year this coming week, far to the lower left of Mars. And Jupiter, though its days of visibility are now numbered, keeps blazing in the west at nightfall as the night’s very brightest star.

This Saturday night, May 10, we’ll do a special skywatching session right after sunset on the Walkway over the Hudson to observe this planet extravaganza, stretched across the heavens like a string of pearls. We’ll have telescopes set up, too.

The cloud date is Sunday, the 11th.

And now, suddenly, on top of all that, comes the real possibility of a brand-new meteor shower. It could be the best of our lives.

Perhaps you saw the amazing Leonid shower in the wee predawn hours of November 18, 2001, just two months after the 9/11 tragedy. We had perfectly clear skies, and six brilliant green shooting stars materialized each minute, nearly all of which left behind long lingering trails like Cheshire Cat smiles. That was our region’s best meteor display of the past century.

But now, my favorite meteor expert, Peter Jenniskens, predicts a rich new meteor shower produced by a previous close approach of a rather faint comet named Linear. He thinks that we’ll get a storm, when meteors literally fill the sky. Other meteor experts are more conservative, but still think that we should see three or four shooting stars each minute, and they could be brilliant. All of this will unfold during a two- or three-hour

This Saturday night, May 10, we’ll do a special skywatching session right after sunset on the Walkway over the Hudson

shrubs – forsythia, lilac, flowering cherries and the like – offer after their flower shows subside? Nothing; nada; zip.

Nanking cherry, though, goes on to bear oodles of small red cherries, with a flavor somewhere between that of sweet and tart cherries.

And what does it take to get a decent crop of sweet or tart cherries? Pruning, perhaps spraying and bird control. What does it take to get a crop of Nanking cherries? Nothing; nada; zip. The plants bear heavily with little or no care, and bear enough to satisfy birds, squirrels and humans.

Okay, every rose has its thorns.

Nanking cherries are small: one-half to five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The smallness is more than offset by plant’s beauty, its profusion of fruits and its low maintenance.

as horticultural oil, sulfur, baking soda, soap or horticultural oil plus baking soda (one-and-a-half tablespoons of baking soda plus three tablespoons of oil in one gallon of water).

Right about now, gooseberries can experience one more pest: the imported currantworm, which strips plants of their leaves, beginning at ground level. The leaves will grow back, but the plant is left weakened. A spray just as soon as chewing begins will stop this insect in its tracks; and again, benign products such as insecticidal soap or horticultural oil should be effective. I’m training some of my plants as three-foothigh trees, which might also thwart the worm, because there’ll be no leaves near ground level on which the insects can begin their feast.

If all this seems like too much potential trouble for gooseberries, it’s not. The best dessert varieties have flavors that might be compared to that of grape, plum or apricot, and have a “cracking” texture: a crisp flesh that explodes with ambrosial juice when you bite into them. A writer of the last century characterized gooseberries as “the fruit par excellence for ambulant consumption.” I agree, and you might also if they become a known known in your garden.

period.

Of all places in the world, the US and southern Canada alone will be well-positioned to see this brief and potentially spectacular shower. It should occur starting around 2 a.m. and last almost until dawn. It’s even on a Friday night – or rather, early Saturday morning. And the Moon will be a harmless crescent, so the sky won’t be spoiled by bright moonlight.

We’ll talk about it again next week. But for now, mark your calendar to set the alarm the night of May 23/24, the early hours of Saturday morning, for 1:45 a.m. This has the potential to be the most exciting celestial event in many years.

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

What does it take to get a crop of Nanking cherries?

Nothing; nada; zip.

And one more unknown known: gooseberries (both gooseberries and Nanking cherries warrant a whole chapter in my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden).

Many people imagine all gooseberries to be small, green and tart, suitable mostly for cooking. Not so! There are over a hundred varieties of gooseberry in various colors and sizes, and a whole category of them – what the Brits call “dessert varieties” – are for fresh eating. Good flavor is what should warrant gooseberries known known status among fruits.

Most important in growing gooseberries is to choose a good variety, both for taste and for resistance to the disease powdery mildew. Don’t plant Pixwell; the berries are small, green and tart.

Do plant varieties such as Poorman, Chief, Hinonmakis Yellow, Red Jacket, Captivator and Glendale. They’re all tasty and disease-resistant.

If you want even-better flavor and you’re willing to deal with powdery mildew, plant varieties such as Colossal, Whitesmith, Achilles and Webster. Dealing with powdery mildew involves spraying, but it could be something relatively benign, such

If you haven’t started your own seedlings, go to Four Winds Farm on Friday, May 16 from 1 to 5 p.m. or Saturday, May 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for their Organic Heirloom Seedling Sale. Four Winds Farm (http://users. bestweb.net/~fourwind) is located on 158 Marabac Road in Gardiner.

– Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. You can also visit Lee’s garden at www.leereich.blogspot.com and check out his instructional videos at www.youtube.com/leereichfarmden.

Bridal gown designed by Juda Leah of Saugerties

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Garden Party & Bridal Fashion Show in Kingston

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hen do impresarios hit full stride? For artist and arts presenter Renee Darmstadt, the force behind Cornell Street Studios in Midtown Kingston, you’d have to be speaking about the creativity that one remembers from one’s 20s.

This Saturday, May 10, she kicks off her latest extravaganza, a “Garden Party” complete with floral-themed art exhibit, a bridal fashion show spotlighting local designers, a dance party and plenty of local food and music, as well as the sponsoring support of Kingston’s business owners. Some of the design shops involved will be Kingston’s Ellipse, Juda Leah of Saugerties, Holly McCabe, Shoshona Snow and Galipette Vintage. Outdoors will be a “mini-expo” with Milne’s At Home Antiques, Pippy’s Hot Dog Truck, David Temple, Photobooth Fun Time! Jen Kiaba Photography, Petalos, Sav-On Party Center, Ruth Silvers Photographer, the Farm and more. Best of all? This is the Garden Show’s third annual outing. You go, girl!

– Paul Smart Garden Party & Bridal Fashion Show, Saturday, May 10, 6-10 p.m., $15/$10, Cornell Street Studios, Darmstadt Overhead Doors building (second floor), 168 Cornell Street, Kingston; (845) 331-0191, www.cornellstreetstudios.com.

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7:30AM-10:30AM Forum: “Own Your Own Power” featuring guest speakers: Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, leader, author, singer, will share her insights and vast experience as a professional woman in business.

Register @ www.events.r20.constantcontact. com. Marist College, Hancock Center, 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie.

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, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

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

9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After Fifty 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve hosts Healthy Ulster Spring (5/5-5/10)! Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free one-month pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week. Passesavailable at Visitor Center on Rt 44/55 in New Paltz, 10am-4pm thru 5/11; & at Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls, 10am-4pm thru 5/11.The membership passes will be good through6/9. Info: 255-0919.

10:30 AM Book Explorers Storytime. For ages 4 and up. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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 andolder, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM “Speak up! Speak Out! Debate Workshop, led by Deborah Lundgren, an experienced debate coach and educator, is a seven-week program for children ages 11 and older to practice debate techniques and learn the Lincoln-Douglas debate format. Info: www.stoneridgelibrary.org or julimuth@aol.com. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge.

4PM-5:30PM Art Workshop at the Library “Artist Trading Cards” Tweens in grades 5 – 8 are invited to create ‘trading cards’. Guest artist Christine Livesey, from Mill Street Loft, will teach art techniques using a variety of media.

Info: www.poklib.org or 485-3445 x 3320. Adriance Memorial Library, 2nd floor, Poughkeepsie.

Stowell. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon. com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM ABBA - The Concert. Info: 800-7453000. Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $62, $49, $37.

7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes.

8PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM Adrien Reju ~ Artist in Residence. Info: 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Woodstock, $5.

8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch and Bill Keith. Also, featuring Jim Rooney, guitarist, singer, music producer and publisher, and the first manager of Albert Grossman’s Bearsville Studios, returns to Woodstock for a book signing and lots of music beginning around 8:30 pm. Admission to the Bluegrass Clubhouse is always a pay what you want, but pay something kind of deal, and Rooney’s new book will be available for signing. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Mother’s Day Weekend (5/9-5/11) at Frost Valley YMCA camp, including guided nature hikes, meditation, and yoga. Mom admitted free with one full paying family member! Frost Valley is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville.

For reservations or more information, call (845) 985-2291 extension 450 or email reservations@ frostvalley.org, or visit http://frostvalley.org.

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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve hosts Healthy Ulster Spring (5/5-5/10)! Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free one-month pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week. Passesavailable at Visitor Center on Rt 44/55 in New Paltz, 10am-4pm thru 5/11; & at Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls, 10am4pm thru 5/11.The membership passes will be good through6/9. Hudson Valley. Info: 255-0919.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

4PM Snapology’s Lego Program. For ages 5 - 12. Students will experiment with working Lego Robots, take part in friendly challenges with working Engineering 101 machines, and build scenes incorporating some of their favorite themes. Info: 331-0507,x 7. Kingston Library, 5 Library Ln, Kingston.

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, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

5:30PM-6:30PM MBA Information Sessions.

Prospective students interested in the MBA program are invited for an overview of the program, academic advising to those who bring transcripts, and answers to any questions they mayhave. Info: www.newpaltz.edu/mba; 257-2968. SUNY New Paltz, van den Berg Hall, Room 219, New Paltz, free.

1PM Penny Social and Pie Sale. Drawings start at 2:30pm. Proceeds will go to the HSM Raise the Roof fund. Info: www.mtownhistory.org. Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, HSM hall, 778 Cemetery Rd, Margaretville.

5:30PM-7:30PM Evening Pantry Opens at Clinton Avenue Methodist Church. The Pantry will be open from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 8.

Info: 331-7188 or dkelleyny@gmail.com. Clinton Avenue, Kingston.

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

6PM-8PM Homework Help. Mondays & Thursdays. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28 A, West Shokan.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

7PM-9PM Japanese Movie Night showing, “Jungle Taitei.” “Juncle Emperor Leo”, animation directed by Yoshio Takeuchi, story by Osamu Tezuka. 1997, 100 min. Info: 255-8811. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley.

No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

7PM Author Talk & Book Signing: Richard Moe, author of Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and The Politics of War. Free. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Henry A. Wallace Center, 4079 Albany Post Rd Hyde Park.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Kendra Shank & John

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

5PM Blues Happy Hour with Big Joe Fitz. Every Friday with no cover charge. Uncle Willy’s Tavern and Kitchen, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner.

Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30p.m. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 626-2010.

6:30PM-7:30PM Snapology’s Lego Program For ages 5 - 12. Students will experiment with working Lego Robots, take part in friendly challenges with working Engineering 101 machines, and build scenes incorporating some of theirfavorite themes. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.midhudson. snapology.com. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main St, New Paltz, free.

6:30PM-8:30PM Chris Walsh plays country music. Info: 246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

6:30PM-9:30PM Rio de Samba. Bossa Nova Vocal Jazz. 2nd Friday of every month.Info & resv: 338-7161. BYOB Gabriel’s Café, 316 Wall St, Kingston.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No

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

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

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

cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A,Palenville, 518-678-3101.

7PM-9PM Fishin’ Chicken Opening. Info: 679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 80 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7PM Pulp Fiction.The Odd Couple. 1994, 154 minutes, Rated R. Info: 518-465-4663. Palace Theatre, Albany, $5, $3 /child.

7PM-10PM Night Train. Jeff Armstrong & John McLynn. Accoustic Blues & Classis Rock. Info: 339-3917 or www.roundoutbaymarina.com.

Roundout Bay, 1000 Rte 213, Kingston.

7PM Live @ The Falcon:Joe Louis Walker.

Opening: Stephen Clair. Info: 236-7970 or www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Three Women Reading in Phoenicia.

Deborah Emin, Anique Taylor, Nanci Panuccio. Info: 688-2142 or www.artsupstairs.com.

Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main St, Phoenicia.

7PM Zydeco Dance Beginner Lesson. Sponsored

by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Admission $15; $10 w. valid student IDBeginner’s lesson 7-8 pm. Band (withPreston Frank & Big Daddy Zydeco) 8-11pm. Info: 255-7061 or www.hudsonvalleydance.org. Everyone Welcome! No Partner Needed! White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston.

7PM “Little Women.” Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott. Info: www.90milesoffbroadway.com or 256-9657. New Paltz High School, 130 S. Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz, $15, $12 /senior/student.

7:30 PM 7:30pm Playing in The Now - a very special reunion of five friends: Barbara Bash, Steve Clorfeine, Steve Gorn, Arawana Hayashi, Lanny Harrison ....visuals, sound, words and movement - on the spot and delightful. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale, programs@sky-lake.org.

7:30PM John Gorka in Concert. Info: 518-4341703 or www.8thstep.org. 8th Step at Proctors, 32 State St, Schenectady, $35 /golden circle, $28.

8PM Balinese Gamelan Concert 8pm. Featuring the Music and Dance of Bali, with Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Artistic Director Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin.

Guest Artists include Dr. Pete Steele from MIT and Gamelan Dharmaswara and renowned Balinese dancer Shoko Yamamura. Artistic Director Prof.

Pak I Nyoman Suadinand a cast for 40+ students and community members.Suggested Donation $10. Bard staff, students, faculty, and children 16 & under free of charge. Info: 688-7090 or 679-8624. On FB: Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Presented

by The Music Program at Bard College. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, Ulster Publishing & Bard College.

Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-onHudson, $10, free /Bard student/stafProgram at Bard College. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, Ulster Publishing & Bard College. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $10, free /Bard student/staff.. Featuring the Music and Dance of Bali, with Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Artistic Director Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin. Guest Artists include Dr. Pete Steele from MIT and Gamelan Dharmaswara and renowned Balinese dancer Shoko Yamamura.

Artistic Director Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadinand a cast for 40+ students and community members.

Suggested Donation $10. Bard staff, students, faculty, and children 16 & under free of charge.

Info: 688-7090 or 679-8624. On FB: Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Presented by The Music Program at Bard College. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, Ulster Publishing & Bard College. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $10, free /Bard student/ stafProgram at Bard College. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund,

Ulster Publishing & Bard College. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $10, free /Bard student/staff.

8PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM 2nd Friday Swing Salon at the Uptown Gallery in Kingston. 8-11pm. The evening will feature a dance lesson from 8-8:30pm by professional swing dance instructors, Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios followed by an evening of dancing to classic and contemporary swing music. Admission is $12.

The Swing Salon will be held on the 2nd Friday of every month. The Uptown Gallery, 296 Wall St, Kingston. Info: www.got2lindy.com or call 236-3939.

8PM Lightscapes, a brand new art and light experience. Featuring sculpture, light, sound, and special effects. Info: 914-366-6900 or www. hudsonvalley.org. Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside Ave, Croton-on-Hudson, $18,$14 /3-17.

8PM-12AM Dutchess County Singles Dance.

Meets every second Friday of the month. There will be a wide range of music by DJ Johnny Angel and a light dinner buffet with dessert and coffee.

Admission is $15.Door prizes and 50/50 raffle.

Info: www.dutchesscountysingles.org or e-mail: dcsingles28@yahoo.com. Mercury Grand Hotel, , 2170 South Road (Rte 9), Poughkeepsie.

8PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Rt 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

8PM Finest Kind. Presented by The Hudson Valley Folk Guild’s Friends of Fiddler’s Green Chapter. Info: 758-2681, hvfolks@aol.com, or www. hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt 9 & Church St, Hyde Park.

8PM Kira Velella & Kyle McDonough. Info: www.cafeteriacoffeehouse.com. Cafeteria Coffeehouse, 58 Main St, New Paltz.

8PM-10PM Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill Performance. Info: www.studioredhook.com or 802-6515. St Pauls Parish Hall, Fisk St and Broadway, Red Hook.

8PM Second Friday Jam with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

8PM An Evening With Harvey Citron. A three course dinner and a show with renowned guitarist Harvey Citron and friends. Info: 255-0096.

Jordan’s Bistro & Pizzeria, 52 Main St, New Paltz, $25.

8PM-11PM Zydeco Dance with Preston Frank & Big Daddy Zydeco. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Admission $15; $10 w. valid student IDBeginner’s lesson 7-8 pm. Info: 255-7061 or www.hudsonvalleydance.org. Everyone Welcome! No Partner Needed! White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston.

9PM Little Ceasar Band. Info: 229-8277 or www.hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

8PM SPIV. The Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30PM Naked. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Mother’s Day Weekend (5/9-5/11) at Frost Valley YMCA camp, including guided nature hikes, meditation, and yoga. Mom admitted free with one full paying family member! Frost Valley is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville.

For reservations or more information, call (845) 985-2291 extension 450 or email reservations@ frostvalley.org, or visit http://frostvalley.org.

John Burroughs Natural History Society Birda-thon. JBNHS members scour Ulster County for as many bird species as possible, and donors are invited to pledge a dime, quarter, or even a dollar per species. A team that spends all day in the field can expect to observe 100 species (which is why this activity is sometimes called a Century Run). Funds are being raised for enhancements at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in Galeville such as benches and an informational kiosk, For more information or to make a donation, contact Mark DeDea at forsythnature@aol.com or 339-1277. To learn more about the organization, visit http://jbnhs.org.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: North/South Lake Loop. Aged 18 and above. Call the hike leader for the meeting time, location, and fee by 5/8. A moderate to strenuous, 8-mile hike with some Hunter-Greene Spring Classic. Info: www. greatamericancycling.com or 413-314-DIRT. Rt 23A, Hunter.

TrailFest 2014. Demo Day of hiking backpacking and family camping. Meet local and national organizations who promote conservancy and outdoor mountain sports. Also outdoor community’s top clothing and gearmanufacturers will be on hand. Info: 338-5045 or www.atkenco.com.

Kenco, 1000 Hurley Mountain Rd, Kingston, free.

The New Paltz Fire Department’s Car and Crafts Show. Info: Jurainpottery@yahoo.com or Brandenjansen@newpaltzfire.org. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz.

6AM-12PM John Burroughs Natural History Society: Ulster County Spring Census. Info: www.jbnhs.org. Submit report to: Steve Chorvas (schorvas@gmail.com) Hudson Valley, free.

9AM-12PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Rondout Creek Cleanup. A shoreline cleanup by canoe/kayak and Deep Hole (close to Rt 6 in Alligerville) by foot. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Accord Town Park, 50 9AM-3PM Hudson Valley Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network (HV RBE-RN) at Ulster BOCES will sponsor its second annual conference on “Educating English Language Learners in Early Childhood – Birth through Age 8.” The new Associate Commissioner of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies, Dr. Angelica Infante-Green, will welcome attendees in the Student Union Building. The conference is designed to support teachers and administrators who serve children from birth to age 8 and have English Language Learners in their programs.

Students of education can also benefit from the workshops offered. This year’s theme is Neuroscience and Education: Leveling the Playing Field.

Ulster Hosted by BOCES Community Relations.

Info: 255-1400 ucboces@ulsterboces.org. SUNY New Paltz, Student Union Building, 1 Hawk Drive, on the SUNY New Paltz campus.

9AM-10:30AM Woodstock’s Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 679-8800. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

9AM-8PM InnerLight Health Spa Open House, featuring free classes on the hour including Zumba, Yoga, Hip-Hop and B-Boy and $10 mini sessions of Massage, Reiki, Make-up and Tarot).

CLEAR SKIN.

InnerLight Health Spa is located at 1 East Dorsey Lane in Poughkeepsie. Info: 229-9998 or visit www.facebook.com/InnerLightHS. 9AM Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

9AM-12PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Lasher Memorial Park Cleanup. 3rd Annual Riverkeeper Sweep. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. North Germantown Boat Launch, Ernest Lasher Memorial Park, Germantown.

9:30AM-12:30PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Muchattoes Lake Shoreline Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Muchattoes Lake, North side, 75 Lake Dr, Newburgh.

9:30AM-12:30PM Riverkeeper Sweep: MillsNorrie State Park Service Projects. Reg reqr’d.

Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Mills Norrie State Park, Staatsburg.

9:30AM-3PM YWCA Mother’s Day 5K. Open to all ages and there will be a Kid’s Run around Academy Green. After the race, there will fun events and prizes. Info: www.ywcaulstercounty. org/event/ywca-mothers-day-5k/ Academy Green, 102 Clinton Ave, Kingston.

10AM - 2PM Rosendale Farmers’ Market. Rain or shine. This is the last indoor Winter market of 2014. Great Mother’s Day Gifts! Live acoustic music by Jeff Entin and the children’s activity will be “Food Art: Creating Seed Mosaics”. Free coffee & tea. Located at the Rosendale Community Center, 1055 Route 32. For more information,call Billy 658-8348 email binnewaterbilly@gmail. com or Sally at 658-3805.

10AM-1PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Wappinger Creek Shoreline Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Wappingers Falls boat launch, 117 Market St, Wappingers Falls.

10AM-1PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Tree Planting on the Coxing Kill. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. 129 Clove Valley Rd, High Falls.

10AM-12PM Turtle Day on the Smith Property.

Assist in the search of box turtles, which are active this time of year. RSVP required, RSVP required, info@WallkillValleyLT.org or 255-2761. Address and directions will be given upon registration.

10AM-1PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Make Poughkeepsie Shine Waryas Park Cleanup. Reg reqr’d.

Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501.

Waryas Park, Ice House restaurant, 1 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-2PM The New Paltz Bike Swap. A chance to clean out, make some money, or get a good deal on a bike. Admission is free. Seller check-in begins at 9 a.m., buyers may shop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call (917) 655-5123 or visit http://newpaltzbikeswap.com. New Paltz Middle School, located at 2 South Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve hosts Healthy Ulster Spring (5/5-5/10)! Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free one-month pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week. Passesavailable at Visitor Center on Rt 44/55 in New Paltz, 10am-4pm thru 5/11; & at Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls, 10am-4pm thru 5/11.The membership passes will be good through6/9. Info: 255-0919.

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

10AM Kingston Sailing Club First Race. Skippers Meeting 10 am, at Hudson River Maritime Museum. First flag 12 pm, club mark Hudson River. Info: KingstonSailingClub@gmail.com or www.KingstonSailingClub.org.

10AM-2PM Free Professional Developmental Screening For speech, learning, motor skills,

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Balinese Gamelan Concert (5/9, 8pm). Featuring the Music and Dance of Bali, with Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Artistic Director Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadin.

Guest Artists include Dr. Pete Steele from MIT and Gamelan Dharmaswara and renowned Balinese dancer Shoko Yamamura. Artistic Director Prof. Pak I Nyoman Suadinand a cast for 40+ students and community members.

Suggested Donation $10. Bard staff, students, faculty, and children 16 & under free of charge. Info: 688-7090 or 679-8624. On FB: Hudson Valley Gamelans Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana. Presented by The Music Program at Bard College. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, Ulster Publishing & Bard College. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $10, free /Bard student/staff. This event is made possible in part by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, Ulster Publishing & Bard College. Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, $10, free /Bard student/staff.

Mohonk Preserve hosts Healthy Ulster Spring (5/5-5/10)! Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free onemonth pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week. Passes available at Visitor Center on Rt 44/55 in New Paltz, 10am-4pm thru 5/11; & at Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls, 10am-4pm thru 5/11.The membership passes will be good through 6/9. Hudson Valley.

Info: 255-0919.

Mowers Saturday Fleamarket in Woodstock will hold the first annual “Spring Hat” Parade Saturday May 17th at 1 PM on Maple Lane in Woodstock NY. Attendees of all ages are invited to wear a hat that expresses the way you welcome the Spring season.

Parade line up will begin at 12: 45 at the corner of Deanies Alley and Maple Lane. Three judges choice award s will be given out. This is a pet friendly and free event. For further information contact woodstockfleamarket@ hvc.rr.com.

338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Esopus.

soap, candles. Info: 943-3941. M.C. Miller Middle School, Kingston.

Call for Art - 8th Annual Big Read Teen Art Contest. Deadline: Wed, May 28. Artwork to be submitted must be inspired by themes from this year’s book selection, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Mid-Hudson Valley high school students are invited to enter.

Info: 485-3445 x 3309 or apanzer@ poklib.org. Adriance Library, Poughkeepsie.

Clearwater 2014 Spring Sail Schedule Now Posted. Now Accepting Group Applications for Spring and Summer Sails. Info: www.clearwater. org/come-sailing/sail-schedule.

Call for Submissions: 2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival. Deadline 6/30. Info: www.newvemberfestival. com or www.www.tangent-arts.org.

Carpenter Shop Theater, 60 Broadway, Tivoli.

Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, certified hypnotist. Sponsored by the Health Alliance. Open to the community. 1st Wed of each month, 7-8pm, 6/4, 8/6, 9/3, 10/1, 11/5, 12/3. To register: call Doris 339-2071 or email: Doris.

Blaha@hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

Register Now. ‘Handshake Across the Hudson’ (6/1) 3rd Annual World Record attempt. Seeking 3, 000 participants. A fundraising event. Register at: www.walkway.org The Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie, $10 /adult, $5 /6-12, free/5 & under.

Coming Soon. Woodstock Chimes Warehouse Sale ( Thurs-Sun, 5/155/18). Woodstock Chimes opens its doors to the public for a 4-day sale. A huge selection of one of a kind chimes, in-stock chimes, bamboo chimes, crystal chimes, fountains, garden bells, gongs, kid’s instruments. Up to 80% off. Info: www.chimes.com/sale. Woodstock Chimes, 167 Dubois Rd, Shokan.

Audition Notice: Motor Mouth, a new ensemble devoted to performing works for speaking chorus is seeking members. You should be adept at reading rhythms and be interested in modern music. Theater experience a plus but not necessary. Info: elaterium@hvc.rr.com.

Volunteers Needed! 25th Annual Old Fashioned Day (6/1.) Re-enactment groups, old time vehicles or farm equipment or even a musical calliope!

Anything will be considered for participation at this event Info: 744-2827.

Walker Valley.

Free Professional Developmental Screening will be held May 10th from 10a-2pm. For speech, learning, motor skills, social behavior, and selfhelp skills. 1-4 year olds. Registration required. Info: 883-5151. Early Education Center, 40 Park Ln, Highland.

Landscape Oil Painting Classes with Loman Eng. Registration required.

Session I: May 13, 20, 27, 28, June 3, 4 from 1:30pm-5pm. Class materials must be purchased by student. Info:

Vendors Needed! Miller Craft Fair.

(10/25). Looking for vendors: including, but not limited to, jewelry, pottery, wood, ceramics, fabric, knit/crochet, photography, specialty food, floral,

social behavior, and self-help skills. 1-4 year olds. Registration required. Info: 883-5151. Early Education Center, 40 Park Ln, Highland.

10AM Mixed-Level Yoga. This mixed-level hatha yoga class, taught by Kathy Carey, focuses on gaining strength, flexibility, balance, and alignment, while learning yoga poses in greater detail.

Please bring a mat. Info: 657-2482.

10AM-3PM Woodstock Library Book Sale.

Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

10AM History Saturday. Go behind the scenes at Vanderbilt Mansion, and play the role of a family servant in the Vanderbilt household. Program Times at 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm. Info: 229-2501.

Vanderbilt Mansion, 119 Vanderbilt Ln, Hyde Park.

10AM-1PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Make Poughkeepsie Shine - Fall Kill Creek Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-

Women’s Barbershop Chorus Open House. Do you love to sing, perform and meet new and exciting people?

Then the Evergreen chorus may be just what you’ve been searching for.

Come visit us for our Open House; bring a friend. Receive free vocal / singing lessons. Our members live in Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties.

Experience the joy of 4 part a capella harmony... Barbershop style! This event is being held at 7pm on May 20, May 27 and June 3 at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 110 Overlook Rd in Poughkeepsie. Questions? You can email evergreenchorus1@yahoo.com.

Senior Nutrition/Dining Program.

Ulster County Office of the Aging.

Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals. Open Mon, Wed & Fri, 11:30-12pm. Please call the site between 10 am and noon the day before you plan to attend. Info: 336-7112.

Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston, $3 /suggested donation.

The Studio Visits with Anthony Krauss and Frank Spinelli will be held on Saturday, May 10, from 2:00 4:00 pm. Additional dates, times TBD, are June 7, July 26, and August 23. Space is limited, so reserve early on-line at www.woodstockguild.org.

Registrants will be emailed the studio addresses a few days before the scheduled visit. Tickets and addresses can also be obtained by calling the Guild at 679-2079. Tickets are $50 and include light refreshments. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock.

ICONS - Writing Class (5/12-7/14).

Meets on Mondays, 1-4pm. Info: www.iconwritingclasses.com. Woodstock Reformed Church, 16 Tinker ST, Woodstock.

Country Living Fair Coming to Rhinebeck( 6/6-6/8)! Three days of cooking, crafting, DIY demonstrations, editor and design expert appearances, as well as locally-sourced, artisanal food, shopping - featuring more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor& jewelry. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rt 9, Rhinebeck, $13 / adv, $40 /3-day pass, $20 /door. Info: 866-500-FAIR & www.stellashows.com or www.countryliving.com.

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10AM-12PM Introduction to Tibetan Language.

Students will learn some fundamentals: how to write the Tibetan alphabet, spelling, and basic grammar. Instructor John Whitney Pettit, PhD holds three advanced degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities. To register 383-1774 or info@tibetancenter.org. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston, $15 /per class, $60 /course.

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16th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament -The Doug Sheppard Classic Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament on Monday, June 9 at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston.

Hosted by SUNY New Paltz. Register online by Thursday, May 1 and get two tee signs for the price of one with your company’s logo. Proceeds from the event will go toward students who need financial assistance to continue their studies at SUNY New Paltz.The $200 entry fee includes 18 holes of golf with cart, breakfast, on-course refreshments, cocktail reception, and awards banquet dinner.The banquet is open to non-golfers as well for $50. Info: 257-3972 or 257-3986.

The Woodstock School of Art announces the opening of “The Print Show.” Juried by Woodstock printmakers Karen Whitman and Rick Pantell.

The exhibit remains at the WSA through May 31.For a preview of the show, visit the school’s website: www.woodstockschoolofart.org.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics for Cats – May 26 Newburgh; May 13, and 27 Monroe; May 14, and 28 Middletown; May 12 Monticello; May 8 Pomona. Performed by appointment only, by NY state licensed veterinarians of The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.) mobile clinic. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, and nail trim. Newburgh residents, $10 per cat. Mamakating residents, $25 per cat. Warwick and Chester residents, $20. Also available for an additional fee: distemper vaccine, flea treatment, deworming, and microchipping. T.A.R.A. is now spaying and neutering DOGS at their new stationary clinic in Middletown, New York. Call 845-754-7100 for more info tara-spayneuter.org.

Volunteers Needed. 25th Annual Old Fashioned Day(6/1). Re-enactment groups, old time vehicles or farm equipment or even a musical calliope!

Anything will be considered for participation at this event Info: 744-2827.

Walker Valley.

Accepting Donations for Unison’s Spring Barn Sale (through 5/22).

Gently worn clothing, children’s items, books, tools, small appliances in good working condition, small furniture, kitchenware, collectibles and sporting equipment. Info: 255-1559 or info@ unisonarts.org. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

Love Holds Life Expands Partnership with Mother Earth’s Storehouse. Pin-up Program to raise funds, awareness for local kids fighting cancer (thru May 30th). Love Holds Life Children’s Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps pay medical expenses for children battling cancer and their families throughout the Hudson Valley

John Burroughs Natural History Society Bird-a-thon(5/10). JBNHS members scour Ulster County for as many bird species as possible, and donors are invited to pledge a dime, quarter, or even a dollar per species. A team that spends all day in the field can expect to observe 100 species (which is why this activity is sometimes called a Century Run). I heard some of them get up at 2 a.m. Did you know that birds migrate at night? Funds are being raised for enhancements at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in Galeville such as benches and an informational kiosk, a wonderful project promoting the only National Wildlife Refuge in the Hudson Valley, and a great way for local families to support this larger effort. For more information or to make a donation, contact Mark DeDea at forsythnature@aol.com or 339-1277. To learn more about the organization, visit http://jbnhs.org.

SHUTTER DOCS: Photographer’s Stories

Film Series (May 16-May 22). Eye on The Sixties: The Iconic Photography of Rowland SchermanThe Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton(518) 789-0022 www.themoviehouse.net.

An intimate portrait of former LIFE photographer Rowland Scherman and how his photographic eye captured the essence of America’s most remarkable decade, with candid recollections and seldom seen moments of major celebrities, politicians, and breathtaking events. Tickets: $7.50 - $10.

10AM History Saturday. Step back in time to 1939 at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, meet the Butler, Maid, one of FDR’s Secret Service Agents, and hear about life with the Roosevelts.

Program Times at 10 am, 11:30 am, 2:30 pm.

Info: 229-2501. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

11:30AM Art Reception: Juliet R. Harrison Exhibit. Featuring fine art and photographs.

Info:-677-5857. Merritt Bookstore & Toys of Merritt, 57 Front St, Millbrook.

10AM-2PM 7th Annual New Paltz Bike Swap.

Info: www.newpaltzbikeswap.com New Paltz Middle School, 2 South Manheim Blvd, New Paltz.

10AM Tea in The Garden. Free. Victoria Gardens, 1 Cottekill Rd, Rosendale, 658-9007.

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Woodstock Golf Club’s Inaugural Couples’ Invitational Tournament with proceeds to benefit Hudson Valley Hospice. The event will take place on Saturday, May 17th. The format for the tournament is a mixed two-person, nine-hole scramble that will begin with a shotgun start at 1pm. Entrants will enjoy lunch prior at the Creekside Grille, the restaurant at the Woodstock Golf Club. Hudson Valley Hospice provides comprehensive medical & counseling services to terminally-ill patients in Ulster and Dutchess Counties. For more information on the tournament, please contact the Woodstock Golf Club at 679-2914 or visit their website at: www.woodstockgolf.com.

every Saturdays and Sundaysthrough October.

Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties.

10AM-4PM Photographing the Nude in the Studio with Dan McCormack. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mt. Rest Rd, New Paltz, $150.

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Free Professional Developmental Screening will be held May 10th from 10a-2pm. For speech, learning, motor skills, social behavior, and selfhelp skills. 1-4 year olds. Registration required. Info: 883-5151. Early Education Center, 40 Park Ln, Highland.

Anniversary. Info: 646-302-5835 or jwackman@gmail.com or www.repaircafe.org. United Methodist Church, 1 Grove St, New Paltz.

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-3PM The Repair Café in New Paltz 1 Year

Region and NYC area. To donate please visit any of Mother Earth’s three locations in Poughkeepsie, Kingston, or Saugerties or visit www.loveholdslife. org. For address and directions of store locations, visit www.motherearthstorehouse.com.For more information about Love Holds Life, go to www.LoveHoldsLife.org or 917-807-0692.

10:30AM Origami Spring Foldfest – Making Butterflies and Flowers with Anita Barbour. for ages 5 and up, teens, and adults. Info: 331-0507 ext. 7. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

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

10:30AM-2:30PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Tivoli North Bay Shoreline Cleanup. By canoe/ rowboat. Bring your own canoe/rowboat as supplies are limited. Registration required.

Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Boat Launch, Kidd Ln, Tivoli.

11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding ofwho they are. Tours at 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 /Adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow.

11 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Tours

12PM The Mama’s Boy Bake-Off to Benefit the Phoenicia Library. A town-wide bake-off, cakes, pies, cookies. Info: 688-3050. Mama’s Boy Market, 7 Church St, Phoenicia.

12PM-4PM Reiki & Lunch. Reiki by donation and 10% discount on lunch. Liz, Pam & Youko will invite you to a treat of a reiki session & soulful Japanese lunch. Relax and get energized. Info: 255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

12:30PM-2:30PM Fourth Annual Chalk Walk.

Participants of all ages and artist talents are welcome. Participants will design a square on the sidewalk surrounding the library (paper will be provided if there is rain). Info: 331-0507.

1PM-5PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Denning Point Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper. org or 914-478-4501. Dennings Point Park, 199 Dennings Ave, Beacon.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12.

1PM-3PM Annual Mother’s Day Tea. Tea will be served with pastries, cookies and finger sandwiches. Ascension Parish Hall, West Park, $12.

1PM-4PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Beacon Waterfront Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon.

1PM-4PM Wine Farmers’ Market. A new winetasting event series. Info: 255-0600. Hudson Valley Wine Market, 119 Main St, Gardiner.

1PM-3PM Bard Math Circle. Info: BardMathCircle.org. Kingston Library, Upstairs in the

Community Room, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

1PM The Met: Live in HD. Cenerentola. Opera

by Rossini. Info: 473-2072 or www.upac.org.

Bardavon, 35 Market St, Kingston.

1:30PM-3:30PM The Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting. Featured poets and open mic to follow.

Free admission. Meets 2nd Saturday of every month at 2pm. Info: 679-8000 or nan.goldennotebook@gmail.com. The Golden Notebook, Tinker St, Woodstock.

2PM Breezy Hill Orchard’s Annual Spring Wassail Balkan Music Festival. Info: www. hudsonvalleyfarmhousecider.com or 266-3979 or breezyhilloffice@aol.com. Breezy Hill Orchard, Staatsburg.

2PM-4PM An Introduction to the Hudson Valley Writers Workshop. An organization founded in 1980 to offer a safe, supportive environment in which members can share their works in progress. A “warm-up” writing exercise with the audience (optional) and a Q&A period will be included. Reg reqr’d. Info: 724-3414. Beekman Library, 11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction, free.

2PM-5PM Chocolate-a-Faire. Hosted by the Shandaken Democratic Committee. There will be courtesy tastings of fine regionally crafted chocolates, and beverages echoing the theme will be available for purchase. For more information call 688-2061. Arts Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main St, Phoenicia, $5.

2PM-5PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Ulster Landing Shoreline Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Sojourner Truth Ulster Landing Park, Pavilion, 916 Ulster Landing Rd, Saugerties.

2PM-5PM “Childrens Dreams Festival.” Kids will make dreamcatchers, puppets, participate in dream theatre, and even add their dreams to the exhibit!! facepainting too! Info: 255-5482 unframedartistsgallery.com. Unframed Art Gallery, 173 Huguenot St,New Paltz.

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, 679-5906 Ext. 1012 Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

2 PM -5:30 PM Cultivating Resiliency and Awakened Presence. Cultivating Resiliency and Awakened Presence - A Partial Day Mindfulness Retreat with Donna Sherman. Includes meditation instruction, gentle yoga, yoga nidra and more. $50 Pre-registration at The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center. 521 Main St, New Paltz, 255-8212.

2:30PM Bombay. In Person: Director Alexandra Eaton. The film will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A and a reception at Cinnamon Indian Cuisine. Info: www.upstatefilms.org or 876-2515.

Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

3PM-6PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Lighthouse Park and Esopus Meadows Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. 255 River Rd, Ulster Park.

3 PM-6 PM Riverkeeper Sweep: Newburgh Waterfront Cleanup. Reg reqr’d. Info: www. riverkeeper.org or 914-478-4501. Newburgh Rowing Club, Ward Brothers Memorial Rowing Park, Newburgh.

3PM Boria Sax presents two new books: In Mythical Zoo: Animals in Life, Legend, and Literature, and Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous, and the Human. Info: 246-5775.

Inquiring Mind. Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

4PM Catskill Art Stroll. Many galleries will have their doors open and arms full of art on display.

Village of Catskill.

4PM Opening Reception: New Offspring: kachina-inspired cloth dolls by Julie Chase.

In addition, the ArTchaeological Museum will launch “Selections from the Collection, Volume II” and showcase its latest acquisitions, including a staff found in a empty sarcophagus in Giza and ornithological oddities found in NYS. Part of the Catskill Art Stroll. , Info: 518 -943 -0180 or email catskillstudio.gmail.com or www.openstudiocatskill.com and www.facebook.com/openstudiocatskill. Hours : Fri 12-6, Sat 12-6, Sum 12-4 and by appointment or chance.Open Studio, 402 Main St, Catskill.

4PM Spring Lecture of the Ed and Ruth Ford Speakers Series: Ms. Gordon will also delve into

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the stubborn “Dutchiness” of Ulster County and its people, despite the ascendency of the English power.Light refreshments will be served afterwards. Esopus Town Hall, Community Room, 284 Broadway, Port Ewen.

7:30PM An Evening with Psychic/Medium Chip Coffey. Star of A&E’s “Psychic Kids” and “Paranormal State.” Tickets: www.kearnsartistservices.com. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock, $55.

7AM John Burroughs Natural History Society: Bashakill Spring Migrants. Trip leader Jodi Brodsky ( jsbbirder@verizon.net.) Info: www. jbnhs.org. DEC parking lot (“birder’s lot”), north of Haven Rd, Wurtsboro, free.

4PM-7PM Annual Turkey Dinner. Complete with all the trimmings. Take-outs available. Under 6 are free. Info 687-7091 or lornaschimmrich@ gmail.com. Community Church of High Falls, corner of Mohonk and Firehouse Rds, High Falls, $14, 12/srs, $9/6-12.

7:30PM Oliva Contemporary Dance Project.

Info: www.kaatsbaan.org or 757-5106 x 2 or 10.

Kaatsbaan, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, $20, $10 / student/child.

8AM-3PM Beacon Flea Market More than 50 regular and one-time vendors sell a variety of items. Info: www.beaconflea.blogspot.com or 202-0094. Henry St parking lot, Beacon.

7:30PM-10PM Saturday Night Live Music. Rene Baily and The Saints of Swing. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, $5.

9AM-9PM Mother’s Day Brunch and May Celebration at Whirligig Farm, located at 1375 Hurley Mountain Road in Hurley. Activities include a seedling sale at 9 am, a homemade Mother’s Farm Brunch at 11 am, May festivities at 1 pm. Info: 902-8154 or creek.iversen@gmail.com or www. facebook.com/wirligigfarm.

5PM-7PM Oriole9 restaurant presents its 75th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception. On exhibit will be the surreal-naturalist paintings of Dave Channon and the exuberant abstracted realist paintings of Jacquie Hann. All shows curated by Lenny Kislin. For info call 679-8117.

Oriole9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-10PM “Garden Party” Group Art Show & Bridal Fashion Show. Fashion show starts at 7:30pm. Includes live entertainment, and complimentary hor d’ouevres. Info: www.cornellstreetstudios.com or 331-0191. Cornell Street, Kingston.

6PM-8PM Opening Reception: Andrea Frank’s Systems: Tree, Installation. Exhibit runs thru 6/29. Team Love RavenHouse Gallery11 Church St, New Paltz. Info: www.ti-rh.com or 389-8263.

6PM-8PM Date Night: Parents’ Night Out. Child drop-off for ages 6 and up at The Treehouse takes place on alternating Friday and Saturday evenings from 6 pm to 8 pm and includes fun art and craft for kids with ceramicist Casey Taylor. along with a pizza dinner. $30 per child, or $40 for two siblings. Upcoming dates are Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 24th. The Treehouse is located at 17 Church Street in New Paltz. For reservations or more information, call 255-0345, email treehousehandcraft@gmail.com, or visit http:// www.treehousenewpaltz.com.

6PM The Ninth Annual PresbyBuild Talent Show in support of Habitat for Humanity.

“Delicious Desserts” food event at 6pm. Talent Showcase begins at 7pm in the sanctuary. Info: babayers@gmail.com or 391-8479. First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown, 10 Academy St, Cold Spring.

6PM-10PM Cornell STreet Studios’ Garden Party - Group Art Exhibit & Bridal Fashion Show. Featuring local artists, designers & businesses. $15/gen adm, $10/college students with ID. Cornell Street Studios, 168 Cornell St, Kingston, 331-0191.

7PM-11:30PM The Gallery/Open Mic/Open Stage Jam. RSVP. Info: tim@touhey.com. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford, $5.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Grammy winner Malcolm Cecil on bass, guitarist Steve Raleigh, pianist Peter Tomlinson, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists.

No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, Palenville, 518-678-3101.

7PM Family Movie Night : Walking with Dinosaurs. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 New York 28A, West Shokan.

7PM Strawberry Hill Fiddlers along with the Cranberries. Info: 331-4121 or 338-8442. Hurley Reformed Church, 11 Main St, Hurley, $15, $10 /student.

7PM “Little Women.” Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott. Info: www.90milesoffbroadway.com or 256-9657. New Paltz High School, 130 S. Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz, $15, $12 /senior/student.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Jim Weider’s PRoJECT PERCoLAToR. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM-10PM Saturday Night Live Music. Rene Baily and the Saints of Swing. Info: 255-8811.

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

7:30 PM Oliva Contemporary Dance Project.

Adults - $20.00, Children and student rush $10 (General Seating) .Kaatsbaan International Dance Center,120 Broadway, Tivoli, 757-5106 x2 or 10 or email l: pgrkaats@bestweb.net.

8PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080 or www.centerforperformingarts.org.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

8PM Lightscapes, a brand new art and light experience. Featuring sculpture, light, sound, and special effects. Info: 914-366-6900 or www. hudsonvalley.org. Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside Ave, Croton-on-Hudson, $18.

8PM Soundbath. An event that is a cross between a horizontal soundbath and a concert. The effect is to create a meditative environment where the audience can close its eyes and drift off. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts, New Paltz.

8PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM O Solo Vito. Info: 229-8277 or www. hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

8:15 PM Talk by Astromer Bob Berman. Telescopes will be available for attendees to use for seeing this special appearance of all of the planets except Venus. Cloud date is Sunday, May 11th.

Admission is $5, free for Walkway members.

Tickets may be purchased on line at www.ticketmaster.com, at the Bardavon Opera House located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, or at the gate on the night of the event. Walkway entrances are located at 87 Haviland Road in Highland, and at 61 Parker Avenue in Poughkeepsie. For more information, visit www.walkway.org. Event takes place on The Walkway Over The Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

9PM Lucid. Age Limit: 21+. Info: 331-2739 or www.keeganales.com. Keegan Ales, 20 St. James St, Kingston, free.

9:30PM Joey Eppard & Friends. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

9:30PM Rosendale Theater Benefit Concert featuring Gus Mancini’s Sonic Soul Band $7.

Rosendale Theater, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Sunday

5/11

Mother’s Day Weekend (5/9-5/11) at Frost Valley YMCA camp, including guided nature hikes, meditation, and yoga. Mom admitted free with one full paying family member! Frost Valley is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville.

For reservations or more information, call (845) 985-2291 extension 450 or email reservations@ frostvalley.org, or visit http://frostvalley.org.

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Heart Health & Diabetes Counseling Healthy Eating Guidance Successful Weight Loss Programs Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN 845.255.2398 VKoenig@Nutrition-wise.com Nutrition-wise.com

10AM-2PM The Falcon’s Mother’s Day Brunch @ The Falcon. KJ Denhert. Info: 236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10AM-4PM Mohonk Preserve hosts Healthy Ulster Spring (5/5-5/10)! Mohonk Preserve is inviting neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free one-month pass during Healthy Ulster Spring Week. Passesavailable at Spring Farm Trailhead in High Falls, 10am-4pm thru 5/11.

The membership passes will be good through6/9.

High Falls. Info: 255-0919.

10AM Tea in The Garden. Free. Victoria Gardens, 1 Cottekill Rd, Rosendale, 658-9007.

10AM-2PM Rosendale Winter Farmers’ Market.

Second Sundays, January-May, 10am-2pm. Rain or shine. Live acoustic music and children’s activities at every market, free coffee & tea. Info: 658-8348 or emailbinnewaterbilly@gmail.com or 658-3805. Rosendale Community Center, 1055 Rt 32, Rosendale.

10:30AM-12PM Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity. With Amy McTear & Friends. 2nd & 4th Sundays. Info: 255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

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: 658-8556 or www.skylake. shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding of who they are. Tours at 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 /Adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow.

11AM-5PM Mothers and Grandmothers are admitted free all day at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, located at 75 North Water Street in Poughkeepsie. Admission for all others over 1 year is $7.50. For more information, call 471-0589 or visit http://www.mhcm.org.

11 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tour. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals

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10AM-2PM The Rhinecliff ’s Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet. Featuring Elaine Rachlin.

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on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Tours every Saturdays and Sundays through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill 12PM Jazz at the Falls Sunday Brunch. John Simon & Friends. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

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-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12.

1PM Mother’s Day Tea at Clermont State Historic Site, located at 87 Clermont Avenue in Germantown. Admission is $12, free for children under 5 years. Activities include a garden tour and tea party. For reservations or more information, call (518) 537-4240 or visit http://www.friendsofclermont.org.

2PM “Little Women.” Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott. Info: www.90milesoffbroadway.com or 256-9657. New Paltz High School, 130 S. Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz, $15, $12 /senior/student.

2PM Second Sunday Salon Series: Helena Baillie, on cello, in concert with violinist Marka Gustavsson. Info: 255-1559 or www.unisonarts. org. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $25.

2PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $34.

2PM Film, Talk & Swing Dance Tribute in Rosendale to Famous Dancer. Screening of “A Day at the Races” at 2pm at the Rosendale Theatre followed by a tribute to the legendary Frankie Manning, tribute and panel discussion. $10 admission. Followed by a Swing Dance Party at the Belltower. $10 admission for the swing

dance. The Rosendale Theatre is at 408 Main Street, Rosendale. The Belltower is at 398 Main Street, Rosendale. For more information on the tribute and Frankie Manning visit www.got2lindy. com or call 845-236-3939.

2PM-4PM Mothers Day Tea & Hat Show. Lunch includes scones, tea, tea sandwiches and fancy desserts. Live Broadway singing by hosts Cynthia and John Vergilii. Hat trunk show by Toucan hats. Reservations required. $30/adults, $15/12 & under. Info: 849-1512. Locust Grove, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

3PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080 orwww.centerforperformingarts.org.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Drummers on The Green are hosted by Birds of a Feather. Singers & dancers are all welcome.

Bring your drums and percussion instruments.

On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

4PM Reading: Lois and Valerie Linet, Tina Traster Read in “Mothers and Daughters.”

There will be a book signing for both Hands at Work and Rescuing Julia Twice following the reading. For more information, contact GlaringOmissions@gmail.com. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

5PM Documentary Film: “Gulabi Gang.” :A film

by Nishtha Jain; Screening of the award winning documentary followed by a discussion with the film maker. $10. Info: www.woodstockart.org or 679-2940. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. No auditions and sight reading not required. If you can carry a tune, the Mid-Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly chorus needs you. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass—allvoices needed. Rehearsals every Sunday, 6-8pm. Info: rainbowchorus1@ gmail.com or 845-353-8348. LGBTQ, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

7:30PM-9:30PM Sunday Mornings in Service of Sacred Unity. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday.

Guided by Amy McTear, Joseph Jastrab, Dahila Bartz Cabe & other musical guests. Info: www.

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unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

days. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Libarry, Rt 28 A, West Shokan.

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

7PM Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

Monday

5/12

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, 679-5906 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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

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

1PM-4PM ICONS - Writing Class (5/12-7/14).

Meets on Mondays, 1-4pm. Info: www.iconwritingclasses.com. Woodstock Reformed Church, 16 Tinker ST, Woodstock.

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, $2 donation requested. Woodstock Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-7PM Bounce! Trampoline Sports Family Time. Mondays. Special price of $35 which will include one hour of jump time for five immediate family members. Each additional family member $7/hour. Reservations must be made in advance.

Info: www.bounceonit.com or 206-4555. Bounce!

Trampoline Sports, 2 Neptune Rd, Poughkeepsie.

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, corner of Rt 28 & Maverick Rd, Glenford.

5PM-6:30PM “Genetic Roulette” - “What is GMO?” Jeffrey Smith will guide you touring through a myriad of serious health conditions implicated with genetically modified crops. Info: 255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com.

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5PM-6:30PM Free Movie Screening. “Genetic Roulette.” Jeffrey Smith will guide you touring through a myriad of serious health conditions implicated with genetically modified crops. Info: 255-8811. Gomen-Gumasi Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

6PM-8PM Homework Help. Mondays & Thurs-

7PM Book Signing: Lawrence Winters, author of Brotherkeeper. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, Community Room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

7PM Paradigm Shift: Transformational Life Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. A new six-session course by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Info: 331-1176 or RabbiHecht@ ChabadUlsterCounty.org. Chabad of Ulster County, Lucas Ave, Kingston.

7:30 PM Hudson Valley Railroad Society History Night. Meets the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm. Business meeting at 7:30pm, program at 8pm. Info: www.hydeparkstation.com or 229-2338. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, Hyde Park.

8PM Open Mic/Poetry Night. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, 679-3484.

8PM Eddie Izzard. Force Majeure world tour.

Info: www.palacealbany.com or 518- 465-3334.

Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $67, $57, $42.

Tuesday

5/13

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, Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.

9AM-10AM Senior Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. An 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.

9:15 AM -11:15 AM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. 55 and older. Sept. thru June. $80.

Drop-in $5 per class. 657-581. American Legion, Mountain Rd, Shokan.

9:30AM-5PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Tuesday Trek - Rainbow Falls Long Loop Hike.

8-mile hike, includes stream crossings and some rocky, narrow sections of trail that may be challenging for some. Pre-registration is required.

Info: 255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Gardiner, $8 /per vehicle.

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: 255-5970. Plaza Diner, New Paltz.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinsons Exercise Class w/ Anne Olin. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, 679-6250.

10AM Preschool Story Hour. Each week do a craft activity, read some books, do yoga, sing, make music together, and make a parade through the library. All are welcome! Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Libarry, Rt 28 A, West Shokan.

10:30AM Babies & Books Storytime. For ages 0-2. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11AM-12PM Bounce! Trampoline Sports Special Toddler Time. This separate time gives parents and caregivers a chance to play with their little ones, ages 2 – 5, in a quieter setting. Reservations must be made in advance.Info: www.bounceonit. com or 206-4555. Bounce! Trampoline Sports, 2 Neptune Rd, Poughkeepsie, $10 /parent/child/ hour, $8 /additional child/hr 1PM Petite Picasso Preschool Art Program. A hands-on painting experience for children. Come dressed for a mess. Tuesdays. Info: 758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

1:30PM-6:30PM Blood Drive. Poughkeepsie Public Library District and the Hudson Valley Ski Club co-sponsor a blood drive. Donors may schedule an appointment online at www.

RedCrossBlood.org. The Auditorium, 105 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

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4PM-5PM Snapology’s Lego Program For ages 5 - 12. Students will experiment with working Lego Robots, take part in friendly challenges with working Engineering 101 machines, and build scenes incorporating some of their favorite themes. Reg reqr’d. Info: www.midhudson. snapology.com. Walkill Library, 7 Bona Ventura Ave, Wallkill, free.

5:30PM-7:30PM Evening Pantry Opens at Clinton Avenue Methodist Church. The Pantry will be open from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 8.

Info: 331-7188 or dkelleyny@gmail.com. Clinton Ave, Kingston.

5:30PM Phoenicia Community Choir. Come and sing with your friends! Prepare choral music for concerts as well as singing with the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. No auditions, no need to read music. Every Tuesday. Info: 688-5759.

Weslyn Church, Main St, Phoenicia.

6PM-8PM Kingston’s Meeting - End the New Jim Crow Action Network, a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). 475-8781 . New Progressive Baptist Church 8 Hone St,, Kingston.

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May 8, 2014 6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7. Meditation instruction available. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6:30 PM he Woodstock Day School Storytellers Music Series: Simi Stone and The Carl Mateo Group with Peter Dougan, Aaron Lieberman (God Street Wine) and Tim Sutton (Ratboy).

TWDS Bridge Building Theater,1430 Glasco Tnpk, Saugerties,$10/ door, free/kids.

Energy. Presentations/conversations will explore what’s on the horizon and how the world of energy efficiency and renewable energy investment is changing. Info: 646-483-1338 or jeff.domanski@ courtneystrong.com. SUNY Orange, The Great Room, Newburgh.

6:30 PM -7:30 PM Morton Book Club. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.

Info: 876-2903. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff.

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

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

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, 679-5906 x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

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, New Paltz.

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

Quaker Meeting House, 8 N. New Paltz.

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

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

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

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

7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes.

7:45PM-8:45PM Meditation & Chanting with Carisa Borrello. Uplift your spirit with the powerful vibrations of chanting and the deep silence of meditation. All are welcome, no experience needed. Donations welcome. Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St, New Paltz.

7PM Bob Berman An engaging exploration of unexpected new cosmological revelations in a talk entitled Is the Universe Infinite? Info: www.poklib. org or 485-3445 X 3702. Adriance Memorial Library, Mary Wojtecki Rotunda, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-9:30PM Jazz Wednesday at Dave’s Coffee House. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on bass and special guests will be performing an ongoing jazz night starting at 8pm Dave’s Coffee House, Saugerties.

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.

7:45PM - 8:45PM Meditation & Chanting with Carisa Borrello. Uplift your spirit with the powerful vibrations of chanting and the deep silence of meditation. All are welcome, no experience needed. donations welcome. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center. 521 Main St, New Paltz, 255-8212. www.thelivingseed.com.

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

Thursday

7:30AM-3:30PM Getting to the Bottom Line: Real-World Strategies To Save Dollars &

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

Wednesday

5/14

8AM Waterman Bird Club: Ferncliff Forest.

Call: Adrienne @ 264-2015. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Ferncliff Forest, Mt. Rutsen Rd, Rhinebeck.

8:30AM Open Mic Blues Jam hosted by Petey Hop. Info: www.hydeparkbrewing.com or 229-8277. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

9:15AM-10:15AM 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, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30 AM-1 PM Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk – Foothills Exploration. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. An easy, 4-mile hike. Park along Pine Road, just off Butterville Road. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk 10:30AM Plumflower Story Time! It’s a magical, sing-song, story, art making celebration for Toddlers every Wednesday. Info: 679-2213.

Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

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

9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After Fifty 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-3PM Library Book Sale. $1-hardcovers, audiobooks, CDs, and DVDs (3 for $2). 50 cents for paperbacks, videocassettes, audiocassettes, and LPs. Info: 331-0507. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston.

10:30AM Book Explorers Storytime. For ages 4 and up. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11:30AM-1PM “Third Thursday Luncheon” As part of Messiah’s Outreach Programs, each luncheon benefits a local organization to support its ongoing programs. $6/ donation requested.

For takeout orders with a $7/ donation. Info: 876-3533. The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

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 andolder, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Commu-

6PM-8:30PM Vegan Cooking Class: What’s for Dinner? Easy, Budget-Friendly Weeknight Meals. Learn how to make Sweet Potato & Black Bean Quesadillas with Edamame and Avocado Guacamole, QuinoaCasserole, Veggie Burgers & Spiced Fries, Gluten-Free Green Pizza Flats with Cuban Black Bean Soup. Reg reqr’d. Info: 336-8447 or Info@CASanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, The Homestead, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties, $60.

6PM-8PM Homework Help. Mondays & Thursdays. Info: 657-2482. Olive Free Libarry, Rt 28 A, West Shokan.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Jack Grace Band.

Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-11PM Best Open Mic in Hudson Valley.

No cover. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 883-6112.

7PM-9PM Japanese Movie Night “Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san” “Tora-san loves an artist” Directed by Yoji Yamada, screenplay by Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada, starring Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Keiko Kishi.

Info: 255-8811, or www.GKnoodles.com. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, $20, $15 /student.

7PM-9PM Group Channeling with Merlin and the Angelic Realm through trance channel Margaret Doner. Margaret offers her body to the archangels and various spirit entities who wish to share their wisdom andperspective

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ivers, mountains, hills, valleys, streams, lakes, forests, historic hamlets and friendly villages with so much to do in each. That’s the Hudson Valley, an attraction for all. Talk to the tourists, boaters, day trippers and families — folks of all ages and interests. Tell them what you can offer for their vacation enjoyment.

t Marinas

t Car Rentals

11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lunch & Learn Series.

Dancing through the Ages: From Cakewalk to Charleston to Jitterbug (presentation and demo) Linda and Chester Freeman, Swing Dance Professionals. Reservations required. Info: 471-0430.

Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 S. Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, $5/lunch & program, $2/ program only.

t Resorts

t Golfing

t Concerts

t Tubing

t Family Recreational Centers

t Fishing

12PM Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, 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.

t Bike Rentals

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.

t Theatre

t Craft Fairs

t Day Spas

t Winery Tours

5PM-8PM US Green Building Council New York Upstate Chapter Conference. 5-6PM: tour, 6-8PM: Networking, Refreshments, and Presentation. Info: www.greenupstateny.org. GomenKudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz.

t Camping Horseback Riding

t Kayaking

t Historical Sites

t Museums

t Unique Antiques

t Galleries t Hotels t Motels & Lodges t Rock Climbing

t Canoeing t Shopping

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KINGSTON TIMES Gallo 697, Clement 691 (so far).

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O Robert Angeloch drawing in Monhegan, in this John Kleinhans photo.

n Friday, March 18, 2011, on the morning of the full Super Moon, legendary artist and co-

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art gallery and art school, and the fervent admiration of generations of devoted art students. To his personal credit, he leaves a lasting legacy of art, beauty and a sustaining example, having led a life of purpose with unwavering determination and accomplishment.

Born on April 8, 1922 in Richmond Hill, New York, Angeloch served in the US Air Corps and Army during World War II where he was a pilot,

studied to be an engineer and ended up in medical school. He studied at The Art Students League of New York from 1946-1951, where he first began painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and printmaking with Martin Lewis. He spent the summer of 1947 learning the craft of making woodcuts with Fiske Boyd and it was that summer that Angeloch first studied nature working out of doors. For this reason he recently Continued on Page 13

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Lloyd voters to decide on term limit extensions for town supervisor, clerk & highway superintendent

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he latest Onteora Central School District 2011-2012 budget proposal does not include massive layoffs as might be seen in other districts, but does feature the elimination of six teacher positions and reductions to part-time of another five, among job cuts in many sectors. The cuts are seen as a reaction to declining enrollment, but also contribute to a total plan that increases spending by only 0.87 percent, that would translate, based on revenue figures, to a 3.9 percent levy increase.

At the Tuesday, March 22 board of education meeting at Woodstock Elementary, school officials presented The Superintendent’s Recommended Budget to trustees that includes an increase in spending to a total of $50,477,497. If the board adopts the budget at its April 5 session, voters will be asked to vote on the budget on May 17. If voters reject the budget proposal, a contingency (or austerity) budget could be put in place that would eliminate $121,785 from the equipment budget line, as mandated by the

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he Phoenicia Library was gutted by fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19.

Within three days, plans were already in place to open a temporary library on Saturday, March 26, in the building recently vacated by Maverick Family Health, across from the Phoenicia post office.

“It’ll be a bare-bones operation,” cautioned library director Tracy Priest. “We’re restoring minimal services, but we want to open our doors. People can return library books and pick up books they’ve ordered from interlibrary loan. From the Mid-Hudson Library System, we’re borrowing a computer and components we need to check books in and out. We’ll open at 10 a.m., and Letter Friends, the early literacy program, will happen at its normal time, 11 a.m. We’re looking eventually to have a small lending library, which may be on the honor system, since all our bar codes were destroyed in the fire.”

Writing classes and other programs scheduled for later in the spring will be held as planned. It looks like at least a couple of computers will be donated for use by patrons.

The blaze was reported to have come from an electri-

cal fire, which started in the back of the building. “We don’t have a full report on the extent of the damage,” said Priest, who visited the building after the fire with the insurance adjuster and Town of Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley.

“The adjuster said there has to be a second claims adjustment because it’s considered a major loss. We don’t think any books or materials will be salvageable. But because of the location of the fishing collection, we may be able to clean some of that and save it.”

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection includes more than 500 fishing and nature books, plus an exhibit of fishing rods, lures, fly tying gear, and photographs.

“The books are a mess,” said Priest.

“Everything is fused together and melted.

What’s in the front of the building has been damaged by smoke and water, but everything there is like we left it. Then you cross a line towards the back, and everything is black. There’s a hole of the ceiling of the children’s room, and you can look right up into my office upstairs.

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Pictured is the cast of 90 Miles off Broadway's upcoming production of "I Remember Mama". Top row, left to right: Dushka Ramic as Aunt Jenny, Wendy Rudder as Aunt Sigrid, Zane Sullivan as Nils, Joel Feldstein as Papa, Wayne Kreuscher as Uncle Chris, Julia Cohen as Katrin, Ken Thompson as Mr. Thorkelson and Sherry Kitay as Aunt Trina. Bottom row left to right: Chloe Gold as Dagmar, Kim Lupinacci as Mama and Carly Feldstein as Christina.

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6:30PM Spanish Storytime. On-going every Wednesday at 6:30pm. Led by Stephanie Santos. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary. org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

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6PM Woodstock Community Chorale. Come and sing with your friends! Prepare choral music for concerts as well as singing with the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. No auditions, no need to read music. Every Wednesday. Info: 688-5759.

Kleinert-James, Tinker St, Woodstock.

5:30PM-7:30PM Evening Pantry Opens at Clinton Avenue Methodist Church. The Pantry will be open from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 8.

Info: 331-7188 or dkelleyny@gmail.com. Clinton Ave, Kingston.

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6PM-7:30PM Meeting of 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: 475-8781 or www.enjan.org. Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library, Family Partnership Center, 29 N Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

nity Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

INETY MILES OFF Broadway will present “I Remember Mama” at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The story shows how Mama,

with the help of her husband and her Uncle Chris, brings up the children in a modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, with sweetness and capability, sees her children through childhood, managing to educate them and to see one of her daughters begin a career as a writer.

Mama’s sisters and uncle furnish a rich

background for a great deal of comedy and a little incidental tragedy. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $8 for students on opening night only, $12 for seniors/students and advanced sales and $10 for members/groups.

For additional information, e-mail email@ninetymilesoffbroadway.com or call 256-9657.

N TUESDAY, NOV. 6, not only will residents vote on numerous contended races -- most notably being who shall become the president of the US -- but there will also be a plethora of local votes cast for federal, state, county and municipal political leaders.

In the Town of Lloyd, the only local referendum on the ballot is for voters to decide whether or not the town clerk, town highway superintendent and town supervisor should have their two-year terms extended to four years. These are all separate referenda, as suggested by Lloyd supervisor Paul Hansut, who said that he wants to give “voters a chance to weigh in on each and every position, and not lump them all together, as many towns have done in the past.”

The idea behind the four-year term, according to Hansut, is to give those elected to office “enough time to get familiar with the nuts and bolts of the job, Continued on page 12

The big read One Book/One New Paltz to read & discuss The Submission

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Pictured are some of the members of the One Book/One New Paltz committee (left to right): Jacqueline Andrews, Linda Welles, Maryann Fallek, John Giralico, Shelley Sherman and Myra Sorin.

Phoenicia Library after the fire.

HAT WOULD HAPPEN if the selected architect for a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero turned out to be a Muslim-American? How would people react to the news, particularly those families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack? There are no easy answers to the questions raised by award-winning author Amy Waldman in her debut novel The Submission, chosen as this

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year’s One Book/One New Paltz readers’ selection.

In Library Journal, Sally Bissell remarks that this book is an “insightful, courageous, heartbreaking work that should be read, discussed, then read again.” This is exactly what One Book/ One New Paltz will attempt to do as it embarks on its seventh year of a communitywide reading program filled with events, reading groups, panels and featured authors and actors. One Book is a Continued on page 12

A cut above Esopus papercutting artist extraordinaire Jenny Lee Fowler

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hen Jenny Lee Fowler moved from Oregon in 1997, she decided to mark each snowfall that first winter in the East by cutting a snowflake out of paper. Being a person who makes things by hand, it seemed like a fun thing to do. Then, like the icy flakes that drift lazily on the wind before becoming a full-fledged storm, the act of cutting paper snowflakes took on a momentum of its own as Fowler became fascinated with the folk tradition of papercutting.

One day, her father-in-law asked her if she’d ever done a portrait, like the silhouettes created by folk artists. Her interest piqued, Fowler dared herself to cut 100 portraits of people.

Beginning with friends and family, she later moved on to cutting portraits of strangers, who would sit for her at the campus center at Bard, where Fowler worked.

“I practiced a lot and found that I totally loved it,” says Fowler. “It kind of surprised me because I’d thought of silhouette portraits as these kind of ‘stuffy’ things, and then I realized that they were really cross-sections of people at a moment in time. I started to see them as more dynamic.”

Fowler came across a passage in which one of the early papercutters called silhouette portraits “a moment’s monument,” a description that she finds particularly apt. “They really do capture a little moment, and even the same person can have a different portrait the next day,” Fowler explains.

Artful papercutting is now Fowler’s niche, and the Continued on page 13

Beauty of the beat PHOTOS BY PHYLLIS MCCABE

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INGSTON’S CORNELL PARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL LAST SATURDAY, where dozens gathered to get their drum on. At left, Hethe Brenhill of the Mandara ensemble, dances in the sun. At right, a member of the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) gets in the rhythm. For more pics, see page 10.

THEATER ON A TRAIN ‘Dutchman’ uses Trolley Museum’s subway car as unusual stage for play exploring sensitive topic of interracial relations.

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TEEN SCENE “The Den” to open in Midtown, giving youths a place to dance, gather and do something positive.

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FIGHTING FOR MIDTOWN Challengers in Ward 4 Common Council race say incumbent isn’t doing enough to help Kingston’s poorest neighborhoods get their fair share. Page 2

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BIG ‘O’ Organizers say second annual O-Positive fest will more art, tunes, awareness and health care to Kingston’s creative community.

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with participants. Group channeled messages followed by individual questions and answers.

Info: 679-2100. Mirabai Books, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $20.

7 PM Hudson River Maritime Museum’s “Follow the River” Lecture and Film Series featuring a Book Signing with George Matteson, 20-year tugboat pilot veteran, and author of “Tugboats of New York: An Illustrated History” and “The Christmas Tugboat: How theRockefeller Center Christmas Tree Came to New York City.”

Kingston Home Port and Education Center @ the Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. $5 suggested donation. Info: 338-0071, x15 or lchassman@hrmm.org or www. hrmm.org.

7PM Cafe Showcase with Barbara Dempsey and Dewitt Nelson. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7:30 PM -9:30 PM Life Drawing Sessions On-going on Tuesday and Thursdays. Info: www. unisonarts.org or 255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $13, $48 /4 classes.

8PM Adrien Reju ~ Artist in Residence. Info: 679-4406. Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Woodstock, $5.

8PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM Bill Cosby. Performing live. Info: 454-5800 x1201 or www.midhudsonciviccenter.org. MidHudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, $65, $55, $45.

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

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8:30AM The Annual Old Dutch Village Garden Club Annual Plant & Bake Sale. Rain date: Sat. May 17th. No Early Birds please. Memorial Park, Route 9, Red Hook.

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, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-12PM Mohonk Preserve: Toddlers on the Trail - Wildflowers and Critters. Ages 2-6. Little ones in carriers are always welcomed. Includes a 1.5-mile hike, and moves at a toddler’s pace. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

10:30AM Toddler Tales Storytime. For ages 2-3.

Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11AM-3PM Community Appreciation Day! Free Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Etching. A large paper shredding bin available on-site for during the celebration. A barbeque lunch, including hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, soda and popcorn will be served. Info: 679-8434, ext. 4451. Ulster Savings Bank, 68 Mill Hill 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, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

8PM -10:30PM Pure Acoustic Music featuring Bob & The Boys. Morton Memorial LIbrary & Community House, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, 876-7007. Donations suggested.

9PM In the Pocket. Info: 229-8277 or www. hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

Saturday

3:30PM After School Crafts. For ages 8-12. Info: www.esopuslibrary.org or 338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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

4PM-5PM Free Spring Lego Day & Birthday Party for the founder of The Library Levi P. Morton. For ages 5 - 12. Students will experiment with working Lego Robots, take part in friendly challenges with working Engineering 101 machines, and build scenes incorporating some of theirfavorite themes. Reg reqr’d. Info: www. midhudson.snapology.com. Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, free.

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Historic Rhinebeck Days. In conjunction with Rhinebeck’s annual spring sidewalk sale. Townwide non-profit groups have been invited to open their doors or set up displays, exhibits. Rhinebeck.

8AM-12PM Tenth Annual Community-Wide Plant Sale, Swap, & Garden Yard Sale. 8-9 am Drop off plants & sale items. 9 am Sale & Swap begins. Info: 255-8856 or www.newpaltzgardenclub.org. Deyo Hall, 18 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz.

5PM Blues Happy Hour with Big Joe Fitz. Every Friday with no cover charge. Uncle Willy’s Tavern and Kitchen, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

9AM-2PM Hurley Heritage Society Plant Sale.

There will also be a Floral Clothing Boutique and Bake Sale. Info: 331-5331. Hurley Heritage Museum, 52 Main St, Hurley.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Frank Luther on bass, John Esposito on piano, Mike DeMicco on guitar, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists. No cover or minimum!

Kindred Spirits, 334 Rte 32A, Palenville.

9AM-10:30AM Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 679-8800.

St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Bill Payne & Friends.

The Music of Little Feat. Info: 236-7970 or www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

9 AM Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge.

246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

7PM-10PM Night Train. Jeff Armstrong & John McLynn. Accoustic Blues & Classis Rock. Info: 339-3917 or www.roundoutbaymarina.com.

Roundout Bay, 1000 Rte 213, Kingston.

9 AM -4 PM St.Peter’s Annual Spring Flea Market with a bake sale and plant sale. 20 vendors, indoors and out. Everything from Avon to Pampered Chef. Lots of baked goods, new herb plants, household and garden plants. $5Bag Sale at 2 pm at the “Tables of Treasures”.

Info: 687-7735. St.Peter’s, Keator Ave, Rosendale.

8PM Lightscapes, a brand new art and light experience. Featuring sculpture, light, sound, and special effects. Info: 914-366-6900 or www. hudsonvalley.org. Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside Ave, Croton-on-Hudson, $18.

8PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080 orwww.centerforperformingarts.org.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

8PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $39.

8PM “The Second 333 SingersongWriter Showcase.’’ A night of 9 artists playing 3 songs each in 3 sets of 3 performers. The order is determined by a hat. The Colony Cafe, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, 679-8639 ,$10/door.

8PM The Big Takeover Featuring their new album Children Of The Rhythm. Enjoy a night of Raggae, Ska,Funk R&B, Rock and Dance Party. With special guests Defunct Radio Circus, (hottest New Paltz rock band) plus Fillet Of Soul.

3 bands. Doors open 8pm. Show starts 8:45 all tickets $10. The Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Bearsville, 679-4406.

9AM O.C. Audubon Society Field Trip: Benedict Farm. Leader: Lynn 744-6047. Free and open to the public. Web: www.orangecountynyaudubon. com. Benedict Farm, 1675 State Rte 17K, Montgomery.

9:30 AM-4:30 PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Castle Point and On. 9-mile hike, includes sections of trail with steep, rocky and narrow footing, which some may find challenging. Pre-registration is required. Info: 255-0752.

10AM-1PM Hudson Valley AIDS Walk. Walk at the the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser and awareness event in the region. RSVP. Info: 331-5300 or www.lgbtqcenter.org. Walkway Over the Hudson, (Dutchess side), Poughkeepsie.

10AM-5PM Wildflower Festival & Organic Seedling Sale. Offering a large array of organic vegetable and flower seedlings. Plus Dina Falconi of Foraging and Feasting will be on-site to answer your plant questions. Info: 626-2758 or www.catskillnativenursery.com. Catskill Native Nursery, 607 Samsonville Rd, Kerhonkson.

10AM-12PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Humpty Dumpty Trail.

Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate to strenuous, 8-mile hike with some scrambling, led by Roberta Forest (750-7059)..

Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, Visitor Center, New Paltz, $12.

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10AM-2PM Friends of the Gardiner Library Plant Sale. Perennial and annual herbs and flowers, many varieties of vegetables and hanging baskets will be available. Info: 255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmers Tnp, Gardiner.

10AM-4PM Touch-a-Truck. Vehicles and apparatuses of first responders, U.S. Armed Forces, construction and landscaping companies, farmers, utilities, and other specialty trades. A fundraiser for Liberty Community Development Corp. Info: 292-8202 or info@liberty-cdc.org.

White Sulphur Springs Firemen’s Park, Shore Rd, Liberty, $3, free /under 3.

10AM-12PM Introduction to Tibetan Language.

Students will learn some fundamentals: how to write the Tibetan alphabet, spelling, and basic grammar. Instructor John Whitney Pettit, PhD holds three advanced degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities. To register 383-1774 or info@tibetancenter.org. The Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston, $15 /per class, $60 /course.

10AM-12PM Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arrangement Lesson. Instructor: Suzumi Adams, reservation required by Thurs.8PM. Info: 255-8811, or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, $25.

10AM Mixed-Level Yoga. This mixed-level hatha yoga class, taught by Kathy Carey, focuses on gaining strength, flexibility, balance, and alignment, while learning yoga poses in greater detail.

Please bring a mat. Info: 657-2482.

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 Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main Street, Stone Ridge, 687-7023.

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

11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding ofwho they are. Tours at 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 /Adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow.

11AM-12PM Hula Hooping for Fitness. Join Arvolyn Hill, hula hoop dancer and DJ, as she spins music that makes it fun to get in shape.

Reg reqr’d. Info: www.beekmanlibrary.org or 724-3414. Beekman Library, 11 Town Center Rd, Rhinebeck.

11AM-12:30PM Orange County Land Trust: Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk. Wear long pants and socks, and apply bug repellant.

Reg reqr’d. Info: LPSprograms@oclt.org or 469-0951, ext 12. Moonbeams Nature Preserve, 219 Prosperous Valley Rd, Wallkill.

11 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tours. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. , Saturdays and Sundays, April through October.

Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties.

12PM-4PM Fun Raiser. Music, Healthy and Organic Food, Games for Kids and Adults, Dancing, Raffle, Mini-Classes. $15-$25(sliding scale) per person, $40 per family. Info: www. rvhhc.org. Marbletown Town Park, Tongore Rd, Marbletown.

12PM-1:30PM Free Hypnosis Weight Control Workshop led by Frayda Kafka, certified hypnotist.Sponsored by the Health Alliance and Open to the community! Saturdays 12-1:30pm, 2/15, 4/19, 5/17, 6/21. To register: call Doris339-2071 or email: Doris.Blaha@hahv.org or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

1PM The Woodstock Golf Club is proud to present its Inaugural Couples’ Invitational Tournament with proceeds to benefit Hudson Valley Hospice. The format for the tournament is a mixed two-person, nine-hole scramble that will begin with a shotgun start at 1:00 p.m. Entrants will enjoy lunch prior at the Creekside Grille, the restaurant at the Woodstock Golf Club. Hudson Valley Hospice provides comprehensive medical & counseling services to terminally-ill patients in Ulster and Dutchess Counties. For more information on the tournament, please contact the Woodstock Golf Club at 679-2914 or visit their website at: www.woodstockgolf.com.

1PM First Annual “Spring Hat” Parade . Hosted

by Mowers Saturday Fleamarket. Attendees of all

legals LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 3rd Floor, County Office Building, *44 Fair St, Kingston, NY on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 2:00 PM for BID # RFB-UC-2014-00000002 PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF INTERVIEW RECORDING AND VIEWING SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN ULSTER COUNTY Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider Ulster County Director of Purchasing

ages are invited to wear a hat that expresses the way you welcome the Spring season. Parade line up will begin at 12: 45 at the corner of Deanies Alley and Maple Lane. Three judges choice award s will be given out. This is a pet friendly and free event. For further information contact woodstockfleamarket@hvc.rr.com.

1PM-7PM Chakra Mandala Painting Workshop with Mavis Gewant. Choose a chakra to paint.

Includes a basic overview of the 7 chakras, role of planets & elements, how to make a mandala using the Vedic Square. Painting supplies included. Preregistration. Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St, New Paltz, $85.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12.

2PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Work-in-Progress Showing. Followed by a discussion with the artists. Reservations required. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Theater Two, Annandale-on-Hudson.

2PM-4PM Puppet Making Workshop. Children must bring scissors and glue ; other supplies are provided. The Workshop will be run by Ms. Ina Kramer, past president of the Puppet Guild of NY. Workshop is limited to 12 children & must be accompanied by an adult. 835-527-1549 to register. Unframed Artists Gallery, 173 Huguenot St, New Paltz.

2PM Greater Tuna. Play by y Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Directed by Carlton James. Off-Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna, Texas in a tour de force comic performance.Info: 647-5511 or www.shadowlandtheatre.org. Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $34.

2PM Gardiner Library Music Lover’s Group Meeting. The group meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2pm. Gardiner, free, 255-1255.

2PM-5PM Mohonk Preserve: Late Spring Wildflower Walk. Ages 15 and up. Includes a moderate 4-mile hike. Space is limited. Call for meeting place and reservations. Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, free.

5PM Interactive Play: The Day They Sole Mother’s Day. A play by Christina Starobin.Performed

by THe Word Salad Players. Woodstock Libary, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

6PM-7:30PM Special Learn to Swing Workshops and Practice Sessions with Live Music Come to Newburgh! Professional dance instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. No partner or experience is necessary. Focusing on a different aspect of beginner swing dance (also known as jitterbug, lindy, lindy hop or east coast swing). Students may attend any or all sessions. Held 4/12, 4/19 and 5/ 17 from 6-7:30pm. APG Pilates, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh, $20 /workshop, www.got2lindy.com or 236-3939..

7PM-9PM El Rancho Deluxo’s Cuban Blues.

Every third Saturday. Info: 246-5306. Café Mezzaluna, 626 Rt 212, Saugerties.

7PM Live at Kindred Spirits: Acoustic Jazz featuring Grammy winner Malcolm Cecil on bass, guitarist Steve Raleigh, pianist Peter Tomlinson, NYC saxophonist Al Guart and local guest artists.

No cover or minimum! Kindred Spirits, Palenville, 518-678-3101.

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8PM The Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward. Info: www.bardavon.org or 339-6088. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $62 /golden circle, $52.

8PM Cover to Cover performing “Little Feat” w special guest, Bill Payne (Little Feat founding member & keyboardist) 8pm door / 9pm show $20 suggested donation.The Bearsville Theater, Tinker St, Bearsville, 679-4406 or www.bearsvilletheater.com.

8:30PM Jeremy Baum Trio. Info: 687-2699 or highfallscafe@earthlink.net. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

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Historic Rhinebeck Days. In conjunction with Rhinebeck’s annual spring sidewalk sale. Townwide non-profit groups have been invited to open their doors or set up displays, exhibits. Rhinebeck.

Waterman Bird Club Field Trip: Bashakill WMA (Sullivan County). Call: Adrienne @ 264-2015 for time and meeting place. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org.

8AM-3PM Beacon Flea Market More than 50 regular and one-time vendors sell a variety of items. Info: www.beaconflea.blogspot.com or 202-0094. Henry St parking lot, Beacon.

9:30AM-3PM Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Outing: Stokes Trail. Aged 18 and above. No reservations required. A moderate to strenuous, 7-mile hike led by Art Raphael(2555367). Info: 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

10AM-5PM Wildflower Festival & Organic Seedling Sale. A large array of organic vegetable and flower seedlings. Plus Dina Falconi of Foraging and Feasting will be on-site to answer your plant questions. Info: 626-2758 orwww.catskillnativenursery.com. Catskill Native Nursery, 607 Samsonville Rd, Kerhonkson.

11AM-4PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. A shelter for over 300 pigs, goats, sheep, cows, chickens and more. Meet the animals, hear their heartwarming stories and walk away with a deeper understanding ofwho they are. Tours at 11:30am, 1:15pm, 3pm. $10 /Adults, $5/ kids 12 & under. Info: www.WoodstockSanctuary.org or 679-5955. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, 35 Van Wagner Rd, Willow.

1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock, 679-7148 or rizka@hvc.rr.com.

3PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080.www.centerforperformingarts.org. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

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.

3PM-5PM Opening Reception - Master, Mentor, Master: Thomas Cole & Frederic Church. Exhibits through 11/2. Info: 518-943-7465 or www. thomascole.org. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 207 Spring St, Catskill.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12.

3PM Julliard Artist Returns to Woodstock!

Acclaimed Juilliard violinist Annika Jenkins will be doing a return engagement as part of the St. Gregory’s Young Artist Concert Series. St Gregory’s A-frame Episcopal Church , Rt 212, Woodstock. Free parking.

1PM-5PM Hive Event Launch Party. The Celebration Collective ‘Hive’. Come, meet, greet, eat to celebrate community. Info: www.hiveevent. com. Shark’s Black Barn, 4-8 Bruceville Rd, High Falls, $5.

1PM CHHS Walks & Talks: Geologist Steven Schimmrich. He will discuss the unique and fascinating geology of this area, point out the location of some interesting fossils, and teach you how the rocks allow geologists to visualizeancient seas teeming with life. Info: www.centuryhouse.org.

Snyder Estate Historic Site, Widow Jane Mine, 668 Rte. 213, Rosendale, $5 /suggested donation.

1PM Mohonk Preserve – How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing. No reservations required. Mohonk Preserve, Trapps Bridge, New Paltz, $12.

2PM Aida. Opera by Verdi. Info: www.rosendaletheatre.org or 658-8989... Rosendale Theater, Main St, Rosendale, $12, $6 /12 & under.

10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon. Akie Bermis. Info: 236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

2PM-4PM Art Auction to Benefit Stone Ridge Library Restoration. Silent Art Auction. Wine and refreshments will be served. Info: foundation@ stoneridgelibrary.org or 687-7147. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

10AM Kingston Sailing Club First Race. Skippers Meeting 10 am, at Hudson River Maritime Museum. First flag 12 pm, club mark Hudson River. Info: KingstonSailingClub@gmail.com or www.KingstonSailingClub.org.

2PM Talk: Curator, John Wilmerding, Sarofim Professor of American Art, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Followed by reception. Info: 518-9437465 or www.thomascole.org. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 207 Spring St, Catskill.

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: 658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

2PM Sundays With Friends Chamber Music Series: Anne-Marie McDermott, piano. Info: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Event Gallery, Bethel.

11AM-1PM Bookreading: Rinku Bhattacharya Author of Spices & Seasons. Simple, Sustainable Indian Flavors. Rhinebeck Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot, 61 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

11 AM-2:30 PM Catskill Animal Sanctuary Weekend Tour. Meet 300+ rescued farm animals on this beautiful 110-acre haven. Every Saturdays and Sundays through October. Info: 336-8447 or www.casanctuary.org. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, 316 Old Stage Rd, Saugerties.

ry Orchestra. Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. All ticket sales benefit the Conservatory’s Scholarship Fund. Info: www.fishercenter.bard. edu or 758-7900. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson.

3PM “Songs of the Hudson River School of Folk Music.” Rick Nestler in a concert. Presented by Heritage Folk Music. Refreshments will be served.

Info: patla42@gmail.com or 452-4013. Kiersted House, 119 Main St, Saugerties.

3PM-5PM Sound Healing Concert with Tito La Rosa. Concerts are deep encounters with his shamanic sound healing work, focusing directly into the bodies and souls of audience members to bring about transformation and awaken you to your essence. Info: 255-8212 or www.thelivingseed.com. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St, New Paltz, $20.

3PM Conservatory Sundays Series. Conservato-

3PM An Afternoon of Men’s Acapella. Featuring One Man Short Men’s Chorus With Special Guest: Cherished Memories A Five Man DooWop Group. 9 Church St. Bloomington, 331-7099. Free Will Offering to benefit United Reformed Church Handicapped Accessible.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Drummers on The Green are hosted by Birds of a Feather. Singers & dancers are all welcome.

Bring your drums and percussion instruments.

On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

4PM Hudson Valley YA Society. Ann Brashares (The Here and Now), E. Lockhart (We Were Liars) & Sarah Mlynowski (Don’t Event Think About It). RSVP Requested: rsvp@oblongbooks. com. Info: 876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

5:30PM-6PM Beginner Lesson - East Meets West Coast Swing Dance. Dance to DJ’d music 6-9pm. Admission $8/$6 full time students.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 255-1379.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St, Port Ewen.

6PM-8PM Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. No auditions and sight reading not required. If you can carry a tune, the Mid-Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly chorus needs you. Soprano, alto, tenor, bass—allvoices needed. Rehearsals every Sunday, 6-8pm. Info: rainbowchorus1@ gmail.com or 845-353-8348. LGBTQ, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

6PM-9PM East Meets West Coast Swing Dance.

Admission $8/$6 full time students. Info: www. hudsonvalleydance.org or 255-1379. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem St, Port Ewen.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown Duo. Info: 236-7970 or www. liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7 PM Gala 2014 - An Evening With John Legend: The All of Me Tour. $200 includes premier performance seatin /post-show part taxdeductible contribution; $150 includes preferred performance seating/ tax-deductible ; $100 performance only Info: 473-2072.Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Lucky Peterson Opener, Jason Damico & The New Blue. Info: 236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Movies With Spirit: “Hilary and Jackie, “ About the troubled, passionate rivalry of musically gifted sisters, Jacqueline & Hilary du Pre. Info: 389-9201 or gerryharrington@mindspring.com.

7PM BookReading: Lois Walden. Author of Afterworld. Info: 876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, free.

7:30PM-10PM Saturday Night Live Music.

Featuring Barbara Dempsey & Company. Info: 255-8811, or www.GKnoodles.com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, $5.

7:30PM-9:30PM Old Chatham Quaker Meeting: “The Last Minute Jazz Ensemble.” There will be a bake sale during the intermission. This is a benefit concert for our new meetinghouse. Info: 518-7662992. Old Chatham Quaker Bldg, 8 N Manhaim Blvd, New Paltz.

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8PM Bryan Gordon. Info: 229-8277 or www. hydeparkbrewing.com. Hyde Park Brewing Company, 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

8PM Lightscapes, a brand new art and light experience. Featuring sculpture, light, sound, and special effects. Info: 914-366-6900 or www. hudsonvalley.org. Van Cortlandt Manor, 525 South Riverside Ave, Croton-on-Hudson, $18.

8PM Miss Saigon. A musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. Info: 876-3080 orwww.centerforperformingarts.org.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Route 308, Rhinebeck, $26, $24 /senior/child.

8PM An Evening in Cabaret Style with Party of Two. RSVP. Info: 607-652-4030. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford, $8.

8PM Justin Hayward. Best known as the lead vocalist, guitar player and songwriter for the legendary Moody Blues. Info: 473-2072 or www. bardavon.org. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $62 /golden circle, $52.

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Drivers: DEDICATED. REGIONAL. HOME WEEKLY/BI-WEEKLY GUARANTEED. Start up to $.44 cpm. Great Benefits + Bonuses. 90% No Touch Freight/70% Drop & Hook. 877-704-3773 GARDENING HELP NEEDED. Seeking strong, responsible person for home gardening help: weeding, planting, moving soil, maintenance. Familiarity w/perennials & comfort w/power tools like leaf-blower preferred. Located in Bearsville. References required. Leave message for Joyce at (914)388-4123.

HOUSEKEEPER WANTED. Super 8 New Paltz, NY. 7 Terwilliger Ln. We’re looking for someone interested in joining our housekeeping team that serves all those visiting our community! Applicant must be dependable, reliable, and hardworking. Experience is a plus but not needed. Must apply at our Front Desk. Full/Part-Time available.

POOL COMPANY SEEKS HELP w/experience in any related swimming pool service, repair or installation tasks. 845-657-9976 RETAIL STORE NEEDS HELP: including store sales, answer phones, cleaning etc. Weekends a must. Please call Mountain Pools (845)679-7213.

SHORT ORDER COOK/ GRIDDLEPERSON(S) for busy bistro in downtown New Paltz. Prefer experience but will train. Call Jim 914-224-4208. Si Habla Espanol.

The Town of Lloyd Water Department is seeking to fill the position of “Water Treatment Plant Operator.” This position pays a 2014 base rate of $19.92 an hour, with a work schedule as follows: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 6:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Applicant must meet Civil Service job qualifications, including the possession of a “IIA Water Treatment Plant Operator’s Certification”, a High School Diploma and a valid NYS Drivers License- CDL would be a benefit.

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DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

DRIVER... Young, 65-yr. old senior- x school bus driver wants to “BE YOUR DRIVER!” Use your car- $20/hr., Use my car- $30/hr.

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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 other- We 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 “show how to do” projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). It’s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers. And, if you have leftover merchandise you’d like to sell- this would be a perfect way to unload it. Please give John a call for more details- (845)7581170. Spots are $12-$35.

Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana invite you to mark your calendars for our Annual Spring Concert at Bard College on Friday, May 9 at 8 pm in Olin Auditorium. Under the artistic leadership of Balinese master musician, I Nyoman Suadin with guest artist, Dr. Pete Steele from MIT and internationally acclaimed Balinese dancer, Shoko Yamamura. Suggested donation: $10+/-. For more info contact pillasdp@hvc.rr.com or call 845 688-7090.

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ADULT VIOLIN... You’re never too old to learn. My students end up in orchestras and quartets. 20 years on the faculties of Manhattan’s School for Strings and Westchester’s Talent Education. “I love my lessons. They’re my therapy.” J.P. Kingston, NY. Ages 3-80. (845)679-9250.

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Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras Giri Mekar & Chandra Kanchana invite you to mark your calendars for our Annual Spring Concert at Bard College on Friday, May 9 at 8 pm in Olin Auditorium. Under the artistic leadership of Balinese master musician, I Nyoman Suadin with guest artist, Dr. Pete Steele from MIT and internationally acclaimed Balinese dancer, Shoko Yamamura. Suggested donation: $10+/-. For more info contact pillasdp@hvc.rr.com or call 845 688-7090.

KERHONKSON FIRE COMPANY- Annual Golf Tournament at Rondout Country Club, Sunday June 1. 8 a.m. Breakfast, 9 a.m.

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ALOHA HOME PARK, 511 S. Ohioville, New Paltz. Wonderful double wide 24x56, 3bdrm, 2bth, central a/c, enclosed back porch. Photo’s on Craigslist. $51,900. Appt. call park owner Michael 845-883-6088.

FOR SALE BY OWNER; New Paltz Colonial2,200 sq.ft. 4-Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, Central A/C, Wood Floors, Updated Master Bath.

2.7 Acres. Convenient to Thruway, College & Town - New Paltz Schools. $349,000. Call 845-255-2691.

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Nothing like going out for a night on the town to a rockin’ show at the Bearsville Theatre and then to The Bear for some of the best food in the area. I personally keep it low key in my travels too and fro however a Limo would make for a hell of a time with no worries of having a couple cocktails and having to set someone as being the DD or catch a boring old cab home. Hey why don’t you check this property out, I’ll take care of the limo part, lets party and come park the limo at this happening little pad…

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STRETCH LIMO PARKING You could park your stretch limo in the huge 3 car garage at Alan Kessler’s new listing in Saugerties on 3.5 acres. “impeccable care is what this 2300 square foot brick ranch is all about with 3bedroooms and 2.5 baths, gorgeous kitchen to die for. Coal fired woodstove keeps home toasty in the winter and central air helps keep cool in the summer. MBR has sliders to sitting room, deck & walk-in shower. Full basement is newly tiled and in near perfect condition. $429,900

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STREAMSIDE CHARM - Beautiful 2-acre country setting (2 lots!) with 400’ frontage on yr-rd Lucaskill stream at end of quiet cul-desac. This easy living one level home features hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, spacious EIK with new appliances & cozy brick fireplace, LR with gas stove, en-suite MBR, walkin pantry, deck and attached garage. Protected lands across stream add value! .......... $229,900

SPLISH SPLASH! - You’ll love the in-ground POOL when the weather heats up! This classic Woodstock Cape is nestled on 3.5 quiet acres and features hardwood floors, living room with handsome stone fireplace, country style kitchen with granite counters, charming built-ins, 4 bedrooms (2 down & 2 up), 2.5 baths, full basement, central A/C, 2 car attached garage and beautiful rolling lawns with picturesque stone walls. ..........................$349,999

10,952 JUMPING HORSES …Have nothing to do with this wonderful Saugerstock (almost Saugerties, almost Wdstck) home. Sean Zimmerman needs your attention for this one: 10 plus private landscaped acres having a pond, lovely meadows and an attractive 2160 square foot, 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath contemporary home with den, finished walk-out basement, detached studio, office, showroom and massive detached garage/wrkshp, barn, loads of parking, even a soundproof music studio. Selling $56,000 under assessment: $279,000!

STONE SURPRISE Surprise! Delightful 1776 Dutch Colonial is really 200 yrs younger; built by a present day craftsmanin 1976 reflecting the beauty of antiquity and ameneties of modern living. Great dedication paid to authenticity down to the antique flooring, fixtures, even cut nails, fall in love with this immaculate 2 bedroom home and its stunning period windows, built-ins and so much more! Top it off with the lovely sky-lit screened porch, large deck, stone tiered patio and garage- the home of your dreams. Victoria Hoyt has the details: $389,000

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SUNWASHED CONTEMPORARY - Great location just minutes to Woodstock village and nicely private on 1.5 wooded acres! Flowing floor plan features LR with cozy stone fireplace, dining space opening to breezy screened porch for al fresco entertaining, 3 bedrooms plus room for home office or nursery, vaulted ceilings, 2.5 baths, skylights, heated sunroom, deck & stone patio. State-of-the-art heating system saves energy dollars! .................................. $279,900

PURE COUNTRY - Very PRIME Marbletown site of 4.6 private acres boasts this impeccable modern farmhouse with bright open plan & gleaming HW floors inviting easy entertaining.

Gourmet country kitchen features high end SS appliances & handy wet bar. Family/media room opens to wrap veranda. Cathedral MBR suite plus 3 add’l BRs, 2.5 baths, generator & oversized det. garage with studio/workshop potential! ..........................................$480,000

Angela Galetto listed this terrific Saugerties 3 family on Russell Street right in the Village for only $159,000 and I’ll be darned if this isn’t a money maker too! It’s got three 2 bedroom apts. that are in really good shape, and rent for $750 to $850 a month each, with tenants paying all utilities. Fenced yard safe for the kiddies and outdoor fun. It is perfect for frisbeetarianists and lawnalunatics (Hey, I just made those up, not bad, huh?). For $159,000 this is a great way to make $30,000 a year!

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16+ WOODED ACRES. Beautiful mountain views, bounded by old stone walls, walk to beautiful trout stream. Central to Woodstock, NYS Thruway & Hunter Mountain. Located in Blue Mountain, Van Vlierden Rd, Saugerties. $72,000. 540-789-2386; 276-229-8723.

PRIME BUILDING LOT. 3 ACRES; $30,000. Town of Woodstock.

Call (845)246-2525 or (518)250-4305.

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PR I V A T E B U Y E R ( n o n - r e a l t o r ) SEEKING PROPERTY to purchase, MUST HAVE NATURAL WATERFALL.

2-10 acres needed. Maybe subdivide?

Can be either a vacant, SECLUDED parcel of land, OR property w/a house with a natural, private waterfall (w/ year-round views, NOT just seasonal).

Must be secluded (absolutely no homes in view), AND MUST BE WITHIN 10 MINUTES DRIVE TO WOODSTOCK. CASH OFFERED, CAN CLOSE IMMEDIATELY! Contact: sabe1970@ yahoo.com.au w/photos/info. or call (518)965-7223.

SEEKING TO BUY Woodstock to Bearsville multi-family unit or adaptable. 2200 sf plus. Serious sellers only.

No brokers. nywriter@earthlink.net

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commercial listings for sale

THE RIGHT RECIPE! We designed a small, manageable Bistro in New Paltz that is a real money-maker. Net +/$100K/yr. working 10 months, open 40 hours a week! This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to be in the food business and live a great quality of life, even working part-time… For information call (914)224-4208.

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office space commercial rentals

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highland/ clintondale rentals

NEW PALTZ: OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL SPACE(S) for rent. Large, beautiful Soho loft-like space(s) w/brick walls & new large windows. Faces the Gunks w/great views. 71 Main Street. Best downtown location. Former architect office(s). Will divide. Call owner (917)838-3124. steven@epicsecurity.com

1 BEDROOM APARTMENT, 2 miles from New Paltz. 1 Bedroom with additional (can be used as bedroom/office) - private/ detached from house. Rent $1000 month you pay heat and electric. 1 month security, 1 year lease. Available June 1st. References required. 845-255-8259.

WOODSTOCK; STORE on Tinker Street, next to Woodstock Wine Store. Heart of town. Great visibility. Large picture window. C/O for food. (845)417-5282, Owner/ Realtor.

HIGHLAND EFFICIENCIES at villabaglieri.com Furnished motel rooms w/micro, refrig, HBO & WiFi, all utilities. $135-$175 Weekly, $500-$660 Monthly, w/kitchenettes $185 or $200 weekly, $700 or $760 monthly + UC Taxes & Security. No pets.

845.883.7395.

OFFICE SPACE & GARAGE COMBO, Office 375 sf and 1600 sf garage w/17’ ceilings. $1950/month includes heat & A/C. 396 Wittenberg Rd., Bearsville. Call (845)6795762.

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gardiner/ modena/ plattekill rentals

GARDINER/NEW PALTZ: 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT: Great views. Deck, storage. $1050/month plus utilities. Call (914)4752833.

HIGHLAND: LARGE 1-BEDROOM First floor. End unit. Parking next to unit. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking & laundry. Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. $925/month, heat & hot water included. 1 month security. (845)453-0047.

HIGHLAND: Large ONE BEDROOM apartment in quiet neighborhood. Heat and hot water included. Air conditioner. $875/month plus one month security. Call 845-797-2070.

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Milton/Marlboro Rentals New Paltz Rentals Rosendale/Tillson/ High Falls/ Stone Ridge Rentals South of Stone Ridge Rentals Kingston/Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals Esopus/Ulster Park Rentals Krumville/Olivebridge/ Shokan Rentals Saugerties Rentals Rhinebeck/Red Hook Rentals Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals West of Woodstock Rentals Green County Rentals

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OPEN HOUSE Saturday, May 10th 1 - 2:30 PM 3BR Contempo plus finished basement with 1BR Guest Apt. w 1/2 bath. Spacious living room plus modern kitchin with dining area. Huge, wrap-around deck. On 2 Private acres with 100+ acres of DEP land on two sides. .....................$245,000 Directions: From Woodstock: Rt 212 to Left onto Wittenberg Rd. Left at “T” onto Glenford/ Wittenberg Rd. to sign on Right

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Bright & airy Cape situated near the end of the cul de sac. Main floor has large eat-in kitchen, opening to the breezeway, 2 bedrooms, living room & full bath.

Second floor has 1 bedroom, full bath & family room.

Walk to the bordering Town Park for a stroll around the track, sit & watch the fish in the pond or take a ride on the mountain bike trail w/ access to State Land. Something for everyone! $149,900

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This immaculate estate has everything one could ask for & more. Gleaming hardwood floors, soaring ceilings, and over sized deck. New boiler, well pump, roof, boiler, plus blueberry & raspberry producing bushes, peach trees, veggie garden & wine cellar.

Address: 657 N. Elting Corners Directions: NYS Thruway exit 18,turn right on 299, follow 299 to North Elting corners, turn left house in on left. $489,000

Looking for a home that is fresh and inspiring? Come home to this immaculately maintained 1,850 sq. ft. split-level offering 3Bedrooms and 2 full baths. You’ll love the completely renovated open gourmet kitchen complete with stainless appliances and beautiful granite counter-tops. Dining room off kitchen leads to an amazing Florida room with ceramic tiled floor and windows galore! $247,900

TUSCAN-INSPIRED Brick and Stucco Two-Story home. Boasts 3BR w Gourmet, Eat-in Kitch and sep. Dining Room. Delux bath w bidet and sauna! Spacious Living Room. 1BR guest-apt w eat-in kitch.

Laundry room. 2-Car attached garage. All on beautifully landscaped 1.7 acres with year-round brook! .................. $535,000 OLIVEBRIDGE: Rustic Cabin w loft bedroom area, screened-in porch. on 9 acres. ..................................... $129,000 SAUGERTIES: Subdivedable 15 Acres w stream and meadow. Municipal water! ................................. $150,000

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Located in picturesque Windham, this house has it all. Not ONLY does this sun-drenched ski retreat offer a great room with vaulted ceiling and wall of glass, allowing a direct view of the ski slopes from most rooms on the main floor, but the house is also conveniently located just a few short steps from the trails. $799,000

Antique of a home in very good and friendly condition, is conveniently located in Kingston If only walls could talk, these have been around since the horse and buggy days! Stay cozy by the lovely fireplace on those chilly evenings. A very large kitchen, all updated appliances, fun atmosphere to entertain in. This quaint abode for you to move in and enjoy. $175,000

Perfect location, right in the village of Woodstock!

Adorable 2 Bedroom, 1 bath Ranch, for those looking for one level living and manageable space. Featuring hardwood floors throughout, freshly painted interior and sunny and bright kitchen. Brick fireplace with insert, in cozy living room that features built in bookcases. Great outdoor space, screened porch & bluestone patio. $229,000

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milton/marlboro rentals

MARLBORO. C o u n t r y setting.

1-BEDROOM cottage. Heat included.

Suitable for 1 or 2. Trash pick-up included. $950/month. No dogs. No smokers.

References. Security. 845-795-5778.

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new paltz rentals

STUDIO APARTMENT. $700/month plus utilities. Available 6/1. Also, 1-BEDROOM; $825/month. Available now. BOTH: 1 month security. 31 Church Street. Laundry room & private parking on premises. No pets. No smoking.

1-year lease, good references. (845)255-5319.

NICE ROOMS; $415 & $470/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.

3-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Quiet landscaped Civil War Victorian. 12 acres. 1 mile New Paltz.

Spectacular views. Picture windows. Porch, coin laundry, heat, HW, WiFi, garbage pick-up, mowing, plowing included. $1425/month. 914-725-1461.

WE BUY HOUSES! CASH PAID, QUICK CLOSINGS! Will look at any condition properties. We are the largest private buyer of homes in Ulster County and can provide references. Please call Dan @ Winn Realty Associates, LLC, 845/514-2500 or email dan@winn-realty.com.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Includes garden patio w/entry, lake swimming, fishing or relax on dock. $1350/month annually 661-733-5843, IGMC@aol.com 2-BEDROOM CONDO AVAILABLE 7/1. Historic Huguenot Street. Spacious ground floor w/outside patio. Quiet setting near Rail Trail. Walk to village. Parking.

Heat, hot water, garbage disposal included. $1365/month. First, last, 1 month security.

References, 1 year lease. No smoking, no pets.

Call 845-430-2908.

BRIGHT, QUIET 1-BR. Magnificent views, picture window, laundry, porch, 12 acres. 1 mile New Paltz. $975/month includes heat, HW, Wifi, etc. 914-725-1461.

EARLY SPRING SPECIAL!! COTTAGE FOR RENT. Full bath, 2-bedrooms, living room, kitchen. No pets. No smoking. Call 845-255-2525, leave name & number.

1-BEDROOM, VICTORIAN HOUSE, Center of New Paltz. Looking for mature, professional. Sunny, partial furnished.

Kitchen privileges. Walk to bus station, S.U.N.Y., Rail Trail. $550/month includes all. Available 5/1. Call (917)992-0702.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT. Walking distance to college. Heat & hot water included. Off-street parking. No smoking. No pets. $720/month. Available 6/1/14. Call 845255-0839.

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Available immediately. No pets. No smoking. 845-255-7187.

ROOM FOR RENT in modern 3-bedroom apartment. Ideal for student. Internet, furnished. $475/month plus shared utilities.

Close to S.U.N.Y. New Paltz. No pets. No smoking. On-site parking. Call 845-3042504.

ROOM FOR RENT: Utilities included. $550/month plus security. Walking distance to everything. Call 845-664-0493.

ROOMS AVAILABLE for STUDENT HOUSING. Close to SUNY, New Paltz.

Newly renovated, clean, large kitchen, appliances, WiFi/computer access/TV, plenty of

NEW PALTZ: 2-BEDROOM PLUS OFFICE/DEN. $1125/month plus utilities. Washer/dryer, central air, dishwasher. 1.5 miles to village.

No pets. No smoking. Call (845)256-1119.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Fall 2014 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.

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rosendale/ high falls/tillson/ stone ridge rentals

3-BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOUSE. Country setting. Hardwood floors, modern kitchen, dishwasher, W/D. Large Master suite w/bath/jacuzzi, private deck. 3 miles to Thruway, 10 miles to Woodstock. Rondout Schools. $2000/month plus utilities. First, last, security. Credit, references required.

845-332-3419.

EXTRA LARGE 2-BR to SHARE in High Falls. Roommate wanted. Bedroom comes w/two other rooms for studio or storage PLUS sharing living room, bath, kitchen, deck. Ample closets, living space, nature, quiet. $650/month plus reasonable utilities and internet. Security & references. 845687-2035.

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south of stone ridge rentals

KERHONKSON STUDIOS: furnished; $675/month, unfurnished; $625/month.

Kitchenette w/stove plus refrigerator; full bath. Lease, security, references required.

914-466-0911 or 973-493-7809.

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Pride of ownership. OMG-original owners Pr have lovingly maintained for 24 years. ha Spacious LR w/ high bay window, updated Sp kitchen w/ granite countertops & enough space to eat in or out in the DR. Enjoy summertime fun on the deck overlooking the crystal clear pool! 2 spacious BRs/ master en suite. Lower level is ceramic tiled & offers many uses as it has its own half bath too! $259,000

Bottom unit - no stairs features 1 BR. 1.5 BA. for $87,000

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AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS New affordable 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments in our SMOKE FREE multi-family community available June 1st. Variable rent based on income include Heat, HW, W/W carpet.

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krumville olivebridge/ shokan rentals

OLIVEBRIDGE: RUSTIC, SUNNY 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Woodstove, new floors, cathedral ceilings w/skylight.

450 sq.ft. First, last and security. $750/ month. No pets. Close to Ashokan Reservoir.

(845)657-6942 or (646)662-5202.

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saugerties rentals

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT. Exceptionally clean, bright & sunny. Italian

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tile kitchen & bath, Marble foyer, cathedral ceiling, French windows. ENERGY EFFICIENT. $900/month plus utilities.

(845)532-5080.

WEST SAUGERTIES: NEWLY RENOVATED 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE on quiet dead-end road. Full bath, spacious living room, washer/dryer, screened-in porch, beautiful backyard- room for garden. $1050/month plus utilities. First, last, security, references. Call 679-2243.

470

woodstock/ west hurley rentals

2-BEDROOMS. WOODSTOCK CHEERY SPACIOUS DUPLEX APT. Charming. 2 Skylights. Great studio layout. 1 mile from Town. $925 + last mo. + security. No pets/ smokers. References. Available 6/1 or sooner. (845)679-2300.

2-BEDROOM WOODSTOCK HOUSE for rent. 2-baths, modern kitchen, large LR/DR, walk-in closets. 1 mile from town on private plot. Washer/dryer, central AC, deck & shed.

No pets. $1075/month. 845-679-7086.

Beautifully renovated 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Kitchen w/dining area, living room, full bath w/clawfoot tub. $930/month includes all utilities. Also, 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Full bath, terrace, mountain views. $850/month.

BOTH: In well maintained historic building in Woodstock Center. Parking off-street. For responsible, employed person w/recommendations, security. No smoking/drugs/pets.

845-625-9644.

LARGE HANDSOME WOODSTOCK HOME. Hardwood floors. 4-bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 fireplaces, plus attached spacious home office, studio or in-law apartment. 2 car garage. Attractive, close-in neighborhood. Brick. Yard/patio/trees. Good oil

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baseboard heating. New kitchen appliances with granite counter. Washer/ dryer. Excellent condition. $2450/month includes mowing/plowing. 845-679-9717.

VERY NICE 2-BEDROOM HOUSE, Bearsville. Available 7/1. $1275/month plus utilities. Near Bear Cafe. Most pets OK. Great location. (845)514-0823.

WOODSTOCK: 1-BEDROOM. Quiet upscale residential neighborhood.

Beautiful grounds. Small quiet apartment complex. Excellent condition & well maintained. $845/month includes all utilities.

ALSO, FURNISHED 1-BEDROOM. $875/ month includes all utilities. No smoking.

References. No pets. (845)679-9717.

WOODSTOCK COTTAGE; 1-BEDROOM, full bath, fireplace, small loft. Washing machine. Porch. Newly renovated. On 1 acre. $1000/month plus utilities. Call Owner (845)679-8259.

WOODSTOCK… FANTASTIC NEW, MOUNTAINTOP COTTAGE FOR RENT ON TEN QUIET, PEACEFUL, PARKLIKE ACRES. AMAZING MOUNTAIN VIEWS. FEATURED IN NY MAGAZINE. PERFECT FOR WRITER, ARTIST OR WEEKEND RETREAT FROM NYC. TWO BEDROOMS, FULL KITCHEN AND BATH, SKYLIGHTS, BEAMED CEILING TWO FLAT SCREEN TV. TOTALLY PRIVATE YET ONLY TWO MINUTES FROM WOODSTOCK VILLAGE. MONTHLY RENTAL AVAILABLE. NO PETS. COMPLETELY FURNISHED. RENTAL INCLUDES WIFI, CABLE TV AND ELECTRIC. BASEBOARD HOT WATER PROPANE HEAT ADDITIONAL. AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1, 2014.

EMAIL: CAROPARA22@AOL.COM OR LEAVE MESSAGE ON 845-679-6002.

See photos at vrbo.com/41448 WOODSTOCK: SMALL 1-BEDROOM COTTAGE on quiet road. Interior newly renovated. Great new bathroom. (Outdoors will be when weather permits). 1 beautiful acre. Small stream. 10-15 minutes from center of town. $950/month. (845)4175282.

WOODSTOCK/LAKE HILL. Come stay w/us in May and experience Catskill country spring! Fully furnished share in restored colonial farmhouse available for one month. $600 includes all utilities.

NS, NP. homestayny@msn.com 845-6792564.

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1-BEDROOM COTTAGE available on beautiful large acreage, Big Indian. $500/ month plus utilities. Includes maintenance responsibilities 5 hours/week- mowing, painting, pool, etc. (845)254-5905 before 8 p.m.

GORGEOUS COTTAGE on 150 ACRE ESTATE. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace.

Hiking, cross country trails throughout. Borders on 1500 acres of state land.

In-ground heated pool, renowned trout stream runs through property. Seasonal, annual, reasonable. 845-688-5062.

SHOKAN: LARGE 4-BEDROOM HOME. 2.5 baths, great kitchen, washer/dryer, front porch. $1350/month plus utilities.

Call (845)901-6397.

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greene county rentals

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Mountain views. Large balcony. Village setting. Trees, woods, lakes, swimming, skiing/snow boarding, movies, sports, cafes. Clean, renovated, hardwood floors, friendly environment. $800/month. Close to Woodstock & Thruway. Maggie (518)589-6101.

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vacation rentals

FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol. com

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seasonal rentals

ARTISTS LAKE RETREAT, 2-bedroom, 1000sf duplex in separate wing of large house with own entrance. Skylights, high ceilings, beautifully furnished. Situated within Artists Lake Preserve, on 7 private, landscaped acres with 14 acre lake, pool, mountain views and easy accessibility. 5 miles to Woodstock and close to HITS. If you’re looking for beauty, serenity and quiet, this is the place. For complete details call 845-246-7598 or email: ruth@ redwyng.com Photos available. June 28 to September 2- booked.

CHARMING, MODERN LOG HOME GETAWAY in woods, 3 miles Woodstock.

2-bedrooms, 1.5 baths, eat-in kitchen, fireplace, laundry, cable, 2 porches, pond, gazebo. $295/weekend plus security plus references. Available longer period. 718479-0393.

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tree services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding, Firewood. (845)255-7259.

Residential, Municipalities.

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firewood for sale

COZY FURNISHED 3 BDRM

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

1½ Bath House on 6.5 Acres on Glasco Turnpike (one mile from center of Woodstock) $1,000 per week / $3,500 per month

Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

www.jersville.com | 845-679-5832 FLORIDA RENTAL; Anna Marie Island.

Go to VacationRentals.com #94551. For more info contact TurtleNestAMI@aol. com LUXURY SEASONAL RENTAL- on Yankeetown Pond w/dock, row boat and lovely water & mountain VIEWS! Stunning living spaces, incl. gourmet kitchen, formal DR, great room w/stone fireplace, master BR and much more. A fantastic Summer retreat. Avail. Memorial-Labor Day for $19,000 or shorter term w/2mo. minimum for June ($5,500), July & August ($7,500 ea.). Call Sara Cohen, WM&B Realty, Ltd., (845)633-1287 mobile for details.

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for sale

ART SUPPLIES; rulers, paints, pens, pencils, markers, paper cutter, grease markers. If interested make an offer on all of it. PICTURES; framed and matted; small pics- $5 each, medium pics; $10 each, large pics; $20 each. Cash and carry.

Call 845-255-0909.

AWESOME 1-DAY FURNITURE SALE. Sat., May 10th. Antique sideboard, Sterns & Foster double bed, chairs, bookcases, sewing machine w/table, juicer, TV and DVD player. And many household items.

845-679-6007.

EXTANG HARD TONNEAU COVER, trifold for a Toyota Tacoma, (can IMPROVE gas mileage by 10%) current 5’ bed style, black, excellent condition. Call (845)2558352.

FARM TABLES: Catskill Mountain Farm Tables handcrafted from 19th century barn wood. Heirloom quality, custommade to any size. Also available, Bluestone topped tables w/wormy chestnut bases.

Ken, Atwood Furniture, 845-657-8003.

LEG EXTENSION & LEG CURL MACHINE w/weights attached. Plus more exercise equipment.... Call (845)2558352.

ST. PETER’S SPRING FLEA MARKET, BAKE & PLANT SALE- Saturday, May 17th, 9a.m.-4p.m. Route 213 & Keator Ave., Rosendale. 18+ vendors. St Peter’s tables- $5 BAG SALE 2p.m. 845-6877735.

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yard and garage sales

MOWER’S SATURDAY/SUNDAY FLEA MARKET; Maple Lane, Woodstock. Every weekend starting May 17th. Antiques, collectibles, produce & Reusables. GOOGLE US! 845679-6744. woodstockfleamarket@hvc. rr.com

GLASCO 7th Annual Huge Neighborhood Sale.

“Many families” Sat. 5/10; 9-3.

All streets in Glasco incl. down by river.

Rain/shine.

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

914-388-9607 Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

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buy and swap

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description.

Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)389-7286.

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)246-0214.

648

auctions

OUTSIDER ART AUCTION DeNarie, Heinrich, Simonian, Foland, Finkler, others.

Many additional works by early Woodstock & well known artists & sculptors.

Sale Saturday, May 17, by JMWAuction.com Located just off the Thruway circle.

Look us up on the web.

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flea markets

DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

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YARD SALE May 10th Multi-Family moving sale. Everything from books to bikes to boat stuff, dishes and so much more...

RAIN OR SHINE 8AM – 3PM 123 Pleasant Ridge Drive, West Hurley (FOLLOW THE SIGNS)

Saugerties Society of Little Gardens Plant and Bake Sale May 10th, 9am - 1pm Big Lots Plaza, Ulster Avenue, Saugerties 845-246-9289 MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE. Furniture, kids’ items, electronics & more. 50 Post Street (corner Washington Ave.), Saugerties. Saturday, 5/10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

680

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

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professional services

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.

845-334-8200

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personal and health services

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available.

Ulster County area. (845)901-8513 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING; SENIOR NUTRITION/DINING PROGRAM. Operates Senior Dining Sites throughout the county, which offer nutritious, hot meals from 11:30 a.m.-noon. Kingston Mid-town Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston. (845)336-7112.

Open Monday, Wednesday & Friday.

They also provide an opportunity to socialize w/others who have similar interests.

Guidelines: Please call the site between 10 a.m.-noon. the day before you plan to attend in order to be sure there are enough meals for everyone. Eligibility: You must be an Ulster County resident aged 60 or over. Cost: There is no set cost, but a suggested daily donation of $3 is requested.

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art services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol 6877813. c.field@earthlink.net

shop! *Commercial *Residential *Rentals. *Windows *Power Wash *Garage *Outdoor Cleanups. Licensed, Insured, References.

Free estimates. (845)235-6701.

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I CANE: I FIX, I pick-up and deliver.

Handweave, pressed cane, wicker repair & rush seats. (845)594-2051 or (845)383-1843.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/ HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable rates. Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured. MargotMolnar. com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar@netzero.net (845)679-6242.

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cleaning services

PREMIER WINDOW CLEANING Gutter Cleaning Services, Inc.

Free Estimates • Fully Insured

Chris Lopez • 845-256-7022

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO. **Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured.

Call 679-3879 *CONSCIOUS CLEANING, CONSCIOUS CARE!* Bundle of energy w/a Zen attitude.

Efficient and very organized. I can make beauty out of disorder. Allergic to cats.

Woodstock/Kingston/Rhinebeck vicinity.

Call Robyn, 339-9458.

MAID IN AMERICA. Home/Office cleaning in the greater Kingston area and Northern Dutchess. Regular visits or 1 time cleaning.

Windows. Attentive to detail. Many years experience and excellent local references.

(845)514-2510.

CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/ Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)6882253.

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932 JUST CLEAN. 20 years experience allows us to understand the unique needs of our clients. Let Just Clean be your one stop

HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-9832.

MAN WITH A VAN MOVING & DELIVERY SERVICE. 16’ trucks, 10’ van. Reliable, insured, NYS DOT 32476.

8 Enterprise Road, New Paltz, NY. Please call Dave at 255-6347.

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painting/odd jobs

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura.

Add value to your home economically.

Environmentally conscious work done w/ old world craftsmanship and pride. Interior/ Exterior/Decorator Finishes, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Call 679-9036 for Free Estimate. Senior Discount.

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caretaking/ home management

HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed.

Snow Removal. Call Dave (845)514-6503mobile.

YOU CALL I HAUL. Attic, basements, garages cleaned out. Junk, debris, removed. 20% discount for seniors and disabled. Gary (845)247-7365 or www. garyshauling.com

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plumbing, heating, a/c and electric

BOILERS, (oil & gas), FURNACES, HOT WATER HEATERS INSTALLED, SERVICED & REPAIRED. Water leaks repaired. Emergency service available.

SPRING SPECIAL- heating system cleaning & tune-up; $120 PLUS TAX. Call Mike Areizaga (845)340-0429.

Building with pride.

Professional Craftsmanship for all Phases of Construction

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845•853•4291

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Interior/Exterior Painting Deck Staining • Power Washing 10% OFF ALL QUOTES FOR SENIORS CALL TODAY! References available • Fully Insured

Call Chris 845-902-3020

• Interior & Exterior painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured 845-255-0979 • ritaccopainting.com QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980

*PAINTING STANDARD.* Affordable, On-Schedule, Quality. Residential/ Commercial. Interior/Exterior. Neat, Polite, Professional. Now taking SPRING/ SUMMER reservations. Call (845)5271252.

CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/ Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)6882253.

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-outs.

Second home caretaking. All small/medium jobs considered. Artist friendly. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References.

Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured. Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-616- 0872.

General & Extraordinary Contracting New Residential Homes Additions • Renovations codylunati@aol.com | 845-453-0215

Quality is in our name since 1989

Stoneridge Electrical Services

845-331-4966, 845-249-8668

QUALITY LUNATI BUILDERS, INC.

845-657-2494 845-389-0504

Residential and Commercial Specializing in decks, fences, roofs, driveways, patios.

Contact Jason Habernig

Fully Insured Steve Siebeking 845-389-6201

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Plaster and concrete saints, angels, bronzes, weathervanes, cupolas, more redrockgardencenter.com 845-569-1117

e w Emergency Generators r y LICENSED 331-4227 INSURED CAPITOL ELECTRIC. www.capitalelectric-ny.com. New electrical systems, service upgrades, pool wiring, emergency generators, electrical repair & maintenance. Over 25 years experience. licensed & insured. 845-255-7088

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West Hurley Masonry building services

Block foundations, block additions, brick veneer, stone veneer, restoration & repairs, masonry cleaning

845-389-3894

AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES. Carpentry of all kinds- rough to finish and built-ins. Bathroom and kitchen renos to small plumbing repairs. New tile surfaces or repairs. New floors finished or repaired. Door and window replacements or repair. Porches, decks, stairs. Electrical installs and repair. Insured, References.

845-857-5843.

Roofing • Siding • Kitchens • Baths • Decks • Tile • Flooring

COMPLETE HOME REMODELING. Roofing, interior & exterior painting, drywall, clean outs, light hauling, etc. Please call Carl 845-532-8761 or email carlpappalardo@yahoo.com

HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc.

Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates.

Free estimates. References available.

(845)616-7470.

D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations. Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017

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760

gardening/ landscaping

A-1 SCREENED TOPSOIL, garden compost, manures, crushed or washed round stone, fill, pool sand, item #4, wallstone, mulches, landclearing, septic systems, lawns, ponds, demolition, paving, roads. Ron Biscoe Excavating & Paving (845)505-3890.

RICK’S NATURAL GARDEN CARE. Let Rick help get your garden ready and keep it the way you want. Pruning, Planting, improvements, short- or long-term organic methods.

Master Gardener Trained. (845)616-5410.

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Excavation Site work Drain ¿elds Land clearing Septic systems Demolition Driveways

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Specializing in: Hardscape Tree trimming Fences Koi ponds Snow plowing

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950 PREMIUM BLACK TOPSOIL. Screened and mixed with organic manure. Special garden mix, organic compost, stone, sand, fill and other products available. Lab tested w/ results provided upon request. NYS, DOT & DEP approved. Excellent quality. Any quantity. Loaded or delivered. 33+ years of service.

845-389-6989, 845-687-0030

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spirituality

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.

Intuitive, Sensitive Guidance Spirit Communicator

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 48 | Nov. 29 —Dec. 6

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alm m@nnac arts & entertainment guide, calendar, classifieds, real estate

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KINGSTON TIMES Gallo 697, Clement 691 (so far).

Polacco 228, Turco-Levin 207.

LLOYD:

Mountainside Woods debate

by Erin Quinn

O Robert Angeloch drawing in Monhegan, in this John Kleinhans photo.

n Friday, March 18, 2011, on the morning of the full Super Moon, legendary artist and co-

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art gallery and art school, and the fervent admiration of generations of devoted art students. To his personal credit, he leaves a lasting legacy of art, beauty and a sustaining example, having led a life of purpose with unwavering determination and accomplishment.

Born on April 8, 1922 in Richmond Hill, New York, Angeloch served in the US Air Corps and Army during World War II where he was a pilot,

studied to be an engineer and ended up in medical school. He studied at The Art Students League of New York from 1946-1951, where he first began painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and printmaking with Martin Lewis. He spent the summer of 1947 learning the craft of making woodcuts with Fiske Boyd and it was that summer that Angeloch first studied nature working out of doors. For this reason he recently Continued on Page 13

by Violet Snow he Phoenicia Library was gutted by fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 19.

Within three days, plans were already in place to open a temporary library on Saturday, March 26, in the building recently vacated by Maverick Family Health, across from the Phoenicia post office.

“It’ll be a bare-bones operation,” cautioned library director Tracy Priest. “We’re restoring minimal services, but we want to open our doors. People can return library books and pick up books they’ve ordered from interlibrary loan. From the Mid-Hudson Library System, we’re borrowing a computer and components we need to check books in and out. We’ll open at 10 a.m., and Letter Friends, the early literacy program, will happen at its normal time, 11 a.m. We’re looking eventually to have a small lending library, which may be on the honor system, since all our bar codes were destroyed in the fire.”

Writing classes and other programs scheduled for later in the spring will be held as planned. It looks like at least a couple of computers will be donated for use by patrons.

The blaze was reported to have come from an electri-

cal fire, which started in the back of the building. “We don’t have a full report on the extent of the damage,” said Priest, who visited the building after the fire with the insurance adjuster and Town of Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley.

“The adjuster said there has to be a second claims adjustment because it’s considered a major loss. We don’t think any books or materials will be salvageable. But because of the location of the fishing collection, we may be able to clean some of that and save it.”

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection includes more than 500 fishing and nature books, plus an exhibit of fishing rods, lures, fly tying gear, and photographs.

“The books are a mess,” said Priest.

“Everything is fused together and melted.

What’s in the front of the building has been damaged by smoke and water, but everything there is like we left it. Then you cross a line towards the back, and everything is black. There’s a hole of the ceiling of the children’s room, and you can look right up into my office upstairs.

Everything from my desk is on the floor Continued on Page 7

LAUREN THOMAS

Pictured is the cast of 90 Miles off Broadway's upcoming production of "I Remember Mama". Top row, left to right: Dushka Ramic as Aunt Jenny, Wendy Rudder as Aunt Sigrid, Zane Sullivan as Nils, Joel Feldstein as Papa, Wayne Kreuscher as Uncle Chris, Julia Cohen as Katrin, Ken Thompson as Mr. Thorkelson and Sherry Kitay as Aunt Trina. Bottom row left to right: Chloe Gold as Dagmar, Kim Lupinacci as Mama and Carly Feldstein as Christina.

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Coming to terms

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Lloyd voters to decide on term limit extensions for town supervisor, clerk & highway superintendent

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he latest Onteora Central School District 2011-2012 budget proposal does not include massive layoffs as might be seen in other districts, but does feature the elimination of six teacher positions and reductions to part-time of another five, among job cuts in many sectors. The cuts are seen as a reaction to declining enrollment, but also contribute to a total plan that increases spending by only 0.87 percent, that would translate, based on revenue figures, to a 3.9 percent levy increase.

At the Tuesday, March 22 board of education meeting at Woodstock Elementary, school officials presented The Superintendent’s Recommended Budget to trustees that includes an increase in spending to a total of $50,477,497. If the board adopts the budget at its April 5 session, voters will be asked to vote on the budget on May 17. If voters reject the budget proposal, a contingency (or austerity) budget could be put in place that would eliminate $121,785 from the equipment budget line, as mandated by the

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90 Miles to present “I Remember Mama”

An Angeloch sky

Onteora board hears of cuts, tax rates, layoffs

INETY MILES OFF Broadway will present “I Remember Mama” at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The story shows how Mama,

with the help of her husband and her Uncle Chris, brings up the children in a modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, with sweetness and capability, sees her children through childhood, managing to educate them and to see one of her daughters begin a career as a writer.

Mama’s sisters and uncle furnish a rich

background for a great deal of comedy and a little incidental tragedy. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $8 for students on opening night only, $12 for seniors/students and advanced sales and $10 for members/groups.

For additional information, e-mail email@ninetymilesoffbroadway.com or call 256-9657.

N TUESDAY, NOV. 6, not only will residents vote on numerous contended races -- most notably being who shall become the president of the US -- but there will also be a plethora of local votes cast for federal, state, county and municipal political leaders.

In the Town of Lloyd, the only local referendum on the ballot is for voters to decide whether or not the town clerk, town highway superintendent and town supervisor should have their two-year terms extended to four years. These are all separate referenda, as suggested by Lloyd supervisor Paul Hansut, who said that he wants to give “voters a chance to weigh in on each and every position, and not lump them all together, as many towns have done in the past.”

The idea behind the four-year term, according to Hansut, is to give those elected to office “enough time to get familiar with the nuts and bolts of the job, Continued on page 12

The big read One Book/One New Paltz to read & discuss The Submission

by Erin Quinn

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Pictured are some of the members of the One Book/One New Paltz committee (left to right): Jacqueline Andrews, Linda Welles, Maryann Fallek, John Giralico, Shelley Sherman and Myra Sorin.

Phoenicia Library after the fire.

HAT WOULD HAPPEN if the selected architect for a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero turned out to be a Muslim-American? How would people react to the news, particularly those families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack? There are no easy answers to the questions raised by award-winning author Amy Waldman in her debut novel The Submission, chosen as this

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year’s One Book/One New Paltz readers’ selection.

In Library Journal, Sally Bissell remarks that this book is an “insightful, courageous, heartbreaking work that should be read, discussed, then read again.” This is exactly what One Book/ One New Paltz will attempt to do as it embarks on its seventh year of a communitywide reading program filled with events, reading groups, panels and featured authors and actors. One Book is a Continued on page 12

A cut above Esopus papercutting artist extraordinaire Jenny Lee Fowler

W

hen Jenny Lee Fowler moved from Oregon in 1997, she decided to mark each snowfall that first winter in the East by cutting a snowflake out of paper. Being a person who makes things by hand, it seemed like a fun thing to do. Then, like the icy flakes that drift lazily on the wind before becoming a full-fledged storm, the act of cutting paper snowflakes took on a momentum of its own as Fowler became fascinated with the folk tradition of papercutting.

One day, her father-in-law asked her if she’d ever done a portrait, like the silhouettes created by folk artists. Her interest piqued, Fowler dared herself to cut 100 portraits of people.

Beginning with friends and family, she later moved on to cutting portraits of strangers, who would sit for her at the campus center at Bard, where Fowler worked.

“I practiced a lot and found that I totally loved it,” says Fowler. “It kind of surprised me because I’d thought of silhouette portraits as these kind of ‘stuffy’ things, and then I realized that they were really cross-sections of people at a moment in time. I started to see them as more dynamic.”

Fowler came across a passage in which one of the early papercutters called silhouette portraits “a moment’s monument,” a description that she finds particularly apt. “They really do capture a little moment, and even the same person can have a different portrait the next day,” Fowler explains.

Artful papercutting is now Fowler’s niche, and the Continued on page 13

Beauty of the beat PHOTOS BY PHYLLIS MCCABE

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INGSTON’S CORNELL PARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL LAST SATURDAY,

where dozens gathered to get their drum on. At left, Hethe Brenhill of the Mandara ensemble, dances in the sun. At right, a member of the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) gets in the rhythm. For more pics, see page 10.

THEATER ON A TRAIN ‘Dutchman’ uses Trolley Museum’s subway car as unusual stage for play exploring sensitive topic of interracial relations.

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TEEN SCENE “The Den” to open in Midtown, giving youths a place to dance, gather and do something positive.

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FIGHTING FOR MIDTOWN Challengers in Ward 4 Common Council race say incumbent isn’t doing enough to help Kingston’s poorest neighborhoods get their fair share. Page 2

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BIG ‘O’ Organizers say second annual O-Positive fest will more art, tunes, awareness and health care to Kingston’s creative community.

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