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THE MID-HUDSON MISFITS take on Seven Valley Rollers this Saturday at Skate Time 209 in Accord

The bumpin’ grind The inside track on our local women's roller derby league

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here’s no ‘sorry’ in derby,” explains Rackelle Roden, a recent recruit to the Mid-Hudson Misfits roller derby team.

Coming from a non-sports background and having worked in professions like classical concert promotion and energy healing, it was hard for her when first joining the team (and still is, to some extent) purposely to bump into the other women on the track and not instinctively say, “Sorry!” or move aside when the goal is to move in. “There’s no moving aside in derby, either,” her new teammates told her.

That permission to be assertive has opened up an entirely new world for Roden, who credits roller derby with allowing her to be more comfortable “taking up space” in the world and being more present in the moment. (That seems to be a problem for many women, socialized to apologize their way through life.) The physical workout in roller derby has also made Roden in better shape at age 52 than she was before taking up the sport, despite being a lifelong dancer and yoga practitioner. The skating has done things for her body, she says, loosening up a hip and freeing up her shoulder, that all that yoga work and even a summer of flamenco dancing never did.

Beyond the mental and physical breakthroughs, however, roller derby is just plain fun, she says. The fast, constant motion is exhilarating, and there’s a sense of accomplishment in learning new skills.

“I’ve learned something from every one of these women. It’s not one teacher telling you what to do; everybody has an interest in everybody getting better.”

The women on the Mid-Hudson Misfits are a close-knit group, with the camaraderie that they share a big part of being in the roller derby community. And they take that caring for each other out into the greater world, too, donating some of the ticket proceeds from their matches and doing fundraising activities to benefit nonprofits that include the Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity.

The Mid-Hudson Misfits will have the home advantage when they take on their first bout of the 2016 season against Cortlandt’s Seven Valley Rollers on Saturday, April 2 at Skate Time 209 in Accord. The doors open at 4 p.m. and the match begins at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance or $12 at the door, with a portion of the proceeds going to the regional branch of Special Olympics.

Cold beer and cider will be available for purchase. The next home game after this one will take place on May 7.

The Misfits formed as a team in 2012.

New players age 18 or older are always welcome, with hopes to expand the group into multiple teams and eventually a junior division for ages 12 to 18 (maybe even 8-to-12-year-olds at some point).

Referees and other volunteers are also needed. Men may join in on mixers; the team has a couple of guys who regularly practice with its members. Anyone

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Anyone considering roller derby can come to the regular weekly practices held at Skate Time 209 in Accord on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m. The monthly fee to join is $40.

wishing to check out derby with the idea of joining can come to the regular weekly practices held at Skate Time 209 in Accord on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m. The monthly fee to join is $40.

New skaters have to pass a minimum skills test before they can compete in a bout, but practices give everyone the chance to participate and work up to the point where they’re ready to compete. And newbies (“fresh meat,” as they’re called) are given a lot of help from the more experienced in learning the skills. Having just joined the team herself four months ago, Roden is still working on getting up to speed.

As for the potential for injuries, “You are on skates and you’re moving very fast, and crashing into people to get them to move or to stop moving,” she says. “And I fall all the time. But you know what? I get up.” Like the other women, Roden wears a helmet and kneepads while skating, and says that she adds snowboarding pads over her hips, rear end and legs at practice.

Some of the women wear protective hockey mouthguards and face gear. But the skating itself is low-impact on one’s joints, she points out, and the body feels weightless while skating in much the same way that it does swimming. A lot of calories are burned, and it’s aerobic exercise.

“Derby is actually really empowering for women,” Roden maintains. “It’s not like in dance, where it’s all about perfect alignment and having the perfect body type. Any body type can get up to speed on skates, whether you’re small or heavier,

and breast size is irrelevant in this sport.

And hips are useful!”

Roden polled her teammates by e-mail to get their perspectives on the sport before we spoke. The comments made by the Misfits were entertaining to read: often funny, and sometimes even moving. Their answers to the questions posed revealed recurring themes in each woman’s experience with derby, even though their occupations are diverse, their prior sports experience ranges from none at all to collegiate rowing and motocross racing and they range in age from their 20s through their 50s (and if there’s a woman out there in her 60s who wants to play, “Come on out,” says Roden). As they say of themselves, the women are “anything but cookie-cutter and proud of it.”

The Mid-Hudson Misfits live throughout the mid-Hudson region, from Olive, Catskill, Saugerties and Germantown to Rosendale, New Paltz, Kingston and Woodstock – even as far south as New Windsor. Their occupations include social work, nursing, retail management and occupational therapy.

There are several teachers, a psychologist, a structural engineer, an on-air news and traffic reporter, a mathematician, a homeschooling Mom, a spa attendant, a horse trainer and the vice president and community liaison for UFCW Local 888.

Why did they join? For some, it was about coping with life changes: Marriages were ending, kids were going off to college or being the caretaker of elderly parents was taking its toll. For others, it was the physical challenge, the exercise –

especially exercise that wasn’t at a gym – or rediscovering a childhood love of skating. One woman said that in her maledominated profession, it’s hard to meet other women to befriend, and another said that she liked crafting an alternate persona (all the women create a derby name for themselves). “I was promised cookies,” joked another.

Many of the women cited the hardest thing about derby being the time commitment to it: getting to those three practices a week in Accord and juggling that with work and personal life. But having said that, “It’s totally worth it,” said one, and “The hardest thing now would be giving it up,” said another. “Hitting the wall” in terms of endurance was mentioned, as were a few regrets about getting injured and having to watch from the sidelines (and even that was “worth every ice pack.”) Those new to skating said that just learning to skate at first was a challenge: learning a toe-stop, remembering the sequence of the drills.

But any down side is outweighed by the benefits: friendship, sisterhood, community involvement, increased confidence and a better, stronger body.

In addition to “lots of co-pays,” said Misfits team member Sarah Winden (also known as Ophelia Knockers), derby has given her “a new view of myself as an athlete.”

LeeAnne Richards (Wreck-It Raccoon) noted that for anybody self-conscious about body issues, “derby will hip-check those feelings back into the last century.”

Several women said that they appreciate having a group of teammates to whom they can feel committed. “The women of this team are incredible on and off the track,” said Vanessa (Sassy Ka-Boom).

“I’m lucky to know them and have them as an awesome support system.” Roller derby, she added, “gave me my life back.

Stress can be a real killer, and derby is a lifesaver.”

Dominique Waldron (Piña Killada) said that she loves that the sport challenges her and pushes her beyond her comfort zone.

“I also love that derby is so body-positive.

It doesn’t matter that by normal standards I’m petite; derby has taught me to love my body and utilize my speed.”

As for how derby compares with other sports, Kathy Venable (Square Broot) said that it’s different “because it’s all happening behind you, rather than a traditional face-forward sport, and it’s happening very quickly. Your first few bouts, it’s exciting just to skate and stay on the track if you can; eventually you can add in more skills and strategy.”

Ellen Sweet (Rusty Foxidation) said that without a head coach on the sidelines in charge of it all, “it feels like there is more accountability for everyone on the team, and a lot more pride for everything we’ve accomplished.”

The shared activities and community work that the team does was brought up by many of the women. “What I love about the team is: Not only do we play roller derby together, but we also share other activities like motorcycle riding, rafting, hiking, holidays, volunteering and helping communities in need,” said Teresa Gallagher (Brooklyn BruiseHer). Amberly Jane Campbell (Jane Bondage) said, “It’s like being part of a really cool gang that just wants to help the community and spread derby love. Derby makes me feel like a superhero!”

– Sharyn Flanagan Mid-Hudson Misfits vs. Cortlandt Seven Valley Rollers, Saturday, April 2, 5 p.m., $10-$12, Skate Time 209, 5164 Route 209, Accord; (845) 626-7971, www.skatetime209.com, www.midhudsonmisfits. com, www.facebook.com/midhudsonmisfits, www.brownpapertickets.com.

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ART Have no downtime, just work Painting is an ongoing problem-solving project for Kingston artist Kevin Paulsen

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or the past 17 years, Kevin Paulsen has been living and painting in two sprawling lofts on the second and third floors of a former department store on Kingston’s Wall Street. He is that rare creator who is equally devoted to his art and his business: producing murals and decorative interior design work. Before moving to Kingston, Paulsen spent 20 years in Nantucket, where he established a relationship with several galleries and prestigious venues such as David Findlay and Bergdorf Goodman.

By mysterious osmosis, Paulsen absorbed the primitive folk art of New England, which was contemporaneous with Nantucket’s early-19 th-century whaling culture. His spare, muted

Artist Kevin M. Paulsen with Surrender (The last viewing platform)

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To find my own voice, I had to unlearn what I thought art was about. paintings of willowy, frondlike trees, humpbacked hills and simply drawn ships floating on peaceful harbors and seas, his distant towers and rhythmic rows of military tents, his cavorting birds and silhouetted, archetypal folk figures, with their top hats and frock coats, channel not just the vocabulary of America’s early19th-century itinerant painters, but also, more importantly, their inventiveness.

Much of the appeal of Paulsen’s work lies in the play of his pale, delicate tones.

The subtlety of his compositions, his use of geometry and the pure invention of his figures and structures – which, in their translucency and odd juxtaposition, verge on the surreal – also echo the art of Giotto, Claude Lorrain, Klee, Picasso, Miró and late Kandinsky. A selection of Paulsen’s murals and other works is currently on display at Exit Nineteen, located at 309 Wall Street in Uptown Kingston.

When Almanac Weekly's Lynn Woods recently visited Paulsen in his studio, three commissioned mural paintings were draped along one wall of his studio, an unheated expanse with a view of the Catskill Mountains. Arranged on the floor were dozens of small collages consisting of arrangements of pairs of black cutout figures – fanciful, playful silhouettes recalling the shadow plays of fin-de-siècle Paris – spray painted in red and bluegreen.

Farther down the wall hung a strip of handpainted wallpaper that his assistant, Amelia Leon, was working on. Other samples, part of a new line of wallpapers that he’s developing for Nantucket House Interior Design, were rolled up on tables amid stacks of drawings. A large painting of strange-looking, aerodynamic fruit, created entirely with a roller, was visible from the mass of paintings leaning against the wall, as was a primitivelooking mural of trees, which appeared

Paulsen's The Re-Seeding

to have been ripped from a plaster wall; on closer inspection, it turned out to be a painted image on plaster mounted on a piece of foam.

The second-floor living loft, which contains a kitchen space, a round table and chairs, a bed, several couches and a curtained shower stall, retains the sense of a live/work space, with drawings piled up on tables; studio assistant Kaitlyn Doris was cataloguing them for Paulsen's current show at the Rockland Center for the Arts. On one long wall hung his art collection (Paulsen briefly ran a gallery across the street and helped found the O+ Festival), including the large Stack of Cakes, a painting by neighbor and friend Joe Concra; three fluorescent-

hued abstract word paintings by John Philip Abbot; a flea-market find of a moonlit landscape; framed doodles from a schoolboy dating from the 1860s; a black painting portraying a deer with a sagging body; and a collage by Paulsen, titled Never Poke a Microbe, in which a top-hatted gent gingerly extends his cane to a giant amoeba form floating within a curtained stage: an image that conflates high school science, vaudeville and science fiction.

Lynn Woods: Where did you grow up, and how did you launch your career?

Kevin Paulsen: I grew up in a suburb of Kansas City, where my Dad had his own company buying and selling metal

from the mills. I went to the Kansas City Art Institute and at age 18 went to Chicago, where I got married. I worked in showrooms in Chicago and built thematic stage sets for upscale retail spaces, learning how to use materials in unorthodox ways.

Through the connections of my then-wife, in 1983 we moved to Nantucket for a summer and ended up staying. [Paulsen has two grown sons, one of whom is the artist Geddes Jones-Paulsen, who helped create the red goat glyph that has come to symbolize the spirit of Uptown Kingston.]

Nantucket is now a place for the very rich.

What was it like back then?

There were still fishing boats. It was more oriented toward summer people and

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then I plaster on top, then paint on that.

I had just been to New Hampshire when one day I saw a big chunk of plaster lying by the side of the road. It turned out it was a piece of foam, and that’s where I got the idea to apply glue onto foam and then break the foam randomly, to get what looked like pieces of wall. That’s how I started.

Figuring out these materials seems integral to your artmaking process.

[When I was doing showrooms and restoration work,] we’d be asked by designers to build something impossible, which forced us to find ways to use unorthodox materials in a new way. How you solve visual and craft problems: That’s what I didn’t abandon from art school. I think about ideas more than the academic side. Painting is an ongoing problemsolving project.

Mural by Paulsen installed in a private residence in New York City

old money. Starting in the early 1980s, it became more like the Hamptons. I was there when the first million-dollar house sold.

How did you make a living?

I started out as a housepainter, then had a restoration business, which I combined with decorative painting. From about 1995, I started doing murals and paintings. I had a business relationship with a good friend named David Wiggins who had been a second-generation antique dealer in New Hampshire.

We bought and sold old wood and did collaborative paintings. We learned as we went: We had carpenters and other artisan painters, and we’d buy old lumber for the restorations. We’d dismantle an old floor, have people fit it to the new space and wax it. That would lead to a mural or painted landscape overmantle or fireboard.

I bought a house, subdivided it and built a studio. As my career changed, I thought, “This is crazy; I could rent them and take the money and have much a bigger space.” I put my money down for a space in Hudson, but then – that same day in 1998 – I got off Exit 19 to get gas, discovered the building on Wall Street and called a realtor to rent it. I moved up here in 1998, full-time in 2000, and got rid of my property in Nantucket in 2006.

How did you develop the distinctive folk style of your murals and paintings?

I was always fascinated by European murals, especially the frescos of Giotto.

While in Nantucket I was exposed to vernacular New England work. Before

the advent of the Internet and eBay, you could still go around and find beautiful examples of folk murals in Maine and New Hampshire. Many were in private homes, and though a lot of them were never documented, David knew where they were. They were painted on the walls with sand-mixed paints and also had stenciling.

Your work doesn’t copy the vernacular language of primitive folk art so much as inhabit that style.

The reason I’m successful is that I’m using those ideas and philosophies. With a lot of contemporary folk art paintings, the artist is copying without understanding the vernacular itself. That philosophy has a lot to do with the outcome. Rufus Porter, for example, took a conceptual approach to decorating. It was very abstract. He was talking like an Abstract Expressionist.

Who was Rufus Porter?

He was an inventor and itinerant painter from Maine, active from 1820 to 1845, who’d paint for room and board.

His nephew worked for him. He also taught a class in sandpaper drawings for schoolgirls in small towns. They’d all work from the same etching of a landscape and copy it the best they could. Those drawings were made with marble dust and chalk on paper painted black, which was then scratched through.

As merchants in the big cities became more prosperous and decorated their houses with flocked paper and imported wallpapers, the rural artists would try to imitate this with stencils in a crude

manner. Porter was self-taught. Another New England itinerant artist was John Avery, who worked only in black and green, for a most bizarre effect.

How did painting in this style relate to what you had learned in art school?

I had to unlearn a lot of stuff. The earliest mural I painted was a combination of Thomas Hart Benton and Walt Disney; it was in a hyper-real style that was very surreal. In decorating a wall, you’re creating an atmosphere. It’s not as literal as it might seem at face value.

How do you paint the murals?

I start them with no idea of what I’m going to paint. I dump paint on the surface and roll it around and scratch into it. I see how it’s balancing, then I scrub them down. Some fail. I try to paint like I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, so I don’t get hung up. To find my own voice, I had to unlearn what I thought art was about. I had to make art for real, just not be an artist. Dave Hickey, a scholar and art critic who is very cynical and dark, said you have to uneducate yourself: have no downtime; just work.

I work in series: seven, eight or ten paintings at a time. I work very rapidly and look at them a lot. I don’t get too bogged down with the end result while working.

What are your materials?

I work in powered pigments and acrylic on dry plaster surface. I tint the plaster, then work the wet paint in to dry. I apply glue adhesive onto velvet, cotton or linen,

The paint-and-paper collages with the partially spray-painted cutout figures are a real departure from your earlier work.

Some are drawn rather quickly; then I repeat the figures and play with compositions in varying combinations.

Seven years ago I was in a group show in California with young artists, which was fun and introduced me to graffiti: another American vernacular artform. It’s selftaught and democratic. I related to these other artists, and that’s how the spraypaint element grew in my own work.

Words sometimes dictate the grouping of things, more than the images – such as The Cuckold and the Arsonist, which inspired the series of drawings, paintings and paper collages of the same title. They also came out of the silhouettes in my vernacular narrative paintings. Silhouettes are born out of decorative art; stenciling is a universal way to represent a figure without slaving over it. They are symbolic of all humanity, archetypes representing the human condition: lovers, or people walking through a village. These are more mythological, including minotaurs and satyrs.

That classical mythological element reminds me of Picasso’s drawings of the minotaur and the model.

I really liked the drawings in the second room at the recent exhibition of Picasso’s sculpture at MoMA. Picasso’s Vollard suite of prints was also incredible. He was a sculptor who painted with the most economical means.

Picasso and Matisse are like folk artists in that they found their own thing. They learned how to draw like themselves.

There’s a line running through any incredible art that has nothing to do with training. I’m aware of art history, but anyone worth shit as an artist is ultimately a self-taught artist. And to be good, you have to be making lots of art, working all of the time – allowing the brush to do its work.

Much of your work looks naïve, but the compositions are masterful.

It’s about juxtaposing things, such

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isitors to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art of the Needle 2016â&#x20AC;? exhibit on view at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie this weekend will see more than 200 examples of needlework created by members of the Hyde Park-based Skyllkill Chapter of the Embroiderersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guild of America. Traditional cross-stitch designs and pictorial works with painterly effects achieved through shaded threadwork will share the walls with examples of needle art less familiar to the uninitiated.

Look for intricate thread-woven Japanese Temari balls made by guild member Ginny Thompson, a Temari master, and works demonstrating the 1,600-year-old art of Japanese embroidery by Deb Bowers, a guild member who is also a certified teacher of that highly specific way of stitching that depicts the forms of nature with a particular sensitivity and insists upon technical excellence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art of the Needleâ&#x20AC;? will be on view Friday through Sunday, April 1 to 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at Locust Grove â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a National Historic Landmark Estate site and former home of artist and telegraph inventor Samuel Morse. Admission is free.

Each member of the Skyllkill Chapter is contributing at least one work to the show.

The Guild welcomes beginners and expert stitchers alike, so the pieces on display will demonstrate a range of mastery. There will be works by those just learning the skills as well as displays of excellence by the highly experienced. (Some of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more practiced members recently finished working on a years-long project stitching a tapestry for the Mills Mansion in Staatsburg.)

Each day of the show will offer different lectures and demonstrations of needle arts at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. A boutique will be open with handmade items created by guild members, and tickets may be purchased to win a custom â&#x20AC;&#x153;opportunity basketâ&#x20AC;? full of sewing and stitchery items. All proceeds go back into funding future projects of the nonprofit guild.

The Skyllkill Chapter meets the first Wednesday of every month at St. James Episcopal Hall at 4526 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park. The meetings begin with classes at 9 a.m. for members interested in expanding their skills or learning new ones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For people just starting out, we have a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;basicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group,â&#x20AC;? explains guild member Julia Pietruszewski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can learn the stitches and then apply them to a project. For those who already have some skills, there is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;basics plusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group where we decide what we want to do.â&#x20AC;? The latter group is currently working on drawn threadwork, an early form of embroidery once utilized by peasant women to simulate the lace that royalty wore. Both groups learn from various members who volunteer to teach the others. Pietruszewski says that while she first learned

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I have mixed feelings about it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great for the community at large, and there are many interesting people, some with whom I have a business interest; some are good friends. But I preferred the threadbare and tragic Kingston of a few years ago. The parking meters are a nightmare. Kingston should follow the example of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which gives out a pass if you can prove you live here. Very few buildings have parking.

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about embroidery from her grandmother, she has learned more from fellow Guild members since she joined five years ago after retirement than she knew in all the years before.

The morning classes are followed by a social hour at 10 a.m. and the chapter meeting at 11 a.m. But it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end there; members bring a brown-bag lunch and enjoy Guild-supplied coffee, tea and dessert before a program begins at 12:30 p.m., in which a guest speaker or member gives a presentation or shares a special collection. Visitors may sit in on a meeting twice before joining. Membership dues cost $52 per year. More information is available at egaskyllkill@gmail.com.

All of the Guildâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities are designed to stimulate appreciation of embroidery arts, to advance the highest standards in their practice and ensure that the needle arts never die out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our idea in the Guild is to foster people to keep it going,â&#x20AC;? says Pietruszewski. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the younger people joining are doing really wonderful and very creative things. They do a lot of multi-media, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing wrong with that. We try to keep the traditional alive and, of course, teach the stitches; but there is some pretty great stuff people are doing with these stitches.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sharyn Flanagan Art of the Needle 2016, Friday-Sunday, April 1-3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free, Locust Grove, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie; skyllkill.membership@gmail. com, https://www.facebook.com/SkyllkillEGA.

doing a line of digital and screenprinted fabrics and wallpapers. Nantucket House has been representing my paintings and mural work for about 30 years. A year ago they approached me to become the art director and develop my own line, with them assisting in production. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping to launch this spring and work with a couple of small boutique stores.

The first job Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in Kingston was the Elmendorf Tavern 1723, at Fair and Maiden Lane. I painted a mural, decorated the floors, grained the trim and put up digital wallpapers, which are done by hand, scanned and digitally formatted, then printed on large sheets. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a couple of assistants. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re outsourcing to Detroit to print the digital work, but we are considering bringing people in-house, which means Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need a lot more space.

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I went to Detroit and looked at spaces, but I love it here. In the past, if I needed a bigger space, there were always empty buildings I could use. The Shirt Factory downstairs was just a wreck, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d give the owner $50 so that I could frame paintings for a month. I have found a building Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to get, possibly with some venture partners. As I get older Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be on the ground floor than walk up to the third floor.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather have a giant studio and live in a hut.

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as light and dark, detailed and vast.

I got that from Synthetic Cubism.

Juxtaposing was another thing I learned in school that I never gave up; it makes the piece easier to read.

You have to let things happen: Set up the parameters so that things can work and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about an array of possibilities. By limiting my means, say, to cutouts and spray paint, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m free to do with that anything I like. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simplifying.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting as much content and detail in the work by doing as little as possible.

Look for intricate thread-woven Japanese Temari balls (see above) made by guild member Ginny Thompson, a Temari master, and works demonstrating the 1,600-year-old art of Japanese embroidery by Deb Bowers.

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March 31, 2016 Do you have any extravagances, outside of making art?

I like to eat out way too much.

– Lynn Woods Paintings by Joe Concra and Kevin Paulsen are currently on view at Exit Nineteen, 309 Wall Street, Kingston.

“Kevin Paulsen: Winter Theorems”, through April 3, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m., Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack; (845) 358-0877, www.kevinmpaulsen.com.

Handiwork in the Big Apple Making art is about m a k i n g choices.

Choices are particularly clear when it comes to visual art.

Why is a line here and not there? Why is the paint rubbed here Grace Bakst Wapner and not (photo by Dion Ogust) there? Why is color repeated here and not there?

Why is it lighter here and darker there, thicker there and thinner here?

Then the viewer steps back and looks.

Does the work work or doesn’t it? Why? Why not?

I want to bring two new shows in New York to your attention. Local artist Grace Bakst Wapner is showing her recent work at the Carter Burden Gallery at 548 West 28th Street, Room 534. The artist’s textures of paint-on-burlap show her work process clearly. She handles conflict and complexity skillfully and bravely.

The other show, at the Museum of Modern Art at 11 West 53rd Street, consists mainly of Edgar Degas monotypes, which show that artist’s fascination with the flexibility of the medium, particularly his interest in the processes of modifications of subject matter.

Neither artist has much interest in disguising what they’re up to. As the musician Vijay Iyer recently said in describing multimedia exhibitions in which he is participating at the new Met Breuer on Madison Avenue, “Everything you look at is the product of a hand.” And last time I looked, the artist’s handbone is connected to the artist’s mindbone.

Wapner’s show opens from 6 to 8 p.m. next Thursday, April 7 and runs through April 28. It’s open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Degas show at MoMA runs through July 24.

– Geddy Sveikauskas

“40 Years, 40 Artists” opens in New Paltz It’s hard to believe that one of New Paltz’s oldest and most reputable art galleries is tucked into the back corner of a shopping mall, but there you have it: The Mark Gruber Gallery, located at 17 New Paltz Plaza, is marking its 40th anniversary this year. Among the festive events planned to celebrate its longevity and success is an invitational exhibition showcasing the artists who have helped to form the objectives, set the tone and create the spirit for the Gallery over the past four decades.

Among the artists featured – some of whose associations with the Mark Gruber Gallery go right back to its formative days – are Hardie Truesdale, Lorna Massie, Leonie Lacouette, Jane BloodgoodAbrams, Staats Fasoldt, Will Cotton, Robert Trondsen and James Cramer.

Andrew Lyght, Air Rights NYLyght 6136, 2009–10, courtesy the artist

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Art aloft Gallery talk with artist Andrew Lyght this Saturday at SUNY-New Paltz’s Dorsky Museum

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ndrew Lyght: Full Circle,” which opened in January at SUNY-New Paltz’s Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, has been getting rave reviews from art critics. Joyce Beckenstein of The New York Times termed it a “stunning show, a long-overdue retrospective exhibition for this artist,” who “blurs all distinctions between drawing, painting, sculpture, digital photography and installation art.”

The works on view trace the personal odyssey of Lyght, an artist who grew up in Guyana and lived in Montreal, Brooklyn and Europe before settling in Kingston. Many of his dynamic multimedia sculptures suggest the kites that he made and sold in his childhood, or the industrial objects that surrounded him when he worked in construction in his youth.

The artist himself will present a gallery talk at the Dorsky this Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m. The exhibition’s curator, Tumelo Mosaka, will join Lyght in this presentation co-sponsored by the SUNY-New Paltz Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. You might want to check out this month’s First Sunday free gallery tour, conducted by the perennially fascinating guest educator/New Paltz artist Kevin Cook. That one begins at 2 p.m. on April 3.

Located on the SUNY campus at 1 Hawk Drive in New Paltz, the Dorsky Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday when college is in session. For more info, call (845) 257-3844 or visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

Many of the participating artists will be in attendance at a wine-and-cheese reception when “Looking Back: 40 Years, 40 Artists” opens on Saturday, April 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free event.

“Looking Back: 40 Years, 40 Artists” will run through May 21, viewable during regular Gallery hours: Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays by appointment. For more information, contact Mark Gruber at (845) 255-1241 or visit www.markgrubergallery. com.

“The Roosevelts’ Art: Personal Stories” opens in Hyde Park Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt owned and enjoyed a wide variety of art. They filled the walls of their homes in Hyde Park, New York City, Warm Springs and Washington, DC with paintings, prints and drawings.

A temporary exhibit of 22 diverse artworks selected from the Roosevelts’ large collection, now part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum’s permanent holdings, will open this Friday, April 1 in the Library’s William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery and remain on display through April 30.

Each of the artworks included in “The

Roosevelts’ Art: Personal Stories” has a story with a connection to Franklin or Eleanor. Some provide windows into friendships, family bonds or political relationships; others reveal intellectual interests or cast light on dramatic moments. Still others offer only hints about their deeper meaning to their owner: mere glimpses into a private world that are open to multiple interpretations (and interesting for that very reason). Together, these artworks offer us a different way to encounter the Roosevelts – one that can yield new insights into the many sides of these two complex individuals.

Also included in the exhibit are several contemporary paintings by Franklin and

Eleanor’s artist great-granddaughter, Laura Roosevelt. She will personally conduct a press-only sneak peek of “The Roosevelts’ Art: Personal Stories” this Thursday, March 31 at 3 p.m.; but beginning on Friday, anyone may view the artworks for the regular price of admission during normal Library and Museum hours.

The William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery is located in the FDR Library at 4079 Albany Post Road (Route 9) in Hyde Park.

For more info about the exhibit, call (800) 337-8474 or visit www.fdrlibrary.marist. edu.

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March 31, 2016

"CONSIDERING THE PROPERTY’S LOCATION – right smack in the center of the Hudson River Valley historic district and the enormous tourism activity here – we’d like to see the Hoyt House brought up to speed to play a major role in all of that.

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Saving “The Point” Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance continues restoration of Staatsburg’s Hoyt House

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alvert Vaux – the Englishborn co-designer of Manhattan's Central Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn – designed Hoyt House in Staatsburg in 1855. The Dutchess County home was, in its original state, a prime example of mid-19th-century American Picturesque Gothic Revival style “in its most mature, informed and sophisticated phase,” according to historic preservation specialist William Krattinger. Originally known as “The Point” for the finger-shaped piece of land that it occupies, but more commonly known by the name of the only family who ever lived there, the Hoyt House is considered Vaux’s most important application of the Picturesque concept in its integration of landscape and architectural design.

But after its acquisition by the state in the early 1960s, the Hoyt House sat for most of the past half-century ignored and left to the ravages of time, vandalism and indifference. That changed in 2008 when the nonprofit Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance (CVPA) formed with the mission of preserving Vaux’s architectural and landscape design legacy in the Hudson Valley. And while the organization has a number of Vaux-designed structures on its radar – notably the 1851/52 Newburgh City Club (Culbert House) designed by Vaux and A. J. Downing – it’s the Hoyt House, situated on 92 acres between the

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Mills Mansion and Norrie Point, that is “front and center” of the CVPA’s mission, says Alan Strauber, president of the nonprofit’s board: “Because it’s such an important work in the body of work of Vaux, and it’s been so in need of help for so long.”

The major news regarding the Hoyt House in recent years was the $1 million restoration project completed early in 2015, which included the entire r o o f, g u tt e r s , chimneys and exterior stonework masonry. The 20thcentury kitchen addition that had been dangling from the house was removed and replaced by a restoration of the original masonry. “Pretty much the entire envelope of the house was fortified,” says Strauber. “We had water coming in; that’s been remedied.”

Sources of funding for the project included a grant from the state Environmental Protection Fund, a $320,000 Save America’s Treasures grant matched by an equal amount raised by the CVPA and additional funding from New York Works. The Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance acts as the official “Friends” group for the house, by agreement with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, which owns the property. And despite the legacy of earlier neglect by the state, Strauber says that the current state parks organization is very enthusiastic and supportive of the

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Originally known as “The Point” for the finger-shaped piece of land that it occupies, but more commonly known by the name of the only family who ever lived there, the Hoyt House sat for most of the past half-century ignored and left to the ravages of time, vandalism and indifference.

CVPA’s efforts to develop the site.

Of immediate concern now is the condition of the original front entryway porch. “It’s in rough condition. If it’s not restored soon, we could lose it altogether.

And it’s one of the most visible parts of the house when you approach it, so it’s really pretty important to save it.” The cost to reconstruct the porch is estimated at between $500,000 and $750,000. The preservation group has applied for a state grant for the project and is still working on fundraising strategies for the remainder.

The veranda for the house, which wrapped around the building originally, was dismantled years ago. Parts of it are in storage. “We’d like to see that as part of an overall restoration of the house at some point,” Strauber adds, “but the front porch is an urgent need.”

Despite the ever-present obstacles of fundraising, he’s optimistic about the future of the site. “Over the last eight years or so, we’ve made steady progress, but I’ll go so far as to say I have the best feeling about the plans we’re formulating for the house now than anything we’ve talked about in the past.”

Those plans specifically include a series of fully accredited university courses that would take place at the site. Classes would be offered in relevant areas of preservation arts, cultural landscape management, woodworking and metal restoration, with any programs involving the students doing restorative work on the main house.

And while the property is far from being completely restored, “The interior of the house is fine to hold people now,” Strauber says. “And the stables are in decent shape.

There’s also a five-bay garage that has floor space; we can do programs there as well.

I’m really hopeful that we’re going to be in a position to hold programs there next summer [2017].”

And complete restoration of the site “is a matter of subjective judgment,” he adds.

“There are always going to be things that can be done. There are greenhouses that can be restored, and we could do some sort

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We could certainly go a long way toward restoring Vaux’s original landscape. But considering the property’s location – right smack in the center of the Hudson River Valley historic district and the enormous tourism activity here – we’d like to see the Hoyt House brought up to speed to play a major role in all of that. I don’t see any reason why, once we’ve gotten further down the road on work to be done, that it couldn’t become a destination point.”

More information about the restoration project is available at www.calvertvaux. org. Updates will be posted at www. facebook.com/calvert-vaux-preservationalliance.

– Sharyn Flanagan

Valuing the past Antiques Roadshow-style appraisal event to benefit the newly formed New Paltz Historical Society

The public is invited to bring their treasures to this April 7 event in New Paltz and have local experts identify and value their items, for a suggested donation of $5 each. (Photo by Andrew Campbell)

If the phrase “New Paltz Historical Society” gets you thinking that it’s the former name for Historic Huguenot Street, before that entity rebranded itself, you wouldn’t be alone. Even a Google search tends to turn up mostly references to the Huguenot Historical Society. But thanks to the efforts of town historian Susan Stessin-Cohn

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March 31, 2016 and her co-chair Jack Murphy, New Paltz now has its own municipal historical society, covering all the other interesting things that have happened in the town and its environs besides the arrival of those stone-housebuilding refugees from religious persecution in France.

“There’s more to New Paltz history than just Huguenot history,” says Stessin-Cohn.

“We started this about six months ago, but I’ve been thinking about it for 15 years.”

The fledgling New Paltz Historical Society (NPHS) doesn’t have a permanent home yet, but it holds meetings at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at the New Paltz Community Center. “We have speakers coming every month,” StessinCohn says. Upcoming lectures will include the likes of Ulster County’s commissioner of jurors, Paul O’Neill, speaking about the history of Kingston’s courthouse in May; and Robi Josephson, author of An Unforgiving Land: Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps, discussing local connections to the Civil War in June.

Operating on a shoestring budget, NPHS needs to do a bit of fundraising in order to pay for programs and provide refreshments at its free lecture/meetings.

So the April meeting will be devoted to “What Is It? What’s It Worth?” an Antiques Roadshow-style visit from a panel of appraisers and antique dealers, including Lionel Heyman, Mark Stolfe, Sanford Levy and Walter Marquez. The public is invited to bring their treasures to this event to have these local experts identify and value their items, for a suggested donation of $5 each.

“What Is It? What’s It Worth?” runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at the New Paltz Community Center, located at 3 Veterans’ Drive, just off Route 32 North in New Paltz. For more info, visit

www.facebook.com/new-paltz-historicalsociety-935398576531879.

– Frances Marion Platt

Talk on obscure Civil War hero Will Cushing in Highland Jamie Malanowski, upcoming speaker for the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society (TOLHPS), was only eight years old when he saw a Life magazine double-page spread of a painting of Civil War commander William Cushing sinking the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle. The young Malanowski was hooked – both on Civil War history in general and on the young commander who led the torpedo attack on the venerable warship.

Basing his presentation on his recent book, Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War, Malanowski will describe what made Cushing special at TOLHPS’s Monday, April 4 program, to be held at the Vineyard Commons Theater in Highland, starting at 7 p.m.

Although the young Malanowski never forgot the swashbuckling Will Cushing, other people did. In his book, Malanowski shines a new light on the career of this stellar-but-nearly-forgotten, young leader.

Malanowski describes Cushing as “exciting, attractive and impressive – a very interesting character in American history who has fallen into obscurity.”

Malanowski is also the author of And the War Came, a book about the six months leading up to the Civil War, and was the primary writer for a series in The New York Times titled Disunion, which took an in-depth look at the causes and events of the Civil War. But he is perhaps best-

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The orchestra will perform the premiere of Walkway over the Hudson, an original symphonic work commissioned by NDSO and written by 24-year-old composer Ben Kutner. Each of the three movements in the piece represents a distinct phase that the Walkway has gone through, from its origins as an active train bridge to abandonment after a fire to becoming the monumental footbridge and tourist draw that it is today. The music will be accompanied by Fred Schaeffer's photographs of the Walkway. Pictured above are: Kathleen Beckmann, Ben Kutner and Fred Schaeffer.

Crossover music Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra premieres Walkway symphony at CIA

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Artistic director and conductor Kathleen Beckmann, who founded NDSO, likens it to the way that fusion cuisine keeps our palates alert with unpredictable accents.

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2016 Concert Season

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as culinary tastes have broadened in recent years, I try to bring that to the orchestra programming. Society is changing and evolving all the time, so we like to reflect that.”

The Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra’s tenth season will open with a multimedia experience on Saturday, April 2 at 8 p.m. in the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion in Hyde Park. Under the direction of Beckmann, the orchestra will perform the premiere of Walkway over the Hudson, an original symphonic work commissioned by NDSO and written by 24-year-old composer Ben Kutner. Each of the three movements in the piece represents a distinct phase that the Walkway has gone through, from its origins as an active train bridge to abandonment after a fire to becoming the monumental footbridge and tourist draw that it is today.

Visual enhancement to the music will be provided by images of the Walkway projected on screens behind the orchestra.

The images were culled from thousands of photographs taken over the course of 23 years by Poughkeepsie attorney and amateur photographer Fred Schaeffer, who saw the potential in the bridge early on and was a driving force behind its transformation.

Tickets for the concert cost $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $5 for students.

“We wanted to do something special for our tenth anniversary, and creating a new symphonic work and tying it in with something local made a lot of sense,” says Beckmann. “And since we’re a young orchestra just starting out, to use a young composer just starting out in his career seemed like a good fit for us.”

Kutner also seemed a good fit for the

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Dutchess County Bar Association. His hobbies of bicycling, photography and history led him years ago to become interested in the historic Poughkeepsieto-Highland railroad bridge – an interest that eventually culminated in his becoming chairman in 2004 of the nonprofit organization that transformed the structure into Walkway over the Hudson.

“Fred proclaims to be an amateur photographer, but he’s actually quite good,” says Beckmann. “And it’s wonderful to have all these pictures that he’s taken over the years when he was trying to convince people [to convert the bridge to the Walkway]. There are some very interesting photos in the second movement showing when the bridge was closed, and you can see it’s in disrepair; there’s a big ‘stop’ sign. And the third movement includes wonderful shots of the Walkway Marathon and the opening ceremonies in 2009 with marching bands going across the bridge; you really get a feel for what has happened there.”

In recognition of another milestone – the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service – the program on April 2 will include a performance of Ferde Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite, accompanied by projected photographs of that site, some taken by Hudson Valley residents. “It’ll be a fun program,” says Beckmann, “with a little bit of the feeling of the outdoors as we get into spring.” The Grand Canyon Suite will feature an unusual instrument in the percussion section that simulates the sound of the wind. “We’ll have quite the storm, I think, amplified in the auditorium!”

A retired orchestra director at Franklin

Poughkeepsie Rail Bridge postcard, circa 1904

project, she adds. “Some composers write music that’s very hard to absorb the first time, whereas Ben’s is very accessible.

He does use some dissonance, but not a lot. He loves to use polyrhythmic – a mixture of rhythms going on at the same time – and that really works well in this, because there’s a lot of energy with that, and there are a lot of things going on with the Walkway all the time.”

Kutner is a New York City-based composer, conductor and multiinstrumentalist. Since graduating from Brown University in 2014, he has composed for symphony orchestra, opera, dance and film. Already familiar with the Walkway from visits to the Hudson Valley, Kutner says of his composition that the three movements of the piece “all have threads of interconnectivity – a way to trace the changing function of the bridge while still maintaining its recognizable shape. I wanted the audience to hear the same bridge at every moment of the piece.”

Schaeffer has been a practicing attorney in Dutchess County for more than 30 years and is a former president of the

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D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, Beckmann is a strong advocate of music education. During her tenure as a public school music teacher, she served on the Executive Board for the state National School Orchestra Association and was the editor for the publication Orchestrations. Her ongoing commitment to music education includes conducting and adjudicating at state and county music festivals, coordinating NDSO workshops and educational programs and encouraging talented student musicians through participation in NDSO rehearsals and performances.

Most of the orchestra’s performances feature 40 to 50 musicians, depending on the repertoire. Walkway over the Hudson will have a full symphonic orchestra.

The NDSO does four major concerts each season, along with a number of smaller performances with chamber groups. It also offers something called “The Orchestra Comes to You,” where a small performance group is brought out into the community, like the recent visit

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concerts/gigs Singing for peace Ars Choralis performs Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem in Kingston & Woodstock Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his cantata for chorus and orchestra, Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace), in 1936, when the horrors of the Great War were still a vivid memory and the rise of Nazism and Fascism in Eu- DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY rope was filling hearts with dread of the next war looming on the horizon. The music dramatically expresses the human condition in times of conflict through three poems by Walt Whitman (who served as a nurse in the Civil War), an antiwar sermon by 19th-century orator John Bright, selections from the Mass and Biblical passages of hope and healing in affirmation of human harmony.

In a world of increasing factionalism and violence, Dona Nobis Pacem is as timely today as when it was first performed. As it celebrates its 51st concert season, Ars Choralis will present this compelling work this Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Holy Cross Church at 30 Pine Grove Avenue in Kingston, and again this Sunday, April 3 at 4 p.m. at the Overlook Methodist Church at 233 Tinker Street in Woodstock. The 50-voice chorus, soloists Amy Martin and Matthew Ulrich and a string orchestra will be conducted by Ars Choralis artistic director Barbara Pickhardt, with Kristen Tuttman at the piano.

General admission tickets for either concert cost $18 in advance, $20 at the door; children and students age 18 and under get in for half-price. Tickets are available from members of Ars Choralis, at the Golden Notebook and Catskill Art & Office Supply in Woodstock, DIG in Saugerties and Mother Earth’s Storehouse in Kingston, as well as online at www.arschoralis.org.

Catskill’s indie rock group Of the Atlas visits the Anchor in Kingston on Saturday, April 2. The band’s 2015 eponymous debut is an assured and luminous work of modern jangle-rock with plenty of guts behind the shimmer of guitars. Of the Atlas will be joined by kindred spirits the Stable Gentlemen and Dan Shapiro. The show begins at 9:30 p.m.

The Anchor, a venerable rock club that should never be left off any list of the mid-Hudson Valley’s cornerstone venues, is located at 744-746 Broadway in Kingston. The cover charge is $5. For more on Of the Atlas, visit http://oftheatlas.bandcamp.com.

Dolce Suono Ensemble performs in Kingston this Sunday

New Paltz Rock groups perform this Saturday at Planet Woodstock’s expanded Kingston store The sudden vitality of brick-and-mortar music stores in our area – new ones popping up in Kingston and existing ones moving to larger venues – speaks to the younger generation’s enthusiasm for the now-commercially-marginalized genre of guitar rock. This is how the cultural wheel turns, as what was once mainstage pop goes back underground and regains its revolutionary energy.

In a fitting pairing, New Paltz Rock (a youth music education and performance program) helps celebrates Planet Woodstock’s new expansion with a celebration at the store’s Morton Boulevard location in Kingston.

The New Paltz Rock ensemble Ashes of Phoenix headlines, along with other local groups.

New Paltz Rock director Julian Baker will be on hand with information about programs available to students between the ages of 9 and 16. Planet Woodstock’s expanded inventory of new and used gear (and a large vinyl collection) will be on display. Owner Dustin Bryant will be on hand to answer all questions.

The celebration takes place on Saturday, April 2 from 1 to 5 p.m. at 1112 Morton Boulevard in Kingston. For more information, visit http://newpaltzrock.com and http://planet-woodstock.com.

Of the Atlas plays Kingston’s Anchor this Saturday

Poné Ensemble this Sunday in New Paltz

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to Woodland Pond in New Paltz. “Their in-house chorus performed with us for a couple of pieces,” says Beckman.

Until recently, NDSO performances were held in the auditorium at Rhinebeck High School. Switching that up now with some performances at the Culinary Institute’s Marriott Pavilion offers the organization two very different venues. “We intend to do shows at both places – at least in the near future – to take advantage of the different

performance options each offers,” says Beckmann. “The main thing is: We want the orchestra to be for the community, and we hope we are providing something that is special, and also affordable. We think that’s important. It makes it tough for us to keep going as an organization, but we are committed to keeping it in a price range that people can afford, and we hope that they’ll support us.”

– Sharyn Flanagan

New Music presents a program of experimental classical music at the United Methodist Church in New Paltz on Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m. Titled “Daydreams in the Clouds,” the program features a new work, Miniatures for Horn and Bassoon by composer Josh Groffman, paired with the Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and String Trio by Benjamin Britten that Groffman cites as inspiration for his piece. The program also includes music

by Dennis Bathory-Kitz of Vermont, Lowell Liebermann and Peter Schickele (also known as P. D. Q . Bach).

A reception will follow the performance. General admission costs $15 per person. The United Methodist Church is located at 1 Grove Street in New Paltz. For more information on the Poné Ensemble for New Music, visit www.poneensemble.org.

– John Burdick

The 48th annual Ulster Chamber Music Series presents the formidable Dolce Suono Ensemble on Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Cross in Kingston. The trio features flautist Mimi Stillman, cellist Gabriel Cabezas and pianist Charles Abramovic interpreting commissioned works by Grammy and Pulitzer Prizewinning composers Richard Danielpour, Jennifer Higdon and Zhou Tian, along with Carl Maria von Weber’s Trio in G Minor.

Tickets cost $25 general admission and $20 for seniors. The Church of the Holy Cross is located at 30 Pine Grove Avenue in Kingston.

Santana to play Bardavon gala This year’s Bardavon fundraising gala features music-world royalty Carlos Santana in a special concert on Sunday, April 10 at 7 p.m. Maybe the iconic figure in rock and world fusion, Santana’s performances are the stuff of legend.

Tickets at the $275 level include premier performance seating and a post-show party; $225 include preferred performance seating. Both are tax-deductible contributions. Tickets may be purchased at the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; or via Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 (Bardavon member discounts are not available through Ticketmaster). For more information, visit www.bardavon.org.

Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra premieres Walkway over the Hudson, Saturday, April 2, 8 p.m., $5-$20, Marriott Pavilion, Culinary

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A thousand words Woodstock Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Festival returns next week

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nteresting things happen when writers congregate. They discuss craft and the logistics of the publishing business. They share their work with each other. They inspire and get inspired. And when they gather in Woodstock each spring for three nights and days, they pull readers into the fold as well, with talks and panels that make for provocative entertainment.

Author Ann Hood has written 15 books, and her essays and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Paris Review and the New York Times. Hood is just one of many writers who will be participating in the seventh annual Woodstock Writers' Festival, which runs from April 7-10.

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Now in its seventh year, the Woodstock Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Festival (WWF) brings worldrenowned authors of fiction, memoir and biography, poetry, spirituality, spoken word and music to town to celebrate all things writerly. Founded and directed

by Martha Frankel (Boicevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own entertainment/literary diva and WDST radio talk show hostess), the Festival offers readers and writers alike the opportunity to meet real authors and get to know how they work.

Always kicking off the Festival and always a sold-out event (so buy your tickets early), the WWF Story Slam is a forum for rising talent. Readers get three minutes each to present their stories, written to a common prompt. In honor of the late David Bowie, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Dayâ&#x20AC;? this year; and yes, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gong for anyone going over the time limit. Ida Hakkila (Heavy Light Show on WDST) will emcee the proceedings and keep things under control, as readers present their pieces to the audience and a three-judge panel. The Story Slam is being held at the new Woodstock Music Lab at 1700 Sawkill Road.

Some writers make it look easy, but few of the scheduled speakers at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival would say that writing is anything less than a lot of hard work. There will be a variety of daylong WWF workshops on Friday, each with a concentration in some aspect of the craft. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing eight intensives this year,â&#x20AC;? says Frankel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nan Gatewood Satter [Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stories of Courage, Comfort and Surviving Life on the Home

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Gail Straubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [Returning to My Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House and Reveil and the Old One at the Edge of the World] intensive was so successful last year; people went crazy for it. Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re writing fiction or non-fiction, memoir â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she wants to get to the emotional truth. And we have Bev Donofrio [Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary] with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Writing Your Life,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ann Hood [The Knitting Circle, An Italian Wife and The Obituary Writer, as well as a memoir, Comfort] doing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Get Naked,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a fiction workshop on taking risks and digging deeper, and my agent Lynn Johnston on getting your work published again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bar Scott [The Present Giver] is teaching a class for new writers. What a great way to ease yourself into it! Bar is so safe, and wants the best for new writers.

Brandon Tomassetti is teaching a social media workshop. He does all the social media for the Festival and for my radio show. Kitty Sheehan is doing an editing workshop: the first time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve addressed that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing that writers are most afraid of.â&#x20AC;? The Friday intensives are held in private homes and include lunch and snacks.

Two special presentations take place on Friday and Saturday evenings, each featuring writers at the top of their game.

Frankel has called on authors who have dealt with addiction in their lives to talk about getting straight and being happy about it in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Writing with Hope in Your Pen.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Kevin Sessums [I Left It on the Mountain], Jamie Brickhouse [Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex and My Mother] and Tracy Helton [The Big Fix] â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she was one of the kids they followed in that movie Black Tar Heroin back in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s,â&#x20AC;? says Frankel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in recovery for 20 years. Her book is not about her descent into Hell; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about rising from the ashes. The whole panel is really about recovery and hope.

Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the parent of an addict, an addict yourself, the child of an addict, the boyfriend/girlfriend â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this panel is going to be so good.â&#x20AC;?

Saturday eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keynote event features Nancy Jo Sales to discuss her latest book, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.

An award-winning journalist and author (The Bling Ring: How a Gang of FameObsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World) who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bazaar and other publications, Sales addresses â&#x20AC;&#x153;a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and theâ&#x20AC;Śexperience of a new kind of adolescence, one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first crushes and experiences of longing and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment.â&#x20AC;? Carla Goldstein, the Omega Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief external affairs officer and co-founder of the Omega Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Center, will join Sales for this important conversation.

Both Friday- and Saturday-evening events will take place at the Woodstock Music Lab, and catered cocktail parties â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Bites & Big Libationsâ&#x20AC;? #1 and #2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; held beforehand at the same venue will make for casual opportunities to rub elbows and chitchat with the visiting authors.

All day Saturday, festivalgoers can drop in at the Kleinert/James Art Center to catch shorter panel talks designed around specific subjects. There are questionand-answer sessions after each talk.

Gail Straub will moderate a panel titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spirituality, Writing and Creativityâ&#x20AC;? with Barbara Bash (True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude), Stephen Cope (upcoming Soul Friends: The Transforming Power of Deep Human Connection), Grammy-winning musician Steve Gorn and Gunilla Norris (author of 11 childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, one book of poetry and many books on spirituality, including Being Home).

A poetry panel is next, with poets Tamas Panitz (Blue Sun, Incense Games, Contrapuncti), Robert Kelly (Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993, and a collection

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March 31, 2016 of short fictions, A Transparent Tree), and Billie Chernicoff (The Pleasures and The Red Dress) exploring the question, “How does your local environment influence your writing?” This session will be moderated by Sophie Strand, winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards’ Silver and Gold Medal for poetry, and a Written Arts major in her third year at Bard.

The fiction panel, moderated by author Ann Hood, is titled “What If?” addressing some of the imaginative twists and turns that fiction writers Maggie Mitchell (Pretty Is), Helen Klein Ross (Making It: A Novel of Madison Avenue), Robert Burke Warren (Perfectly Broken) and Sunil Yapa (Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist) have employed in their works.

“Rock Stories and Pictures Live Forever” will be moderated by Jimmy Buff, 30-plusyear veteran of rock radio and program director at Radio Woodstock 100.1 for 11 years, and will include Holly GeorgeWarren (A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man), Barney Hoskyns (Small Town Talk), Elliot Landy (Elliott Landy’s Photographs of The Band: The Book) and Warren Zanes (Petty: The Biography).

On Sunday, “Breakfast with Abigail Thomas and Bar Scott” continues a WWF

tradition (Thomas’ latest memoir is What Comes Next and How to Like It). Joshua’s Café fills quickly for this event, so again, make your reservations early.

Back in the Kleinert, two panels will round out the Festival: Author James Grissom (Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog) will moderate the biography panel titled “Science, Fiction, Music and Murder,” with guests Alan Light (What Happened, Miss Simone?

The Nina Simone Diaries), Ed Sanders (multiple collections of poetry and Sharon Tate: A Life) and Ginger Strand (The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic). And “Memoir A Go-Go,” the signature event of the weekend, will be moderated by Frankel (Hats and Eyeglasses and Brazilian Sexy) with guests Mary Norris (Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen), Amye Archer (Fat Girl, Skinny), Owen Gleiberman (Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies) and John Elder Robison (Look Me in the Eye, Raising Cubby, Be Different).

“I’m very organized this year, I say now…” Frankel takes a deep breath. “I hired an assistant to do everything I can’t do. It doesn’t seem so scary anymore. I keep great lists going all year, and then it all happens the last four weeks. You’ve gotta have nerves of steel” – and a bit of stamina

to take it all in, but it’s well worth it.

– Ann Hutton Woodstock Writers’ Festival, ThursdaySunday, April 7-10, Kleinert/James Art

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A new opera adaptation of a classic Grimm fairy by Librettist Alessandro Cirafici and Composer Obadiah Wright features members of the Bard College Vocal Arts Program and Conservatory Orchestra.

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MOVIE Men in tights get in ďŹ ghts Even Wonder Woman canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rescue Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

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ometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to go with your gut. Having found Zack Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 intro to the DC Comics cinematic universe, Man of Steel, quite disappointing, I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t planning to take in any sequels.

But this year I got hooked into Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice via the news that it would unveil Israeli actress Gal Gadotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casting in a role that I have long wished to see manifested on the big screen: my childhood feminist role model, Wonder Woman. The Superman sequel was also hyped as providing an origin story for the Justice League of America, DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collective superhero cognate to Marvelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avengers and X-Men.

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Would that I had listened to my own best instincts. Though I enjoy parting ways with the opinions of the majority of critics on some movies, in the case of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the mostly negative early reviews were mostly right. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hot mess: grim, humorless, clunkily written, incoherently unspooled and about an hour too long.

The starting premise was not unpromising. Given the advanced capabilities of CGI technology these days, action movies have evolved (or devolved) into extravaganzas of urban destruction that make 1950s Japanese kaiju flicks seem as mild as the collapse of a house of cards by comparison. The last reel of most contemporary superhero movies typically consists of large flying, falling and/or exploding objects slicing through skyscrapers and burying thousands of antlike scurrying humans beneath their rubble.

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Dawn of Justice starts us off reexperiencing the wreck of Metropolis by the forces of General Zod at the end of Man of Steel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the event that, in Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the story, forced Superman to blow his cover. But this time we see it all from the point of view of Bruce Wayne, who blames the catastrophe on the goodguy alien from Krypton rather than his malevolent nemesis. Clark Kent, for his part, disapproves of Batmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vigilantism â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with some reason, since the Dark Knight is here depicted even more darkly than usual, with a nasty penchant for branding his victims with bat-symbols.

Our story then jumps a year-and-ahalf forward, with the city magically spruced up but plenty of resentment still simmering. To many, Superman is a hero, a demigod; to others, a dangerous illegal alien, answerable to none, whom trouble follows everywhere. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under a federal investigation headed up by senator June Finch (Holly Hunter), and protestors vaguely resembling Trumprally attendees wave angry signs at him.

Meanwhile, Supeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Significant Other, Lois Lane (Amy Adams), gets caught up in a firefight while investigating a terrorist group in Africa and comes onto the radar screen of psychotic young billionaire industrialist Lex Luthor (an oddly cast Jesse Eisenberg). Luthor manages to manipulate all the free-floating suspicion of Superman into a rather convoluted plot to kill him with kryptonite salvaged from one of Zodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crashed alien vessels.

Despite nearly nonstop action sequences, Luthorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole scheme takes

an unconscionably long time to set up, and the battling protagonists (not to mention the rest of the pawns in his game) take an absurdly long time to figure out that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being used. Plot twists are numerous and essentially pointless.

There are endless fistfights and firefights and shots of bodies being flung through walls. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re choppily edited in that way that pretends to flashiness but only achieves logical discontinuity, so that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re repeatedly left wondering who died this time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; until you realize that you really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care, because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not emotionally engaged with any of the participants.

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice shoots for a dark tone but comes off primarily as grindingly earnest. The offhand quips that leaven the action in the Marvel-comic movies are entirely missing; the closest the movie comes to a joke lies in Jeremy Ironsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game attempts at sardonic delivery of ponderous dialogue as Alfred, Wayneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s butler. The actors in secondary roles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Irons, Adams, Hunter, Gadot, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, Diane Lane as Martha Kent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; generally do as good a job as can be done with Chris Terrio and David S. Goyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limp screenplay, and better than the three leads. Just goes to show how important good writing is, even to such a visual medium.

Some of the cinematography and lighting in Dawn of Justice is pretty impressive, and the incessant special effects are, well, state-of-the-art. Hans Zimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s score is over-the-top bombastic even for Hans Zimmer. All in all, it adds up to less than a compelling reason to go to the movies. But at least the Wonder Woman movie is coming out next year, and somebody other than Zack Snyder (Patty Jenkins) is directing it. Hope springs eternal. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frances Marion Platt Sat

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NIGHT SKY

See Mercury!

The year's best time to observe the innermost planet

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he innermost planet is weird in so many ways, it’s hard to find aspects that aren’t strange.

This is the year’s best time to see Mercury as an evening star. It’s strangely satisfying, and there’s no rush. But you do need an unobstructed horizon. Go out at 8 p.m. sharp. From then until 8:15, that’s your window. Look low toward where the Sun set.

The time is important. Twilight deepens as dusk progresses, which makes finding Mercury easier; and yet it’s sinking lower all the while. You want the right balance.

And although it’s theoretically visible most of April, a good time to begin is next Friday, April 8. Mark it on your calendar. That’s when Mercury hovers to the right of the hair-thin crescent Moon.

Occupying the faint constellation Aries, it’s the only star low in the direction of sunset. Did we say that you need a clear view, almost all the way down to the horizon? All the mall parking lots of Kingston provide this.

I don’t know why, but seeing Mercury creates a special feeling. A few years ago, driving in Florida with some elderly relatives, I suddenly spotted it, and screeched the car off the highway and onto the shoulder. I had to stop before an upcoming overpass blocked the view. Those back-seat people were screaming, “What’s wrong? What are you doing?” I had to tell them that it was Mercury: “Look! That orange star down low!

Can you see it?”

After next Friday, the 8th, Mercury gets higher but loses brilliance. Nonetheless, around Tax Day, April 15, it’s still magnitude zero, and now ten degrees up. That’s a good time to look, too.

Mercury has the most lopsided, out-of-round orbit of any planet. Thanks to tugs from Jupiter, the Mercury orbit wildly changes shape. In the future its orbit may stretch all the way out and let it collide with Venus, destroying both worlds in the next five billion years.

Mercury alters its brightness more than any other planet, varying a thousandfold. And

Thanks to tugs from Jupiter, the Mercury orbit wildly changes shape.

Bearthoven & Battle Trance at EMPAC The contemporary music group Bearthoven is yet more proof that the high/pop culture divide is all but erased or inverted in New York City and its satellite states, since the rock kids started studying music at Yale, too. A young, talented and aesthetically focused piano, bass and percussion ensemble, Bearthoven may take the stage looking like a brainy jazz trio in the New York tradition of Bill Evans or George Russell, but they are a new-music chamber group through and through. They are right at home in the art spaces of Brooklyn, like the exquisite Scholes Street Studio, where contemporary serious music, postskronk jazz, art-pop and fine and performance art go to mingle behind yet another nondescript Brooklyn door.

Bearthoven commissions works from new music composers. The bulk of the material builds off the dwelling pattern studies and acute rhythmic intrigue of classic New York Minimalism, but with enriched harmonic content – restored harmonic content, one might almost say, some of it from the language of jazz, some in the spirit of the serialists of the second Viennese School. Plenty of it is just plain euphonious and pretty, too. In their own words, the group “embraces a sound palette somewhere between jazz, classical and avant-garde.” Truth, but if they added a singer with a knack for repeated-phrase lyrics, they’d be on the road with Sufjan or the National in a heartbeat (and may still be anyway).

The saxophone quartet Battle Trance (four tenor saxophones, for those who care to imagine this sound palette) have also formulated a betwixt-and-between genre cocktail to help the listener position the sound in the culture: “existing in the cracks between contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, black metal, ambient and world music.” 2014’s Palace

of the Wind doesn’t quite bear that formula out, but it is lovely and physically engaging as it morphs between a reedy forest twitter and the glacial and elegiac slabs of sound that have always been the forte of experimental horn ensembles.

Considering Bearthoven and Battle Trance together, the thought occurs that new serious music has sounded more or less exactly like this for a very long time: 50 or 60 years at least. And it is a hardly a vein run dry. It is just that “new” is a persistently problematic term in classical music, as it refers more to a condition of style and dialect than to chronology.

“New” music in this tradition as hermetically resistant to inherited forms as to traditional expressive gestures. It emphasizes the materiality of sound. It is naturally congenial to the visual arts and, at its biggest gigs, is almost always paired with multimedia. It may tease with offers of tunefulness, but it’s a dangling root crop soon to be yanked. If you want to be happy here, you had better develop a taste for forestalled pleasures and irresolutions that are asking you to change the reasons why you listen to music. And it is really, really worth a try. Epiphanies abound.

Most of all, it is densely intellectualized but – in an age-old paradox – completely enamored of primitivism. Consider their very ensemble names. One portmanteaus an eminent (the eminent?) traditional composer with a beast of the forest (and they are right that Ludwig really was a musical beast, in a way that most of his

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As Mercury spins, it has no axial tilt. At its polar depressions, the Sun is always below the horizon, so these regions are packed with ice. They offer winter sports on a world badly needing it.

And even that isn’t the end of Mercurian strangeness. It has a region called the Weird Terrain. I’m not making that up. It’s located at the precise opposite point on Mercury from its most famous impact crater, the enormous Caloris Basin. Apparently, debris or else shock waves from that impacting meteor traveled around the planet and collided in mid-air at the antipodal point – to wreak havoc there.

Go out at the end of next week and look very low in the west. See that strange orange planet for yourself.

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fellow eminences were not); the other refers to the transcendent psychology of combat. The names describe their differences well, too. Bearthoven is experimental but rather unabashedly “high.” Battle Trance is the sound of “high” trying to spaz free from all that and failing, but making some pretty interesting high art in the process.

On Thursday, April 7, Bearthoven and Battle Trance team up for a performance at our own state-of-the-art new-music Mecca: EMPAC, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range between $6 and $18. EMPAC is located at 110 Eighth Street in Troy. Visit http://empac.rpi.edu for tickets and more information.

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“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364.”

– Mark Twain

Mar. 31 Apr. 7 Enjoy giant puppets, catch a salamander, make a Peeps diorama and don’t get April Fooled!

Ulster BOCES Culinary Arts team wins statewide ProStart competition Congratulations to Ulster BOCES Culinary Arts students Wayne Rockwell (Onteora High School), Dante Fauci (Highland High School), Gianna Ogno (Wallkill High School), Maya Gray (Saugerties High School) and Karina Rendon (Highland High School) on their recent win in the prestigious 2016 New York State Restaurant Association’s ProStart competition. Part of the event was preparing a three-course meal within 60 minutes using only two butane burners and no running water or electricity.

Sounds like when I go camping! (Except that’s only one course, and I don’t get judged on taste, knife skills, safety, sanitation and teamwork.)

The students practiced after school for five months in preparation for the competition, which included 115 other budding chefs. Now they head to Dallas, Texas and represent New York State at the National ProStart Invitational at the end of April. Good luck, Team Ulster BOCES! FRIDAY, APRIL 1

April Fools prank ideas If you want to prank your kids this April Fools’ Day, my favorite two tricks are freezing their bowls full of milk and cereal, making it impossible to sink a spoon into; and adding gelatin to a glass of milk or juice, which looks like liquid but remains stubbornly in place when the child tips the glass or inserts a straw for a sip. A new one that I’m trying this year is wrapping grapes in those small, colorful Easter candy foils. Let me know how you pranked your kids this year!

Peeporama at Red Hook Library

The Little Mermaid will be performed on stage at Coleman High in Kingston this weekend.

I love everything about this Red Hook Public Library Peeporama event, and I couldn’t resist sharing it: It’s a gathering for kids to make dioramas with marshmallow Peeps! It takes place this Friday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m.

This event is free and all materials will be provided, but space is limited, so call to register.

The Red Hook Public Library is located at 7444 South Broadway in Red Hook. For more information or to register, call (845) 758-3241 or visit http://redhooklibrary. org.

Coleman High in Kingston presents The Little Mermaid Disappointed that you can’t get tickets to see the smash musical Hamilton? Well, you know what they say: The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake. Wait, that quote reminds me of something…I know!

Forget Broadway; take your kids to see The Little Mermaid over at John A. Coleman Catholic High School this weekend!

The Coleman High School Musical Theater presents performances this Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m. and next weekend on April 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., April 9 at 1:30 p.m. and April 10 at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $16 for adults and $11 for children. Advance reservations are recommended, with walk-in tickets sold as available.

John A. Coleman Catholic High School is located at 430 Hurley Avenue in Kingston. For more information, call (845) 338-2750 or visit http://colemancatholic. org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

High Meadow School in Stone Ridge hosts Bright Ideas Festival When is the last time that you had a bright idea? Perhaps you and your

crew are looking for some inspiration? Check out the Bright Ideas Festival this Saturday, April 2 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the High Meadow School.

This free event is open to the public of all ages and features hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities such as solar telescopes with Mid-Hudson Astronomy; stop-motion animation workshops with Spark Media; friction fire and nature-based crafts with Wild Earth; 3-D printing and Tinkercad; original student presentations; and a special performance by Mad Science at 4 p.m.

No reservations are needed; just head on over.

The High Meadow School is located at 3643 Main Street in Stone Ridge. For more information, call (845) 687-4855 or visit www.highmeadowschool.org.

Pond Study outing at Minnewaska Our family keeps a net in the back of the car for spontaneous pond outings. The more we learn about these special places in nature, the more we can return to them for additional fun and exploration.

This Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, you and your kids ages 7 to 10 years are invited to “Pond Study for Kids!” at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve’s Peter’s Kill Area. This hands-on program teaches about the amazing amphibians that live here by exploring vernal pools for frogs, salamanders and insects and making a frog mask. A similar program for this age group is offered to homeschoolers here this Thursday, April 7 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

These programs are free and open to the public, but registration is required, and a parking fee is applied at the entry of $10 per vehicle. Meet up at the Peter’s Kill Park Office, located at 5281 Route 44/55 in Kerhonkson. To register or for more information, call (845) 255-0752 or visit

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Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck presents Barefoot Dance Company Looking for something different to do this weekend? How about some amazing young dancers and fantastic music? Now you’ve got an event that appeals to all ages, and it’s happening right here. This Saturday, April 2 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, you can enjoy a performance of the Barefoot Dance Company. Curious about modern dance? This is the perfect introduction for you and your kids.

Tickets cost are $7 for children, $9 for adults and seniors. The Center for Performing Arts is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://centerforperformingarts.org.

Intro to Zentangling workshop at Olana If you already draw happily and easily, then Zentangles are probably a nobrainer for you. But for the rest of us who find even easy doodles a joyless challenge, Zentangles have something to offer, too. They are simply designs that come from a place of focus, pleasure and celebration and feel natural to draw, without any particular goal in mind. They offer a freedom in art that many of us have experienced otherwise as frustrating and hopeless.

Zentangles are worth learning about, and the Olana State Historic Site Wagon House Education Center is hosting a program about them at “Zentangle: Introduction” this Saturday, April 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. for ages 6 and up. No artistic skill is required, and participants marvel about their mood elevations in doing it; plus, it’s a fun activity for the whole family to try together.

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The cost is $20 per person and includes all supplies: a pouch, pens and paper to keep. Remember to dress for the short hike included during the workshop to enable drawing outside. Preregistration is required. The Olana State Historic Site is located at 5720 Route 9G in Hudson.

For more information or to register, call (518) 828-0135 or visit www.olana.org.

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Elementary School. Not only is this a performance that the whole family will learn from and enjoy, but it’s also free!

The Phoenicia Elementary School is located on School Lane in Phoenicia. For more information, call (845) 688-7811 or visit http://phoenicialibrary.org. To learn more about the show, visit www. armofthesea.org.

Arm-of-the-Sea performs Rejuvenary River Circus at Phoenicia Elementary School

Susannah Appelbaum reads from new novel at Inquiring Minds in New Paltz

Interested in a family outing with amazing large puppets and a focus on our local environment? Then you want to grab some seats for the Rejuvenary River Circus: A Story about the Life of a River taking place this Sunday, April 3 at 2 p.m. at the Phoenicia

Clear your calendars and your bookshelves, because Young Adult genre local author Susannah Appelbaum is hitting the circuit with her latest novel, Divah. The story straddles two of your favorite places: New York City and Paris; crosses timelines

with characters like Marie Antoinette as well as Marilyn Monroe; and 17-yearold Itzy Nash is the middle of this battle between angels and demons.

You can hear some of this riveting excitement for yourself at her readings at the Inquiring Minds bookstore this Sunday, April 3 at 4 p.m. in New Paltz,

as well as on Friday, May 6 at Inquiring Mind in Saugerties. Inquiring Minds is located at 6 Church Street in New Paltz. For more information, call (845) 255-8300 or visit www.facebook.com/ inquiringmindsnewpaltz. To learn more about the book and the author, visit www. divahnovel.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

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This Tuesday, April 5 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., bring your teens and their friends and your neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; kids and head over to the Germantown Library for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Legacy: A Talk with Mark D. French, a Father Who Turned Tragedy into a Mission to Educate a Community and Save Lives.â&#x20AC;? His son, Sean, 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a junior at Chatham High School, Honor Roll student, volunteer and athlete â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was a passenger in a car in a drunk-driving car crash. Another passenger suffered paralyzing injuries.

The driver, also 17, had been arrested 18 days before for drunk driving. Now, Seanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law requires the immediate suspension of a license upon the arrest of a 16- or 17-year-old driver on drunken driving charges.

Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan is to talk about the upcoming Seanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Run Weekend, taking place Saturday, and Sunday, April 23 and 24 in Columbia County, including the history behind the run, purpose, activities and its impact. The Germantown Library is located at 31 Palatine Park Road in Germantown. For more information, call (518) 537-5800 or visit http:// germantownlibrary.org. To learn more about Seanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Legacy April events, visit www.seansrun.com.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

SUNY-Ulster presents Young Adult Job Fair in Kingston â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get a job...Sha na na na, sha na na na naâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? Is your 16-to-24-year-old ready to apply for a job? Have your young person come to the 2016 Young Adult Job Fair this Wednesday, April 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at SUNY-Ul-

sterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Kingston campus. Participants must bring rĂŠsumĂŠs and come ready for interviews, including proper attire and clean and neat appearance.

That includes the following restrictions: no leggings, no tee-shirts, no hats, no tank tops, no miniskirts and no undergarments showing. No income eligibility is required.

SUNY-Ulsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Kingston campus is located at 94 Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avenue in Kingston, across from the former Benedictine Hospital. For more information, call (845) 340-3170 or visit http://ulsterworks.com/ youth-and-young-adults.

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valley-annual-kids-art-project. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno just completed her first cycle of Ibrance and Letrozole pills for this new chapter of her Stage IV breast cancer journey. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Wishâ&#x20AC;? for Juvenile Diabetes at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie Does your kid or another youngster you know have Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cool chance for these youth to connect to something bigger through a fun art project: wishes! This Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at the Vassar Brothers Medical Center, children, teens and siblings affected by T1D are invited to participate in a unique art project for the Hudson Valley â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Wish: Hope Galaâ&#x20AC;? auction. The work will highlight â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Wishâ&#x20AC;? by each child with a word or temporary tattoo on the hand, which will be pulled together for the final work.

The Vassar Brothers Medical Center is located at 45 Reade Place in Poughkeepsie.

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Combining aspects of a scavenger hunt and a trivia contest, the Road Ramble is billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a car-driven escapade to challenge your mind and entice your competitive spirit.â&#x20AC;? Teams of two to four people will meet at the Taconic Parks Auditorium and carpool to follow clues to well-known sites and â&#x20AC;&#x153;hidden gemâ&#x20AC;? locations in the Hyde Park area, where they will then have to answer trivia questions.

Winners are not necessarily those who finish first; participants are advised that â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not a race!â&#x20AC;? (Some knowledge of local history is, however, likely to be a plus.)

Trophies will be awarded to the winning teams, and bag lunches will be provided to all contestants. Comfortable clothes and walking shoes are recommended. The event will be held rain or shine.

For those who preregister by April 18, the entry fee is $15 per person or $50 per carload of four persons. Walk-ins on the day of the event may be accommodated, but the fee will rise to $20 per person or $70 per car of four. Space is limited and reservations highly recommended.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Staatsburg Library at 70 Old Post Road, or by using PayPal on the Staatsburg Library website at www.staatsburglibrary.org.

Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 23 at from the Taconic Regional Headquarters (the Old Staatsburg School), located at 9 Old Post Road in Staatsburg. The Road Ramble starts promptly at 9 a.m. and is expected to wind up around 1 p.m. For more details, call the Friends at (845) 889-4802 or the Library at (845) 889-4683, e-mail staatslibrary@gmail.com or visit the website.

Saw Kill watershed walks at Montgomery Place & Bard campus Montgomery Place and Bard College are sponsoring â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrating the Saw Kill: 175 Years of Scenic Preservationâ&#x20AC;? on Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The celebration will include a family-friendly Saw Kill Activity Table (staffed by Bard environmental education students) along with four DUETTEÂŽ ARCHITELLAÂŽ HONEYCOMB SHADES

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March 31, 2016 guided walks.

At 1 p.m., the walks are “Historic Landscape,” led by Bard arboretum director Amy Parrella, and “Historic Architecture,” led by former Montgomery Place executive director Raymond Armater. At 2 p.m., the walks are “Ecology of the Saw Kill,” led by Tom O’Dowd, Bard’s executive administrator for Environmental and Urban Studies, and “Archaeology of the Metambesem (Saw Kill),” led by Christopher Lindner, archaeologist-in-residence at Bard College.

The walks are free; meet at the mansion ten minutes in advance. Montgomery Place is located at Annandale Road and Route 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson.

The Saw Kill watershed is located largely in the Town of Red Hook, but also includes parts of Milan, Rhinebeck, Tivoli and the Bard College campus. For more information, contact Tom O’Dowd at sawkillwatershedcommunity@gmail.com or (845) 752-4852 or visit htpps:// sawkillwatershed.wordpress.com.

Hot off the press Saugerties’ Spiral House launches vegan cookbook, For Goodness Sake, at Poughkeepsie, Kingston Barnes & Noble

What do you want to know about the health, environmental and compassionate benefits of the vegan diet? Ask the Spiral House crew at their two upcoming Barnes and Noble events for their new cookbook, For Goodness Sake: Plant-Based Recipes from the Spiral House Kitchen. The group will speak about this and what it’s like working together with such an eclectic assortment of artists at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 9 at Barnes and Noble in Poughkeepsie; and at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 15 at Barnes and Noble in Kingston.

This 288-page, full-color vegan cookbook with 140 recipes and 250 photographs features food that’s good for you, good for life and good for the planet. The book is also about community, showcasing the group’s combined wisdom about growing and preparing the organic food that they share each day, living sustainably and leading compassionate lives. Chef Diane Hagedorn creates the group’s lunches in the kitchen of the Spiral House: a unique stone structure based on sacred geometry in Saugerties that was designed by artist Tom Gottsleben (http://tomgottsleben.com). The book’s recipes are selected from the varied dishes that Hagedorn creates daily. Many of Hagedorn’s creations are gluten-free.

Photographs in the book are by Andrea Barrist Stern.

The book is available for $29.99 at independent booksellers as well as at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and Indiebound.com. Visit the Spiral House blog, http://4goodness-sake.com, for organic gardening tips and articles on topics associated with the vegan lifestyle.

The Facebook Page is For Goodness Sake Cookbook: www.facebook.com/ forgoodnesssakecookbook.

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by Rich Moody Rick Moody, the celebrated author of Garden State, The Ice Storm, The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven, Purple America, The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions and other books, will read from his new novel, Hotels of North America, at Bard College on Monday afternoon, April 4.

The Wall Street Journal writes, “Rick Moody is one of the most prodigiously talented writers in America.” Moody will be introduced by novelist and Bard Literature professor Bradford Morrow.

The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center, and will be followed by a questionand-answer session. The event is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia

Universities. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Brooklyn.

For more information about this event, or to be placed on the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series e-mail list, call (845) 758-7054 or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.

Monumental Newburgh slide lecture on Sunday The Newburgh Historical Society welcomes members and guests on Sunday, April 3 for a slide presentation titled Monumental Newburgh.

Starting at 2 p.m., a panel led by Society member Tom Knieser will showcase the many beautiful sculptures and memorials installed in the city.

There is a story behind the motivation and creation of each public monument.

“In the years we traveled with our kids

19 to various cities, the outdoor sculptures became a part of the memory,” Knieser reflected on how he came to appreciate the topic. There are two dozen examples scattered throughout the City of Newburgh, which have become lasting elements of the city’s landscape offering unique lenses into a local heritage.

One noted 19th-century Newburgh sculptor, Henry Kirke Brown, designed monuments for the US Capitol and West Point. His sculpture of George Clinton – Revolutionary War general, first governor of New York and twice vice president of the US – once graced the Newburgh waterfront.

Architect John H. Duncan oversaw the construction of the imposing Tower of Victory at Washington’s Headquarters.

Duncan would be best-known for his Grant’s Tomb in Manhattan and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at the entrance to Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

Other works memorialize war veterans, volunteer firemen and Martin Luther King and honor those who fell victim to the terrorist attacks on September 11.

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like a World War II memorial that once sat at the foot of Broadway and a plaster model that honored Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne.

The speakers include Elyse B. Goldberg, historic site manager at Washington’s Headquarters; Mary McTamaney, City of Newburgh historian; and David McTamaney, veteran support advocate and a founding member of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh.

The forum will take place at the Captain David Crawford House, located at 189 Montgomery Street in Newburgh.

Admission costs $5 per person and is free to members of the Society. For more information, call (845) 561-2585 or visit www.newburghhistoricalsociety.com.

Library Journal honors Red Hook Library's Erica Freudenberger Erica Freudenberger, director of the Red Hook Public Library, has been named a “Mover and Shaker” in the li-

brary industry by the national publication Library Journal.

In its March 15, 2016 issue, the Library Journal named 54 outstanding professionals committed to providing excellent service and shaping the future of libraries. Freudenberger was selected because of her commitment to the profession, leadership at the Red Hook Public Library and ability to build community through collaboration and partnerships.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized by my peers,” said Freudenberger. “I’m blown away by the talents of my colleagues and am fortunate to be a part of such a creative profession. I’m incredibly lucky to serve such an amazing community.”

“This year’s class of 54 joins a group of talented professionals who are committed, passionate and invigorated – each alone and all together transforming the library world and the communities it impacts for the better,” said Rebecca T. Miller, editorial director of the Library Journal and the School Library Journal.

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Red Hook Public Library in 2010. Since then, the library has partnered with numerous local organizations, including the Town and Village of Red Hook, Red Hook Central School District, Red Hook Rotary, Red Hook Chamber of Commerce, Bard College, Historic Red Hook, Red Hook Community Arts Network and many others.

The 2016 Movers & Shakers were selected by the editors of the Library Journal, the profession’s leading trade magazine. The Red Hook Public Library has been serving the community of Red Hook and its need for lifelong learning since 1898. In 1935, the Library made its home in a mid-19th-century octagonal building based on the designs of Orson Squire Fowler. In 2013 and 2014, it was designated a five-star library by the Library Journal. The Library was chosen as a finalist for the Best Small Library in America award, given by the Library Journal and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2015.

SUNY-Ulster’s Food Truck Workshop SUNY-Ulster is offering a workshop titled “Food Truck Workshop” on Monday, April 11 from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Kingston Center at 94 Mary’s Avenue. The Hudson Valley food truck scene is booming, with new trucks popping up everywhere. If you have ever dreamed of running a food truck, this workshop might be for you.

Led by Heather Williams, sole proprietor of Pippy’s Hot Dog Truck (www.pippysfoodtruck.com), some of the topics covered will include: coming up with a concept and menu; acquiring a truck; permits and licensing; breaking into the food truck scene (festivals, catering, networking); and sourcing products.

The fee for this class is $49. To register, call (845) 339-2025 or go online to www. sunyulster.edu/ce.

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Oaks are in decline throughout the Northeast because many of our forestlands lack the young oaks needed for successful regeneration.

Explore the importance of oaks to wildlife and how land use practices set the stage for oak declines.

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Modernist mountain retreats Hudson Woods’ Drew Lang works to integrate architecture and nature in Kerhonkson

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udson Woods is a development of architect-designed homes that’s attracting the kind of buyer who despises developments. Located a few miles from the hamlet of Kerhonkson, on a remote, rocky, wooded 301 acres, Hudson Woods, when finished, will consist of 26 houses, each on a lot varying from three to 12 acres. Architectural design firm Lang Architecture, based in Manhattan, designed these modest-scaled shedlike structures to snuggle into their sites. In an article in the New York Observer, one of several prominent publications (including Architectural Digest and Dwell) that have profiled the housing project, Drew Lang, the principal of the firm, described Hudson Woods as “an antidevelopment approach. In essence the aim is to take away as little as possible from nature and build structures into the natural environment.”

“People don’t feel overwhelmed and have a reasonable amount of space to maintain,” Lang said. “At the same time, the spaces are open to the outdoors and feel larger than they are.”

Eighteen months since the houses went on the market, it’s an approach that’s clearly resonating with the New York “commercial creatives”: folks in fashion, photography, advertising, magazines and design seeking a weekend home, whom marketing director Mike Kolodesh identified as the target buyers. Despite an asking price ranging from $795,000 to $915,000, so far 14 houses have sold, and another four are in contract. Buyers can enhance the basic package with a choice of 44 upgrades, including a heated granite pool ($195,000, including a salt chlorination system and terraced landscaping), woodburning stove ($10,000), solar energy system (starts at $32,000), a separate porch ($155,000), architect-designed treehouse ($44,000), orchard ($16,500 for ten trees), a large vegetable garden ($15,500) and greenhouse ($30,000).

Hudson Woods also helps buyers out with the furniture. It has partnered with two dozen artisans, most based in the Hudson Valley or Brooklyn, whose handcrafted furniture – some made from reclaimed wood – glass light fixtures and cabinetry are showcased in the model house and on the developer’s website (http://hudsonwoods.com). Local companies include Sawkille Company and 100 Mile, which both have showrooms in Rhinebeck; Materia Designs, based in Kerhonkson; Fern and Samuel Moyer Furniture, both based in Hudson; and Beacon-based Wickham Solid Wood Studio.

Almanac Weekly's Lynn Woods recently asked lead architect Drew Lang some questions about Hudson Woods.

Lynn Woods: Is this your first housing project?

Drew Lang: Yes. We’re an architectural design firm that just happens to be a developer as well. Our past projects were smaller and involved one building.

We’ve done design consulting work in the Hudson Valley before. This is a very extensive project involving home construction, substantial infrastructure and sitework.

What brought you to Kerhonkson?

I developed a set of ideas, then set out on a search for property. I found myself coming back time and again to this area. The area is just gorgeous, and the natural beauty of this site is in a remote area approximate to

a town. It’s located in the middle of things: You can go down to Accord and Stone Ridge and over to Phoenicia. It’s farther out of the way, but from the Thruway it’s geographically a bit closer to the City than Woodstock.

Why 26 houses?

In order to reach the high level of quality at a good value we needed to be at this scale.

How would you describe the concept?

The integration of architecture and nature. Rather than wholesale removal of the natural elements on the site, we have intentionally retained the forest. We’re working at a scale that doesn’t overwhelm the landscape and using natural materials.

Doing it this way costs more and is more difficult, but it’s the only way to do it.

What has been the biggest challenge?

The infrastructure: building the road and running the electric services. We’ve put in a substantial storm drainage system.

The sites vary in configuration and size.

Was that part of the plan?

We bought the property already subdivided. That allowed us to hit the ground running. The lines were drawn in a thick forest, and bit by bit we had to clear each site. We didn’t know if we’d hit a rock ledge, and we did, on half of the excavations. There was so much rock we created our own mine. We crush the rock to create the gravel for the road. The quarry pit will become a pond for the owner of that lot.

Are all the houses essentially the same?

It’s the same footprint on every lot, and pretty much the same house, with a flip version of the other. However, they all end up being quite different, because of the site conditions: The views, the way the structure nestles into the land, the gable end of the house that’s solid ends up being different every time; sometimes it’s buried more in the earth and other times revealed.

When did you start construction?

In 2012/13. How we manage the process is incremental. It’s not that we’re doing anything that difficult, but every day it’s doing it a little bit differently. There’s no way to do this without taking great care and doing it slowly. Five houses have been completed, and the rest are in various stages of construction.

How many people do you employ?

We have an average of 20 to 30 people working on the site every day, and all are local. More than 50 people total have been working on the project. Jackson Hahne, who lives in Woodstock, is our on-site project manager.

The landscaping with the stone retaining walls at the model house is very attractive.

Most of those walls and pathways are part of the pool package. As part of the basic package, people get a deck and a transition from the house into the landscape, in some cases using stone from the site. Because the stone is local, it looks natural and is integrated into this place.

Which upgrades are most popular?

Half the buyers are purchasing the pool.

The woodstove is also very popular. Our furniture pieces, the kitchen pantry and island, built by local craftsmen, are also very popular.

Hudson Woods, inside and out

How did you choose the makers listed on your website and showcased in the model house?

It’s an eclectic mix that works well together. We source as much locally as we can, and found some great artisans in the area.

Where are you from? What influenced you to become an architect?

I’m from New Orleans, which provided a rich backdrop. My grandmother was a very visual person and had artists around her all the time. I went to Yale School of Architecture and was influenced by my teacher, Deborah Berke, who is a very accomplished architect about to become the dean of Yale’s architecture school.

Another influence was my teacher Steven Harris. What’s been retained and still endures is the visual vocabulary that was passed on by the Modernists.

How can a Modernist approach history?

We’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. I love historic buildings and am very influenced by them. I’m drawn to the texture, the atmosphere and the sense of history: qualities that I think can be brought to modern architecture.

What is your view of New Urbanism and contemporary buildings that mimic traditional architecture?

No one has the budget to build the way people used to build. Architects in recent decades have stripped back the

vocabulary…New Urbanism has fallen on its face. It can’t create history; cities have to evolve over a long period of time. If you create a sense of density and try to recreate history, it smacks of something false and looks like a stage set. Inevitably [the best way to enhance] a city’s fabric is reviving and integrating historic buildings.

Are you exploring other developments in the area?

I was looking at redeveloping a warehouse building in Kingston. But from the standpoint of rental housing, one couldn’t make the numbers work, since the building required a lot of remediation and the sales prices in Kingston are higher than I anticipated. Our next new housing development is located on a 600acre site of rolling pine forest in Oxford, Mississippi. It’s a lakeside property.

Are you pleased with the reception you’ve gotten for Hudson Woods?

People are really enjoying the houses. The approach we’re taking is not just how it looks and feels, but the story behind what we’re doing, and it’s appreciated. We really try to think through everything and make it fun and easy. So many times buying real estate is painful and awful.

– Lynn Woods For more information about Hudson Woods, visit www.hudsonwoods.com or call (212) 233-9187.

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730AM-830AM Zen Meditation Group. Free.

Everyone welcome for silent sitting, walking, and connection. Facilitators Doree Lipson & Meredith Johnson are Zen practitioners and meditation teachers, and will offer beginner instruction and support as needed and wanted. Ongoing. doreelipsonmsw@gmail.com / or verderosa@gmail.com.

Sanctuary, 5 Academy St, New Paltz.

8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906. 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 Rt 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-11:30AM Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

10AM-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.

10:30 AM-2 PM Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads - Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters. Info: www.tivolilibrary.org or 845-7573771. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli, $1.

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.

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.

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

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

1PM-2:30PM DREAMers Among US Examines Issues Faced by Undocumented Students. The 20-minute film will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers as well as former and current SUNY Ulster students. SUNY Ulster, Vanderlyn Hall, College Lounge, Stone Ridge, free.

3PM Gallery Talk by Laura Roosevelt,Artist and Roosevelt great-granddaughter; Paul Sparrow,Director, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum;& Herman Eberhardt,Supervisory Museum Curator, FDR Presidential Library and MuseumFranklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery,4079 Albany

4:30PM-5:30PM Meditation Support Group. meets every Thursday at Mirabai. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5.

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

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

5PM-8PM Upstate Venture Association of New York (UVANY) will host a forum highlighting the tech and investment trends of Hudson Valley.

SUNY New Paltz, Info: 603-289-9750 or emily@ uvany.org.

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

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

6PM-8PM Japanese Movie Night: Free Anme, Hunter X Hunter. Info: www.GKnoodles.com /845-255-8811. Gomen-Kudasai Japanese Noodle Restaurant, 232 Main St, New Paltz.

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

6PM-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 Music Appreciation Workshop. A series of informal discussions on the development of classical music in the 20th century. Info: 845-757-3771 or www.tivolilibrary.org. Tivoli Free Library, 86 Broadway, Tivoli.

7PM Book Reading: Robert LaPolt, author of The Area: Interesting Historical Events of Ulster and Sullivan Counties. Info: www.eltinglibrary.org.

Elting Memorial Library, Steinberg Community Room, New Paltz, free.

the Roosevelts’ large collection. Show will exhibit thru 4/30. Gallery hours are Info: 845-486-7745.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road Hyde Park. $9/ gen adm, $6/srs, & free/15 & under.

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

7PM Shall We Dance? Dance program developed and taught by Susan Slotnick. Convicted felons are sweeping the floor with dance moves taught by Susan. Film or live demo. Info: www.jewishcongregationofnewpaltz.org. Jewish Congregation of New Paltz, Community Center, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

6PM Beginning Tai Chi Chuan Class. This class will provide step-by-step instruction in the Yang Style Long Form, supplemented with qigong exercises. This is a 12-week series, but ongoing classes will be available for those who are interested in continuig beyond the 12 weeks. Meets on Thursdays, 6-7pm. $12 , with a $2 per-class discount if you sign up for the series. Pre-registration is helpful but not required. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

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.

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

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

7PM Film Screening of Tibet in Song, followed by Q&A with Director Ngawang Choephel. The first Tibetan film to win an award at the Sundance Film Festival, the film celebrates traditional Tibetan folk music and gives an engrossing account of Choephel’s six years as a political prisoner. Admission: Not charged. Event sponsored by the Music Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Human Rights Program & the Chaplaincy. At Olin 102, on Bard College Campus, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Contact: Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron, at gaffron@bard.edu.

7PM The 3rd Annual Spring Reading Series.

The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno. Directed by Sean Marrinan. Voice Theatre Ensemble featuring Megan Bones* Jon Lee Ron Morehead Christa Trinler.Reservations at 845- 679-0154. Tickets: $10 Cash only at the door Info: www.newworldhomecooking.com or 845-246-0900. New World Home Cooking, Rt 212, Saugerties.

7PM Celtic Night. Local musicians David, Susie, and Lauren will perform, and community members are invited to bring their favorite scones, soda bread, or other Irish treat for a baked goods potluck. Info: 845-266-5530. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Upstate Rubdown (Swing Folk). Opener: Steamboats. Info: 845-236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night.

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

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

7PM Book Reading: Marja Mills, author of The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee, the story of Mills’ friendship with the sisters.

Info: www.poklib.org, or 845-485-3445. Boardman Road Branch Library, 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie.

7PM A Community Reading Event. Local writers and poets from the Wallkill Writers Anthology and A Slant of Light will read and discuss their work. Refreshments will be served. Info: boughtonplace@gmail.com. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland.

10AM-12PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Fun Fridays in April. Explore the Peter’s Kill Area of Minnewaska. Hikes may be up to a mile and a half long. Pre-registration requested. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Gardiner, $10 /per car.

10AM-4PM Skyllkill Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Exhibit(4/1-4/3). The Exhibit contains over 230 + entries and also has a boutique of fine quality handmade items. There will demonstrations and lectures daily at 11am and 2:30pm. Info:egaSkyllkill@gmail.com. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

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

7:15PM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

7:30PM - 9PM Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Free, donations welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW Meets every Thursday, 7:30-9pm. Info:call Tony Parker @ (845) 706-2183 or www.goo.gl/xfzDc4.Family of Woodstock,16 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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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 The Phoenicia Jazz Series: “Spirited” with Joan Henry, Gus Mancini, Dennis Yerry, Rich Syracuse, Tom DePetris & Ruperto Ifil. This is the opening concert of the 2016 season. Info: 917-7838653 or www.phoeniciamusicseries.org. The Arts Upstairs Gallery, 60 Main St, Phoenicia.

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Millbrook Central School’s Annual Art Show.

Student Artwork will be on Display through 4/24.

Artist’s Reception April 17: 12-2pm. Info: 845-6775857 or visit www.merrittbookstore.com/ Merritt Bookstore, 57 Front St, Millbrook.

9AM-5PM Special Art Exhibition: “The Roosevelts’ Art: Personal Stories.” This temporary exhibit presents 22 works of art, selected from

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10:30AM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

11AM-1PM Assemblymember Kevin A. Cahill (D-Ulster, Dutchess) Mobil District Office Visit.

Representatives available to answer questions, provide information and discuss any concerns that constituents may have. Info: 845-338-7881.

Town of Ulster Library, 860 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

11:30AM-4:30PM Private Angelic Channeling Sessions with archangelic medium and trance channel Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $125 /90.

12PM Solarize Columbia County. A program that will make investing in solar power easier and more affordable for local residents and businesses. Info: 518-828-4417 or mail@columbiachamber-ny.com.

Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, 1 North St, Hudson.

12PM-2PM Opening Reception: “Creation.” Info: www.GOSTartists.org. Ulster Savings Bank, Rt. 44/55 and 208, Gardiner.

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

Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. $30 for 25 minute reading; $85 for 1 hour Chakra Energy Clearing; $120 for 90minute in-depth Astrology reading. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $125 /90.

1:30PM-2:15PM “Storytime in the Museum.” Free, art-related storytime programs. The programs will be held on Fridays, April 1, May 13, and June 3. Info: 845-437-7745. Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, free.

3PM Truthworker Theater Company presents Bar Code. A Performative Analysis of the Schoolto-Prison Pipeline, written by the company and directed by Samara Gaev. Info: 845-473-5046 or www.enjan.org. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 & 12 Vassar St, Poughkeepsie, free.

4PM Knitting Club “Knit Wits.” Saugerties Public Library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 845-2464317, x 3.

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.

4PM-5PM Math Circle. Featuring math games, math-related crafts, etc. No sign-up necessary.

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

4:30PM-6:30PM Gardiner Summer Recreation Registration. 6-week summer camp open to Gardiner residents and non-residents as well.

For more information, go to townofgardiner.org .

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All ages, with parents.

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

4:30PM Red Hook Public Library’s annual Peep-O-Rama! The library will provide plenty of materials to make dioramas for Peeps, the seasonal

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Highlights April with the Radiant Glow and Steam treatment.

Enjoy a sugar scrub, steam bath and an application of shea butter that leaves your skin with a radiant glow.

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marshmallow treats. This event is open to all ages, although small children may need a parent’s help.

Info: 845-758-3241 orwww.redhooklibrary.org.

Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

4:30PM Teen Night. 1st & 3rd Friday of each month. Young Adult Program. Info: 845-338-5580 Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

5PM-7PM Launch Party. Be the first to taste the 2016 brew. Meet the brewmasters, and enjoy chef paired hors d’oeuvres. Info: 845-485-2739. Mill House Brewing Company, 289 Mill St, Poughkeepsie, $50.

5PM-7PM Art Opening: Hands-on Art: Artifact and Industry.Art-in-Education Program at Women’s Studio Workshop. On display will be the prints and pulled paper of 75 young artists from the Kingston City School District, including fourth graders from Harry L. Edson Elementary School and eighth graders from M. Clifford Miller Middle School. Their new bodies of work were developed over several full day visits to WSW’s professional studio facilities. Show runs thru 5/2. Free & open to the public. Light refreshments served. Cioni Building, Kingston City School Distinct Administrative Building,61 Crown St, Kingston.

5PM-7PM Johnny Longhair. Info: 845-679-3484.

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

Foolin.” Presented by Live Well Kingston. Light fare and music by Wyld Blu. Also, a photo booth, a mystery photo shoot, and a planned bike ride winding through uptown Kingston. Info: www. livewellkingston.org or 845-340-3990. Outdated, an antique Café, Wall St, Kingston, $25.

7PM-9PM Sitar Concert. An evening of beautiful Indian Classical Music in the sanctuary of Shanti Mandir. Info: www.shantimandir.com or 845-778-1008. Shanti Mandir, 51 Muktananda Marg, Walden, $25, $10 /student.

7PM Women’s History Slam. Celebrate the rich tradition of women writers, poets and storytellers.

Hudson Valley writers will share excerpts from their own work, as well as read selections from women writers or poets who have inspired their own writing. Info: 845-758-6500.Taste Budds Café, 40 Market St, Red Hook, free.

7PM Crime $ Punishment. A night of literary readings to celebrate the release of Sean Beaudoin’s new short story collection Welcome Thieves.

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: 518678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7PM-10PM Blues Happy Hour - The B-Boyz. 7 pieces of funk, soul and rock & roll. No cover, 21+.

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

7PM -9:30PM Dialog, Jazz, Classical, Rock, Hip Hop, Latin. Gomen-Kudasai Japanese Noodle Shop / 232 Main Street, New Paltz / www.GKnoodles.com or www.GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: The Funk Junkies. Info: 845-236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon,

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6PM-7:30PM Lecture. Seed Saving Workshop and Seed Swap. Learn about how to save open pollinated garden seeds. Attendees are encouraged to bring their leftover or saved seed to swap with others. Info: www.midhudsonheritage.org or 845214-1113. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main St, Poughkeepsie, free.

6PM Book Signing & Reading by Barbara Roether, author of This Earth You’ll Come Back.

Bard College Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center, 4604 Rt 9G, Red Hook. Info: 845-7587054. free and open to the public.

6PM-8PM Feeding Your Demons: Guided Meditation and Mask Making Workshop. Participants will be guided, by Nava Silverstein, through a meditation in a safe and supportive environment to venture into the depths of their psyche through mask making. Reg reqr’d.Info: unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559. Unison Learning Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $35.

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5:30PM-7:30PM Magical Card Gaming Night. On the first Friday of every month for Magic, Yugioh and Pokemon card tournament. Ten and under must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Heather at hrobertspt@gmail.com for more information.

Phoenicia Library, Main St, Phoenicia.

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

Numerous readers. Hosted by sing-songwriter Stephanie St. John. Info: 845-443-4866. Tech Smiths, Anvil Gallery, 45 N Front St, Kingston.

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Film Screening of Tibet in Song(3/31, 7pm), followed by Q&A with Director Ngawang Choephel. The first Tibetan film to win an award at the Sundance Film Festival, the film celebrates traditional Tibetan folk music and gives an engrossing account of Choephel’s six years as a political prisoner. Admission: Not charged. Event sponsored by the Music Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Human Rights Program & the Chaplaincy. At Olin 102, on Bard College Campus, Annandale-onHudson, NY. Contact: Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron, at gaffron@ bard.edu.

Tibetan Music Concert - Ngawang Choephel (4/1, 8pm) will perform traditional Tibetan folk songs from his film and CD Tibet in Song. Preceded the day before by a screening of his film at Bard College, with Director’s Q&A. Concert admission: $15. At The Tibetan Center. Tickets at the door. Sponsored by DLMWeb. Contact: Patterson Schackne at 845-383-1774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston.

Ashokan Talent & Woodstock Music Lab presents STICK MEN (4/12,7pm) featuring Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter. Fresh off the wildly successful King Crimson World Tour, it's opening night of the PROG NOIR Tour.

Doors open 6pm, show at 7pm. Tickets: $20 adv/$25 day of show (gen adm).

Special Guests: Bernier & DeCarlo and the Paul Green Rock Academy Show band Advance tickets: www.ashokantalent.com. Woodstock Music Lab 1700 Sawkill Road, Kingston.

Register Now! 15th Annual Integrative Medicine Cancer Conference (4/17, 8:30am-4pm). Offering workshops and guest speakers. Lunch & vendors. Visit “The Doctor Is In.” To register visit BreastCancerOptions.org or call 845-339-HOPE. SUNY New Paltz, Lecture, New Paltz.

Sign Up Now! Kiwanis Kingston Classic. Race date: April 23. Details & Info: www.kiwaniskingstonclassic.com.

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Coach House Players presents Neil

Simon's California Suite. Show dates are April 8, 9, 15 & 16 at 7:30 pm & April 10 & 17 at 2 pm. For ticket reservations call 845-331-2476 or on line at www. coachhouseplayers.org. Ticket prices are $20, with $18 for seniors 62 and over and children 12 and under. Coach House Players 12 Augusta St. Kingston.

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington Events. This historic theater offers music, dance, theater, opera, movies and family programs. Info: 413-528-0100 or www.mahaiwe.org/.

Camp Belly Rub (4/2, 11AM-1PM )!

Your Dog’s Social Network. Dog Day Care Opening! Call now for evaluation appointments! Info:Campbellyrub.dog or 845-514-2727. Camp Belly Rub, Rt 32, 853 Flatbush Rd, Kingston.

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 fiveday 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 | 845-6790154 |www. voicetheatre.org.

Audition Notice: STS Playhouse Phoenicia. Casting 2 females - age 25-50 and 30-40 for Angel Intrudes and the The Stronger. 3 males- age 15-18, 30-40 for Witch of Coos and Tatters.

Performance Dates are June 10-12. Call Susanne Traub 845-657-2189.

Senior Writing Workshop Welcomes New Members. Writers at all levels of experience, beginner to expert, are invited to join the Writers Workshop of the Woodstock Senior Recreation Program. Whether interested in nonfiction, short stories, plays, memoir, or

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7PM “First Friday” Concert with Rachel Loshak.

Benefit for the AWARENESS Inc Peer to Peer Prevention/Early Intervention Drug and Alcohol Program. Info: 845-679-2336. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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.

7:30PM The Bardavon’s Friday Film Series: Out of Africa (1985). Starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Filmed in Africa. Pre-show Wurlitzer Organ music provided by New York Theatre Organ Society (NYTOS) beginning one-half hour prior to the film. Info:845-473-2072. Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $6.

7:30PM Coleman Musical Theatre presents Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” Info: 845-3382750. Coleman High School, 430 Hurley Ave, Hurley, $16, $11 /under 12.

9:30 PM Black Mtn Symphony Info: 845-6793484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8PM Truthworker Theater Company presents Bar Code. A Performative Analysis of the Schoolto-Prison Pipeline, written by the company and directed by Samara Gaev. Info: 845-473-5046 or www.enjan.org. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 & 12 Vassar St, Poughkeepsie, free.

8PM Tibetan Music Concert - Ngawang Choephel will perform traditional Tibetan folk songs from his film and CD Tibet in Song. Preceded the day before by a screening of his film at Bard College, with Director’s Q&A. Concert admission: $15. At The Tibetan Center. Tickets at the door. Sponsored by DLMWeb. Contact: Patterson Schackne at 845-3831774. The Tibetan Center, 875 Rt 28, Kingston.

8PM A Fool’s Cabaret. An evening of tomfoolery and surprises featuring soundscapes, live video projection, multimedia, music, spoken word, dance and theatrical performance. Info: 845-469-9459.

Seligmann Center at the Citizens Foundation, Sugar Loaf.

8PM Man About Town: The Wit and Wisom of Noel Coward with Musical Director Erich Rausch.

Part of Tom Andersen’s Words & Music : The Songbook Series. Admission is $20 per person, $10 for patrons age 21 and under, and tickets can be prepurchased at BrownPaperTickets.com or by calling them at 1-800-838-3006Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy,44 West Bridge St, Catskill.

poetry, writers age 55 and above may join the group, which meets in the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Road,Woodstock from 10:30am-12:30 pm. on Wednesdays as follows: April 13 & 27; May 11 and 25; June 8 and 22.The workshop stresses trying out new forms and content in a supportive atmosphere. No fee is required. The workshop is led by experienced writer, editor, and instructor Lew Gardner.Info: 845- 679-2880.

Audition Notice: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Auditions held 5/14 at 1pm & 5/14 at 7pm.

Callbacks: 5/16 at 7pm at The Center for Performing Arts, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. All roles are open. No appointment necessary. Prepare 32 bars of a song in the style of the show. Bring a copy of your sheet music for the accompanist. Be prepared to list all rehearsal conflicts. Performance dates: 7/ 29 -8/21. Further information email upinoneprod@aol.com.

Gardiner Summer Recreation Registration(4/1, 4:30 - 6:30 pm & 4/2, 10 am - 12 pm). 6-week summer camp open to Gardiner residents and nonresidents as well. For more information, go to townofgardiner.org.

Bus Trip to the Neue Galerie in Manhattan for an exhibit of Edvard Munch and Expressionism (4/13, 8am-5:30pm). Hosted by the Starr Library. $65 per person, which includes round-trip bus service from Starr Library to The Neue Galerie in Manhattan, entrance fee, and private group tour of the exhibit.Register at 845-876-4030 or at Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

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.

lenge 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 Rt 28, Mount Tremper.

Register Now: 2nd Annual Walkway Marathon Race. Scheduled for June 11 & 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.

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.

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.

The Mid Hudson Community Orchestra. New members needed-French Horn, Oboe, Trumpet, viola, cello and bass. Concert dates April 27 and May 13.

Rehearsing Wednesdays, 7:30 -9:30PM. Info: 845-876-2765. SUNY Dutchess, Dutchess Hall, Poughkeepsie.

Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s Adult Vaccines. Info: 845-486-3535 or www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/ Departments/Aging. Dutchess County.

Platte Clove Artist in Residence Program Accepting Applications. A

retreat for artists, working in a variety of disciplines, located in the living landscape where American art began. The residency is open to visual artists and performing artists who have an affinityfor the natural world. The residencies run from July through September.

Applications are due by 4/8. Contact: Katie Palm: 845-586-2611or kpalm@ catskillcenter.org. The Catskill Center, Rt 28, www.catskillcenter.org, Arkville.

Call for Entries: 13th Annual Athens Cultural Center Members Exhibition.

Artists are invited to submit interpretations of “Greene” or “Green”. celebrate our beautiful Greene County, the color green, or “going green” with recycled art.

Drop off: 4/9. Info:www.athensculturalcenter.org. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second St, Athens.

Teen Photo Contest. Submission deadline: March 30th. For photographers in grades 8 through 12. Photos can be black and white or in color and must be taken in New Paltz. Categories include Portrait, Landscape, and Other.

Info: 845-255-5030. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz.

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 Open Mic Performers (4/29) .All singers, musicians, poets, comedians, magicians and other performance artists are invited to sign up for this fun evening sponsored by High Meadow School.Performers can sign up by emailing debbie@highmeadowschool. org. Barnes & Noble, 1177 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

The Annual Rock and Snow “Bridge 2 Bridge” Five Mile Run(4/9). Hosted by the Shawangunk Runners and all the proceeds will benefit Mohonk Preserve. Pre-registration is required.

Call 845-255-0919 or www.mohonkpreserve.org/rock-and-snow-bridge-2bridge-run. MohonkPreserve, Spring Farm Trailhead, High Falls.

Dutchess County Office for the Aging’s Adult Vaccines. Info: 845-486-3535 or www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/ Departments/Aging. Dutchess County.

Register Now! 2016 New Paltz Chal-

8PM Community Playback Theatre. Improvisations of audience stories. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road, Highland. $10/ sugg ested donation.

Info: 845-883-0392.

8PM Fran Lebowitz: A Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn. Humorist and quintessential New Yorker Fran Lebowitz reflects on American life - from pet peeves to timely issues - in conversation. Info: www.fishercenter.bard.edu or 845-7587900. Bard College, Richard B. FisherCenter for the Performing Arts, Sosnoff Theater, Annandaleon-Hudson, $25.

9PM The Mountain Goats. Info: www.bearsvilletheater.com. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Woodstock, $25.

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8AM-5PM Splash! One-day Event for Middle and High School Students. Classes will be taught by Marist students. They range from how to make ice-cream, using liquid nitrogen and cooking cheap meals fast, to how to “take over the world!” Reg reqr’d. Info:marist.learningu.org/learn/index. html. Marist College, Student Center, Poughkeepsie, $10, $5 /optional lunch.

9AM-1PM American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and Heartsaver Skills Testing Day. This class handles Part 2 and Part 3 of the course, where participants are required to practice and test skills with a certified instructor. Reg reqr’d. Info:845-475-9742 Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, $50.

9AM Jenkinstown Antiques Spring Cleaning Sale( 4/2 & 4/3). Specializing in Antiques from the mid-Hudson valley included in the sale will be many 18th or early 19th century pieces of Hudson Valley. Paintings, as well. Info: 845-255-4876.

Jenkintown Antiques, 520 Rt 32, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-4876.

9AM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-6582239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

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 Rte 212, Woodstock.

10AM-4PM Skyllkill Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Exhibit (4/1-4/3). The Exhibit contains over 230 + entries and also has a boutique of fine quality handmade items. There will demonstrations and lectures daily at 11am and 2:30pm. Info:egaSkyllkill@gmail.com. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-12PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Pond Study for Kids! learn about the amazing amphibians that live here. Children will make their own frog mask, learn about amphibian habitats and visit vernal pools. For 7-10. Pre-registration reqr’d. Info: 845-255-0752.Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Peter’s Kill Park Office, Gardiner, $10 /per car.

10AM Celebrating the Saw Kill: 175 Years of Scenic Preservation. Keynote address by David P. Schuyler of Franklin & Marshall College entitled “Montgomery Place: An Enchanted Landscape.”

Space is limited and must be reserved. Please RSVP: civic@bard.edu. Bard College, Montgomery Place Campus, Annandale-on-Hudson.

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

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

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

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

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

10AM-11:30AM Coffee with a Cop. Shandaken Chief of Police Chad Storey will be on hand to answer the questions you’ve always wanted to ask a cop. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

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 Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

10:30AM-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 845-6887811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

11AM-4PM Weekend Tours at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. 150-acre life-long sanctuary for rescued farm animals . Learn about vegan living.

A new visitors center and cafe, open to the public for tours on weekends from 11am-4pm through October. $10/adults, $5/kids; group tours & private vegan events (including weddings) during the week. Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, 2 Rescue Road (formerly Epworth Lane) High Falls. Info: 845-247-5700 or www.woodstocksanctuary.org.

11AM Saturday Morning Family Series: Barefoot Dance Company. This company of young dancers will perform several innovative modern dance pieces in a delightful concert. Info: 845-8763080. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck.

11AM-12:30PM LEGO Club. Ages 4-14. Children are challenged to create LEGO crafts. Registration Required. Info: 845-679-6405 or whplib.org. West HurleyLibrary, 42 Clover St, West Hurley.

11AM-3PM World War I Commemoration. There will be various demonstrations of military life and equipment. You will be able to witness several re-enactors representing this noteworthy time period in our history. Info: www.thepurpleheart. com or 845-782-8248. MuseumVillage, Monroe, $12, $10 /senior, $8 /4-12.

11AM-1PM Camp Belly Rub! Your Dog’s Social Network. Dog Day Care Opening! Call now for evaluation appointments! Info:Campbellyrub.dog or 845-514-2727. Camp Belly Rub, Rt 32, 853 Flatbush Rd, Kingston.

11:30AM Penny Social. Calling will be at 1pm.

Many “finds” or “treasures”. Info: 845-9017241. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Main St, Saugerties.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Trout Weekend: “Meet the Trout” presentation at 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. Feeding time for Brook Trout at 1:30 p.m. & 3 p.m. Fun activities and stories plus crafts for kids. Info: hhnm.org or 845-5345506. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

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-2PM Book Signing by local Artist Melissa McGill, author of Constellation. Info: www.bosco-

theater previews Critical mass Bard’s Fisher Center presents Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Fran Lebowitz

For Bard College literature and theater students, the bad news is that superstar fantasy author Neil Gaiman is taking a year off from his teaching duties to write his next novel. The good news for all mid-Hudsonites is that his successful series of onstage chats with leading lights of American culture (and subculture) at the Fisher Center will continue this spring and fall. Taking the interviewing helm in Gaiman’s absence is the much-awarded author/journalist/literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who holds the Charles Ranlett Flint Humanities professorship at Bard. And the subject of his first “Conversation with…” on Friday evening will be none other than acclaimed cultural satirist Fran Lebowitz.

Often compared to Dorothy Parker for her quintessential-New-Yorker sensibility and her noholds-barred acid wit, Lebowitz got her start as a writer with a regular column in Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. She mastered the art of the succinct, sarcastic put-down early on, and by 1981 had published two best-selling collections of curmudgeonly essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. If you’re lucky, you didn’t appear in any of them.

Since then, Lebowitz polished her reputation as a social pundit with frequent appearances on Late Night with David Letterman; portrayed a judge for six years on Law and Order; made Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List; became a well-known advocate for smokers’ rights; wrote a children’s book titled Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas; was the subject of a documentary by Martin Scorsese; had a cameo appearance in The Wolf of Wall Street; and struggled for many years with a very public case of writer’s block, trying to complete her (still-unfinished) novel Exterior Signs of Wealth.

Gender, race, gay rights, the media, celebrity culture, tourists, parenting, aging, New York politicians, health food, exercise, urban housing, multiculturalism…all are fair game to come under the Lebowitz scalpel. “Fran Lebowitz’s trademark is the sneer; she disapproves of

bel.org/visit/museum-shop/. Boscobel House and Gardens, Gift shop, Garrison.

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.

12:45PM - 1:30PM New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets. We are now in our 15th year of standing for peace and justice.

1PM-2:30PM Gluten-Free Cooking with Elizabeth Barbone. Learn about gluten free cooking from the author of Easy Gluten-Free Baking, How to Cook Gluten-Free, and the World’s Easiest Paleo Baking.

Registration Required. Info: 845-679-6405 or whplib.org. West Hurley Library, 42 Clover St, West Hurley.

1PM-5PM High Meadow School Bright Ideas Festival, A showcase of invention, creativity, & problem solving for all ages! Solar Telescopes, Natrual crafts with Wild Earth, Geography Challenge, Robotics, Maker Corner, 3D Printing, Food.

Info: www.highmeadowschool.org or845-6874855. High Meadow School, 3643 Main St, Stone Ridge, free.

1PM-5PM Qigong & Yoga of Vision Workshop.

Yoga of Vision was developed by Dr. Mark Grossman. Elixir Light Qigong, presented by Dan Kowakofski, was founded by Master Robert Peng, Workshop will include a lecture by Dr. Grossman.

Info: www.nychealer.com or 845- 338-0101.Living Seed Yoga Center, 521 Main St, New Paltz, $45 /

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1PM The Met: Live in HD 2015/16 Season: Madame Butterfly. Puccini’s masterpiece. Info: 845-339-.6088. will be broadcast simultaneously

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virtually everything except sleep, cigarette smoking and good furniture,” The Paris Review has written about her. “Her essays and topical interviews…have come to be regarded as classics of literary humor and social observation.”

Besides a wealth of barbed one-liners, the audience at the Fisher Center on April 1 can look forward to discovering the raconteurial talents of Daniel Mendelsohn. An internationally bestselling author, award-winning critic and essayist and columnist for Harper’s, he has been dubbed “arguably the best writer and critic at work today” by The New York Review of Books and “a brilliant storyteller” by The Times of London.

“Fran Lebowitz: A Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn” begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 1, in the Sosnoff Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, located on the Bard College campus, just off Route 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson.

Tickets cost $25 and can be ordered online at http:// fishercenter.bard.edu or by calling the box office at (845) 758-7900.

“Fran Lebowitz: A Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn,” Friday, April 1, 8 p.m., $25, Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; (845) 7587900, http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Of love and lepidoptera Bardavon & UPAC to simultaneously screen Met's Madama Butterfly

Usually, when the Bardavon presents one of its very popular opera screenings from The Met: Live in HD, it’s shown at one or the other of the two sister theaters – more often than not at Bardavon 1869 Opera House, but sometimes at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) instead. For Saturday’s performance of Madama Butterfly, however, audiences get their pick of both venues, as Giacomo Puccini’s tragic masterpiece will be screened simultaneously in Poughkeepsie and

at both Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie and Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $27, $20 /12 & under.

2PM Matinee at the Shadowland: A Chump at Oxford. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in their classic feature. Chapter Three of Captain Marvel.

Info: www.shadowlandtheatre.org Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St, Ellenville, $10, $7 /child.

2PM Arm of the Sea Theater: Rejuvenary River Circus. A story about the life of a river. featuring gorgeous masks and puppet characters, a unique hand-made set and live original music. Info: phoenicialibrary.org. Phoenicia Elementary School, School Ln & Route 214, Phoenicia.

2PM Gallery Talk by Andrew Lyght, artist & Tumelo Mosaka, exhibition curator. Info: www. newpaltz.edu/museum SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

2PM Garden Talk by Carolyn Summers, author of Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East. Info: www.timeandthevalleysmuseum. org. Time and The Valleys Museum, St. Rt. 55, Grahamsville.

2PM Friends of Historic Saugerties: Life in a Dutch Country Town. An informal talk by Marilou Abramshe. Delve into the life and times of the inhabitants of Wiltwyck to learn about the economics, government, culture, and attitudes of the Dutch in New Netherlands.Info: 845-246-4317.

Saugerties Public Library, Community Room, Saugerties.

2PM-4PM Storybook - Crafts for Adults. Materials supplied. $5/donation. Meets 1st Saturday of each month. Woodstock Dutch Reformed Church, Tinker St, Woodstock.

2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going.

Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute

Kingston at 1 p.m. on April 2.

This is the first time that the Metropolitan Opera is bringing Butterfly live to the screen, in Anthony Minghella’s critically acclaimed 2006 production with Karel Mark Chichon conducting. It stars Kristine Opolais as Cio-Cio-san, Roberto Alagna as Pinkerton, Maria Zifchak as Suzuki and Dwayne Croft as Sharpless. Classical music maven Leslie Gerber’s pre-show talk will occur at 12:30 p.m. as usual, live at the Bardavon and via Skype at UPAC. Tickets for Madama Butterfly cost $27 general admission, $25 for Bardavon members and $20 for children aged 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; or through Ticketmaster (no member discount available) at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more on this program or future The Met: Live in HD broadcasts, visit https://bardavon.org.

Belly laughs Comedy gala benefits Rondout Valley Food Pantry this Saturday at Saugerties’ Diamond Mills Hotel All it takes to get some people grumpy is a drop in blood sugar, and going hungry when finances run short is definitely no laughing matter. Luckily, charitable organizations like the Rondout Valley Food Pantry (RVFP) are around to put smiles on a lot of needy faces. For those of us lucky enough never to have to go without food, RVFP’s fundraising gala this Saturday, called “Comedy Night of the Stars,” will do the same.

Hosted by the Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern in Saugerties, this star-studded evening will feature Kingston native Rich Shultis; standup comedian Jimmy Q, producer of Like2Laugh Productions; Kerhonkson’s Verna Gillis, whose one-older-woman show, Tales from Geriassic Park, won Best Comedic Script of 2014 in the United Solo Theatre Festival; comic actress and 2013 “Hudson Valley’s Funniest Person” finalist 2013 Julie Novak; and humor author Patrick Carlin, who took up the comedic mantle of his late brother George.

The April 2 fundraiser begins with a 7 p.m. reception featuring tapas and desserts, a cash bar, a silent auction and a MAD Magazine retrospective exhibit. The live comedy entertainment will begin at 8 p.m. and run until around 10. In addition to funding day-to-day operations, the profits from this fundraiser will allow RVFP to begin planning for necessary expansion of the Pantry space.

Advance tickets for the “Comedy Night of the Stars” cost $60 per person and are available at www. comedynightofthestars.com or www.brownpapertickets. com/event/2149157, or by calling Rod Basten at (845) 594-9214. No tickets will be sold at the door. The Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern is located at 25 South Partition Street in Saugerties.

– Frances Marion Platt

class requires no previous meditation experience.

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

2PM Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Chapter Event - Raptor Presentation. An educational presentation of raptors - birds such as hawks and owls - presented by Annie Mardiney.

Res suggested. Info: www.MidHudsonADK.org.

Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland.

itage.org or 845- 214-1113. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main St, Poughkeepsie, free.

5PM-7PM Wine & Cheese Artists’ Reception: Looking Back- 40 Years, 40 Artists, an invitational show. Show runs thru 5/21. Info: 845-255-1241 or markgrubergallery.com. Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz.

5PM-8PM Rhinebeck ArtWalk. Every third Saturday of each month, 5-8pm. Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

2PM Gallery Talk: Arlen Schumer. Topic: The relationship between Art & Comic Book Art. Held in conjunction with theexhibition Comic Art: Fantasy and Imagination. Info: www.safeharbors.org/ann-street-gallery/ Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann St, Newburgh.

5PM Truthworker Theater Company presents In|Prism: Boxed In and Blacked Out in America, which deals with the issue of solitary confinement.

Res suggested. Info: 845-473-5046 or www.enjan. org. Vassar College, Spitzer Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, free.

4PM John Burroughs Spring Lecture. Stephen Silverman, author of The Catskills: Its History and How it Changed America, will give a talk on John Burroughs’ role in the region and his relationship with another famous Roxbury native son, Jay Gould. Info: Woodchucklodge.org.Catskill Center, 43355 State Hwy 28, Arkville.

5PM-8PM Opening Reception: Jacob Roesch.

Info: 845-594-4428. Cornell Street Studios, Main Gallery, 168 Cornell St, Kingston.

4PM-7PM Opening Reception: Photogray by Audrey Steinhorn. Exhibitsthrough 4/30. Info: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library, Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

4PM-6PM Opening Reception: Active Members Small Works Show. Youth Exhibition - Woodstock Primary School Show. Exhibits through 5/1.

Info: 845-679-2940 or woodstockart.org. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, 28 Tinker St, Woodstock.

4PM-5:30PM Lecture. Organic Recycling and Sustainability Agents. Home composting, vermicomposting (with red wigglers!), and bokashi are methods to convert household organic materials into valuable compost. Info: www.midhudsonher-

5:00-7:00 Oriole9 restaurant presents its 99th Monthly Art Show Opening Reception.

In a special solo show, Jose Acosta (a very well known Cuban-American artist who lives in our area) will exhibit many of his exuberantly designed and extraordinarily colorful paintings. Winner of many prestigious awards it is a great honor to have him show so many of his works in our local venue.

Oriole9 is located at 17 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. All shows are curated by Lenny Kislin. Info: 845- 679-8117.

5PM-7PM Senate Garage Opening Celebration.

Kingston’s newest event venue -circa 1921. Celebration will be accompanied by a solo sculpture and installation exhibition by S.B. Woods. Show exhibits through 4/10. Info: www.senategarage. com/ Senate Garage, 4 N. Front St, Kingston.

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with Marylyn Vanderpool and Elizabeth Ocskay.

Introducing emerging artist Chuck Tudor. Exhibits through 4/30. Info: www.WallkillRiverSchool.com or 845-457-278 Wallkill River School Art Gallery, 232 Ward St, Wallklill.

Transgender Individuals. Educational forum encompassing topics of LGBT healthcare relevance.

Info: kdoyle@chahec.org or 845-883-7260. Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lecture Hall 60, 60 Prospect Ave, Middletown.

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.

6PM Concert Series and Open Mic Series.

Featured performer Pete Santora. Begins with a pot luck dinner at 6 pm followed by an open mic at 6:45 pm. Attendees are encouraged to bring a dish, an appetite and harmonies. Info: info@ timhuntermusic.com or 845-255-1255 or www. gardinerlibrary.org.The Gardner Library, 133 Farmer’s Tnpk, Gardiner.

8AM-4PM 3D Archery Lovers! 3D Outdoor Archery Shoot. Registration on site - day of shoot. $15 Adults; 16 and under free.Breakfast & lunch available (not included in registration fee). Info: www.highwoodssc.com/.High Woods Sportsmen's Club, 870 Church Rd, Woodstock.

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. WoodstockSchool of Art, Woodstock, $20 /session, $50 /4 classes.

6PM Reading by M.E. Hughes, editor “Letting Go: An Anthology of Attempts.” The readers include George Farrell of Ulster County, Kerry Guerin, Maria Ostrowski, and Dr. Carolyn WolfGould. Info: 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

7PM Ars Choralis will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’s compelling work for chorus and orchestra Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace). Info: www.arschoralis.org, Holy Cross Church, Pine Grove Ave, Kingston, $20, $10 /18 & under.

7PM-11:30PM Acoustic Only Open Mic. The Gallery,128 Main St Stamford.

7PM-10PM Comedy Night Of The Stars. A Benefit for the Rondout Valley Food Pantry and includes a sumptuous Dessert Reception and Open Bar. Res reqr’d. Info: 845-594-9214. Diamond Mills, 25 South Partition St, Saugerties, $60.

7PM-8:30PM Third Saturday Christian Open Mic (Coffee House). Come play or to listen. Meets every third Doors open 6:30pm. Acoustic solo, duo, groups welcome, perform original Christian songs & hymns. Hosted by Patrick Dodge.Refreshments available. Free willoffering for Smile Train - info:www.smiletrain.org. Overlook United Methodist Church, 233 Tinker St, Info: patrickdodgemusic@yahool.com, Woodstock.

7PM Saturday Night Live Music & Noodles: Gold Hope Duo, Rockabilly 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.

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 The Falcon Underground presents Dead on the Tracks (Greatful Dead Interpreters). Info: 845-236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM Coleman Musical Theatre presents Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” Info: 845-3382750. Coleman High School, 430 Hurley Ave, Hurley, $16, $11 /under 12.

7:30PM-10:30PM Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Come alone or bring friends. Caller: Melanie Axel-Lute.Band: Tiddely Pom: Sue Polansky, clarinet, Katie Jeannotte, piano, Stewart Dean, concertina. Workshop at 7pm. Wear comfortable shoes. Potluck refreshments atbreak. Info: 845-679-8587. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Rd off 9W, Port Ewen, $10, $5 /ft student.

7:30PM Big Apple Lindy Hoppers Performance Troupe will perform at the monthly Swing Dance hosted by Linda and Chester Freeman. Beginner lesson at 7:30pm. Dance from 8 to 10:30pm.

Performance at 9pm. Info: www.got2lindy.com/ Mac Fitness, 743 E. Chester St, Kingston, $10.

7:30PM Kingston Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild 2015-2016 CoffeeHouse Series. Open mic format (sign-up 7pm) before and after the featured performers, Open Book. Info: 845-3367797. Unitarian Fellowship, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

7:30PM Uli Jon Roth. Info: 845-471-1966. The Chance, 6 Crannell St, Poughkeepsie, $30, $20.

8PM Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew. Info: 845-6589048. The Rosendale Café, Rosendale, $10.

8PM Live From Nashville. A song and dance spectacular, a fully costumed and choreographed theatrical production. Info: 845-938-4159 or www. ikehall.com. West Point, Eisenhower Hall Theatre, West Point.

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

8:30PM Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express. Info: 845-687-2699 High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, High Falls.

9PM Honky-Tonk Americana Festival Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue, a mini-festival of regional Americana and honky-tonk performers hosted by “Sauerkraut” Seth Travins. Featuring Chops and Sauerkraut and Two Gun Man. Info: helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800. Club Helsinki Hudson,405 Columbia St,Hudson. Info: info@ helsinkihudson.com or helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

9 PM Michael Bernier / Paul Green Rock Academy. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

9:30PM Of The Atlas. The Stable Gentleman.

Dan Shapiro. Info: 845-853-8124 The Anchor, 744-746 Broadway, Kingston.

Sunday

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8AM-1PM Health Professions Seminars: Improving Healthcare to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and

9AM Jenkinstown Antiques Spring Cleaning Sale( 4/2 & 4/3). Specializing in Antiques from the mid-Hudson valley included in the sale will be many 18th or early 19th century pieces of Hudson Valley. Paintings, as well. Info: 845-255-4876.

Jenkintown Antiques, 520 Rt 32, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-4876.

9AM-4PM Antique Post Card Show & 100th Anniversary of the National Park Display.One of the Largest Post Card Show In Upstate NY. Hosted by the Kaaterskill Post Card Club. Door Prize. Info: 845-383-0061. Midtown Neighborhood Center, 467 Broadway, Kingston, $3.

9AM Heritage Trail Audubon Field Trip. Walk the edge of the sanctuary on a nice level path with leader Lynn Barber. Info: 845-744-6047, www. orangecountynyaudubon.org. Heritage Trail, 6 « Station Rd, Goshen.

9:30AM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

10AM-12PM Gardiner Summer Recreation Registration. 6-week summer camp open to Gardiner residents and non-residents as well. For more information, go to townofgardiner.org.

10AM-2PM Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon. Big Joe Fitz & the Lo-Fis (Swing Blues). Info: 845-2367970 or liveatthefalcon.com. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

10AM-3PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Jenny Lane Loop Hike. Five mile long hike includes some hilly sections, two stream crossings and lots of walking on exposed bedrock. Pre-registration reqr’d. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Awosting Parking Area, Gardiner.

10AM-4PM Skyllkill Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Exhibit (4/1-4/3), The Exhibit contains over 230 + entries and also has a boutique of fine quality handmade items. There will demonstrations and lectures daily at 11am and 2:30pm. Info:egaSkyllkill@gmail.com. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

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

Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video.

Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-6588556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org. SkyLake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11AM-4PM Weekend Tours at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. 150-acre life-long sanctuary for rescued farm animals . Learn about vegan living.

A new visitors center and cafe, open to the public for tours on weekends from 11am-4pm through October $10/adults, $5/kids; group tours & private vegan events (including weddings) during the week. Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, 2 Rescue Road (formerly Epworth Lane) High Falls. Info: 845-247-5700 or www.woodstocksanctuary.org.

11AM-12PM You’re Invited! Spiritual Wisdom on Karma and Reincarnation. Free ECK Spiritual Discussion. Come share and discover spiritual insights. Info: eckandar-ny-org or 845-243-7790.

Held at 6 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Trout Weekend. “Meet the Trout” presentation at 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. Feeding time for Brook Trout at 1:30 p.m. & 3 p.m. Fun activities and stories plus crafts for kids. Info: hhnm.org or 845-5345506. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

12PM Co-ed Pickup-Futbol ! Every Sunday at noon. Info: studiomyea@gmail.com. Info: studiomyea@gmail.com. Athletic Fields at Comeau Town Park, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock.

12:30PM-6:30PM Tarot Readings, Aura Readings and Channeled Spiritual Guidance with medium Lynn Walcutt. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes, $40 /45 minutes.

12:30PM Delaware and Hudson Canal Society and Museum Annual Meeting. Historian Stephen Skye will talk. “The Cornell Family: Master D&H Capitalists”. Info: canalmuseum.org or 845-6879311. D&H Canal Historical Society and Museum, 23 Mohonk Rd, High Falls.

12:45PM-2PM Free Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Practice Group in Saugerties. Meet the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month, 12:45-2pm Drop-ins welcome. 914-584-9593. NVC is the work of Marshall Rosenberg and is also known as Compassionate Communication Saugerties.Flatbush Reformed Church, 1844 Rt. 32, Saugerties.

1PM Book Signing: Barbara Roether, author of “This Earth You’ll Come Back To.” I nfo: 845-6798000 or www.goldennotebook.com The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock.

1PM Free Film Viewing & Discussion: Dreamers Among Us! A short documentary made by and for undocumented youth. Free Taco Lunch Buffet will be served! (small donation would be greatly appreciated). Question & answer session directly after the film. Info:845-471-6580. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 67 South Randolph Ave, Poughkeepsie.

1PM-4PM Tango & Brunch.Tango practice by donation and 10% discount on brunch.GomenKudasai Japanese Noodle Restaurant,232 Main St, New Paltz. Info: www.GKnoodles.com or www.

GKnoodles.com or 845-255-8811.

1:30PM-5PM Sheafe Road and The Ridge School Art Reception. Works done by students and parents for the Loving the Earth exhibition. An ice cream retreat and a kids movie afternoon starting at 3 pm. Info: www.midhudsonheritage.org or 845- 214-1113. Mid-Hudson HeritageCenter, 317 Main St, Poughkeepsie, free.

2PM Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing

by Jack Myers, author of The Future Of Men: Masculinity In The Twenty First Century.

Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500. Free, RSVP requested at rsvp@oblongbooks.com.

2PM-4PM Talk: “Forestry for Wildlife” by Ryan Trapani, Education Forester and John MacNaught, Wildlife Specialist will be speaking about how to improve quality wildlife habitat in the forest.

Info: 845-255-1255, or www.gardinerlibrary.org.

Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Tnpk, Gardiner.

2PM Forum:The History behind Newburgh’s Monuments. Event will include a slide presentation entitled “Monumental Newburgh,” a panel led

by Society member Tom Knieser will showcase the many sculptures and memorials installed in the city.Captain David Crawford House, 189 Montgomery St, Newburgh. $5. Info: 845- 561-2585 or newburghhistoricalsociety.com.

2PM Arm of the Sea presents Rejuvenary River Circus. This story about the life of a river features puppets, masks, and live original music. . Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Elementary, Phoenicia.

2PM Fourth Annual Olga Santora PhD Women’s History Series. This year’s lecture will feature a panel discussion from four Greene County Women who will share their personal experience of military service during WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq-Afghanistan wars. Bronck Museum, Vedder Research Library, Coxsackie, free.

2PM Jester Jim. Juggling, beatboxing comedy for the whole family. Info: 845-795-2200. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton.

2PM Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club: Black Rock Forest, mindful hike. 7-8 miles. Leader: Mel Kleiman 845-216-6805. call leader to confirm participation. Bring lunch and a poem. Info: www.

MidHudsonADK.org. Maplecrest, free.

3PM Coleman Musical Theatre presents Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” Info: 845-338-2750.

Coleman High School, 430 Hurley Ave, Hurley, $16, $11 /under 12.

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 The Testament of Freedom! Veterans Benefit Concert. Info: 845-610-5900 or www. sugarloafpac.org. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, $25, $15.

3PM Pone Ensemble for New Music Spring Concert A program of experimental classical music. The program is titled “Daydreams in the Clouds.” A reception will follow the performance.

United Methodist Church, New Paltz, $15.

3PM-5PM Public Forum: Teachout or Yandik for Congress? Sponsored by The Town Democratic Committees of Rochester, Rosendale and Marbletown. Focus on the Democratic Candidates that will face off in the June 28 Federal Primary Election for US Representative,19th Congressional District - Zephyr Teachout, Fordham U law professor, 2014 candidate for Governor, and resident of Dutchess County and Will Yandik, 4th generation Columbia County farmer, local businessman, Columbia-Greene SUNY professor and Town of Livingston Deputy Supervisor.Accord Fire House,22 Main St, Accord. Info: timothygay@aol. com or 845-626-7204.

3PM The Art of Julie Ziavras. Julie will sing opera arias, folk songs, Greek traditional songs, and more accompanied by pianist and composer, Steve Margoshes. Info: 845-457-9867 or www.villageofmontgomery.org. Montgomery Senior Center, Montgomery.

3PM Ulster Chamber Music Series presents Dolce Suono Ensemble. Reception & Meet The Artists will follow concert. . Info: www.ulsterchambermusicseries.org or 845-340-9434. Church of the Holy Cross, 30 Pine Grove Ave, Kingston, $25, $20 /senior, free /under.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

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

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

Village Green, Woodstock.

4PM Howland Chamber Music Circle Piano Fest.

Featuring Charlie Albright. Info: 845-765-3012 or HowlandMusic.org. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, $30, $10 /student.

4PM Ars Choralis will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’s compelling work for chorus and orchestra Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace). Info: www.arschoralis.org, Overlook Methodist Church,

March 31, 2016 Tinker St, Woodstock, $20, $10 /18 & under.

4PM-6PM Opening Reception: “Imagination in Flight.” Works of the two artists Matthew Zappala and Amy C“te exhibits thru 4/24. Info: 845-2551559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

4PM Book Reading: Susannah Appelbaum, author of Divah. Info: 845-255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz.

5PM Hudson Bluehawks Appreciation Dinner.

Info: 518-828-4800. Helsinki Club, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

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

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

11:30AM -1PM Super Foodie Ruth Reichl to Speak at Brunch for Habitat. Ruth Reich is a renowned chef, editor, author and restaurant critic. $40. Call Habitat at 518-828-0892 Reservations suggested. All ReStore proceeds support Habitat construction programs. Staffed almost entirely by volunteers, the ReStore is open from 10 to 6, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.The Blue Plate, Chatham.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Popa Chubby (Rock & Blues). Info: 845-236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8PM Vieux Farka Toure. Info: 518-828-4800.

Helsinki Club, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

9 PM Michael Bernier / Paul Green Rock Academy. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Monday

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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, 845-679-5906. 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, 133 Farmer’s Tnpk, Gardiner.

11AM-7PM Private Shamanic Spirit Doctoring with shamanic healer Adam Kane. First Monday of every month.. 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 Tarot and Astrology Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appt. $30 for 25 minute reading; $120 for 90 minute in-depth Astrology. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

1PM 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! Read to trained TDI dogs to build confidence and have fun. Recommended for early readers, reluctant readers, anyone ! Free, Drop-In. Ongoing. Info: 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia, free.

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

4:15PM-5:30PM Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special

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medium Adam Bernstein. First Tuesday of every month. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /one hour.

5:15PM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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.

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.

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

7PM Hudson Valley Railroad Society Hobby Night! HO slot cars, model trains, models and others. Meets the 1st Monday of each month. Info: www.hydeparkstation.com or 845-229-8562. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, 38 River Rd, Hyde Park.

7PM Open Mic Poetry with Ron Whitegers. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7PM Commander Will Cushing, presented by Jamie Malanowski, based on his book about the heroic young Civil War commander. 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. Info: 845-255-7742 or www.tolhps.org.

1:30PM-3PM Israeli Folk Dancing.1:30PM-3PM Meets every Tuesday 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. 845-255-9627. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

5PM 2016 Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economic. Evaluating the Economic Effects of the Noble Experiment: National Prohibition, 1920-1933.

Will be delivered by Princeton University economist Orley C. Ashenfelter. Info: 845-437-5370.

Vassar College, Nora Ann Wallace ’73Auditorium, , Blodgett Hall, Poughkeepsie, free.

Wednesday

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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.

9:30AM-4PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Sam’s Point Area - High Point and Verkeerderkill Falls Hike. This hike includes five miles of challenging hiking on a rocky footpath with some steep, scrambling sections. Must wear appropriate shoes and bring a backpackwith plenty of water, snacks, and lunch. Reg reqr’d. Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor, $10 /per car.

10AM-5:30PM Landscape Sculpture Tours.

Opening for the season. 500-acre landscape provides the setting for more than 100 carefully sited sculptures created by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time. Wed-Sun through Nov. Info: 845-534-3115 or www.stormking.org.

Storm King Art Center, New Windsor.

6PM - 7:00PM Community Yoga Class with Selena Reynolds. A fun and informative drop-in class, open to all levels. $8 donation requested.

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

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.

6PM Traditional Irish Dance Class. SEAN NOS Irish Dance Class with Siobhan Butler taking place on three upcoming Tuesday evenings. Open to dancers ages 13 and older. Reg reqr’d. Info: www. stoneridgelibrary.org. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge, $5.

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

7:30AM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

6PM Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing by Ian Buruma, author of Their Promised Land: My Grandparents In Love And War.Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck,845876-0500. RSVP requested at rsvp@oblongbooks. com. Ian Buruma’s account of his grandparents’ enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars is a family history of surpassing beauty and power. Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. His previous books include Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God’s Dust,Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. A series of SOFT foam rolling exercises designed to address the excessive tension and soreness in connective tissues, which can inhibit proper alignment and performance of yoga postures. Ending with a vinyasa flow, this lunchtime class will leave you feeling less chronic pain, more stretched out and walking taller than before. $16. Info: 845-6798700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

8AM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Early Morning Birders Tuesday. Designed for birding enthusiasts or those just looking to learn the basics.

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

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.

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.

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.

7PM Live @ The Falcon- Poet Gold presents Poelodies: Poetry, Spoken Word, Melodies, & Song. Info: 845-236-7970 or liveatthefalcon.com.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7:30PM Hudson Valley Railroad Society History Night! HVRRS Business meeting at 7:30pm, followed by program at 8pm. Meets the 2nd Monday of each month. Info: www.hydeparkstation.com or 845-229-8562. Hyde Park Train Station Museum, 38 River Rd, Hyde Park.

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

10AM-12PM Look Good Feel Better. A free program designed for women dealing with hair loss and skin changes from chemotherapy and radiation. You will learn specific techniques to help make the most of your appearance while undergoing treatment. Info:www.lookgoodfeelbetter. org. MidHudson Regional Hospital, Herb and Sue Ann Redl Center for Cancer Care, 19 Baker Ave, Poughkeepsie.

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 - 11AM Gentle Yoga with Jess Lunt. Slowerpaced, simplified class using modified and supported poses to gently stretch and strengthen. Perfect for those wanting a gentle, relaxing experience. $8 donation requested. Info: 845-679-8700. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

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

10:30AM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

11:30AM Cuddletime. 0-2 yrs. Children’s Program.

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

11:30AM Spring Wellness Series: From Bacteria to Broken Bones: Emergency Physicians’ Stories.

Soup and salad served. Info:www.healthquest. org/wellness or 845-876-4745 Northern Dutchess Hospital, Cafeteria Conference Room, Rhinebeck.

11:30AM - 1:00PM 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. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

12PM-6PM Spirit Guide Readings with psychic

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 Open Mic with Cameron & Ryder. Helsinki Hudson,405 Columbia St,Hudson. Info: info@ helsinkihudson.com or helsinkihudson.com or 518-828-4800.

7PM Ulster County Art Association Meeting.

Anita Barbour will demonstrate White-Line Block Printing. Guests are welcome. The club meets the first Tuesday of every month. Info: KristyBishopStudio.com or 845-246-8835. Frank Greco Senior Center, Market and Robinson Sts, Saugerties.

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

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

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

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

7:15PM Rosendale Theatre’s Music Fan Film Series: Mavis! In this documentary film. Director Jessica Edwards takes the audience through the decades-long career of the woman who created a transcendent mix of gospel, folk and soul. 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.

7:35 PM QSY Society Amateur Radio Club Meeting. Bring any projects, items for show & tell or swap & sell, and questions you may have on any aspect of ham radio. The public is welcome to attend. Social half-hour begins at 7:35pm, meeting begins shortly after. East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Rt 376, Hopewell Junction, Info: 914 582-3744, n2skp@arrl.net or www.qsysociety.org.

8PM Joe Bones. 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.

12PM Woodstock Senior Citizens Club Meeting.

Guest speaker Laura Rosen, RN from Golden Hill, will speak about their services. 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-6PM Ascended Master Channeled Readings with celestial channel Ahnjalia. First Wednesday of every month. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $75 /one hour.

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

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

2PM-3PM 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 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, 6093 Main St, Tannersville, free.

3PM Gardiner Library Book Club. The book will be Girl in the Woods by Aspin Matis, a truelife adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada.

Info: 845- 255-1255, or www.gardinerlibrary.org.

Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpik, Gardiner.

3:30PM Tweens Gathering. Info: 845-338-5580.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

4:30PM-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.

5PM-7PM Dutchess County’s “Million Dollar Marketing Mixer.” Presented by the Hudson Valley Chapter of NYSCAR (New York State Commercial Association of REALTORS®), New York’s elite network of commercial real estate professionals. Many distinguished members of the real estate community will be in attendance

to discuss industry trends with colleagues. Fishkill’s Hyatt House, 100 Westage Business Center Drive, Fishkill. Info: NYSCARHudsonValley.com or 845-863-6116.

5:15PM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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

6PM “Bears and Urban Environments” Wildlife biologist Matthew Merchant to discuss bears in urban environments. Open to the public. Info: 845-437-7435. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main S, Poughkeepsie, free.

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, West Shokan.

6PM-8PM Monthly Reader’s Circle meets first Wednesday of every month. Read Stephen Levine’s bestselling classic A Year To Live. This is an on-going group of readers that meets monthly.

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

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

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

6:15PM Pilates Springboard - Reformer Class.

A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Info: 845-658-2239 or www.ulsterpilates.com. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston.

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 - 8:00PM 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. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

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 “What is it? What’s it worth?” This is an antiques appraisal event. Bring your treasures to this event to have local experts identify and value their items.Hosted by New Paltz Historical Society.

New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz, $5.

7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admissionno dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

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.

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 or845-679- 8989.

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

7:15PM Rosendale Theatre’s Music Fan Film Series: Mavis! In this documentary film. Director Jessica Edwards takes the audience through the decades-long career of the woman who created a transcendent mix of gospel, folk and soul. Rosendale Theatre, Main St, Rosendale.

7:30PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. Meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. The Newyorkers Chorus is a male a cappella group that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony.

Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required. Visit their web site wwwnewyorkerschorus.org for more information.Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie.

8 PM Fishin Chicken. 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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MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE

NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK RESORT, NEW PALTZ, N.Y.

Career Fair

Mohonk Mountain House has immediate and upcoming openings. We will be conducting a Career Fair, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. We highly recommend that you visit our employment site www.mohonkjobs.com, prior to arriving at the Career Fair to complete your application(s); this will be a time saving step for you once you arrive. If you do not complete the application process prior to arriving, we will offer you the opportunity to complete application(s) onsite before having your walk-in, brief interview(s).

When you arrive at our Gatehouse, let the attendant know you are here for the Career Fair and you will be directed to the parking area for this event.

We hire positions both seasonally and year round. A list of typical jobs is listed below, not all positions are available at this time. * Front Desk Clerk * Call Center Agent * Valets * Security Officer/EMT * Gardener * Florist * Server * Server Assistant * Cook

* Pastry Cook * Conferences Services Attendant * Room Attendant * Laundry Attendant * Sales Clerk * Children’s Counselor * Activities Leader * Lifeguard * Stables Guide * Maintenance Mechanic

* Electrician * Plumber * Painter * Massage Therapist * Receptionist * Fitness Instructor * Management * Purchasing * Accounting

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Call 334-8200. For regular line ads, ask for Tobi or Amy; real estate display ads or help wanted display, Genia; automobile display, Ralph.

Hours: MWThF 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday: 9-11 a.m. classifieds@ulsterpublishing.com

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Classified line ads can be placed at www.ulsterpublishing.com

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Our fax-machine number is 845-334-8809 (include credit card #)

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Sunflower Health Food store, Bradley Meadows, Woodstock; 29 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY; 322 Wall St., Kingston.

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deadlines phone, mail drop-off

The absolute final deadline is Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Monday at 11 a.m. in Woodstock and New Paltz; Tuesday in Kingston.

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$20 for 30 words; 20 cents for each additional word.

special deals

$72 for four weeks (30 words); $225 for 13 weeks; $425 for 26 weeks; 800 for a year; each additional word after 30 is 20 cents per word per week. Future credit given for cancellations, no refunds.

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Almanac’s classified ads are distributed throughout the region and are included in Woodstock Times, New Paltz Times, Saugerties Times and Kingston Times. Over 18,000 copies printed.

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REMEMBER: Please Dress for Success!

For directions or questions please contact Shawn Clark, Employment Manager at (845) 256-2089 or HR@mohonk.com.

Discover The Arc of Ulster-Greene New season — New beginnings.... find yours!

Explore your employment options with The Arc of Ulster-Greene, job opportunities where you make a difference in someone’s life, bringing your special talents or hobbies to work to teach someone a new skill.

We have full-time and part-time positions available in Kingston, Saugerties, Woodstock, Stone Ridge, Olivebridge, New Paltz, Ellenville, Catskill and surrounding areas. Previous experience in the Human Services field is not required; however, experience working with individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities is a definite plus.

A HS diploma/GED is highly desired; an Associates or Bachelors degree in Human Services, Psychology or a related field is a plus. An acceptable NYS Driver’s license is required. We provide an extensive and informative paid new hire orientation in a comfortable learning environment.

Apply today!

Human Resources Recruitment Team 471 Albany Ave, Kingston NY 12401 Phone (845) 331-4300, ext. 246 or 233 Fax (845) 340-0463 e-mail: jobs@ugarc.org Visit our website at www.ugarc.org for a complete list of our job openings

Supervising Lifeguards, Lifeguards, WSI (Instructors), Attendants for Moriello Pool (Town of New Paltz Pool) for Summer 2016. Appropriate certifications required. Application & information available at: Office of Town Supervisor, 52 Clearwater Road, New Paltz. 255-0604.

EOE. 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.

LANDSCAPERS, GARDENERS WANTED. Experience necessary. 16 to 40 hours per week. Trustworthy, reliable, strong with endurance. Own transportation. Would primarily work in Woodstock area. Email

experience to hire12498@gmail.com (put landscaper/gardener in subject line) or call 845-679-7377.

Woodworker Wanted. Romancing the Woods is a custom builder of outdoor rustic furniture and woodland garden structures handcrafted using locally harvested materials. We are currently looking for a skilled woodworker with a good eye and an attention to detail to join our small crew of builders in Saugerties. Part-time to start with the possibility of becoming full-time. Contact: davis@rtw-inc.com or 845-246-6976.

LAUNDRY DEPT. We’re looking for someone to be Head of our Laundry Dept. (fulltime), however, you will be cross-trained in Housekeeping as well! Must be dependable, reliable, honest, and hardworking. Must be able to work weekends. No experience is necessary but is considered a plus. If inter-

Join the Mohonk team!

We have Jobs at Mohonk Mountain House, both Seasonal and Year Round Please look on-line and apply at MOHONKJOBS.com ested please apply in person at Americas Best Value Inn 7 Terwilliger Ln. New Paltz, NY 12561 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.

Retail Store Manager.

Looking for an experienced and highly motivated individual w/excellent communication and organizational skills.

Manager is responsible for sales, customer service, operations, merchandising, and sales staff.

Requirements: 3 years experience in specialty retail store management w/strong knowledge of general retail.

Demonstrated ability to provide excellent customer service.

Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and train others. Must work weekends and be able to lift boxes. Apply in person at Woodstock Blues Inc. 7 Mill Hill Road Woodstock, NY.

POOL COMPANY SEEKS HELP w/experience in any related swimming pool service, repair or installation tasks. Will train right person. 845-657-9976 Watershed Program Educator – Shokan, NY. Deliver educational activities at watershed community, volunteer, and school events; prepare written materials, Shokan, NY. Pay: $16/hr, 24 hrs/wk. Six mo. position w/benefits. Assoc. degree + 2yrs exp. req’d.

Occasional eves., weekend. Appl. Info at: http://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/jobs.

OFFICE & PERSONAL ASSISTANT NEEDED. Uptown Kingston. Part-time or full-time. Internet skills essential. Contact efc@ericfrancis.com WALLKILL VIEW FARM now hiring parttime CASHIERS for weekday afternoons & weekend shifts and part-time BAKER for weekday mornings & weekend shifts. Please

e-mail resume to danicawvf@gmail.com or call 845-255-8050 to inquire.

ART GALLERY ASSISTANT- WOODSTOCK. 2-3 days per week- flexible. Assisting in all aspects of our established business.

Advanced computer skills a must. Some art background a plus. Send resume to: info@ jamescoxgallery.com DRIVER CDL-A -- DUMP TRUCK AND TRAILER: Excavating company seeks CDL-A driver with dump truck and trailer experience with the ability to transport, load and unload excavating equipment and assist on various excavating and landscape construction projects. Any past excavating or landscape construction experience is a plus.

Must have current medical card. Schaffer Excavating (845)679-4742 Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Weekend Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H. 888-406-9046 EXPERIENCED BARTENDERS, SERVERS & KITCHEN STAFF needed at an exciting new restaurant opening in Woodstock. Call 845-679-4406.

GARDENING HELP NEEDED. A few hours a week. Seeking strong, responsible person for home gardening help: weeding, planting, moving soil, maintenance. Familiarity w/perennials & comfort w/power tools like leaf-blower preferred. Located in Bearsville. References required. Leave message for Joyce at (914)388-4123.

CARPENTER/CARPENTER’S HELPER. All phases. Experience. Residential. Own transportation. Reliable. References. Call after 5 p.m. 845-657-9979. mattmeola963@yahoo.com

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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Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 Farm startup looking for Help. Farmworker & Property Maintenance position available: startup organic farm looking for a full-time farmworker/property maintenance person to help work the fields, install and maintain fencing, irrigation, drainage etc. Must be familiar with operating farm machinery, tractors etc. Weekend work required but with time off during the week in lieu. Must have own transportation - located outside Gardiner. Good compensation.

Please email resume to frogshollowny@ gmail.com MATURE, FEMALE CAREGIVER NEEDED in my home for 93-year old woman without dementia. Rosendale area. Various shifts needed, including Sunday overnight.

Very pleasant working conditions. $12/hour non-negotiable. Go to http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/hea/5486350270.html to read details about the position. If you do not have a computer, call 845-633-2190.

PERSONAL AIDE, no certification required. Must be flexible. Disabled patient in wheelchair Hoyer-lift experience needed.

Paid through agency. Benefits available.

Highland area. 845-901-9955.

Caretaker/Security Assistant. Historic Huguenot Street is hiring a Caretaker/Security Assistant in support of general building and grounds maintenance and security for our 10-acre site. Must be available for oncall duty and live within 15 minutes of the site. Full-time, health benefits. See www. huguenotstreet.org for the full job description before applying.

Craft Oriented Part-time work to be done at home.Will train the right person to knot the fringes on hand woven scarves.Experience with crafts, good dexterity and intelligence essential.References, resume.Please call 845-679-6500.

Handyman/Groundskeeper: Woodstock, 15-20 hrs/week, flexible schedule, AprilNov. Basic carpentry, painting, gardening, stone & chainsaw work, clean-up. Must be responsible, have own transportation, & strong enough to use 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; extension ladder.

Pay commensurate with skills and experience. Call or text 845-901-0553.

WOODSTOCK SUMMER RECREATION PROGRAM. Accepting Applications for Aquatics Director, Athletics, Water Safety Instructor, Lifeguards, Counselors, Arts/ Crafts Personnel and CITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. For info, callLynn at 845-679-2113 ext. 303. Camp dates: 06/27/16-08/18/2016.

Guest Experience Coordinator.Historic Huguenot Street seeks a Guest Experience Coordinator responsible for presenting tours and assisting with interpretation of the historic houses. Trains and supervises tour guides and volunteers. Full-time, health benefits. See www.huguenotstreet.org for the full job description before applying.

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DEAR BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN- We at Hardscrabble Flea Market & Swap Meet would like to congratulate you on being picked from over 100 businesses in your field. We believe we can help each otherWe have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/ business cards & flyers or â&#x20AC;&#x153;show how to doâ&#x20AC;? projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers.

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HOME BASED BUSINESS. Energetic sales people needed. Requires car & computer. Call Dave 845-663-6997.

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Gentle Care, I offer assistance with compassion in time of need, for those who would benefit from care at home. Brain Training to help improve cognitive function included if requested. Experienced. Please call Yvonne for more information (845) 657-7010.

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly.

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BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME, located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home. Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

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Dream Home with Luxury Amenities â&#x20AC;˘ Custom Designer Built 2000 â&#x20AC;˘ Open Floor Plan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Approx 4000 sq ft â&#x20AC;˘ 4BR/Loft/4.5 bath 1st Floor Master suite â&#x20AC;˘ Walkout Fully Windowed Lower Level â&#x20AC;˘ Sauna, Wine Cellar, Wetbar, Steam Shower â&#x20AC;˘ Equipped Cabin, Barn, Pond, Trails â&#x20AC;˘ Mountain/Valley Views From Every Room

FARMHOUSE STYLE CAPE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sweet unrestored farmhouse on 1.75 ac corner lot. Galley kitchen, 2 beds, 1 bath and TONS of POTENTIAL! Close to Stony Kill Falls and Minnewaska State Park. Garage/chicken coop has forced air heat & elec. Asking price below assessment!.........$69,900

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Contact Jeoffrey D. Devor, Assoc. R.E. Broker at Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty, Ltd. (845)687-0232 ext. 126 3927 Main Street Stone Ridge, NY 12484

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20154748; 1912 4-bdrm, 1 bath home set on .25 acre (+/-) on Route 55 Napanoch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; newer roof and F/A furnace, 5 mins. to shopping & ½ hour to malls of Middletown $78,000.

20160310; 2 room Schoolhouse attached by heated breezeway to former Firehouse with 3-bedrooms & 1.5 baths. The 2 bays for the firetrucks are now a heated studio space (1250 sq.ft.) with a lot of light. 1.75 hrs. from GW

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ELLENVILLE REAL ESTATE 60 acres with 4500sqft 1 or 2 Family zoned Residential, Commercial, Apts, Hotels, Multifamily, Camps, Nursery, Recreation. Will sell home w/10 acrs.

Price Negotiable - Make Offer

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ECLECTIC STONE HOME Close to everything and located on a quiet country lane; discover this charming 1940’s cottage added onto in 1970’s and updated by current owners since their purchase in early 2000’s. Featuring a massive stone fireplace in sunken living room. This 3 bedroom, has 2 on the main level, with a 3rd bedroom and office area in a unique loft area. Situated on over 2.5 wooded acres, this is not a “cookie cutter” home. Priced to sell at .............. $225,000

ARE YOU READY! Working with a Westwood professional puts you in the driver’s seat on the road to your Real Estate goals. We have the knowledge, experience and time-tested strategies to bring our clients SATISFACTION. Westwood’s unparalleled commitment to service and integrity goes hand in hand with our deep roots in the community.

Looking to buy or sell? Call a Westwood agent today and say, Yes, I’m Ready!

COLUCCI SHAND REALTY, INC 255-3455

Gardiner Gables 2356 Rte. 44-55 Gardiner, NY 12525

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QUAINT, RUSTIC & WOODSTOCK! – Circa 1928 cottage surrounded by 2.5 acres of meadows & woods located a short drive from Woodstock Center. Wide board floors and original wood walls lead to the Great Room with stone fireplace and vaulted ceilings. Loftlike room above and 3 additional beds down – enjoy the 24’ x 24’ deck off main bedroom where you can bask in the sun or enjoy the starry Woodstock nights. ................... $399,000

ALL DRESSED UP – Privately sited on 18 gorgeous acres of meadows, rock outcroppings & woods is this one-of-a-kind Contempo built by a master craftsman & meticulously maintained! Home has been updated & is ready for move in! Features newer kitchen w/ black granite counters & S/S appliances which opens to LR & DR. MBR & LR have French doors leading to new deck. Pocket doors & built-ins abound! Bath has radiant heat & whirlpool tub. Two-car garage is currently a workshop but could be converted to a studio. Endless Possibilities! ......................$369,900

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PARADISE FOUND! – It’s all here for you! A very private 5.2-acre setting located down a tree-lined drive. Meticulously maintained, country home with hardwood & tile floors – elegant open kitchen with breakfast bar & island flows into FDR & spacious LR. Split layout – MBR with ensuite bath on one side of the living area and 2 other bdrms & a full bath on the other. Finished lower level offers accessory apartment or use as a large family/media room. CAC and standby generator complete the picture............. $324,900

EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS! – Significant 86-acre estate with total privacy, stunning VIEWS and swimmable POND. Singular custom contemporary (2007) main residence is airy, open and luxuriously appointed, with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, fab gourmet kitchen, family/media room with 2nd fireplace, wine room & views everywhere! Amenities include a spectacular 700+SF guest unit over the 3 car garage.

PLUS, mountaintop site ready for a studio, gazebo or dramatic home. Paradise Found!........... $1,295,000

www.westwoodrealty.com Stone Ridge 687-0232

New Paltz 255-9400

West Hurley 679-7321

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Woodstock 679-0006

skill Creek, overlooking a working farm and beautiful mountain views. Owner Motivated! Bring offers! House is being sold as is. Cash buyers only. Call (845)401-6637 or e-mail: watswill8@aol.com Pics at: http:// catskills.craigslist.org/reo/5491253196.html

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$65,000; 1200 ft2 - Ranch, 10 min. from Hunter (Palenville); Large 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom ranch, 2-car garage with fire place. In need of roof and interior work.

Solid structure, water, heating system and electric are good. 10 minutes from Hunter Mountain and Windham ski resorts. Huge backyard and patio for entertaining and relaxing after skiing. 5.5 acres. Bordering the Kaaterskill Creek, overlooking a working farm and beautiful mountain views.

Owner Motivated! Bring offers! House is being sold as is. Cash buyers only.

Call (845)401-6637 or e-mail: watswill8@aol.com 48 ACRES WOODSTOCK Beautiful land in Shady, multiple building sites.

DOH approved septic, possible further subdivision.

Asking $350,000

845-802-3954

Call Dan Winn, Assoc. Broker

Halter Associates Realty, Inc. 3257 route 212 woodstock, ny 845-679-2010 www.halterassociatesrealty.com $65,000; 1200 ft2. Ranch, 10 min. from Hunter (Palenville); Large 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom ranch, 2-car garage w/fireplace. In need of roof and interior work. Solid structure, water, heating system and electric are good. 10 minutes from Hunter Mountain and Windham ski resorts. Huge backyard and patio for entertaining and relaxing after skiing. 5.5 acres. Bordering the Kaater-

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; 917774-6151.

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Gardiner/ Modena/ Plattekill Rentals

1+ BEDROOM, MODENA. New floors, kitchen, fresh paint, bright. Convenient to SUNY, Gardiner, Bridge, Hannaford’s, 44/55, 32. Month to month, NO LEASE REQUIRED! Pets ok!! $1000/month includes heat & hot water. Sam Slotnick, RE Sales Agent, Century 21 Alliance, 845-6566088. e-mail: samsk100@aol.com LARGE 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT 6 miles south of New Paltz. 900 sq.ft. second floor converted barn. New windows, carpets, flooring & kitchen appliances. No smoking. No pets. 1 yr. lease, 1 month security, references. $800/month excluding utilities. 845-883-0857.

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Highland/ Clintondale Rentals

HIGHLAND: SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Quiet street. First floor of house. Full bath. Hardwood floors. 1 minute to Mid-Hudson Bridge & Hannafords. $950/month includes all utilities. No smoking. Cat OK. Must see! (845)541-2023.

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845-338-5832

www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

HELSMOORTEL REALTY is happy to announce Thomasine Helsmoortel and Scott Helsmoortel have, once again, been awarded an:

Ulster County Board of Realtors Top Producer Award for !

WOODSTOCK GETAWAY WITH MOUNTAIN VIEWS

This sophisticated architecturally-unique country getaway, just off desirable Abbey Road in Woodstock, is beautifully and privately sited, with mountain views. No other residences are visible, yet it is not at all remote. There is a touch of whimsy in Les Walker’s design for the house which sports a faux bell tower. It also features a four-season glass-enclosed porch, a peaceful screened porch off the master bedroom, a second bedroom perfect as an office or library, soaring ceilings in the living and dining area, and plenty of decking and patio to enjoy all the outside has to offer, which includes an inground pool comfortably and privately tucked away from the main house. For those interested in Woodstock lore, the absolutely sweet guest cottage was the first structure to be built in the Abbey Road area. A short drive into Woodstock and close to all the outdoor activities -- skiing, fishing, boating -- the Catskills have to offer. It is difficult to imagine a more appealing Woodstock vacation home.................................................. $625,000

KINGSTON CLASSIC

Thomasine Helsmoortel ABR, GRI, SRES Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner

“We would like to thank all of our Buyer’s & Seller’s for making this designation possible and we are looking forward to another year of success” Please call us for all of your Real Estate needs. We are fulltime brokers and promise the dedicated service you deserve.

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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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New Paltz Rentals

Barn/Studio. Center of New Paltz, near schools, restaurants, Rail Trail, S.U.N.Y. Available May 1-August 31, 2016. Summer rental w/option of Long-Term Agreement.

Professional Studio space former usage: Photography, Recording, Visual Arts, Massage.

Ideal work/living for single person. Viewing/ Photos on Request. Text: 917-992-0702.

4-BEDROOM HOUSE FOR RENT. 2 baths, large family room, fully carpeted, modern house, spotless, private country setting. 3 miles from New Paltz. $1850/month plus utilities. No pets. Employment verification. References, security required. 845255-8610.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Fall 2016 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT , 2 miles from village. Private, quiet, separate entrance. Mountain views, patio. All new.

Off-street parking, trash & snow remov-

al. Single or couple. No pets. No smoking. No drugs. $1400/month includes all utilities except cable. References, first, last, security, credit check. 845-6160118.

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

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

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

Call 845-255-7205 for more information COZY 2-BEDROOM CABIN in Gardiner/New Paltz, near the cliffs.

New bathroom, kitchen appliances.

Woodsy, nice property w/yard. $1175/month plus first, last & security. Non-smoker.

Call Joe (845) 494-7811 NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; $480/ month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call (914)474-5176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

(845)255-6029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

3-BEDROOM HOUSE. 1.5 baths. $2100/month includes utilities. Available 6/1. Walking distance to S.U.N.Y.

Lic. Real Estate Broker Associate (Accredited Buyer Representative)

845-246-9555

Circa 1840 Federal-style brick house with 18th-century inspired clapboard addition created to resemble a New England “keeping room” featuring an authentic 18th-century room end, wide board floors, brick fireplace, period doors and hardware. The six-room main house is highlighted by a formal center hall with dining and living rooms on either side, Federal mantel in living room and original floors.

Beautifully landscaped grounds with Williamsburg-inspired carriage house/garage. Within walking distance of Stockade National Register Historic District, shops, restaurants, galleries and farmers market.The perfect location for the dealer or collector of fine Americana. ..............................$410,000

HIGHLAND: APARTMENT #1. BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM airy, spacious apartment. Mirrored LR. Large kitchen, many closets, private balcony, 2 entrances, serene surroundings. $950/month. APARTMENT #3; BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month. Call (570)2966185.

Scott Helsmoortel, ABR

PO BOX #88, RT 9W Barclay Heights, Saugerties

www.helsmoortel.com New Paltz. First, last, security. No pets.

Non-smoker. Call 845-255-4526.

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. Quiet neighborhood. $1400/month, 1 month security, references/credit check, no smoking or pets. Available immediately; lease length negotiable. Text/call 845430-2077.

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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Ridge Rentals

Stone Ridge: 2-BEDROOM HOME, newly renovated, 1.5 baths, screen porch, large yard. $1600/month plus security.

No pets. 845-721-4741

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

EFFICIENCY, Kingston Uptown. On bus route, walk to Stockade area, shopping, conveniences. No smoking or pets.

Heat & hot water provided. Call 845338-4574 .

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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.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

Woodstock/Lake Hill. Comfortable furnished double room in historic house near Cooper Lake and NYC bus. Available weekly ($250) or monthly ($625). Private phone, internet. Piano, cats. homestayny@msn. com. 845-679-2564.

GREAT LOCATION. Studio Apartment in Woodstock Center. Well maintained historical building, renovated, clean. Bathroom with claw foot tub. Outdoor terrace. Walk everywhere. Private parking lot. For responsible person with steady income. No drugs, no smoking, no pets. $760/month, includes all utilities.One year Lease. 2 months security. Available May 1st.Call: 845-679-5659 MODERN STUDIO APARTMENT, Skylight, separate kitchen, private deck, hardwood floor, country setting, on Wittenberg Road, State Park. FREE wireless internet.

Quiet, views, tennis court, seasonal laundry. $700/month plus utilities. 914-725-1461.

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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GORGEOUS COTTAGE on 150 ACRE ESTATE. 3-bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace. Hiking, cross country trails throughout. Borders on 700 acres of state land. 13 miles to Woodstock, 17 to Hunter. Renowned trout stream runs through property. Reasonable.

Photos available. 845-688-5062.

MODERN STUDIO APARTMENT, Skylight, separate kitchen, private deck, hardwood floor, country setting, on Wittenberg Road, State Park. FREE wireless internet.

Quiet, views, tennis court, seasonal laundry. $700/month plus utilities. 914-725-1461.

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Senior Housing

READY NOW!

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

845-688-2024

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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.

WANTED: Quality Used and Rare Books.

Well known bookstore seeks top quality used, rare and out of print books. Also looking for literary related goods (typewriters, pens etc). Contact Barner Books 845-2552635, or email: barnerbooks@gmail.com

For Sale

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

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

Pottery Studio Equipment. Full Pottery Studio Equipment For Sale- Less then 2-years old. Woodstock Area. $4500 or make offer. No single prices of equipment sold. wdmc@mail.com

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Tree Services

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

FULLY INSURED

LAWLESS TREE SERVICE

CERTIFIED ARBORIST • CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES

STUMP GRINDING

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

TREE SERVICE: Residential and Commercial Tree Removal, Pruning, Stump Grinding, Landing Clearing. Emergency Work 24/7. No Job Is Too Small Or Too Big. Fully Insured. LW Tree Service Inc. 845338-7315.

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Firewood for Sale

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

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

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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Antiques & Collectibles

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Property Maintenance

A.A.S. Ornamental Horticulture

Dealer marketplace near POPULAR PHOENICIA. Space for Dealers of Modern, Rustic, Vintage, Retro, Collectibles + Antiques. Season starts APRIL 1st. Work for rent reduction or not. VERY LOW $ for HIGHLY VISITED 5000 SF shop on ROUTE 28, in business for 37 years. 845532-4601.

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

HARDSCRABBLE POP-UP

FLEA MARKET &

MARCH - DECEMBER Now Open Every Sunday through December Weather Permitting

Handmade Wood Chip Roses, Whole Sale and Retail All Vendors Wanted • Spots start at $12 to $35 Holy Cow Shopping Center • Red Hook, NY

Over 25Years Experience

• Commercial • Residential • N.Y.S. Certified Landscaping & Maintenance • Fully Mowing • Free Estimates • Cleanups Insured Brian (845) 246-8623

BANNEN

• Fertilizing • Trimming Pruning • Mulching • Perennial Gardens

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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.

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“Experience The Difference”

HIGH FALLS Flea Market, Rt. 213 High Falls. Art, Antiques, Collectibles. EVERY SUNDAY, April 10-November, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vendor info: Joni (845)810-0471 or jonicollyn@aol.com

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Vendors Needed

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

You will not be disappointed!!

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Flea Market

SAUGERTIES INDOOR GARAGE SALE . 257 Harry Wells Road. April 2nd & 3rd. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Washer, dryer, stove, small appliances, dishes, cookware, lamps, dining room table & 4 chairs, sofa, chest, desk, bookshelf, end and coffee tables, kitchen set, decorative items, etc.

845-758-1170 • Call John

www.getwood123.com

Giant Estate/Moving Sale: Sat. & Sun, 4/2-4/3; 10-3, Rain or shine; all must go.. Leather couch & recliner, K/Q beds, bookcases, dressers, storage units, oak desk & filing cabinets, tables, Pierre Riche garden sculptures, dishes, pots, pans, sm. appliances, art, clothes, towels & linens, exercise bike, DeWalt cordless drill, books, cds/cassettes, DVDs, knickknacks. For pre-sale appointments on furniture & small appliances only, call 679-5526. 39 Whitney Dr., off Witchtree, Woodstock.

WANTED TOP DOLLARS PAID. We buy entire estates or single items. Actively seeking gold and silver of any kind, sterling, flatware and jewelry. Furniture, antiques through mid-century. We gladly do house calls, free appraisals. We also do Estate/Tag Sales, 35 years experience. One call does it all. Call or text anytime 24/7- 617-9811580.

GARAGE SALE

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

ville dining table, SONY HD 48” TV. Much, much more! Everything must go. #4 881 Albany Post Rd, New Paltz/Gardiner.

Yard & Garage Sales

Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

914-388-9607

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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.

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OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished.

Also frames & wood sculptures repaired.

Call Carol (845)687-7813.

Estate Sale to benefit Historical Society of Woodstock, Saturday, 4/2 and Sunday, 4/3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dishes, glassware, furniture, crocks, lamps, books, clothing, etc. 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock Moving Sale. 4/1 & 4/2, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. High quality furniture and housewares, 4-posted Maple queen, king Maple futon, Thomas-

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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Caretaking/Home Management

MATURE, RESPONSIBLE, PROFESSIONAL male to care for your home, in or near Onteora CSD. Prefer quiet setting.

Start in late spring or summer. Call or text 845-663-4599.

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Painting/Odd Jobs

MAN WITH A VAN MOVING & DELIVERY SERVICE. 16’ trucks, 10’ van. Reliable, insured, NYS DOT 32476. 8 Enterprise Road, New Paltz, NY. Please call Dave at 255-6347.

NYS DOT T-12467

Incorporated 1985

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

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Hudson Valley Small Office Cleaning.

Experienced cleaner. Excellent references.

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Art Services

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wanted for Sat. & Sun. 4/30 - 5/1 11am-6pm @ The Robert Post Memorial Park Kingston, NY 12401.

Estate/Moving Sale

CLEANING: HOUSE, APT. & OFFICE. Experienced w/references. Available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday. Call: 845-331-6713. Text message: 845-616-0574.

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Cleaning Services

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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.

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Residential and Commercial Residentia Specializing in decks, fences, roofs, driveways, patios.

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“ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura, since 1997. Interior/ Exterior, Decorator Finishes, Restorations, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering,

Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577.

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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.

Gary Buckendorf Painting: Interior - Exterior Plastering, Taping, Structolite Wall coverings, Color Matching Many references in Catskill area and Manhattan garybuckendorf@gmail.com

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845-532-8040 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. *PAINTING STANDARD.* Affordable, On-Schedule, Quality. Residential/Commercial. Interior/Exterior. Neat, Polite, Professional. Now taking SPRING/SUMMER reservations. Call (845)527-1252.

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

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D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations. Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017 WINECOFF QUALITY CONTRACTING, INC. New Construction, Additions, Renovations. Decks, Kitchens, Bathrooms, All types of Flooring, Tile Work. Demolition, $99 Dump Runs, Rotten Wood Repairs.

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STONE WALL RESTORATIONS; Thoughtful, innovative & resourceful approaches. Kevin Towle (914)906-8791 .

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids are sought and requested according to the Contract Documents for the bridge replacement of Saw Kill Road over the Saw Kill, RFB-UC15-150C, IN 3347630, Town of Ulster, Ulster County, New York.

Separate sealed proposals, completed on forms included herein will be received at the Office of the Ulster County Director of Purchasing, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, New York 12402. Bids will be received on Thursday, April 21, 2016, until 2:00 pm. Bids received after 2:00 pm shall not be considered.

The Information for Bidders, Form of Bid, Form of Contract, Plans, Specifications and Forms of Bid Bond, Performance and Payment Bond, and other contract documents, may be examined at the following: Ulster County Purchasing Department 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor Kingston, New York 12402-1800 Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

A CD with plans and specifications may be

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obtained at the office of the Ulster County Director of Purchasing, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, New York 12402 between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. The first CD of plans and specifications is free, each additional CD is $10.00 each (non-refundable). Checks shall be made payable to “UC Commissioner of Finance” for each additional CD so obtained. No CDs will be mailed without pre-payment of the additional CD fee, if applicable, (non-refundable) plus $10.00 for postage and handling (nonrefundable).

Bidder shall deposit with its proposal, security in the amount of no less than FIVE percent (5%) of its Base Bid in form and subject to conditions provided in “Information for Bidders”.

The successful Bidder shall furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond in the amount of one hundred percent of the accepted bid as set forth in the Proposal Form. These bonds shall guarantee completion of the work in accordance with the plans and specifications within the time stipulated in the contract and prompt payment of all obligations arising thereunder.

The contractor shall pay the premium for such bonds.

This project is a Federal Aid project and NYSDOT Standard Construction Specification must

be followed. Equitable Business Opportunities (EBO) reporting software is required to be used on this project. The DBE goal for this project is 8%. There are no M/WBE requirements on this project. There are no residency or geographical restrictions on this project.

Addenda, if any, will be issued only to those persons whose names and addresses are on record with the Ulster County Purchasing Department, County of Ulster, as having obtained the contract documents.

The right is reserved by the County of Ulster to waive any informalities in and reject any or all bids.

Marc Rider Ulster County Director of Purchasing Kingston, New York 12402 Dated: March 30, 2016 Kingston New York LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department,244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 2:00PM for a Prefabricated Steel Pony Truss for New Paltz Bridge, BID #RFB-UC16-142C. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.

ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:00PM for Diesel Transit Buses, BID #RFB-UC16-044.

Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY on Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 3:00 PM for GUIDE RAIL & STRUCTURAL PLATE FLOORING BID # RFB-UC2016-041. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster. ny.us/purchasing.

Marc Rider, Ulster County Director of Purchasing

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Want to help but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adopt a cat? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about our Foster Program! Visit our website UCSPCA.org, for details & pictures of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston ( just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)3315377.

DIANAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To BeneďŹ t Dianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CAT Shelter in Accord.

Spring has officially sprung and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to get as many furry faces out the door as we can before we get inundated w/litters of kittens & puppies! Our Pets of the week are a bonded pair of kitties named Fedor & Freya, 2-year old brown tiger kittens who are brother & sister and would love to join your family. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re quite shy & will need time to open up to you. Bug; 2-3 year old female whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very affectionate & loving & wants to share her sweet personality w/ someone. Christina the cat is ready to meet you, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been here for 2 years too long; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shy little brown tiger girl whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about 3-years old, & has 4 white socks. We have some AMAZING DOGS as well: come and

meet Arianna; very sweet 7-year old Rottweiler lady who loves to play & is just about the sweetest girl youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet. She had a littler of pups here whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all been adopted; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay w/dogs & kids, but no cats please.

Bellatrix; 2-year old black & white hound mix whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fit right into your life w/older kids, but caution should be used w/other dogs. Casper; 2-year old white boxer whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to meet any other dogs that you might have, is okay w/older kids, but no cats. We also have some PUPPIES! Please check our website for photos. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 meet them all today at the UCSPCA, 20 Wiedy Rd. in Kingston off of Sawkill Road. Www.UCSPCA.org.

FOR ADOPTION: BEAUTIFUL ORANGE CAT... Elsa. 1.5 year old copper eyed orange cat. Elsa was a wonderful mother to 6 kittens. Now sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to be the only companion animal in a loving home. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been spayed, is litter pan trained and up to date w/vaccinations. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to know more about Elsa, please call or text (917)2822018 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. Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a great mom & Si-

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las 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 (sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in adopting Georgia and/or Silas or have questions, please contact Amy at 917-902-2813 or atrakinski@gmail.com 2 LONG HAIR ORANGE KITTENS FOR ADOPTION: Mary & Kim, sisters, are as sweet & friendly as they are beautiful. Born 10/3115, these little girls are very attached to one another & weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to have them adopted together. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up to date w/vaccinations & are litter pan trained. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to know more about these totally wonderful kittens, please call or text (917)2822018 or email DRJLPK@aol.com

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