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March 3, 2016

HISTORY Public lands & public airways Wallace Center in Hyde Park hosts Douglas Brinkley book talk on FDR as conservationist, Anya Luscombe program on Eleanor as radio star

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f you’ve ever visited Lake Taghkanic in Columbia County, you may have noticed the groves of stately pines, planted in orderly rows. They’re the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a work-relief

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program that was one of the most successful initiatives of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, providing employment to nearly 3 million destitute young men during the Great Depression. So were the campgrounds at North/South Lake and Devil’s Tombstone in the Catskills, along with many a mile of hiking trails throughout the Hudson Valley. African American CCC workers in several segregated camps in Orange County’s Black Dirt country worked on flood-control projects along the Wallkill River. Eleanor Roosevelt even established a short-lived all-female camp at what is now Bear Mountain.

Though overshadowed by his other accomplishments in fighting the Depression and World War II, FDR’s record as a conservationist rivals that of his cousin Teddy. Under his administration, dozens of State Park systems and scenic roadways were built from scratch and hundreds of federal migratory bird refuges established. Pristine landscapes such as the Great Smokies, the Everglades, Joshua Tree, the Olympics, Big Bend, Channel Islands, Mammoth Cave and the slickrock wilderness of Utah were forever saved by his leadership.

Presidential historian and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley, who has already documented Theodore Roosevelt’s environmental legacy in The Wilderness Warrior, has a new book out that turns the spotlight on FDR’s accomplishments as a protector of public lands and wildlife. Titled Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, the book’s release is timed to coincide with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service.

The Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home will host a talk and book-signing with Brinkley – a Roosevelt Library trustee and frequent speaker at the historic site – beginning at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 14. The event is free and open to the public.

And on Thursday, March 10, also at 7 p.m., Anya Luscombe – associate professor of Media at University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands and a former BBC journalist – will be the FDR Library’s guest for a conversation titled “Listening to the Roosevelts: Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of Radio.”

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The mighty Mekas

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reading to celebrate the publication of the first volume of the diaries of the late filmmaker Adolfas Mekas willt take place on Wednesday, March 9, at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck at 6 p.m.

Among his many anarchically comic films, Adolfas Mekas directed the nowclassic Hallelujah the Hills (1963), which was the surprise hit of the Cannes Film Festival that year and winner of the Silver Sail at the Locarno Festival. Along with his brother Jonas, Adolfas edited the seminal magazine Film Culture; he was largely responsible for launching film studies at Bard College in the early 1970s, and directed Bard’s MFA Program from 1983 to 1989.

The Adolfas Diaries: Book 1 cover the years that the teenaged Adolfas and Jonas spent in a Nazi labor camp, and then, postwar, in a succession of camps for displaced persons. Excerpts will be read by Adolfas’s wife, the chanteuse and arts producer Pola Chapelle, and former Bard staffer Mikhail Horowitz, a poet and widely vilified performance artist. Bard President Leon Botstein calls the diaries “a riveting and humane account of the struggle and survival of one of the most colorful and brilliant filmmakers of his generation . . . a gift of remembrance to future generations.”

’40s, commenting on news events and public policy in countless interviews and hosting several current events programs.

The program will include selected audio recordings of Eleanor as she talks about the United Nations and a range of public issues during some of her early Cold War broadcasts.

For more information about either program, phone (845) 486-7745, e-mail clifford.laube@nara.gov or visit www. fdrlibrary.marist.edu. The FDR Library’s Wallace Center is located at 4079 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park.

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Big dig D & H Canal history talk this Saturday at Saugerties Library The Friends of Historic Saugerties’ popular series of free informal history lectures continues this Saturday with a visit from Bill Merchant, president of the D & H Canal Historical Society and vice-chair of the D & H Transportation Heritage Council. An avid canal historian, Merchant is a 20-year resident of High Falls and the owner of a canal-era house.

The topic for the talk will be an overview of the D & H Canal, its impact on the area and its influence on the modern transport corporation. Although the canal itself did not pass through Saugerties, its construction circa 1825 was contemporaneous with the town’s period of early industrialization and may have involved some of the same regional movers and shakers. Attendees are encouraged to contribute their historical knowledge and conjectures to the discussion following Merchant’s talk.

The D & H Canal talk begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 5 in the Community Room of the Saugerties Public Library, located at 91 Washington Avenue in Saugerties, and the general public is invited. For more info call (845) 2464317 or visit www.saugertiespubliclibrary. org or www.facebook.com/friends-ofhistoric-saugerties.

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March 3, 2016

MOVIE

Maggie Smith in The Lady In The Van

The neighbor from Hell Maggie Smith exasperates regally, madly and malodorously as The Lady in the Van

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s rude, benighted and uncivilized a culture as we are, America doesn’t designate and venerate people as Living National Treasures the way Japan does, or Australia. And even if we did, we couldn’t claim British actress Maggie Smith for our own. But hasn’t the incomparable Dame Maggie more than earned elevation to the status of International Treasure by now?

Even if you think yourself too old for the Harry Potter movies, too young for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel or too hip for Downton Abbey, surely you’ve seen her in something that made you shake your head in awed admiration. Onstage or onscreen, no one can confound an adversary with a single scathing quip like Smith. She can be imperious or vulnerable, foolish or wise, charming or maddening. And in her latest big-screen outing, The Lady in the Van, the two-time Oscar-winner manages them all with aplomb and a lifetime’s worth of well-honed thespian technique.

The Lady in the Van started out as a 1989 memoir by English playwright Alan Bennett (Beyond the Fringe, The Madness of King George, The History Boys) and made the transition to the stage ten years later. It’s a “mostly true” story of a daft, cantankerous old bag lady (Smith, natch) who, in the 1970s, started living in her van after a collision with

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a motorcyclist convinced her that the police were after her. She parks in front of various townhomes on a residential street in London’s artsy Camden Town neighborhood – to varying degrees of welcome by the neighbors so “honored” – and when threatened with arrest for vagrancy, installs herself and her garishly painted vehicle in Bennett’s driveway. She stays there for 15 years.

Filmed in the actual location where the story unfolded, The Lady in the Van is, on one level, an exploration of the effect of this remarkably irritating woman on the equally unsociable playwright’s existence.

The play and the movie depict Bennett as two people played by the same actor, Alex Jennings: one of them the Writer and the other the person who must interact with the rest of the world. Unbeknownst to herself, it’s the destiny of the Lady in the Van to guide the halves of this split personality back together, willy-nilly.

There are other mildly fantastical elements in the screenplay, which might’ve turned out excessively fey and twee if not for the grounding presence of Smith, who has made this role her own since it first appeared onstage. Miss Mary Shepherd – as she’s known to the inhabitants of Gloucester Crescent – is

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no twinkly dispensary of sage advice or fairy-godmother blessings. She’s stinky, nasty, uncooperative and self-absorbed, rationalizing her endless impositions by “guidance” from the Blessed Virgin and incapable of expressing an iota of gratitude for any of the neighbors’ many acts of generosity. She has a whim of iron, but whimsical she is not.

Bennett gets drawn into Miss Shepherd’s mad drama much against his will, projecting his guilt over avoiding his own mentally declining mother (Gwen Taylor) onto this unwanted guest; but they grudgingly learn to live together.

The pious old lady turns a blind eye to the closeted gay playwright’s late-night male visitors, except to warn him that they might be Communists. Bennett, for his part, has his curiosity piqued by her fluency in French and her inexplicable, exaggerated aversion to music, even as he regularly has to clear up her feces from his driveway. Eventually he discovers that Miss Shepherd was once a promising concert pianist, real name Margaret Fairchild, who played in the prestigious Proms before a mental breakdown led to a stint in a convent and the forced renunciation of music as penance.

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both sides, of course; but mystery isn’t the point here. The Lady in the Van is an essentially heartwarming story well-armored with prickly humor, and Smith is deliciously, exasperatingly real as the unlovable, entitled, batty old crone. Jennings does a great job too – ably assisted by a fine ensemble cast, especially Frances de la Tour as Ralph Vaughan Williams’ widow Ursula – but this show rightly belongs to Maggie Smith. She’s appalling, she’s repellent, she’s the neighbor you’d never want; but you can’t take your eyes off her. It’s a bravura performance from the 82-yearold Duchess of Disdain. Long may her reign endure!

– Frances Marion Platt The Lady in the Van is currently playing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. Upstate Films is located at 6415 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck. For more info call (845) 876-2515 or visit http://upstatefilms.org.

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March 3, 2016

NATURE Rare bird sighting Bullock’s oriole turns up far from home at Milton birdfeeder

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ll who wander may not be lost, but sometimes, they are seriously off-course. Take the subadult Bullock’s oriole, for example, sighted numerous times since February 18 at a backyard feeder in Milton. He’s a pretty little thing, not yet a year old; according to Mark DeDea, president of the John Burroughs Natural History Society, the bird probably hatched in late May or early June of 2015. But he’s a Western bird, rarely found east of the Mississippi River and usually wintering in western Mexico.

So what is he doing in Ulster County this winter? DeDea says that it’s impossible to know for sure, but because the oriole is one of a species that lives along a broad swath of land up and down the West Coast, going all the way up to Canada, this is probably a bird from the northern part of that range who wandered southeast at migration time rather than fully south. “The likelihood of a northern bird wandering southeast is a little more reasonable to understand than a bird that was, let’s say, hatched in Southern California going east.”

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The subadult Bullock’s oriole sighted numerous times since February 18 at a backyard feeder in Milton.

As for whether our mild winter had anything to do with the bird’s decision to visit New York, DeDea says that it at least speaks to the fact that it survived until February.

“First off, orioles are generally not a bird that comes to a birdfeeder.

They have a long pointed beak that allows them to extract nectar from a flower or to glean caterpillars from a tree branch, but is not really designed to crack open sunflower seeds.” An oriole that survives out of season here is doing so by adapting: eating suet cakes like the ones that this bird found at the Milton backyard feeder.

The young Bullock’s oriole hit the birding scene here after Milton homeowner David Baxter submitted a report of its sighting in his backyard to eBird.org, an online resource hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The free-to-use database of bird observations provides scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and

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abundance. “It’s a useful vehicle,” says DeDea. “You can submit your observations and they’re used for all kinds of scientific research, but it’s also a generous gift for birders. And if you’re traveling – let’s say coming to Ulster County from Connecticut to see the Bullock’s oriole – you can click on a map of the destination and also see the various birding sites in the county based on eBird submissions.”

The bird was initially reported by Baxter to be an orchard oriole, one that normally resides in these parts but winters south. DeDea says that it’s actually more likely in a way that this Western bird should end up here than a bird that lives here to have stuck around for the winter. At any rate, when John Burroughs Natural History Society member Peter Schoenberger visited Milton a few days later to photograph the bird, he confirmed that it was, indeed, a Bullock’s oriole, and a young one at that.

The last time a Bullock’s oriole was sighted in our area during the winter was in Phoenicia in 2007, and that was an adult male. A Bullock’s oriole is a Western cousin of the Baltimore oriole, which, like the orchard oriole, resides in the Northeast but winters south. For years the birds were classified together as Northern orioles, because their habits and song are similar and because they often interbreed where their ranges come in contact on the western Great Plains. (Or as DeDea puts it, “There are times when a Bullock’s male may convince a Baltimore

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As of presstime, the Bullock’s oriole in Milton is still with us. Considering the hurdles that it faced just to get here in the first place – predators, cell towers, skyscrapers, winter food shortages and outdoor cats – that’s pretty amazing. A large percentage of the population of songbirds in any case don’t make it to adulthood. But a local Cooper’s hawk who is also loyal to the Baxter backyard may yet turn out to be the villain of this piece. “It’s reality,” says DeDea. “He’s looking for food, too, and he eats medium-sized songbirds.

We’re keeping our fingers crossed we don’t witness that, but we wish him well, too.”

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Painting us onto the map The Hudson River School: Artistic Pioneers is a solid intro to our Valley’s original ecotourism marketing team enizens of the Hudson Valley naturally hear frequent references to the Hudson River School of Art, but how many of us can reliably tell the work of one of its practitioners from another?

There are many venues around the region that have a respectable number of Hudson River School works in their collections, and some mount exhibitions from time to time that pull them together so that visitors can compare and contrast. But the sad truth is that much of the best Hudson River School art has strayed far beyond the Hudson River Valley – as far as we know, permanently.

And if the Walton family keeps spending Wal-Mart’s millions to acquire the tastiest morsels, like it did with Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits in 2005, it’s not going to get any easier for us locals to experience a comprehensive overview of this earliest of America’s artistic movements.

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March 3, 2016

NIGHT SKY

Close look at a giant That brightest star is Jupiter

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his week, Jupiter stands at “opposition” (to the Sun), when it’s closest to us, and brightest and biggest of the entire year.

You’ve already probably noticed it. It’s that single ultrabright “star” in the east during the first part of the night, and in the south after 11 p.m. Since it is now 15 times brighter than any other starlike object, it’s pretty hard to miss.

Jupiter’s oppositions occur a month later each year, because each time our planet catches up to it in space, it has moved on a bit in its 12-year orbit. This year it’s in Leo, which is a northerly constellation and thus makes it ascend pretty high during the night.

Its 50-arcsecond diameter is enough to show a little disk through plain, steadily braced binoculars. Viewed with even the smallest telescopes, Jupiter is a worthwhile target.

Its four planet-class satellites become instantly obvious – though one of them, usually Io, often darts invisibly in front of or behind the planet. The moons always appear in a straight line, since they encircle Jupiter’s Equator, which in turn moves through space horizontally. Like Mercury, this planet travels with virtually no tilt to its axis.

Its second moon, Europa, remains the likeliest place for extraterrestrial life. Its warm salty oceans get replenished with amino acids from incoming comets. If life isn’t swimming there, then it’s probably a rare phenom in the cosmos.

Alas, from our region, the night air is almost in a state of blurriness, characterized to the naked eye by twinkling stars. So if you do have a telescope, first check out whether the stars are dancing or calm before dragging it out. A night with a little haze is usually best. Even on blurry nights, when only low power must be used to minimize distortion, you’ll still see Jupiter’s disk and its moons. Using moderate magnifications of 50 to 100 power, its disk will be more than twice the width that our Moon shows to the naked eye: plenty big enough to allow its parallel dark and light bands and belts to be obvious.

Only on the rare, steadiest nights, however, and with good equipment, will you glimpse the white ovals, the famous Red Spot (which is actually now orange, and has been shrinking the past few years) and wonderful curlicues and festoons for which the giant planet is famous. There are even blue diagonal blotches where we peer deepest through breaks in the clouds, to see Jupiter’s innermost blue sky! This is the planet that shows the most detail of any in the whole universe.

But if all you have is the naked eye, fine. Look anytime this next month after around 6:30 p.m. When you’ve spotted the creamy yellow/white of the sky’s brightest star, go

Since Jupiter is now 15 times brighter than any other starlike object, it’s pretty hard to miss.

the New-York Historical Society, Susan Newberry of the Durand-Hedden House and the Olana Partnership’s Valerie Balint, Sara Griffen and Mark Prezorski, the latter of whom shows us from Olana’s cupola the very panoramas that Church painted, still recognizable.

The information conveyed in Artistic Pioneers is well-organized, with a segment of about ten minutes each devoted to the life and works of Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt and Jasper Cropsey. In describing their artistic influences and career highlights, the narration keeps circling back to certain points that two or more of them had in common: European tours that interested both Cole and Cropsey in framing classical antiquities in wild landscapes, for example, or showings at the National Academy of Design in Washington, DC that established their national reputations. And it’s peppered with intriguing factoids that will likely be familiar only to Art History majors: Who knew that the celebrations of the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 were largely responsible for the “discovery” of the then-unknown Cole, or that Durand did the 1823 engraving of John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence that ended up on the back of the $2 bill, or that Queen Victoria invited Cropsey and his wife to visit her after admiring his five-by-ninefoot masterpiece Autumn on the Hudson River when it was shown in London in 1860? Watch this documentary, and you will.

Most revealing of all are the side-by-side comparisons of works by the five featured artists with others who influenced or were influenced by them – Durand’s The Beeches with Constable’s The Cornfield, for instance – or of preliminary sketches and finished paintings of the same scene by the same artist. Works by lesser luminaries

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of the Hudson River School are also compared, but the artists’ names rarely cited (except in the end credits). Unless you’re already an expert, you’ll likely think that’s perfectly okay. You’ll be taking in

enough information to be getting on with, but not so much as to feel overwhelmed. If your curiosity is piqued to find out more, our Valley offers many places to go next.

– Frances Marion Platt

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grounded in the Hudson River School, having just watched a locally produced documentary on the subject that has just come out on DVD and is starting to be shown by PBS stations: Vin Tabone and Brian Huffman’s Artistic Pioneers: The Hudson River School. If you want to see it at your own leisure, you can order the DVD from www.shoppbs. org or stream it at http://www.pbs.org/ video/2365166064/.

Artistic Pioneers is a low-budget labor of love, quaintly bookended by underwriter acknowledgments of modestsized local sponsors like boutiques in Rhinebeck. The voiceover narration has that earnest, borderline-corny quality that one associates with Disney nature documentaries from the 1960s. Editing effects are minimal and the camerawork unflashy – as it should be, merely scanning each artwork at a leisurely pace that lets the eye take it all in while the narrator speaks. It’s a complete survey course that can be digested in the space of an hour. I can’t think of a clearer, more succinct way to familiarize oneself with the big guns of the Hudson River School, solidly set within the context of their times.

The filmmakers availed themselves of the services of numerous experts on the subject, some of whom appear in brief talking-heads clips to help the viewer connect the dots historically and aesthetically. Betsy Jacks of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site starts us off with a bit of the movement’s core philosophy of depicting raw nature as “an expression of something divine,” but also reminds us that “Hudson River School” started off as “a term of ridicule.” She pops up again to show us around Cole’s studio preserved at his Catskill estate, Cedar Grove. Also onscreen at intervals are Anthony Speiser of the NewingtonCropsey Foundation, Linda Ferber of

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TASTE Grand prix fixe Hudson Valley Restaurant Week starts on Monday

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ounder The Valley Table still calls its affordable regional food celebration Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, even though the semiannual event now lasts a full two weeks each time it graces us with its presence. Ushering in the arrival of spring, Restaurant Week will begin on Monday, March 7 and run straight through Sunday, March 20. All participating restaurants offer a special menu with three-course meal at the uniform price of $20.95 per person for lunch, $29.95 for dinner. Many chefs make a point of using New York-sourced products on their Restaurant Week menus.

This year, the number of participating Hudson Valley restaurants has jumped to 225. While more than half of those are located in Westchester, residents of the mid-Hudson can visit an ample selection of fine-dining venues that don’t require a long drive home. The long list includes, in Ulster County, the Tuthill House in Gardiner; Dino’s Vigneto Café and the Would in Highland; the Perch in Marlboro; Henry’s at the Farm and the Ship Lantern Inn in Milton; the

Woodnotes Grille in Mount Tremper; A Tavola Trattoria and the Village Tearoom in New Paltz; and the Diamond Mills Hotel in Saugerties.

In Dutchess County, participating restaurants are Monte’s Local Kitchen in Amenia; Baja 328, Café Amarcord, Chateau Beacon, the Roundhouse, Kitchen Sink and the Vault in Beacon; Al Fresco, the Eleven 11 Grille, Hudson’s Ribs & Fish, Il Barilotto, Sapore and Trattoria Locanda in Fishkill; Joseph’s Steakhouse and the Culinary Institute of America’s American Bounty, Bocuse Restaurant and Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici in Hyde Park; Carlo’s Trattoria in Lagrangeville; Trattoria San Giorgio in Millbrook; Amici’s, the Artist’s Palate, the Bluestone Bistro, the Bonefish Grill, Brasserie 292, Cosimo’s Trattoria, Crave, Le Express, the Mill House Brewing Company, the Mill, the Poughkeepsie Ice House, Rabbit & Turtle and Shadows on the Hudson in Poughkeepsie; Terrapin in Rhinebeck; and Aroma Osteria and the Double O Grill in Wappingers Falls.

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Bear Mountain; Zoila’s in Circleville; the Canterbury Brook Inn in Cornwall; Limoncello at the Orange Inn in Goshen; Nina in Middletown; the Fusion Café and Scalia & Co. in Monroe; the Wildfire Grill in Montgomery; Billy Joe’s Ribworks, Blu Pointe, Cena 2000, Cosimo’s on Union, El Solár Café, Il Cenacolo, the Lakeview House and Vesuvio’s Ristorante in Newburgh; and La Casa Vicina in New Windsor.

A full list of participating eateries, including many menus, specific exclusions (not all offer both lunch and dinner) and links to restaurant websites, can be found at www.hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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All dolled up Robert Tonner talk opens doll fashion design exhibition at SUNY-Ulster on March 10 Is high fashion an artform? Is dollmaking? SUNY-Ulster certainly thinks so. The college’s Visiting Artist program has ventured outside the box

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GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Springing up Some salad greens are happy in a greenhouse even in winter

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armish days come and go, but I’m not twiddling my thumbs waiting for spring to come early, late or vacillate. True, I have a greenhouse. Even there, though, weather can be quite cool: down into the 30s at night and on overcast days.

A few plants that are good for fresh salad greens aren’t just surviving under these conditions; they’re thriving – and with very little effort on my part, because, rather than cultivating them, they grow so profusely that I have to weed out excess before they take over the greenhouse.

Speaking of “weed,” one of them really is a weed, at the very least in name: chickweed (Stellaria media). This weed loves cool weather; it has been sprouting in the greenhouse all winter. It’s also no stranger to the garden outside the greenhouse, where winter temperatures snuff it out so that each year it must return from seeds that it sows. In the greenhouse, it might become (perhaps is now) perennial.

Chickweed is allegedly tasty and nutritious. I don’t doubt the second adjective, but disagree with the first. I wish that I liked the flavor. Because I don’t, I’ll spend some time today in the greenhouse weeding it out.

Claytonia is sometimes called miner’s lettuce because Gold Rush miners ate it to prevent scurvy.

The greenhouse is also pleasantly inundated with claytonia (Claytonia perfoliata), another wilding cultivated for salads, perhaps soups, in cool weather.

This green is native to California, where it drops its seeds in spring; cool, moist weather of fall induces sprouting, whence it blankets Western ground in green all winter long.

Conditions in my greenhouse are very similar to those of Northern California.

(Claytonia is sometimes called miner’s lettuce because Gold Rush miners ate it to prevent scurvy.) Years ago I sowed some claytonia seeds in greenhouse beds. No longer is that necessary. Those first plants came up in the straight lines of my furrow. Nowadays, they blanket the ground as a lush edible groundcover – mostly near the sidewalls where rain washed down from the roof and into the ends of the beds when I rolled up the sidewalls in summer for ventilation.

The plants make more than just an edible groundcover; they make an edible, ornamental groundcover. The tender stalks rising from ground level are capped by heart-shaped leaves, in the center of which eventually sits a cluster of small white flowers. I’d use it as a winter groundcover if it could survive our winters; temperatures below about ten degrees Fahrenheit kill it.

The flavor is nothing to write home about. It’s mild, to say the least. Perhaps its greatest contributions to cold weather salads are color and texture.

just launched last fall.

The Tonner Doll Company, established in 1991, made its mark on the public consciousness with its licensed limitededition movie and TV character dolls, beginning with the denizens of Harry Potter’s wizarding world. Subsequent pop-culture lines have included dolls inspired by The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tw i l i g h t , T h e Hunger Games, Doctor Who, various Tim Burton movies, Marvel and DC Comics characters and so on. Tonner COURTESY OF TONNER DOLL COMPANY also develops One of the Tonner collections currently available is called “Déjà collections around Vu,” and it takes a contemporary character through various reinoriginal characters; carnations going back to ancient Egypt. one currently available, called of usual art categories by naming Rob“Déjà Vu,” takes a contemporary character through various reincarnations going back ert Tonner, Kingston-based creator of to ancient Egypt, the Vikings and preexquisitely detailed collectible dolls, Revolutionary France. its artist-in-residence for 2016. It’s a But Robert Tonner got his start as move likely to attract attention to the a fashion designer, so most of his doll community college’s new Associate’s characters are imaginary supermodels, Degree program in Fashion Design,

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In English-speaking countries, mâche (above) is sometimes called “corn salad” because it’s a weed of grain fields (“corn” in the Queen’s English being any kind of grain, not necessarily and not usually corn, which they call maize).

Some people might say the same thing about mâche (Valerianella locusta), in my experience the most cold-hardy of all salad greens. It’s ready for harvest no matter how cold the weather, in the greenhouse or out, and will actually grow a little with the slightest degree of warmth, whether natural or from the protection of a south wall or a coldframe.

To me, mâche is the most delectable of salad greens. It also self-seeds, both in the greenhouse and outdoors. What else can you ask for in a plant: tasty, available all winter, no need to plant?

Like claytonia, mâche is a cool-weather annual. Sow it in summer and nothing happens.

Sow it under cool, moist conditions and it sprouts readily. This is another salad green that I planted years ago, but not since. Cultivation of mâche entails, mostly, pulling up wayward or excess plants before they expire and drop seed in late spring, in so doing preventing it from becoming weedy.

Mâche is a European import, a centuries-old favorite only of the peasantry until the gardener to Louis XIV gave it street cred. In English-speaking countries, it’s sometimes called “corn salad” because it’s a weed of grain fields (“corn” in the Queen’s English being any kind of grain, not necessarily and not usually corn, which they call maize). If I had a grainfield, I’d welcome some corn salad for tender, tasty salads almost all winter long.

– 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.

vehicles for the display of fanciful runwayready clothing. Such will be the focus of the artist/entrepreneur’s “Gallery Show of Fashion Styles, Illustrations, Photos & Dolls” that opens this Thursday at SUNY-Ulster’s Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery and runs through April 15. Tonner will open the exhibition with a slide lecture and presentation beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 in the College Lounge at Vanderlyn Hall. Following his talk, there will be a reception in the Gallery.

Robert Tonner’s talk is free and open to the public. For more info on the event and the exhibition, visit www.sunyulster.edu/

campus_and_culture/arts/art_exhibits. php. To view Tonner Doll designs past and present, visit www.tonnerdoll.com.

– Frances Marion Platt

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SUNY ULSTER SPECIAL EVENT TALES & SONGS FROM THE GAELIC & JEWISH TRADITIONS: Our Roots Are Showing Presented by the Jewish Federation of Ulster County & SUNY Ulster Performed by THE STORYCRAFTERS, Jeri Burns & Barry Marshall

Sunday, March 13, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall A lively participatory storytelling experience for the whole family.

Our Roots Are Showing is a renowned, award-winning musical storytelling performance of events based on tales from Marshall and Burns’ Gaelic and Jewish ancestries. For additional information and photos, visit http://www.storycrafters.com/pressphotos.html. Order tickets online at www.ucjf.org. Adults/Teens $15, Kids 6-12 $10, Under 12 Free. For more information, call The Jewish Federation of Ulster County at (845) 338-8131 or email Arlene Gould, Executive Coordinator at coord@ucjf.org.

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STAGE Controlled chaos New Paltz stage manager Paul J. Smith’s Disaster! opens on Broadway this week

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hat could go wrong?

In Disaster! a new Broadway musical set aboard New York’s first floating casino and discotheque, the possibilities seem endless. This campy, rollicking take on two “What’s not to love?” entertainment favorites – ’70s pop, rock and disco hits and disaster movies featuring earthquakes, infernos, tidal waves and rampant wildlife – opens at the Nederlander Theatre on March 8. With “Hot Stuff,” “I Am Woman,” “Knock on Wood,” “Daybreak,” “Hooked on a Feeling” and other tunes as the backdrop, Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the show “inspired lunacy.”

Disaster! is the brainchild of Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick, who have collaborated since 1993 when they cowrote their first sketch comedies. They cast several old pals in their current parody production, some from Rudetsky’s college days at Oberlin and most of them bona fide stars who have already earned Tony, Emmy and Drama Desk Awards and nominations: The cast includes Rudetsky as well as Roger Bart, Kerry Butler, Kevin Chamberlin, Adam Pascal, Faith Prince and Rachel York, among others. Disaster! premiered Off-Broadway in 2012, had another run the next year and is now in

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Disaster! on Broadway. Pictured (left to right): Catherine Ricafort, Roger Bart, Baylee Littrell, Seth Rudetsky, Rachel York, Kevin Chamberlin, Olivia Philip

previews until Opening Night. Along the way, it has created its own tidal wave of rave reviews and buzz.

“It’s an incredibly funny and clever play,” says Paul J. Smith, who serves as the show’s production stage manager and balances his life between homes in New York City and New Paltz. “Seth is the writer, and Jack is co-writer and director, and it’s a really fun evening, and a fun cast too.” Smith says that his role is to take all the creatives’ ideas (meaning

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the writers, designers and director) and what they want to see and make it happen. From scene changes to rehearsing the understudies, Smith must maintain the artistic integrity of the show when “they all go away. It’s my job to make the production be the way they want it, every show.”

People have some misconceptions about stars, he says. “People think they’re standoffish, not cooperative. Maybe that’s true in the movies, but not on the stage,” Smith asserts. A couple of seasons ago, he worked with Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and “She was so nice – a person like anybody. She wanted to do a good job; not difficult to work with at all.

I think it absolutely comes from the way

you deal with people, and I deal with them the way I want to be dealt with.”

Smith avers that people worried in the ’90s about the “Disneyfication” of Times Square, “but I think it’s been an absolute blessing for all. Now, more families come here for shows than would have come here before. Last year? Largest attendance ever,” he says. “People say, ‘You’re battling Hamilton,’ but I say that if you come to see Hamilton and like it, you’re going to want to see another show. If you love Disaster! you’re going to want to see another show.

The theater community is better than ever – but maybe that’s partly because I know so many people.”

Now 54, Smith grew up in Napanoch, graduated from Ellenville High School

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and enrolled in SUNY-Cobleskill to study horticulture. “What 15-, 16-, 17-year-old has any idea what they really want to do with their life? I like dealing with plants and trees and wildlife stuff. I was in theater productions in high school, but it never occurred to me that I could have a career in that, so I went to school for horticulture. But when I had to study plant pathology and entomology, I said, ‘Wait a minute: I have to remember all that?’”

He transferred to SUNY-New Paltz and, having completed all his Liberal Arts requirements, spent two years immersed in theater classes. Smith quickly realized that he was not good enough to become an actor, but working behind the scenes suited him perfectly. His first job after college was as production manager at the Woodstock Playhouse, and after that summer, he moved to New York City.

Within five days of arriving, he landed a position in a little theater as “a lowly assistant.” That was 1983, and since then, Smith has worked steadily at a job that he says is “absolutely fun. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t enjoy it. I like going to work.

I come in a half-hour early so I can sit by myself,” he says, “and there hasn’t been a day in the last three weeks when I’ve worked less than 14 hours.”

When asked what he might say to someone just starting out as a production stage manager, Smith has some solid advice for…well, just about anyone, regardless of career choice. “I’m a fairly straight-up person – if you ask me what I think of your hair, I’m going to tell you – but when I was younger, I could have been a bit more politic. Never think you have the right answer – just ‘an’ answer.

Sometimes directors want every option in the room so they can pick among them; if your answer isn’t chosen, you’ve spurred someone on. In lean times, I always keep busy with volunteer work, for Broadway Cares, and eventually I move on to another show,” he says, rapid-fire. Then this gem: “Always do your best work, even in a bad situation.” And the story that he tells to illustrate his point shows his character, assertiveness and strong work ethic, not to mention respect and loyalty to cast members.

Smith was touring with the show Chicago, and it was very cold and started raining in Kansas City. The stage was an outdoor, open-air theater, and about 3,000 people were sitting in the rain, ready to watch the show. The business managers wanted to cancel the show, but Smith said, “Nonsense. It’s a covered stage and as long as it’s not dangerous, I’ll set up heating stations offstage for the cast.

I always come up with a solution for the cast. Then the local presenter, who was paying our salary for the week, said, ‘I’m going to my office,’ and I said, ‘You are not going to your office. You’re going to stand in the rain with me. You’re asking my cast to do the show. Go get your umbrella.’ Three months later, he offered me a summer job there and said, ‘I like how you handled that.’”

Smith handles whatever comes his way, rest assured. Expect no theatrical disasters on his watch – because, you know, there’s nothing funny about that, even when the show is Disaster!

– Debra Bresnan Disaster! Opening Night, Tuesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m., $59+, Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41 Street/Broadway, New York; (877) 250-2929, www.disastermusical.com.

Heaven help them Kushner’s Angels in America at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Beginning this Friday, the intrepid actors of CenterStage Productions at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck are taking on one of the biggest challenges in contemporary

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theater: a full production – including both parts, which are sometimes mounted separately – of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America. Subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, it’s a complex, powerful, multilayered exploration of identity, sexuality, religion, politics and commitment set within the framework of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The sometimes-allegorical plot also involves Mormonism, McCarthyism, drug-fueled hallucinations, heavenly interventions and a visit to Antarctica.

Premiering its first part, Millennium Approaches, in Los Angeles in 1991 and in its completed form on Broadway in 1993, Angels won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play, along with nearuniversal critical acclaim. Productions have subsequently been performed all over the world – occasionally generating local furors about funding of artworks on controversial topics – and the play has inspired an opera, as well as an Emmyand Golden Globe-winning HBO TV miniseries.

At the Center, Marcus D. Gregio directs a cast that includes Kevin Archambault, Emily DePew, Joe Felece, Alex Heinen, Victoria Howland, Alan Lipper, Cezar Remon, Bill Ross, Alex Taylor and Lou Trapani. Performances of Angels in America begin at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 4, 5, 11 and 12 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 6 and 13. Tickets cost $24 and $22 and can be ordered by calling (845) 876-3080 or visiting www. centerforperformingarts.org. Be advised that this program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults, and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308, about 3 ½ miles east of downtown Rhinebeck.

Wretched refuse Miller’s A View from the Bridge at SUNY-New Paltz Though America prides itself on its history of being a “land of opportunity” and a haven for immigrants from all over the world, the contrary impulse to blame newcomers for all social ills and pull up the gangplank never quite goes away. Election years are predictable times for anti-immigrant demagoguery to rear its ugly head, and 2016 is no exception.

That makes this season especially apt for a revival of one of Arthur Miller’s gloomy masterpieces, A View from the Bridge.

Structured like a Greek tragedy, with an attorney filling in for the chorus, it’s an evergreen reminder that walls keeping out new Americans can be constructed of human passions and prejudices just as surely and effectively as of steel, concrete and barbed wire.

Set in Brooklyn’s waterfront Red Hook neighborhood during the 1950s, A View from the Bridge tells the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone, whose initial welcome to his wife Beatrice’s two cousins newly arrived from Italy sours when one of the two young men, Rodolfo, takes a romantic interest in Beatrice’s niece, Catherine. Eddie’s overprotectiveness of the young woman soon reveals itself to have darker motivations, with tragic consequences.

The Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY-New Paltz will present a production of A View from the Bridge for the next two weekends, opening this Thursday, March 3. Directed by department chair Jack Wade, with an all-student cast and design staff, the play will be performed in Parker Theatre at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 3 to 5 and 10 to 12, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 6 and 13.

Prior to the March 4 performance, Theatre Arts professor Thomas Olsen will moderate a free pre-show panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. in Parker Theatre. Panelists

Larry Carr, lecturer in the Department of English, Morgan Gwenwald, associate librarian at the Sojourner Truth Library, and Reynolds Scott-Childress, assistant professor of History, will discuss Arthur Miller’s life and work and the cultural conditions represented in the play.

Tickets cost $18 general admission, $16 for seniors (62+), New Paltz faculty and staff and non-New Paltz students and $10 for SUNY-New Paltz students. They can be purchased at the Parker Theatre box office from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday or online at www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. For more information call (845) 257- 3880 or e-mail boxoffice@newpaltz.edu.

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s 34th annual gala at Bardavon The Vassar College Department of Dance may not offer a separate major for arts students, but it does provide a strong elective program and serves as the base for a sterling resident company, the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre. Each year about this time, Vassar Rep presents a gala at the Bardavon

1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, and this weekend’s two performances, incorporating classical ballet, jazz and modern dance, mark the troupe’s 34th such annual celebration.

Continuing Vassar Rep’s work with renowned guest artists, the company will perform Social Discourse, a “contemporary urban folkdance” dance

by New York-based choreographer Seán Curran, along with dances created by Vassar professors and students and music

by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards). The company’s director, Department of Dance chair, John Meehan, is staging the traditional classical ballet Paquita. Faculty members Miriam Mahdaviani, Katherine Wildberger and Abby Saxon have all created new works for the gala.

Performances begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 5 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 6. Tickets cost $11 general admission and $9 for seniors and students. They can be purchased from the Bardavon box office (845) 473-2072 or online at www.bardavon.org. For more info about the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre, visit http://pages.vassar.edu/ vrdt.

– Frances Marion Platt

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Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, “Something rare, dangerous, and harrowing” wrote Nicholas de Jongh of the London Evening Standard about Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Patrick Healy of The New York Times called the play “the most influential American play of the last two decades.” Starring Kevin Archambault, Emily DePew, Joe Felece, Alex Heinen, Victoria Howland, Alan Lipper, Cezar Remon, Bill Ross, Alex Taylor and Lou Trapani.

This CENTERStage Production is directed by Marcus D. Gregio.

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Celtic Heels Irish Dance

March 5 at 11 am Joan McGrenaghan and her performing troupe have delighted audiences for over two decades! Enjoy Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes choreographed to energetic, hand-clapping, toe-tapping instrumentals.

Origami Tales March 12 at 11 am Using origami, music and audience participation, storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto provides a magical entry into Japanese culture. In her new show “Origami Tales”, mythological character masks & puppets, amazing flowers and a dragon-all made from origami-set the stage while Kuniko shares heartfelt stories from ancient Japan.

The Center is located at 661 Rte. 308, See you 3.5 miles east of the light in the at The Village of Rhinebeck CENTER!

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MUSIC Mountain music Neighbors Roswell Rudd & Heather Masse record August Love Song

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rombonist Roswell Rudd and vocalist Heather Masse met on A Prairie Home Companion a few years back when Rudd performed with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band and Masse was guest vocalist. “I first heard of Roswell Rudd when I was in jazz school, in college, and one of my best friends, the Korean singer Sunny Kim, was in his quartet,” says Masse. “On Prairie Home Companion, we learned we lived about six miles apart from each other, so we started getting together as neighbors, and then gradually started playing music together. It was a natural progression; it happened organically.”

Then, after playing together informally for two or three years, the two musicians decided to record an album together. They have just released August Love Song (Red House Records CD298, 2016).

“We felt a musical connection right away, after the first couple of tunes we played. There was a sense of getting in touch and letting our own voices shine, of opening up,” says Masse, recalling their first playdates in Rudd’s living room. “He’s a remarkable person, so open, and beauty just pours out of him, both musically and as a person. He really loves being present in the moment and in the music.” His tune “Open House” captures this welcoming feeling with a sweet, lively peek into what it might feel like to sit in a corner and listen while these musical friends improvise and have fun doing it.

At 81, Rudd is about five decades ahead of Masse in years, but the two found rich common ground in jazz standards that they both enjoy and, eventually,

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At 81, Rudd is about five decades ahead of Masse in years, but the two found rich common ground in jazz standards that they both enjoy and, eventually, in trying out a few originals, too.

in trying out a few originals, too. They played together every couple of weeks, sometimes inviting guitarist Rolf Sturm (Masse’s friend, who also lived in the neighborhood) and bassist Mark Helias (with whom Rudd had played) to join in.

Mostly, though, it was Rudd and Masse, and eventually they felt ready to record.

“It was a real pleasure, but it was a little bit scary for me to go there,” Masse admits. “You just never know what’s going to happen,” she says, because you’re dealing with the energy of the day, the energy of the room and of the people. “But it was really important to both of us to do it in Roswell’s living room, because we had all this history of playing there. We’re really happy with how it came out. Chris Anderson of Nevessa [Studios] brought his sound truck and set up a couple of sound barriers so we could do overdubs or new takes, but we really didn’t end up doing any. It’s all live takes for the most part, except for a little editing in the mixing.” Eric Peltoniemi, president of Red House Records, and Verna Gillis, Rudd’s partner and manager, who also co-wrote two tunes with Rudd, were on-site too.

The set offers a warm showcase for the lively interplay between Rudd’s warm, fat tones and Masse’s richly expressive voice. Rudd, Masse, Sturm and Helias open their set with an elegantly buoyant take on “Social Call,” a lovely standard by Gigi Gryce, followed by the CD’s title cut, “August Love Song,” which Masse penned for her son. Rudd and Gillis co-wrote “Tova and Kyla Rain” and “I’m Goin’ Sane (One Day at a Time)” and Rudd wrote another original, “Winter Blues.” The CD also features Dizzy Gillespie’s classic “Con Alma,” “Old Devil Moon” (with Masse scatting her own intro, “Blackstrap Molasses”), “Love Is Here to Stay” and Duke Ellington’s gorgeous “Mood Indigo.”

Masse says the latter tune is her favorite on the recording. “I really love how ‘Mood Indigo’ turned out, especially the horn and voice at the beginning. We really blended together in an organic improvisation. It felt great,” she admits. “I like listening to

that tune. It brings back the moment.”

“I feel so lucky we stumbled upon each other,” continues Masse. “Roswell opens me up musically. He has a way of pulling things out of you, because there’s so much freedom in his playing.” Many call Rudd the father of free-jazz trombone, and he’s widely acknowledged for his work with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, s o p r a n o saxophonist Steve Lacy and drummer Dennis Charles, pianist Cecil Taylor and the New York Art Quartet, among many others. But his tastes have always run the gamut of music, spanning from Dixieland to avant-garde, including more recently celebrated ethnomusical excursions with the Mongolian Buryat Band, Puerto Rican cuatro player Yomo Toro (and a host of Afro-Cuban and South American musicians) and Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté.

Throughout, Rudd’s soulful warmth and openhearted approach to making music remain irrepressible and always clear.

“He doesn’t think of himself as a freejazz musician. He always tries to say he’s just a musician who loves to play, to stay present within that,” says Masse. “And yes, you’re right: There’s a soulfulness about him, no matter what he’s playing. What I see is his love of music, and the depth of it. His openness brings opportunities in almost any music or players that he interacts with; he finds the goodness.”

Masse trained at the New England Conservatory of Music as a jazz vocalist.

She has toured and recorded with the Wailin’ Jennys, a folk trio who have earned Billboard chart placements, a Canadian Juno and acclaim throughout the world.

She followed her solo debut for Red House (Bird House, 2009) with an album of jazz standards and originals with pianist Dick Hyman (Lock My Heart, 2013). And she has recorded a few other releases that, like Rudd, straddle diverse musical worlds: In her case, she stretches into bluegrass, folk and jazz with artists like Mark O’Connor, Darol Anger, the Wayfaring Strangers and Heather & the Barbarians.

“I feel really lucky I don’t have to be in

a box – just folky or just jazz – because I wouldn’t feel completely satisfied. Both are a big part of who I am,” she says, adding that is why she enjoys touring with her brother-in-law, pianist Jed Wilson, and with the Wailin’ Jennys. “The Wailin’ Jennys have been on a hiatus, but we will start working on a new record soon. And I’ve been singing on Garrison’s last season of Prairie Home Companion about once a

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month or so. I want to do a solo recording, and though I’m not sure when or what it will be, I have a lot of songs that I’ve not recorded. I want to get them ‘on tape,’ as they say. It will fuse the jazz part of me with the folky part of me, and be more of a mix, a blend – but it’s not clear yet,” Masse says.

To date, two gigs are booked to celebrate the release of Rudd and Masse’s August Love Song: July 28 at Joe’s Pub in New York City and an August date to be determined at the Bearsville Theater. But don’t wait until then; buy your own copy of August Love Song and take your ears and soul on a luscious musical journey.

– Debra Bresnan August Love Song (Red House Records CD298, 2016), Heather Masse & Roswell Rudd, released February 26; www.redhouserecords.com.

Bard SummerScape 2016 will spotlight Giacomo Puccini If Bard SummerScape’s curators declare Giacomo Puccini “the most popular opera composer ever,” it is probably best that you don’t quibble.

The only remaining question, then, is how you feel about opera in general.

I remember my voice coach, an opera singer and pop songwriter, describing Puccini as the most singable composer of them all. I might have gone with McCartney myself, though Puccini did have the advantage of writing in Italian, the natural home of rhyme.

The “…and His World” component of the Bard SummerScape programming provides a seamlessly multidisciplinary interrogation and celebration of the music and cultural/historical significance of a single composer. Bard being Bard, subjects have ranged from difficult and underperformed Modernists such as Alban Berg to such concert music staples as Schubert and Sibelius in recent years.

This year, Puccini gets the Bard treatment.

London’s Times Literary Supplement once called Bard SummerScape “the most intellectually ambitious of America’s summer music festivals.” As such, the examination of Puccini strays quite a bit from the work of “the most beloved and the most despised of all composers” and into the work of his contemporaries and other dimensions of his social milieu.

This intensive examination of the life and times of Giacomo Puccini features 11 programs and multiple panel discussions from August 5 through August 14. Preceding and complementing the focus on Puccini will be a rare fully staged production of Iris, a forerunner of Madama Butterfly by Puccini’s close contemporary Pietro Mascagni (July 2231); the world premiere of Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, four

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newly unearthed puppet plays from leading Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, as reimagined by Dan Hurlin (July 7-17); the world premiere of Fantasque, a new ballet set to the music of Respighi and Rossini by John Heginbotham and Amy Trompetter; and a film series on “Puccini and the Operatic Impulse in Cinema.”

That is only the tip of the SummerScape iceberg, which includes the bustling Spiegeltent all summer long. For comprehensive information, visit http:// fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape.

– John Burdick

Jewish music lecture series begins this Sunday at Poughkeepsie Library’s Auditorium

des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, replacing Jonas Kaufmann, who has canceled his performances due to illness.

The new production of Manon Lescaut is conducted by Fabio Luisi and directed

by Sir Richard Eyre. Kristine Opolais stars in the title role with Alagna as the ill-fated lovers at the center of Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s passionate adaptation of the classic novel about a free-spirited country girl who becomes the toast of Paris.

Tickets for Manon Lescaut cost $27 general admission, $25 for Bardavon members and $20 for children age 12 and under. They are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the

UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; and through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or www. ticketmaster.com.

Aaron Neville packs Club Helsinki Widely considered one of the greatest vocalists of the rock era, Grammy Award-winner Aaron Neville performs at Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, March 17 at 8 p.m. Perhaps the most famous member of New Orleans’ royal family, Neville has had four platinum-certified albums and four Top Ten hits. He is also the lead voice of the Neville Brothers, featuring his brothers Art, Charles and Cyril.

The Poughkeepsie Public Library District presents “The World of Jewish Music” throughout March and April. This series is sponsored by the Library District with the support of the Norman and Jeannie Greene Fund and in collaboration with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

On Sunday, March 6 at 2:30 p.m., rabbi Leah Berkowitz of the Vassar Temple presents “Torah to Go: Music in the Bible.”

She explores the theme of music in the Hebrew Bible. The audience will see the Torah scroll unrolled, hear (and sing) musical renditions of biblical passages and learn how music played a role in the stories of the Bible. This is followed on Sunday, March 13 at 2:30 p.m. with “The Meaning of Our Melodies.” Rabbi Jeffrey Summit (Tufts University) examines the question: “Why do Jews feel so strongly about the music in their lives? “ The three Sunday events in March are scheduled for the Auditorium, located at 105 Market Street in Poughkeepsie.

No advance registration is required.

Discussions, concerts and film screenings continue at various venues through midApril. For more information, visit www. poklib.org or call (845) 485-3445.

UPAC screens Puccini’s Manon Lescaut from The Met: Live in HD this Saturday The Bardavon continues the 2015/16 season of The Met: Live in HD with Puccini’s masterpiece Manon Lescaut on Saturday, March 5 at 1 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston. Star tenor Roberto Alagna – currently at the Metropolitan Opera giving an acclaimed performance of Canio in I Pagliacci – will sing his first-ever performances of

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Julien J. Studley Theatre $10, $6, $3 Tickets also available online: www.newpaltz.edu/music Talk-back session with creative team follows performance STUDENT HONORS RECITAL March 8 at 8:00 p.m. $8, $6, $3

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES artlectures@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu Lecture Center 108, Free VINCENT DESIDERIO, PAINTING March 9 at 11:00 a.m.

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erfectly wrong.” The words didn’t occur to me as such, but that’s what my gut said the first time I heard Marc Ribot’s guitarplaying. As it was for most people, the occasion of this disruptive revelation was Tom Waits’s 1985 record Rain Dogs. That album turned me on my ear immediately; but culturally, it was a time-release genetic bomb: Took a while to assert itself, but it you were to hip to it then, you could trace its agency replicating through the decades into the present.

Amidst all of Rain Dogs’ surreal challenges and affronts, Ribot stood out. Perfectly wrong: the primitive, chromatic plunking on “Singapore” and “Cemetery Polka”; the impeccably dissonant, stinging blues-playing on “Clap Hands”; the needling, banjoistic pluck on “Diamonds & Gold”; and most prophetically, the oblique, tremolo noir line-playing on “Jockey Full of Bourbon.”

Perfectly wrong, perfectly out: the sour notes with their own otro-world harmonic logic; the brutal, ham-fisted attack; a sustain-free and importunately pointy tone that was utterly out Marc Ribot of phase with the times. You just had to laugh at the completely wrong rightness of it all. At the same time, you knew that it was no joke, no postmodern New York positioning statement on guitar. From go, it felt bottomless – a voice that would never run dry because it had struck a vein of something like musical truth. Then there was the mystery of his name.

Sorry to fix on his first great moment, because his great moments have been

Reserved seating for this show is sold out, but general admission may still be available. General admission costs $65. For more information, visit http:// helsinkihudson.com. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson.

Kofi Baker’s Cream Experience plays Bearsville this Friday The son of legendary drummer Ginger Baker, Kofi Baker brings his Cream Experience to the Bearsville Theater on Friday, March 4 at 9 p.m.

After seeing his father play in the Cream reunion of 2005, Kofi was inspired to start his own band – and to continue where Cream and his father left off. Featuring two highly credentialed bandmates in bassist/vocalist Greg Smith (Ted Nugent, Billy Joel, Allan Parsons, Alice Cooper) and longtime Woodstock resident, guitarist/vocalist Godfrey Townsend (John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Dave Mason), Kofi Baker’s band is the only authentic

Cream tribute, combining Cream’s innovative and experimental style with virtuoso talent.

Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 on the day of the show. Balcony seats (including a meet-and-greet) go for $25.

For tickets and more information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

Wood Brothers to play Helsinki Hudson The Wood Brothers’ fifth studio album (with several live sets interspersed), 2015’s Paradise, begins with the song “Singin’ for Strangers.” Over a bawdy, sh*t-kickin’ Harvest-era Neil Young groove, Oliver Wood slathers a seemingly endless stream of wellcrafted puns and double entendres. It is a pretty good summation of what has always been genuine and what has always been goofy about this band.

It’s a groove-folk, cosmic-country and

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Dr. Schuyler Foerster Monday, March 14, 7:00 p.m., College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall

Dr. Schuyler Foerster, Brent Scowcroft Professor of National Security Studies at the United States Air Force Academy, examines how terrorism is different from traditional conflict, how it blurs the lines between “war” and “crime,” and how it crosses traditional boundaries between domestic and foreign policy. He also examines the role of the military, the role and limits of intelligence, and the treatment of “combatants vs. criminals” whether U.S. citizens or not.

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many: his key role in the contrapuntal cacophony of John Zorn’s Masada; his ace work providing just the right edge to Elvis Costello in the early Warner Brothers years; his listenable, stylishly Minimalist AfroCuban records with Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos, the chaotic, culture-jamming avant-rock of his trio Ceramic Dog and much more.

Years along, I now hear antecedents and a concept that I wouldn’t have been able to articulate back then: the homely, aggressive strike of Django, as well as the vast mastery of the harmonic minor; the in-and-outof-key eccentricity of the Chicago blues legend Hubert Sumlin; all of the bossa and Afro-Cuban colors that have blossomed over the years, enriching his playing and balancing all its perfectly wrong paradoxes – tender and contentious, totally wrenched but touched with a lucid harmonic prettiness; rooted in Latin jazz, but with a wild sense of jazz as folk music, loosed from the prison of chops.

This is why Ribot is so beloved by those who can’t abide Metheny or Scofield and who even eye Frisell with suspicion, and why his imitators are legion: He rarely plays anything that you couldn’t; and yet you never would – at least if you hadn’t heard Marc Ribot. His voice seems to come from somewhere outside the realm of what’s likely, passable and possible.

Marc Ribot performs solo at Quinn’s on Sunday, March 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15 and are available at Quinn’s, located at 330 Main Street in Beacon, or by calling (845) 202-7447.

– John Burdick Marc Ribot, Sunday, March 6, 8 p.m., Quinn’s, 330 Main Street, Beacon; (845) 202-7447.

thoroughly eccentric brand with surprisingly wide appeal across genre lines. Recorded at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye studio in Nashville, Paradise is the Wood Brothers’ most successful and most energetic set to date.

Frequent performers in the region, the Wood Brothers visit Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 4 at 9 p.m. Seth Walker opens. Reserved seats cost $38, general admission $30. For tickets and more information, visit www.helsinkihdson. com. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson. For more on the Wood Brothers, visit www. thewoodbros.com.

– John Burdick

Rosendale Theatre to screen Shirley Clarke’s documentary on Ornette Coleman On March 8 and 9, the Rosendale Theatre continues its monthly curated Music Fan Film Series with two screenings of Ornette: Made in America (1985). The documentary examines the life, career and influence of “free jazz” innovator Ornette Coleman within the framework of a symphony concert event in the saxophone maverick’s hometown, Fort Worth, Texas in 1983.

But you don’t necessarily need to be an avid fan of the cool, abstract, nonmelodic form of jazz that Coleman pioneered to find this a worthwhile evening at the cinema. That’s because the film is a rare collaboration between Coleman and a woman who pushed the boundaries and vocabularies of another artform: avant-garde filmmaker Shirley Clarke.

“The innovative techniques that director

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A quirky, feisty member of the downtown Manhattan indie filmmaker scene of the 1950s and ‘60s, Clarke was a contemporary of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas and Lionel Rogosin. She started out studying modern dance, switched to experimental filmmaking and became an early exponent of the American wing of the cinéma vérité movement. Probably best-known for her gritty filmic accounts of New York street life, The Cool World (1964) and Portrait of Jason (1967), Clarke had a brief crossover success in Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World, which won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 1963, but otherwise strenuously cultivated the persona of an artistic outsider – much like Ornette Coleman.

A long-term project, Ornette: Made in America incorporates footage of Coleman that Clarke shot as early as the 1960s as well as appearances by the saxophonist’s son, Denardo Coleman; his ex-wife, poet Jayne Cortez; fellow musicians Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Yoko Ono and Robert Palmer; music critic John Rockwell; and other icons of late-20th-century cultural flux including Buckminster Fuller, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Ted Folke, a filmmaker and producer who worked with Ornette Coleman and as a music editor on this film, will introduce the program. Some surprise guests are expected in person or via Skype at the screenings.

Ornette: Made in America will be shown at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 8 and 9 at the Rosendale Theatre, located at 408 Main Street (Route 213) in Rosendale. Tickets available at the box office a half-hour before showtime.

For more details about the film and for information on the screenings, e-mail Pam Kray at pamkray@gmail.com or Ted Folke tedfolke@gmail.com or visit www. rosendaletheatre.org.

– Frances Marion Platt

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ART nancycampbellart.com. She will present a short talk about the exhibit and the region on Saturday, March 26 at 4 p.m. Come see an artist’s fine rendering of Ciociaria’s ancient villages and bucolic landscapes.

Feed your dreams. – Ann Hutton “Paintings of Italy: Discoveries & Connections� opening reception, Saturday, March 5, 5-8 p.m., Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 338-0333, www.askforarts.org.

Artist’s books by Grady Kane-Horrigan now on view at New Paltz’s Elting Library

Nancy Campbell's Field Work, oil on linen, 24x30

Nancy Campbell’s “Paintings of Italy� at Arts Society of Kingston

Multimedia artist Grady KaneHorrigan has taken two of the most mundane and ubiquitous technological phenomena – Facebook and the smartphone – and mined them for unsuspected artistic gold. The result of his refining, a show that e calls “words + pictures + paper = books,� is currently on display at the Elting Memorial Library’s reading room until March 24. Though loath to characterize himself or typify his work, he has added an explanatory subtitle, describing the show as “a few offbeat/ off-base/off-kilter artist’s books written, drawn, painted, folded, glued, stapled, pasted, sprayed, bent and otherwise thrown together.� “Books� is

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We can all dream of vacationing in a sun-drenched landscape in the countryside south of Rome. We can read travelogues and wish that our pasta and garlic tasted as fresh as an Italian housewife’s does. And some few lucky ones of us eventually do make our way to Italy for that once-in-alifetime dream come true. Saugerties painter and teacher Nancy Campbell has made a habit of it. “I go to sketch and paint, so this exhibit is the culmination of the last five years of my life, since I left my job at the Woodstock School of Art. We really love the area; the people are so nice to us.

Hopefully the work will reflect my feelings for the place and be a little ‘love letter’ to Italy.�

Campbell has ancestral connections in the Old Country, which she tracked down in 2006. “My father’s mother comes from Italy, and his father also. I charged myself with finding his history, which was connected to the Orsini family. One time when my husband had a trip to Rome with IBM, I went along with him and went looking in churches and little town halls for records. I never found one for my grandfather’s birth, but I did hook up with my grandmother’s family in the vicinity of Rome. We became friends with a second cousin, and visited him a number of times.�

Eventually she decided to bring other

artists along on these visits to introduce them to the area. Her “Discover Ciociaria� workshops began in 2012, and she has taken around six people at a time every year since then. “I found six to be the maximum we can fit into a van, and also the number of rooms in the small hotel we stay in.� The workshops run ten days, she says. “A week is not long enough, and two is too long. “I’ve done workshops in other places.

But the people there in Ciociaria don’t get many tourists, and not very many Americans at all. They are so very gracious.

Last year they threw a little festival for us, and other artists opened their studios. A traditional band played, and there was pizza and wine. They go the extra mile to make us feel welcome. The landscape is beautiful, too; but it’s beautiful all over Italy. There, it’s the combination of landscape and hospitality. It’s a nofrills area, and a lot of people don’t speak English. I’ve been taking lessons in Italian and probably sound like a baby – but they never let on!�

The results of Campbell’s recent forays will be on exhibit at the Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) from March 5 through the 26th. Twenty-one paintings in oil, watercolor and gouache and a few prints will be hung in the gallery, giving visitors a taste of the artist’s prodigious work and a flavor of the Ciociaria region: a place that she has come to call her second home.

ASK gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m. More of Campbell’s work can be seen at www.

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the operative word here. Over the past year, relying strictly on daily prompts offered by a Facebook writing group to which he belonged, Kane-Horrigan used his 5c iPhone to create the texts for several dozen books that he then drew, painted, folded andâ&#x20AC;Śyou get the picture.

Since his first public show at the Starbucks across the street from the library more than a decade ago, KaneHorrigan has had yearly exhibits at the Barn Museum at the Mohonk Mountain House, where he works, and where his antic impulse often meets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even collides with â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the serious and the profound.

If his latest show speaks volumes in the same ways (and it does), Kane-Horrigan doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. He describes himself, reluctantly, as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a hard-to-pin-down writer/artist with a natural-born aversion to labels such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;writer/artist.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Nevertheless, in a recent interview and after much prodding, he described a bit more of his roots and aims, saying that he has always been fascinated by the interplay of text and image. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My art education began with Where the Wild Things Are and Tennielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alice, which were followed by Spider-Man and Daredevil comics, which led to Art Spiegelman and later, Saul Steinberg.â&#x20AC;?

Words and pictures, he said, are the vehicles; storytelling, through the sometimes-cooperative and sometimesantagonistic synthesis of those two elements, is the challenge. Put another way, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to make art that makes you laugh, pokes at your brain, tastes like a cup of expired hope, reminds you of the ghost of your Greataunt Trudy and the things she used to whisper to you while you slept.â&#x20AC;?

Like all the more traditional books that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find at the library, Kane-Horriganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are intended to be handled and browsed and explored â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be checked out (at least not without a note from your Great-aunt Trudy).

Kane-Horrigan grew up in New Paltz and Kingston, has never lived in Brooklyn nor worn a porkpie hat and now lives in Eddyville with his wife and three children. His exhibit will be on display in the reading room of the Elting Memorial Library, located at 93 Main Street (Route 299) in New Paltz, until March 24.

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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

– Michel de Montaigne

March 3-10 Follow baby eels, taste maple sap, try your hand at animation or your feet at parkour

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

Opera double bill at Bard

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SESAME STREET LIVE AT CIVIC CENTER Soprano Zoe Johnson as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Redux

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ow in the world can you expose your child to the wonderful world of live opera without traveling to New York City and spending a fortune, all at the risk of an evening of disagreeable fidgety seat-kicking and other bored unpleasantries? Simply make plans to see this weekend’s presentation of The Magic Flute, Redux and the New York premiere of Higglety Pigglety Pop! at the Sosnoff Theater of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. This double bill of fully staged one-act operas is family-friendly and a terrific introduction to opera for children or adults, as well as deeply satisfying for more experienced audiences who love excellent classical music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute is performed in an abridged

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efore GPS, many of us grew up to the familiar strains, “Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street?”

Well, point your Garmin in the direction of the Mid-Hudson Civic Center for this weekend’s presentation of Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance!

Performances take place on Friday, March 4 at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 5 at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Sunday, March 6 at 1 p.m. This interactive show encourages singing, dancing and clapping along. Tickets cost $18 to $62 for reserved seating. The doors open one hour before showtime.

The Mid-Hudson Civic Center is located at 14 Civic Center Plaza in Poughkeepsie. For tickets or more information, call (845) 454-5800 or visit www.midhudsonciviccenter.org.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

version by Nicholas Muni, with many parallel themes to Higglety Pigglety Pop! composed by Oliver Knussen with libretto

by Maurice Sendak. Commonalities between the operas include journeys to the brink of death, unconditional love and the importance of animals in telling the stories.

Performances take place this Friday, March 4 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 6 at 2 p.m. Ticket prices range from $15 to $35; $100 tickets include premium seating and a reception with the artists on March 6; and children 12 and under pay $5 at the Sunday, March 6 matinée.

All ticket sales benefit the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Scholarship Fund at Bard College.

Bard College is located at 30 Campus Road in Annandale-on-Hudson. For

tickets or more information, call the Fisher Center box office at (845) 758-7900 or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

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GCCA’s Youth & Student Arts Exhibition opens in Catskill The Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA)’s “Outside the Lines” Youth and Student Arts Exhibition is a perfect example of William Arthur Ward’s inspirational words: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

Bring your kids to see this art made by peers, and they might even feel like creating something themselves.

“Outside the Lines” takes place at the GCCA Catskill Gallery from March 5 to

April 16, open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 12 noon to 5 p.m., beginning with an opening reception on Saturday, March 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. Work was submitted by students of all ages from Greene County schools, including the Coxsackie-Athens High School, Greenville High School, Cairo-Durham High School and Middle School, Windham-Ashland-Jewett Middle/High School, Greenville Middle School, Catskill Elementary School, Scott M. Ellis Elementary School and Art and Soul Preschool. See my mention of the festive gala, “Sprouts Jamboree,” also happening on March 5, and make a stop at both events for a fun-filled family afternoon!

Admission to the Gallery is free and open to the public. The GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street in Catskill. For more information, call (518) 943-3400, e-mail gcca@greenearts.org or visit www.greenearts.org.

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March 3, 2016 at the “Sprouts Jamboree,” taking place on Saturday, March 5 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Petite Productions Dance and Art Academy. At $10 per family, your crew will enjoy live music, a puppet show, art activities, group dancing, prizes and refreshments, and it’s all to support the Greene County Council on the Arts’ free summer Sprouts Program. Make an afternoon of it by making a stop at the nearby “Outside the Lines” youth art opening.

The Petite Productions Dance and Art Academy is located at 491 Main Street in Catskill. For more information, call (518) 943-3400, e-mail gcca@greenearts. org or visit www.greenearts.org/sproutsjamboree-a-fundraiser-for-gccas-sproutsprogram-on-march-5-2016.

Millbrook Library offers Digital Animation Intensive Help your tweens and teens bring creativity to life while learning new technological skills at the Digital Ani-

mation Intensive this Saturday, March 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Millbrook Free Library. Participants will use the new, state-of-the art Adobe Character Animator program to create and customize digital puppets along with sound effects. This workshop is for youth ages 10 to 15 years, and is absolutely free.

The Millbrook Free Library is located at 3 Friendly Lane in Millbrook. For more information, to register or to find out about other upcoming local offerings, call (845) 485-4480 or visit http://sparkmediaproject.org/programs/ workshops.

Family Barn Dance & Singalong at Stony Kill Farm in Wappingers Perhaps you love the upstate vibe, but how can you make some countrylife memories with your kids? Sounds like someone needs a Family Barn Dance and Singalong. This Saturday, March 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, en-

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Long Dock Park is located at 8 Long Dock Road in Beacon, across from the train station. For more information or to RSVP, call (845) 473-4440, extension 273, e-mail aconeski@scenichudson.org or visit http://scenichudson.org.

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joy some old-fashioned dance and music with Emily Ellison at Stony Kill Farm. Geared for children up to age 10, the cost is $25 for a family of five and includes a tour of the barn and a farm-friendly craft, or $5 for an individual. Preregistration is required.

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“Intro to Parkour” workshop in Kingston If you or your teen aren’t enjoying your exercise regimen, I suggest taking a look at parkour, those cool acrobatic-style jumps and bounces and swings from all kinds of angles and equipment. Ages 16 and up are invited to give parkour a try at Innate Movement Parkour’s “Intro to Parkour” workshop this Saturday, March 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants will learn some basics of parkour technique, including vaults, precision jumps, balance and more. By the end of the workshop, you can join a parkour class with confidence. The cost is $20 in advance or $25 at the door.

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Bowdoin Park is located at 85 Sheafe Road in the Town of Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 298-4602 or visit www.dutchessny.gov. Â Â

Book Carnival at Zenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sudbury School Do you want to foster your familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of reading? How about saving money on books, all while having fun?

The Sudbury Book Carnival is geared for children from birth through elementary school ages and takes place this Saturday, March 5 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Sudbury School. Enjoy $1 carnival games and pick a book as a prize; get bargains at the used childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book sale; take photos with Clifford the Big Red Dog and more!

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located at 84 Zena Road in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 679-1002 or visit http://sudburyschool.com. And you can check out event sponsor Half Moon Books every day in Uptown Kingston or at http://halfmoonusedbooks.com.

Bluebird box workshop at Schor Conservation Area Have you been meaning to do some household projects with your kids, but never seem to get to them? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one that you and your crew can do together that will help nature, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to supply any of the materials!

This Saturday, March 5 from 9 to 11 a.m., join in on making bluebird boxes at the Schor Conservation Area pavilion. This event is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

The Schor Conservation Area is located at 58 Shoreview Drive in Canaan. For more information, call (518) 392-5252 or visit http://clctrust.org/calendar.

and programming as they customize a bag that they can keep, with a programmable LED light that blinks and changes color. Open to girls from sixth to eighth grades, this program has a $10 materials fee.

The Tivoli Free Library is located at 86 Broadway in Tivoli. For more information or to register, call (845) 757-3771 or visit http://tivolilibrary.org.

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Music Society When classical music is billed for young people, it means an enjoyable outing for kids as well as their parents and even the next generation.

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The Morton Memorial Library is located at 82 Kelly Street in Rhinecliff. For more information, call (845) 876-2903 or visit http://morton.rhinecliff.lib.ny.us.

To learn more about the musician, visit http://helenabaillie.com.

Hudson Valley YA Society’s “Dazzling Debuts” at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck The Hudson Valley YA Society is in its sixth year, ready to resume its monthly YA literary salon, and it wants youth ages 13 and up (and adults) to come! This Sunday, March 6 at 4 p.m. is “Dazzling Debuts,” featuring Goldy Moldavsky and Kill the Boy Band; Rebecca Podos and The Mystery of Hollow Places; and Gabriel Savit’s Anna and the Swallow Man. Hudson Valley YA Society gatherings take place at Oblong Books and Music, located at 6422 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck. For more information about this or upcoming events, or to RSVP, call (845) 876-0500 or visit Facebook at www. facebook.com/hvyasociety.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

Maple sugaring storytime at Gardiner Library Even little ones can get into sugaring when they get to touch and see the gear involved in harvesting sap. On Thursday, March 10 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Gardiner Library, environmental educator Nick Martin and children’s librarian Amy Laber present a Super-Special Storytime about maple sugaring. Children will hear stories about maple sugaring; learn what a maple tree looks like; be able to see and touch old-style maple sugaring tools such as a bucket, tap and hand-drill; and make a maple tree craft to take home. This event is free and open to the public and geared for children who are 4 and 5 years old.

The Gardiner Library is located at 133 Farmers’ Turnpike in Gardiner. For more information, call (845) 255-1255 or visit http://gardinerlibrary.org.

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The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s 4-H program announces its Tractor Safety Certification course for ages 13 and up (however, only those 14 and older will be able to drive and become certified). Participants learn important safety skills, and this course gives youth an advantage when seeking employment at a lawn or landscaping business, golf course or farm.

The Tractor Safety Certification course takes place on March 22, 24, 29 and 31 and April 5 at 7 p.m. at the Stone Ridge Firehouse, located at 525 Cottekill Road in Stone Ridge. In addition, there will be driving practice on May 5 and 6, and the driving test takes place on May 7 at 8 a.m. at the Ulster County Fairgrounds at 249 Libertyville Road in New Paltz.

The deadline for registering is Friday, March 11. The registration fee is $40 for enrolled 4-H members and $50 for non-4-H members; the price includes the Student Manual. Space is limited to the first 20 paid registrants, on a first-paid, first-served basis. For more information or to register, call (845) 3403990, extension 340, e-mail mdh268@ cornell.edu or visit https://reg.cce.cornell. edu/2016tractorsafety_251.

Grady Kane-Horrigan art show at New Paltz’s Elting Library I wish I could directly transfer the sheer delight that I feel about each of Grady Kane-Horrigan’s fantastic pieces in his most excellent art show at the Elting Memorial Library. This writer and artist’s work is smart, thoughtful, funny, beautiful and stubbornly accessible, despite the filters that I put up for myself about not being capable of understanding art. I left the exhibit with a sense of creative truth and possibility, like I feel after a therapy session. It’s a must-see in the Reading/ Meeting Room for all ages through the end of March.

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eacher and Mohonk Preserve volunteer Jim Longbotham and family’s annual sugaring event at Mohonk Preserve fills up every year, so be sure to register as early as you can. “Kids’ Day in the Sugarbush” takes place this Sunday, March 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Mohonk Preserve’s Spring Farm. Jim’s approach is casual, like a friend taking you around, and includes a tour of the woods, explanations about the history of making maple syrup, seeing real maple taps and watching the evaporator boil down the sap.

This event is for ages 4 and up and costs $5 per person.

Spring Farm is located at Upper 27 Knolls Road in High Falls. For more information, to learn about any food being served at this event or to register, call (845) 255-0919 or visit www.mohonkpreserve.org.

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

9AM-9:50AM 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 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

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HudsonValleyParents.com. 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 & older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Woodstock.

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

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.

10:30AM-2PM 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.

11AM-12:30PM Homeschool Group - Program for homeschooled kids, ages 5 and up. Various topics in history will be covered. All are welcome!

Meets on the 3rd floor. Info: 845-757-3771 or www.tivolilibrary.org. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

11AM-12PM Free Feldenkrais Ongoing Community Class. Ongoing. Led by Tatiana Light.

Method of international reputation helping Healing, Longevity and Improved Balance and Movement Coordination.Gentle and effortless exercise with immediate relaxation effect.

Info:845-679-6299. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock.

12PM-5PM Preview - March Antique Auction.

Hosted by Carlsen Gallery Auctioneers & Appraisers. Previews held: Thursday, 3/3, Friday, 3/4 & Saturday, 3/5: 12-5pm; & Sunday, 3/6, 10am til the sale at 10:30am. Auction offers an array of fine antiques from various estates in the Hudson Valley, Albany & Connecticut. Covering a variety of traditional antiques and fine art up to mid century modern. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at www.carlsengallery.com.

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12:30PM-2PM Pop-Up Library at The Catskill Center! The Four County Library System will be staging a pop-up library at the Catskill Center.

The Cybermobile (bookmobile) has been delivering materials to Arkville residents for over 20 years.There are no late fees on these materials and they may be returned to any library in Delaware County or at the next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pop-up. To request a specific title, author or subject, contact Noelle Holmes at 607-723-8236 or nholmes@4cls.org.

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.

1:30PM-2:30PM The Enchanted Caribou.

Presented by Star Penny Puppetry. suitable for pre-school and elementary school age children.

No registration is required. Info: 845-255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org . Gardiner Library, Community room, 133 Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turnpike, Gardiner.

4PM American Stories curator and Art Center director James Mundy will lead an informal discussion of the exhibition. Participants will enjoy a unique curatorial perspective on the show as a whole and have the chance to explore some of the works in detail. Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

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

Meets every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome. 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.

5:30PM-7PM Chronogram Hosts Community Mixer. The event will celebrate the March issue of Chronogram, on stands March 1 and the upcoming April community spotlight featuring Newburgh and Cornwall. RSVP. Info:advertise. luminarymedia.com/chronogram-newburghcommunity-mixer-rsvp/ Newburgh Brewing Company, 88 South Colden St, Newburgh.

5:30PM Lecture: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beard: A Transnational Political (Fashion) Statement.â&#x20AC;? Louise L. Stevenson will examine the impact of Abraham Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas, and his assassination, on thinkers in Europe. Info: 845-437-5370. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Room 203, Poughkeepsie.

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

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

6:15PM Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using 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 Art History Lecture: â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Strings Attached: Puppet Theater and Popular Entertainment in Antiquityâ&#x20AC;? By Maya Muiratov, associate professor of Art History, Adelphi University. Info: 845-257-3875 or www.newpaltz.edu/ arthistory. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 104, New Paltz.

6:45PM â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Wee Bit of Murderâ&#x20AC;?! Presented by ACME Mystery Company. Ticket price includes a three-course dinner and the show. Interactive dinner theatre with an Irish flare. Info: 845-4717026. Mahoneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Pub, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie, $45.

7PM First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series.

Hosted by Maureen and Don Black. Maureen and Don welcome Mitch Katz, Pat Lamanna, and E.C. Lorick with Marji Zintz to the Cafe stage. Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls CafĂŠ, High Falls.

7PM Fireside Chat: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hyde Park Heritage Through Its Historic Structures.â&#x20AC;? Guest speaker local author and history buff Tony Musso will speak. Reception to follow. Info: 845-229-2820.

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7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night.

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Indian Music Concert: Chirag Katti, Sitar with Ray Spiegel, Tabla. A rising star of sitar, Mumbai's Chirag Katti has been called one of the most gifted musicians of his generation. A recipient of the prestigious "Surmani" award and scholarship by the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, Chirag promises a bright future for Indian classical music. He is joined by Woodstock's own Ray Spiegel on table. Saturday, March 12, 7:30pm at Woodstock Yoga Center. Doors open at 7:00 pm, first come first seated, unless paid reservations made in advance. $20, cash only at the door. Sponsored by Woodstock Music Circle. Info: Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock.

Info: 845- 679-8700 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

Early Bird Discount & Full Scholarships available for Woodstock Youth - ages 9-12 & 13-17. Registration open: Voice Theatre’s Summer Youth Workshops July 11th–24th. A fun, supportive environment for young people to explore theatre skills. Professional instructors will lead a program of acting, theatre games, the speaking voice, movement, improv and physical theatre. Each five-day workshop plus Saturday rehearsal finishes with an Open Presentation. In the air-conditioned Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock.

Beginners are welcome. Session 1: July 11-17. Session 2: July 18-24. Sibling discounts available. Info & registration contact Shauna Kanter: Shauna@ voicetheatre.org | 845-679-0154 |www.? voicetheatre.org.

Become a Reiki Instructor! Take a life-transforming Reiki Master course, combining Traditional Japanese Reiki , Shamanic Reiki, and Ancient Qi Gong Healing methods. Held on five Mondays starting March 14, 12:153:45pm at 77 Cornell st. Kingston, Suite 116. Cost: $500. Prerequisites: Reiki I & II (from me or another instructor). call Michael 845-389-2431 whitecranehall.com.

Save the Date: Ashokan Maple Fest

(3/12,10am-4pm). All day pancake breakfast, tree tapping demonstrations, blacksmithing demonstrations, hikes to the covered bridge cathedral gorge and the sugar shack. Live music

by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason and Story Laurie & Ira McIntosh! Entry: $5 (Kids under 5 free). Pancake Breakfast: $6, Blacksmithing Experience: $5. Link to the event: ashokancenter.org/events/ ashokan-maple-fest/. Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge.

Upcoming Book, Soup and Chili Sale (3/19, 9am-3pm). 100's of books for sale plus a huge selection of homemade soups and chili for sale by the quart for take out. Stock the freezer and grab something to read untilspring arrives.

Katsbaan Reformed Church, 1800 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties.

Platte Clove Artist in Residence Program Accepting Applications.

Due by 4/8. The residencies run from July through September and artists can choose to stay from a couple days to a full week, depending on availability. Info: www.catskillcenter.org or kpalm@catskillcenter.org.

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 www.mahaiwe.org/.

Hudson Valley Community Dances is an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization committed to sharing the joy of dancing, preserving traditional music and dance and building community through dance. Dances take place in Dutchess and Ulster counties. These events are open to the public and everyone is welcome. Info:www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845- 454-2571.

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.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Gina Sicilia (Blues).

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

7:15PM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 Faculty Recital. The recital will feature both solo and chamber performances . Info: www. sunyulster.edu. SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theatre, Stone Ridge, free.

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 Community Playback Theatre. Improvisations of audience stories. $10 sugg. donation.

Info: 845-883-0392. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland, $10.

8PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

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

Info: Wolfie 845-866-3177.

Contest to Locate the Perfect Cover Photo for the 2016-2017 Membership Directory & Visitor’s Guide. The contest is open to both amateur and professional photographers. Deadline: 3/7. Info: rhinebeckchamber@gmail. com or 845-876-5904. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce, Rhinebeck.

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: 845-4375632 Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

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. Deadline: 3/11.

Register at www.reg.cce.cornell. edu/2016TractorSafety_251. Space islimited to the first 20 paid registrants. Ulster County, $50.

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 halfmarathon. Info: www.newpaltzchallenge.com or 845-255-0243.

Call for Art: Catskill Interpretive Center New Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit. Deadline 4/1. The guidelines for submitting proposals can be downloaded from www.catskillcenter. org. Info: 845-586-2611. Catskill Interpretive Center, 5096 Rte 28, Mount Tremper.

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.

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12PM-5PM Preview - March Antique Auction.

Hosted by Carlsen Gallery Auctioneers & Appraisers. Previews held: Thursday, 3/3, Friday, 3/4 & Saturday, 3/5: 12-5pm; & Sunday, 3/6, 10am til the sale at 10:30am. Auction offers an array of fine antiques from various estates in the Hudson Valley, Albany & Connecticut. Covering a variety of traditional antiques and fine art up to mid century modern. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at www.carlsengallery.com.

Info: 518-634-2466 or info@carlsengallery.com.

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, Chakra Clearing Sessions and Astrology Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday at Mirabai.

Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. $30 for 25 minute reading; $50 for Chakra Clearing Session; $120 for in-depth 90minute Astrology Reading. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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

4PM-5:30PM Math Circle - Friends from Bard College are back for Math Circle! One Friday a month for fun math games, math-related crafts.

Children under 9 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Info: 845-757-3771 or www.tivolilibrary.org. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Main St, Tivoli.

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.

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

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

10:30AM Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance! An up-close, interactive family experience with everyone’s favorite Sesame Street residents. $18.00$62.00, reserved seating (includes $2 facility fee).

Info: 845-454-5800 ext. 1201 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

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.

10:30AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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-7:30PM Magical Card Gaming Night.

First Fridays. Magic, Yugioh and Pokemon card tournament. Ten and under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Heather at hrobertspt@ gmail.com for more information. Info: phoenicialibrary.org or 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

March 3, 2016

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 845- 486-2555. 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.

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.

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.

Call For Art! Campsite: 2016 edition of the Hudson Valley Artists series, will be curated by Corinna Ripps Schaming. Deadline is 3/21. Info: www. newpaltz.edu/museum/calltoartists. html SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s Adult Vaccines. Info: 845-4863535 or www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Aging. Dutchess County.

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6:15PM Newburgh Friday Night Swing Dance Series. Led by Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Meets Monday nights, four week series 3/4, 3/11, 3/18 & 3/25. No experience or partner necessary. Beginner Swing Dance session 6:15-7:15pm, Intermediate7:158:15pm. $85 per person per series. Info: www. got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. La Maison du Etre Bien (House of Wellness), 87 Liberty St, Newburgh.

7PM U.S Navy Band. Tickets are required for admission. For more information call the MidHudson Civic Center box office at 845-454-5800.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, free.

7PM Vine Van Gogh. Vine Van Gogh works with the Valley’s best artists, so they can give you a step-by step-painting lesson on how to recreate a piece of art that you can call your own. Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, High Falls.

7PM R5’s Winter 2016 Sometime Last Night Tour. Special Guest: Max. Info: www.palacealbany.com Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $49.50, $35, $29.50.

7PM Benefit Concert Remembering Amy Regan Gabriel Dresdale and Friends. Donations will be accepted to support Music Unites, a non-profit organization supporting music education with which Regan was involved. Info: 845-679-2336.

Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7PM Sandy’s 2016 Celebration of Community Talent Show. An evening to celebrate the talents of your community, your friends and family.

Refreshments. Info: sandy@khwoman.com.

Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, $5 /donation.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Gabriel Butterfield Band. Opener: Phil Butta Band. Info: liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-9PM 1st Fridays: Star Nation Sacred Circle. Meets every 1st Friday, 7-9pm.Info: www.

SymbolicStudies.org. A positive, not for skeptics, discussion group for experiencers of the paranormal. Open to all dreamers, contactees, abductees, ET Ambassadors. Bring adrink, snack to share & lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch. Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson.

7PM Opera Double Bill: Higglety Pigglety Pop by Oliver Knussen and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Info: www.fishercenter.bard. edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Sosnoff

Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $35, $15.

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

7:30PM UPAC Friday Film Series: Field of Dreams. Info: 845-339-6088. Ulster Performing Art Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $6.

8PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

8PM Community Playback Theatre First Friday Show. Come share real life audience stories improvised by our seasoned acting troupe! $10 donation. Contact Fred & Toni, 845-883-0392.

Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland.

9 PM Dharma Bums. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

9PM The Wood Brothers. Special Guest Seth Walker. 21 & Over. Info: 518-828-4800 Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Saturday

3/5

8 AM -4 PM American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Instructor Course. Designed to prepare American Heart Association instructors to disseminate the science, skills and philosophy of resuscitation programs to participants enrolled inAmerican Heart Association courses. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-475-9742.

Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck, $400.

8:30AM International Women’s Day: “Fit Women make Fit Leaders.” The Women’s Leadership Alliance of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce annual march across the Walkway Over the Hudson. Info: dcrcoc.org or 845-454-1700 Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

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

March 3, 2016 9AM-1PM American Heart Association BLS & Heartsaver Skills & Testing Day. (Online Part 1 must be purchased separately); call 845-4759742 to register. Reg reqr’d. This class handles Part 2 and 3 of the course, where participants are required to practice andtest skills with a certified instructor. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $50.

9AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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.

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

9:30AM CFD Death Café. Death Cafe is not a bereavement support group but it is a safe and comfortable place to talk about end of life issues, dying and death with a view to living the best life possible. All are welcome, no fee, no registration. We provide coffee and cake, you provide the conversation. More information: www.cfdhv.org.

Live music with Busking for Bread - the Death Café Troubadours. The Death Cafe conversation starts promptly at 10am and ends at noon. Info: 84-802-0970. Health Alliance Hospital, Auditorium, Mary’s Ave, Kingston.

10AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 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.

Ongoing. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10AM-1PM Sudbury Book Carnival $1 tickets can be purchased for games, food. $1 Carnival Games: Pick a Book as a PrizeRecycled Children’s Book Sale. Face PaintingPhotos with Clifford the Big Red Dog. Food and Bake Sale. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 84 Zena Rd, Kingston.

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

10:30AM-12:30PM Ukulele Lesson and Jam. First Saturdays. All ages, levels. With ukes to borrow and new songs each month. Beginners especially welcome. Info: phoenicialibrary.org or 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

10:30AM-1:30PM Ulster Literacy Association Tutor Training. The other hours for the course are on two Sundays, March 6 and 13, both from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Reg reqr’d. To register for the training, call the Ulster Literacy Association at 845-331-6837 or emailinfo@ulsterliteracy. org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

10:30AM Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance! An up-close, interactive family experience with everyone’s favorite Sesame Street residents. $18.00$62.00, reserved seating (includes $2 facility fee).

Info: 845-454-5800 ext. 1201 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

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.

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: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10 /car.

11AM Saturday Kids and Canvas. A fun-filled two hours of guided painting instruction with art supplies included, just for children. Refreshments. Preregistration required. Info: 845-5342109, www.eat-paint-love.com. Painter’s Restaurant, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

11AM-12:30PM Refurbish Café. Learn how to refurbish old furniture. They will be demonstrating techniques on a small desk and some glass tables. Come dressed for the mess! Info: www. newpaltzreuse.org or 845-255-8456. New Paltz ReUse Center, 3 Clearwater Rd, New Paltz.

11AM Saturday Morning Family Series: Celtic Heels Irish Dance . Enjoy Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes choreographed to energetic, hand-clapping, toe-tapping instrumentals. Info: 845-876-3080.

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

11AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Sugarbush Tour. Tours:11am, 1pm, and 2pm: A one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the sugar shack (weather dependent.)

Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, , Muser Dr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

12PM-5PM Preview - March Antique Auction.

ALMANAC WEEKLY Hosted by Carlsen Gallery Auctioneers & Appraisers. Previews held: Thursday, 3/3, Friday, 3/4 & Saturday, 3/5: 12-5pm; & Sunday, 3/6, 10am til the sale at 10:30am. Auction offers an array of fine antiques from various estates in the Hudson Valley, Albany & Connecticut. Covering a variety of traditional antiques and fine art up to mid century modern. A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at www.carlsengallery.com.

Info: 518-634-2466 or info@carlsengallery.com.

12PM-1:30PM Girls Tech Club. For middle school girls. Learn about electronics, circuitry, and computer programming. 3-week workshop: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-757-3771 or tivoliprograms@gmail.com. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $10 /material fee.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Ongoing. 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 Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Maple Lane Tour. Tours:12pm and 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the Farmhouse to the sugar maple stand. Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall.

12:30PM-6:30PM 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, $50 /45 minutes.

1PM 21st Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Dutchess County. Grand Marshal is Bruce Coneeny. Info: 845-297-6938 or www.dcsppc. org. West Main St & Delavergne Ave, Wappingers Falls.

2:30PM Artist Talk with Jordanna Kalman, fine art photographer from New York City. Followed by a reception in the gallery from 3 to 4 pm.

Exhibits through 3/31. Info: www.poklib.org orl 845-485-3445. Adriance Memorial Library, Mary Wojtecki Rotunda Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

2:30PM Children’s Program: Making Your Own Seed Packets to Plant. This hands-on experience gives children the opportunity to examine different types of seeds, ask questions, and learn the seasonality of many foods they eat. Info: starrlibrary.org or 845-876-4030. Starr Library, Rhinebeck.

3PM Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup.

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

3PM-5PM Solarize Saugerties Launch Event.

Saugerties kicks off its spring campaign to make going solar simpler and more affordable to residents and small business owners in Ulster County (and continuous areas of Greene County).Free informational presentation plus time to meet and talk with volunteer staff and installers. Info: solarizesaugerties@gmail.com, or www.solarizehudsonvalley.org. Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties.

3:30PM -7PM Ladies in Music. Info: 845-6793484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

4PM-6PM WAAM Opening Reception. March Group Show, Michael Scudder Solo Show, Dan McCormack Active Member Wall, Small Works Show, and in the Youth Exhibition Space: Woodstock Primary School. Exhibition. Info: 845-6792940 Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock.

4PM-6PM Opening Reception - Directors Choice: The Responsive Eye. Exhibits through 5/1. Info: 845-679-2940. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock.

1PM-3PM Snowshoeing. Ages 8 and up. Enjoy a guided snowshoe walk led by environmental educator Fran Martino. If there is a lack of snow, this will become a walk without snowshoes. Info: www.olana.org. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, $10.

4PM-7PM Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner.

Complete meal including dessert and beverage.

Take Outs Available. Handicapped accessible.

Info: 845-331-7099. United Reformed Church, Bloomington, $15, $13 /senior, $5 /under 12.

1PM Met Live in HD: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

Box Office: 845-339-6088. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $27.

4PM-7PM Opening Reception: Ulster County Photography Club. Exhibits through 3/26. Info: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen, free.

2PM-4PM Opening Reception: “Outside the Lines” GCCA’s Annual Youth and Student Arts Exhibition. Exhibits through 4/16. Info: www. greenearts.org, 518-943-3400. GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main St, Catskill, free.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going.

Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience.

For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

2PM Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance! An up-close, interactive family experience with everyone’s favorite Sesame Street residents. $18.00$62.00, reserved seating (includes $2 facility fee).

Info: 845-454-5800 ext. 1201 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

2PM - 4PM Art Reception: Being There. Works

by Susan Miiller. Show will run thru 3/11. The Erpf Center, Arkville.

2PM Matinee at the Shadowlands: The Hounds of the Baskervilles . Info: www.shadowlandtheatre.org Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville.

2PM-4PM Artist Reception and Talk: Susan Miiller. Being There. Plein air paintings. Exhibits through 3/11. Info: 845-586-2611 or www.catskillcenter.org. The Catskill Center, Erpf Gallery, 43355 Route 28, Arkville.

2PM-4PM Storybook, the unfacebook social unmedia. Coloring pages, marker, crayons, colored pencils just for ADULTs only please. Leave your cell phones behind. Info: Sasha Sun at sashasunart@yahoo.com. Reform Dutch Church, on the Green, Woodstock.

2PM Friends of Historic Saugerties. An informal talk by Bill Merchant entitled: Overview: The D&H Canal, its impact on the area and its influence on the modern transport corporation. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, Community Room, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

5PM-7PM Oriole9 Restaurant presents its 98th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception. On view will be the very realistic oil paintings of Yuliya Pogreb and the evocative photographs of Saundi Wilson. The restaurant is located at 17 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin. For information call 845-679-8117.

5PM Professor Louie & The Crowmatix. Music of Bob Dylan, Folk, The Band, Originals. Info: 845-677-3611 Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Ln, Millbrook.

5PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Paintings of Italy: Discoveries and Connections.” 20 new paintings featuring images of Italy by Nancy Campbell. Exhibits through 3/26. Info: 845-3380333 or www.askforarts.org. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

5:30PM-8:30PM Opening Reception: March Madness. Group show. 25+ artists do homage to the delightfully unhinged. Exhibits through 4/10. Info: www.artistscollectiveofhydepark.com.

Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, 4338 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park.

6 PM-11 PM BowTie & Blue Jeans Dinner, Dancing & Live Auction. Honoring the YMCA Board of Trustee Members, YMCA Volunteer of the Year, and YMCA Longevity Award to one of our members. There will also be some fun surprises.

Res reqr’d. Info: 845-338-3810 Ext 104 orLnalepa@ymcaulster.org. Best Western Plus, Washington Ave, Kingston, $60.

6PM First Saturday Concert Series and Open Mic: Lisa Brigantino & special guest, her sister Lori Brigantino. Pot luck dinner at 6PM followed by an open mic at 6:45PM. The second act is the featured performer. Info: 845-255-1255 or www. gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner, free.

7PM Book SIgning: Robert Burke Warren, author of "Perfectly Broken." Sponsored by The Golden Notebook of Woodstock, Held at Kleinert James Center for The Arts, Tinker St,

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7PM Live @ The Falcon: Split Bill - Adrien Reju . Split Bill: Silver City Bound (formerly The Amigos) Info: liveatthefalcon.com or 845-2367970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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 Old Chatham Quaker Meeting. Sweet Dreams. Rwanda’s first and only ice cream shop, Sweet Dreams, the women were intrigued. The film follows this remarkable group of Rwandan women as they emerge from the devastation of the genocide to create a new future forthemselves.

Info: 518-766-2992. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, free.

7PM Where in the Hell is Heaven on This Earth.

Reservations required. Info: 845-294-4188, www. facebook.com/Cornerstonetheatrearts. Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen.

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.

7:30 PM -10:30 PM Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Workshop at 7pm. Caller: Michael Kernan. Band: Tiddely Pom: Sue Polansky, clarinet, Katie Jeannotte, piano, Stewart Dean, concertina. Info: www.hudsonvalleydance. org. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Rd, Port Ewen, $10.

7:30PM-10:30PM Kingston: March Swing Dance. $10 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman and performance at 9pm. DJ dance til 10:30pm. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. Info: www.got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. MAC Fitness, SWING DANCE 7:3010:30pm, 743 East Chester (Rt 9W), Kingston.

7:30 PM 2015-2016 Coffeehouse Series: SoundTrax Band. An open mic format (sign-up 7pm) followed by the featured performers. Info: 845-229-0170 or hvfolks@aol.com. Unitarian Fellowship, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston, $6, $5 / senior.

7:30PM Suede in Concert. Info: 518- 434-1703 or www.8thstep.org. Eighth Step at Proctors, 432 State St, Schenectady, $50 /golden circle, $30.

8PM-11PM Jeff Bovee’s Midnight Train. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

8PM-9:30PM Nat Adderley, Jr. An evening of American Pop and Rhythm and Blues. Info: 845-784-1199, www.safe-harbors.org. Lobby at the Ritz Theater, newburgh, $25.

8PM World Premiere Workshop of We’ve Got Our Eye on You. A new comic opera by composer and faculty member, Nkeiru Okoye. A TalkBack session with the creative team follows each performance. Info: 845-257-2700 or visit www. newpaltz.edu/music. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, New Paltz, $10, $6 /senior/staff, $3 /student.

8PM Sister Sparrow & Dirty Birds. Soul-Funk Dance Party. Info: www.helsinkihudson.com or 518-.828-4800. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

8PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

8PM Y&T Concert. Genre: Classic Rock. Info: 845-471-1966 or thechancetheater.com. The Chance Theater, 6 Crannell St, Poughkeepsie.

8PM Warren Haynes. Genre: folk.All Ages. Info: 518-473-1845. The Egg Performing Arts Center, 1 State St, Albany, $35.

8PM DJ Dave Leonard’s 21st Annual Pisces Party! Info: 845- 679-4406. Bearsville Theatre, Tinker St, Woodstock, $10.

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8PM Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT).

The resident company at Vassar College, will span ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Info: 845-4375370. Bardavon Theater, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $11, $7.

8PM Women of Ireland . Traditional Irish music, song and dance performance. Info: 845-9384159, www.ikehall.com. West Point, Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point, $40.

8:30PM David Kraai and The Saddletramps.

Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, High Falls.

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

Sunday

3/6

9AM 1st Annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference “Sweat Equity: Women in the Garment Industry.” Explore the Uniquely Female-Dominated New York Industry. Full day conference. Info & exact location: 212-485-9268 or nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society, Robert H. Smith Auditorium, Manhattan.

9:30AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com/ The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10:30 AM March Antique Auction. Hosted

by Carlsen Gallery Auctioneers & Appraisers.

Previews - Thursday, 3/3, Friday, 3/4 & Saturday, 3/5: 12-5pm; & Sunday, 3/6, 10am til the sale at 10:30am. Auction offers an array of fine antiques from various estates in the Hudson Valley, Albany & Connecticut. Covering a variety of traditional antiques and fine art up to mid century modern.

A fully illustrated catalogue may be viewed online at www.carlsengallery.com. Info: 518-634-2466 or info@carlsengallery.com.

10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing.

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 or www.skylake.shambhala. org. SkyLake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Sugarbush Tour. Tours:11am, 1pm, and 2pm: A one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the sugar shack (weather dependent.)

Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

12PM-5PM Reiki II Training and Certification with sensei Lorry Salluzzi. Learn and practice distance healing and hands-on healing using the three Reiki II ancient symbols with a specific focus on Byosen scanning and healing. Please note: Lorry’s Reiki Icourse is a pre-requisite. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $85.

12PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Maple Lane Tour. Tours:12pm and 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the Farmhouse to the sugar maple stand. Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr,Cornwall.

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.

12:30PM-2:30PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve Sam’s Point: Animal Tracks and Signs for Kids. Learn how to identify the tracks of several common animals. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10.

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.

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-4:15PM Dual Art Openings. Meet members of the North East Watercolor Society at their 2016 exhibition, then stop by to see Pat Morgan’s watercolors in a separate exhibit. Pat demonstrates her technique at 2:30pm. Info: 845-341-4891, www. sunyorange.edu. SUNY Orange, Middletown..

1PM Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance! An up-close, interactive family experience with everyone’s favorite Sesame Street residents. $18.00$62.00, reserved seating (includes $2 facility fee).

Info: 845-454-5800 ext. 1201 Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

1PM Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Wing Park in LaGrange. Walk. Leader: Sue Mackson suemackson@gmail.com; 845-4719892. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org. Firehouse, Rte 82 north of Rte 55/82 light, LaGrange.

1PM-3PM Mohonk Preserve: Kids’ Day in the Sugarbush. Come along for a short hike and a sweet treat as you join in the fun of maple sugaring. Ages 4 and up with parent/guardian. Res. Reqr’d. Info: 845-255-0919. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, $5.

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

2PM Opera Double Bill: Higglety Pigglety Pop by Oliver Knussen and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Info: www.fishercenter.bard. edu or 845-758-7900. Bard College, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, $35, $15.

2PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

2:30PM The World of Jewish Music. Torah to Go: Music in the Bible. Join Rabbi Leah Berkowitz of Vassar Temple and explore the theme of music in the Hebrew Bible. See the Torah scroll unrolled, hear musical renditions of biblical passages. Info: www.poklib.org or 845-485-3445.

The Auditorium, 105 Market St, Poughkeepsie.

3PM Ryan Brit presents "Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths" wiith Joe Garden and Nelly Reifler. The Golden Notebook,29 Tinker St, Woodstock , 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com.

3PM Where in the Hell is Heaven on This Earth.

Reservations required. Info: 845-294-4188, www. facebook.com/Cornerstonetheatrearts. Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen.

3PM Town of Lloyd Historical Preservations Society Meeting. The show features the night sky for that date. Seating is limited to 44 people.

Send check payable to “TOLHPS” to V. Wadlin, 38 Bellevue Road, Highland, NY 12528 and include names of those attending. SUNY NewPaltz, John R. Kirk Planetarium, New Paltz, $10.

3PM Sunday Silents Series: The Golem: How He Came Into the World. Rabbi Zoe B. Zak of Temple Israel, Catskill, will introduce the film.

The Golem will be accompanied by the piano virtuosity of Marta Waterman. Info: rosendaletheatre.org or 845-658-8989. Rosendale Theatre, Rt 213, Rosendale.

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 Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The free family concert features violinist Helena Baille. Children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Juice and cookies will be served after the concert. Info: 845-876-2903.Morton Memoraial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, free.

4PM The Hudson Valley YA Society: Dazzling Debuts. Goldy Moldavsky, Rebecca Podos & Gavriel Savit. Reg reqr’d: rsvp@oblongbooks. com. Info: 845-876-0500. Oblong Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery S, Rhinebeck.

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.

5:30PM-7PM 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 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

7PM Journey & Friends (Folk,Rock, R&B).Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7PM Levon Helm Studios presents Luther Dickinson & The Cooperators. Info:www.levonhelmstudios.com. Levon Helm Studios, The Barn, Woodstock, $45 /seating, $30 /standing room.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sari Schorr featuring Chris Bergson. Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com/ The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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

8PM Hudson’s own Dust Bowl Faeries. A gothic chamber-folk outfit led by interdisciplinary artist Ryder Cooley, celebrates the release of “Lady Ramshackle, “ its debut album. Info: www.helsinkihudson.com or518-828-.4800 Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

Monday

3/7

week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

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

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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

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

10AM-12PM 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.

10AM-4PM Tax Help in Gardiner. The Gardiner Library and the AARP Tax Aide will provide free tax services to low and moderate income taxpayers in Gardiner. If interested, call the AARP tax aide volunteers at 845-255-0791 to make an appointment. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

11AM-6:45PM Private Shamanic Doctoring with shamanic healer Adam Kane. First Monday of every month. Shamanic Doctoring is a process of bringing the healing spirits into direct contact with you, facilitating healing on physical, mental and emotional levels.Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /1 hour.

12PM Gyrokinesis. Info: 845-658-2239 or www. ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

12:30PM-6PM Crystal and Tarot Readings with Mary. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes.

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: 845-6887811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

3:30PM-5:30PM Tail Waggin Tutors Reading Help. The last month for our beloved reading program. Trained TDI dogs come to the library to serve as the perfect audience for early and reluctant readers. No session on 3/21. Info:845688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. Phoenicia Libary, 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.

5PM-9PM Quickbooks Course for Farmers.

Capturing Money Using Quickbooks: a Basic Course on Financial Recordkeeping and Quickbooks for Farmers. March 7 and 8. Space is limited to 20 people per session so register soon!

Info: 845-340-3990 or emailcad266@cornell. edu. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

5:15PM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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-7PM Rockin’ Rooks: Morton Youth Chess Club. Every Monday. Students in grades K - 12 are welcome. Info: 845-876-5810or email racersplace@hotmail.com. Morton Memoraial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, free.

6PM-6:30PM Free Open Meditation. Meets Mon-Fri, 6-6:30pm. No particular tradition or practice. Not a ‘class’. All are welcome. Just a time to join with others to meditate together. Interfaith Awakening (the little yellow house), 9 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

8AM-9AM Yoga Core with Terry Fister.Multilevel vinyasa flow class combining traditional asana with modern core exercises. Taught by veteran dance and fitness professional Terry Fister, this class will enhance mobility, stability and strength through core conditioning. $16.

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

6PM Kingston Swing Dance Series. Led by Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Meets Monday nights, four week series 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 & 3/28. No partner or experience necessary. Beginner Swing Dance session 6-7pm, Intermediate & Advanced at 7 & 8pm. $85 per person per series. Info: www.got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a

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

6-week series held Mondays at 6:30pm thru 3/1.

March 3, 2016 Help 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 The Street That Built a City, presented by Lowell Thing, based on his book about Kingston’s historic Chestnut Street. Sponsored by the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society. At the Theater/Meeting Room in Building 6 at Vineyard Commons in Highland, located at 300 Vineyard Avenue (Route 44/55) next to the Hudson Valley Rehabilitation Center. Free admission & refreshments. For more information call 845-255-7742, visit www.tolhps.org.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8PM Open Mic Poetry. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

Tuesday

3/8

7 AM-7 PM National Pancake Day at IHOP Restaurants. Guests are encouraged to leave behind a voluntary donation which will benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Shriners Hospitals for Children and other local charities. Info: www. ihoppancakeday.com. Hudson Valley.

7:30AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 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.

9:30AM-12:30PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Tuesday Trek- Old Powerhouse and Compass Rock. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter’s Kill Park Office, New Paltz, $10.

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

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.

10AM-2PM Heart Healthy Food Tasting. New Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Res reqr’d.

Info: 845-758-0571. Rhinebeck Senior Friendship Center, 1232 Route 308, Rhinebeck, $3 /over 60, $4 /under 60.

10:30AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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.

11:30 AM Cuddletime. 0-2 yrs. Children’s Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

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

A slow, steady class that stimulates connective tissues to make them healthier and stronger, at the same time cultivating equanimity, mindfulness and awareness. $16. Info: 845-679-8700 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. WoodstockYoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

1PM Esopus Artist Group. [Adult Program].

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

1PM-3PM Art Workshop with Susan Togut.

16 weeks of guided projects. Program runs on Tuesdays thru 6/14. Open to all Woodstock residents 55 and older for a voluntary materials fee.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

1:30PM-3PM Israeli Folk Dancing. Beginner material offered. Each class is geared towards the experience of the participants. No partner necessary. Donation suggested. Come share in the enthusiasm and great exercise.Ongoing. 845-2559627. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

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’s General Volunteer Training Workshop. On-Site Tour and Vesting Ceremony. Info: www.walkway. org/volunteer. Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

5:30 PM Talk: Thomas Lewis Discipline, Freedom, and the Formation of the Modern Subject. Lewis specializes in religious ethics and philosophy of religion in the modern West. Info: www.vassar.edu Vassar College, Rockefeller Hall, Room 200, Poughkeepsie, free.

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

6PM-7PM Community Yoga Class with Selena Reynolds, An informative drop-in class, open to all levels. $8 donation requested. Info: 845-6798700 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop .

Ongoing. 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-8PM The Serious Side of Food. Discussion series led by Professor Joseph Campisi of Marist College. “Diet for a Hot Planet” by Anna Lappe is this week’s focus. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-757-3771.

Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, free.

7PM-9PM Open Mic. On-going. Info:845-6795906 or jan@kagyu.org. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties, 845-246-5775.

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.

7:15PM Music Fan Film Series. Ornette: Made in America. A documentary and a symphony concert event in Coleman’s hometown, Fort Worth, Texas, in 1983. Info: 845-658-8989.

Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

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

8PM Student Honors Recital. Outstanding classical and jazz student performers, selected by the music department faculty, present an evening of musical masterpieces. Info: 845-257-2700 orwww.newpaltz.edu/music. SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3.

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

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.

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Woodcarving Classes begin March 9! With 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.

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.

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, Stone Ridge.

9:30AM-10:30AM The Color of Calm Experience the latest national craze - adult coloring, meeting the second Wednesday of the month March 9. Info: www.poklib.org or call 845-4853445 x 3702. Boardman Road Branch Librar, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie.

10AM Clinton’s Friendship Garden Club The guest speaker will be Joyce de Vries Tomaselli. She will present “Blights of Tomatoes: Understanding Causes Simplifies Control”. Info: 845-266-5530.

Clinton Town Hall, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

10:30 AM The Rhinebeck/Red Hook AARP Meeting. Social hour is at 10:30 AM, Meeting at 11:30am, and the Speaker at 12:30pm. The speaker this month will be Melissa Cohen, who will speak on "Is your home a good place to age and necessary modifications." All welcome.

Northern Dutchess Bible Church, 59 Fisk St., Red Hook.

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.

10:30AM-11:30AM 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, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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 addressthe excessive tension and soreness in connective tissues. Ending with a vinyasa flow, this lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, morestretched out and walking taller than before. $16. Info: 845-679-8700 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

1 PM Kingston Community Singers Open Rehearsals. Old Dutch Church, Wall St, Kingston, 845-339-0637.

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

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

3:30PM Tweens Gathering. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

4PM-6PM 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-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.

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

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.

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-9PM The Effect of Atrazine. The Second Widely Used Pesticide, As An Endocrine Disruptor Producing Eggs In The Testis Of Male Amphibians. Presentation by Tyrone Hayes, PhD. Info: 845-417-4074, bomsm@newpaltz.edu SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 100, New Paltz, free.

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-8PM Woodstock Community Chorale.

On-going. 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 Library, Rt 28A, Shokan.

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

6:15PM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. A slow, steady class that gently stimulates connective tissues to make them healthier and stronger, at the same time cultivating equanimity, mindfulness and awareness. $16. Info: 845-679-8700 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com. WoodstockYoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:30PM Rt 212 Coalition Action Oriented Meeting. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss specific task forces and delegate responsibilities to volunteers. Anyone who can volunteer their time, ideas, and knowledge is urged to attend this meeting. Info: trt212coalition@gmail. com. Bread Alone, 22 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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 Ulster County Photo Club. 2nd Wed only. Adult Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

7PM Tango. On-going. Join Nina Jirka every Wednesday night for tango. Tango basics will be taught from 7-8 pm and intermediate tango follows from 8-9 pm. A $10 donation is suggested. Info: www.unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559.

Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

7PM “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. On-going. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 8/wk curriculum.

Info:845-679-5906or jan@kagyu.org. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock, free.

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

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

7PM Mark Morganstern Reads Selections From “Jump” (a work in progress). Author of “Dancing With Dasein” and owner of the Rosendale Café.

Info: 845 658-9013. Rosendale Public Library, 264 Main St, Rosendale.

7:15PM-8PM Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice. For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please, Meetup.flowingspirit.com or845-6798989. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, free /donations welcomed.

7:15PM Music Fan Film Series. Ornette: Made in America. A documentary and a symphony concert event in Coleman’s hometown, Fort Worth, Texas, in 1983. Info: 845-658-8989.

Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

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

7:30PM Flying Cat Music presents Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit Creole in Concert in Phoenicia at the Empire State Railway Museum located at 70 Lower High Street. This unique musical experience embraces the traditional French creole music of the Ozark foothills. The doors open at 7:00 p.m. with the show beginning at 7:30 prompt. Admission is $16 or $14 with RSVP to flyingcatmusic@gmail.com or by calling 845-688-9453.

8PM Pop n’ Weasel. 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.

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

9AM-9:50AM 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 or www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. Info: www.

HudsonValleyParents.com. 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 & older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Woodstock.

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

10AM-12PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Homeschoolers- Maple Madness/Sugaring Basics. Aged seven to ten years old. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter’s Kill Park Office, New Paltz, $10.

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 Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 Lecture: “Religion in the Modern World.” Author Pankaj Mishra will speak. Info: 845-437-5370. Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Room 203, Poughkeepsie.

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5:30PM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going. Everyone welcome. 845-679-9534. First Churchof Christ, Scientist, 89 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM Meeting of ENJAN (End The New Jim Crow Action Network) ENJAN is dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Info: 845-475-8781 or www.enjan.org. Family Partnership Center, African Roots Library, 29 N Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

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24 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-2PM 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.

11AM-12:30PM Homeschool Group. Program for homeschooled kids, ages 5 and up. Various topics in history will be covered. All are welcome! Meets on the 3rd floor. Info: 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

11AM-12PM Free Feldenkrais Ongoing Community Class. Ongoing. Led by Tatiana Light.

Method of international reputation helping Healing, Longevity and Improved Balance and Movement Coordination.Gentle and effortless exercise with immediate relaxation effect.

Info:845-679-6299. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock, free.

12PM-1:30PM New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce March Business Luncheon.

Key Note Speaker: Tim Allred, Vice President of Hudson River Valley Resorts, LL Hear firsthand some interesting information about the Williams Lake Project. Online prepaidregistration is required. Info: newpaltzchamber.org. The Would, 120 North Rd, Highland, $35.

1PM-2PM Hearing Loss Support Group. The group’s goal is to provide information and support to those who have or live with someone who has hearing loss. Info: 845-255-1255 or www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, Community room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner.

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.

2:30PM-4PM Effective Communication Strategies For Alzheimer’s Caregivers A free program by the Alzheimer’s Association exploring how communication takes place when someone has Alzheimer’s. RSVP. Info: 800-272-3900. Alzheimer’s Association Office, 2 Jefferson Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

4PM-5PM Kids Knit! An hour of knitting fun.

Use needles or finger knit. For all levels. Bring a project you’re working on, or start something new! 1st grade and up. Info: 845-757-3771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

4:30PM-6:30PM Meditation Support Group.

Every Thursday at Mirabai. 30 minutes seated meditation followed by 15 minutes walking meditation. Walk-ins welcome. 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 First Thursday Book Club. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

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

6PM-8PM Experiencing the Magical Songs of the Plants: Come experience the music of the plants and listen to their musical performance using an amazing device created by the eco-society Damanhur in the Italian alps. Bring a small houseplant. Info: 845-679-2100. MirabaiBookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $25.

6:15PM Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using 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-7:30PM Seminar on Arthritis of the Knee, Hip and Shoulder. The seminar will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis including dietary supplements, medications, exercise, injections and surgery. The seminar is an

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ALMANAC WEEKLY opportunity to find out what is thecorrect choice for your medical needs. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-5345768. Hilton Homewood Suites, 180 Breunig Rd, New Windsor.

6:45PM “A Wee Bit of Murder!” Presented by ACME Mystery Company. Ticket price includes a three-course dinner and the show. Interactive dinner theatre with an Irish flare. Info: 845-4717026. Mahoney’s Irish Pub, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie, $45.

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 The Serious Side of Food. A monthly reading and discussion series. Sessions are scheduled for 2/10, 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.

7PM Listening to the Roosevelts: Eleanor Roosevelt, “The First Lady of Radio.” Hosted by Library Director Paul Sparrow — in conversation with Anya Luscombe of University College Roosevelt. Info: 845-486-7745 or clifford.laube@ nara.gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt PresidentialLibrary and Museum, Henry A. Wallace Center, Hyde Park.

7PM Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin. Info: www. highfallscafe.com or 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night.

Info: 845-255-8811 or www.GKnoodles.com.

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

7:15PM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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.

7:30 PM -10:30 PM Special Performance: Sherman Lee Dillon, Wepecket Island recording artist & The Mississippi Trio. No cover, 21+.

Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

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.

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.

6PM-7:30PM Backyard Poultry 101. Learn the ins and outs of keeping chickens, ducks. Learn how to choose the right breed, what supplies are necessary, how to care for them. Info: 845-757-3771.

Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, free.

6PM-10PM American Heart Association BLS Healthcare Provider Renewal Course. A recertification class for BLS healthcare providers; participants must have a current BLS certification to take this abridged recertification course. Call 845-4759742 to register. Prepaymentreqr’d. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $50.

6:15PM Kabbalat Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner.

Kosher dairy or parve please. Followed by services at 7:30p.m. The Kerhonkson Synagogue, 26 Minnewaska Trail, Ellenville, 845-626-2010.

7PM 1st Annual Ellenville Art Soir‚e. Art, wine, hors d’oeuvres. Featuring accomplished artists Roger Baker, Leslie Bender. Emerging artist Mernie Baker.Encouraging two recent Ulster County art graduates. Mernie Baker Art Center, 12 Market St, Ellenville, free.

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: Dylan Doyle Band with Dylan Doyle on guitar/vocals, Chuck Torres on bass, “Papa” John Mole on drums. No cover, 21+. Info: 845-853-8049. Uncle Willy’s, 31 North Front St, Kingston.

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Saturday

3/12

Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Hike Balsam Mountain Strenuous hike, 6- miles.

Leader: Shari Aber 914-489-0654; shnaber@ yahoo.com and Joe Ferri 914-489-1582; newpaltz33@yahoo.com. Contact leaders for meeting time and place. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org.

8:30AM-12:30PM Pet First Aid, CPR and Disaster Preparedness Course. This course covers basic first aid, CPR and disaster preparedness for dogs and cats. For ages 14 to adult. Pre-registration and payment are required. Info: 845-4759742. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

9AM-11AM Facebook Basics Class. The goal of the class is for participants to have fun and learn how to create, use and maintain a Facebook page on their own. An email account is required for this class. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-255-1255. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Tnpk, Gardiner.

9AM Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Wildcat Shelter/Fitzgerald Falls. 8 Mile Moderate Hike. Please RSVP. Leader: Michael C. Phipps phippsmcp@aol.com; 646-373-5891. Info: www.

MidHudsonADK.org. Appalachian Trail hiker’s parking lot, Route 17A, Warwick.

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

9 AM-3 PM Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Renewal Course. This is a recertification of the ACLS course. You must have an ACLS certification to take this course. Call 845-4759742 to register. Prepayment reqr’d. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $125.

9AM John Burroughs Natural History Society Field Trip: Winter Tree Identification Walk.

With the Esopus Creek Conservancy. Bring binoculars and tree guides if you have them, and be prepared for cold winter. Open to the public. Info:www.esopuscreekconservancy.org.

Saugerties Village Beach, parking lot, Rt 9W, Saugerties, free.

7PM Movie Night: McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie at the height of their 70’s superstardom. Rated R, 121 minutes.

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

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

9AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Miguel Zenon Quartet. Opener: Peter & Will Anderson Trio.

Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com/ The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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

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.

7PM ARTalks Featuring: Melora Kuhn and Michael Eudy. Followed by an open discussion and Q and A with audience members. 18 and older. Info: 845-876-2903. Morton Memoraial Library, 82 Kelly St, Rhinecliff, free.

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.

7:30PM Word Of Mouth Poetry Series: Featured poets: Michael P. Collins & Tiger Hawk. Open Reading w/ a 5 minute limit follows the featureds, hosted by Teresa Costa. Info: 845-331-6713.

Artbar Gallery, 674 Broadway, Kingston, $3.

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

10:30AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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

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 and Chakra Clearing Sessions with Mary Vukovic. Every Friday . $30 for 25 minute reading; $50 for 50 minute Chakra Clearing; $120 for 90 minute in-depth Astrology Reading.

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $25.

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

4PM-5:15PM Twilight Yoga: A Sanctuary for Yin & Restorative with Lynda Elaine Carre, 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.

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.

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

7PM The Stash Plan. A diet and wellness guide.

Written by Integrative Nutritionist Elizabeth Troy and actress Laura Prepon of Orange is the New Black. Their book balances weight loss with healthy ingredients, proper nutrition, and delicious meals. Info: 845-255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

7:30PM Dutchess County Singles Dance. Free Dance Lesson: 7:30 pm. Dance: 8 pm to 11:30 pm. music by Bronx Express, also a light dinner buffet with desert and coffee. Door prizes and 50/50 raffle. Couples are welcome. Info: 845-464-4675 or www.dutchesscountysingles.org. ElksLodge #275, 29 Overocker Rd, Poughkeepsie, $20.

7:30 PM Bardavon’s Friday Film Series: Rainman. Info: 845-473-2072. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $6.

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

8PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

8PM Ten Minute Play Festival: The Tasting Menu. Ten short plays written expressly for Half Moon Theatre. After the show is over, the audience has the chance to sample each of these delectable dishes downstairs at the Marriott Pavilion Conference Center. Info:1-800-838-3006.

Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, $45, $40 /senior.

8PM Second Friday Jam with The Acquaintances. Jeff Entin and Bob Blum. Info: www. highfallscafe.com or 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

8PM Amy Helm presents Friday Nights at The Barn. Featuring Sawyer Fredericks. Plus Special Guests. Info:www.levonhelmstudios.com. Levon Helm Studios, The Barn, Woodstock, $65 / seating, $45 /standing room.

8PM Harrison Greenbaum. Info: www.sugarloafpac.org or 845-610-5900. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, $20.

8PM Betty and the Baby Boomers in concert.

Info: 845-452-4013 or hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org.

Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Rt. 9 and Church St, Hyde Park, $12, $10 /senior.

10AM-4PM A shokan Maple Fest .

Info:ashokancenter.org/events/ashokan-maplefest/. All day pancake breakfast, tree tapping demonstrations, blacksmithing demonstrations, hikes to the covered bridge cathedral gorge and the sugar shack.ÿLive music by Jay Ungar &Molly Mason and Story Laurie & Ira McIntosh! Entry: $5 (Kids under 5 free). Pancake Breakfast: $6, Blacksmithing Experience: $5. Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge.

10AM-3PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve.

Sam’s Point: Drop-In Sap Evaporation Demonstration. Learn about the maple sugaring process and to see it in action. Pre-registration is required.

Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10.

10AM-12PM Woodland Playhouse Art Show: McCabe & Mrs. Miller. The library will transform into a gallery as it exhibits the artwork of students from local preschool Woodland Playhouse. Info:845- 688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary. org. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

10AM-1PM Learn and Serve Open House. Enjoy light refreshments while getting acquainted with Scenic Hudson’s environmental education and volunteer programs. Info: 845- 473-4440 or www. scenichudson.org. Scenic Hudson’s River Center, Beacon.

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-3PM New Paltz Winter Farmers Market.

Second Saturday thru April, 10am - 3pm. Offering local food items such as meat, eggs, root crops, greens, goat cheese, bakery items, maple syrup & heirloom seeds. Info: www.wintersunfarms.com or 845-214-6329. Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz, free.

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Ongoing. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10AM Volunteer at Wilderstein. Informational session and free tour of the mansion. Additional volunteers are needed to conduct guided tours, greet the public, work in the gift shop. Info:

845-876-4818. Wilderstein Historic Site, 330 Morton Rd, Rhinebeck.

Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

10AM-4PM Ashokan Maple Fest. All-day pancake breakfast with Ashokan Maple Syrup-$6. Tap a tree, watch syrup being made, take a hike. Live music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason and Story Laurie & Ira McIntosh. Info: www.ashokancenter.org or 845-657-8333. Ashokan Center, 477Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge, $5, free /under 5.

2PM The Piano Plus! Chamber Music Series: The first concert in the series features pianist Rami Sarieddine. Info: 845-657-2482, or email programs@olivefreelibrary.org. Olive Free Library, Community room, 4033 State Route 28a, West Shokan, $12.

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

10AM Pilates Springboard -Reformer Class.

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 -12 PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve Event at Sam’s Point. Preschoolers in the Park: Animals in Winter. Read a story, pretend to be squirrels looking for your food, and make a treat for the birds. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor.

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.

11 AM Saturday Morning Family Series: Origami Tales. Using origami, music and audience participation, storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto provides a magical entry into Japanese culture.

Info: 845-876-3080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

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-3PM Repair Café Kingston & Bike Clinic.

Bike Friendly Kingston will offer bike fixes, helmet fittings. Bring your broken bikes or small appliances, mechanical, electrical things, clothes and toys. Info: www.repaircafehv.org. Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church, Clinton Ave, Kingston.

11AM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Sugarbush Tour. Tours:11am, 1pm, and 2pm: A one mile moderate hike through field and forest to the sugar shack (weather dependent.)

Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, , Muser Dr, Cornwall, $10, $7 /child.

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3PM Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup.

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

4PM-7PM Community Church of High Falls Deacon’s Dinner. Serving meatloaf, baked potatoes, green beans and homemade desserts. Half of the proceeds go to support the Deacon’s Fund which provides emergency cash for those in need.

Info: 845-687-0910. Community Church ofHigh Falls, corner of Mohonk and Firehouse Rds, High Falls, $13, $11 /senior, $7 /ages6-12.

4PM-7PM Corned Beef Dinner Fundraiser Hosted by Woodstock Fire Department Co. 4.

Corned Beef and Cabbage, Bread, Dessert, Drink Included, Drive-thru/Pick-Up. Info: 845-6792068 Woodstock Fire Department Co. 4, Zena, $15.

4PM-6PM Chili Take Out. One quart chili and two rolls $8. Choice of meat or vegetarian chili and home made baked goods for sale! Info: 845-246-5035 or 845-246-7084. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Main St, Saugerties.

6PM-8PM Opening Reception: “Marbleous” A collaborative interactive installation by the bau Gallery artists. Exhibits through 4/3. Info: 845-440-7584. BAU Gallery, 506 Main St, Beacon.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: John Tropea Band.

Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com/ The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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 PM Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat for Gaza. Lillian Rosengarten describes how she faced those challenges within her own life while gaining empathy for the struggles of others. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Main St, Saugerties.

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.

7:30PM Boxcar Lilies. Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse. Audience songfest at 6:45 pm. Info: www.walkaboutclearwater.org. Memorial United Methodist Church, 250 Bryant Ave, White Plains, $23, $10 /6-12.

7:30PM Armen Donelian, Solo Piano: Full Moon Music. Original compositions and spontaneous improvisations. Info: contact@BridgeSt.org or 518-943-3894. Bridge Street Theatre, 44 Bridge St, Catskill, $15.

7:30PM “A Nation Once Again” St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. Info: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/250868 or 845 528-7280 or www. tompkinscorners.org. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, 729 Peekskill Hollow Rd, Peekskill, $15, $10 /senior/student.

7:30PM HRC Showcase Theatre Staged Reading Choices Play by Donald Drake. A drama about two parents facing a decision that no parent would ever want to make. Conjoined twins share a single heart that can support only one of them.

Info: 518-851-2061. First ReformedChurch, Auditorium, 52 Green St, Hudson, $15.

8PM Bonnie Raitt. With special guests The California Honeydrops. Info: www.palacealbany. com Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany, $99,

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8PM A View From The Bridge. Play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Jack Wade. Info: 845-2573880 or www.newpaltz.edu/theatre. SUNY New Paltz, Parker Theatre, New Paltz, $18, $16 / senior/staff, $10 /New Paltz student.

8PM Ten Minute Play Festival: The Tasting Menu. Ten short plays written expressly for Half Moon Theatre. After the show is over, the audience has the chance to sample each of these delectable dishes downstairs at the Marriott Pavilion Conference Center. Info:1-800-838-3006.

Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park, $45, $40 /senior.

8PM-11PM Woodstock Contradance. George Wilson & Toby Stover, caller Sarah Van Norstrand.

Info: 845-246- 2121 or www.ashokan.org. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock, $10.

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

8PM St. Patrick’s Celebration. Music by Hair of the Dog & Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, Woodstock’s own Americana group. Info: 845-610-5900, www.sugarloafpac.org. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. $25.

8PM Pocket Vinyl. Eric plays the piano while Elizabeth paints on stage. The paintings are then sold at every concert to the highest bidder. Info: www.highfallscafe.com or 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

8PM Fiesta Mexico-Americana. Los Lobos with special guests Ballet Folklorico Mexicano. Info: 845-339-6088. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $64 /golden circle, $49, $29.

9PM Tarbox Ramblers. Info: helsinkihudson. com or 518-828-4800. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

10PM Market Market Presents Comic Corinne Fisher, Host of Top 10 Comedy Podcast. Info: marketmarketcafe.com or 845- 658-3164. Market Market, 1 Madeline Ln, Rosendale, $15 /cash only.

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12PM Finding American Women’s Voices Through the Centuries. A presentation and luncheon with genealogist Jane Wilcox. Registration is required. Info: www.huguenotstreet. org/calendar-of-events. Deyo Hall, 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz.

12PM-1:30PM Girls Tech Club. For middle school girls. Learn about electronics, circuitry, and computer programming. 3-week workshop: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-757-3771 or tivoliprograms@gmail.com. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $10 /material fee, 12PM-6PM Meet the Archangels: an Angel School Certification Course with angelic medium George Koury. Experience the Archangelic realm and empower yourself to use this method of communication to create positive results in all areas of your life. Info:845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $90.

12PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Maple Lane Tour. Tours:12pm and 3pm; perfect for little legs, a short walk from the Farmhouse to the sugar maple stand. Info: 845-534-5506 or www.hhnm.org. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, , Muser Dr, Cornwall.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Ongoing. 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-6:30PM 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, $50 /45 minutes.

1PM-3PM Deep Air: Interdisciplinary Arts Reading Series. Claire Hero & Danielle Vogel.

Ages 10 and up. This year, the series focuses on the very broadest themes of travel, which Frederic Church did so much of in his life. Tea and cake will be served and ahealthy Q&A follows artist talks. Info: www.olana.org/education. Olana, Wagon House Education Center, Hudson, $10.

1:30 PM -2:30 PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve. Sam’s Point: Maple Sugaring Basics.

Learn about the complete process of maple sugaring, from identifying the correct trees, to using traditional tools to tap a tree and collect sap.

Aged six to twelve years old. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Visitor Center, Cragsmoor, $10.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going.

Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience.

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HOME ATTENDANT NEEDED FT/PT. Weekdays. $11.30/hour. Disabled 50-yr. old female looking for female home attendant to help w/basic needs. Reliable, caring + live within 30 minutes of Woodstock. Must have car. 845-688-3052. No calls before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.

Woodstock/Lake Hill: Part-Time Office Assistant Wanted for home based business. 3 afternoons/week. Preferred skills include MS Access, Excel, Word, Mail Chimp, general office duties, excellent phone manner. Resume to: homestayny@ msn.com

Garden care crew members needed for organic landscaping company. Horticultural experience desired. Compensation based on experience. Email resume and letter of interest to info@bloomfinegardening.comor call (845)255-2734.

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Absolutely No-Touch. 888-406-9046 EXCAVATING EQUIPMENT OPERATOR/CDL-A DRIVER: Excavating company seeks CDL-A driver with dump truck and trailer experience to move equipment and supplies and to operate equipment on excavating and landscape construction projects.

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Ricci’s Barber Shop in New Paltz is looking for PART-TIME, possibly FULL-TIME help. Must know how to do flat tops and skin fades. Must be a responsible reliable worker. Call Ricci 845-849-4501.

OFFICE & PERSONAL ASSISTANT NEEDED. Uptown Kingston. Part-time or full-time. Internet skills essential. Contact efc@ericfrancis.com

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

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DEAR BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN- We at Hardscrabble Flea Market & Swap Meet would like to congratulate you on being picked from over 100 businesses in your field. We believe we can help each other-

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845-338-5832

www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

OPEN HOUSE, SUNDAY MAR. 6, 12-3 PM

Own a Magical Spot in Woodstock! This supercool log home— expanded and updated in contemporary style—sits on 2 private acres just a stone’s throw from the village. Gorgeous grounds feature stunning rock outcroppings, a fenced-in flat backyard perfect for pets, and stone steps to a charming gazebo in the woods. Quiet cul-de-sac multi-level home features 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, cobblestone fireplace, solarium, multiple decks. Renovated lower level creates great rental or guest quarters. 41 Wardwell Lane, Woodstock 12498 ... $440,000

Call Dorothy (Dorothea) J. Marcus, Associate Broker 917-854-5748 (mobile).

We have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/ business cards & flyers or “show how to do” projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). It’s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers.

And, if you have leftover merchandise you’d like to sell- this would be a perfect way to unload it. Please give John a call for more details- (845)758-1170. Spots are $12-$35.

Be at Home Working. Free training. Call 845-663-6997.

KINGSTON, NY: ESTABLISHED DENTAL PRACTICE for sale. Mature dental practice. Collections of $600,000. As listed on United Dental Brokers of America website: www.UDBA.biz. Call me for further info David Meislin 315-292-6876.

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

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ELDERLY CARE. HHA. 25 years experience. Excellent references. Live in or out.

Will run errands, doctors appointments, cook meals, etc. Call Dee @ 845-399-1816 or 845-399-7603.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

10 years experience. Live-in or hourly.

References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133

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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. Air-

ULSTER PUBLISHING POLICY It is illegal for anyone to: ...Advertise or make any statement that indicates a limitation or preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, handicap (disability), age, marital status or sexual orientation. Also, please be advised that language that indicates preference (i.e. “working professionals,” “single or couple,” “mature...professional,” etc.) is considered to be discriminatory. To avoid such violations of the Fair Housing Law, it is best to describe the apartment to be rented rather than the person(s) the advertiser would like to attract. This prohibition against discriminatory advertising applies to single family and owner-occupied housing that is otherwise exempt from the Fair Housing Act.

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Legal two-family in Mt. Marion. Clean and updated. Would be perfect mother / daughter with 2 bedroom apt. in front and smaller 2 bedroom apt. in rear of home. Both apartments have fresh paint and are clean and bright. Replacement windows throughout. Both sides have eat-in kitchens. New oil tank in rear of home. Front (larger unit) recently yielded $1100 per month, rear (smaller unit) currently yields $825 per month. Owner / front unit pays heat, hot water, & electric.

This is an excellent opportunity for ďŹ rst time buyer to live in front unit and rent out rear unit to help with mortgage. Home is in great shape and both apartments are very nice. .......................................................................................$144,000 Directions: from Saugerties Village: rte. 212W/Ulster Ave. To l on Old Kings Hwy, R on Glasco Tpke, L into Mount Marion Park, L on Plattekill.

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845-802-3954

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 845-6912770.

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REALTY600 (845) 229-1618 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.

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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.

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One ďŹ&#x201A;oor living! Immaculate and updated 2 bath / 2 bed condo in the commons. Built in 2006 this one -owner condo has been updated extensively. New: stainless appliances, under cabinet lighting, kitchen & bath back splash, bathroom vanities, high end laminate ďŹ&#x201A;ooring, lighting, farmhouse sink. Master bed with master bath & walk-in. Central air. Plenty of closets so storage is not an issue. Corian counters. Large open kitchen for the home cook. HOA fees are $180.00 / Month and include snow removal, lawn maintenance, trash removal & access to the clubhouse with an exercise room, club room for parties & large playground.

Located on the UCAT bus route and is convenient to everything the Saugerties / Kingston area offer. Lots of natural light. No maintenance!! Asking - $155,000 From Saugerties Village: Rte. 9Ws to left into Commons, condo on left, see signs #205.

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Super clean 2bed / 1bath end unit ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor condo in established Twin Maples. Wood burning ďŹ replace in living room with newer pergo ďŹ&#x201A;ooring. Open kitchen, living room, dining area make entertaining a breeze. New carpet in bedroom #2. French doors from living room lead to 15x8 deck and storage closet. Unit faces woods and is in rear area of complex. Master bedroom has large closet & vanity with sink. Stackable washer dryer off living room stowed in closet for easy laundry. No frills living in a convenient ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor condo close to Saugerties Village, Kingston, and Rhinecliff Bridge. ................................ Asking - $109,000 From Saugerties Village: Rte. 9Ws to right into Twin Maples, see signs #1 Rock Maple.

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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.

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Gardiner/ Modena/ Plattekill Rentals

525 sq.ft. 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.

845-883-0857.

MODENA: 1 PLUS BEDROOM. New floors, kitchen, fresh paint, bright. Convenient to SUNY, Gardiner, Bridge, Hannafordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 44/55 & 32. Month to month, no lease required. $1000/month includes heat & hot water. Sam Slotnick, Real Estate Sales Agent, Century 21 Alliance, 845-6566088. e-mail: samsk100@aol.com 900 sq.ft. 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT, second floor of converted barn. $775/ month excluding utilities. No smoking, no pets. 1 year lease, 1 month security. References. 845-883-0857.

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT #2; airy, spacious apartment. Large kitchen, many closets, private balcony, 2 entrances, serene surroundings. $950/month. BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM

845-246-9555 www.helsmoortel.com

PO BOX 88, RT 9W, BARCLAY HEIGHTS, SAUGERTIES

APARTMENT #3; airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month. Call (570)296-6185.

HIGHLAND: 1-BEDROOM. First floor.

Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking. Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. $875/month includes heat & hot water. 1 month security.

Available immediately. 845-453-0047.

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Milton/Marlboro Rentals

Marlboro; mountain views, COZY 1-BEDROOM Country cottage. No dogs. No Smokers. References. Trash pick-up. Individual or couple preferred. Heat included. $1015/ month. 845-795-5778, LM.

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SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2016 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-2557205.

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.

New Paltz; Rooms for Rent on Main Street.

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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BE. HERE. NOW. With almost 4 DECADES as a RESIDENTIAL SALES LEADER in Ulster County, Westwood Metes & Bounds has the experience-tested buying and selling strategies you need to reach your Real Estate goals. Our unparalleled commitment to service and integrity have long made us the go-to agency for savvy consumers. Working with a Westwood professional puts you on the inside track from day one. Put us on your team today!

What an opportunity to own a new sleek & stylish craftsman custom built home in this desirable Gardiner area of estate size homes. This home was sited on this lot to embrace, from every window, the sweeping views of the dancing sunrises & sunsets over the Minnewaska & Mohonk mountain range.

Features included in this home are 10” wide southern pine floors throughout 1st floor and 2nd floor hallway, custom painted wood kitchen cupboards, double oven, farm sink and granite countertops. The mud room entrance from garage is spacious w/laundry and porcelain tile floors plus access to an unfinished giant size studio above garage which is awaiting your decision on how to use it. Master suite offers porcelain bathroom, separate shower and soaking tub along with double sink vanity, and dressing room/walk-in closet. A Mahogany rear deck and front porch add to the list of quality features you get with this home! Ready for immediate occupancy!!! ....................$698,000

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COUNTRY COMFORT- Superbly private on 4 acres! Gracious country living in 2700 SF featuring desirable main level MBR suite + 3 BRs upstairs (one ensuite), 3.5 baths, living room with cozy stone fireplace, formal dining room, expansive 26’ cook’s country, eat-in kitchen w/ SS appliances, family/media room, hardwood & ceramic flooring, laundry, full basement & 2 car attached garage. Porch, deck, patio & pool invite warm weather relaxation!........................................ $449,000

NEW PALTZ GEM- Smartly designed 2 story on 2 lovely acres, has it all! Sunwashed, airy & open 2600 SF floor plan features 3 bedrooms including ensuite MBR, 3.5 baths, living room, dining room, inviting open plan kitchen with custom cabinetry, bonus room perfect for family/media space, home office or guests, some hardwood floors, finished walk-out lower level w/ full bath, 2 car attached garage plus terrace with hot tub hookup. ...................................$339,900

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.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

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MID-CENTURY CHARM- Circa 1958 ranch style home in a fine Kingston location with year-round mountain views! Classic floor plan accented by beamed ceilings, built-ins and hardwood floors. Features 21’ LR with cozy brick fireplace, formal DR, expansive eat-in kitchen w/ solarium breakfast room, ensuite MBR + 3 add’l BRs, 3.5 baths, den/home office plus lower level family/media space with add’l fireplace. 2 car garage, too! ............... $299,900

COUNTRY SPLIT- Perfect immaculate split level on 2 private park-like acres with organic fruit & nut orchards and serene vistas. Offering 2900+ SF and featuring gleaming hardwood floors, living & dining rooms, 3 generous bedrooms include ensuite MBR, 2.5 baths, spacious EI kitchen, immense 35’ family/media room w/ polished concrete floor & French doors to rear yard. Separate 3 car garage offers studio/workshop potential. ................ $279,000

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“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

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 immediately; lease length negotiable. Text/call 845-430-2077.

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.

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

1-BEDROOM, Kingston Uptown. On bus route, walk to Stockade area, shopping, conveniences. No smoking or pets. Heat & hot water provided. Call 845-338-4574.

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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. Pri-

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vate phone, internet. Piano, cats. $500$625 includes all. Work exchange for very handyperson. Cat considered. homestayny@msn.com 845-679-2564.

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CREEKSIDE STUDIO APARTMENT. $500/month plus utilities. Walking distance to center of Woodstock & bus route. No pets. Call or text (is preferred) (845)594-9257, leave message w/phone number.

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: Leg curl & leg extension w/weight stack, Smith Machine, Hip Sled, Universal adductor/abductor machine. Please call George at (845)255-8352.

MODERN STUDIO & 1-BR. apartments.

Skylights, separate kitchens, private decks, hard-wood floors, country setting, Wittenberg, near State Park. Free internet. Quiet, views, tennis courts, seasonal laundry. $700-750/month plus utilities. 914-7251461.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs- 2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

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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Shokan: Studio Apt., $550/month, 400 sq.ft.; Also, Small one bedroom: $700/ Month, 450 sq.ft., One bedroom; $800/ month, 600 sq.ft., One bedroom w/extra room; $900/month, 750 sq.ft. and Large two bedroom Apt., $1200/month, 1200 sq.ft. 7 miles west of Woodstock, peaceful, calm, quiet, country setting. Please, No smokers or pets, utilities not included.

Walk to Ashokan Reservoir, 1-year lease, two months security, pictures on craigslist. org search Shokan. Call 845-481-0521.

MODERN STUDIO & 1-BR. apartments.

Skylights, separate kitchens, private decks, hard-wood floors, country setting, Wittenberg, near State Park. Free internet. Quiet, views, tennis courts, seasonal laundry. $700-750/month plus utilities. 914-7251461.

545

Senior Housing

603

Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, CELL.: 845-399-9659 NEW YORK

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Firewood for Sale

READY NOW!

845-688-2024

560

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

$$ BUYING $$

MOVIE MEMORABILIA – 1930’S-PRESENT COMIC BOOKS – 1930’S-PRESENT ROCK & ROLL ITEMS • AUTOGRAPHED ITEMS

CALL JOSEPH: 917-640-3199 MOVIEICONS@AOL.COM

640

Musical Instruction & Instruments

Fingerstyle Guitar for solo performer.

Taught at NYC’s Mannes College of Music & Guitar Study Center. Break out of “Pattern Playing”, create instrumental breaks, improvise accompaniments. Susan Hoover, 845-679-7887.

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Auctions

2450 RTE 145 EAST DURHAM, NY

518-634-2300

CELL 518-653-9152

AUCTION

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 22ND • 10:00 AM WWW.MOONEYS.NET CHECK US OUT ON AUCTION ZIP

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

Al Cardamone, Appraiser & Auctioneer ~ Since 1978

Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

Carlsen Gallery

914-388-9607

Auctioneers & Appraisers

Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

1 brm. apt. for senior 62 or older or handicapped/disabled Bright & clean Rent slides to income

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

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Buy & Swap

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)2460214.

PRESENTS

OUR EARLY MARCH ANTIQUE AUCTION Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 10:30am

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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

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Estate/Moving Sale

MOVING SALE: Living room set, 3 coffee tables, lots of household items, girl’s clothing- all good quality; newborn-10/12, women’s clothing- sizes 8-12, custom ordered light fixtures, Onkyo & Harmon Kardon stereo receiver, more. 3/5 & 3/6, 12-5 p.m. 483 Manorville Road, Saugerties.

PREVIEWS:

Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 12 to 5pm Sunday: 8am until sale Call: (518) 634-2466 • FAX (518) 634-2467 E-Mail: info@carlsengallery.com

9931 Rt. 32, Freehold, NY • www.carlsengallery.com

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Antiques & Collectibles

WANTED TOP DOLLARS PAID. We buy entire estates or single items. Actively seeking gold and silver of any kind, sterling, flatware and jewelry. Furniture, antiques through mid-century. We gladly do house calls, free appraisals. We also do Estate/Tag Sales, 35 years experience. One call does it all. Call or text anytime 24/7- 617-981-1580.

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Counseling Services

LAURIE OLIVER.... SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness. Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance. Spirit communicator. Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

Made you look.

Our newspapers and websites reach over 50,000 readers a week. Go to 845-334-8200 or ulsterpublishing.com to advertise.

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Real Estate

MOUNTAINTOP ESTATE 180 PRIME ACRES AND UPSCALE HOME

HUDSON VALLEY

&CATSKILLS COUNTRY

Convenient Prime Location • Scenic Western Catskills • Ski Hunter, Windham, Belleayre • Hudson/Albany/Cooperstown -1hr • Low Tax Gilboa/Schoharie/Stamford

properties Put Yourself In The Best Hands

Space To Spread Out | Kingston | $140,000 Such a great opportunity! 6BR/2BA home with a private fenced in backyard, & plenty of storage space. There is a nice large stove with a griddle.

Sit outside on your deck or underneath the ŐƌĂƉĞǀŝŶĞ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ĞŶĚůĞƐƐ ƉŽƐƐŝďŝůŝƟĞƐ ŝŶ ƚŚŝƐ home. So close and convenient to shopping and restaurants.

Lakefront Beauty | Highland | $329,000 DŝŶƚ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶ ŚŽŵĞ ǁͬŽƉĞŶ ŇŽŽƌ ƉůĂŶ ŽŶ ŵĂŝŶ ůĞǀĞů͘ ŽǀĞƌĞĚ ĨƌŽŶƚ ƉŽƌĐŚ Θ Ϯ ƌĞĂƌ ĚĞĐŬƐ͘ EĞǁ kitchen counters, stainless steel appliances, central Ăŝƌ Θ ϭϬ Ō͘ ĐĞŝůŝŶŐƐ ŝŶ ǁĂůŬŽƵƚ ďĂƐĞŵĞŶƚ͊ >Ő ŵĂƐƚĞƌ ďĞĚƌŽŽŵ ǁͬůĂƌŐĞ ǁĂůŬ ŝŶ ƐŚŽǁĞƌ Θ ƐŝƫŶŐ ĂƌĞĂ͘ ϮŶĚ ŇŽŽƌ ŽĸĐĞ Žƌ ϰƚŚ ďĞĚƌŽŽŵ͘ ^ŽůĂƌ ƉĂŶĞůƐ ǁͬ Zϰϵ ŝŶƐƵůĂƟŽŶ ŝŶ ĂƫĐ͘

Idyllic Farm House | Kerhonkson | $599,000 Well built 3BR/2.5BA home features: wide ƉůĂŶŬ ŇŽŽƌƐ͕ ĐƌŽǁŶ ŵŽůĚŝŶŐ͕ ĐĞŶƚƌĂů ͬ Θ ^ͬ^ ĂƉƉůŝĂŶĐĞƐ͘ ĂƐLJ ŇŽǁ ĨƌŽŵ ƚŚĞ ƐƉĂĐŝŽƵƐ >Z ǁͬ ĮƌĞƉůĂĐĞ Θ ĨƌĞŶĐŚ ĚŽŽƌƐ͕ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ďƌŝŐŚƚ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ Θ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ĂƌĞĂ͘ ŽǀĞƌĞĚ ƉŽƌĐŚ Θ ďůƵĞƐƚŽŶĞ ƉĂƟŽ͘ dŚĞ ϮŶĚ ůĞǀĞů ŽīĞƌƐ ŵĂƐƚĞƌ Z ǁͬĨƵůů ďĂƚŚ Θ Ϯ ĂĚĚŝƟŽŶĂů ZƐ Θ ĨƵůů ďĂƚŚ͘

Good Investment | Windham | $285,000 tĞĞŬĞŶĚ ǀĂĐĂƟŽŶ ŚŽƵƐĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ 'ƌĞĂƚ EŽƌƚŚĞƌŶ ĂƚƐŬŝůůƐ͕ ũƵƐƚ Ă ϱͲŵŝŶ͘ ĚƌŝǀĞ ƚŽ ,ƵŶƚĞƌ ĂŶĚ Windham Resorts. Enjoy skiing, riding, hiking, mountain bike trails or the outdoor summer ĐŽŶĐĞƌƚƐ͘ KƉĞŶ ŇŽŽƌ ƉůĂŶ ŚŝŐŚůŝŐŚƚƐ ĂƌĞ ƚŚĞ ďĂƌ ƌŽŽŵ ǁŝƚŚ ƉƌŽĨ͘ ƉŽŽů ƚĂďůĞ͕ ƐŚƵŋĞ ďŽĂƌĚ Θ indoor hot tub. Priced for quick sale.

Beyond Compare | Rare Compound | Shokan | $1,450,000 This elegant home has been in the same family ĨŽƌ ϯ ŐĞŶĞƌĂƟŽŶƐ͘ EĞƐƚůĞĚ ĂŵŽŶŐ ďŝƌĐŚ ƚƌĞĞƐ ǁͬ broad views of the Ashokan Reservoir from both the main house & guest apartment. With 129 ĂĐƌĞƐ ŝŶ DŽƚŚĞƌ͛Ɛ EĂƚƵƌĞ͛Ɛ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ ƐĞƫŶŐ͕ LJŽƵ will enjoy a pond & many ancient stone walls criss-crossing your property.

Private Oasis | Woodstock | $550,000 WĞĂĐĞĨƵů ϭϴ ĂĐƌĞƐ ŽĨ ďĞĂƵƟĨƵů ĨŽƌĞƐƚĞĚ ůĂŶĚ ǁŝƚŚ its own fresh water quarry pond & gorgeous waterfall just steps from the house & deck. Any night of the year one can turn up the heat in the ǁŽŽĚͲĮƌĞĚ ƐĂƵŶĂ Žƌ ƚĂŬĞ Ă ĚŝƉ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŚŽƚ ƚƵď͘ ůƐŽ͕ has a custom built chapel-like studio w/endless ƉŽƐƐŝďŝůŝƟĞƐ Θ ŝƚƐ ŽǁŶ ǁĞůů͊

Dream Home with Luxury Amenities • Custom Designer Built 2000 • Open Floor Plan – Approx 4000 sq ft • 4BR/Loft/4.5 bath 1st Floor Master suite • Walkout Fully Windowed Lower Level • Sauna, Wine Cellar, Wetbar, Steam Shower • Equipped Cabin, Barn, Pond, Trails • Mountain/Valley Views From Every Room

See Website: www.catskillsresorthome.com Contact: (518) 947-4400 Email: mountaintophome@aol.com — Accepting offers —

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Professional Services

MARK’S HOME & YARD MAINTENANCE SERVICES. Total clean-out w/ dump runs, Attics, Basements & Yards. Expert lawn care, trees pruned/trimmed. Get a head start... call NOW for free estimates.

(845)338-6806.

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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)706-5133.

702

Art Services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol (845)687-7813.

Stop Guessing - Call Us To Learn What Your Home Is Worth

VILLAGE GREEN REALTY

#1 In Ulster County Sales* www.villagegreenrealty.com kingston new paltz stone ridge windham woodstock

845-331-5357 845-255-0615 845-687-4355 518-734-4200 845-679-2255

Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. *According to Ulster ŽƵŶƚLJ D>^ ^ƚĂƟ ƐƟ ĐƐ ϮϬϭϭͲϮϬϭϰ͘

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

Call (845)706-1713 or (845) 679-8932

717

to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577. Senior Discount. References. Free Estimates.

NYS DOT T-12467

Incorporated 1985

Caretaking/Home Management • Residential / Commercial • Moving • Delivery • Trucking • Local & NYC Metro Areas

Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253

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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.

715

Cleaning Services

Hudson Valley Small Office Cleaning. Experienced cleaner. Excellent references.

Brings own non-toxic products. Safe for all enviornments. Doctors, dentists, therapists, realtors, yoga studios, etc. 845-768-2450 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.

QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980 • Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates

720

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

Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

HABE HABERWASH PRESSURE WASHING PRE & EXTERIOR PAINTING & STAINING. Residential and Commercial Residentia Specializing in decks, fences, roofs, driveways, patios.

FREE ESTIMATES, FULLY INSURED Accepting All Major Credit Cards

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966, 845-249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com 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 HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-9832.

725

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

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Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

• Standby Generators

• Service Upgrades

24 Months to Pay, 0% Interest (if qualified)

• Roof De-icing Systems

• Warm Floor Tiles

Authorized Dealer & Installer Low-Rate Financing Available

6444 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck, NY 12572

H Z Emergency Generators U \ LICENSED 331-4227 INSURED

845.876.7074

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Building Services

SALES 8 am - 8 pm Monday - Friday • 8 am - 5 pm Saturday

HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates. References available. (845)616-7470.

HNI Builders Professional Craftsmanship for all phases of construction

845.331.4844 HniBuilders.com Hugh@HniBuilders.com

Interiors & Remodeling Inc s ’ d e .

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From Walls to Floors, Ceilings to Doors, Decks, Siding & More.

Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

845-688-7951

In the Hudson Valley since 1935!

2015 The Best Selling All Wheel Drive Forester Cars in America WE ARE YOUR COMMUNITY UNITY ER!!

MINDED SUBARU DEALER! • MANY CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED CARS TO CHOOSE FROM • PLUS OVER 50 BRAND NEW SUBARUS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!

W W W . R U G E S S U B A R U . C O M

www.tedsinteriors.com Excavation Site work Drain ¿elds Land clearing Septic systems Demolition Driveways

Landscaping Lawn installation Ponds Retaining walls Stone work ...and much more

AA Statuary & Weathervane Co. Liquidation Sale

Paramount Contracting & Development Corp.

GIVE THE GIFT OF WELLNESS Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis.

Smoking cessation • pain management stress relief • past life regressions.

Intuitive, Sensitive Guidance Spirit Communicator

(845) 679-2243 • laur50@aol.com

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

Plaster and concrete saints, angels, bronzes, weathervanes, cupolas, more

SNOW PLOWING & SANDING Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

redrockgardencenter.com 845-569-1117

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.

Get Ready for Spring! Local, rustic, & rot-resistant RED CEDAR fence posts, poles, branches, landscape timber, bench slabs & other rustic building materials. Purchase now, save 25-50%.

Call Cedarman 914-263-2210.

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

JANE STABILE

845-338-8320 janefstabile@yahoo.com

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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)331-5377.

OHHH HANDYMAN! A Professional Service You Can Trust. Specializing in your project. A subdivision of Winecoff Quality Contracting, Inc. Other professional services available. Spring Dump Run Special. 845-389-2549.

• • • • •

Laurie Oliver — Spiritual Counseling

890

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

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. (Never known to fail.) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3x). Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank-you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank-you for your mercy towards me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

Spring is just around the corner and the UCSPCA have plenty of pets seeking their forever homes. This week’s Pet of the Week; Cole; a 2-3 year old Mastiff mix who’s all gray w/white chest.

He’s good w/other dogs & older kids. Arianna; purebred Rottweiler, would love to meet you & your family; she birthed a litter of 6 pups who’ve all been adopted. She’s very sweet & gets along w/ other dogs & older children. Come meet Lester; 1-2 year old blue nose Pit mix who’s good w/dogs & older kids. The KITTY residents at our shelter all need to get homes for the better weather also! Zwaar; our newest lobby cat, a big friendly guy who loves to curl up in a pile of laundry or a quiet corner. Peeps; orange 1.5 year old female who’s very shy & would require a home w/a lot of patience. Marvin; black kitty w/beautiful yellow eyes who’d love to meet you. Don’t forget all of our BUNNIES, GUINEA PIGS & even our HORSE Scout, who would all love to give you a chance to see if they could be your new roommate. Come CHECK THEM ALL OUT TODAY at the UCSPCA, 20 Wiedy Rd., Kingston, off Sawkill Road. www.UCSPCA.org.

Spirituality

FOR SPECIAL BLESSINGS AND HELP from St. Jude, “patron saint of the hopeless”, say the following petition 9 times in a row for 9 days. It does not fail.

You need to publish this prayer when you receive your blessings: May the sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world, now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us; Saint Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us; Saint Jude, help of the hopeless, please pray for us.

FOR ADOPTION: THE SWEETEST ORANGE CAT FAMILY: Elsa, one of the best mama cats, & her 4 kittens (born 10/31/15) are ready for their forever loving homes. Elsa has 3 girls and 1 boy. Mary & Kim have long hair. Elsa, Athena & Tiny (the boy) have short hair. All are up to date w/shots & are litter pan trained. Elsa has been spayed. At less than a year old, Elsa is just a kitten herself. This family is as sweet & friendly as they are beautiful. If you’d like to

know more about Elsa & her kittens, please call or text (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

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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)687-4983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat.org 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 e-mail: DRJLPK@aol.com

255-8281

633-0306

pet’s reward..... VETERINARY HOUSE CALLS. Dr. B. MacMULLEN. (845)339-2516. 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. Call 246-0214.

DMV 7107350.

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Kingston Nissan’s

3rd Annual March Madness!!!

Buy any new or used vehicle for the month of March only and win a chance to receive up to $1,500 towards your payments!

2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2014 NISSAN SENTRA S 2014 NISSAN MURANO S

2.5 S SPORT A/T AC AM/FM/CD PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS PWR SEAT BLUETOOTH BACK UP CAMERA CRUISE. 11k. Stock # 23562C. List Price: $20,796

SL 4DRS A/T AC AM/FM/CD/XM PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS MOON ROOF NAVIGATION HTD/LTH/ SEAT BLUETOOTH BACK UP CAMERA CRUISE. 23k Stock # 23761C. List Price: $24,670 Sale Price:

$21,950

Sale Price:

$15,995

AWD A/T AC AM/FM/CD PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS CRUISE. 35k. Stock # 23939C. List Price: $22,595

D IE IF RT CE

$18,975

4DRS A/T AC AM/FM/CD PWR PKG ABS POWER STEERING POWER BRAKES!!! 15k. Stock # 23904C List Price: $17,059 D IE IF RT CE

Sale Price:

D IE IF RT CE

D IE IF RT CE

2014 NISSAN ALTIMA

2014 NISSAN CUBE SL 2014 NISSAN ROGUE SV 2013 NISSAN ROGUE SL

4DRS A/T AC AM/FM/CD/XM PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS NAVIGATION BACKUP CAMERA BLUETOOTH CRUISE. 11k. Stock # 24257C. List Price: $19,352

$17,225

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Sale Price:

AWD A/T AC AM/FM/CD PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS MOON ROOF BACK UP CAMERA BLUETOOTH CRUISE. 14k. Stock # 24429C. List Price: $26,995 Sale Price:

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AWD A/T AC AM/FM/CD/XM/ROCKFORD FOSGATE PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS MOON ROOF HTD/LTH SEATS BLUETOOTH BACK UP CAMERA CRUISE. 47k.

Stock # 24385C. List Price: $19,552

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$22,375

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2012 NISSAN VERSA S

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AWD A/T AC AM/FM/CD/BOSE PWR PKG ABS ALLOYS MOON ROOF HTD/LTH/PWR SEAT BLUETOOTH CRUISE. 65k. Stock # 24387C. List Price: $21,552

$21,910

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$21,495

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