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A Wintry Mix
Soul on ice: Why we must all skate
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he super-moon was the Wolf Moon. It must have been a she-wolf, because she was a bitch, and dangerously cold. But if you harbor Hans Brinker dreams and wish to compete, or just enjoy a thing called ice, this is your winter. Even Lake Ontario is frozen enough to support skating, which is unusual. Full frozen lake conditions there have happened only six times: 1830, 1874, 1893, 1912, 1934 and 2018. The Lake Ontario Toronto Polar Dip has been canceled. Take note. When I was a little girl, skating was in my genes. My grandfather raced on skates, and in his retirement years enjoyed figure skating at the rink at Rockefeller Center. My mother was the best skater of all his children. We skated at Racy’s Pond in my childhood
New Jersey town. The pond made news as far away as the Newark Star Ledger for killing a dog that licked its water in winter some time around 1990. Apparently it stopped freezing, which to any conscientious dog owner might suggest that the water was tainted.
In the more wholesome days of my youth, the pond afforded a rollicking good time. No price to pay for admission, no cover charge. The little kids wobbled and splattered along the edges, the big kids linked arms and made a whip. The whip careened in centrifugal force, growing larger as more and more kids caught on, until it was broken by its own speed, sending large teenaged boys hurtling toward all comers. Good times.
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e have a large pond on our property, but I discourage this as a landscape feature. We’ve had three scary (continued next page)
2018 2 | Winter Explore Hudson Valley winter events on it. The first happened when Pumpkin, our 40-year-old Shetland pony suffering some form of equine dementia, wandered on to it and once in the center stood stock still, blinking at us, apparently totally confused at his whereabouts. I reasoned that if it could hold him, despite my “baby weight,” it should be able to hold me. I retrieved the old codger to the delighted squeals of my bairn. Years later, our foundation sire, a 120-pound Labrador Retriever, refused to believe his beloved water had solidified. Determined to take his usual 45-minute swim, he skidded out (once again to the center). This time, the ice did not hold. My husband and I crashed through the blackberry thorns that ringed the nearest edge, ripping our skin and garments, crashed through more ice, grabbed the dog by the scruff, and dragged him out. The third time was the worst. My three-year-old
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o not take liberties with frozen water. It must be at least four inches thick in order for it to be safe for skating. Take heed. Ice crystals are beautiful, and so too is the sport that takes advantage of the freeze. Figure skating has much in common with ballet. Both art forms share a glossary of terms (chasse, lift, tendu, attitude, etc.). While both battle a tendency in modern thinking that deems each to be a sport,
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the artists themselves know that what matters is the emotion expressed in the whole performance, not the spectacle of one move. I think we can agree that there is heightened suspense when someone is leaping on ice, as opposed to leaping at Lincoln Center. Skating permits a knife-edge line of tension between motion and gravity. That’s because we know the nature of ice. We have executed our own James Brown moves across the driveway. For many, like me, ice is feared. But there are others with other ideas. One friend who loves to skate describes it as the combination of two of her favorite things — speed and wind. She would have been last on line at that whip at Racy’s Pond, and would have loved the feeling when she spun towards the edge. The phenomenon of what happens to water when the atmosphere chills fills us with wonder. It is an enigma. As beautiful as it can be, we can’t touch it. Our flesh cannot bear it. As delicate as the crystals are, ice is powerfully dangerous. I
reference the Titanic. A personal anecdote. Remember my grandpa skating in New York? A widower, he was noticed and pursued by Aunt Viv, who turned out to be Aunt Gold Digger, who skated away with the family money as soon as my grandpa expired from the stroke suffered the day Kennedy was shot. He should have just gone to Florida.
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f you wish to experience the ice, this area has lots to offer. Here’s the short list: Kiwanis Ice Arena in Saugerties McCann Arena in Poughkeepsie Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz Windham Mountain Adventure Park in Windham Keep in mind that little children will fall often, so make sure they wear snug, waterproof gloves or mittens. This is also useful information for any beginner. Stretchy pants are also a good idea, because the legs themselves will get pretty stretchy. It is not imprudent to think about after-care and rewarding oneself for braving the cold. A warm bath. A hot chocolate. A hot toddy. It all works. And curl up in a down comforter and look out at the Wolf Moon, and think about skaters who skate alone at night, ice glittering in the moonlight, when all is silence except for the hush-hush-hush sound of their skates. Elisabeth Henry
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n December 29 I found myself attending a pre-licensing course at the American Driving School in Kingston. The school had one room, with three rows of metal fold-out chairs facing a television on top of an antique dresser. The television was playing. The morning news was on. Erica Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter, had died of a heart attack the night before at the age of 27. New York City was going to hold its most secure New Year’s Eve yet, with bomb-sniffing dogs and sharpshooters on the rooftops of Times Square; revelers closest to the ball drop would be randomly searched by police officers. A young man named Andrew Finch had been killed in Wichita the night before by local police officers after a prank call to 911, where a man told emergency responders that his father had been shot by Andrew. Finally, it was National Bacon Day. I had just gotten back two weeks ago from the first semester at my sleepy liberal-arts college in the rolling corn-stubble fields of central Ohio. I had been willfully ignorant of any news except that told me by my friends. Even then, it felt like they were telling me about dreams they had had the night before. The only news which really bothered us was that which popped our little academic bubbles. The new tax bill contained an amendment which treated financial aid to graduate students earned through work study as taxable revenue. This law would make it almost impossible for those of us who don’t have oodles of cash to get our PhDs. The first building ever erected at my college’s campus is on the exact peak of one of the highest hills in our county. Campus is referred to colloquially as “the hill” by locals. At the time of its founding, Ohio was the western frontier, far from any known society. This remains true for many students new to the Midwest. One friend of mine, an ex-horse jumper from Philadelphia, left the school last month and is now attending NYU. On a long car ride home from the Columbus Airport, she told me and my girlfriend
that she just couldn’t live in a place where people went to Walmart for fun. For me, crawling out of the lean Ohio winter into the business district of Kingston, the harsh blue light of the driving school and the noisy television set, the world that I had successfully avoided for four months, was loud, sweet, salty and stale. I watched a news host bite into a thick slice
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seemed so unfamiliar, sticking out awkwardly from the bigger idea of Kingston, the mosaic in my head on which I had relied.
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n our first drive back to my childhood home, one of the first things my parents told me was that a girl who I knew, the daughter of an Italian fashion photographer who I had acted out kung fu movies with at adults’ dinner parties, was six months pregnant. I felt a sudden onset of time, an awareness that my life was now long enough for new lives to be made from it — the cresting wave of another generation right behind my back. I guess that’s been the real consequence of my coming back, a sudden awareness of the mundane
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Experiencing a Catskills blizzard Corinne Mol on winter’s coziest moments
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irst, there are the warnings. Then the preparations. The shopkeepers are asking whether we have prepared for tomorrow’s blizzard. It’s calm and gray. The automated system at my twleve-year-old daughter’s school calls in the afternoon to announce that school will be closed tomorrow because of “inclement weather.” This is a first. Usually the phone rings around four in the morning to cancel school for that day. Because we live up in the mountains, on a dirt road where northerly winds often knock down trees that knock down power lines, I prepare by storing up water. I gather our large pots and containers and fill them with water. I put them on the kitchen counter. We light a fire to help dry the wood out and bring more firewood inside. We wake to four inches of snow. Drifts are already piling up against the trees. When I sit to meditate, I can’t keep my eyes closed. I can’t not look out the window. Fine white dust is whipped in undulating currents. A wave flowing down from the roof is greeted by powdered clouds. The wind lifts a ripple of snow from the lawn. Who knew there could be so much movement around a house? Between the cauldrons and tornadoes, it quiets for a moment. There’s an irregular rhythm to it all, a halfhour of relentless blizzard followed by two hours of storming, and then a lull. I try to experience it all, listening to the contrasts: chaos and stillness, roaring noise and then silence.
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My daughter Rachel is watching TV when the power flickers off, then on, and then off for good just in the midst of her morning of ‘tween programs. She’d reluctantly agreed to take a shower, but is saved by the outage. Husband Kenny steps away from writing in his office and enters the living room. He takes a couch and grabs a book. Our big window faces south. Rachel and Kenny booth lie down on their backs, heads to the storm on parallel couches. The muted blizzard light can hit their novels. She’s reading The Fault in our Stars about two teenage cancer patients in love.
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I put on my heavy coat and help when they carry in the wood. We carry in as much wood as our arms can hold in each load, taking turns holding the screen door and heavy door against the wind. The small amount of snow on the wood soon melts, disappears. We don’t flush the toilets, knowing we get just one flush for the length of the power outage. We don’t run the water in the sinks, using just the water in the pots for cooking and dishes. I discover I can wash and rinse my hands with the plastic water squirter that we use to chase our cat off the counter. I pull out our candles and battery-operated lanterns. Sitting inside our warm living room, the howling wind outside, I do not feel afraid. “Let’s go out now, for a stroll,” we say. “The storm is receding.” It isn’t. Before we get our coats on, it
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inally, the wind abates somewhat. Although the town plow has noisily cleared it a few times during the day, cars have not braved the steep hill. The sand and salt from previous sanding is buried. We walk out to the road, which has four or five inches of snow on it. Kenny wants us to slide down our road like he did when a teenager. The rest of us have never attempted such sledding. Usually, Woodstock diligently plows during storms, and the snow falls too slowly for much snow to accumulate. I cut the first trail, sitting in a black plastic sled, pushing with my hands. My family follows in my tracks, coasting with more ease. The next time we go down my body forgets that it’s 54 years old, and I’m overtaken by childish glee. I run to the sled and belly-flop onto it. My back reacts with not exactly pain, just a stern warning. I have momentum. I paddle with my arms like a surfer cruising down, snow spray in my face. I feel so alive! After a few exuberant runs, we return to our cozy house in the woods. The wood stove hums and creaks. Kenny turns a page of his novel and Diablo, our black cat, lounges close. We light the oil lantern, the beeswax candles. We use the battery lantern only for serious needs like cooking on the gas stove. After a candlelight dinner, we heat water on the stove for the dishes, and play a game of hearts. Later, Kenny picks at the guitar. Rachel reads by flashlight, candlelight and oil lantern. I feel euphoric with the fire to my back, and connected to my family, even though we aren’t talking. I look at them through dim, flickering light. It is so cozy, and I love them. I tell myself that this is life that’s romantic, primitive and wild. We don’t have water, power or bright light. Our toilets are full of pee and toilet paper. It’s nice to be reminded once in a while that nature sometimes knocks us on our butts.
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staffed because many of their workers haven’t been able to dig themselves out yet. The power is on, though, and the ski lifts are working. On the slope, we are sandblasted by powdered ice bearing down the mountain. My nose stings, my forehead feels frozen, and my eyebrows turn white. So we retreat back into the lodge, walking slowly in our hard, awkward ski boots. We convince a cafeteria cashier to open the store so we can buy goggles and face masks. We attempt the slopes again, surprised that powder isn’t as fast as the harder-packed snow
we’ve skied before. We laugh. After 24 hours of blizzard activities, we feel powerful, brave, adventurous, and emotionally connected. It’s our sixth time skiing, ever. Life has returned to normal when we return home, tired from skiing. The driveway has been plowed. The lights are back on. The toilets get flushed. The TV gets turned on. The remaining buckets of water get dumped, and the candles and lanterns get put away until the next storm.
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2018 8 | Winter Explore Hudson Valley
Trump’s tax changes Clifford Faintych goes over the new tax bill’s particulars
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n December 22, Donald Trump signed the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). The new law overhauls nearly every aspect of the U.S. tax code, and it makes significant changes to individual, corporate, and gift and estate taxation. TCJA went into effect on January 1, 2018, immediately lowering the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, effectively doubling the federal estate-tax exemption, eliminating or limiting most itemized deductions, and creating a new 20% deduction for pass-through income for some taxpayers. Massive in its scope and complexity, TCJA was unprecedented in the speed with which it passed through both chambers of Congress. It will be months, if not years, before all the implications of the new rules have been fully explored. Whatever is discovered along the way, TCJA will most likely impact economic growth and create a substantial effect on the stock market. Remember that hokey promise of being able to file your tax return on a post card? Despite all the ballyhooed simplification to the tax code heralded by Republican congressional leadership during recent months, including those aspirations for reducing down to three tax brackets, the TCJA actually preserves seven tax brackets. But for most taxpayers, the new rates are reduced from 2017 levels. In a marginal political victory for congressional Republicans desiring to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), TCJA eliminates the penalty imposed on those who do not maintain individual healthcare coverage, repealing the individual mandate. This is likely to have far-reaching consequences to the costs and availability of coverage through the ACA exchanges, as more healthy young people opt for no coverage, requiring more government subsidies down the road to stabilize the so-called high-risk pools. We will have to stay tuned to discover the effects of all this on accessibility to quality health care, especially in rural areas. TCJA also introduced sweeping changes, in that many exemptions and deductions for individual income tax have been repealed or modified: The personal exemption of $4150 per taxpayer and dependent has been eliminated. The standard deduction has increased from $6500 for individuals and $13,000 for married couples to $12,000 for individual taxpayers and $24,000 for married couples who file jointly. With TCJA nearly doubling the standard deduction, the result will be more taxpayers taking it instead of itemizing. TCJA also places limits on
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President Donald J. Trump claims the tax cut he signed will make things easier for the country. Tax professionals and money managers such as the author are concerned. several itemized deductions, with some limits affecting many taxpayers in our region, and other limits more likely to affect our neighbors to the south, in and around New York City. For example, the deduction for interest paid on mortgage debt has been lowered from $1 million of indebtedness down to $750,000. Surely, there are a few homes in the upper Hudson Valley where homeowners are mortgaged above $750,000.
When it comes to other changes in itemized deductions, there are some particular ups and downs: TCJA repealed miscellaneous itemized deductions, but it has reduced the so-called “floor” for deducting medical expenses from 10% of adjusted gross income down to 7.5%, to the extent that medical expenses exceed a taxpayer’s Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). With a nod towards the wealthy, TCJA repeals the income phase-out lim-
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ast fall was the first semester for New York’s new Excelsior scholarship program. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement of the program last April noted how the state’s offer of free tuition made “the dream of a college education and a better life now within reach for all New Yorkers,” which Cuomo called a necessity in today’s economy. The program is generally described as tuition-free college for families with an annual Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) lower than $125,000, as calculated by an individual or their family’s filed income on their federal tax returns from two years previous. With adjustments, the current school year (2017-2018) is acPUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGE tually being based on a max AGI of $100,000 from 2015. In the coming year (2018-2019), qualified families can make less than New York’s new Excelsior scholarships $110,000 annually. The 2019-2020 school year will be the first take up presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ call for free college education to actually assist those with an AGI below $125,000. Deadlines for the program are strict. They go by semester for all, albeit with a few caveats. rather than by full year. To apply for the Excelsior scholarship, a student must be a New York State resident for at least twelve months prior to the beginning of the term they are applying for. They must be pursuing a graduate or undergraduate degree at a SUNY or CUNY college, complete 30 credits each year, and live in the state following their scholarship for the amount of time the scholarship was received. The New York State HESC website promises notification the next time the Excelsior scholarship application becomes available. In the past, such dates include July 21 for the autumn 2017 semester, and December 4 for the semester starting this month. The Excelsior scholarship pays remaining tuition after other grants and scholarships have been applied. To receive payments each subsequent year after the initial application year, the scholarship recipient must complete the Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and TAP Application annually. The maximum amount an applicant can receive is $5500. The program does not cover the other costs of college, including fees, room and board, transportation, textbooks, meal plans and more. Fredrick Flamenhaft
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Winter 2018 Explore Hudson Valley itations applied to itemizing deductions. Admittedly, not many amongst us would even have been concerned about the old phase-out beginning at $320,000 per married couple. With no phase-out, TCJA will most likely keep tax advisors to high-income taxpayers busy for the foreseeable future. TCJA also caps at $10,000 the amount that tax filers can deduct in state and local income, sales and property taxes — the so-called SALT. It’s a big change that garnered much media attention. This cap brought particular earned the ire of the political class from the high-tax states on the coasts. New York governor Andrew Cuomo, not to be upstaged, sallied forth with a year-end proclamation allowing New Yorkers to pre-pay their 2018 taxes during the last week of 2017. This left many local municipalities scrambling to certify warrants for the pending real-property tax levy. What a scene, with taxpayers lining up at town halls and village offices to pre-pay their local municipal property taxes for 2018 in order to claim a full deduction on their 2017 tax return. Many municipalities didn’t have full 2018 property tax bills ready. And thanks to a little thing in New York called municipal home rule, the local tax collectors, especially those of the elected persuasion, have the last say whether to accept pre-payments. Some local offices were prepared for the onslaught. Others were not, and a few were not sure.
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eanwhile, amid the rush of homeowners paying their 2018 property taxes, the IRS cautioned last week that not all property-tax pre-payments can be deducted. The IRS said property taxes that haven’t been assessed before 2018 won’t be deductible on 2017 tax returns. State and local law determines when property taxes are assessed and those dates vary by location. As published in an IRS advisory: “A pre-payment of anticipated real property taxes that have not been assessed prior to 2018 are not deductible in 2017.” Before we start imagining an invasion of the downstaters moving up the valley to escape mortgage and SALT deduction limitations, let’s note that except for members of the military TCJA also eliminates deductibility of moving expenses. Looking at family tax credits, the child tax credit has been doubled, from $1000 to $2000, and the refundable portion of that credit is allowable up to $1400. TCJA also grants a new credit of $500 for
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other dependents. These phase out at income limits of $200,000 (single) and $400,000 (married). For estate and gift taxes, the individual unified gift and estate-tax exemption has been raised to $11.2 million (up from what was set to be $5.6 million), and, with portability remaining intact, $22.4 million for a married couple. The top rate remains at 40%, but the new rates are set to expire and return to 2017 levels at the end of calendar year 2025. When and if we get there, watch Congress kick the can down the road, then punt, depending on who is in office and which party dominates. TCJA increases the limitation from 50% to 60% of the taxpayer’s AGI for cash donations to charity. TCJA also includes an expansion of 529 savings plans that will allow families to save for k-12 expenses, in addition to college expenses. 529 plans are also able to be used for qualified distributions to pay for elementary and secondary school expenses, up to $10,000 per year per student. In addition, the definition of qualified education expenses has been further expanded to include homeschooling expenses. TCJA makes significant changes to pass-through business income by providing a deduction of 20% of non-wage allocation of business income from a trade or business, with the deduction limited to 50% of W-2 income above $157,000 (single)
and $315,000 (married). This limitation was established in an effort to prevent abuse in classifying wage income as business income in order to receive a lower rate for income that should be taxed at ordinary income rates. Anticipate some workers negotiating with employers to reclassify as consultants instead of employees. Think the gig economy. Certain professionals such as attorneys, accountants and financial professionals will be excluded from taking the deduction above the 50% of W-2 income limit. Lastly, that movement to kill off the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) failed. TCJA keeps the AMT in force, with the exemption amount increased to $70,300 for individual filers and $109,400 for joint filers. The phase-out for the AMT exemption has increased to $500,000 for individuals and a million dollars for married couples. The general intent and anticipation is that fewer Americans will be subject to the AMT. A big distinction is that although the changes to how individual income is taxed are set to expire at the end of 2025, the corporate tax changes provided for in the TCJA is permanent. As the rest of us wait for the dust to settle on the biggest changes to our federal tax code in a generation, it will most assuredly be best to consult with your own tax advisor on what is or is not deductible, when or when not to deduct, and how best to plan.
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Uneasy heritage Paul Smart observes the latest planning war in Catskill
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n SRO crowd came out to the Catskill Senior Center last October, drawn to a public hearing for a local lawyer’s plans to take down an older Catskill home his family has owned for nearly 60 years and replace it with something new. Word had gone out about the hearing in the previous week. The property in question was adjacent to the villageowned Beatty-Powers Place, which overlooks the Hudson River. The house to be taken down had a history that seemed to reach back to 1790. Its past involved the family of Aaron Burr. The call for action from Friends of Beatty-Powers came under the heading “Our Historic Heritage in Jeopardy.” Lawyer Jim Wagman was planning a new house in the rolling viewshed that many see as defining the Greene County shoreline of the Hudson River, especially as seen from the Olana National Historic Site across the river. Attendees spoke against Wagman’s plans, saying the maintenance problems his attorney had referred to were self-inflicted due to years of neglect. They spoke about how they’d been drawn to the historic village of Catskill by the quality of its homes. The East Side Historic District has been in place since 1982. Representatives from Olana, Scenic Hudson and other nonprofits addressed the village planners, as did several attorneys hired by Wagman’s neighbors. A handful of folks sitting near Wagman and his lawyer never spoke. Neither did the applicant. After the meeting, several attendees talked to each other about how changed their community was from what they grew up in. Several members of the planning board joined them in the parking lot. It seemed as though there were two Catskills. One, which wore stylized rural wear, greeted each
other heartily. The other, occasionally in coat and tie, seemed more formal and guarded. Having lived in town for 17 years, I recognized them as residents new and old respectively. No one spoke about the upcoming elections or the fundraising events Friends of Beatty-Powers Place had planned for the autumn, including classical concerts, a slide talk on “Lost Catskill,” and the community’s first Turkey Trot, which seemed to be drawing support from many of the community’s businesses and the village government. No one covered the meeting for the local paper. No meeting minutes appeared online.
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ne impassioned comment came from a Friend of Beatty-Powers member instrumental in bringing new business to the community, including the Lumberyard dance center in the midst of a $20-million renovation project and other arts initiatives in the village. Todd Whitley brought up the way the Wagmans had doubled their property. He claimed they had forced the village to hand over nearly an acre and a half of the property deeded for park use on the grounds of negligence. “Understanding our history is a key to unlocking our future potential. It’s inherent to our character,” Whitley wrote in a much-shared Facebook post. “Building a new house because you’ve always wanted a house with a large main level, a deck and sweeping views is fine, wonderful even — but not at the expense of razing our historic integrity. Build your new house in a non-historic zone. Once an old house is razed, it’s gone forever.” Local history now plays into the vagaries of gentrification, with newer residents drawn to visions of past community, or at least their vision of such lore, and with longer-term residents bristling at being told how they should treat the places where they’ve struggled to live for decades, even for generations. The newcomers buy a home and struggle to become part of the history they uncover. It’s like buying into a heritage. I’ve done it several times in
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he result is that the public hearings of planning boards have become a bellwether for the battlegrounds roiling contemporary politics in the region. I’ve seen liberal communities raise hackles over Buddhist monasteries and affordable residential complexes. I’ve seen a question of community character decided on the basis of the average number of chainsaws purported to be owned in a township. I’ve seen the rejection of the potential tourism draw of scenicbyway designation on the basis of home rule. Local political campaigns still measure the amount of time families have inhabited an area. People apologize for having lived in a place for “only” 30 or 40 years. There’s still shared pride in a village like Catskill — or hamlets such as Phoenicia, towns like Rhinebeck and Saugerties, and cities including Beacon, Hudson and Kingston. All get accolades in hipster travel magazines and websites, and benefit increasingly from an active real-estate market. Patrons flock to new restaurants, galleries, brewpubs and music venues. In Catskill, Etsy founder Rob Kalin sold Catskill Mill for its new life as Foreland. Attention is being drawn by the Rip Van Winkle Bridge linking the Thomas Cole House to Olana. Even with the proliferation of Trump signs around the area in autumn 2016, one can feel a new sense of acceptance of change in even the most conservative parts of the Hudson Valley.
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ccording to Catskill village officials, nothing has happened yet following that public hearing on Jim Wagman’s plans The public hearing was kept open because the application was deemed incomplete. “They want to take their time to review their options,” Nancy Richards, Catskill’s community development coordinator and secretary to the planning and zoning boards, said. “It’s costly to go through the planning process. Everyone wants to make certain what gets built is suitable.” Wagman said he didn’t want to share his plans, and didn’t have to. He was planning to come back to the Catskill planning board in the spring. He spoke about how his family had bought the old Powers’ property in 1959. The village made the adjoining Beatty-Powers home public 25 years ago. “I’m a creature of habit,” Wagman said. He was living in another home he owns on a nearby street, which he was unable to sell at the price he wanted. He shifted his plans for his parents’ old home. “That was a change, when they went and made a park next to our house. We call our home the Wagman property, and it’s been our home, our property, for 60 years. I was there before anyone else, and all we want to do is build a home.” “We all kind of suspect what’s going on here,” said Bob Hoven, president of Friends of Beatty-Powers. “People heard talk about how rude
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