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ALMANAC WEEKLY

A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & Classifieds | Issue 7 | Feb. 18 – 25

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Dorsky seeks entries for summer-camp-themed exhibition The annual “Hudson Valley Artists” show at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY-New Paltz is always a fun overview of recent output by visual artists in the region, loosely grouped under a different theme each year.

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Albany Art Museum, the Dorsky invites you to submit proposals for “Campsite,” contributing “artworks that are in touch with the seriousness of playful exploration” and “channel summer traditions and rituals associated with camp, resorts and festivals. This includes craft projects, wilderness encounters, improvised games, talent shows and more. Artists may wish to revisit the naïve impulses and emotional connections associated with their earliest handiwork and preferred materials or envision what summer camp means to them now.” While suggested media include “performance, textiles, ceramics, painting, drawing, installation, video and photography,” one cannot help imagining a creative Hudson Valley mind coming up with some apotheosis of the art of lanyard-making. (I suppose that counts as a textile of sorts.)

The exhibition will run from June 18 to November 13 in the Dorsky Museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. “Hudson Valley Artists” is open to all emerging and mid-career artists with a permanent mailing address and active art practice in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester Counties who have not had a major one-person museum exhibition and who are not currently represented by a commercial art gallery. Students are not eligible.

The submission deadline for “Hudson Valley Artists 2016: Campsite” is midnight on Monday, March 21. There is no application fee. Artists are invited to submit a maximum of six images or files of work created in 2014 or later. Brief proposals for new works to be created for this exhibition, including installation or performance works, may also be submitted. Submissions must be made online only at https://dorskymuseum. submittable.com/submit/52366.

For more information about the Dorsky Museum and its programs, call (845) 2573844 or visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

– Frances Marion Platt

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MOVIE

Scarlett Johansson in Hail, Caesar!

Big trouble in the Dream Factory Hail, Caesar! is the Coens’ trick bouquet to old Hollywood

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unny how the “Golden Age” of Hollywood is a construct more real in our collective cultural consciousness than it is onscreen. We see some contemporary movie or other that annoys us, and then selective memory takes over: We find ourselves wishing that modern studios would “make ’em like they used to.” While a fair few old classics from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s do stand up admirably to repeated viewing, the truth is that they represent a small minority of Hollywood’s mid-century output. Some of the “great” old movies that live blissfully inside our heads are best left that way, rather than tarnished by reacquaintance.

A lot of drek comes out now, and a lot of drek came out back then, too.

A more recent movie-industry institution built on a foundation of hipster irony, absurdist angst and post-Peckinpah gore-as-art, the Coen Brothers, seems an unlikely candidate to proffer today’s audiences an unabashed Valentine to the old Hollywood, but so it has come to pass: Their latest, Hail, Caesar! is often tongue-in-cheek but blissfully irony-free, and one of the most seamlessly enjoyable flicks to come down the pike in a good while. It is often laugh-out-loud funny, and embraces the bloated aesthetics of the days when mammoth studios ruled supreme even while it punctures them oh-so-affectionately.

Though it was a project oft sidelined while Joel and Ethan Coen worked on other things (they’d been tossing the idea back and forth for at least 12 years), Hail, Caesar! has the feel of a movie that these guys have longed to make for a long time. Set in 1951, it’s not their first vehicle that deals with the smelly underbelly of the Dream Factory, and the fictitious (and most symbolically named) Capitol Pictures is even the same studio that employed fictitious fish-out-of-water

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But tonally, Hail, Caesar! has very little to do with the Hollywood of Barton Fink. It’s satirical, yes, but it’s not at all dark – a movie made by a couple of wellestablished former upstarts who are no longer young, and no longer ashamed to admit that they love movies right down to their toes. Even the bad guys are only marginally bad: The Communist cell of underpaid screenwriters that kidnaps lunkhead megastar Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) consists not so much of sinister plotters for world domination as of intellectual windbags in tweed jackets with elbow patches who become somewhat less ideologically pure once they’ve converted the highly suggestible Whitlock to their cause and he asks for his fair share of his own ransom money.

The cost overruns caused by Whitlock’s disappearance at a critical point in the shooting of the titular high-budget biblical epic is just one in a typical day’s list of headaches for studio “fixer” Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), the film’s central character.

Crises like the unplanned pregnancy of an Esther Williamslike star (Scarlett Johansson) who can no longer squeeze with ease into her mermaid’s tail for an over-the-top water ballet scene, or the disastrous miscasting of a Gene Autryish singing cowboy with an untamable Western drawl (Alden Ehrenreich) in a sophisticated drawing-room melodrama, or the incessant pestering and threats of twin Hedda Hopperesque scandalsheet snoopers (both played by Tilda Swinton) competing for an exclusive – all drive Mannix up the wall, and into the confessional so often that even his priest complains.

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management job that will consistently let him get home in time for dinner with his family. But Mannix is damn good at what he does and knows it, and he is totally bought into the Dream Factory dream.

Giving the masses joy and escape through a night at the movies is his higher purpose in life. So we watch him negotiate the minefield of his stable of prima donnas and screw-ups, deftly playing one against another while desperately trying to retrieve his missing star.

It’s more of a shaggy-dog story in the vein of Raising Arizona or Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? than a tense crime caper; but the rambly narrative frequently cuts away to a long, opulently staged and shot production number from a Capitol Pictures soundstage, all of which are so on-point and adoringly Hollywoodesque that one doesn’t mind the frequent digressions at all. An acrobatic all-male song-and-dance sequence out of a musical comedy very like Anchors Aweigh and starring Channing Tatum in the Gene Kelly role is worth the price of admission all by itself.

The cast is splendid and everybody looks like they’re having a blast making this flick. Clooney has altogether too much fun sending up his own matinéeidol public image, shambling around a Malibu mansion while still in his Roman centurion getup and dimly-but-earnestly trying to grasp and digest all the partyline gobbledygook that he’s being fed by his captors. Coen Brothers stalwart (and Joel’s wife) Frances McDormand has a terrific comedic bit as a tough-as-nails film editor nearly done in by her machine.

Jonah Hill has only about three lines as an attorney retained by Mannix to solve the actress’s unwed motherhood problem via an adoption switcheroo, but absolutely nails

them with memorable tone and timing.

Funniest of all is the scene in which the drawing-room movie’s director tries, with perfect British manners and reserve showing hints of fraying at the seams from stress, to make a silk purse out of the hopeless sow’s ear that is the cowboy star. The director is played by the peerless Ralph Fiennes with the same sort of contained-but-transcendent lunacy that he brought to the role of the concierge of The Grand Budapest Hotel; and indeed, there’s a suggestion of Wes Anderson’s demented worldview in the Coen Brothers’ fraught, borderline-ridiculous dialogue for Hail, Caesar! (though not so much in its cinematography). Whenever Eddie Mannix confronts one of his errant minions, one hears faint echoes of Jack Webb playing Joe Friday in Dragnet, right around the time in which this movie is set.

What’s truly miraculous about Hail, Caesar! is the way that it balances, pitchperfect at all times, on the knife-edge between corny hommage and wicked send-up, teetering but never quite tumbling into camp. It’s sort of meta insofar as the Coens adopt the largerthan-life aesthetic that they’re in the process of dissecting, shooting the movie on film (hardly ever done anymore) with a visual lushness that evokes the days of Technicolor and Cinemascope while employing the technical tricks of today’s movie trade. In their able hands, Hail, Caesar! looks and feels most convincingly like Hollywood’s giddiest dream of itself.

It’s a frothy, silly, delight-filled reminder of why we still keep being lured out into the night, away from our mesmerizing small screens and handheld devices, to go to the cinema.

– Frances Marion Platt

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WHAT DRIVES THE TALENT UPRIVER THESE DAYS? It’s the brutal tempo of fashion change in the City, which has orphaned a lot of artists long before they had run out of good things to say; the well-documented vanishing revenues of the industry, which makes paupers of those who would have been doing quite nicely, thank you, only 20 years ago; the undeniable charms and allure of our landscape, our villages and what is left of their idyllic communal myth; and (this most of all) babies.

Catskill rock, circa 2016 Old Glenford Church hosts Burnell Pines CD release party on Saturday

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he first time that I heard the term “Catskill Rock” – dropped hopefully, as a putative scene that might be vibrant enough to blip on the national radar, in the same way that you might lobby the AMA to accept the reality of a disease that you made up so that you can patent its cure – was when the Saugerties-centered Paul Luke Band were bidding for national attention in the ’90s. The term, at that time, seemed designed to explain why we had a good ol’ mule-kicking, truck-driving rebel country rock band without a hint of lysergic vision quest or progressive politics up here in the land of the Band, Richie Havens, Orleans, Happy Traum, Paul Butterfield, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Robbie Dupree, Ed Sanders and Tom Pacheco. In other words, Luke’s claim was to and on behalf of the other Catskills: the Catskills of the indigenous, not the Catskills of the famed transplants who were more recognizable locally for their hushed-up drinking binges in the Woodstock clubs than for their exceedingly rare performances there.

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Brothers sound fiercely like Dylan and the Band much (but not all) of the time, their actual spirit fathers locally might have been the Paul Luke Band (a killer group that still gets out on occasion, by the way), simply by virtue of provenance.

Their bones are Catskill rock. The preternaturally gifted tribe of Eppard comes to mind, too: locals gone national, in a land where the story has always been the nationals come local.

Things have changed and stayed the same.

Our hills have flooded beyond measure with urban expat music professionals of some renown.

But guitar rock and urban-sensibility hill folk do not mint icons or fortunes anymore. They’re the new jazz, in that respect: a mature form that is peaking aesthetically but withering commercially (and jazz is the new classical, priceless but on grant-patronage life support). So the scale is modest, and the talk a little more workaday than when arguments would rage all night about the exact spot of Dylan’s bike crash, or whether it even happened at all.

What drives the talent upriver these days? It’s the brutal tempo of fashion change in the City, which has orphaned a lot of artists long before they had run out of good things to say; the well-documented

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vanishing revenues of the industry, which makes paupers of those who would have been doing quite nicely, thank you, only 20 years ago; the undeniable charms and allure of our landscape, our villages and what is left of their idyllic communal myth; and (this most of all) babies. Adorable, swaddled babies are the driver, the bright stars of babies shining like new hope in these dark times: a different hope from stardom, a different dream.

Musicians, especially those with prospects, are late breeders. But their audiences had already bailed for upstate. When the rabbit died, they knew where to go, too.

Levon is gone, and while the network of exceptional players he attracted lives on and thrives, the only Grammys landing locally these days are at the No Parking Studio in Rosendale. The fruitful intermingling of local and transplant talent is just a wonderful fact of our lives now. In many ways it’s a more viable and legitimate communal model than the shopworn myth of the ’60s, which was poisoned by more fame- and genderhierarchy than its apologists like to admit.

Unlike then, the “nationals” in this era of diminished expectations and per force grounded values are more likely to work and play (and CSA) locally – not just sleep and drink and buy properties here. All this means that, musically at least, this is the best time, by miles, in the history of the local scene. I dare you to disagree. I come armed with a lot of facts and CDs. Meanwhile, while factions of the Woodstock guard rather quaintly mull over who might be “next” from their stable

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and their auspices, the mid-Hudson Valley has already produced a nationally blipping “next” in the form of such exuberant indie bands as PWR BTTM, Diet Cig and several others. Those kids really couldn’t tell you the difference between Woodstock and Bethel, or be persuaded that it matters.

But they’ve mostly all moved to Brooklyn now, anyway. We’ll keep some cottages warm for them and their studios (and their babies if they be breeders, due date sometime around 2030).

Back in the land of what I am supposed to be writing about, Burnell Pines kicks off his fabulous new album Till the Day I Die with the song “The Catskills Stole My Heart.” If a 2:43 song has ever managed to feel more epic than this one, I am not aware of it. Over a choogling train groove and the darting, intricate filigree of guitars – slide and otherwise – and Marco Benevento’s piano and spooked, mantralike female backing vocals, the Woodstock-area native Jeremy Bernstein drops local references and road names while telling the oblique story of his own bewitchment by the Deus Loci, setting the stage for what may be the exemplary, proof-of-concept demonstration of Catskill rock, circa 2016. World, take note.

Cut after audacious cut, Till the Day I Die is PhD-level ruffian hill rock by a kid from these hills; but it is possessed of slick playing from all directions, boundlessly clever production, sonics and arrangement and an incredibly savvy sense of referentiality, deep fluency in the lexicon and subtraditions of classic rock.

It’s not a winking, ironic referentiality, mind you; this is true-believer, the redemption-of-rock stuff.

The cast that Bernstein assembled is pretty much the current A-list of New York City scene -refugee performing and production talent. Guitarist and coengineer Chris Maxwell made his name with the abrasive, angular art-rock band Skeleton Key, a band that didn’t have

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much use for the bedrock sounds of Neil Young or the Stones. Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell were in the whispery urban chamber-folk band Ida, a group far more likely to sound like Eric Satie than Gram Parsons. Kevin Salem played with Yo La Tengo, for Pete’s sake. Songwriter Rachel Yamagata cameos here, as do Mike + Ruthy and a number of other names that you might or should know.

Lest you or I assume naïvely that this is a simple case of the veteran pros making something slick and viable out of a hill kid with some good tunes, Jeremy Bernstein has been making exactly this kind of knowing, savvy and maximalist roots-rock records for years. While exceedingly wellplayed and -produced, Till I Day I Die is seamlessly of a piece with the virtuoso roots-rock records that Bernstein made with Stony Clove Lane (many members of which are in the house for this one too).

Bernstein’s mature aesthetic is an elusive paradox of raw and slick. The songs are sturdy, unfussy and unironic tales of falls and redemptions in a world both modern and evocatively retro. But the productions are vast, the layers and tracks virtually uncountable but pristinely coordinated. The specter of Exile on Main Street is everywhere. The record is also a reminder that everyone digs Neil Young.

Curiously, the majority of hired hands on Till the Day I Die seems to pitch in on the song “Days Gone By,” a soaring, delicate and strange folk ballad that stands out amidst the fuzzed-out and deep-pocket rockers that prevail on this exceptional record. It reminds me that, while “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “Up on Cripple Creek” might have been the big hits, “Whispering Pines” is the Band song that we all really revere around here, in the land of its making.

Till the Day I Die is due out on Royal Potato Family Records on February 19.

Burnell Pines celebrates the release with a show at the Old Glenford Church

Studio on Saturday, February 20 at 8 p.m.

Diggy Lessard opens. Admission is $10 in advance and $12 on the day of the show.

The Old Glenford Church Studio is located at 210 Old Route 28 in Glenford. For more information, visit www.burnellpines.com.

– John Burdick Burnell Pines’ Till the Day I Die CD release show with Diggy Lessard, Saturday, February 20, 8 p.m., $10/$12, Old Glenford Church Studio, 210 Old Route 28, Glenford; www.burnellpines.com.

Taj Mahal plays Bearsville this Friday

music. As a bridge-builder between Caribbean folk music and the blues, he may well have been entirely alone.

Hawaiian music, ragtime, reggae, zydeco: Mahal is a roots-music imperialist whose main point seems to be the global commonality of the blues.

Born in New York, adopted by Los Angeles, Mahal’s early band Rising Sons also included the guitarist and practical musicologist Ry Cooder: one of a handful of fellows who can rival Mahal in terms of global roots-music fluency. Mahal brings 50 years of recording and performing experience with him when he returns to the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Friday, February 19 at 9 p.m. Tickets range from $45 to $75 for this unique opportunity to see a living legend work in a boutique small-theater environment.

For tickets and more information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com or call (845) 679-4406. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

– John Burdick

Soñando plays the Falcon in Marlboro this Saturday

Taj Mahal’s importance as a oneman intersection of global music cannot be overstated. Beginning as an early (and top-shelf ) example of a rural blues revivalist, his Muse soon proved to be restless, tireless and geographically unbound. He was pivotal in the fusion of African and American

A Hudson Valley Latin dance music institution for what seems like 20 years, Soñando shows are also a blast.

Fluent in the many groove traditions and variations of Latin music, Soñando specializes in such styles as plena and son, salsa and merengue. The rhythm section is authentic and dynamic; the horn charts add the spice and color.

The longest-running dance party in the Hudson Valley returns to the Falcon – a place where they will be appreciated both for their danceability and for their command of this extremely subtle and sophisticated music – on Saturday, February 20 at 7 p.m. There is no cover,

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but generous donation is what keeps the top-tier talent coming to this remarkable venue. The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

Charles Busch previews The Lady at the Mic this Sunday at Helsinki Hudson

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For one night only, Helsinki Hudson presents “A Divine Evening with Charles Busch.” On Sunday, February 21 at 7 p.m., the actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and drag legend previews his new show, The Lady at the Mic. Busch pays tribute to four legends of the cabaret: Julie Wilson, Mary Cleere Haran, Elaine Stritch and Polly Bergen, plus Joan Rivers, all of whom Busch was close with.

Tickets cost $60 and are available at www.helsinkihudson.com. Helsinki Hudson is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson.

Get out plays Quinn’s in Beacon, the Anchor in Kingston To attain the distinctive, punctual, sternum-punishing precision that is

the hallmark of the style, many bands on the metal and hard-rock spectrum avail themselves not only of Satan and of dystopian rage, but also of quantization and extreme gating techniques, or at least the eyeballed alignment of bass and bass drum in their audio editors of choice. The intolerance of imperfection and that chopped-andformed feel are explicit and unapologetic in the poppier glitch-metal of Korn or Breaking Benjamin, but the practice is industrywide. This is not to say that most good hard-rock/metal cats can’t simulate the lockstep live; they can. Well, Mastodon can, at least.

Coming out of Kingston, the polyglot hard-genre band Get Out embraces a very different aesthetic on their full length debut Let Me In – one that revels in real-world temporal negotiations of real bands in real bars. The band proudly practices various metal and thrash modes of rocking, alongside some distinctive grungecraft (more Alice in Chains than Soundgarden) and the droning riff meditations of the popular underground phenomenon known as stoner metal (reference the legendary band Sleep for a very pure specimen thereof ). But in all of it, there is an appealing, unvarnished, play-it-as-it-lays naturalism to Let Me In that almost has more to do with the Stones, or maybe Guns n’ Roses before Matt Sorum tidied everything up.

The riffs chunk with authority; the leads squeal with dexterity; Greg Allen’s drums are mad, flexible and driving.

Atop the various idiomatic grooves, singer/lyricist Morgan Evans is all about the melodic hard-rock mode. His lyrics, delivered in a borderline operatic style, are fascinating fragmentations, combining a dark mythos (quite historically informed; no unintended Spinal Tap comedy here), a thinly-veiled political topicality, some personal journal processing and – get this

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in – a recurrent and genuine thematic thread of hope, gratitude and optimism, sometimes balanced artfully with the genre’s more conventional obsession with death and bad societies, as in the song “Moon Harvest”: They talk about my stage presence.

They talk about anti-depressants.

But I always remember to count my blessings.

But it’s Russian roulette.

Count to five, up next is...death.

Get Out is getting back to doing just that. After a personnel shakeup, the band is ready to hit it live again and celebrate this vibrant and smart work of indie hard rock. Next up are shows at Quinn’s in Beacon (Thursday, February 25) and the Anchor in Kingston (Saturday, February 27 at 9:30 p.m.) with Vajra and Surmiser.

Quinn’s is located at 330 Main Street in Beacon. The Anchor is located at 744/746 Broadway in Kingston.

For more information on Get Out, visit www.getoutband.com. To hear Let Me In, visit https://getoutrocks.bandcamp.com.

– John Burdick

er’s own The Wizard of Oz Fantasy, William Foden’s Grande Fantasie of American Songs (1924) and music for guitar derived from popular sources from the 16th and early 19th centuries.

The performance will be help in the Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall on the SUNY campus. Admission costs $8 for the general public, $6 for seniors and SUNY-New Paltz faculty and staff and $3 for students.

On February 23, the Julien J. Studley Theater hosts the traditional Jazz Faculty Jam, at which faculty members perform a selection of standards, ballads, originals and uptempo blues from the jazz tradition.

Admission costs $8 for the general public, $6 for seniors and SUNY-New Paltz faculty and staff and $3 for students.

For more information, visit www. newpaltz.edu/fpa or call (845) 257-3860.

The Lone Bellow to play Midnight Ramble in Woodstock

Leon Russell at Beacon’s Towne Crier on Friday

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Industry legend Leon Russell will perform at the Towne Crier in Beacon on Friday, February 19 at 8:30 p.m. The writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has written his name across the entire expanse of rock ‘n’ roll history in his 50+-year career. Admission costs $65.

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

Kairos performs Bach’s Cantata #161 this Sunday at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park Under the direction of Edward Lundergan, Kairos: A Consort of Singers presents the first performance in its 2016 Bach Cantata Series on Sunday, February 21 at 4 p.m. at Holy Cross Monastery on Route 9W in West Park. The featured work will be Cantata #161, “Komm, du süsse Todesstunde” (“Come, sweet hour of death”), a profound and lyrical meditation on mortality. The cantata, with alto soloist Maria Bedo and tenor soloist Glenn Knickerbocker, will be performed in the context of a choral evensong service.

Also on the program, violinist Rachel Evans will perform a sonata by Heinrich Bieber, and recorder players Joël Evans and Gregory Bynum will join with Kairos in the “Ave Maria” of Josquin des Prez. For more information, visit www. kairosconsort.org.

SUNY-New Paltz hosts classical guitar concert & Jazz Faculty Jam

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Classical guitarist and SUNY-New Paltz faculty member Greg Dinger presents a program of pieces bridging the divide between popular and classical styles on Thursday, February 18 at 8 p.m. The program includes Ding-

Full-bodied Americana indierockers the Lone Bellow claim Brooklyn as their home, but they are all transplanted Southerners, making their name in the borough where all bands are bound. Over two records, this band has distinguished itself with a particularly impassioned and grandiose take on gospelized roots-rock.

On their latest, 2015’s Then Came the Morning, they are as likely to evoke the reverberant spiritual grope of U2 as the rock maximalism of the Band.

Speaking of whom: The Lone Bellow visit the Midnight Ramble at the Levon Helm Studios on Saturday, February 27 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.levonhelm.com. The Levon Hem Studios are located at 160 Plochmann Lane in Woodstock.

Betty and the Baby Boomers to play Hudson River Maritime Museum benefit While the sloop Clearwater is currently in drydock for major repairs, the Hudson River Maritime Museum (HRMM) is gearing up to celebrate its 35th anniversary and marking another milestone: the launch in March of the long-promised Riverport Wooden Boat School (RWBS). A little over a year ago, the Museum acquired the building just to its north at 86 Rondout Landing, which used to be Rosita’s Restaurant. While many will miss the ability to sip margaritas on Rosita’s waterfront patio while pretending to be someplace coastal and subtropical, the prospect in store for the structure – which HRMM has spent the past year gutting and renovating – is quite exciting.

Inspired in part by the widely admired Rocking the Boat program in Hunts Point in the Bronx, which teaches boatbuilding, carpentry and sailing skills to inner-city youth, the Riverport Wooden Boat School will be largely focused on providing similar training to teens from BOCES and Kingston High School. Under the supervision of shipwright Jim Kricker, Clearwater’s master carpenter, young people will learn hands-on how to build a 27-foot pilot gig.

But sessions for adults are getting underway as well, beginning on March 9 with a six-session Woodcarving course, taught by Andy Willner on Wednesday

evenings and Saturday mornings. Classes in Boating Fundamentals, Vessel Safety and Navigation will follow in April and May. Tuition for the Woodcarving class costs $180, plus a $20 materials fee. You can preregister now through the Museum at www.hrmm.org.

Even sooner, local enviro-folkie faves Betty and the Baby Boomers will be performing a benefit concert for the HRMM and RWBS on Saturday, February 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and can also be purchased on the HRMM website. For more info, call the Museum, located at 50 Rondout Landing in Kingston, at (845) 3380071. For more on RWBS, visit www. riverportwoodenboatschool.org.

Lucky 5 play Rosendale Café this Saturday

Swing and Gypsy jazz revivalists the Lucky 5 return to the Rosendale Café on Saturday, February 20 at 8 p.m.

The highly seasoned touring musicians in this band sport credits that describe a place where tradition meets avant-garde experimentalism. Members have been part of the Hunger Mountain Boys and Lauren Ambrose & the Leisure Class, and traveled, performed and recorded with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Tony Bennett, Neko Case, Iris Dement, Bobby Previte, Del McCoury and Jim Lauderdale, to name a few. The band plays originals as well as original interpretations of jazz standards.

Admission costs $10. For more information, call (845) 658-9048 or visit www.rosendalecafe.com. The Rosendale Café is located at 434 Main Street n Rosendale.

Olana's reading series, Sunday Art Studios & “Socialize, Stitch & Sip” One of Frederic Church’s favorite books was Arabella Buckley’s A Fairy Land of Science, which invited readers to imagine a view of the Earth looking down through the “deep air.” The folks at Olana have pictured the Hudson River School artist and world traveler heeding Buckley’s advice to “listen sometimes to the small voices of nature” as they planned their upcoming Interdisciplinary Arts Reading Se-

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ries called “Deep AIR” (with a double meaning of artists-in-residence).

Now in its second year and described as “a series of talks at Olana designed to navigate contemporary artistic practice as it relates to travel, ecology, history and landscape,” “Deep AIR” 2016 kicks off on Saturday afternoon, February 27 (snow date February 28) with readings by crossover artists Christopher Stackhouse and Lori Anderson Moseman, A questionand-answer session and reception with tea and cake will follow.

Both a visual artist and a writer on the arts, the Brooklyn-based Stackhouse wrote in Seismosis, his recent book with the artist John Keene, about how the gap between real-world experience and drawing parallels “my interiority exteriorized.” His illustrated talk will examine translations from word to image. In her book Full Quiver, New Paltz poet Lori Anderson takes the reader to Bronze Age (1700-600 BCE) Anatolia, where Luwian hieroglyphs recorded human experience. Anderson Moseman juxtaposes the symbology of the Luwian writing system with contemporary QR code (those little boxes of squares-withinsquares used for product scanning) to intervene and mediate the act of reading, “taking us across time and space to places we forgot to study.”

This guided tour of “uncharted geographies of meaning” sets forth at 1 p.m. in the Wagon House Education Center at the Olana State Historic Site.

The entry fee is $10 general admission, $5 for Olana members. Reserve tickets by calling (818) 828-1872, extension 105, e-mailing ahufnagel@olana.org or online at www.olana.org/education. Future programs in the “Deep AIR” series will feature Claire Hero and Danielle Vogel

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on Saturday, March 12, Joan Retallack and Xaviera Simmons on Sunday, April 24 and Mathew Friday and Cara Benson on Sunday, May 15.

Also coming up at Olana: a new series of drop-in Sunday Art Studios designed for local families, heritage and art tourists and regular visitors. The 30-minute sessions are suitable for all ages, and everyone leaves with a work of art. Next Sunday, February 28 between 10 a.m. and

12 noon, visitors will be able to create a 3-D paper model of Olana’s main house, as designed by Church himself with advice from architect and close friend Calvert Vaux. The free Sunday Art Studios take place in the Visitors’ Center/Museum Store, and no preregistration is required.

Finally, Olana celebrates Isabel and Frederic Church’s diverse collection of embroidered textiles and needlework artworks with a monthly “Socialize, Stitch and Sip” series taught by Sandra Feck. Adults from beginner to experienced levels can learn the lost art of embroidery and enjoy some great wine, beginning this Saturday, February 20 (snow date: February 21) with “Samplers 1.0.” The series continues on March 19 with “Embroidery on Pre-Printed Fabrics” and April 23 with “Beading on Fabric.”

Participants are welcome to attend one class or sign up for all three, which run from 4 to 6 p.m. The series will be held in the Wagon House Education Center. The cost of the program is $20 for members, $25 general admission and $50 for the entire series. All supplies, wine, and cheese are included. To preregister, call (518) 828-1872, extension 105, or visit www.olana.org/education.

The Olana State Historic Site is located at 5720 State Route 9G in Hudson.

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Mr. Pennygraff’s Cirkus Sideshow Spectacle February 20 at 11 am Keith Bindlestiff, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, takes you on an entertaining “tour” from the Sideshow to the Big Top with jaw-dropping sideshow feats, amazing stunts and circus skills including spinning tops, spinning plates, spinning ropes, and whirling machetes!

Bubble Trouble February 27at 11 am A bubble volcano. Bubble roller coaster. A kid in a bubble?

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ART Something wild A visit to artist Kathy Ruttenberg's mountaintop studio in Woodstock

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rtist Kathy Ruttenberg lives at the end of a long road up a mountain, and at dusk it’s easy to miss the small sign off the main road. By the time I find her place, it’s dark, and all that are visible are the lit doorways of two adjacent buildings, each painted to resemble a jungle of blooming flowers, framing a glass door, as dark as a fish tank, over which snake gnarly branches. In the shadows I can make out a giant-head planter, sculpted animal heads positioned like trophies atop the expansive wooden fence and a couple of nearly life-size figures lounging on the ground near the house, in a frozen tableau of a summer picnic. Ruttenberg’s black Russian terrier, Roulette, barks behind the glass door on the left, and in a minute the artist opens the door.

We go into the studio, an immense white brightly lit space as big as a barn.

Thousands of ceramic pieces are cluttered on tables, shelves and stools of all heights and sizes. Two flat, textured rabbits, a sculpture of a stag head, watercolors of mushrooms and figures cavorting in the forest, large paintings of figures and faces, close-up photographs of bugs and a relief of a greenish oak tree, with a thick cluster of branches and leaves, hang on the walls.

Wandering among the tables, one sees ceramic fragments resolve themselves like startling visions: a miniature pair of standing legs; the recumbent top half of a woman with a thick cornucopia of hair and graceful, beckoning arms, like the figurehead of a ship; a face-down reclining nude, hair and shoe-clad feet pointed upwards, as if pulled by tidal currents; glazed faces, both animal and human, in dozens of colors and sizes; a sitting dog; a cluster of spiky branched thick-trunked trees, which seem to lean toward the light; and a man-size yellow daisy face, framed by giant white petals, gracefully dangling from a long, spiky green stem.

It is equal parts Santa’s workshop, Alice in Wonderland, the Brothers Grimm, Peter Pan’s Neverland and Fantasia, a magical world whose myriad creatures are strangely still and mute, as if bewitched.

“I’m obsessed with the forest floor,” said Ruttenberg, pointing to a flat piece covered with mushrooms, acorns, leaves, a bird and other detritus, from which protrude a pair of female legs in pointy shoes, recalling the dead stockinged legs of the witch in The Wizard of Oz. “My trees start small, and before you know it I need scaffolding to finish them.”

Ruttenberg points out several pieces that she’s working on simultaneously: a maquette of a miniature forest in which a courtly figure with a stag head kneels; an enormous hollow female head with an opening in the back, revealing a Mattalike landscape in relief on the interior concave walls, where the artist plans to insert a monitor showing an animated film; a large frame, whose surface resembles lichen-encrusted bark, for one of her graphite drawings of forest creatures; a still-headless-and-armless four-foot-high female figure in lingerie and small highheeled shoes leaning against a tree; and a full-size, perfectly balanced acrobat, reminiscent of Picasso’s harlequins and Edie Nadelman’s delicately proportioned

Artist Kathy Ruttenberg

folk figures, bent over in a large U, with a flat plate on the small of his back designed to spin. There’s a small upright nude, as erect as a Greek caryatid, with a cracked patina like an antique doll and a fountainlike spray of peacock feathers atop her head; and two small female figures, one with a stag, the other with a snail on her head, who embrace the trees and animals projecting from the surface of their full skirts; clothing surfaces open up to forest scenes, suggesting an infinitude of worlds, from macro to micro, an unfolding metamorphosis.

The most ambitious piece consists of a large tree trunk, whose multihued, roughtextured surface resembles birchbark, with a hole cut in the middle to reveal a video of a Daddy longlegs climbing over green leaves; Ruttenberg plans to transform the film into an animation by drawing over the leaves. A reclining female figure fabricated from clear plastic will perch atop the branches, illuminated by colored lights positioned inside the hollowed trunk and perhaps twirling around by some kind of mechanism. Her pieces tend to develop new parts and technologies organically, growing in size and sophistication.

Her palette consists of tiny glazed square test tiles, dozens of which are arranged on high shelves along the left back wall;

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IT IS EQUAL PARTS SANTA’S WORKSHOP, Alice in Wonderland, the Brothers Grimm, Peter Pan’s Neverland and Fantasia, a magical world whose myriad creatures are strangely still and mute, as if bewitched.

Festival and created the animated trailer in conjunction with Curious Pictures.

He r 2 01 3 solo exhibition at the Stux Gallery, in Chelsea, received a favorable review by Roberta Smith in The New York Times, and her property was used for a fashion shoot in the Italian Elle issue of October 2013, with her art serving as whimsical props. This year, Ruttenberg’s pieces will be represented in half a dozen shows, including the ongoing winter group exhibition at the Elena Zang Gallery, in Shady; “Made for You: New Directions in Contemporary D e s i g n ,” w h i c h opened at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY-New Paltz on February 6; and “SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity,” which opens March 5 at Arts Westchester.

She will be exhibiting in a group show in London’s Sladmore Contemporary Gallery in May and will have a solo show at STUX + Haller Gallery, on 57th Street in New York City.

The Italian edition of Elle magazine is also planning a second shoot at her property and studio for the April issue.

We step outside her studio, under a big sky with brilliant stars, the faint yellow glow of DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY Kingston visible over the dark shadow of mountains to the east, she uses them to experiment with new and follow the pinpoint of light from her flashlight to the specially designed wooden combinations and firings of different glazes, creating earthy greens and browns huts housing her Nigerian dwarf, pygora or misty blues with a gorgeous cracked and African pygmy goats. A shed with patina, as nuanced as Nature herself. After indoor/outdoor runs for the rabbits and a experimenting with the tiles, Ruttenberg “pig palace” extend down the walkway, all will apply the of them decorated with ar tworks complicated array and securely of glazes to a sculpture to suggest protected from flesh, bark, foliage, coyotes by latched clothing, fur or the wooden doors. forest floor, which Ruttenberg keeps serves as the base miniature horses, of many pieces goats, pigs, and is increasingly chickens, turkeys, becoming molten and abstract. peacocks and rabbits: a menagerie that As we pass into the anteroom, two requires her daily love and attention and floating white dresses, made of papierfeeds her inspiration. She spends a couple mâché, are suspended from the ceiling, of hours each day tromping through the ruffled by a perpetual imaginary breeze, woods exercising the horses, pigs, goats and crazily stacked vintage lampshades, or rabbits (the particular species changes also hanging from the ceiling, form a from day to day), always accompanied by shabby-chic candelabra. More chandeliers her dogs. hang in the house, including one in the On the other side of the house is the living room in which the white dresses of horse barn, lit by star-shaped lamps, as a quintet of girls, each holding a flower, if it had fallen to earth from the starry are transformed into glowing lampshades. sky. More critters reside within her artRuttenberg also designs rugs, wallpaper, filled house: A pig sleeps on a blanket bags, dishtowels and other items onto in a corner of the hall; parakeets and which her whimsical language of nature finches flit in two large cages in the and figures naturally flow. She designed window-lined breakfast room, observed the 2011 poster for the Woodstock Film by an ancient gray/brown rescue cat;

“I’m obsessed with the forest floor,” said Ruttenberg

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A View of Poughkeepsie

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ant to show your support for regional artists and expand your own art collection, but can’t afford thousanddollar pricetags? The Barrett Art Center and Dutchess County Art Association’s annual “100 for 100” Gala and Fine Art Raffle, coming up this Sunday afternoon at the Locust Grove Estate, is a great way to acquire a fine artwork while contributing to the upkeep of an important Poughkeepsie visual arts venue.

Tickets for the annual fundraising event cost $100, which entitles each of 100 ticketholders and a guest to enjoy local live entertainment and a catered reception with wine, as well as to select one original artwork – including paintings, prints, drawings and mixed-media works made by Art Center members and supporters – to take home. Each year, a local artist is featured at the event in recognition of his or her contributions to the art community in the Hudson Valley. This year’s Silent Auction item is A View of Poughkeepsie, a watercolor by plein air painter/Woodstock School of Art faculty member Staats Fasoldt. Fasoldt will also teach watercolor classes at the Barrett Art Center beginning this spring.

“100 for 100” will be held on from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, February 21 at the Locust Grove Estate, located at 2683 South Road (Route 9G) in Poughkeepsie. Lola’s Catering and the Millbrook Winery will provide the sips and nibbles. The raffle drawing for ticketholders to select artworks will begin at 5 p.m. To reserve tickets, call (845) 471-2550, e-mail info@barrettartcenter. org or visit www.barrettartcenter.org.

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and two terriers, adept at stealing the much-larger black Russian terrier’s bone, trot around the kitchen. Several angora rabbits are housed in hutches crafted from twigs, with Victorian furniture and her ceramic heads in the bedroom, which is a veritable lair for a forest queen, with its art-covered walls, hanging papier-mâché sculptures of human-faced dragonflies, clustered animal figurines on the floor and shelves, charming wallpaper (designed by Ruttenberg) of delicately drawn animals, powder-blue animal stairs, fanciful chandelier and wall sconces and floralpatterned chairs and footstools.

The daughter of a businessman and his artist wife, Janet Ruttenberg, Kathy always made art while growing up in New York City, although the process was fraught with tension: “I tried so hard not to like my mother’s art,” she said, noting that now she is very much a fan. (Both artists are currently showing their work at the Dubuque Museum of Art, in Janet’s hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.) “People would say, ‘Oh, you’re an artist just like your mother,’ and I’d say ‘no, I’m not like my mother at all.’” In 2013, New York Magazine profiled Janet’s and Kathy’s different painting and living styles (Upper East Side versus Catskills country house), which revealed a similar taste for the whimsical and theatrical. “We share a passion for visual experience,” said Kathy. “I want to grow up just like her, after trying to be different all these years.”

Ruttenberg loved riding horses, and her life took an unexpected turn at age 19 after she tumbled off a horse, fell into a coma and experienced months of amnesia.

“I went from being a horse girl to a cool kid,” she said. She attended the School of Visual Arts, making animated films.

After graduating she showed her small clay sculptures and paintings in nightclub bathrooms and East Village galleries. It was the 1980s, and she hung out with many of the luminaries of the downtown scene: Anton Fier, the drummer of the Lounge Lizards, was a roommate, and Jean Michel Basquiat gave her a drawing that he made at her loft one day. Patricia Fields was also a friend and fan of her work.

“My work was always figurative and biographical, and I was making these little constructions of cityscapes in boxes or drawers I’d find on the street.”

She started a gallery in TriBeCa with some artist friends, whose renovation was paid for by Merchant/Ivory Productions and its distributor, Tri-Star. (The film company used the gallery to publicize the opening of its film Slaves of New York. The screenplay was by Tama Janowitz and the film featured Ruttenberg’s work.)

Years later, her life took another turn when she got a dog after breaking up with her Spanish boyfriend (“I picked up the puppy in New Jersey in a snowstorm driving my 1950s Cadillac; men would leave me love notes on the car”) and decided to leave the City. “The dog connected me to who I was before the accident. All of a sudden I was no longer the cool kid but the dog lady...I was at the dog run on Houston Street and a lady said, ‘Go to Woodstock.’” She bought her mountaintop property, a foreclosure, 24 years ago; at the time, real estate prices

were depressed and it seemed like a risky purchase, but Ruttenberg knew in her heart that this is where she wanted to be.

At first she came up only on weekends, but after the painful breakup of her marriage, she moved to the Catskills fulltime, finding healing in the connection to nature and her art. “You need your heart broken. It cracks you open. I was in a very dark place and had to pull myself out of it.”

Meanwhile, around 2000 she took a ceramics course in the City. “My paintings were very flat, and I was searching for something that would give my story more intensity,” she said. She bought a kiln from Bailey Pottery, in Kingston, and started improvising. “As soon as I touch clay I’m channeling the Earth. Things are coming out of me I don’t recognize. I became obsessed.”

Ruttenberg’s passion and generosity extend to conservation issues. She has donated her designs, products and artworks to benefit Green Chimneys (a Brewster-based nonprofit that uses animals to help special-needs children), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, the Lemur Conservation Foundation and the Woodstock Land Conservancy.

She has traveled extensively, often in conjunction with WCS and the American Canine Association, visiting the Arctic, Antarctica, Peru, Rwanda and Uganda, Bhutan and India, filling notebooks with her sketches of wildlife from each place and connecting with the wildlife, even if it meant “sitting on the jungle floor in Peru and having your ass eaten alive by

grubs.” However, the pull to be at home in her studio and beloved mountaintop is just as strong: the desire to “stay in one place and go deeper. I’ve been watching how white fungi is growing out of this one branch that was covered with green lichen. I have this crazy hair, and sometimes a branch will grab my hair as if to say, ‘Hey, you’re walking too fast.’”

Ruttenberg doesn’t find the isolation the least bit oppressive. “I want to live with my rabbits, and I’m not sure a male Homo sapiens would fit into that landscape,” she said. She can’t wait to wake up every morning and get into the studio. “My language is developing more and more. I feel like I have more characters showing up in my work, such as the goat man, the dog man and the bird lady. It’s part of my theater and it’s all related to my life. New doors are opening in my heart. If you’re very serious and you stick with something long enough, you’ll become a success.

“A dear family friend, Gloria Vanderbilt, suggests that to keep a youthful attitude, ‘You have to fall in love every day, whether it’s with color or a man.’ I am in love with my animal family, both wild and domestic. I feel inspired by all my new media and the animation I am experimenting with. I’m also having deepening relationships with both longterm friends and new acquaintances, feeling more at peace with myself.

“This place has been both the source of bountiful and endless creativity and my prison. I love it so much I find it hard to leave. It’s about me and my animals.

I’m living the life of a nine-year-old, and every nine-year-old who comes here says, ‘I want to live just like her.’”

Ruttenberg’s work can currently be seen in the winter group show at the Elena Zang Gallery (3671 Route 212, Shady); in the group exhibition “Made for You: New Directions in Contemporary Design,” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNYNew Paltz, through July 10; and with her mother’s work, in “Janet Ruttenberg: Figure in the Landscape/Kathy Ruttenberg: Landscape in the Figure” at the Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa. Her monumental sculpture, which depicts a ceramic female figure crowned with mushrooms holding a brown, rootlike penis plant, is featured in “SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity,” which opens March 5 at Arts Westchester. She also will be included in a group show of ceramic sculptures at London’s Sladmore Contemporary Gallery May 5 to 30 and is having a solo show at STUX + Haller Gallery, 24 West 57th Street in New York City, in the fall, to be followed by a solo show in May 2017 at the Sladmore.

– Lynn Woods

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STAGE Speaking out, signing on A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer to be performed & signed on Rhinebeck stage

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n the telling, women take their power back,” writes Eve Ensler in her introduction to A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer.

The anthology of poetry and prose on the topic of violence against women, co-edited by Ensler with Mollie Doyle in 2007, is the basis for the theatrical production of the same title at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 28 at 3 p.m.

Admission is by donation, with half of all proceeds benefiting Grace Smith House, Inc., the Poughkeepsie-based nonprofit that has provided shelter, advocacy and counseling to victims of domestic abuse since the 1970s. The presentation of A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer marks International Women’s Day on March 8 and the now-annual V-Day events held worldwide on Valentine’s Day to protest against relationship violence.

The production, directed by Tracy Carney with choreography by Leighann Kowalsky, involves a series of staged readings written and performed by men and women. The cast includes Jennifer Delora, a deaf actor who will not only speak and sign her monologue, “Conversations with my Son” by Susan Miller, but also remain on stage throughout the readings to sign the performances of the other actors.

“After being cast in the show, I asked the director if I might be able to sign and

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Rehearsal photo of Jennifer Delora, Norm Magnusson and Cat Barney in A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck. The production involves a series of staged readings written and performed by men and women. The cast includes Delora (left), a deaf actor who will not only speak and sign her monologue, “Conversations with my Son” by Susan Miller, but also remain on stage throughout the readings to sign the performances of the other actors.

speak my monologue,” says Delora, who was not born deaf, but gradually lost her hearing from the age of five. “She was very enthusiastic about the idea, since we are all bringing so much of ourselves into each piece. After further discussion, we decided that I would sign all of [the monologues] to create a first-time, inclusive performance for all three shows.”

Delora will have access to the script onstage, but is memorizing all of the monologues and corresponding translations because her body language cannot be blocked by a podium for the signing to be fully visible. Signing the monologues onstage – rather than interpreting them stageside, as is the usual case when American Sign Language (ASL) is utilized for a performance – means that members of the audience who are deaf will be able to experience the entire show in this way alongside hearing audiences without having to take their eyes off the action.

And that may ultimately mean more than just inclusion to some (as valuable as that alone is). A number of studies from reputable researchers have indicated that deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are at an increased risk of being victims of relationship violence.

The reasons for this include the lack of an interpreter when law enforcement is called in, where the abused person may not be able to communicate fully to police while the abuser manipulates the situation. The abusive partner may take away the deaf individual’s communication devices, or intimidate him or her through

exaggerated gestures. And abusers may not tell victims when people call on the phone or try to intervene, to make them believe that they have fewer options.

Delora herself is a survivor of what she terms “deaf-on-deaf violence,” with a full spinal fusion as a result of the abuse.

“The subject matter is of great personal importance to me,” she says, “and I felt it was of the utmost importance to provide access to this subject matter to all audiences. I hope other theater companies take note and realize it isn’t that hard to include ASL within a production and provide equal access for all.”

A native of the Hudson Valley, Delora pursued a film career in Los Angeles for a time, where she established a deaf-run theater company and hosted a talk show called Deaf Perspectives. A member of the American Board of Disability Analysts, Dr. Delora has taught ASL for more than 25 years, most recently at the Town of Esopus Library. Delora interpreted the Kingston mayoral debate recently and would like to help establish communication access for the deaf in all political, entertainment and community forums in the area. “One of my dreams is to work with UPAC or Bethel Woods to provide them with the opportunity to include deaf audiences at their events,” she says. “Deaf people like concerts and comedy as much as the next guy!”

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Luc Sante reads from The Other Paris at Bard The highly decorated, Belgiumborn American essayist and critic Luc Sante (Kill All Your Darlings, The Factory of Facts) reads from his latest book, The Other Paris, at Bard Hall on the campus of Bard College on Thursday, February 25 at 7 p.m. Currently a visiting professor at Bard, Sante (pictured above in a photo bt Laura Levine) conceived of The Other Paris as a book that would challenge the standard narrative of the great city.

A lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime and popular entertainment, and of the reporters, singers, pamphleteers and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the story from the bons vivants and the speculators.

It offers a panoramic view of the shadow city within the great French metropolis, drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses, from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers and tramps.

For more information, call (845) 7587054 or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.

You Can’t Take It with You in Rhinebeck Bizarrely dysfunctional families have long been the meat and potatoes of dark comedy; but it’s tough to imagine someone coming up with, say, The Royal Tenenbaums if George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart hadn’t gotten there first in 1936 with the chaotically loopy Vanderhof/Sycamore/Carmichael clan. Their assorted eccentricities and the roadblocks that they place in the path of true love are the endur-

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College in 2004, where he had taught since 1974, he still lives the rest of his year near Poughkeepsie.

In 2009 I heard Grennan, who had graciously volunteered to feature at a session of the Poets for Food series. He did not read again in Ulster County until last year, when I heard him at the UUCC and also at Nina Shengold’s Word Café.

When I asked Grennan why he had not read in or nearly a decade, the series now known as New World the area more often, he Writers’ Night has been tapping into the mid-Hudson Valreplied, “Nobody else ley’s long tradition of area poets and prose writers. Two outhas asked me.” Amazed, I asked if he would come standing poets are on the series’ agenda soon: Mark Wunto New World, and he derlich on February 25, and Eamon Grennan on April 28.

Mezzaluna Writers’ Night was my own favorite venue, and I attended agreed. it regularly. When poet Judith Lechner – at least the third to run the So far Grennan series – decided to retire at the end of 2013, I offered to continue just is the author of at least because I didn’t want to see it end. And when Mezzaluna closed at 19 books – including six the end of 2014, we were fortunate enough to find it a hospitable new published by Graywolf home at New World Home Cooking, where it has its own room and Mark Wunderlich – and has had poems New World’s excellent food for creative inspiration. The readings now published in nearly every take place at New World on the last Thursday of each month, at 7 p.m. There is prestigious poetry magazine, including Poetry Magazine itself (another print venue no admission charge, although we do take a voluntary collection for the featured that he shares with Wunderlich). Collins, perhaps America’s best-known poet, elaborates on his appreciation: “Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in writers, and the evening includes an open mic, which is usually of high quality. the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to Mark Wunderlich was born in Minnesota in 1968 and remained in the Midwest until he earned his MFA degree at Columbia University. His first book, Anchorage, the marvels of the Earth. To read him is to be led on a walk through the natural published in 1999 by the University of Massachusetts Press, is largely a celebration of world of clover and cricket and, most of all, light, and to face with an open heart his gay identity. It originated as his MFA thesis, and he finished it in Provincetown, the complexity of being human.”

Massachusetts. His two books since, Voluntary Servitude and The Earth Avails, The feature at New World for March is not yet settled, but in May we’ll have a were published by the prestigious literary house Graywolf Press. Lechner heard Prose Night with Jana Martin and Brent Robison, and in July, my own writing Wunderlich read at an art gallery in Saugerties and recommended him to me. Then group, the Goat Hill Poets. All lovers of good writing are welcome to attend this I heard him for myself at another fine poetry series, at the Unitarian Universalist series, where food and drink are served in our room in the back, but there are no Congregation of the Catskills (UUCC), where I immediately asked him to read at minimums or requirements; some come just to listen or to read in the open mic.

New World. Wunderlich has taught at Bennington College for more than a decade, Those who intend to have dinner before the reading can make reservations by but he lives near Catskill, placing him within reach of our series. His readings are calling (845) 246-0900. as effective as his writing.

– Leslie Gerber “The amazing Eamon Grennan,” as Billy Collins calls him, is simply one of the New World Writers’ Night, Thursdays, February 25 (Mark Wunderlich), April 28 greatest living poets in the English language. He was born in Dublin in 1941 and (Eamon Grennan), 7 p.m., free, New World Home Cooking, 1411 Route 212, Saustill spends part of every year in Ireland. But since his retirement from Vassar gerties; (845) 246-0900, www.newworldhomecooking.com.

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ing subject matter of Kaufman and Hart’s Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece, You Can’t Take It with You. With the family’s patriarch, Grandpa Vanderhof, being a crank who ultimately brings the Feds down on his household because he’s 24 years in arrears on his income tax, You Can’t Take It with You took on fresh topicality with the Tea Party uprising.

Now it’s the Rhinebeck Theatre Society’s turn to mount a production during the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck’s Americana-themed 2016 stage season.

Nicola Sheara directs. The show runs from February 19 to 21, with performances beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost $24 and $22, and can be ordered online at www.centerforperformingarts. org or by calling the box office at (845) 876-3080. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308, about 3.5 miles east of downtown Rhinebeck.

Limón Dance Company veteran to discuss documentary at Unison Called the “greatest male dancer of his own and any other time,” by The New York Times, Mexican-born dancer/choreographer José Limón (1908-1972) was unquestionably one of the giants of the modern dance revolution of the 20th century. He studied with the legendary Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, danced on Broadway, founded a company in 1946 that remains a vital institution to this day. Along the way, Limón refined a lyrical, powerful movement language all his own that seemed to echo the principles of martial arts disciplines, his organic “fall-and-recovery” technique emanating from the body’s core and emphasizing the use of the dancers’ own weight and momentum. His original choreography lives on as well, interpreted by many other ensembles

besides the José Limón Dance Company; his tension-filled take on Shakespeare’s Othello, The Moor’s Pavane, is still considered a classic of the genre.

Malachi Roth’s documentary about the great dancer, Limón: A Life beyond Words, narrated by Uta Hagen and Isaiah Sheffer, will be shown next Sunday at the Unison Arts & Learning Center in New Paltz. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sarah Stackhouse, an associate professor at SUNY-Purchase who danced with the José Limón Dance Company from 1958 to 1969. Today Stackhouse is one of the leading stagers of Limón’s ballets for dance companies around the globe, so her insights should be compelling indeed.

Limón: A Life beyond Words will be presented at 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 28 at Unison, which is located at 68

Mountain Rest Road in New Paltz.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $10. For more information, call (845) 2551559 or visit http://unisonarts.org.

Mohonk Mountain Stage Company’s Funny Business (Round Two) Though no longer situated in its longtime home at Unison Arts, the 22-year-old Mohonk Mountain Stage Company (MMSC) is still very active in New Paltz, regularly presenting its Readers’ Theatre dramatic readings at the Woodland Pond retirement community. Next weekend MMSC will perform Round Two of its popular Funny Business program, focusing on humorous short stories including The

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Anarchists’ Convention by John Sayles and The House of Mirth by Peter De Vries. Ponies are alleged to be involved.

Robert Miller selected and edited the scripts; the reader/actors include Christine Crawfis, Janet E. Nurre, Michael Frohnhoefer and Richard Cattabiani. Funny Business (Round Two) will commence at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27 at Woodland Pond of New Paltz, located at 100 Woodland Pond Circle off North Putt Corners Road. Tickets cost $15 at the door, and may be reserved in advance by calling (845) 380-0155.

MMSC’s spring season will continue with An Evening of Walt Whitman on March 18. For more info, visit www. mohonkmountainstage.com.

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NATURE Catskill Interpretive Center hosts lecture on ancient Hudson Valley structures this Saturday One of the eerier pleasures of outdoor living in the Hudson Valley is the sudden discovery while hiking of the stone remains of some humanmade structure. They may be relatively recent, post-Colonial: a cairn of flat rocks piled up to mark a turn in a trail, the collapsed chimney or foundation of some huckleberry-picker’s cabin, the windbreak walls of a livestock enclosure, the berms of a root cellar. Other rock shelters seem to be the hunting or fishing camps of the region’s indigenous peoples; some have turned up artifacts that go back to the end of the last Ice Age. And then there are a few with more mysterious origins and purposes that evoke the ritual stone circles and megaliths of Pagan Europe: clusters of stones that seem to align with astronomical phenomena and the cycle of the seasons. Glenn Kreisberg, a radio frequency engineer, writer and current chair of the Overlook Mountain Center in Woodstock, is a past vice president of the New England Antiquities Research Association, a group of curious folk who are fascinated by these cryptic ancient structures and determined to discover what they were used for. Kreisberg has researched and published articles and interviews on electromagnetism and

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Talk on carnivores at Cary Institute

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ions, tigers, wolves, wild dogs and other charismatic carnivores are often depicted as being on the brink of extinction. Dr. Joshua Ginsberg of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies paints a more complicated picture. In his upcoming lecture at the Cary Institute in Millbrook, Dr. Ginsberg will discuss how, over the last few decades, global populations of many large carnivores have either stabilized or have started to recover. The audience will learn which animals are on the rebound and what their improvement tells us about the future of wildlife conservation.

This event takes place on Friday, February 19 at 7 p.m. The Cary Institute is located at 2801 Sharon Turnpike in Millbrook. For more information, call (845) 677-7600, extension 121, or visit www.caryinstitute.org.

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Cary Institute President Dr. Joshua Ginsberg will present a special lecture on the fragile global recovery of large carnivores.

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alignments between landscape features, manmade monuments and the horizon?”

Kreisberg writes. “Some of the alignments appear configured over great distances.

Petroforms and geoglyphs have been discovered which appear to represent star constellations in the northern sky. These findings hold the potential to reshape our understanding and concept of what ancient (prehistoric) man, in our region, knew and was capable of accomplishing.”

If you get a tingle up your spine every time you encounter a strange rockpile in the woods, or think about birds using the Earth’s magnetic field to migrate over immense distances and then get to wondering if there isn’t some hard science lying behind the “occultism” of geomancy and ley lines, you might want to check out Kreisberg’s lecture on stone cultural features and ceremonial landscapes of the Catskills and Hudson Valley this Saturday afternoon. “Lost Landscapes and Hidden Legacies: A Survey of Stone Structure Sites in the Hudson Valley, Shawangunk and Catskill Mountains of New York” begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 20 at the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, located at 5096 Route 28 in Mount Tremper. For more info, call (845) 688-3096 or visit www.catskillinterpretivecenter.org.

– Frances Marion Platt

Open Barn tour season at Stony Kill Farm in Wappingers Falls Along with the growth of interest in healthy and humane food production, not to mention animal rights, vegetarianism and veganism, the popularity of farm visits, holidays and camps has been burgeoning. Some such entities in our region are havens for animals rescued from the slaughterhouse; others are simply working farms that host educational programs. One of the latter in Stony Kill Farm, located in Wappingers Falls.

You can come and meet the chickens, cows, pigs and sheep who call Stony Kill Farm home on one of the weekend Open Barn tours, which kicked off their 2016 season on February 6 and will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday through November. The Farm’s Greenhouse will also be open this weekend, February 20 and 21.

Do you have offspring who love being around animals? Stony Kill Farm is looking to train volunteer parent/child docent teams to conduct barn tours.

Through the new Kids’ Barn Guide program, children and their parents/ guardians can learn about livestock and how a working farm operates while educating visitors. Sounds like an awesome opportunity for homeschooling families!

To participate as Kids’ Barn Guides, children must be 11 years of age and be accompanied by an adult during Open Barn hours. Applications must be completed by both volunteers. To apply or find out more about this and other Stony Kill Farm programs and activities, call (845) 831-3800 or visit http://stonykill.

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it’s this close to full, but Jupiter will show lots of detail if it’s a night when the stars are not twinkling.

NIGHT SKY

Gravity waves, daylight and a brilliant planet Waves of gravity

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o now we’re sure that gravity waves exist. Is this exciting? I think most physicists are sort of excited. We’ve long believed that they’re real. Even way back in college, we all trusted Einstein that truly massive objects changing position should cause quivers in space and time. Calculations showed that even the most dramatic of such events would only jiggle earthly objects by less than the width of an atom’s nucleus. How could anyone possibly detect that?

Confirming gravity waves was like finding the first planets beyond our solar system 20 years ago. We all knew they were there, so no one was surprised. Then as now, it’s the technology that dropped our jaws: a clever setup indeed, using mirrors hanging from glass wires, isolated from all worldly vibrations, and then reflections along a several-mile path to detect laser light-wave interferences, revealing the jiggles.

A few media reports talked about detecting a sound – even describing it as a middle C on a piano: misleading, since no sound waves penetrate space. This had nothing to do with sound.

It’s also cool that people are willing to spend many billions of dollars on something with no practical benefit. This is pure knowledge, for the sake of understanding how the cosmos works. It can never bring us Velcro or Tang. It’s the noblest kind of intellectual exercise.

We have begun the ten-week period when light grows most rapidly.

Jupiter is back People are asking about that bright star in the east. It’s Jupiter, finally returning to our skies. It’s the first of the cool planets that will be seen well in 2016. Mark this Tuesday night on your calendar; that’s February 23. That night, the virtually full Moon will hover very close to Jupiter. It will be a lovely and eye-catching conjunction. If you own a small telescope, the Moon won’t look like much when

Fast daylight changes We have begun the ten-week period when light grows most rapidly. Every day has three extra minutes of sunshine compared to the day before. At the same time, each week the Sun stands two of its diameters higher in the sky. Since it’s solar elevation that critically determines the strength of its rays, this is a big change.

I keep getting asked why radio announcers say that the daylight increase is two minutes one day and four minutes the next day, and maybe back to two the day after that.

That’s simply because they use tables that ignore seconds, and merely round off to the nearest minute.

LOUIS JOHN RHEAD The actual growth of sunlight is smooth and steady. It reaches its precise peak daily increase a month from now.

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

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Sole survivors Places you can still get shoes repaired in the Hudson Valley

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nce upon a time in the nottoo-distant past, you could find a shoe-repair shop in every community, and perhaps even one in every neighborhood in a large city. A pair of shoes was expected to last, and when a heel finally wore down, it could be replaced with a brand-new one, extending the wearable life of the footwear. I don’t want to jinx anybody by calling them a “dying breed,” but let’s face it: Shoe-repair persons are few and far between. Not many young people are setting their sights on this career path.

Fortunately, our area boasts a few remaining, functioning shoe-repair shops where a favorite pair of Gucci sandals or 30-year-old cowboy boots or classic penny loafers can be brought back to life. This intrepid reporter tracked down three such establishments in the Hudson Valley just last week to learn a little more about the business.

C & F Shoe Repair, Poughkeepsie C & F Shoe Repair is owned and operated by Refugio Contreras, who opened in Poughkeepsie in September of 2014. “I have been doing this work for 31 years, starting when I was 13 years old, back in my country: Mexico.

When I came to this country in 1994, I was living in Brooklyn. My former boss there came to live in Hopewell, and he is the one who told me to move up here. Finally I decided to move, but I kept my job in the City.” This in-

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volved a grueling commute, he says.

“It was hard to take care of our kids, because my wife was working in the City, too. That’s why I decided to start my own business here.”

C & F is painted bright yellow and is nicely decorated with splashes of red.

A raised shoeshine platform holds two upholstered chairs for walk-in service.

“Back in my country, this is the way we do it: nice and clean. My former boss says, if everything looks nice, it shows you care about what you are doing. People are confident when they see the work.”

His work ethic seems to be paying off.

Customers walk in and out as we speak first thing in the morning. Contreras’s shoeshining business is increasing, too, as downtown workers learn that it’s available.

“Those shoe repairs still in business often don’t do shoeshine. We’re in the business district. It’s a place for people to come and sit to get their shoes done. Business is picking up. Hopefully, soon I’ll have to

hire someone.”

We talk about how our disposable sensibilities basically call for throwing things away when they break.

“Unfortunately, in America it’s become a throwaway society,” he says. “They don’t want to repair things. They just throw away and buy new ones. Before, everybody wanted to fix their things; you have a nice coat, you want to fix it. You don’t want to buy a new one. Same thing with shoes, cars, furniture. I understand because of the quality, it’s sometimes cheaper to buy new ones. But we can save money if we repair. And it saves our world.”

Contreras shows me his workspace, which has a handy sliding smoked-glass window through which he can watch for customers. A widescreen TV is mounted up on a wall. His machines are heavyduty, industrial-weight. He says that he knows how to fix his own machines if they break down. “When I was young and one of the machines in my boss’s shop had to

be overhauled, I watched the mechanics to learn. You just need to pay attention to details. As I learned how to use the machine, I paid attention to how the machine works. My boss at that time, he never told me, ‘Don’t do that.’ He just said, ‘Be careful.’ There are new machines with new technologies, but for now in shoe repair, it’s mostly about what you know, your skills. You can find a way to fix shoes properly. These days it’s mostly man-made materials.”

In addition to repairing shoes, a good craftsman will know how to deal with bags and coats and other items that would not fit into a regular sewing machine. I asked if there is anything that he can’t do.

Contreras picks up an old leather jacket that looks like it has seen better days.

“This one is from the early 1900s; it was thoroughly stiff. I’ve been hydrating the leather to soften it, and it’s going to be redyed and finished. I’ve been doing this kind of restoration for all these years.

I even repair cloth backpacks, and do alterations, too. Ten years ago I took a class for sewing and clothing alterations.

I know how to make shoes and handbags from scratch.

“When I started as apprentice, and because I had the patience, my boss back then put me on detailed jobs. I’ve developed all the skills. In the City I was the manager of the store, and I had to train many employees. You want the work to reflect your work ethic. To update my skills, I look on the Internet at videos to learn how those new shoes are made. You just have to invest your time.”

Contreras is in his mid-40s. He’s got the time and the desire to do a good job.

The shop is at 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 104, on Main Street in Poughkeepsie.

Contreras is hard at work from 9 to 6 Mondays through Fridays, and 9 to 4 on Saturdays: (845) 471-7298.

Dr. Shoe, Newburgh Jamie Park and her husband Tae have been in the business for almost 20 years in Newburgh. Their shop, Dr. Shoe, is located in the Newburgh Mall, a situation that Jamie says might cost a little more in rent, but has its

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Quality, not quantity CAROL ZALOOM | ALMANAC WEEKLY

Pruning and repotting should yield more homegrown olives next season

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y olive harvest, about which I recently wrote, was such a success that I want to up my production beyond this year’s bountiful six fruits. Those six fruits, once cured, were truly delicious. (Yes, the halo effect – my assessment of them veiled by my having grown them – could come into play.)

Part of the reason for the fruits’ high quality was how I cured them. Not very complicated: I just let them sit and dry out. After about two weeks, they had lost their bitterness and, without the distraction of salt, oil or spices, their rich olive flavor shone through.

Those six fruits, once cured, were truly delicious.

Part one of my twofold plan to increase production is to put the plant into a larger pot. A larger pot makes for a larger plant; a larger plant has more branches on which to hang more fruit.

Looking more closely at the plant told me that repotting was necessary immediately!

New flowerbuds are already beginning for the next crop. Because the plant is moving up to a larger pot, no root pruning is necessary. I put some potting soil in the bottom of a pot, set the exposed rootball on top of the soil, loosened some roots along the outside of the rootball and packed new soil in the space between the rootball and the side of the pot.

With soil firmed and a thorough watering, the roots have a happy home – for a year or two, when root pruning and repotting become necessary. If moved up to a yet-larger pot, the plant would be too unwieldy to muscle indoors and out.

Part two of my plan to increase production is pruning. To prune any fruit plant for best yield and quality, you have to know something about how the particular plant bears its fruits. For instance, peaches are pruned very differently from apples because peaches bear only on one-year-old wood and apples bear on wood

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advantages, too. They don’t have to shovel snow, for one thing. They feel safe with all the foot traffic that passes by, along with mall security. And they don’t have to mess with heat, air conditioning and other utilities. Mall tenants are obligated to be open a certain number of hours and days, however, which puts the burden on small shopowners like the Parks who rarely hire part-time employees.

“We’d love to hire someone, but we cannot. Working with my husband, it took me three years to figure out what to say to customers to get the price. You can’t really train someone for years. And this space is not big enough; the amount of work that comes in is not enough to pay the person. My husband is doing more than one person’s job, and working all the time with no break, no recharging. We have to take some days off, but we’re kind of stuck in here!” Her words sound harsh, but she’s animated and having a great time describing everything to me.

“You don’t see many shoe-repair shops in shopping malls. They have regulations.

You’re not supposed to be closed. Luckily, since we’ve been here for a long time, we do close on Sundays. I called them one day and said, ‘I’m gonna die in here! You’ll find two bodies laying here on top of the shoes one day, ‘cause we’re gonna die.’ So they let us close on Sundays. Still, you need that one week off; I haven’t had that for 20 years.”

Immigrants from South Korea, they epitomize a work ethic that calls for commitment and responsibility over the long haul. There’s no getting rich quick in shoe repair. Jamie is a licensed cosmetologist who worked in the City until having a family made the commute impossible. She has run the front end of Dr. Shoe for ten years. I ask if Tae learned the trade in Korea. “Of course, here! Most

Korean people who come don’t speak English, so who you meet, who your friend is when you come to the country – if you have a friend who’s in a deli, you get into it. Drycleaning is another thing.

“My husband had a friend whose father had a shoe-repair shop. He was getting ready to retire. So, my husband says, ‘Okay, I will learn this for a couple of years, and then I will get into something else.’ He got stuck! Whatever you’re doing, it’s not easy to learn everything. And once you learn, it’s not easy to change. Now he’s almost 60, and he says, ‘I could do it up to 80! And retire!’ You get slower. When you’re young, you’re quick. But now we’re slower.” She laughs as she demonstrates walking back and forth, bent over behind the glass counter.

“All the prices are in my brain. My brain is about to blow up! When I look at a job, my brain starts calculating: How much it’s gonna take, how much it is. Then, ‘Oh, this shoe is so cheap, I cannot charge that much. I have to cut the price!’ I used to remember the prices of all the products; not any more – I cut that out of my brain.”

Like other shoe-repair shops, Dr. Shoe does standard repairs, stretching and stitching, leatherworks, customizing pieces including saddles, belts, building orthopedics: everything that a tailor cannot do. The shop is located in the Newburgh Mall at 1401 Route 300 in Newburgh. Hours of operation are 10 to 7, Mondays through Fridays, and 10 to 6 on Saturdays: (845) 566-0895.

Red Hook Shoe Repair, Catskill Roger Benn is in his mid-70s. He has been repairing shoes (and selling everything else under the sun) since his apprenticeship at the age of 13, with a two-year timeout to serve in Viet Nam in the 1960s. On Saturdays, he heads to Red Hook and Saugerties to

a couple of years old on up to a decade or older. One of the goals in pruning peaches is to coax enough new growth this year for a good crop next year.

To figure out how best to prune an olive, I referred back to The Pruning Book (which I wrote, and which also details pruning of apples, peaches and just about every other plant). “Fruits form in leaf axils along, but not to the end of, the previous year’s stems (and sometimes from dormant buds in one- or two-year-old wood).” So olive fruits something like a peach, on young wood – actually more like an apricot, which bears fruit on wood from one to three years old.

My ploy was to shorten some stems, focusing on those making the plant look gawky.

Without sacrificing yield, shortening stems has the benefit of encouraging new branching growth. More branching will make the plant look prettier and provide more young stems on which to hang fruit next year.

Going from the sun-drenched window, in front of which my olive tree basks, all the way down to the basement, I check out another Mediterranean fruit: my potted fig trees. What’s happening with them? Nothing, I hope.

Now is a crucial time of year for a potted fig tree. The goal is to keep them dormant.

Unfortunately, just a bit more warmth or a bit more light and they’ll start to awaken. If awakened, new growth will be soft and sappy, even if the plants sit in front of a sunny window. Then, when the plants finally go outdoors, intense sunlight, wind and cooler temperatures are apt to burn back such growth.

Temperatures stay relatively consistent and cool (40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit) in my basement and it’s dark down there, so the plants generally stay dormant until some time – probably next month – when I can set them outside. Keeping the plants slightly on the dry side also helps hold back growth.

Last year was perfect. I moved the dormant figs outdoors while the weather was still cool, without temperatures dropping too low below freezing. (Dormant figs tolerate temperatures down to the low 20s.) Growth began in synch with increasing temperatures, culminating in branches draped with soft ripe figs by summer’s end. I’m planning for a repeat performance.

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

pick up shoes from dropoff locations.

At one time, the Benn brothers had shops in Red Hook, Saugerties, Hudson and Catskill. Now it’s just this one location, and Benn says that he has enough to keep him busy.

“I started fixing shoes in my basement back in 1955. Then I went to apprentice with an old shoemaker on Market Street in Saugerties for five or six years. After the Army, I came back and started fixing shoes again, and we opened the stores.

That old shoemaker asked me if I wanted to come in and learn. I apprenticed for five years for no pay. Now I have an apprentice in here to learn. I want to wind down a bit – maybe go and do some visiting, you know.”

At one time Benn also ran a variety store.

His walls are crammed with leftovers from that endeavor. “In this type of business, I sell a lot of different stuff here, too. Maybe the only way you survive. This business is nothing like it used to be in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s. And a lot of stuff that’s made now in China – some you can repair and some you can’t. Many people who come in, you gotta tell them, ‘No, it’s not worth putting any money in this.’ Maybe it’s not that you can’t fix them, but if it doesn’t hold because the glue doesn’t heal well to it, now you’ve gotta keep doing work for free. You can’t make any money that way.

Years ago the business was super.

“You do a good job and guarantee your work; if somebody brings something to me and I fix it, if it comes apart, they can bring it back and I will not charge them again.” He gets his materials stock from Virginia, the Carolinas and locally from warehouses in the Utica area. “I try to buy all products made in the USA: the leather, my rubber, my cement. But if I need some specialty soles, they might not be made here.”

His new apprentice comes in most days. “I’m hoping by the first of the year, he’ll take over the whole thing,” he says.

“I’ve got a couple of problems from the Agent Orange in Viet Nam, so… At one time I had all four stores going. Red Hook and this store were fully equipped. My

apprentice? I used to fix all his boots. And one day he said, ‘Maybe I’d like to learn this.’ He’s in his 40s. I started in my teens.

There is a school to learn shoe repair, but it’s very expensive. I tried to get the college interested in doing a course with the kids.

It’s a good trade for somebody.”

He shows me the leather that he uses to make belts for Dallas Cowboys fans, for a mother whose children died, for HarleyDavidson riders. “I sew the patches on their motorcycle jackets and their vests. I even make weightlifting belts. The shop in the back is full of equipment. I’ve got great big grinders and sanders and cutters and a buffing machine and six sewing machines.

And a big hydraulic press.”

He also learned how to fix his broken machines after a $1,500 repair charge. “I bought a book on it. I can’t let somebody…

Once I had a brand-new stove put in, and I stood there watching the whole time.

The guy says, ‘What are you looking at?’

I says, ‘I want to make sure you’re doing it right.’ He says, ‘I know my job.’ I says, ‘But you know what? I kinda know what it’s all about, too.’

“The times have changed and everything is automatic now. It’s all ‘replace it, replace it. Don’t repair it, replace it.’ The thing is, almost every shoe you could repair, but it costs too much for some of them because of the different material. It’s too expensive. When you give people the price to fix something, it’s ‘Oh, it’s that much?’”

He talks about owning your building, as opposed to renting and paying insurance and so forth.

“When I retire next year, I’ll come in to see if the new guy has any problems. It’s good sometimes; they do need someone to show them. I did. I wouldn’t even take any money from him. Somebody needs a break in life. I never got a break, but if you can help somebody, that’s good. This industry – you learn a skill that you could take anywhere.”

Red Hook Shoe Repair is located at 374 Main Street in Catskill. You can catch Benn in his shop Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 to 3:30: (518) 943-4086.

– Ann Hutton

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“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”

– Henry David Thoreau

February 18-25 Build a terrarium, become an illustration, test your strength or take tea with Belle SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus sideshow at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Like watching people spin tops or plates or whirl machetes around?

Then get your tickets now for Mr. Pennygraff ’s Cirkus Sideshow Spectacle, taking place this Saturday, February 20 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Performed by none other than the co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus himself, Keith Bindlestiff, this show is a treat for all ages. Tickets cost $7 for children, $9 for adults and seniors.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit www.centerforperformingarts.org.

To learn more about the performer, visit www.bindlestiff.org.

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StoryFaces at SUNY-Dutchess

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ou’ve been warned: After this weekend, we’re all going to have to up our game the next time our kids say, “Can you tell me a story?” StoryFaces comes to the James & Betty Hall Theatre at SUNY-Dutchess this Saturday, February 20 at 11 a.m. Audience volunteers are brought onstage and face-painted, becoming living illustrations to accompany the traditional folktales and original stories being told. This fun and interactive experience is free and open to the public, but geared for families with children between 4 and 12 years.

SUNY-Dutchess is located at 53 Pendell Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 431-8000 or visit www. sunydutchess.edu/studentlife/studentactivities/famfest.html. Definitely take a look at the face-painting images on the StoryFaces website: http://agostinoarts.com/storyfaces.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

Hudson Valley Writing Project workshops at SUNY-New Paltz Know any youth between the ages of 7 and 17 who love to write, or could use some supportive encouragement and experience? How about you? Feel like treating yourself to some Saturday-morning writing time? This Saturday, February 20 from 8:45 a.m. to 12 noon at SUNY-New Paltz, the Hudson Valley Writing Project offers writing workshops for all ages. Kids from 7 to 10 years can take “Characters Come to Life” and “Who Are You? What Makes You Tick?” Youth from 11 to 17 years can join “Let Your Imagination Go Wild” and “Headfirst into Poetry.” Adults can participate in “A Time for Writing.”

The cost is $25 for students, $20 for adults and $40 for a student and adult.

Workshops take place in Room 1907 of the Old Main Building. SUNY-New Paltz is located at 1 Hawk Drive in New Paltz.

For more information or to register, call (845) 257-2836, e-mail hvwp@newpaltz. edu or visit www.newpaltz.edu/hvwp/ satworkshops.

Weird Science with Professor Sparks at Hudson’s FASNY Museum of Firefighting Changing our fire and smoke alarm batteries twice a year to adjust to Daylight Savings Time is an example of supporting fire safety year round. Another way to engage kids in fire safety is to attend the family programming

at the FASNY Museum of Firefighting! This Saturday, February 20 at 10:30 a.m., you and your kids ages 5 and up can catch Weird Science with Professor Sparks and her robot sidekick, Spot 2000. This interactive program mixes science, fire and fun.

Admission includes the Professor Sparks show along with entry to the museum and costs $7 for adults, $5 for children ages 3 and older, free for children under 3 and $20 for the family rate, which includes two parents and two children. Since this is a Super Saturday, families who live in Columbia County are admitted free, with proof of residency.

The FASNY Museum of Firefighting is located at 117 Harry Howard Avenue in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 822-1875 or visit www.fasnyfiremuseum. com.

St. Joseph School in Kingston presents Beauty and the Beast, tea party with Belle Got an insatiable thinker like Belle, who seeks “adventure in the great wide somewhere”? You can help this classic fairy tale come to life this weekend at St. Joseph School, with both youth performances of this musical and tea parties with Belle herself!

Student performances take place on Friday, February 19 at 7 p.m., Saturday, February 20 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday, February 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets

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cost $12 for adults and $8 for children under 12. The tea parties are held on Saturday and Sunday, February 20 and 21 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. The price is $5 per child and includes tea, cupcakes and a photo with Belle.

St. Joseph School is located at 235 Wall Street in Kingston. For tickets to either event or for more information, call (845) 339-4390 or visit www.facebook. com/st.joseph.school.kingston or www. saintjosephschoolkingston.com.

abilities are welcomed, evaluations take approximately 45 minutes, and free snacks and protein shakes will be available. This Open House event is free and open to the public.

MAC Fitness is located at 743 East Chester Street in Kingston. To reserve an individual or group timeslot, or for more information, call (845) 338-2887 or visit www.facebook.com/parisimidhudson.

Cat Club Challenge at MAC Fitness in Kingston

The late American drummer, Layne Redmond, explained drumming this way: “Sound is power, and the first sound we hear is the pulse of our mother’s blood. No sound has a more powerful effect on our consciousness.

Drumming is the musical expression of this primal power. Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.”

Your family can experience this power of

If your kids like to run, jump and climb all over your sofas and chairs, why not give them a chance to show off their skills at this weekend’s Parisi Cat Club/Combine Performance Challenge? This Saturday, February 20 from 12 noon to 3:30 p.m. at MAC Fitness, your kids can learn how fast they are, how high they can jump and how strong they are, and how their speed and strength stack up locally and nationally. Ages 7 to 11 Cat Club timeslots will start every half-hour on the hour, beginning at 12 noon; and ages 12 and up Combine Challenge timeslots start every half-hour beginning at 12:15 p.m.

Elements include Eval tests, 40-yard dash, 10- and 20-yard sprint, vertical jump height, 5-10-5 shuttle, five broad hop distance and pullup. All bodies and

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percussion with master drummer Amadou Diallo, who will play a variety of African drums, teach about West African music and culture and give your kids a chance to participate in a group drumming session this Saturday, February 20 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., hosted by the Kingston Library but held at the nearby Seven21 Media Center, Studio A. This program is free and open to the public of all ages.

The Seven21 Media is located at 721 Broadway in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 331-0507, extension 7, or visit www.kingstonlibrary. org. To learn more about the performer, visit https://about.me/amadou.diallo.

finance it. You think that you’re overwhelmed by paying taxes once a year?

Try navigating the college financial world.

Well, thankfully, there’s help. And it’s free. This Thursday, February 25 at 6 p.m. at the Elmendorph Inn, join former admissions director Sandra Moore for “How Much Does College Really Cost?” presented by the Red Hook Library. You can do this!

The Elmendorph Inn is located at 7562 North Broadway in the Village of Red Hook. Space is limited, so call to reserve your spot at (845) 758-3241 or visit http://redhooklibrary.org/calendar/?mc_ id=746.

Digital Painting Workshop at Hudson Area Library Remember how painting projects used to be so messy when your teens were just tots? Well, times have changed: Now you can foster their creativity on the computer, and there’s no cleanup! Don’t know how to teach them? No problem; that’s what Spark Media is for. On a budget? Still no problem; the workshop that I want to tell you about is free!

This Saturday, February 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Hudson Area Library presents Spark Media’s Digital Painting Workshop for Youth, designed for ages 10 to 15. Participants will create digital illustrations using Wacom tablets and Adobe Photoshop software, while learning about frame composition, shading, perspective and color theory, as well as tips and tools in digital art. Space is limited.

The Hudson Area Library is located at 400 State Street in Hudson. To register or for more information, call (845) 485-4480 or visit http://sparkmediaproject.org or http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2016/02/ digitalpainting.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Art in the Morning for Preschoolers monthly at Olana Get ready to mark the last Wednesdays of the month on your calendar for you and your preschooler, because the Olana State Historic Site has a terrific new art program that you are going to want to attend every time! “Art in the Morning for Preschoolers” is held this Wednesday, February 24 at the Wagon House Education Center, and this month’s project is “Build a Terrarium.”

Families can drop in any time between 10 a.m. and 12 noon and stay as long as they like within that timeframe to work on the project Art in the Morning is geared for children ages 3 to 5 years, at a cost of

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Cheer for our Special Olympians “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”

– Special Olympics Athlete Oath

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t’s time to get our cheer on! The 2016 Special Olympics New York State Winter Games take place from Friday to Sunday, February 19 to 21, and the competitors need us to shout our support and encouragement from the stands. Events include Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Figure Skating, Floor Hockey and Snowshoe, and they take place at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, Stewart Air National Guard in Newburgh and Holiday Mountain in Monticello. All events are free and open to the public. For more information or to register to cheer as a social volunteer, call (518) 388-0791 or visit http://specialolympics-ny.org/ winter-games.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

$10 per child, and adults get in free. Why not make a day of it? Bring a lunch to eat afterwards, and pack your cold-weather gear to enjoy a hike around the property.

And while we’re at it, are you making summer plans for your youth between the ages of 6 and 13? Olana’s got you covered with “Panorama”: three weeks of unique programming from July 11 to 30, from 9

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a.m. to 3 p.m.: “Sci-Arts for Inventors,” “Environ-Science for Discoverers” and “Time Travel for Historians.” Sign up for one or two weeks, or do all three! Earlybird rates of $160 per week are good until March 14, and the sibling discount rate is $128, with additional discounts for registering for multiple weeks.

The Olana State Historic Site is located at 5720 Route 9G in Hudson. For more information, call (518) 828-0135 or visit www.olana.org.

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I hear such great things every year about “Math & Science Matter...Especially for Young Women,” so during this last week of registration, I hope you check out this event for your fifthto-eighth-grade daughter. Math & Science Matter takes place on Saturday, March 5 from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Dutchess County Community College. The cost is $10 and online preregistration is required by February 25.

Girls choose three out of the 22 handson workshops offered, which focus on science, technology, engineering and math. Parents are welcome to attend their own free optional workshop, Admissions & Financial Aid: Panel Discussion, held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and no preregistration is required.

Dutchess County Community College is located at 53 Pendell Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information or to register, call (845) 431-8545, e-mail zito@sunydutchess.edu or visit www. sunydutchess.edu/msm.

Anti-bullying art by kids at Hyde Park’s Wallace Center More than just good art, student exhibits can inspire other youth to express their own creativity, and a show like this week’s display honoring Celebrate Kindness Week and No Name-Calling Week can help to heal and strengthen our communities. On Monday, February 22 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., come over to the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library for the opening reception of the 2016 Student Creative Expression Exhibit, showing works of Hudson Valley youth about bullying, kindness, understanding and respect.

This event is free and open to the public and includes refreshments and guest speakers. The show runs from Monday to Wednesday, February 22 to 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The FDR Presidential Library is located at 4079 Albany Post Road in Hyde Park. For more information, call (845) 331-5300 or visit www.glsen. org/nonamecallingweek.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno is now getting hat-head, but no sign yet of chemo curls.

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Children who attend most farm camps express a love for animals and a desire to care for them. But most of these programs do not help children make the connection between the animals they love and those that end up on their plates for dinner.

At Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Camp Kindness addresses critical elements excluded from most farm camps such as the intelligence, sentience, and emotional needs of farm animals. Children learn about the impact our food choices have on all life and how we can create a more compassionate and just world.

“We see profound and positive shifts in children who attend Camp Kindness as their hearts open up to the plight of farmed animals and they are energized to make a difference, all while having fun and building lifetime memories,” says Elana Kirshenbaum, the Director of Programs at Catskill Animal Sanctuary.

Now entering its seventh year, Camp Kindness serves a unique niche in the region with its innovative, progressive, and holistic framework. Week-long sessions in July are open to children ages 8-14 and extended day options are available for working parents. Whether children are pampering pigs, being creative with food, making an animal-friendly craft, or learning about horses, empathy and compassion are infused into all aspects of the curriculum. With such a truly a revolutionary program in the beautiful Hudson Valley, come see why children keep returning to Camp Kindness year after year and register your child today!

For information, please visit casanctuary.org/campk or call Elana at 845-336-8447, ext. 205.

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Sports Instruction, Nature Studies, Arts & Crafts, and Movie Days are back as well as Scavenger Hunts, Field Day, Water Day, and the Annual End of Year Picnic.

Pre-Registration is currently underway, along with extended payment options. Registration forms, along with detailed information is available at The Kiwanis Ice Arena, Town Hall and on the town website www.saugerties.ny.us.

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The program takes place on Saturday, April 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on the campus of Ulster County Community College. Preregistration is recommended, as classes fill up fast. To obtain a brochure and registration form, go to http://tinyurl. com/2016-garden-day. The cost for the day is $40 in advance, $45 at the door.

A catered lunch is available and must be purchased in advance, or you can bring your own. For more information, or to have a brochure and registration form sent to you, contact Dona at (845) 3403990 x335 or e-mail dm282@cornell.edu.

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Admission to the program is free, but an RSVP is requested at (845) 758-3241. The library is located at 7444 South Broadway in Red Hook and on the Web at www.redhooklibrary.org.

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Thursday

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

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

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730AM-830AM Zen Meditation Group. Free. All warmly welcome for silent sitting, walking, and connection. Facilitators Doree Lipson & Meredith Johnson are Zen practitioners and meditation teachers, and will offer beginner instruction and support as needed and wanted.Free, donations welcome. Info: doreelipsonmsw@gmail.com / or verderosa@gmail.com. Sanctuary, 5 Academy St, New Paltz.

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

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

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

Every Thursday at Mirabai. 30 minutes seated meditation followed by 15 minutes walking meditation. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5 /donation.

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5PM-8PM Sketch Class. A traditional sketch class (drawing the figure) format of numerous poses which will lengthen in duration as determined by the monitor. $50/4 consecutive classes. January 21-December 15, Thursdays. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $20 /session, $50 /4 classes.

10AM - 11AM Gentle Yoga with Cory Smith.

Focusing on the details of alignment and the development of muscular core strength at a slow pace. $8 donation requested. Info: 845-679-8700.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com

5:30PM Notice: Woodstock Board of Fire Commissioners Special Meeting.Woodstock Fire District, 242 Tinker St., Woodstock.

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

5:30PM-7:30PM New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Mixer. Information and training will be offered in “Hands Only� CPR and AED usage as part of their 1, 000 Hands Across New Paltz campaign. Pre-registration is required.

Info: www.newpaltzchamber.org or845-2550243. New Paltz Rescue Squad, 74-78 North Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz.

10AM-4PM Manuscript Exhibition: The Atom Bomb. Exhibits through 4/31. Info: www.

Karpeles.com or 845-569-4997. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh, free.

6PM Tai Chi with Martha Cheo at Unison, Slow and graceful movements are good for promoting health, developing strength, balance and coordination, and restoring harmony of mind, body and spirit. Info: 845-255-1559 or www.unisonarts. org Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest R, Woodstock.

10:30 AM-2 PM Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads - Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

6PM Lego Fun Projects. Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

10:30PM Reformer Pilates Springboard. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

6PM Movie: Suffragette (PG-13). Info: 845-6572482 or www.olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

6PM First Thursday Book Club. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

11:30AM-1PM The Monthly “Third Thursday Luncheon.� Benefit for The Lunch Box located in Poughkeepsie. Takeout orders: call 845-8763533 between 9:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck, $6 /eat-in, $7 /take-out.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala. org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

12:30PM-1:30PM Fall And Burn Prevention: Strategies For Older Adults. Discussion to raise awareness of potential fall hazards and burn risks where you live. Learn simple strategies for reducing your risk of injury, both at home and in the community. Pleasereserve by calling 845-4835551. Saint Simeon, 24 Beechwood Ave, Pough-

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

4:30PM Teen Night. 1st & 3rd Fri of each month.

Young Adult Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

9:30AM-10:30AM Stretch and Flex with Diane Collelo. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock.

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2PM-4PM Job Search Assistance. Attendees will have a one-on-one session with an expert to create a resume, or help do a job search and connect with other resources available to those seeking employment. Info: mlambert@dutchessonestop.org or 845-249-4644. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook.

4:30PM-6:30PM Opening Reception: Spark!

A Feel for Science. Curated by Richard Jones, collections manager for the Warthin Museumof Natural History at Vassar. Exhibits through March 6. Info: 845-437-7690. Vassar College, Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

9AM - 9:50AM Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John.

On-going qi gong class using gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. $8 donation requested.

Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

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6PM Game Night at Enchanted CafĂŠ. Hosted

by Red Hook Public Library. Games for all ages, from Candy Land to Settlers of Catan will be on hand. Info: www.redhooklibrary.org. or 845-7583241. Enchanted CafĂŠ, 7484 South Broadway, Red Hook.

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

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.

6PM-8PM Japanese Movie Night: Whisper of the Heart. Anime. Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki, written by Aoi Hiragi, 111 min. Info: www.GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz, free.

6:15PM Gyrotonicr Tower. Class uses natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Info: 845-658-2239 or www. ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

6:30PM The Potluck Slideshow. An evening of community, food and art An evening of community, food and art open to all. The images of visual artists, performance, conceptual and multi-media artists, photographers, video artists. Submissions

should be sent to:beth@woodstockart.org. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock, $2.

6:30 PM 2016 Phoenicia Library Board Meeting. 3rd Thursday of the month . Info: 845- 688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30 PM -9:30 PM Astronomy Night. Info: pandyar@newpaltz.edu or 845-257-3818. Frst & third Thurs of each month, Raj Pandya &Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Dept of Physics & Astronomy offer a planetarium show.

Tickets for the planetarium shows are required.

Info:pandyar@newpaltz.edu or 845-257-3818.

SUNY New Paltz, Coykendall Science Building, John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz, free.

7PM-8PM Page Turners Book Club. Meets

CONTINUING & PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Electrical Theory........................................................................Mar 3 Sampling Collection Requirements ..........................................Mar 7 Five Hour Pre-licensing ............................................Mar 12 & Apr 23 Wildlife Rehabilitation ..............................................................Mar 12 Defensive Driving .....................................................Mar 19 & Apr 23 High School Equivalency (TASC) ............................................Mar 28 Fix Your Own PC .....................................................................Mar 29 CASAC Day Program ..............................................................Mar 29 Certified Production Technician ..............................................Mar 29 Sludge Digestion .....................................................................Mar 30 Basic Drawing ........................................................................... Apr 2 CASAC Section I - Saturdays ................................................... Apr 2 Bartending................................................................................. Apr 4 Basic Wastewater Laboratory ................................................... Apr 5 Art of Photography .................................................................... Apr 5 Food Truck Workshop ............................................................. Apr 11 Everything About Running ...................................................... Apr 11 Heartsaver CPR & AED .......................................................... May 10 CASAC Evening Program..................................................... Ongoing

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Upcoming Swing Dance to The Gordon Webster Sextet (3/12, 8:30-11:30pm). Beginner's lesson 8-8:30pm; followed by the Dance from 8:30-11:30pm. Admission $15/$10 full time students. Every One Welcome.

The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845 454-2571.

Register at The Door! Classic Blues Workshops, Swing Dance Lessons & Dances, sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. This is an allvolunteer not-for-profit organization committed to sharing the joy of dancing, preserving traditional music and dance and building community through dance. Dance workshops take place in Dutchess and Ulster counties.

These events are open to the public, an admission fee that is large enough to cover costs. Dances are open and friendly, especially to new dancers.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845- 454-2571.

Twilight Yoga: A Sanctuary for Yin & Restorative with Lynda Elaine Carré, E-RYT IAYT. Every Friday at Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountainview Avenue, Woodstock. Donation $10. Your weekly Rx to Relax Deeply, Recharge, and Revitalize. twilightyogawoodstock@gmail.com or 845- 684 -5941. Starts 2/13.

Register Now! Breathe/ Chant/ Envision/ Reflect/Connect. A bimonthly musical, meditative journey to reset, renew and inspire … with a variety of talented musicians, eclectic instrumentation, original mantra music and lyrical verse that provide the perfect landscape for your reflections and intentions... Dreamy, mellow, deep, lighthearted, rockin’... a powerfully engaging and potent odyssey into your own heart and the heart of the world.Promoting personal and collective wellbeing through voice, music and a vision for a better world. Info: www.amymctear.com/vocal-village/.

Every other Sunday,4:30-6pm, $15.

At the Living Seed, 521 Main Street, New Paltz.

Upcoming Art Workshop with Susan Togut. Meets Tuesdays, 1 - 3 pm. 16 weeks of guided projects. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a voluntary materials fee. Backstage at Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock. Info: wdstkseniorrecgmail.com.

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington offers a night out in the Berkshires. The beautiful historic theater offers music, dance, theater, opera, movies and family programs. Check our calendar for upcoming events. Info: 413-528-0100 or http://www.mahaiwe.org/.

Friendship Center, call (845) 758-0571 or -845-486-2555.

Jurying Begins for The WoodstockNew Paltz 35th Art & Crafts Fairs.

Scheduled for Memorial (5/28-5/30) & Labor Day (9/3-9/5)Weekends.

Jurying begins 1/28.Details at www. quailhollow.com or contact Scott Rubinstein at 845 -246 -3414.

Nationwide MS Awareness Tour (2/20, 8am-6pm). Ski or ride to make a difference in the lives of people living with MS at this on-snow fundraiser Vertical Express for Can Do MS features on-mountain and aprŠs activities for people of all ages and ability levels. Info:mscando.org/verticalexpress. Hunter Mountain, Hunter, $25.

The Chamber Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Ten Local Scholarships for 2016. All applications must be submitted online via the scholarship portal hosted by The Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley. Applicants should create a login ID and password and will then be able to access his or her application at any time. Applications will be accepted through 4/1.

Coach House Players Audition Notice for Neil Simon’s “California Suite.” Needed for the roles are 5 men and 5 women; age range 40’s to 50’s. There is also a non-speaking role for a woman in her 20’s. Performance dates are April 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 & 17 at the Coach House Players Theater, 12 Augusta St., Kingston. Auditions will be held on 1/ 28 ,7 -10pm; 1/ 30, 1-4pm; & 1/31,7 -10pm, held at Hudson Valley Sr. Residence, 80 Washington Ave., Kingston. Info: 845-3317242 or jtdwyer@earthlink.net.

Register Now: 2nd Annual Walkway Marathon Race. Scheduled for 6/ 11 & 6/12, Races Feature Dutchess, Hudson Valley Rail Trails. Runners registering for any of the Walkway Marathon races can do so at WalkwayMarathon.org.

Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

Notice: The Office for the Aging is pleased to announce the Rhinebeck Senior Friendship Center has moved to a new location at the Memorial Lutheran Church located at 1232 Route 308, Rhinebeck. The Friendship Center is open every Monday – Thursday between 10 am - 2 pm. Transportation to the center and weekly grocery shopping may be available for those without a car. All of our eight Senior Friendship Centers serve a nutritious midday meal and offer plenty of opportunities for socialization and events. For more information about the Rhinebeck

monthly. This month, they will be discussing “In a Dark Wood” by local author Joseph Luzzi.

Free and open to the public!. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.GKnoodles. com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM-8:30PM 92nd Street Y Sees. Not in God’s Name - Confronting Religious Violence with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Info: www.poklib. org or 845- 485-3445. Boardman Road Branch Library, 141 Boardman Rd, Greene Room #1, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-8:30PM Shawangunk Ridge Free Public Lecture Series The Southern Pine Beetle. With Rob Cole, NYSDEC Forester. A major forest pest in the South, southern pine beetle (SPB) was first found infesting trees in New York in 2014. Info: www.mohonkpreserve.org/events. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center, Room 102, Stone Ridge.

7:15PM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

7:30PM STYX . Info: www.palacealbany.com.

Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $84.50, $59.50, $39.50.

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

8PM Trio Mio. Info: 845-687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, High Falls.

8PM Fairground Saints. Info: helsinkihudson. com or info@helsinkihudson.com. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

8PM Gregory Dinger Guitar Recital. “Popular Goes Classical” - a program bridging the “divide”

Upcoming: High Woods Sportsmen’s Club Swap & Sell (3/13, 8am-5pm).

Rain or Shine - Indoors. High Woods Sportsmen’s Club, 870 Church Rd (Zena-High Woods Road), Woodstock.

Info: Wolfie 845-866-3177.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Males, $120 and up; females, $150 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Cats. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim.

All surgeries performed by appointment only. Info: 845-343-1000. taraspayneuter.org. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown.

Platte Clove Artist in Residence Program Accepting Applications.

A retreat for artists, working in a variety of disciplines, located in the living landscape where American art began. The residency is open to visual artists and performing artists who have an affinityfor the natural world. The residencies run from July through September. Applications are due by April 8th. Contact: Katie Palm: 845-586-2611or kpalm@catskillcenter. org. The Catskill Center, Rt 28, www. catskillcenter.org, Arkville.

Apply Now ! 2016 Catskill Center’s Senior Scholarship Program. Applications are due by 3/11. Award recipients will be announced the beginning of April. To apply: www.catskillcenter. org or contact Katie Palm at kpalm@ catskillcenter.org.

Dutchess County “Senior Citizens of the Year” search has officially begun.

Categories of Senior Male, Senior Female or the Senior Citizen Couple of the Year. Info and application: 845-486-2555.

Greene County Council on the Arts announces their Exhibitions for 2016 - Words & Images. This show

between popular and classical styles. Info: kemptond@newpaltz.edu or 845-257-2700. SUNY New Paltz, Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall, New Paltz, $8, $6 /senior/staff, $3 /students.

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8AM-9AM Medical Qi Gong Class. $10/ preregistered, $15/the door. Info: www.bluelotusqigong. com or 914-850-1202. One Epic Center, 122 Main St, New Paltz.

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

10AM-11:30AM Minnewaska Preserve: Fun Fridays. Hikes may be up to a mile and a half of long and will take place with or without snow.

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

Minnewaska Preserve, Peter’s Kill Area, Gardiner.

10:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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is an exploration of the integration of words and images to tell stories, including graphic novels, illustrations, comic books, and animation. Open to all mediums, including video.Submission deadline: 2/27;Show dates: 4/23 - 6/4; & Reception - 4/23. Info: www. greenearts.org/.

Free AARP Tax Prep at Libraries Begins in February. The Library District partners with AARP to provide free Tax Preparation assistance at two locations in Poughkeepsie. The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program provides free, reliable tax preparation service for low to middle income families, individuals and seniors. There is no age limit and you do not have to be a member of AARP. Tax Preparation assistance is available by appointment only. Call 211 or 800- 899-1479 to schedule an appointment. The Boardman Road Branch Library is located at 141 Boardman Road in Poughkeepsie.

Search For 100 Year Olds! Do you know a Dutchess County resident who will be turning 100 or older anytime this year, or a couple celebrating 70 or more years of marriage? If so, call 845486-2555. The Office of Aging would send them a personal invitation to their annual Celebration of Aging luncheon which is held each May, Older Americans Month. All honorees and their guest are admitted free. Also honored at the Celebration of Aging are the Dutchess County Senior Citizens of the Year. Awards are given out in the categories of Senior Male, Senior Female and Senior Couple. Generally these are residents over the age of 60 who make a difference in our community through volunteerism, civic engagement, etc.

If you know of a senior citizen who deserves this very special recognition, please fill out a nomination form which you can obtain from our office or on Page 6 of the winter edition of the Spotlight on Seniors newsletter, found on our website: www.co.dutchess.ny.us/ CountyGov/Departments/Aging/ soswinter20152016.pdf.

Design a Sun Catcher Contest!

Design a sun catcher with the theme of “American Patriotism” and it might be the 2016 winner. Download the form from the website to submit your artwork. Gillinder Glass Factory, Port Jervis. 845-856-5375, www.gillinderglassstore.com.

Family of Woodstock Hotline Training ( thru 3/9). Training covers the core of Family’s phone and texting hotline and walk-in services. Training topics include domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and substance abuse. Info: 845-679-2485 Family ofWoodstock, 16 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

ity Board Training (2/24 9:30am - 4:30pm). Volunteers for the JCAB meet with the youth and their parent/ guardian in order to help the youth understand the impact of their action.

Contact Dana Katz at 845-514-0239 ordkatz@fowinc.org for the application. Business Resource Center, 1 Development Court, Kingston.

Woodcarving Classes (begin 3/9).

Led by master woodcarver Andy Willner. Pre-registration is through the Museum. Info: www.hrmm.org.

Hudson River Maritime Museum, Riverport Wooden Boat School, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, $180, $20 /material fee.

Register Now! 2016 New Paltz Challenge Run (6/19). A half-marathon, Family 5K, and/or kid’s 1-mile run.

Proceeds will benefit the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce and its community projects. Reg reqr’d for half-marathon. Info: www. newpaltzchallenge.com or 845-2550243.

Register Now! Gretchen Primack Poetry Writing Workshop. The five session class will run on Tuesdays, 6:15pm to 7:45pm, from 2/23 through 3/22. Gretchen welcomes past students along with newcomers. Info: gretchen. primack@gmail.com. Woodstock.

Fluid Ecologies: Hispanic Caribbean Art from the Permanent Collection. an exhibition of thirteen works on paper by seven of the most celebrated Hispanic Caribbean artists of the last five decades. Exhibts through 5/8. Info: 845-437-5632 Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

Open Barn will begin this month with limited visiting hours on the weekends from 11 to 1 pm. Bring the family to meet the sheep, cows, pigs and chickens. Our new Kids Barn Guide program is an opportunity for children and their parents/guardians to learn about our livestock and how a working farm operates while educating visitors.

Children must be 11 years of age and be accompanied by an adult during Open Barn hours. Training is available.

Info: 845-831-3800. Stonykill Farms, 79 Farmstead Lane Wappingers Falls New York 12590 845-831-3800 or stonykillfarms.org.

Sign Up Now! Tractor Safety Certification Course for Teens.

The course meets March 22, 24, 29, 31, and April 5 at 7 pm. Driving practice and test in May. Please register online athttps://reg.cce.cornell. edu/2016TractorSafety_251. Deadline 3/11.Space islimited to the first 20 paid registrants. Ulster County, $50.

Juvenile Community Accountabil-

23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes, $40 /45 minutes.

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

4:15PM-5PM Twilight Yoga: A Sanctuary for Yin & Restorative with Lynda Elaine Carr‚ E-RYT IAYT. Your weekly Rx to Relax Deeply, Recharge, and Revitalize. Info: twilightyogawoodstock@ gmail.com or 845- 684-5941. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock.

6PM Story Hour for Grown-Ups. Local storytellers Jean Druffner and Peter Wallace will be sharing hand-picked stories, followed by discussion and refreshments. Info: phoenicialibrary.org or 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

6PM Carleton Mabee Lecture Series presents Seven Streams of Music and Methodist Hymnody. New Paltz Methodist Church, 1 Grove St, New Paltz. 845-255-2510.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All ages, with parents. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

7PM Storytelling hosted by Janet Carter. Joey Eppard & Friends (Improv Rock).Info: 845-2465775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

5PM-7PM Hyde Park Knights of Columbus 22nd Annual Lenten “FRESH” Fish Fry. Haddock filets: $12. Clam strips: $10. Battered shrimp: $12. Breaded scallops: $12. Father’s platter: $15. Children under 10: $6. Clam chowder: $2.

Serving every Friday during Lent(except Good Friday). Take out availble. Info: 845-229-6111.

Hyde Park Knights of Columbus, Route 9G, Hyde Park.

7PM Roaring Back: The Fragile Global Recovery of Large Carnivores. Join Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, President of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, for a special lecture on the fragile global recovery of large carnivores. Cary Institute auditorium located at 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook. For more information call 845-677-7600 x121. Seating is first come first served. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

5PM New Paltz Elks Lenten Fish Fry. Offered every Friday during Lent. our choice of Fried Fish or Shrimp, French Fries or Baked Potato. Takeouts available. Info: 845-255-1633. New Paltz Elks Lodge #2568, 290 Rt 32 South, New Paltz, $12 /adults, $11 /srs & 12 & under.

7PM Auxiliary of Saxton Fire Company’s Bunco Party. Everyone one wins a prize! Everyone gets a snack at the end of the evening! Fun for all ages! Info: 845-246-7805. Saxton Fire Company, Saugerties, $1.50.

10:30AM Little Brainstormers. Children’s Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

5:30PM-7PM Family Movie Night Disney’s Robin Hood (Rated G). Free and open to the public!. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-7573771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

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

6PM-8PM Explore the Magic of Your Dreams with Jeanne Englert. Explore the Lightning Active Dreamwork Process developed by Robert Moss and learn to travel consciously and intentionally into your dreamspace for healing, initiation and adventure. Info: 845-679-2100.Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $25.

12:30 PM-6 PM Tarot Readings with Lynn Walcutt. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore,

6PM One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Rated R. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, Mary Frazier Room, 68 W Market St, Rhinebeck.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band (Blues Rock). Info: 845-2367970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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

7PM-10PM Blues Happy Hour - The Bronx Express. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049.

Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

7:30PM UPAC Friday Film Series: Spaceballs (1987). Spaceballs Creatures Get in free. Info: 845-339-6088. Ulster Performing Art Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $6.

7:30PM Unplugged Open Mic. Performers will have 10 minutes to display their talents on stage. Contact Mark Schiba at 845-674-3222 or clrwtr@hotmail.com for more information.

Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5.

8PM Shakespeare’s Will. Playwright Vern Thiessen has written a sensitive and humorous text in verse taking delight imagining and inventing the robust, earthy, and intelligent character of Anne Hathaway. Info: www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs or 845-341-4891. SUNYOrange, Orange Hall Theatre, Middletown, $10, $5 /senior/staff, free /student.

8PM August: Osage County. Written by Tracy Letts. Directed by Christine Crawfis. Info: www. countyplayers.org or 845-298-1491. County Players Falls Theatre, 2681 W. Main St, Wappingers Falls, $17, $14 /senior/under 12.

8PM Trinity Players present You’ve Got Hate Mail. Play by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore.

This reader’s theatre production takes a hysterical look at the world on on-line hook-ups and breakups. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, $10.

8PM Wittenberg. Play by David Davalos. Performers: Angela Angeloch, Andrew Codispoti, James Luse, and Phillip Levine. Info: www.facebook. com/events/217815528556242. ASK, 97 Broadway, Kingston, $10.

8PM You Can’t Take it With You. A comedy

by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, , 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22.

9PM 5 Plus 1. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

9PM Taj Mahal. Info: www.bearsvilletheater.com.

Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $75, $45.

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8AM-6PM Nationwide MS Awareness Tour. Ski or ride to make a difference in the lives of people living with MS at this on-snow fundraiser Vertical Express for Can Do MS features on-mountain and aprŠs activities for people of all ages and ability levels. Info:mscando.org/verticalexpress.

Hunter Mountain, Hunter, $25.

8:30AM-12PM Hudson Valley Writing Project.

HVWP's morning workshops for students and adults provide time and creative inspiration to write and share your work in a relaxed, supportive setting. SUNY New Paltz, Old Main, 1907 Rm, New Paltz.

8:45AM Tai Chi with Martha Cheo at Unison.

Slow and graceful movements are good for promoting health, developing strength, balance and coordination, and restoring harmony of mind, body and spirit. Info: 845-255-1559 or www.unisonarts.org Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

9AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

9AM-2:30PM 5-Hour Pre-licensing Class covers the effects of alcohol and drugs on driving perception and defensive driving techniques. Upon completion, students will be issued a certificate, which is required to take the road test. Info: www. sunyulster.edu/ce or845-339-2025. SUNY Ulster, Kingston Center, 94 Mary’s Ave, Kingston, $45.

9AM-3PM Clinton Community Library Book Sale. There will be $10 early admission on Saturday from 8-9am. Info: 845-266-5530. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

9AM Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9-10:30am. All welcome. No charge. 845-246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

9:30AM-11AM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-679-8800. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

9:30AM Wiltwyck Quilters Guild Monthly Meeting. Following the meeting a half-day workshop (11- 2)will be presented by Lisa Fagan, “Daisy Pin Cushion, Wool Appliqu‚” (Cost $20 non-members) Supplies and/or kit will be needed.

Info: 845-247-3814 or kwarren7@hvc.rr.com.

Grace Community Church, Lake Katrine.

9:45AM-1PM Taking Care of Your College Business! SUNY Ulster financial aid professionals will provide hands-on assistance completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and conduct an info session. Res reqr’d. Info: www. sunyulster.edu/visit; 800-724-0833, or admissions@sunyulster.edu. SUNY Ulster, Hasbrouck Hall 220, Stone Ridge.

10AM Pilates Sringboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates,

32 Broadway, Kingston.

68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

10AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market.

Offering fruits and vegetables, organic and natural meats, a wide assortment of cheeses, wine, breads and other baked goods & honey.

Info: www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

3PM The Concerts at Camphill Ghent. Master violinist Eugene Drucker of the well-known Emerson String Quartet performs. Cellist Roberta Cooper and pianist Gili Melamed-Lev will perform duets and piano trios with Drucker.

Info: 518-392-2760 or www.camphillghent.org.

Camphill Ghent, Culture Hall, 2542 Route 66, Chatham, $25, $20 /senior, $5 /student.

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

10 AM -12 PM Ikebana Workshop. Flower Arrangement Lesson, instructor: Suzumi Adams.

Reservation required by Friday 12pm. Info: www.

GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz, $25.

10AM-1PM Hike & Hops. A pairing that includes a scenic winter hike with local craft brews at Pennings Farm Market. This guided 1.75 mile round-trip round-trip hike up to Fuller Mountain Preserve’s overlook. Dressing in warm layers is recommended. Pleasebring water. Info: Jeremy@ OCLT.org or 845-469-0951, ext. 18. Fuller Mountain Preserve, 70 Bowen Rd, Warwick.

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.

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

10:30AM Canning Workshop: Apple Chutney.

Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary. org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

11AM-12:30PM Secrets, Surprise, & Suspense: Writing Page-Turning Fiction. Learn how to keep people on the edge of their seats by writing suspenseful, page-turning fiction. Led by Jenny Milchman. No advance registration required.

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

11AM-12PM Adult Coloring Workshop @ Grinnell Library. Attendees of this free program can use the provided crayons, markers and colored pencils to complete their own colorful masterpieces on pages from coloring books. Info: 845-297-3428. Grinnell Library, 2642 East Main St, Wappingers Falls.

11 AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Area, designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing. No Reservations Required. Snowshoes are available for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person.

Info: at at845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10 /car.

11AM Saturday Morning Family Series: Mr Pennygraff ’s Cirkus Sideshow Spectale. An entertaining “tour” of the American midway, from the Sideshow to the Big Top. Info: 845-876-3080.

Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Recurring event every Saturday. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Info:sarah@womenspowerspace. org My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

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

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

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes, $40 /45 minutes.

1PM-2PM Birds of Prey featuring Bill Roninson. Four live birds of prey are presented in this program. Registration Required. . Info: 845-6796405 or www.wplib.org. West Hurley Firehouse, 24 Wall St, West Hurley.

1PM Talk: Lost Landscapes and Hidden Legacies: A Survey of Stone Structure Sites in the Hudson Valley, Shawangunk and Catskill Mountains of New York by Glenn Kreisberg of the Overlook Mountain Center and NEARA. Stone Cultural Features and Ceremonial Landscapes of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 Rt. 28, Mount Tremper, 845-688- 3096.

2PM-3:30PM Winter Fairy Workshop.Led by Jill Olesker. For 5-8 year olds. Discover Winter Fairy lore through stories, songs, and the crafting of fairy houses, ending with fairy tea! Info: 845- 679-2213. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock.

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

2PM Gardiner Library Music Lover’s Group Meeting. The group meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2pm. Gardiner, free, 845-255-1255.

2PM An Artist Talk. About the Garden of Feverish Imaginings with Gary Mayer. The installation is up through March 5th. Info: www.roxburyartsgroup.org or call 607-326-7908. Roxbury Arts Center, Walt Meade Gallery, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury.

2:30PM Bill Robinson’s Wildlife Animal Show.

Educational program that includes birds of prey such as hawks, owls, vultures, and falcons as well as reptiles such as snakes and lizards. Info: www. starrlibrary.org or 845-876-4030. Starr Library,

3PM Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup.

Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Mind, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

4PM Book Reading & Signing: Carol Goodman, author of River Road. Info: www.goldennotebook. com. Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

4PM Tango Workshop with World Champions at Unison. 2007 World Champion tango dancing couple John Hernan Raigoza and Yaisuri Salamanca will lead a tango workshop. Info: 845-2551559 or www.unisonarts.org Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $25, $20, $15.

4PM-6PM Stitch and Sip: Samplers 1.0. Snow date 2/21.Ages 21 and up. Like a quilting bee or a sewing circle, this program mixes needlework with socializing. Starting simple and always leaving with a project you can continue to work on at home.Supplies provided. Wine and cheese. Info: www.olana.org. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, $25, $50 / entire series.

5PM-7PM “A Gaggle of Artists!” Forty artists from the nonprofit artist’s cooperative; the Wallkill River School are inviting the public to a live demonstration. Info: 845-457-2787 or www.

WallkillRiverSchool.com. Wallkill River School of Art, 232 Ward St, Montgomery.

5:30PM - 7:00PM Restorative Yoga with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. The perfect way to wrap up the weekend. $16. Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

7PM Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine will be spewing literary spoofs, linguistic triple flips, jazz fables, folk song parodies and political satire at the Woodstock Library. The Princes of Serendip will be on hand to perform their unique blend of whimsy, emotion, incisive lyrics and sweet harmonies. Admission is free.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sonando (Latin Dance).

Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Movies With Spirit. “The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom” (2011). A coming-ofage comedy drama about an adopted girl who becomes sure Dolly Parton is her biological mother and runs away to find her. Info: 845-3899201 or www.movieswithspirit.com. Old DutchChurch, 272 Wall St, Kingston, $5.

7PM Family Movie. Info: 845-657-2482 or www. olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

7PM-9:30PM Live Music & Noodles: Rich Hines & The Hillbilly Drifters. A Night of Bluegrass Music. Donation recommended. Info: www.

GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz.

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

7 PM Benefit Concert - Betty & the Baby Boomers. Light refreshments and boat school tours. Seating limited. Info: www.hrmm.org.

Hudson River Maritime Museum, Riverport Wooden Boat School, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, $25.

7:30PM-11:45PM Frolic in the Jungle All-Ages Ecstatic Dance Party! Dancing the 3rd Saturday of each month, 7:30-11:45 pm - thru April.

All dance abilities welcome, no partner required.

Family-oriented early dance at 7:30pm in the cushioned gym space making it safefor children, followed by Ecstatic Dance Party at 9pm. Sliding scale with kids and volunteers free. Info: 845-4814988 or jungle28.com. The Jungle, 881 Rt 28, Kingston.

9PM Mister Kick. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8PM-11PM Murali Coryell. Rare solo performance from blues + soul man. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

8PM The Lucky 5. Info: 845-658-9048. Rosendale Cafer, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $10.

8PM August: Osage County. Written by Tracy Letts. Directed by Christine Crawfis. Info: www. countyplayers.org or 845-298-1491. County Players Falls Theatre, 2681 W. Main St, Wappingers Falls, $17, $14 /senior/under 12.

8PM You Can’t Take it With You. A comedy

by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, , 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22.

8PM Trinity Players presents You’ve Got Hate Mail. Play by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore.

This reader’s theatre production takes a hysterical look at the world on on-line hook-ups and break-

ups. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, $10.

8PM Mayhem And Madness Comedy. Rich Shultis (WPDH Radio, Opening act for Bobcat Goldthwait, Jackie The Joke Man Martling and Ralphie May) Info: www.facebook.com/ events/217815528556242. ASK, 97 Broadway, Kingston, $15.

8PM The Dylan Doyle Band. Info: 845-687-2699 or www.highfallscafe.com. High Falls Café, High Falls.

9PM Eleanor Friedberger Featuring Big Thief.

Info: www.bearsvilletheater.com. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $15.

9PM Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret. Info: 518-828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com. Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia St, Hudson, $30, $20 /clowns in costume.

Sunday

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9:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.10AM-3PM Clinton Community Library Book Sale. There will also be a $5 bag sale on Sunday. Info: 845-266-5530 Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

10AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Squirrels . Those nuts of the Forest! Learn all about the nutty squirrel family. View a slide show of their antics and explore their habitat on a hike.

Info: www. hhnm.orgor call 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $7, $5 /child.

10:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

10:30AM-4:30PM Mitsuwa Shopping Tour with Youko. Kathy and Youko will take you to the Japanese grocery market “Mitsuwa” in Edgewater NJ. Info and reservation: Kathy.Sheldon@ gmail.com. Reservation required by Feb 18. Info: www.GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811. GomenKudasaiNoodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz, $30.

11:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

12PM-2:30PM Walking he Camino: Spiritual Growth on the Ancient Spiritual Road of St. James. Rev. James Alley will lead the discussion of his personal journey as he and his wife, Joan, walked the pilgrim’s path for 8 weeks. Slides of the journey will be shown.Refreshments will be served. Info: 845-331-4121. Hurley Reformed Church, Parsonage, Hurley.

12PM-3PM Family of Woodstock’s 5th Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Brunch. Enjoy listening to pianist Andrea Shaut. A chocolate inspired brunch will be served. Funds raised will go towards programs that serve at-risk youth as well as beginning Family’s solar/energy efficiencycampaign. Info: 845-331-7080 ext.155 or Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, 25 South Partition St, Saugerties.

12PM Co-ed Pickup-Futbol ! If there’s no snow on the ground in town, every Sunday at noon.

Info: studiomyea@gmail.com. Athletic Fields at Comeau Town Park, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock.

12PM-6PM Private Dream Explorations with Jeanne Englert. In a session with Jeanne, you will explore a dream using the Lightening Dreamwork Process and design a personal creative action plan. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $40 / half hour, $75/one hour.

1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm.

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

1PM-4PM Ballroom Dance Crash Course with Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman.

Covering the basics of swing, foxtrot and waltz, each workshop will give you a firm foundation upon which to build a lifetime of dancing together. Swing basics will be taught from 1-2pm, Foxtrot from 2-3pm and Waltz from 3-4pm. You can do each for $20/person or take all three for $45/person. Info to register: www.got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939. La Maison du Etre Bien (House of Wellness), 87 Liberty St, Newburgh.

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(drawing the figure) format of numerous poses which will lengthen in duration as determined by the monitor. $50/4 consecutive classes. Sundays, January 17 - December 4. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $20 /session, $50 /4 classes.

1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Info: 845-679-7148 or rizka@ hvc.rr.com. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock.

1PM-4PM Ballroom Dance Crash Course. The basics of swing, foxtrot and waltz 1-4pm. Each section $20 per person (swing 1pm, foxtrot 2pm, waltz 3pm) or $45 package price per person registered. For more information and to register visit www.got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939. La Maison du Etre Bien (House of Wellness), , 87 Liberty St, Newburgh, $25.

2PM Annual Play 4 Kay Game at Marist. The Marist women’s basketball team hosts Fairfield.

Breast Cancer Survivors will be recognized with a special on-court ceremony at halftime. Info: redfoxes@marist.edu Marist College, 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie.

3PM Book Signing: Jane Bryant Quinn. author of “How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide.” Info: www.starrlibrary.org or 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

3PM Saugerties Pro Musica. Pianist Yalin Chi. Info: 845-679-5733 or 845-246-5021. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties, $12, $10 / senior, free /student.

3PM-7PM Woodstock Live Afternoon Blues & Folk Rock & Funk Show! Featuring Billy Mitchel, George Henry, Ray Pollard, Journey Blue Heaven & friends. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

3PM Wittenberg. Play by David Davalos.

Performers: Angela Angeloch, Andrew Codispoti, James Luse, and Phillip Levine. Info: www. facebook.com/events/217815528556242. ASK, 97 Broadway, Kingston, $10.

3PM You Can’t Take it With You. A comedy

by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart. Info: 845-876-3080. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, , 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $24, $22.

4PM Kairos: A Consort of Singers. First performance of 2016 Bach Cantata Series. Under the direction of Edward Lundergan. The performance will be dedicated to the memory of Daniel Schmidt, a longtime friend of Kairos. Info: www. kairosconsort.org or 845-256-9114. Holy Cross Monastery, Route 9W, West Park.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

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

Meets in the end room in the back of the building.

Village Green, Woodstock.

4PM-6PM 100 for 100 Annual Fundraiser & Fine Art Raffle, Featuring Artists from throughout the Hudson Valley. Wine, fine food, music and fine art. Includes admission for two to the gala reception and one fine work of art that you select based on your raffle number being drawn.Only 100 tickets available! Info: 845-471-2550 or www. barrettartcenter.org. Samuel F.B. Morse Estate, Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, $100.

6 PM -9 PM Swing Dance to Crazy Feet.

6-6:30pm: Beginners Lesson. 6:30pm-9pm: Dance. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845 255-0614. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

7PM Chamber Music Series Info: 845-610-5900.

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Hwy, Chester, $25, $15.

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

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

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8AM - 9AM Yoga Core with Terry Fister.

Multi-level vinyasa flow class combining traditional asana with modern core exercises. Taught by veteran dance and fitness professional Terry

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for DESIGN SERVICES FOR STABILIZATION OF WATSON HALLOW ROAD will be received on or before Friday March 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS February 18, 2016 County of Ulster 244 Fair Street P.O. Box 1800 Kingston, NY 12402 (845) 340-3000 On or about Monday, February 29, 2016 the

Fister, this class will enhance mobility, stability and strength through core conditioning. $16.

Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

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

9AM-4PM Karen O’Neil: Color and Energy Workshop 1. February 22-23, 2016. MondayTuesday. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $235.

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

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30AM Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community.

Info: ssipkingston.org or 845-399-2805. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston.

9:30AM-12:30PM Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County Home Arts Class. Pressure Canning. After this hands-on class you will feel confident that you can safely pressure can everything from fresh corn or venison to chicken soup. Please register at least one week prior. Info: www.ulster.cce.cornell.edu or 845-340-3990 x326. Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston, $30.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

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

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

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

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

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM Math Help with Phyllis Rosato.

From kindergarten to calculus. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

3:30PM-5:30PM Tail Waggin Tutors Reading Help! Read to trained TDI dogs to build confidence and have fun. Recommended for early readers, reluctant readers, anyone ! Free, DropIn. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

4PM Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up new moves, meet new people. Free, open to the public. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

4:15PM-5:30PM Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm. $12/class. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford.

6PM-7:30PM Seminar on MAKOplastyr Surgery . Hosted by Vassar Brothers Medical Center.

The seminar will discuss a minimally invasive robotic surgical system that can help ease the pain of common knee and hip ailments. Res reqr’d.

Info: 845-483-6088 (TTY1-800-421-1220). Mount Saint Mary College, Kaplan Family Library & Learning Center /Dominican Center, Room 218, Newburgh.

6PM Watercolor Class with Melanie Hall. (Part 2) Come and learn watercolor techniques from artist, teacher, and children’s book illustrator Melanie Hall. This class is for adults and teens.

Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan, $25 /for series.

County of Ulster will submit a request to the Office of Community Renewal for the release of CDBG funds under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake a project known as Creating Opportunities for Homeownership for the purpose of implementing a $750,000 CDBGfunded homeownership program for low and moderate income households. This program will fund activities to assist homebuyers to purchase existing dwelling units or dwelling units under construction, including closing costs and down payment assistance, interest buy downs, and similar activities that result in the transfer of title.

The activities proposed are categorically excluded under HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58 from National Environmentally Policy Act Requirements. An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this project is on file at the Ulster County Planning Department, located at the Ulster County Office Bldg., 3rd Floor, 244 Fair St., P.O. Box 1800, Kingston, NY12402.

The ERR may be examined or copied weekdays 9 A.M to 5 P.M. PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency may submit

February 18, 2016

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

6:30PM Qi Gong Series for Women’s Health.

6-week series offered on Mondays, 6:30pm. This qi gong is to prevent health issues as well as to aid in healing already existing ones. Register at www.bluelotusqigong.com or 914-850-1202.

Stone Ridge Community Arts, 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge.

7PM Watercolor Class w/ Melanie Hall. Preregistration required. Info: 845-657-2482 or www. olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

8PM Happy Monday. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

Tuesday

2/23

7:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

9AM-10AM Senior Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

9:30AM Gyrotonicr Tower. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

Plaza Diner, New Paltz.

10AM - 11AM Gentle Yoga with Jess Lunt. Slower-paced, simplified class using modified and supported poses to gently stretch and strengthen.

Perfect for those wanting a gentle, relaxing experience. $8 donation requested. Info: 845-679-8700.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

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

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

10:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

10:30AM Together Tuesdays with Francesca for kids birth through preschool. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

11AM-1PM Fiction Writing Workshop. This sixweek class teaches the essential craft elements to write mesmerizing prose. Ideal for beginners and anyone who wants to sharpen fundamentals. Every Tuesday from 2/23 to 3/29. Info: www. writersinthemountains.org or 607-326-4802.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, $125.

11:30AM - 1PM Yin Yoga with Roxie Newberry.

A slow, steady class that gently 'stresses' connective tissues to make them healthier and stronger, at the same time cultivating equanimity, mindfulness and awareness. $16. Info: 845-679-8700.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com .

1PM Esopus Artist Group. [Adult Program].

Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

1:30PM-3PM Israeli Folk Dancing.1:30PM-3PM Meets every Tuesday Beginner material offered.

written comments on the ERR to the Ulster County Planning Department. All comments received by Thursday, February 25, 2016 will be considered by the County of Ulster prior to submission of a request for release of funds.

RELEASE OF FUNDS The County of Ulster certifies to the Office of Community Renewal that Dennis Doyle in his capacity as Planning Director consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The Office of Community Renewal’s acceptance of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and allows the County of Ulster to use Program funds.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS The Office of Community Renewal will accept objections to its release of fund and the County of Ulster certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of the County of Ulster; (b) the County of Ulster has omitted a step or failed

Each class is geared towards the experience of the participants. No partner necessary. Donation suggested. Come share in the enthusiasm and great exercise. 845-255-9627. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

3PM-4PM Romeo et Julliet Professor Jeffrey Engle will present Prokofiev’s ballet as well as explore the rest of the “Romeo” canon including operas, songs, incidental music, symphonies and overtures in this romantic, classical music lecture.

Res reqr’d. Info:845-905-8000. The Fountains at Millbrook, Allen Lounge, 79 Flint Rd, Millbrook, free.

3:45PM-4:45PM Little Huguenots After-School Program. Grades: K - 2 (Ages 5-8). February 16, 23 - March 1, 8, 15. Info: www.huguenotstreet.org or 845-255-1889. Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz, $75 /5 week session.

5:30PM-7PM Walkway Over the Hudson Spring Training General Workshop for Volunteers.

Also offered on March 8th (General Volunteering Training II) and Saturday, March 19th (On-Site Tour and Vesting Ceremony).For more information on Walkway Ambassador Courses please contact Susanne O’Neil at 845-454-9649, soneil@walkway.org, or visit www.walkway.org/ volunteer.

6PM-8PM Chicken Raising for Beginners. This class will go over everything you need to know to start raising your own chickens for fun or profit: housing and feeding needs, health management, weather and predator concerns. Info: tinyurl. com/backyard-chickens-2016 or845-340-3990 x311. Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Ro, New Paltz, $20.

6 PM-8 PM Phoenicia Community Chorus.

On-going every Tuesday, 6-8pm. An opportunity to join with friends and sing. No need to read music! Info: 845-688-2169. Phoenicia Festival Office, 90 Main at Bridge, Phoenicia.

6PM Frugal Gardening. Learn how to harvest fresh wholesome foods from your backyard. Victoria Rolfe presents the first in four-part series on Frugal Gardening, Planning and Seed Starting.

RSVP is requested at 845-758-3241. Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

6:PM - 7PM Community Yoga Class with Selena Reynolds. A fun and informative drop-in class, open to all levels. $8 donation requested. Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public.

Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake. shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

7PM Starr Book Club. As part of the Neighborhood Community Read: Local Farm to Local Table, they will be reading: The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball. Info: www.starrlibrary.org or 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

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

7PM Starr Book Group: The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball This discussion is a part of the Community Read “Keep it Local! What is Farm to Table”.

Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 W Market St, Rhinebeck.

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

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

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

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

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

Offering professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models under controlled lighting. $15.Info: www.unison-

to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by the Office of Community Renewal; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to Christian Leo, Vice-President, at Office of Community Renewal, Hampton Plaza, 38-40 State Street, 4th Floor, Albany, NY 12207. Potential objectors should contact the Office of Community Renewal to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Dennis Doyle, Planning Director Certifying Officer Dated February 18, 2016 Victoria A. Fabella New York Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature

arts.org or 845-255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7:30PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Evening Speaker Series: The Hudson Highlands Revisited- William Thompson Howell.

Using Howell’s illustrations, the Vacek brothers will share Howell’s story and their own story of research and discoveries inspired by Howell.

Info: www. hhnm.org or call 845-534-5506, ext.

204. Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson St, Cornwall-On-Hudson, $7, $5 /child.

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

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

8PM Gregory Dinger, Guitar. Popular Goes Classical. Info: www.newpaltz.edu/fpa or 845-2573860. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, Nadia Max Shepard Recital Hall, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3.

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9AM Waterman Bird Club Field Trip: Norrie Point. Call: Adrienne @ 845-264-2015. Web: www.watermanbirdclub.org. Norrie State Park, museum parking lot, Staatsburg.

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

10 AM Rhinebeck Garden Club Monthly Meeting. Speaker: Suzanne Kelly, “Growing Glorious Garlic”. Open to the public. Contact Steven Mann for information at 845-876-6892.

Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck.

10AM-12PM Art in the Morning for Preschoolers: Build a Terrarium. Ages 3-5. Info: www. olana.org. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, $10 /child, free /parent.

10:30AM-12:30PM Senior Writing Workshop Welcomes New Members. Writers at all levels of experience, beginner to expert, are invited to join. Writers age 55 and above. Jan 13 and 27, Feb 10 and 24, Mar 9 and 23. Info: . 845- 679-2880.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

10:30 AM-11:30 AM Senior Strength Class with Linda Sirkin. Learn to use hand weights and stretch bands to improve muscle tone and protect bones. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock.

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

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.

12PM - 1PM Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. A series of SOFT foam rolling exercises designed to address the excessive tension and soreness in connective tissues, which can inhibit proper alignment and performance of yoga postures.

Ending with a vinyasa flow, this lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, more stretched out and walking taller than before. $16.

Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

1PM Esopus Stitchers. Adult Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

1PM The Sawkill Seniors Meeting. Gathering begins with a formal meeting format, followed by a raffle, socializing and refreshments. Then for those who wish to join in, there is a card game.

All seniors are welcome. Town Hall, 905 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

1:30PM-2:30PM Singing Circle Wednesday.

Info:845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan.

2PM-6PM Free Computer Help. Every Wed. Bring your laptop, personal device, or just use one of our 5 patron computers, to seek the help you need and get the questions answered that you just can’t quite figure out! Info: www.mountaintoplibrary.org. Mountain Top Library, Tannersville.

2 PM-3PM Senior Sing-Along with Nina Sheldon. Gather around the keyboard and belt out your favorites from the 1920s , '30s, '40s and beyond, or just listen, or maybe dance. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock.

3PM-4:30PM Chess Club for Experienced Adult Players. This club is geared for those who already know how to play so they can meet new people and improve their chess skills. Info: 845- 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s

Turnpike, Gardiner.

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.

3:30 PM After School Tweens. Children’s Program. Note Time Change: was 4pm now is 3:30pm. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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

4PM-5PM LEGO Club - A full hour of free play with a huge collection of LEGOs & DUPLOs! For kids of all ages. Children under 9 must be accompanied by an adult. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

4PM-5:30PM Woodstock’s Golden Notebook hosts Improv Classes. Kids aged 7 years & up can participate in drop-in improv classes with the Ovenbird Theatre Company. Info: ovenbirdtheatre@gmail.com or visit www.ovenbirdproductions.com The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock, $15 /per class, $12 /each for 3 classes.

4:30PM – 5:30 PM Meditation Support Group meets every Thursday at Mirabai. 30 Minutes Seated Meditation followed by 15 minutes walking meditation and brief discussion. Walkins warmly welcome. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $5 donation.

4:30PM-5:30PM Art Hour with Francesca: ages 3 to 103! Frannie will cook up something creative to do each week. She is known for her work with natural, found objects as well as jewelry.Ongoing.

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

4:30PM-5:30PM Chess Club for Beginners.

Open to all ages, the goal is to teach participants to play chess in a relaxed, fun, supportive environment. Info: 845- 255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

5:15PM Reformer Pilates Springboard Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

5:30PM Sonic Cyborgs” residency. Lecture: Author Michael Chorost.”What It’s Like to Go Deaf and Get Your Hearing Back With an Implanted Computer (And What That Means for Theory), “ Info: www.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, room 203, Poughkeepsie, free.

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

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

5:45PM-7PM Zen Meditation. Meets every Wednesday in February at 5:45 - 7pm. Meditation in the Rinzai Zen tradition.There will be a short talk before the sitting with an interval of walking meditation. Beginners welcome. Info: 845- 757-3771 or www.tivolilibrary.org. Free.

6PM-9PM 1000 Hands Across New Paltz. Learn Hands Only CPR in thirty minutes. This is a noncertification course. Info: 845- 255-1719. New Paltz Rescue Squad, 74 N. Putt Corners Rd, New Paltz.

6PM-8PM Meeting of ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network) dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Info: 845-4758781 or www.enjan.org. African Roots Library, Family Partnership Center, 29 N Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

6PM-8PM Woodstock Community Chorale.

On-going every Wednesday, 6-8pm. An opportunity to join with friends to sing both great works and songs for fun. No need to read music! Info: 845-688-2169. Kleinert/James Gallery, Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum to Celebrate Andy Chmar at Benefit in NYC. Mr. Chmar will be retiring after twelve years as Executive Director of the Hudson Highlands Land Trust. Info:www.hhnm.org or call 845-5345506 x212 . Chelsea Park, 260 West 26th St, NYC. 6PM-7:30PM Creative Seed Support Group.

For artists to voice their works inprogress in a supportive environment. For Songwriters, Playwrights & Actors.Held by Patrice Blue Maltas, Actress, Playwright, Musician and founder of Blue Healing Arts Center. MeetsWednesday nights, 6-7:30pm. Info: Patricebluemaltas@gmail.com or www.bluehealing.co. Blue Healing Art Center, 107 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

6PM Teen Night. Young Adult Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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

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

6PM-8PM Catskill Ukulele Group. If you do not have a ukulele but would like to participate, you can check one out from the library. This group stays connected to other players through Meetup. com under the name Catskill Ukulele Group.

Info:845-657-2482. Olive Free

6:15PM Reformer Pilates Springboard Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

6:30PM-8PM Board of Trustees Meeting. Find out how you can help your neighborhood library!

Board meetings are open to the public. Info: www. tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

6:30PM - 8PM Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. A slow, steady class that gently 'stresses' connective tissues to make them healthier and stronger, at the same time cultivating equanimity, mindfulness and awareness. $16. Info: 845-679-8700.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

6:30PM-7:05AM Learn Remembrance. Remembrance is a very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament”Remember my name in the night”) which connects you with the Divine within. All are welcome, RSVP please, Meetup.flowingspirit.com or 845-679- 8989.

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

6:30PM Omega Institute for Sustainable Living Seminar. The guest speaker will be Laura Weiland, assistant director at Omega. Info: 845-266-5530. Clinton Town Hall, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

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

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

7PM “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. Info: 845-679-5906, x 1012 or jan@ kagyu.org. On-going every Wed, 7pm. This free 90-minute program includes 30 minutes of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by one of eight lectures on the history, practices andprinciples of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

8 wk curriculum. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock, free.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Elisser Anderson Nussbaum Trio (Jazz). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-10PM Jazz Night! Public is invited to enjoy live jazz music from talentedlocal musicians, along with light refreshments. A portion of all concert Proceeds will benefit Hudson Valley Public Radio. Info: www.hvcommunitycenter.com or 845-471-0430. The Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 South Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, $7.

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

For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please, Meetup.flowingspirit.com or845679- 8989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, free /donations welcomed.

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.

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

8:30PM-11PM Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio with Syracuse/ Siegel Duo + Special Featured Guest. Featuring Bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Info: 679-7969.

Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Thursday

2/25

730AM-830AM Zen Meditation Group. Free. All warmly welcome for silent sitting, walking, and connection. Facilitators Doree Lipson & Meredith Johnson are Zen practitioners and meditation teachers, and will offer beginner instruction and support as needed and wanted.Free, donations welcome. Info: doreelipsonmsw@gmail.com / or verderosa@gmail.com. Sanctuary, 5 Academy St, New Paltz.

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

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

9:30AM-10:30AM Stretch and Flex with Diane Collelo. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road, Woodstock.

10AM-4PM Suburban Landscapes (2/25 -2/28.

Last weekend to catch Terry Straus’ art on the suburban condition. An innovative combination of traditional landscape and pop art with a provocative eye towards contemporary life. Info: 845-569-4997, www.rain.org/-karpeles. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Newburgh.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD &

other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

10:30AM Reformer Pilates Springboard. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

10:30 AM-2 PM Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads - Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

10:30 AM Cuddletime. 0-2 yrs. Children’s Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11AM-12:30PM Homeschool Group. Program for homeschooled kids, ages 5 and up. Various topics in history will be covered. All are welcome! Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

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

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

4PM Nursing Information Session. Nursing Program Now Accepting Students from Outside Ulster County. For further information and reservations, please call the Admissions Office at (845) 687-5022 or RSVP online at: www.sunyulster.edu/ nursinginfo. SUNY Ulster, HardenberghHall, Nursing Lab (HAR 134), Stone Ridge.

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

Every Thursday at Mirabai. 30 minutes seated meditation followed by 15 minutes walking meditation. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5 /donation.

5PM-8PM Sketch Class. A traditional sketch class (drawing the figure) format of numerous poses which will lengthen in duration as determined by the monitor. $50/4 consecutive classes. January 21-December 15, Thursdays. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $20 /session, $50 /4 classes.

6PM-9PM A Winter of Cyclists: A Chill Ride, Show & Tell and Film. Bike-Friendly Kingston, a bicycle club and advocacy group is hosting a film, A Winter of Cyclists, show & tell and an easy group ride. Info: 914-646-0763, bikefriendlykingston@gmail.com Seven21 Media Center, 721 Broadway, Kingston.

6PM-8PM Accessing the Angelic Realms and Higher Guidance with Margaret Doner.

In this workshop, you will work with various angelic energies and begin to understand how to recognize and integrate their vibration into your daily life. Each participant will “meet” a different angelic energy to contact and work with.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 845-679-2100. $20 if registered by Feb. 23; $25 after.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala. org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6PM-9PM Chill Ride & Screening with Bike Friendly Kingston. An evening ride followed by a Bike Gear Show & Tell. Then a screening of the film, A Winter of Cyclists at 7:30pm. 721 Media Center, 721 Broadway, Kingston.

6PM-8PM Japanese Movie Night: Densha Otoko. Directed by Shosuke Murakami, screenplay by Arisa Kaneko, original novel by Hitori Nakano. Info: www.GKnoodles.com or 845-2558811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz, free.

6PM-7:30PM Free Community Dinner. Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan.

6PM First Thursday Book Club. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

6:15PM Gyrotonicr Tower. Class uses natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Info: 845-658-2239 or www. ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

6:30PM Not Your Mama’s Book Group. Meets monthly, on select Thursday evenings . The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman will be discussed. Info: www.poklib.org or call 845-4853445 x 3702. Boardman Road Branch Library, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie.

6:45PM A Wee Bit of Murder! Presented by ACME Mystery Company. Ticket price includes a threecourse dinner and the show. Interactive dinner theatre with an Irish flare. Info: 845-471-7026.

Mahoney’s Irish Pub, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie, $45.

7PM-8:30PM Shawangunk Ridge Free Public Lecture Series Plant and Animal Mimicry. With Dr. Elizabeth Long, Mohonk Preserve Director of Conservation Science. Info: www.mohonkpreserve.org/events. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center, Room 102, Stone Ridge.

7PM Reading: Luc Sante, award-winning author

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and visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard College, will read from his most recent book, The Other Paris.Books available from Oblong Books. Presented by Bard’s Written Arts Program. Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson.

845-758-7054 or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.

4:15PM-5PM Twilight Yoga: A Sanctuary for Yin & Restorative with Lynda Elaine Carr‚ E-RYT IAYT. Your weekly Rx to Relax Deeply, Recharge, and Revitalize. Info: twilightyogawoodstock@gmail.com or 845- 684-5941. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock.

7PM The Serious Side of Food. A monthly reading and discussion series. Sessions are scheduled for 2/25, 3/10, 4/7, and 4/28. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-757-3771 or tivoliprograms@gmail.com. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All ages, with parents. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

7PM New World Writers Night. Fearturing poet Mark Wunderlich. Readings include an open mic (5 minute limit) which can be poetry or prose.

Info: 845-246-0900. New World Home Cooking, 1411 Route 212, Woodstock.

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

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

Woodstock Public Library, 5 Library Ln, Woodstock, 7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.GKnoodles. com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM Sonic Cyborgs” Residency. Chrorost and Pinch will also be in conversation about all things cyborg. Info: www.vassar.edu. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, room 102, Poughkeepsie, free.

7:15PM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

Friday

2/26

8AM-9AM Medical Qi Gong Class. $10/ preregistered, $15/the door. Info: www.bluelotusqigong. com or 914-850-1202. One Epic Center, 122 Main St, New Paltz.

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

10AM-4PM Suburban Landscapes. February 25 through 28. Last weekend to catch Terry Straus’ art on the suburban condition. An innovative combination of traditional landscape and pop art with a provocative eye towards contemporary life. Info: 845-569-4997, www.rain.org/karpeles. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Newburgh.

10AM-11:30AM Minnewaska Preserve: Fun Fridays. Hikes may be up to a mile and a half of long and will take place with or without snow.

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

Minnewaska Preserve, Peter’s Kill Area, Gardiner.

10:30AM Little Brainstormers. Children’s Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

10:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

12PM-6PM 4th Annual Woodstock Day School Art Exhibition. Young artists from the Woodstock Day School will be showcasing their creative talents. February 26 through February 28. Info: www.woodstockdayschool.org. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

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

12:30PM – 6PM Crystal, Tarot and Astrology Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic.

Every Friday. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 845-679-2100. $30 for Crystal and Tarot Reading; $120 for 90 minute in-depth Astrology reading.

3PM Sonic Cyborg Residency- Trevor Pinch is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Lecture: “In the Moog: Understanding How the Electronic Music Synthesizer Became a New Instrument, “Info: www.vassar. edu. Vassar College, Thekla Hall, Poughkeepsie, free.

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

4PM-5:30PM Minecraft - The winner gets a prize!

For kids ages 8+. Please bring your own laptop if possible. Public computers will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

4:30PM Anime Club. 2nd & 4th Fri of each month. Tween/Teen Program. Info: 845-3385580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

5PM-7:45PM Computer Fixer. Joris Sankai Lemmens will be available to answer your more complicated technical questions (in 15 minute increments). Have a new device that you can’t set up? Sankai is the expert for you. Info: 845-6887811 orwww.phoenicialibrary.org. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

5PM New Paltz Elks Lenten Fish Fry. Offered every Friday during Lent. our choice of Fried Fish or Shrimp, French Fries or Baked Potato. Takeouts available. Info: 845-255-1633. New Paltz Elks Lodge #2568, 290 Rt 32 South, New Paltz, $12 /adults, $11 /srs & 12 & under.

5PM-7PM Hyde Park Knights of Columbus 22nd Annual Lenten “FRESH” Fish Fry. Haddock filets: $12. Clam strips: $10. Battered shrimp: $12. Breaded scallops: $12. Father’s platter: $15. Children under 10: $6. Clam chowder: $2.

Serving every Friday during Lent(except Good Friday). Take out availble. Info: 845-229-6111.

Hyde Park Knights of Columbus, Route 9G, Hyde Park.

6PM Kids Movie Night: Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015). Info: phoenicialibrary.org or 845-6887811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

6:30PM Classic Blues Workshops with Chester and Linda Freeman. 6:30-7:15pm Classic Blues I: Don’t just stand and sway when the music slows down! 7:15-8pm Classic Blues II: You’ll continue to explore the moves and movements that make blues a classic. Info:www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845 255-0614. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM-10PM Blues Happy Hour - Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049.

Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

7PM-9:30PM Live Music & Noodles. Dave Berger, Ambient Folk Originals, Unique Covers.

Donation recommended. Info: www.GKnoodles. com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz.

7PM Movies that Matter Beacon: Birth: depicts the onset of cultural/political consciousness of a young African-American adult. The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African American community 1967 to1975. Info: 845-838-2415.

First Presbyterian Church of Beacon, McKinley Hall, 50 Liberty St, Beacon, free.

7PM Conversations at Boughton Place. Takes place the second Friday of each month at 7 pm.

Boughton Place, Moreno Stage, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland, $5 /suggested donation.

7PM-11PM Local Talent Night. Every Friday.

Seeking bands and performers. Primo’s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 845-883-6112.

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

7PM The Vagina Monologues. The classic play benefiting Safe Homes of Orange County. Join the global effort to end violence against women and girls. Purchase tickets in advance and at the door. Info: 845-562-5365 or www.eventbrite. com. Village of Montgomery Senior Center, Montgomery.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Paul Green Rock Academy featuring Ed Mann (Orchestral Jazz Rock). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8PM Talk: “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer.” Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls. Will benefit The Grace Smith House. Tickets: by donation/pay what you can.

Info: 845-876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

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

8:30PM-11:30PM Swing Dance to The Gordon Webster Sextet. Beginner’s lesson 8-8:30pm; Dance 8:30-11:30pm. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845 255-0614. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie, $15, $10 /full-time student.

9PM Sarah Borges “Good and Dirty” - CD Release with Special Guest: Eric “Roscoe” Ambel. Info: www.helsinkihudson.com or 518-.828-4800. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Saturday

2/27

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

charge. 845-246-3285. Trinity Episcopal Church, Rte 9W, Saugerties.

9AM John Burroughs Natural History Society field trip: Early Migrants on the Rondout. Trip leader Carol Weber (carolorganistin@gmail.com or 914 388-1569) Party will travel upstream to the High Falls area. Info: www.jbnhs.org Rosendale Shopping Center Parking Lot, Rt.32, Rosendale.

9AM-3:30PM Defensive Driving Class designed to help prevent and avoid accidents through techniques developed by the National Safety Council and approved by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Info: www.sunyulster.edu/ce or 845-339-2025. SUNY Ulster, KingstonCenter, 94 Mary’s Ave, Kingston, $45.

9AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

9AM-4PM Jenny Nelson: Exploring Abstraction Workshop. February 27 & 28, 2016. SaturdaySunday. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $255.

9:30AM-11AM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-679-8800. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

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

10AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

10AM-2:30PM Spinning Workshop. Longtime spinner and artist Carol Mauriello will take you through the creation of one of a kind skeins of fiber known as “art yarn” using a spinning wheel.

Bring a bag lunch. Advance registration required.

Info: phoenicialibrary.org or845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

10AM-4PM Suburban Landscapes (2/ 25 -2/28.

Last weekend to catch Terry Straus’ art on the suburban condition. An innovative combination of traditional landscape and pop art with a provocative eye towards contemporary life. Info: 845-569-4997, www.rain.org/-karpeles. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Newburgh.

10AM-2PM Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market.

Offering fruits and vegetables, organic and natural meats, a wide assortment of cheeses, wine, breads and other baked goods & honey.

Info: www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Old Dutch Church, Kingston.

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.

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

11AM-3PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: A Sugaring Off Celebration. Featuring a Maple Sugar tour, special crafts, games, and Native American story telling around the camp fire.

Enjoy treats of the sweet season and learnsome fun recipes for Maple Syrup. Info: 845-534-5506.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

11 AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Area, designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing. No Reservations Required. Snowshoes are available for this program at a discounted rate of $5 per person.

Info: at at845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10 /car.

11AM Saturday Morning Family Series: Bubble Trouble with Jeff Boyer. nfo: 845-876-3080.

Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

11AM-3PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Sugarbush Tours .Tours: 11am, 1pm and 2pm, a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the sugar shack (weather dependent).

Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, MuserDr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Recurring event every Saturday. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Info:sarah@womenspowerspace. org My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

12PM-8PM Saturday Newburgh Last Saturdays. A celebration of art, music, poetry, and shopping. Last Saturday of every month shops, galleries, studios and restaurants are open on Liberty St, Grand St, Ann St. Info: 520-6091866. Newburgh.

12:30PM – 6:30 PM Tarot Readings with Stephanie every Saturday. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. Walkins welcome or call for appointment. $30 for 25 minute reading; $40 for 45 minute reading.

1PM-3PM Deep Air: Interdisciplinary Arts Reading Series (Snow Date Feb. 28) . A series

February 18, 2016 of talks designed to navigate artistic practice as it relates to travel, ecology, history, and landscape topics. Ages 10 & up. Tea and cake will be served and a healthy Q&Afollows artist talks. Info: www.olana.org. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, $10.

1PM-2PM Book Lover’s Party. Learn how to download free eBooks onto your device. Registration Required. Info: 845-679-6405 or www. whplib.org. West Hurley Library, 42 Clover St, West Hurley.

1PM-4PM Seeing It Through #2: Image Transfer Workshop. With artist Tina Chaden. Image transfer is an amazing technique enabling an artist to layer one transparent image over another creating a collage of richness and depth. Ages 13 & up. Pre-reg reqr’d. Info:info@athensculturalcenter.org Athens Cultural Center, Athens, $25 /material fee.

2 PM 4th Grade Art Show Opening. Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary.org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan.

2PM-4PM Women’s Studio Workshop’s 19th Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta Fundraiser. Early Admission. Info: 845-658-9133 or www.wsworkshop.org. Rosendale Community Center, 1055 New York Rte 32, Rosendale, $5.

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

2PM-4PM Master Crystals as Ascension Tools with Mirabai’s Crystal Reader Mary Vukovic. In this workshop, we will discuss and work with various master crystals to alleviate Ascension symptoms, detoxify both physically and spiritually, raise our frequency and integrate higher vibrational energies. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 845- 679-2100. $20 if registered by Feb. 25; $25 after.

3PM Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup.

Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Mind, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

3PM Book Reading & Signing: Carol Goodman, author of River Road. Info: www.bhny.com/ albany. Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, 1475 Western Ave, Albany.

3PM Artist Talk: Marieken Cochius Invisible Nature. Exhibits through 3/6. Info: matteawan. com or 845-440-7901. Matteawan Gallery, 436 Main St, Beacon.

3PM TheaterSounds Hudson Valley Playreading Series will give a dramatic reading of “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass wit of Molly Ivins”

by Margaret and Allison Engel. The play celebrates the brassy wit and character of Texas newspaper columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins. Reviews have described it as “an inspiring piece of theater" and a "memorable portrait of a crusading journalist who (became) one of the nation's most influential and compassionate political columnists." Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. Admission is by donation.

4PM-6PM Opening Reception: 4th Annual Woodstock Day School Art Exhibition. Young artists from the Woodstock Day School will be showcasing their creative talents. February 26 through February 28. Info: www.woodstockdayschool.org. Kleinert/James Center forthe Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

4PM-7PM Women’s Studio Workshop’s 19th Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta Fundraiser. Featuring live music by Dog on Fleas. Info: 845-658-9133 or www.wsworkshop.org. Rosendale Community Center, 1055 New York Rte 32, Rosendale.

5PM Clearwater Celebrates Environmental Justice with a Concert in Newburgh. Performances by Corey Glover, Decora, Michael Monasterial, Terri Gittens, Gregory Charlemagne. The master of ceremonies will be Poet Gold. All proceeds from the benefit will supportHudson River Sloop Clearwater. Info: www.clearwater. org 299 Washington St, Newburgh.

5:30PM-7PM Newburgh Learn to Swing Dance Workshop for Beginners. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. . $25 per person registered.

For more information and to register visit www. got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939. La Maison du Etre Bien (House of Wellness), 87 Liberty St, Newburgh.

6PM-8PM Spring Fashion Show Benefit for Spectrum Services. VIP Reception and Fashion Show; 6-8pm $25. Fashion Show Only; 7-8pm $10. VIP Pre-Show Reception includes wine, beer, hors doeuvre and the show. Door prizes, raffles. Info: 845-338-2800. WoodstockHarleyDavidson, 949 Rt. 28, Woodstock.

6PM Poetry Reading & Open Mic & Potluck.

Info: 845-657-2482 or www.olivefreelibrary. org. The Olive Free Library, 4033 Rt 28A, West Shokan.

6:30PM Laura Ludwig presents Poetry and Performance Art. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

7PM Queen of the Hudson Concert Series.

New York classical pianist and composer Katya Mihailova performs. Info: 917-482-3691. Atlas Industries, 11 Spring St, Newburgh.

7PM Chanting with the Spirit Brothers Band.

Chants may come from many traditions including Sanskrit Kirtan, Native American, Sufi and Ancient Christian. Info: 845-255-1559 or www.

unisonarts.org Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $10.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Corey Glover’s Soul Project (Soul). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-9:30PM Live Music & Noodles. PopUp Gypsy Band. Gypsy, Hungarian, and Klezmer.

Donation recommended. Info: www.GKnoodles. com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz.

7 PM Bachanalia. Hudson Opera Theater performs Magnificat, Brandenburgh No. 5, Christ Lag in Todesbanden. Soloist, chorus and orchestra. Conducted by Ron De Fesi. Info: www. hotopera.com or 845-661-0544. First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, Monroe.

7PM Katya Mihailova, pianist displays her contemporary repertoire. Info: www.queenofthehudson.com. Atlas Industries, Newburgh.

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

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

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

7:30PM Jazzstock presents 2012 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan in Duo with longtime collaborator Cameron Brown. Info: www.jazzstock.com or 845-802-0029. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $40 / first 2 rows, $30.

7:30PM-10:30PM Third Saturday Contra Dance.

Bill Fischer calling & music by Wry Bred. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org/ or 845-473-7050.

Admission $10/5 full time students. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 55 Wilbur Blvd, Poughkeepsie.

7:30 PM TheaterSounds Hudson Valley Playreading Series: Red Hot Patriot: The KickAss wit of Molly Ivins. Play by Margaret and Allison Engel. Admission is by donation. Info: 845-657-6303. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

8PM “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer.” Writings to Stop Violence Against Women a.nd Girls. Will benefit The Grace Smith House. Tickets: by donation/pay what you can.

Info: 845-876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

8PM Slam Allen. Info: 845-658-9048. The Rosendale Cafer, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $15.

8PM-11PM The Ben Rounds Band. Country rock, blues & rockabilly. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-8538049. Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

8PM The Whispering Tree. Genre: folk. Info: www.askforarts.org or 845-338-0333 Art Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, $5.

8PM The Lone Bellow. Info: www.LevonHelm. com. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock, $35 / seating, $30 /standing.

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

9PM Adrien Reju. Info: www.helsinkihudson. com or 518-828-4800. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

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8AM-11AM Rombout Fire Company Pancake Breakfast. On the menu: pancakes, eggs, omelets, sausage, bacon, orange juice, tea, and coffee. Under 5 free. Rombout Fire Company, 901 Main St, Fishkill, $10, $9 /senior, $7 /child.

9:30AM Pilates Sringboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

10AM-2PM Sun Brunch @ The Falcon: Dave Keyes Band (Jazz Rock). Info: 845-236-7970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10AM-12PM Japanese Calligraphy Workshop.

Description: Japanese brush calligraphy class, instructor: Midori Shinye. reservation required

by Saturday 12pm. Info: www.GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz, $20.

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

10:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer.Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

11AM-3PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Sugarbush Tours. Tours: 11am, 1pm and 2pm, a one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the sugar shack (weather dependent).

Info: 845-534-5506. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, MuserDr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice

1PM-3:30PM Talk: Deep Air: Interdisciplinary Arts Reading Series. These talks are designed to navigate artistic practice as it relates to travel, ecology, history, and landscape topics. This year, the series focuses on the very broadest themes of travel, which Frederic Church did so much of in his life, and artists continue to do to seek inspiration and enlightenment. Tea and cake will be served.Q&A follows artist talks. Info: www. olana.org/education or www.olana.org/education.

Olana’s Wagon House Education Center,5720 State Rt 9G, Hudson. 518-828-0135.

1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Info: 845-679-7148 or rizka@ hvc.rr.com. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock.

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.

11:30AM Pilates Springboard/Reformer. Class is a full-body workout including core stability and strengthening, upper body and lower body program. The workout includes classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

1PM-4PM Sketch Class. A traditional sketch class (drawing the figure) format of numerous poses which will lengthen in duration as determined by the monitor. $50/4 consecutive classes. Sundays, January 17 - December 4. Info: www.woodstockshcoolofart.org. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, $20 /session, $50 /4 classes.

12PM-6PM 4th Annual Woodstock Day School Art Exhibition. Young artists from the Woodstock Day School will be showcasing their creative talents. Exhibits 2/26-2/28. Info: www.woodstockdayschool.org. Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

3PM “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer.” Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls. Will benefit The Grace Smith House. Tickets: by donation/pay what you can.

Info: 845-876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

12PM-4PM Suburban Landscapes (2/25 -2/ 28).

Last weekend to catch Terry Straus’ art on the suburban condition. An innovative combination of traditional landscape and pop art with a provocative eye towards contemporary life. Info: 845-569-4997, www.rain.org/-karpeles. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Newburgh.

3PM-7PM Woodstock Live Afternoon Blues & Folk Rock & Funk Show! Featuring Billy Mitchel, George Henry, Ray Pollard, Journey Blue Heaven & friends. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

12PM Co-ed Pickup-Futbol ! If there’s no snow on the ground in town, every Sunday at noon.

Info: studiomyea@gmail.com. Athletic Fields at

3PM-6PM Olive Fire Department’s Brooks BBQ chicken and rib dinners. Featuring either a halfchicken or rack of ribs, potatoes, cole slaw, rolls, dessert, and a drink. Olive Co. #2 Fire House, 3218 Rte. 28, Shokan, $14, $12.

4 PM Bachanalia. Hudson Opera Theater performs Magnificat, Brandenburgh No. 5, Christ Lag in Todesbanden. Soloist, chorus and orchestra. Conducted by Ron De Fesi. Info: www. hotopera.com or 845-661-0544. First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, Monroe.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

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

Meets in the end room in the back of the building.

Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, 4PM Howland Chamber Music Circle Piano Fest. Lisa de la Salle. Info: 845-765-3012 or HowlandMusic.org. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, $30, $10 /student.

4:30 PM -6 PM Breathe/ Chant/ Envision/ Reflect/Connect. A bimonthly musical, meditative journey to reset, renew and inspire, with a variety of talented musicians, eclectic instrumentation, original mantra music and lyrical verse.

Info: www.amymctear.com/vocal-village/ Living 5PM Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s romantic Broadway musical for all generations. Info: 845-938-4159, www.ikehall.com West Point, Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point.

6PM-8PM 3rd Annual Spring Fashion Show PreFashion Show VIP Cocktail Hour from 6pm-7pm.

Refreshments will be available, as well as door prizes. Funds will go directly to the programs and services that help so many Hudson Valley children with autism. Info: 845-338-2800x 110. Woodstock Harley-Davidson, 949 St. Rt. 28, Kingston, $25 /cocktails and show, $10 /show.

7PM Leon Russell & Dave Mason. Info: 518-4731845. The Egg Albany, Albany, $44.50, $39.50, $34.50.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: The Reunion Project feauring Chico Pinhiero (Jazz). Info: 845-2367970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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

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10AM John Burroughs Natural History Society field trip: Winter Tree ID Walk. Trip leader Tom O’Dowd (tkodowd@gmail.com or 914 213-7079).

Info: www.jbnhs.org Burroughs Sanctuary, Burroughs Dr, West Park.

10AM-12PM Sunday Art Studios: 3D Paper Olana Model Making. Designed for local families, heritage and art tourists, and regular visitors who like to make art. Projects take about 30 minutes and are fun for all ages. Everyone leaves with a work of art! Info:www.olana.org. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, free.

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Join the Mohonk team!

We have Jobs at Mohonk Mountain House, both Seasonal and Year Round Please look on-line and apply at MOHONKJOBS.com Cleaner/Home Help Needed. Seeking a very reliable person to monitor house and clean on an as-needed basis, usually averaging 1x/month in winter and 2-3x/month otherwise. House is in central Woodstock.

Call Sarah 917-617-0806.

Kitchen Designer; Experienced kitchen designer to join our team at WCW Kitchens. We’re a fast growing local shop offering quality service and competitive products. Experienced sales person familiar with drawing software and running complete kitchen and bath renovations. Contact only through email: info@wcwkitchens.com LANDSCAPERS, GARDENERS WANTED. Experience necessary. 16 to 40 hours per week. Trustworthy, reliable, strong with endurance. Own transportation. Would primarily work in Woodstock area. Email experience to hire12498@gmail.com (put landscaper/gardener in subject line) or call 845-679-7377.

New Paltz;, PART-TIME OFFICE HELP. Must haveflexible hours and able to work the summermonths. Excellent people skills, computer knowledge,and more. Apply in person: Southside Terrace Apartments, 4 Southside Ave. Leasing Office.

DENTAL ASSISTANT. The Center for Advanced Dentistry in Highland, is seeking an experienced dental assisitant for 18 to 22 hours per week. Please call 845-691-5600.

Seasonal Floral Merchandiser. Fun, creative immediate position in several locations in the Highland & Hudson Valley surrounding area. Morning hours, availability to travel a bonus. Contact Diane: 518-527-7720.

OFFICE HELP WANTED: 8 a.m.- approx.

1 p.m., (or as needed), weekdays. Looking for my right hand. Small home-based office. Re-

sponsibilities include Excel, organization, answering phones. Trustworthy, positive, focused.

Capable of prioritizing, multi-tasking, reliable transportation, strong work ethic. Long-term commitment important. Contact hire12498@ gmail.com, please include your resume.

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DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 6260221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

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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 otherWe have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/ business cards & flyers or “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)758-1170. Spots are $12-$35.

Call for Artists: Saugerties Open Studio Tour, Aug. 12-14, invites artists in all visual media, who maintain a working studio within Saugerties, to apply. Application deadline is April 1.Contact: Michael@michaelciccone.com

***NYS PARKS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY*** The NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation is requesting proposals (RFP) for the operation of a Food, Beverage & Catering Concession at Dinsmore Clubhouse, Mills Norrie State Park, Staatsburgh, NY RFP#X001250.

For bid document and financial obligations, please contact Carol at 845-889-3875 for a copy of the RFP documents. Refer to RFP #X001250.

Proposals in response to this RFP are due to State Parks not later than: 2 pm, March 9, 2016.

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Gentle Care, I offer assistance with compassion in time of need, for those who would benefit from care at home. Brain Training to help improve cognitive function included if requested. Experienced. Please call Yvonne for more information (845) 657-7010.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133 ELDERLY CARE. HHA. 25 years experience. Excellent references. Live in or out.

Will run errands, doctors appointments, cook meals, etc. Call Dee @ 845-399-1816 or 845-399-7603.

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Russian-American classical pianist offers PIANO LESSONS ($45/45 min) for children and adults at One Epic Place 122 Main St., New Paltz, NY Call for appointment914-850-1202, Olga.

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New Paltz Bike and Brunch Club devoted to bike rides and brunch on Sunday mornings now organizing for 2016 season. Join us for a bit of exercise and a bite of brunch. Interested?

Respond to NPBNBC@gmail.com.

First meeting in February, first ride in March.

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HIGH WOODS SPORTSMEN’S CLUB Sportsmen’s Swap & Sell Sunday, March 13, Rain or Shine - Indoors, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tables, Tables & More Tables of Sports Equipment. Black Powder, Boating, Rifles, Fishing, Clothing, Archery, Camping, Trapping, Optics, Etc. $25 Donation per Table payable in advance by the close of business Monday, 2/29. FFL on premises for Firearms Transfers. Kitchen will be open for Pancakes, Eggs, Sausag es, Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Soda & Coffee. 870 Church Road (Zena-High Woods Road), Woodstock. Table Reservations: $25 per Table payable in advance by the close of business Monday, 2/29. High Woods Sportsmen’s Club, P.O. Box 93, Saugerties, NY 12477. CONTACT: Wolfie 845-866-3177.

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STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the pay. Always ready to get you there.

Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Airport transportation starting at $50. Cell- 845-6495350; stu@hvc.rr.com Look for me on Facebook.

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BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME, located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home. Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

TANNERSVILLE: RESIDENTIAL/ COMMERCIAL. Famous Nightclub/ Restaurant for lease or sale. 4 miles from Hunter Mountain. Open house this Saturday, 7 p.m. Located on a stream in center of village. Fully equipped. Nightclub/ Restaurant 9 unit motel & 3-bedroom apartment open & operating. 631-9018535.

ELLENVILLE - REAL ESTATE FOR SALE • Custom 4000sf home on 10 acs or 60 Acres, w/Apt, resid/comm. Price Negotiable - Make Offer • Mobile Park $96,241 Income • Retail/Apt Bldg 19 rntls 3.8ac

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Private 7.6 acres. 1800 sq.ft. Main House w/ Atrium, 2-car garage, 40x50 Barn, Guest Cottage w/2-car garage. Photo studio, separate office w/kitchen & full bath, large heated organic greenhouse. Artesian spring, seasonal stream, 20’ deep swimming spring-fed pond. Big views of Catskills. Blueberry, Black Raspberry, Red Raspberry gardens. Access to State swimming stream. Apple & Peach trees, Hickory, Maple, Canadian, Hemlock, Magnolia & Japanese Maple Trees. Mountain meadows covered w/wild flowers. Walk to 3 restaurants. .............$485,000

Contact Mike Young, Broker 845-679-2735.

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“Can you hear that? It’s not the blustering wind at your door.... it’s the warm breeze from North Carolina beckoning you home!” A wonderful town house for sale in North Carolina, minutes from the Wilmington waterfront and several wonderful beaches to enjoy the sunshine and ocean breezes. To view this home go to following link: http://www.frandowney. com/#!blank/lj89r. Or call me, Fran Downey, 908-625-8485.

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Apartments/Office Space, with vacant land. 21 North Chestnut St, New Paltz; $595,000 firm. Also, four 2-bedroom apartments, Cottekill near college, $295,000. Some financing available for qualified buyers. 845-229-0024

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Artist Studio Space for rent. Newly renovated 300 sf open space for artist in New Paltz. Close to Thruway on Horsenden Rd. Formerly recording studio. $500 incl all utilities. Direct access to bathrooms and kitchen. Contact owner 845-656-2226.

SINGLE ROOM OFFICE; $425/month OR 2 ROOM OFFICE; $625/month for rent near SUNY. Suitable for therapist or other professional. 1-year lease. All utilities included. Ample parking. 845-255-0574; 917-774-6151.

TANNERSVILLE: RESIDENTIAL/ COMMERCIAL. Famous Nightclub/ Restaurant for lease or sale. 4 miles from Hunter Mountain. Open house this Saturday, 7 p.m. Located on a stream in center of village. Fully equipped. Nightclub/Restaurant 9 unit motel & 3-bedroom apartment open & operating. 631-901-8535.

362 sq.ft. Retail Space; Tinker Street, next to established store. Move-in condition. Including beautiful display case. $950/month plus security.Call 845-6796896 after 7 p.m.

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1-BEDROOM APARTMENT near Junction 32 & 44/55. Second floor of converted 19th Century barn. Parking. Snow-plowed.

Trash, recycle weekly. 1-year lease, 1 month security. No smokers, no pets. References. $675/month excluding utilities. 845-8830857.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT; $775/ month plus utilities. Gardiner, No pets, 1 month rent & 1 month security. Call 845255-8696.

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MODERN QUALITY COUNTRY HOME Embraced by Prime Acreage Custom Built with Mountain/Valley Views

A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE! Savvy buyers & sellers know that only Westwood Metes & Bounds offers a 35+ year tradition of recognized success in Ulster County Real Estate. With deep roots in the communities we serve and live in, we provide a uniquely informed perspective on the important aspects affecting your most important investment. With a Westwood professional on your team, you can trust your success to ours. It works!

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RARE LAKEFRONT - Super opportunity for the handyperson and visionary to create a lakefront retreat with 58’ accessible lake frontage on 85 acre Binnewater Lake.  Level site leads to water’s edge swim, canoe, kayak or fish in your own backyard. Bring your own personal taste & style to this vintage 2 story currently 2 units but needed renovation can convert to 2 or 3 BR, 2 bath home. Easy clearing yields yr-rd LAKE views ............. $120,000

COUNTRY ESTATE - Significant 30 acre setting (3 deeds!) encloses this ultra-gracious circa 1875 farmhouse, stylishly updated throughout & offering 3 BRs, 3 full baths, open floor plan with large gourmet kitchen, 22’ dining room, HW floors throughout, steam shower, den, office & central AC. The stunning setting is dotted with many gardens PLUS heated IG POOL, tennis court, outbuilding, POND & distant views to the Berkshires. ONE-OF-KIND! ............ $749,000Â

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Home for All Seasons: Ski, Hunt, Snowmobile, Horse trails

• 2.5 Hrs TZ Bridge, 1 hr. Hudson or Kingston • Scenic Western Catskills • ½ Hr Skiing,Windham, Hunter • Close to State Universities, Cooperstown, Albany • Schoharie County, Gilboa, Stamford, NY • Minutes to Village shops, Restaurants,Golf, State Park

• Open Fields. Woods. Wildlife. Privacy • Year round town maintained road • 1st oor owner suite, walk out to deck hot tub • 4BR,Loft, 4.5 Bath, FDR, Sunroom • Bonus Room above 3 car garage/OfďŹ ce/Studio • Full walkout entertainment lower level w/pool table plus • Sauna, wine cellar, wetbar, steam shower, Jacuzzi

Home with 40 acres: $525,000 / Home, Cabin, Barn with total 180 acres - Negotiable Unique Opportunity, Full Info at Website: www.catskillsresorthome.com Contact: (518) 947-4400 Email: mountaintophome@aol.com

CAPTIVATING CONTEMPORARY Take a look if you like the beauty of clean lines, with sun drenched rooms, that has been meticulously maintained by the original owner. This 3 bath, 4 (plus) bedroom home with private second oor Master Suite, has a fabulous ofďŹ ce /studio above the garage and room to grow in the daylight lower level. This beautiful setting and convenient location is proudly offered at........$450,000

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WOODSTOCK CLASSIC - Remarkable 1825 Colonial in a fine Cooper Lake location! First offering in over 30 years! Lovingly maintained and updated 2400+ SF featuring abundant original charm & detail. Graciously proportioned throughout & featuring 4 BRs, 3 full baths, 32’ LR w/ Rumsford fireplace, 20’ formal DR, country gourmet kitchen w/ cherry cabinetry, French doors, wide board & slate floors, cedar roof, fine details abound. MUST SEE! ..$599,000

JUST MOVE IN! - Privately sited and newly renovated, this south county Cape Cod is ready for you! The smartly refreshed interior features an airy open plan living & dining space, NEW eat-in kitchen w/ SS appliances & granite counters, main level BR & 2 more upstairs, 3.5 baths, some wood floors, central AC, updated mechanicals, finished lower level expands the living space – perfect playroom or studio. Hurry! ..........$235,000

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Search all the MLS properties in our region at www.WinMorrisonRealty.com Magical! Sophisticated! Private Oasis!

One of the loveliest properties in Woodstock has over 6000 sq ft of handcrafted excellence, 3500 sq ft of private luxury living space. The 1st fl. consists of a built-out waiting room with fireplace & service desk, 10 treatment rooms, each with a bay window and cork flooring, skylights and private office spaces. The entire property is zoned for a health related venture: Physician’s office, health spa, Dental office, etc., rental, or simply covert the entire floor to additional living space. There is a full bath, a half bathroom, utility room, storage rooms, exercise room and more! The sumptuous residence has 4-5 bedrooms, 3 fireplaces, formal dining room, offices and 3 full baths. There is way too much to mention, so please call Richard Miller or Mitch Rapoport for the rest of these AMAZING details....................................... $1,650,000 Immediate Opportunity Blanca Aponte, has done it again with an astonishing opportunity on Route 212 in Saugerties, a turnkey, fully-equipped restaurant, with a private rear office and a spacious second level 2-bedroom apartment, and is currently rented for $1000 a month! This popular venue was known for good food, entertainment, and art displays.

There was a beer and wine license, this may make it easy to apply for a new license. It is currently an estate with the potential for private financing.

The owner wants to let everyone know about possibly lease to purchase and owner financing. Please call for more details… IMMEDIATELY! ............................ $179,900 39K TION! UC D RE

In 1867, the US Secretary of State, made what most thought was a whopping mistake! He purchased Alaska for 7.2 million dollars and it was called; “Seward’s folly.” 5.8 million of that money was to repay Russia for a huge naval expedition they made to New York to warn the British away from entering the Civil War alongside the Confederacy. So Alaska was actually purchased for a mere 1.4 million dollars. Today we calculate the worth of Alaska’s natural resources into the 100’s of trillions. What a real estate investment!

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1902) and it was the same year this home was built. It has 5 bedrooms and 5 half-baths, just waiting for you to make it your own. Make it the fabulous B-n-B you’ve dreamed of.

The main floor has beautiful wood flooring and lots of light. This spacious unique house also has a 3rd floor that can be used for as separate living quarters, with its own kitchen, bath, living room and bedroom. The roof is about 6 years old and updated electric is 200 amps. Close to the village of Saugerties with its quaint little shops, Movie Theater and HITS. Call Angela Galetto or Joseph La Chance. Incredibly priced at ..$149,000

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In the Heart of the Catskills, is a wonderful investment, log-cabin complex, in downtown Boiceville with high local and tourist traffic along the Rt. 28 corridor. In need of a dentist? A Lawyer?

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Well, have we got the place for you! Built in 2008, all of the units are currently rented and open for business. If you think you need to fix your teeth after meeting your lawyer, who made the agreement with your architect to build your log home, this may be for you! Great for retail because it is on the route to skiing! Ask Heater Martin for details and dance your way to the bank! ......$429,000!

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HIGHLAND: DELIGHTFUL, PRIVATE HOUSE #1: Serene surroundings, large porch, large kitchen, mirrored LR, 3-bedrooms, large den, 1.5 Bathrooms, numerous closets. $1100/month.

BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT #2; airy, spacious apartment. Large kitchen, many closets, private balcony, 2 entrances, serene surroundings. $950/month. BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT #3; , airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month. Call (570)2966185.

HIGHLAND: 1-BEDROOM. First floor; $875/month. Available 3/1. Second floor. $925/month. Available immediately. Both are Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking. Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. Heat & hot water included. 1 month security. 845-453-0047.

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“COUNTRY CHIC” SAUGERTIES OPEN HOUSE – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH 1-4PM 1920s Cottage , 2 Bedrooms-- 2 full Baths, Living room has a wood-stove which charms you as you enter.. New eat in kitchen, large enough for your dining table, making the dining room a “make it your own” room. First floor bedroom with so much natural light with many windows & skylight, also an attached full bath and laundry. Second story with a master suite that’s Cozy and Comfortable,. Fully fenced yard with a workshop/potting shed. Just enough of a privacy fence to sunbathe or entertain on the deck and enjoy nature around you. Band Camp Road is a lovely country road, 20 mins to Hunter to ski or take in the summer concerts, 7 min. to the village of Saugerties or Woodstock. Affordable and Adorable!! Asking......................$159,300 From Exit 20 NYS T-way: Rte. 212W to bear R onto Blue Mtn. Rd., Bear L onto W. Saugerties Rd. (at small market), L on Band Camp Rd., House on L, see signs.

“SPACIOUS RANCH” SAUGERTIES JUST LISTED! Gorgeous ranch with kitchen addition and 4 season room. Large open kitchen with vaulted ceilings, skylights, exposed beams, breakfast bar & gas woodstove. Hardwood throughout main floor except kitchen. Large livingroom with bay window. Plenty of storage. Large master. Super clean home is much bigger than it looks from street. Large full, dry basement ready to finish (20x30) plus bonus room in basement (23x17) with bilco.

Yard fully fenced with extensive landscaping. Multi-level wraparound deck off kitchen for entertaining. 1-Car garage with entrance into kitchen. Formal dining room. There are washer / dryer hookups on main floor in bedroom + basement. Large shed in rear yard for additional storage. This home is clean as a whistle with lots of space. Long established neighborhood walking distance to gym & drug store. Asking ................. $179,900 R E A L T Y

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Call 845-255-7205 for more information SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2016 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; $480/ month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call (914)4745176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (845)2556029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

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Close to school and shopping. Off-street parking. $550/month includes all utilities, wifi and cable. One month security. 845283-5759.

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PO BOX 88, RT 9W, BARCLAY HEIGHTS, SAUGERTIES

NEW PALTZ: CHARMING 3-BEDROOM house with mountain views. Walking distance to town. Great location. $1400/month plus utilities. Deposit & 2 months rent. References & security required. Available now.

Call (845)255-6732.

SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT on quiet, private setting. Clean, quiet, professional type preferred. Newly renovated.

Heat, hot water, cable included. No pets. No smoking. First, last, security. $850/month.

(518)788-3785.

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

2-BEDROOM, CORNER UNIT, ground floor, quiet building, hardwood floors. Convenient to village, buses, shopping. $1350/ month includes heat, HW. 1-year lease.

Available 4/1. Sam Slotnick, R.E. Sales Agent, Century 21 Alliance, 845-656-6088. e-mail: samsk100@aol.com VILLAGE- Dead-end street: 3-BEDROOM, 2 Full baths, LR, dining/kitchen. Off-street parking. No pets. No tobacco. No lease. $1550/month. Call Rich 845-750-7089.

2-BEDROOM CONDO IN VILLAGE; remodeled kitchen, river view, reserved parking, balcony, hardwood floors, lots of closet space. Heat/HW/maintenance included, laundry in complex. Great for professional single, couple, or small family seeking quiet neighbors. $1400/month, 1 month security, references/credit check, no smoking or pets.

Available March 1 for 5- or 12-month lease.

Text/call 845-430-2077.

NEW PALTZ: Charming small farm house adjacent historic stone house. Shawangunk views, organic garden. Comfortable living area plus BEDROOM and office space, closets. Quiet. Pets negotiable. No smoking.

1-year lease; $1000/month includes oil heat & woodstove, plowing & trash. Quiet, responsible tenant. Available now. 845-255-8447.

STUDENT ROOMS for RENT: In the heart of downtown New Paltz. $595-$695/month. Utilities included. 3 blocks from SUNY Campus. 1 block off Main Street. Call 845-399-9697.

COZY 2-BEDROOM; $1395/month. STUDIO; $895/month. Both include ALL utilities, parking, etc. Central location in village at 21 N. Chestnut Street. No pets please. Also, OFFICE SPACE at location.

(845)229-0024.

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Rosendale/ Tillson/High Falls/Stone

Ridge Rentals

Stone Ridge; 2BR TOWNHOUSE for rent in rural setting. 1 Bath, W/D, DW, woodstove. No Pets, No Smoking. Very quiet road. $975/month plus utilities. (845)658-9706.

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

SUNNY 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT in uptown Kingston on top floor w/back deck overlooking park-like yard. Off-street parking. Walking distance to shopping & bus. $900/month plus utilities. Available 3/1.

References required. 845-633-1464.

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Esopus/Ulster Park Rentals

BRIGHT, CUTE studio sized COTTAGE w/ deck. On 10 wooded acres. $775/month includes utilities. Security deposit required.

Available to see immediately. Call 845-3312292.

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Saugerties Rentals

NICE 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT in great location. Rent is $825/month plus utilities. First, last, security required. Call Phil 646-644-3648.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT, second floor.

On horse farm. Clean, sunny, creative space.

Marble foyer, cathedral ceiling, French windows, ENERGY EFFICIENT. Available now. $850/month plus utilities. (845)532-5080.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

Woodstock/Lake Hill. Comfortable furnished rooms in historic house near Cooper Lake and NYC bus. Available monthly. Private phone, internet. Piano, cats. $500$625 includes all. Work exchange for very handyperson. Cat considered. homestayny@msn.com. 845-679-2564.

Amazing Cottage in the woods with separate studio. Between Woodstock and Saugerties, on 3.5 acres with stream. 1-bedroom, 1 bathroom w/new kitchen appliances. Artist studio is 40’x 20’ with attached workshop/garage.

Available mid-February. $950/month plus utilities. alexandrafrazier1@gmail.com

CHARMING STUDIO w/separate eat-in kitchen, beamed ceiling, stone countertop, full bathroom, plenty of storage. $995/month includes heat, electric, trash, water, sewer & plowing. First, last, security. 1 pet TBD. Marcia Avery, Licensed R.E. Agent, 845-802-4777 .

Woodstock: Lovely 1-BR in quiet, small apartment complex, beautiful grounds. Immaculately maintained!

Hardwood floors, newly painted. 16 min. walk to village of Woodstock. $885/month includes all utilities.

NO smoking. NO pets. References.

(845)679-9717.

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West of Woodstock Rentals

Shokan: Large One Bedroom Apt., $750/month, 960 sq.ft.; Also, Large two bedroom Apt., $1200/month, 1200 sq.ft., 7 miles west of Woodstock, peaceful, calm, quiet, country setting. Please, No smokers or pets, utilities not included. Walk to Ashokan Reservoir, 1-year lease, two months security, pictures on craigslist.org search Shokan. Call 845-4810521 .

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Rentals Wanted

I am a quiet non-smoker with no pets looking for a vintage single family home. I’m looking for gas or oil heat ( preferably radiator or baseboards) and hardwood floors throughout.Due to electrohypersensitivity, I am looking for a home with “all or mostly” armor clad (also called bx) wiring rather than the more common Romex.My credit is 750. I have excellent landlord references.

347-712-2450; cheryl415@gmail.com

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Rentals to Share

Responsible adults wanted to share spacious farmhouse in Saugerties.

Large common areas & kitchen. Outside smoking (porch and patio), parking, meadows, woods. No pets, please.

References required. 518-239-6598 ; email: imwrite2@yahoo.com.

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Lodgings/Bed and Breakfast

COLDBROOK B&B. 2 rooms available ranging from $125-$175. 10 minute drive to the center of Woodstock. For reservations call Mark or Tonia at (845)679-2563, CMWcoldbrook@ gmail.com www.ColdBrookBnB.com

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WOODSTOVE, VERMONT CASTINGS DEFIANT ENCORE. 47,000 BTU. Catalytic. Used, but still works well. Attractive and efficient. White enamel finish (some peeling). High efficienc y, long burn time, thermostatic air control, glass doors. Top or front load logs 18-20” long. $450 or best offer. 845-616-0710 .

Fingerstyle Guitar for solo performer.

Ta u g h t a t N YC ’s Ma n n e s C o l l e g e o f Mu s i c & G u i t a r S t u d y C e n t e r. B r e a k o u t o f “ Pa tt e r n P l ay i n g ” , c r e a t e i n strumental breaks, improvise acc o m p a n i m e n t s . S u s a n Ho o v e r, 8 4 5 6 7 9 - 78 8 7.

22nd ANNUAL SAUGERTIES FRENCH CLUB FLEA MARKET: Saturday, February 27, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. (Snow Date: March 5).

Saugerties Jr. Sr. High School. $2 Adults, $1 Seniors & Students, 7-12 Children are free!!Bargains Galore, Food, Antiques, Art, Collectibles, Jewelry, Avon, Tupperware, Toys, New and Used items.Support The French Club’s Trip to Canada.

For Sale

Drum Set PLUS Tower System .

Tama Swingstar 9 ply mahogany drum set (black). 8 drums, high hat, snare drum and stand, seat and some c ymbals. Tower system has 4 c ymbal holders and 4 tom tom holders. Ever ything for $1600. 845-339-4546 .

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Snow Plowing

SNOW PLOWING starting at $40

(845) 331- 4844

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Ser vice Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)2557259. Residential, Municipalities.

MYER SERVICES

TREE & PROPERTY

Rich Myer, Owner

Fully Insured • Free Estimates (518) 925-2751 • Myertreeservice@outlook.com • Pruning • Tree Removal • Stump Grinding • Power Washing • Site Clearance • Firewood For Sale • Shrubbery Trimming • Lawn Maintenance • Gutter Cleaning • Landscaping • Hauling • Emergency Storm Services

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STUMP GRINDING

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Firewood for Sale

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Ser vice Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)2557259. Residential, Municipalities.

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Buy & Swap

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, spor ting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocke t knives, militar y items, bronzes, jewelr y, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (selec t 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.

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of ever y description.

Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)389-7286.

Musical Instruction & Instruments

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Auctions

C o l l e c t o r s E x c h a n ge. O n l i n e C a b i n e t S a l e s p o n s o r e d b y t h e Ja m e s C o x G a l l e r y a t Wo o d s t o c k A u c t i o n s .

A c c e p t i n g C o n s i g n m e n t s N o w. H i g h q u a l i t y. S m a l l i s h . E a s i l y S h i p p e d .

No G l a s s . Q u i r ky. F i n e A r t . C o n tact: ( 8 4 5 ) 6 7 9 - 76 0 8 .

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Hyde Park Country Auctions

900 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie NY

Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 11:30 A.M. Sale to include Local Historical railroad collectibles, Part 2 of the Sandra Buhalis collection, large private collection of toys, other estates. Sale to include: Country, Victorian, architectural, folkart, nautical, automobilia, advertising, textiles, silver, great toy collection including International pedal dump truck, electric trains, dolls, many fine German puzzles, holiday collectibles including Belsnickel figure, lady’s garments, many linens, many post cards plus other ephemera, rare 19th century Ulster/Delaware/Catskill area railroad hand drawn & painted survey maps, RR trestle and steam engine structural artwork, many vintage steam engine photos, museum quality Delaware-ErieLackawanna RR photo album entitled “Picturesque Lackawanna” 1890, other railroad collectibles, etc.

www.hpcountryauctions.com • 845-471-5660

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Antiques & Collectibles

WA N T E D T O P D O L L A R S PA I D. We b u y e n t i r e e s t a t e s o r s i n g l e items. Actively seeking gold and silver of any kind, sterling, flatw a r e a n d j e w e l r y. Fu r n i t u r e , a n t i q u e s t h r o u g h m i d - c e n t u r y. We gladly do house calls, free appraisa l s . We a l s o d o E s t a t e / Ta g S a l e s , 3 5 years experience. One call does it a l l . C a l l o r t e x t a n y t i m e 2 4 / 7- 6 179 8 1-1 5 8 0 .

Flea Market

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932

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Caretaking/Home Management

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 SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER: Space clearing, soul retrieval, shamanic extraction. Shamanic healing clears energy blocks in home or office. Retrieves life force lost through trauma or negative habits. Learn to work with your spirit helpers. MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN has trained with many practitioners including Michael Harner and Nan Moss. michael@mustnotsleep.com (845)688-5249.

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Personal & Health Services

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area. (845)7065133 .

COMPANION/CAREGIVER. Compassionate, experienced care for elderly/disabled individuals. Light housekeeping & food prep. Ulster County & nearby. $16/ hour- nursing facility. $20/hr.- in-home situation. 8 hour minimum/flexible schedule.

Please call 845-853-8048.

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Painting/Odd Jobs

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.

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.

“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura, since 1997. Interior/ Exterior, Decorator Finishes, Restorations, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577.

Senior Discount. References. Free Estimates.

QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980 • Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates

Art Services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol (845)687-7813.

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Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com NYS DOT T-12467

Incorporated 1985

Vendors Needed

HARDSCRABBLE POP-UP

FLEA MARKET & GARAGE SALE 845-758-1170 • Call John

MARCH - DECEMBER Call for openings and time

Handmade Wood Chip Roses, Whole Sale and Retail 10'x20' – $20 PER DAY All Vendors Wanted • Spots start at $12 to $35 Holy Cow Shopping Center • Red Hook, NY

HELP WANTED

• Residential / Commercial • Moving • Delivery • Trucking • Local & NYC Metro Areas

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Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, tax preparation & personal assistant. Affordable. Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured. MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)679-6242.

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Cleaning Services

HAPPY HOUSEKEEPERS caring and through cleaning service. We do it all from polishing furniture to disinfecting doorknobs! Weekly, biweekly and Vacation home service. References available. Call for free estimate 845-214-8780.

J.H. CONSTRUCTION

DUMP RUNS Garage & House Clean-Ups

Call 845-249-8668

Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253 Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal.

Call Dave (845)514-6503- mobile.

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 are playing at 4 South Chestnut Street New Paltz on Show starts at https:// www.facebook.com/theotherbrothers4

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HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, PressureWashing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845-616-9832.

845 HANDYMANInterior & Exterior Home Repair & Services.Wood Flooring, Decks & Siding, Kitchen & Bath, Drywall, Plumbing & Electric, Tile, Appliance Repair, Heating & Cooling, Demolition & Junk Removal.Please contact Amy & Jeff - Will travel - Available Weekends.845645-6950the845handyman@gmail. com

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Spirituality

From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

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GIVE THE GIFT OF WELLNESS Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis.

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Smoking cessation • pain management stress relief • past life regressions.

AA Statuary & Weathervane Co.

Intuitive, Sensitive Guidance Spirit Communicator

Liquidation Sale

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Plaster and concrete saints, angels, bronzes, weathervanes, cupolas, more redrockgardencenter.com 845-569-1117

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Adoptions

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

ASHOKAN STORE-IT Ask About Our Long Term Storage Discount

5x10 $40 10x15 $90

5x15 $50 10x10 $70 10x20 $110 10x30 $150

845-657-2494 845-389-0504 1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481 Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

• Standby Generators

• Service Upgrades

24 Months to Pay, 0% Interest (if qualified)

• Roof De-icing • Warm Floor Tiles Systems

Adoption Means Love. Adoring couple promises your newborn secure forever love.

Expenses paid. Netti & Anthony 1-800-7723629.

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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Gardening/ Landscaping

STONE WALL RESTORATIONS; Thoughtful, innovative & resourceful approaches. Kevin Towle (914)906-8791.

Landscaping Lawn installation Ponds Retaining walls Stone work ...and much more

Contracting & Development Corp.

Low-Rate Financing Available

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

H Z Emergency Generators U \ LICENSED 331-4227 INSURED

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HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available.

(845)616-7470.

Excavation Site work Drain ¿elds Land clearing Septic systems Demolition Driveways

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February 18, 2016

SNOW PLOWING & SANDING Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

Down to Earth Landscaping Quality service from the ground up

• • • • •

Specializing in: Hardscape Tree trimming Fences Koi ponds Snow plowing

Benjamin Watson, Owner Phone: (845) 389-3028

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Animals

Want to help but can’t adopt a cat? Don’t forget about our Foster Program! Visit our website UCSPCA.org, for details & pictures of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston ( just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)3315377.

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

ANNALIESE is one of the sweetest kittens you’ll ever meet. She is a 4.5-month old tabby (striped) and has been living in a loving foster home. In addition to being sweet, Annaliese is a social butterfly who’s now ready for her forever home. She had her rabies and distemper vaccines and was given a clean bill of health by her vet. For more information about this little angel, please call (917)282-2018 or email DRJLPK@ aol.com MAINE COON CATS, GEORGIA & SILAS, (mom & kitten) NEED HOMES. Georgia is 2.5-years old and was found w/her kitten, Silas, now 8-months, in the Catskill Mountains. They can be adopted together or apart. Georgia’s been a great mom & Silas is adapting to indoor life, but Georgia has made it clear she would prefer a home where she has both indoor and safe outdoor access. Georgia is very stressed & cannot stay in her temporary NYC foster

apartment (she’s from the mountains, after all). She needs to find her loving forever home or a foster situation that is indoor/ outdoor.They are beautiful kitties, gentle and sweet and have been vetted and spayed.

If you’re interested in adopting Georgia and/or Silas or have questions, please contact Amy at 917-902-2813 or atrakinski@ gmail.com 3 glorious ORANGE TABBIES (striped) are ready for their loving forever homes. They are girls; 11-weeks old. Two have long hair.

They’re as sweet as sugar; beautiful inside and out. They’re litter pan trained and up to date w/shots. If you’re interested in learning more about them, please call (917)2822018 or email DRJLPK@aol.com Here at the Ulster County SPCA we’re hoping to get many of our residents home for Spring! Our featured animal of the week; Gall; handsome 3-year old long haired white & black male who’s our current greeter in our lobby. He got that job by being very friendly & outgoing! Please come in and say hello. Atomic Tangerine; beautiful orange fellow that came in w/30 other cats from a hoarding case.

The situation left him w/cataracts in both eyes, but w/drops everyday he’s just fine.

Dolly; very shy kitty girl that would open up to you after a few visits- come in & start your journey w/her. We also have a lot of great DOG residents here that would love to join your family. We have 3 dogs that are okay w/dogs, must use caution w/cats & okay w/older kids. They’re Charlie; all white 5-year old Boxer, Webber; 2-year old Min Pin mix, & Indiana; 6-7 year old lab/ beagle mix. Don’t forget all of our Bunnies, Guinea Pigs & even our Horse Scout, who’d all love to give you a chance to see if they could be your new roommate. Come meet them all today at the UCSPCA, 20 Wiedy Rd., Kingston, off Sawkill Road.

Www.UCSPCA.org.

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Pet Care

PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE & SHELTER. Please help get cat off the streets & into homes. Adopt a healthy & friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. High Falls/Accord area. (845)6874983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat. org

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents.

The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at (917)282-2018 or email: DRJLPK@aol.com pet’s reward..... VETERINARY HOUSE CALLS. Dr. B. MacMULLEN. (845)3392516. Serving Ulster County for 10+ years.

Very Reasonable Rates, Multiple Pet Discount... Compassionate, Professional, Courteous. *Pet Exams, *Vaccines, *Blood Work, *Lyme Testing, *Flea & Tick Prevention, *Rx Diet, *Euthanasia at home.

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed.

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Vehicles

Want a new Toyota Corolla? Take over my lease! No money down, just $260 a month and good credit is all you need to arrange it.

Details: Car was leased 8/2015 at discounted price with $1k down. 6 mos of payments have already been made and car has only 2,500 miles on it to date. It’s red, clean with sunroof and bluetooth. Remaining lease is 2.5 years with 33,500 miles AND includes damage insurance. I love driving it but due to illness, need to cut expenses. This is a win-win opportunity. 845-339-4546.

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