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Sound and vision Two old friends with big reputations: Rhett Miller concert and Ryan Cronin art exhibition at Unison

o my mind, Unison Arts in New Paltz was a real pioneer in the notion of interdisciplinary programming, mixed media and the experimental mashup of arts and education in an intimate and dedicated performance space and gallery a mile or two above the little village that could, but that might not. Unison is oldhat at interdisciplinary, but the terms and the talent keep changing. On the weekend of January 5, two old friends with big reputations – painter Ryan Cronin and rock star Rhett Miller – cobrand a weekend of art, entertainment and edification at New Paltz’s vaunted (and reenergized) cultural center. Cronin – if you didn’t already know him by name – is the man who would brand New Paltz with his instantly identifiable, brash and iconic paintings. Beyond the pop art/high art paradox of his work, Cronin and his wife and business partner Melanie have distinguished themselves as outside-the-box thinkers and innovative

Rhett Miller, the undeniably gifted frontman of the Old ’97s, recently released a groundbreaking solo album titled The Messenger, and it is one of the best and most daring recordings of his entire career.

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Ryan Cronin is the man who would brand New Paltz with his instantly identiﬁable, brash and iconic paintings.

career managers and as philanthropists. The Cronin gallery and store in the Water Street Market, CronArtUSA, sells not just Cronin paintings, but all manner of branded and utilitarian goods. It is getting hard to leave New Paltz without something Cronin on you. Even more impressively, Camp Cronin somehow engineered an almostunprecedented victory of the local when Cronin’s art was installed, much like crown molding, in the downtown Mobil Mart. I don’t know the story and haven’t asked, but it is one thing to get your big canvases hung in the already-sympathetic Main Street Bistro; quite another to brand

the walls of Big Petroleum. That set a dangerous and wonderful precedent. In the art of self-determination and postmodern c a r e e r management, Rhett Miller is a role model sans peer. The hyperprolific singer/songwriter maintains two parallel careers, either one of which would keep most of us gasping. Career One is as the energetic, photogenic

Unison is old-hat at interdisciplinary, but the terms and the talent keep changing.

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and undeniably gifted frontman and principal of the Old ’97s, the enduringly popular Dallas band that pioneered the rambunctious side of alt/country and roots/rock in the ’90s. Career Two is as a solo artist with more than a half-dozen records to his name – some on major labels, most recorded since he moved up here and started a family after an extremely close call with the events of 9/11. Last year, the ’97s scored a surprising hit with their beefy, theologically oriented album Graveyard Whistling and its lead single “Good with God.” An invigorated cycle of touring and latenight TV appearances followed, and a lot of people either remembered or discovered how much they liked that band. This year Miller has released a new

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January 4. “A Tribute to the Cranberries for Delores: To Raise Money for Mental Health” will benefit the Mental Health Association of Ulster County and Aware: Depression and Bipolar Disorder in Ireland Rock. A variety of Hudson Valley musicians will perform O’Riordan’s many beloved songs. The event is free. There will be raffles and contests to raise money. Cranberries-inspired mental health beneﬁt Friday, Jan. 4, 7 p.m. Rock Da Casbah 216 Main Street, Saugerties (845) 247-3929

Historical talk on area prisons by David Miller this Monday

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Christian Bale does an amazing Dick Cheney, but it’s more of an impression than a performance.

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The virtues of Vice Much of the comedy works in this film about Dick Cheney; the tragedy doesn’t

here’s a scene in Vice when a young Dick Cheney asks his mentor, Donald Rumsfeld, what they stand for. Rumsfeld responds with 30 seconds of side-splitting laughter. It works as a gag, but it’s telling: This is not a film that seeks to understand its subject, one of the most important and least-known political figures of the last several decades. The essayist Michel de Montaigne had a quote from the Roman poet Terence engraved on a beam in his study: Homo sum humani a me nihil alienum puto. (“I am a man; nothing human is strange to me.”) Director Adam McKay definitely doesn’t subscribe to that philosophy; his Cheney is a grotesque. Vice is not a penetrating biopic. Instead, it’s a rollicking, stylistically inventive comedy with tragic pretenses. Christian Bale does an amazing Dick Cheney, but it’s more of an impression than a performance. Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush and Steve Carrell as Donald Rumsfeld are all superb. The pacing and editing are good. It’s worth a look, if only to take stock of how 9/11 and the wars that followed changed the country and set us on our current course. Much of the comedy works; the tragedy doesn’t. Vice’s Cheney starts life as a ne’er-do-well; cleans up his act to keep his woman; becomes an eager servant of power in the Nixon regime; becomes obsessed with increasing presidential power though he knows that, as a Republican, he himself can’t be president because his daughter is a lesbian; makes some money in the private sector; and, finally, is asked by W. to be vice president, managing to negotiate an unusual level of responsibility for that office, particularly in overseeing military and energy concerns. By the end, Vice lays every 21st-century calamity at the foot of Cheney, including the birth of ISIS, the opiate crisis and the detention of migrant children. The tragedy, as Vice sees it, seems to be that a man like Cheney – someone who sought power for power’s sake and was willing to wage war on a country with a dubious connection to the 9/11 attack – ever existed. The film misses the obvious tragedy for its subject: Cheney, a neocon who believed in America’s ability and duty to spread the twin gospels of democracy and capitalism to every corner of the world, has lived to see – mainly as a result of the war he launched – a new birth of isolationism. Cheney may have imagined that the country could come together, like it did after Pearl Harbor. Instead, it came apart, like it did in Vietnam. But this time the pendulum snapped back even more violently, with our current president openly questioning the alliances that formed America’s de facto postwar empire, as well as our responsibility (even our standing) to speak out against international human rights violations. It’s impossible to overstate how appalling this turn of events must be for a cold warrior like Cheney. And to be responsible for it? Now that’s a tragedy. – Will Dendis

and groundbreaking solo album titled The Messenger, and it is one of the best and most daring recordings of his entire career. The songs tend toward the mature and confessional, and the music toward the lean, hip and cautiously Brooklynated. So that’s my take on it: three pioneers of different kinds – Cronin, Miller and Unison – teaming up to enrich and ennoble our little community whether we like it or not. Rhett Miller performs on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m., and Ryan Cronin’s exhibit opens on Sunday, Jan. 6 at 4 p.m. with a wine-and-cheese reception. General admission concert tickets range between $10 and $25, with discounts for seniors, students and

Unison members.

The Lloyd Historical Society presents former prison superintendent David Miller speaking on the early history of prisons in the mid-Hudson Valley. Using archival footage, photographs and discussion, Miller will examine the early days of the state’s prison system and document the evolution toward rehabilitation and a more positive prison philosophy. Miller has devoted 40 years of service to the New York State criminal justice system, beginning as a teacher at the Highland State Training School and retiring as a supervising superintendent for the Mid-Hudson Region in 2005. For more on Miller’s life and book, read our previous piece at https://bit.ly/2VmS3Xo. History of local prisons talk Monday, Jan. 7, 7 p.m. Vineyard Commons Theater 300 Vineyard Ave., Highland (845) 255-7742, www.tolhps.org

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Rhett Miller concert Saturday, Jan. 5, 8 p.m. Ryan Cronin art opening Sunday, Jan. 6 at 4 p.m. Unison Arts, 68 Mountain Rest Rd. New Paltz, www.unisonarts.org

Delores O’Riordan tribute in Saugerties on Friday Rock Da Casbah in Saugerties hosts a tribute to Delores O’Riordan, the late

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New to our list this year is The Pines, just off Route 28 in Mount Tremper, and a quintessential “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” venue. The stage area is small, but the backline and sound system are topnotch and – most of all – the talent resources are deep. Under the curatorship of its resident rock notable, Jeremy Bernstein (above and on cover, who performs as Burnell Pines), this excellent restaurant has quickly established itself as a must-play spot for resident professional players and songwriters.

Now hear this Great places to catch live music in the Hudson Valley, 2019

he shapeshifting music venue landscape of the midHudson Valley reminds me a little of the arcade game Whack-a-Mole. The hammer that pummels venues out of existence – or at the very least into extended periods of underground dormancy – is an easy enough metaphor to decode: Economics is what drives venues down. The hammer is the vanishingly thin profit margins that are endemic to the endeavor; the instability and unpredictability of it; and, even in the best scenarios, a positively grueling effort-to-profit ratio. Most venues, aside from theaters, are also restaurants or coffeehouses. Thus, consider venue owners as people who have thrown their lot into not one but two or more notoriously risky, labor-intensive and capricious enterprises. They fail, sure; but just as often, they burn out. So that’s the hammer. But what is it that moves the moles to rise again, to lift their faces once more and see their own reflection in the pitiless steel of the descending hammer? When a venue goes underground, a vacuum is created, and

in that vacuum gathers a certain cultural pressure that will eventually push a mole head up, somewhere else, into the light. We need places to hang out; we need stages on which to perform and on which to welcome touring nationals; we need music and something like pride in place. We need special nights, damn it, and until such time as it is all Applebees out there, someone is going to trade ten years of their life expectancy to give them to us. Those Type A masochists drawn to the venue game are a resilient and very pure form of dreamer, more than they probably wish they were. As a rule, they will try again. I am pretty sure that I misunderstand the mechanics of Whack-a-Mole, which was invented in 1976 by Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering, Inc. I don’t think the punching down of one mole creates the pressure that drives other moles upward. I don’t believe there is a cause/effect there. About the venue thing, however, I am pretty certain. 2018 has seen its share of venue losses, but more gain than in the years immediately before it – much of it, unsurprisingly, in Kingston, as vast

We need special nights, damn it, and until such time as it is all Applebees out there, someone is going to trade ten years of their life expectancy to give them to us.

swaths of old neighborhoods fall to the rising bloody tide of cool. Cheers to all who make it happen; that means the owners and managers and staff, the performers and sound techs and, most of all, the committed patrons. Join us for a little data hygiene and updating, and remember: A venue is an idea more than a physical space. This list is not and cannot be comprehensive. Apologies for all oversights. KINGSTON

BSP 323 Wall Street, Kingston

Grenadier to Richard Buckner, the Felice Brothers, Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby. BSP taps the indie-rock buzzsphere as well as anyone, booking many giants of the scene: Lucius, Future Islands, Mac DeMarco, Perfume Genius, Parquet Courts and many more played shows here on the way up. Indie-rock, alt/country, electronica, primitivist blues and rock, sleazepunk, avant-garde and just about anything but classic rock and mainstream singer/songwriter play here regularly. BSP has quickly established itself as the seat of the Alternative in the Hudson Valley. (845) 481-5158; http:// bsplounge.com. The Anchor 744/746 Broadway, Kingston

This Uptown Kingston club has weathered a lot of difficulty to become what it is now – which is to say a stylish, vibey mid-sized venue with one of the better sound systems around, and one of the most diverse-but-purposeful talent rosters as well: heavy on both the local and the national in perfectly paired bills. It has had a great deal of success luring in the many professional acts who call the region home, from Rebecca Martin and Larry

The Anchor has stabilized things on the site of Kingston’s former hard and wild rock institution the Basement.

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must-play spot for resident professional players and songwriters. The tight space dictates the dynamics to an extent, but let’s just say that they have a backline drum set and you’re allowed to use it. An excellent addition to the local venuescape in an area that really needed something. (845) 688-7311; https://catskillpines.com. Colony 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock If you haven’t heard the news about Colony yet, they’re dragging the river for your former self. After two years of artful and total restoration, a series of secret house concerts to build awareness and the hiring of a full-time music biz staff to book, promote and mix, the former Colony Café has reopened under new ownership. The first weekend of shows sold out and the space is getting the highest raves. Get to Colony soon. (845) 679-7625; www. colonywoodstock.com. Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock

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This burger restaurant, “gastropub” and event venue is fully committed to live music, featuring some of the punk, metal and devilbilly insanity that was the Basement’s specialty, but branching out widely from there to include all of the top local talents and touring acts as well. (845) 853-8124; www.facebook.com/theanchorkingston. Keegan Ales 20 St. James Street, Kingston K i n g s t o n’s o w n h a p p e n i n g microbrewery is also a well-established music venue that offers mostly good tunes to drink by: original rock and blues, funk and roots and occasional visits from some Woodstock-scene luminaries like Pete Levin or his famous bass-playing brutha. It’s a raucous, generous, peanut-strewn scene with some good beer. (845) 3312739; www.keeganales.com. Senate Garage 4 North Front Street, Kingston

The resurgence of trendy Uptown Kingston doesn’t seem to be subsiding, and Jazzstock, a highly active collective of jazz players and jazz advocates, has set up shop at this spacious urban location. “World-class” is a candidate for most overused and meaningless superlative, but I am going to use it to describe the kind of jazz that rings out of the Senate Garage. (845) 802-5900; www.senategarage.com. Green Kill 229 Greenkill Avenue, Kingston Named for the street on which it stands, Green Kill is an adventurous arts, performance and education space with an appetite for themed shows, multimedia and way-inclusive programing. They do a lot of music there. (347) 689-2323; https://greenkill.org.

The 1,510-seat Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) is a National Register property built in Kingston in 1927. It was acquired by the Bardavon in 2007, forming a powerful arts-and-performance alliance operating under the Bardavon name. UPAC presents topnotch music, dance, theater and classic films for diverse audiences, as well as extensive arts-based learning programs. (845) 339-6088; www.bardavon.org.

alcohol selection and an interest in live music that the venue itself describes as “occasional.” Still, this is the new Kingston, where “occasional” no longer means jazz standard, pop covers and acoustic singer/ songwriter and roots. Tubby’s favors noise rock, avant-garde and the hair-raising experimental fringe. “Our last number tonight is called ‘Piñata No.6: The Gored Bull.’ Tip your bartender!” (845) 9434446; www.tubbyskingston.com.

The Beverly Lounge 224 Foxhall Avenue, Kingston

Art Society of Kingston (ASK) 97 Broadway, Kingston ASK is a member-based multi-arts center in the historic Rondout District of Kingston. ASK renovated its 1925 twostory building to include two galleries and an upstairs performance space with an audience capacity of 99. Music programming tends toward the intimate and cultured – a classical guitar series, for example – but also with some bandwidth for songwriters. ASK also features comedy and tech-light theatrical programming as well. (845) 338-0333; www.askforarts.org.

Speaking of Whack-a-Mole, when Rosendale’s beloved Market Market closed its doors, its ownership already had the Beverly up and running, and it was only a matter of time before the Bev inherited MKT2’s incomparably rich legacy of curatorship and special nights. The bar and restaurant area of the Beverly would seem barely big enough to host a diminutive, ukulelewielding vegan songwriter from British Colombia and their bejeweled merch chest, but – dig this – there’s a back room, a capacious event space that splits the difference between a VFW hall and ayahuasca recovery room, and it has already hosted shows by the likes of Jonathan Richman and Eleanor Friedberger. The Beverly is happening. BSP has offloaded some of its choicest bookings there, and other people have a competitive interest in their calendar as well. (845) 514-2570; www.thebeverlylounge.com. Tubby’s 586 Broadway, Kingston It used to have Elvis, Marilyn and the Blues Brothers on the roof. Yeah, that place. Now it is Tubby’s, a hip spot with a vegetarian-friendly menu, a curated

The Pines 5327 Route 212, Mount Tremper New to our list this year is The Pines, just off Route 28 in Mount Tremper, and a quintessential “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” venue. The stage area is small, but the backline and sound system are topnotch and – most of all – the talent resources are deep. Under the curatorship of its resident rock notable, Jeremy Bernstein (who performs as Burnell Pines), this excellent restaurant has very quickly established itself as a

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The Bearsville Theater needs no introduction beyond the iconic Elliot Landy photographs that grace its walls: portraits not just of Bob Dylan and the Band, but of Dylan and the Band in Woodstock, in ’69, at the height of their creative powers (and their good looks). Welcome to Woodstock. But the Bearsville is not tyrannized by its own legacy. Bread-andbutter: classic rock, reggae and world music, fusion and blowout tributes and celebrations featuring Woodstock’s incomparable stable of ace players. (845) 679-4406; http:// bearsvilletheater.com.

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ing sessions. In an area with quite a few boutique small venues, this one might be the crown jewel. The Rambles are legendary both for their celebrity guests, the A-list house band and the intimacy and heightened vibe of the shows. The Ramble team is also to be commended for bringing the cream of the local talent in on the fun. Upcoming programs include more Rambles, occasional WDST-sponsored performances and life as a working recording studio. (845) 679-2744; www.levonhelm.com. Harmony Café 52 Mill Street, Woodstock The Harmony Café at Wok ’n’ Roll in Woodstock is all-in for live music, with music six nights a week, scheduled weekly events such as open-mic poetry, music open mic and a dedicated Bluegrass Night on Thursday. All kinds of bands play on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s a small venue with a pass-the-hat flavor; but, being in Woodstock, the folks who come out to play tend to be folks who can really play. (845) 679-7760; https://bit.ly/2SquUBF. The Station Bar & Curio 101 Tinker Street, Woodstock

The 1,510-seat Ulster Performing Arts Center, known as UPAC, is a National Register property built in Kingston in 1927.

This lovely repurposed train station has become a popular eatery and drinkery and a well-curated listening room that emphasizes acoustic music, but sees plenty of full band and dance actions as well, it being in Woodstock and all. (845) 810-0203; http://stationbarandcurio.com. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock Art galleries make natural performance spaces, and performance spaces make natural galleries. One of the more congenial for both purposes is Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. The musical programming here is predictably adventurous: avant-garde jazz, new serious music and some Woodstockflavored folk and roots sounds as well. The spacious performance area is only one of several galleries on-site, so a show at the Kleinert/James is always an edifying, multisensory experience. (845) 679-2079; www.woodstockguild.org/performance.

Woodstock Playhouse 103 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock More and more, the venerable Woodstock Playhouse is pressed into service as a music venue, and what a venue it is. Recent shows have included the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra, programs curated by the amazing Catskill Jazz Factory and Happy Traum’s traditional star-studded Solstice show. (845) 679-9600; www. woodstockplayhouse.org. Maverick Concerts 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock Woodstock’s Maverick Concert Series just finished celebrating 103 years as one of the most challenging and imaginative serious chamber music programs anywhere. In recent years, it has relaxed the definition of “serious” to include serious jazz and children’s music; but range and outsider, maverick thinking are Maverick’s calling cards. Maverick Concerts continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the Maverick Art Colony. Artists and other volunteers built the hand-hewn “music chapel” in 1916, and the Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. (845) 679-8217; www. maverickconcerts.org. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company 51 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock Here’s one that has quietly crept into the venue game and made a big splash. Woodstock’s premier pizzeria is hosting music several nights a week: bluegrass, jazz and a rock mix, featuring the region’s incomparable reserve of great players. (845) 679-7969; https://bit.ly/2EVPZ3b. Old Glenford Church Studio 210 Old Route 28, Glenford With the conclusion of the wildly successful Hudson Valley Sudbury School monthly benefit concert on the grounds of the old Glenford Church (after seven years of packed and luminous shows), it is essential to mention that Mor Pipman – the artist, gourmet and proprietor – has no intention of retiring from the business. This restored church was her secondary venue and art space, and it now becomes the primary one. This last year, the space hosted packed shows by Burnell Pines, Chris Maxwell, Ambrosia Parsley and many more. Few places can rival this one for vibe, art and food. (845) 641-4407; https://bit.ly/2LFEz4C. Empire State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia The Empire State Railway Museum in

Phoenicia is the site of approximately 12 intimate musical performances annually, produced by Flying Cat Music. The series presents national and touring acts in the roots/Americana vein in the acoustically exquisite, dark-wood-paneled passenger waiting room of the Empire State Railway Museum. Built in 1899, the museum accommodates approximately 50 people for performances. (845) 688-7501; https://bit.ly/2EUTKGz. Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge

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Opus 40 50 Fite Road, Saugerties Harvey Fite’s stunning sculpture park has been getting back into the live music and theater game in the past few seasons: on both the rocks themselves and in the rustic house. This is good news. The booking is well-curated and wellconnected, and the space is incomparable. (845) 681-9352; www.opus40.org. Saugerties United Methodist Church Washington Avenue/Post Street, Saugerties The Saugerties United Methodist Church is a venue dedicated to Saugerties Pro Musica, a rich and daring chamber music series now in its 24th season. Pro Musica books leading talent from New York City, Albany and around the world, as well as a fair share of local talent. (845) 679-6733; www.saugertiespromusica.org. MARLBORO

The semiannual Hoots, curated by the ace progressive Americana duo Mike + Ruthy, are the flagship musical events at the Ashokan Center, but the tunes are called year-round. Music, and especially folk music globally defined, is deep in the DNA of this whole undertaking. Entertainment and place-specific environmental education meld organically in the Center’s programming and mission, but it is also just a damn fine place to catch a show. (845) 657-8333; https://ashokancenter.org. SAUGERTIES

Inquiring Minds Coffee House & Bookstore 68 Partition Street, Saugerties

The Falcon/Falcon Underground 1391 Route 9W, Marlboro The Falcon is Tony Falco’s labor of love: a thriving club that grew entirely out of the owner’s love of serious jazz and his many connections in that world. Heavies on the order of Brad Mehldau and Dave Liebman play here regularly, and the roster is filled out by a handpicked assortment of local notables, established names and upand-comers – mostly from the New York City jazz, blues, funk, world and roots music scenes. This by-donation-only listening space and restaurant is one of the Valley’s greatest musical treasures, and certainly its most unlikely. In 2016, the Falcon added a second venue, the Falcon Underground, to accommodate more rock and more locals, and it is excellent and every bit worthy of the Falcon name. (845) 236-7970; https://www.liveatthefalcon. com. NEW PALTZ

Snug Harbor 36 Main Street, New Paltz

Inquiring Minds rightly considers itself a “cultural and social center” more than just a bookstore. Its event schedule is bustling and includes a fair amount of music, and not just the stripped-down and acoustic shows you might imagine. Legendary Woodstock bandleader Professor Louie, for example, did a CD release show here. (845) 246-5775; www.inquiringbooks. com.

New Paltz’s infamous rock dive bar is really no dive at all, but rather a warm, raucous, small music bar where the crowd is right up in the band’s

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Bacchus Restaurant and Bar is a New Paltz institution that never did live music – just didn’t do it. It was the one bar in town that you could visit to converse at a comfortable level. Then one night, the owners slid a pool table out of the way and found that they had a natural music club on their hands, and it has been a hopping music joint on the weekends ever since. Because of the length of the room and the height of the ceiling and the attached auxiliary spaces (a poolhall and a variety of decks and porches, including a heated patio), it remains the most conversation-friendly bar in town. Bacchus began as a rustic and rootsoriented venue, but that’s all out the window now. What plays here is, generally, the best that the town of New Paltz has to offer, from indie-rock to funk to psychedelic and bluegrass. (845) 255-8636; www.bacchusnewpaltz.com. Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz

In its bright and airy multipurpose performance and gallery space just outside of New Paltz, Unison has hosted years and years’ worth of adventurous programming: classical music, dance, cabaret, jazz, family acts and world-music virtuosi, to name a few. Unison really stepped up the music booking in 2018. (845) 2551559; www.unisonarts.org.

The legendary Falcon in Marlboro

Water Street Market 10 Main Street, New Paltz The stylish, art-and-antique-lined downtown mini-mall was clearly designed to be a Mecca for tourists. Much to the surprise of everyone, it has also become a thriving cultural and congregational center for the community, using the lovely amphitheater on its south end for a summer Thursday concert series and a variety of other performances and events in all seasons. (845) 255-1403; http:// waterstreetmarket.com. Lagusta’s Luscious Commissary 11 Church Street, New Paltz Sometimes a venue is just a person around whom music gathers. That’s how I think about Kate Larson, the musician (Guilt Mountain), writer and promoter who is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for a rich, decade-long subtradition of the New Paltz music scene. Her shows typically pair two traveling indie bands (among the best I have seen in my hometown) with a sympathetic local act. In Lagusta’s Luscious Commissary, on the site of the former Team Love Records/ RavenHouse Gallery in New Paltz, Larson has found a highly congenial management and environment in which to flex her myriad connections in the world of indie-rock, zine writing and alt/culture generally. This is a gem of New Paltz and beyond, and the snacks and beverages are amazing and unique. (845) 288-3426; www.lagustasluscious.com/commissary. Cafeteria Internet Café 56 Main Street, New Paltz One of the real stunning spaces in town –

the former Not Fade Away tie-dye factory, and long before that the Bomze & Van Vlack Pharmacy – Cafeteria sports a tidy window-box stage and a serviceable sound system. In the past, bands cranked it up in this spacious and high-character, couchstrewn room; but these days acoustic and solo are more in fashion, as well as absolutely packed open mics on Mondays at 7 p.m. Sundays are given to jazz. (845) 633-8287; http://cafeteriacoffeehouse. com.

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Rail Trail Café Stone Mtn. Farm, River Rd. Ext., Tillson

Garvan’s 215 Huguenot Street, New Paltz Hard to give the exact address of this one because it is on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, for Pete’s sake; but this delightful experimental eatery is co-owned by a killer musician (drummer Brian Farmer of Futu Futu fame), and it shows in the spring-to-fall music lineup that features everything from kids’ music to outré jazz, Friday through Sunday. (845) 399-4800; www.railtrailcaferosendale.com. The beautifully situated, classy restaurant at the end of Huguenot Street in New Paltz features a steady supply of traditional Irish music. (845) 255-7888; www.garvans.com. Underground Coffee & Ales 74 Vineyard Avenue, Highland Underground has provided the village of Highland with a much-needed space for a little live music, trivia nights, movie screenings and such, to accompany a connoisseur-grade beer and coffee list. (845) 834-3899; www. undergroundcoffeeandales.com.

Rosendale Café 434 Main Street, Rosendale The Rosendale Café set out with a clear musical and cultural agenda: to become a “listening space” venue for “national talent” with some limited provision for the local. Easier said than done, but it has done it. The space is thoughtfully treated for sound, and the booking philosophy plays to the strengths of the room: intimate solo and small-ensemble performances, with an emphasis on singer/songwriter and roots styles

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(alt/country artist Mary Gauthier is a frequent guest) and some surprisingly big-name swing, bluegrass and jazz (Ron Carter has played here, among others). (845) 658-9048; www.rosendalecafe.com. High Falls Café 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls Not that long ago, the High Falls Café moved from its location on Route 213 to a comfortable space at the Stone Dock Golf Course off Berme Road in High Falls. Its commitment to live music remains unfaltering, however, and commitment is the operative word. The Café is dedicated not only to a steady course of high-end blues, jazz and singer/songwriter-oriented folk and rock, but also to a very select set of the region’s leading and longestrunning acts in these genres – like folk/ blues maestros Jeff Entin and Bob Blum, singer/songwriter Kurt Henry, roots/rock stalwarts the Trapps and of course Big Joe Fitz. (845) 687-2699; www.highfallscafe. com. Widow Jane Mine Snyder Estate, 668 Route 213, Rosendale Have you been to the Widow Jane Mine yet? If not, you should seriously check out this mysterious Rosendale hideaway. It’s an easy stroll into the bowels of the Earth, with a flat floor, an underground lake that would serve as a nice retirement home for Gollum and acoustics that lure people to make recordings. A remnant of Rosendale’s once-world-renowned cement-mining industry, Widow Jane is a crux point between the natural world and human endeavor where magical things can and do happen. (845) 658-9900; www.centuryhouse.org

when the venerable Black Swan in Tivoli closed and efforts to revive it via crowdsourcing foundered; but good things return to those who wait. The Traghaven Whiskey Pub & Co. now features Irish music, jazz and an eclectic mix of “other,” though maybe not so much of the rock of the Black Swan years. Traghaven also claims a new and improved kitchen. And, in the great tradition of the Black Swan, Traghaven is the place to go to watch soccer among knowledgeable fans. (845) 757-3777; www.traghaven.com. Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College, Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson

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played there during a blizzard early in their first American tour. Approximately 13,000 people claim to be among the seven in attendance that night. The Chance also includes a smaller and more locally focused venue known as the Loft. (845) 471-1966; www.thechancetheater. com.

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The space they provide for performers is narrow, but their commitment to live music is deep and longstanding. Performers make it work here in this comfortable and accommodating brewery and restaurant. (845) 2298277; http://hydeparkbrewing.com.

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Arrowood Farms 236 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord

This lovely farm and brewery is unafraid to throw up a big stage, seasonally. Last summer, it presented the Dirt Farmer Festival (which featured an appearance by Jackson Browne) as well as shows by national acts like the Lone Bellow. (845) 253-0389; www. arrowoodfarms.com. Lydia’s Café 7 Old Route 209, Stone Ridge Cute and classy, Lydia’s Café proves the adage that a venue is more a mindset than a physical space. Lydia’s offers a grade of live jazz wildly disproportionate to its physical dimension – maybe because jazz players and their small-but-ardent group of fans are always looking for intimate places to make their time-honored magic happen. Jazz isn’t all that plays at Lydia’s: There are some groove bands, some singer/songwriters, even some theater, and also great food, of course, and a full bar. (845) 687-6373; http://lydias-cafe. com/music-calendar.

A jewel of an old theater, the 944seat Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie has been a regional treasure since 1869. The Bardavon sports exactly the kind of eclectic calendar that a large venue requires to get by: everything from rock stars to orchestras to comedians and animal psychics. But the Bardavon has also shown some real imagination in its programming, with classic film nights and Live at the Met HD telecasts. (845) 473-2072; www.bardavon.org. My Place Pizza 322 Main Street, Poughkeepsie “Since 1978 serving real New York pizza to the City of Poughkeepsie, Marist, Vassar and DCC and St. Francis/Vassar Hospitals,” says My Place Pizza on its Facebook page, adding, “and rock ‘n’ roll since 2012.” In the intervening years, My Place has developed a reputation as a band-friendly venue unafraid of the rock. My Place Pizza, like so many other repurposed venues, has discovered one of the secrets to packing the house: 18+. The kids are all right. (845) 406-9285; https:// bit.ly/2s1iWCS.

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The Shelter: Underground Bar 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck Rhinebeck needs venues, and up steps the Shelter: Underground Bar to fill that chronic void. In addition to food and drink, it offers a popular open mic on Tuesdays and frequent shows by local notables, such as the regional blues legend Murali Coryell. (845) 876-1500; https://bit. ly/2TiNICO. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck The area’s premier dedicated community performance facility specializes, of course, in a high and adventurous grade of theater and musical theater, but it has been known to open the stage for music as well, including a number of performances by the classical guitarist David Temple. (845) 876-3080; www.centerforperformingarts. org. Church of the Messiah 6436 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck

Darkside Records & Gallery 611 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie

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The Chance 6 Crannell Street, Poughkeepsie From its days as the Last Chance Saloon – a music club with a Dixieland house band! – to its current incarnation as a midsize club catering to hard rock, metal and modern alternative, the Chance has been one of the region’s premier venues for decades. For all of its soldout shows by major artists in all genres and unannounced tour-kickoff dates by legitimate superstars, the Chance may be known most of all for the date the Police

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This large and vinyl-filled record store has a stage, sound system and lighting rig that many small-to-midsized venues would envy, and they don’t leave it empty. There’s often a rock show happening while you are flipping through the racks. The place is also way congenial to events, showcases and activism. Great spot in a weird location. (845) 452-8010; www. darksiderecordsandgallery.com. Hyde Park Brewing Company

Most old churches make great music venues for obvious reasons having to do with acoustics, history and vibe. But the Church of the Messiah claims among its treasures a fabulous restored E. M. Skinner pipe organ. The Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society books its shows here, and for good reason. (845) 876-3533; www.rhinebeck-episcopal.org. TIVOLI & ANNANDALE

Traghaven Whiskey Pub & Co. 66 Broadway, Tivoli Northern Dutchess lost a vital and eclectic (and Bardcentric) music outlet

Not one venue but several, producing an incomparable level of programming in the classical and jazz genres, the Fisher Center is a curve-busting presence on the local scene. The summer is especially rich, with Bard SummerScape and the Spiegeltent, but the amazing programming is year-round, and the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center building itself looks like Queen Amidala’s Nabooian diplomatic spaceship crash-landed right on campus. No one was hurt. (845) 758-7900; https://fishercenter.bard.edu. HUDSON

Basilica Hudson 110 South Front Street, Hudson

Basilica has been making news with its concerts, art exhibits and general multimedia happenings since 2010. The facility itself is a stunning reclaimed 19th-century factory located mere steps from the Hudson Amtrak station. Basilica’s bona fides can be traced to its artistic directors, filmmaker Tony Stone and musician M e l i s s a A u f d e r M a u r. T h e programming here is continuous and often downright crazy. (518) 822-1050; http://basilicahudson.com. Club Helsinki Hudson 405 Columbia Street, Hudson C l u b He l s i n k i m o v e d f r o m Massachusetts to Hudson not very long ago, upgrading its performance space significantly in the process, but also sealing Hudson’s incipient reputation as a music town to be reckoned with. It is a major midsized national-circuit club, built for sound from the ground up. It enjoys an already-established reputation, especially in the realm of Americana. Amidst the A-list folkies and singer/songwriters who play here practically nightly – Todd Snider, Tift Merritt and Aimee Mann – Helsinki Hudson has thrown a few curveballs in the last few years: Magnetic Fields, Frank Black (of the Pixies), Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and more. This is a club worth a visit just to see the exceptionally cool space. (518) 828-4800; http:// helsinkihudson.com. Spotty Dog Books & Ale 440 Warren Street, Hudson As the word “Ale” in its name ought to

suggest, the Spotty Dog is not your typical bookstore. Situated in an old firehouse, the Spotty Dog caters to Hudsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban refugee population and (apologies to all) hipster tastes in its readings, its organic ales on tap, its art supplies and in the music that it slides some racks around to make room for. Many of the acts that appear here are experimentalist artsong writers imported from Brooklyn, including a number of big names over the years. It is the kind of bookstore where people will travel to play. (518) 671-6006; www.thespottydog.com. Half Moon 48 South Front Street, Hudson The Half Moon brings a bona fide, adventurous rock club to Hudson to fill the gaps between Club Helsinki and the many music-friendly restaurants and cafĂŠs in town. It attracts national talent as well as locals. (518) 828-1562, http:// thehalfmoonhudson.com. Hudson Hall 327 Warren Street, Hudson For a number of years, the historic Hudson Opera House would open its doors for bands and artists looking for a first-rate setting for haunted or postapocalyptic PR photos. Alas, those days are done, and the storied venue is now a busy place of programming: adventurous music, serious music, lowcost educational programs, art and theater. Hudson Hall at the Hudson Opera House is serious about being a mainstay in the ongoing revitalization of this colorful riverside city. (518) 822-1438; www.hudsonhall.org. CATSKILL & VICINITY

HiLo 365 Main Street, Catskill

When venerable venues close their doors, one often hears hopeful promises of new digs and new golden eras, but they seldom materialize. Not so with the Towne Crier â&#x20AC;&#x201C; formerly in the old Beekman General Store and Pawling, currently in a custom-built facility right in the heart of Beacon. Phil Ciganerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous folk, roots and jazz club was legendary: an oasis of world-renowned talent in an out-of-the-way place. The new site does not disappoint. It is more spacious, at least as good in terms of sound quality and more convenient to most of us. The restaurant is outstanding as well. The Towne Crier continues to feature A-list Americana talent, and the hundreds of signed portraits on its walls keep its storied legacy front-of-mind. (845) 8551300; www.townecrier.com. Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon

The Howland Library has stood at 477 Main Street in Beacon for more than 145 years. The airy, high-ceilinged main room now hosts a great variety of music, from folk/rock to classical, and is so renowned for its fine acoustical properties that a number of rock, folk and classical records have been recorded in its vaunted space. The Howland Chamber Music Circle, art exhibits, programs for children, films, poetry readings and openmic nights fill out the schedule in one of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most pristine listening environments. (845) 8314988; www.howlandculturalcenter. org. Chill Wine Bar 173 Main Street, Beacon

With its cool traincar layout, its backline grand piano and a run of booking hits that bely its size, HiLo kind of seals the deal: Ready or not, Catskill is cool now, too. Food is excellent as well, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of cafĂŠ that has wine and beer. www.hilocatskill.com. 23Arts Not a venue but an initiative, 23Arts in Tannersville produces high-level musical programming year-round in various venues including but not limited to the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter and the Mountain Top Library. The initiative favors jazz, modern classical and experimental, but is pretty genre-agnostic overall, especially in its exceptional, overstuffed summer festival programming. www.23arts.org. BEACON

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We are not sure when Beacon became Jazz City, but it is on; and it is not exactly polite dinner jazz, anywhere on the block. As the name implies, Chill keeps it a little on the mellow side, leaving the skitter and skronk for Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; but Chill gets to choose from some pretty choice players, and the jazz here is for real. (845) 7650885; www.chillwinebarbeacon.com.

other side of the tracks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the lightly developed area of East Beacon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but only a jog from the galleries and shops of the main strip. Dogwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tastes in music are in keeping with Beaconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing reputation for quirky urban sophistication: Everything from experimental jazz to Americana plays here. (845) 202-7500; www.dogwoodbar.com. Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 330 Main Street, Beacon Main Street Beacon was already a happening stretch with the Howland, the relocated Towne Crier, Dogwood and a variety of gallery and dinner performance spaces along its length. Now Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, an ultra-hip repurposed luncheonette, brings all manner of indie and outrĂŠ music to one of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liveliest strips. Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent sound system pipes everything from avant-garde jazz to indie slacker-rock, punk and even some standard-fare upstate blues and rock. But Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specializes in the kind of acts that you are liable to find at BSP in Kingston: smart, subversive, different, new. (845) 202-7447; http://quinnsbeacon.com. Beacon Music Factory 333 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon A combined music school and show producer, the Beacon Music Factory is a hub for players, students and audiences. Start here if you are looking into playing music, but also keep an eye on its performance schedule. (845) 765-0472; http://beaconmusicfactory.com.

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2 Alices Coffee Lounge 311 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson 117 Broadway, Newburgh The 2 Alices Coffee Lounges serve beer and wine, light fare and baked goods and a surprisingly diverse and adventurous variety of music. Most acts go it acoustic and stripped-down, but not all. Rock bands will squeeze in on occasion, as will electronic acts. The small and stylish venue in Cornwall-on-Hudson enjoys a stable, loyal music audience, making it a favorite among local players in a variety of genres. The tidy sound system is another plus. The space doubles as an art gallery as well. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one in Newburgh now, too. (845) 534-4717; www.2alicescoffee.com. SULLIVAN COUNTY

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Wherehouse owner Dan Brown displayed some serious pioneer spirit when he founded a rock and blues club on the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street in Newburgh. The former professional bodyguard (whose charges included Jimmy Page and, on at least one occasion, Michael Jackson, if the legend is true) is as eclectic in his booking as in his beer list. All of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading blues acts play here, as do all manner of high-energy rock acts. (845) 561-7240; www. thewherehouserestaurant.com. Brothers BBQ 2402 Route 32, New Windsor Brothers BBQ in New Windsor has entered the live music scene with purpose and a bit of an attitude, specializing in

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Practice last Saturday for one of the many youth hockey leagues that call the Kiwanis Ice Arena home.

The big chill Play hockey or figure skate at Saugerties’ popular Kiwanis Ice Arena

ou can lace up a pair of skates and glide across the Kiwanis Ice Arena in Saugerties, a glassy-smooth rink, the surface of which is 197 by 85 feet. From midAugust to April, the Arena offers a variety of programs is open to area families, figure skaters and hockey enthusiasts of all ages. Located next to the AYSO soccer fields, and part of the Cantine Memorial Complex on Washington Avenue, this popular ice rink is situated to serve skaters in that gap between the Albany and Po u g h k e e p s i e / Newburgh ice rinks. Manager Rob Kleeman has worked at the rink since it opened in Fe b r u a r y of 2000. “It’s actually owned and operated by the Town of Saugerties,” he explains. “It carries the Kiwanis name because, back when it all began, some members of the Kiwanis Club thought it would be a good idea that Saugerties had an ice arena. They purchase the boards, the Zamboni, the lobby and other pieces for an arena, and in essence handed it over to the Town and said, ‘We’d like you to build an ice rink.’” “A few members who played hockey had to drive down to Newburgh or Albany to practice. They saw that there was a void in this area, and that it would be a good idea to add to the Complex. We’re right in the middle between the Albany and Poughkeepsie/

Newburgh rinks, a good location for anyone here looking to play hockey or skate. Saugerties is very sports-oriented. The Complex has gotten to where it is because of volunteers in our community.” Kleeman says that most of the programs, like the youth hockey offerings, start beginners at the age of 4 and offer activities for young people up to senior varsity teams. “The Youth Program runs that. They have their own board and volunteers, and they rent the ice from us for their programs. Also, a skating school/ club gives lessons and trains for competitions; they also run their own programs and rent the ice. “Then we have public recreational skating and dropin hockey, which is open for anyone who wants to come and play a game, along with sticks and pucks, which is more geared towards someone who wants to do more practice or wants to just try hockey with their son or daughter and practice different skills. Again, that’s open to anybody.” The Arena runs a men’s league with two divisions of hockey, at A/B levels and C/D levels. “We have 13 men’s teams between the two divisions. Other non-ice-related stuff goes on here, too. The Saugerties wrestling team uses the back room for practice during wrestling season. We also rent a room out for AA meetings seven

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days a week. And in our training room – a multi-use room of 50 by 60 that can be rented for meetings – we also host dog agility training when they can’t be outside in the winter. Then in the spring they hold a big American Kennel Club agility trial event out on the fields.” Kleeman was a senior in high school when he started working at the Arena. “I was working at McDonald’s and wanted a better job. I like being outdoors, so I put an application in and started at the bottom. I worked here through college, as the rink started to get busier and busier. I was here almost every night. When I finished college and it was growing so fast, I was offered the job of managing the rink and field. I took some business classes in college, but it was mostly onthe-job training and figuring things out.” When asked what he likes best about his

18-year career, he says, “Most of the time it doesn’t feel like ‘work.’ I’ve been here for so long and know most of the people well. It’s more like we’re friends, and there is stuff to do, but it just doesn’t feel like work. And when the rink shuts down in the summertime, I get to go out and do the outside work – a balance of both. The capacity for people on the ice is close to 300, but Kleeman says that’s too many people. “We don’t go that high because it’s too confining. We’ll shut it down around 225. More than that, it’s too crowded and not as enjoyable. And of course there’s music: today’s hits, just general music that hopefully everyone enjoys. With private parties, when they rent the ice they can choose what they want to listen to, within reason. No cursing or anything like that.” This year the Youth Hockey Association teamed up with the Rangers for a new

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11 helmets are a must – no exceptions – and anyone under 18 is required to wear full gear. Admission is $9 for adults, $7 for students. Sticks-and-pucks sessions are designed to let skaters of any age work on shooting, drills, stick-handling and general skating skills on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. Same rules, same admission rates as drop-in sessions. A limited supply of skates, sticks, gloves and helmets can be rented for $3 each, first-come, first-served. Check the website below for complete scheduling of all sessions. For further information about the Saugerties Youth Hockey Program or the Saugerties Skating School, go to the links tab and check out their respective websites. – Ann Hutton

program that is called the Junior Rangers Program. “When people sign their kids up with the Junior Rangers, they get a full bag of gear. Kids get all the coaching by some Rangers and some local coaches. Once a month they bring in members of the Ranger Alumni to work with the kids. Starting kids at 4 years old – when they’re that age and you put so much gear on them, if they fall down, they don’t hurt themselves; they’re not so prone to quit because they got hurt. They’re wearing so much gear!” There are four full-size locker rooms, a party room, the off-ice training room, a concession stand with a full menu for hungry skaters and a pro shop. During the off-season from May to mid-July, the Arena hosts off-ice events such as flea markets, fundraisers, parties, camps, expos and festivals. The schedule for public skating for hourand-a-half-long sessions begins as early as 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, 10:15 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday and

Friday, and in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. Adults pay $7, students and senior citizens skate for $5 and children under 5 get in free. Learn to Skate and Figure Skating Freestyle classes take place on Saturdays from 2 to 2:30 p.m. People of all ages learn to skate forward and backward, as well as how to stop (always important), turn, cross over, jump and spin. Organized by age and level of experience, these drop-in classes are offered at convenient times. The cost of each includes admission to the public skate immediately following and range from $25 per session to $150 for ten. Figure skating group classes (four to eight skaters per group) are held on Mondays from 5 to 6 p.m., primarily for skaters with some experience. Come work on your jumps, spins and edge technique. All classes are taught by professional skaters who are members of the US Figure Skating and/or Professional Skaters’ Association. The cost is $25 per class or

$265 for the season (15 classes). And if you really like to skate with a purpose, the drop-in hockey sessions are held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 8:15 a.m. For this activity,

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Coasting hot spots A guide to prime sledding destinations in the Hudson Valley

Snyder’s Farm Hill: Near Thruway Exit 20. Head west on Route 212 about .5 mile. Snyder’s Farm Hill is on the right, where Route 212 meets Route 32. It’s not far from the Thruway, where Woodstock ’94 happened.

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n amusing Internet video shows a clever dog that pulls a plastic sled to the top of a hill, jumps on it and slides all the way down, even knowing when to lean so as to turn the sled away from a barn. Then the winter thrill enthusiast grabs the sled in its mouth and trudges up the hill again for another go. This makes me wonder if dogs are so different from children. Of course, not all dogs love snow, and all kids don’t necessarily want to get bundled up to head out into the freezing air for the brief buzz of zooming down a slick incline. These days, young people might prefer to find an app on their screens that simulates the action. This may be a good reason to bundle yourself up and take your children out into the wild white world, haul your sledding implements up a hill and throw all adultlike propriety to the winter wind as you test gravity. Scoot and scream as you sail downhill. Laugh as you remember your own forays in sledding. You love it, right? You know what comes next: Your kids will get hooked by the adrenaline rush, and you’ll have to haul back up that hill. And after you go home, they’ll beg and plead for you to take them sledding again. Ah, the arduous obligations of parenthood. Here are a few prime spots to sled in our region. ULSTER COUNTY

Kingston Hasbrouck Park: One of Kingston’s larger parks, with 45 acres; boasts steep hills and magnificent views of the Hudson River.

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Catskill Beatty-Powers Estate: 10 Powers Place. Slope looks out to Olana, Frederic Church’s home near Hudson. It takes a long, tiring haul back uphill for repeat runs, but that is part of the fun. ORANGE COUNTY

Montgomery Thomas Bull Memorial Park: Located on Route 416. COLUMBIA COUNTY

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Located on Delaware Avenue adjacent to John F. Kennedy Elementary School. Cornell Park: This tiny park on Wurts Street in the Rondout district features a douple dip to its slope. Highland Highland Middle School: There's a nice long hill at 71 Main Street in the hamlet. Milton Cluett Schantz Memorial Park: A quiet gem of a park at 1801-1805 Route 9W.

Marlboro Marlboro Elementary School: There's a good sledding spot at 1380 Route 9W. New Paltz Duzine School: Located at the end of Sunset Ridge Road. It's a hill overlooking what locals call Sewer Stadium. Sledders have been known to go airborne here so sled at your own risk. New Paltz Middle School: Park in the lot on the side of the school across from Lincoln Place. Once inside the gate, walk towards the back and towards the tennis courts. This gentle hill leads down to a football field. Modena Thomas Felton Park: Located on 11 Patura Road

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Beacon Memorial Park: Located on Robert Cahill Drive off Fishkill Avenue in the village. Mount Beacon Park: Enjoy the beautiful views from the top of the mountain. Located at 788 Wolcott Avenue/Route 9D. Town of Poughkeepsie Bowdoin Park: Sledding is most manageable on the main hill, where the bandshell is located. Haybale barricades ensure safe stopping conditions. Warm drinks are sold at a vending machine at Pavilion 5 on the hilltop. Located at 85 Sheafe Road. City of Poughkeepsie College Hill Park: Located on North

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Jan. 3, 2019 Clinton Street. Bartlett Park: Located on Hooker Avenue. Rhinebeck Burger Hill Park is one spot open late in the day. Bring flashlights and battery lanterns to create your own downhill light show until 8:30 p.m. Located on Route 9G between Kerr Road and Violet Hill Road. Further Aﬁeld James Baird State Park: Located at 14 Maintenance Lane, off Route 44 and the Taconic State Parkway in Pleasant Valley. Staatsburgh State Historic Site: Sledding is right behind the Mills family mansion on the hill down toward the Hudson River. Located at 75 Mills Mansion Road off Old Post Road in Staatsburg. – Ann Hutton

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rights aren’t going down without a fight, however, as evidenced by the blockbuster introduction in 2017 of a standalone Wonder Woman flick. Its considerable success came in the wake of poor public and critical reception for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), helmed by the same director, Zack Snyder. Then DC floundered again when another Snyder project, Justice League – the whitebread Avengers, if you will –

failed to engage the moviegoing public despite the injection of Joss Whedon’s talents both at the screenwriting and postproduction stages. Justice League was named “Biggest Disappointment of the Year” in the Golden Schmoes Awards for 2017. Can DC Comics’ onscreen presence be salvaged? Its latest iteration, Aquaman, is a high-risk venture on several counts. For one thing, the concept had been shuffled from shelf to shelf at Warner Brothers since at least 2004. For another, the character has long been something of a laughingstock even within the DC universe, his superpowers deemed wimpy and utterly lacking in usefulness outside aquatic environments. The Justice League script had to include an underwater errand in order to get Aquaman – one of the hero band’s founding members, circa 1960 – a little screentime. But that brief soggy interlude, following on the heels of a cameo in Dawn of Justice, found the spark for a potentially successful Aquaman subfranchise in the inspired casting of Jason Momoa. The half-Hawaiian bodybuilder/model/actor got his start playing a lifeguard in the TV series Baywatch: Hawaii in 1999, establishing a reputation for beefcake roles that led to him being cast as Conan the Barbarian in the ill-fated 2011 reboot. Most fans, however, know Momoa as the

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Pattern recognition 2019 brings forth cycles of nature

big reason people observe nature is to recognize interesting patterns, like the cycles of the Moon and Sun or the shapes of constellations. Obviously, many patterns are so commonplace that they merit no discussion. City-dwellers expect to hear garbage trucks in the morning. Everyone expects long days in the summer. What more can be said of such obvious facets of life? The observer’s joy lies in uncovering previously unknown patterns lurking within these larger ones. For example: Sure, winter is not just darker than other seasons, but also colder. But relatively few know that it’s also windier. Or that winter clouds are mostly vast, flat blank sheets that we view from below, while summer clouds tend to be puffy cumulus whose large vertical dimensions assure that they’re commonly viewed sideways. Since the night sky’s rhythms are known by so few in our modern era, the patterns of planets, meteors and eclipses are sufficiently unknown that the following highlights of the new year will be revelatory to virtually everyone. Consider: Mars comes close to Earth and thus appears brilliant in a 26-month cycle. So its good and bad years alternate. Well, 2018 brought us an extraordinarily close visit of the Red Planet – so much so that it’s still brilliant, though fading steadily. It’s that very bright orange “star” fully halfway up the sky, upper left of where the Sun sets each evening. It’ll remain easy to see the next couple of months. But, since it came close in 2018, it will not do so in 2019. Expect it to fade out and be a dud most of this year. Venus displays slow cycles of being a morning star for about 10 months, then an evening star for that same interval. Well, our “Sister Planet” starts the new year as a dazzling morning star that will remain eyecatching around 6:30 to 7 a.m. until early spring. Then it will lurk behind the Sun, lost in glare during the warm months of 2019. It won’t begin its conspicuous apparition as an evening star until December. In a nutshell:

Our region gets one fabulous total lunar eclipse on January 20.

guy who played Khal Drogo, the Dothraki warlord to whom Daenerys Targaryen was linked in a brief political marriage during the first season of Game of Thrones. Drogo was a dour, brutish character who raped his teenaged bride, slaughtered and pillaged his way across the medieval landscape and never laughed except when he was in the process of hacking his rivals to bits. But Momoa’s sculpted torso impressed many Thrones viewers as too sexy for anybody’s shirt, and he has subsequently built his popularity with the fanbase by being friendly and accessible on the ComicCon circuit (his specialty is posing for photos with female fans, pretending to push their husbands/

boyfriends away while the women drape themselves adoringly over his tattooed musculature). It’s rare to see a photo of him off-set where Momoa doesn’t have a big grin on his face. He seems to take his fame with a healthy grain of salt: an attribute that, with the comic-geek crowd, usually cultivates demand for additional screen appearances. Choosing Momoa to portray Aquaman was a brilliant move that goes a long way toward mitigating the new film’s lackluster script, by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, and undisciplined direction by James Wan, best-known for the Saw slasher movie franchise. Although it departs in

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not a great Venus year. The opposite is true of Jupiter and Saturn. They will both be at their brightest and most conspicuous this summer, and will remain well-seen through the fall. In 2019, our region gets one fabulous total lunar eclipse – in just a few weeks, on January 20. There will also be a total solar eclipse, but it can only be viewed from parts of Chile and Argentina, on July 2. Even the partial phases of that event won’t be visible north of Panama. Our own expedition, Special Interest Tours, is sold out. There will be two major meteor showers. Unfortunately, the Geminids on December 13 will be washed out by a Full Moon. The Perseids can only be well-seen during the two-and-a-half-hour window between moonset and sunrise, from 3 to 5:30 a.m. on August 12. Those willing to set the alarm should then see one to two meteors a minute. As for the chances for a bright aurora around here: They are minimal in 2019, since we are now smack at the low point of the 11-year Carrington cycle, finishing solar cycle 24 and poised to begin cycle 25. The Sun’s surface just had 100 days of absolute blankness, with solar storms essentially absent. Auroras increase around sunspot maximum, with the maximum for cycle number 25 now expected in 2024. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com. Check out Bob’s new podcast, Astounding Universe, co-hosted by Pulse of the Planet’s Jim Metzner.

many directions from DC canon for the character (different origin story/parents/ motivations, not to mention losing the blond hair that was an actual plot point in the comics), Aquaman the movie doesn’t have an original storytelling bone in its body. The plot “twists” are exactly what you expect them to be. Opportunities to explore ethical grey areas (the baddies are pushing back against humankind’s pollution of the seas) or connections to classical mythology (a wormhole to a secret undersea realm is located right off the coast of Sicily, same as the maelstrom Charybdis in Homer’s Odyssey) are teased but never followed up. Aquaman is a throwback to the days when comicbook characters and situations were uncomplicated, wholesome, earnest, unironic…dare I say dull? And yet we find ourselves invested in Aquaman/ Arthur Curry’s reluctant quest to save Earth’s surface from the Atlanteans and the Atlanteans from themselves. Much of the credit must go to Momoa’s regular-guy onscreen persona here. He doesn’t go around scowling and flexing his massive biceps; in fact, he’s selfdeprecatingly charming and often funny. Arthur loves his mom and dad. There’s even a scene where fans in a bar want a selfie with him. (And for Thronies, there’s a special Easter egg: Aquaman regains consciousness after getting the worse end of a fight, winces, sneers and picks off an herbal poultice covering a deep cut in the exact spot where Khal Drogo suffered the stab wound that festered and killed him, possibly abetted by similar ministrations from a dodgy healer.)

There are some other praiseworthy performances in Aquaman, notably Nicole Kidman as his mother, an exiled Atlantean queen; as noted in these pages regarding his recent portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, Willem Dafoe dignifies any role he takes – even an underwritten one such as Vulko, young Arthur’s aquatic martial arts mentor. Amber Heard is far less impressive as Aquaman’s love interest, the warrior princess Mera; none of her delivery serves to divert one’s attention from her Bozo-the-Clown-red tresses and cheesy costumes that substitute sequins for fishscales. The scariest thing about Aquaman’s nemesis, his imperialistic half-brother Orm, is also a hairdo: Patrick Wilson’s slicked-down, platinum-colored French twist. Aquaman is a very long movie (143 minutes) with plenty of visually extravagant set pieces that might be worth the extra bucks to see in 3-D and/ or IMAX, including seascapes densely populated by bioluminescent creatures evoking the planet Pandora in Avatar, plus rooftop chases and a subterranean desert temple right out of an Indiana Jones movie. It’s got some rip-roaringly good sea monsters and spectacular underwater battles. The CGI is sometimes enchanting, more often verging on tacky (at least in 2-D). And yet it qualifies as a genuine crowdpleaser. Disengage your intellect and critical faculties before submerging and you may find yourself having an unexpectedly enjoyable time. – Frances Marion Platt

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8am-9am Woodstock Senior Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9am-9:50am Joint Lubricating Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John. Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels. A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com. $10. 9:30am-10:30am Woodstock Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-11am Gentle Yoga with Kate Hagerman. This is a perfect place for beginning your yoga practice. This class encourages spiritual practice while enhancing health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $10. 11am-12pm Woodstock Senior Level One (Moderate) Yoga with Susan Blacker. Centering, warm-ups, posture flow, relaxation and meditation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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12pm-3pm Beginner Cross-Country Ski Lessons at Mohonk Preserve. Open to everyone - Jan. 3, 7, 26, 29. Ski lesson tours from noon-3 p.m. Confirm with leader Marty Camp martymcarp@gmail.com; 845-214-8520. Mohonk Preserve Spring Farm parking lot, Upper Knolls Rd, High Falls. 12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 1pm Kerhonkson - Accord Seniors Meeting. Meets on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month. Activities, games, parties, & movies. Info: 845-626-8213. Accord Firehouse, Main Street, Accord. 1pm-3pm Game and Card Day. Board games, Mah-jong and cards are available, or bring your own. Bring a friend or come and meet people. $1 donation suggested to cover cost of refreshments. Ongoing every Thursday. Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook. 1pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Rescue Squad, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. 2pm-4pm TMI Project: True Storytelling Performance at MHA in Ulster County. A cast of storytellers will share their true, personal perspectives uncovered through a TMI Project 10-week storytelling workshop, presented in partnership with MHA in Ulster County. Readers will share their recent writing based on epiphanies and personal revelationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;stories that will inspire, sadden, madden and enlighten you. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the storytellers. Free and open to the public. RSVP at mmencke@mhainulster.com; 845-339-9090; tmiproject.org/performances/. MHA in Ulster County, 300 Aaron Ct., Kingston. 3pm Dungeons & Dragons. Meets every Thursday at 3pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 3:30pm-6:30pm Free Math Tutoring. Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Trigonometry, and SAT/ ACT Prep. Call to sign up 845-255-1255. Meets every Thursday at 3:30pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turnpike, Gardiner. www.MathTutoringwithMisha.com. Free. 4pm-5pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 5pm-6:30pm New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Meeting. Meets every Thursday. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz. www. newpaltzclimateaction.org. 5pm-7:30pm Happy Testing Hour. Free HIV & STI testing. Meets on the 1st Thursday of each month from 5-7:30pm. Info: 845-704-7322; 845-331-5300;jdebella@hudsonvalleycs.org; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston.

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5:30pm-6:30pm Gardening Club. Talk about gardening and to start planning for spring! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 6pm Wine Night - Thirsty Thursday. Celebrate every Thursday at Woodnotes Grille with the Wine Club! Enjoy 25% off all bottles of wine and special selections from the cellar by the glass. Info: 845-688-2828; emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. 6:30pm-8pm Free Steps of Meditation. Weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Info: 518-589-5000 or peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org. 7pm-8pm Readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Book Club. Discussion: Dead Wake by Erik Larson. The next book - The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org. 7pm-9:30pm Geeks Who Drink Weekly Pub Quiz. Rough Draft invites you to its fun-filled weekly trivia series, hosted by Geeks Who Drink and local celebrities Mark & Emily. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. https:// bit.ly/2xTr2TX. 7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

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stock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 1pm-3pm Scrabble Club. Join us for our new Scrabble Club! Bring your extensive vocabulary and your enjoyment for games to our Scrabble events. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 2:30pm Wine Tasting Weekend with Kevin Zraly at Mohonk Mountain House. Explore food, wine and music from France. Famed wine expert Kevin Zraly of the Windows on the World Wine School leads an exceptional tasting of some of the top wines from this beautiful region. Enjoy a culinary demonstration with Frances LargemanRoth and be immersed in the tastes of France. See website for schedule of events. Availability is limited. For reservations, call 888-447-9580; mohonk.com/events/food-wine/new-york-foodand-wine-festival/. Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. 4pm-5pm Teen Night: Dear Diary - Customized Journals. Come for a fun night of craft! Go from drab to fab by customizing your notebook or journal. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, www.tivolilibrary.org. FREE. 5pm-8pm Saugerties First Friday. Every month in the village of Saugerties on the first Friday, 5-8pm, businesses stay open late and offer special activities and discounts to visitors. Partition, Market and Main Streets, Saugerties Info: facebook.com/saugertiesscene. 5:30pm-7pm Art Poening: Pan Svirbly. Artists: Pam Svirbly and Ruth Palmer. Watercolors & Mixed Media. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 5:30pm-7pm Opening Reception: Watercolor and Animals. Pam Svirbly . Ruth Palmer . Leila Audinot. Exhibits through 1/26. Info: 845-3385580. Duck Pond Gallery, Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. 5:30pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind. Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 dropin, discounted with class card or membership. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. 6pm-8pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services. Friday evening services. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792218, info@wjcshul.org, http://www.wjcshul.org. 6:30pm-8:30pm Kol Hai Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal Shabbat. Joyful, musical, spiritual, and meditative services open to everyone. Vibrant, heart-centered, and soulful. Every first and third Friday night of the month in the Great Room at the Woodland Pond Health Center. Info: 845-4775457; kolhai.org. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. kolhai.org. 6:30pm-10pm Beacon Sloop Club Potluck Meeting. Meets every 1st Friday of the month at 6:30pm! Open meeting at 7:30pm, followed by a Song Circle. Everyone welcomed. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. www.beaconsloopclub.org. Free. 6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries. Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck. 7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch. 7pm-8:30pm First Friday Concert Series. Local musicians offer a community benefit concert. Admission by free will donation. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2336, bulletin@christwoodstock.org, bit.ly/2gaSj9e. 7pm Star Nations Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch. Meets monthly on the 1st Friday of each month, 7pm. Info: 845-331-2662 or Symbolic-Studies.org. $5 suggested donation. Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Smokey Hormel’s Round-up. “Liner-Note Legend” plays Western Swing. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: KJ Denhert & The New York Unit. Memorable “Urban Folk Jazz” artist. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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8:30am-9:30am Yoga Level I-II with Aaron Dias. An energetic class that focuses on the breath

as it relates to body alignment. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Come be inspired and move! Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, http://woodstockyogacenter. com. $18. 9am-4:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Shawangunk (NYMS) Christmas Bird Count. This year, the brand new NYMS (Minnewaska-Shawangunk) Christmas Bird Count circle will be joining the thousands of other circles in North America, Central America, South America, the Pacific and Caribbean, in this winter tradition. Interested parties will be searching a 15-mile diameter circle for birds, including all Minnewaska State Park Preserve. Be prepared for a full day out of doors. Residents with bird feeders in the MinnewaskaShawangunk CBC circle may also participate in the count by counting birds at their feeders. Contact Nicholas Martin at Nicholas.Martin@parks. ny.gov or 845-255-0752 no later than January 3rd for an assignment or learn how to report your bird feeder count. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. 9am-1pm Free Tech Help. Teen tech expert Samantha will help solve your computer quandries. Info: 845-266-5530. Drop-ins welcome. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck. 9:30am-12:30pm Christmas Bird Count at Sam’s Point. Bring your field guides, binoculars, and birding skills and come look for birds! The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the oldest citizen science project in the United States, with this being its 119th year. Participants will spend the morning listening, looking for and counting birds along the carriage roads at Sam’s Point. The information you collect will be added to Audubon’s database so that scientists can study and learn about these fascinating flying creatures. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Area, Cragsmoor. 10am-2pm Volunteer Fireman’s Hall & Museum in Kingston Tour. Weather permitting. Info: 845-331-0866; kingstonvolunteerfiremensmuseum.weebly.com. Volunteer Fireman’s Hall & Museum in Kingston, 265 Fair St, Kingston. 10am-2pm Kingston Winter Farmers’ Market. Open every other Saturday, 10am-2pm (except 2/2) through 4/27. Info: Kingstonfarmersmarket. org. Inside the Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St, Kingston. 10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies + good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. 10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@ wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org. 10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 10am-11:30am Generations Shabbat Morning Service. Family-friendly, multi-generational, musical service with singing, sharing, and teaching from the Torah. Kol Hai Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal. All ages and faiths welcome. Every first and third Saturday of the month in the Great Room at the Woodland Pond Health Center. Info: 845-477-5457, hello@kolhai.org. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. kolhai.org. 10am Qigong Classes. All level class including chair Qigong led by Steven Michael Pague. Ongoing every Saturday at 10am. Classes meet by the back door to the library. In case of inclement weather, class will be held in the Community Room. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. 10:30am-12:30pm Ukulele Lesson & Jam. Meets the first Saturday of the month for a uke lesson and jam, from beginners to more advanced players. Ukes available to borrow. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston. 11am High Five! Early Literacy Family Program. For families with children birth to 5. Free books, prizes & lunch. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http:// hudsonarealibrary.org/2. Free. 11am-3pm Repair Cafe. Do you have something that is in need of repair? Don’t toss it! Bring it to our Repair Café where volunteers will help you fix your item. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 11am-1pm Teen Gaming. Three computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 12pm-2pm Woodstock Land Conservancy presents Walking in The New Year with Peter Koch. Join Ecologist Peter Koch for an afternoon of exploration at Woodstock Land Conservancy’s Israel Wittman Sanctuary. Peter Koch, a native of Woodstock, spent many years teaching ecology at Georgia University focusing on marine, estuarine and salt marsh ecology. Koch, back in Woodstock for many years, will share his knowledge and love

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of the Catskills ecology with participants. The Israel This Sanctuary is a forest with a gentlygraded two-mile loop trail. This is a free outdoor educational program sponsored by Woodstock Land Conservancy. This hike is limited to 20 people. Please RSVP to ellier.wlc@gmail.com. Parking is off-site; please meet at the Woodstock Music Lab (1700 Sawkill Rd,Kingston) at 11:30am for carpooling. Wear comfortable hiking gear for the moderate grade terrain, and appropriate winter clothing. In the case of heavy rain, snow or bad weather, this event will be canceled. Israel Wittman Preserve, 25 Old Sawmill Rd, Saugerties.

an open mic format (sign-up 7pm) before and after our featured performer, Josie Rose. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

12pm-2pm Memoir Writing Workshop. Sparrow, the Phoenician poet and essayist, will lead a 3-session workshop on personal writing. Sign up at 845-688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, http:// www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Deadgrass. The music of Jerry Garcia. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@ thefalcon.com.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. 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). Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. Donations appreciated. 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. Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz. 1pm Read to Stella. A certified therapy dog. Walkins welcome. Discover the joy of reading aloud and improving your reading skills. Meets the 1st Saturday of each month at 1pm. Info: 845-2464317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 2pm-3pm Poetry & Author Reading: A Woman of a Certain Age: Perspectives From Three Poets. Mary K O’Melveny, author of A Woman of a Certain Age, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lucia Cerciu will read their poetry. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. 2pm-4pm Opening Reception -The Body Beautiful II: Art of the Figure. Show will exhibit through 1/27. Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St, Poughkeepsie. Info: (845)471-2550, info@barrettartcenter.org, https://bit.ly/2QdkTG6. Free and open to the public. 2pm-4pm Kakizome: The First Writing of the Year. The Arts Mid-Hudson Folk Arts Program and the Mid-Hudson Japanese Community Association a Japanese cultural program celebrating the traditional first calligraphy writing of the New Year. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. artsmidhudson.org. 2:30pm Wine Tasting Weekend with Kevin Zraly at Mohonk Mountain House. Explore food, wine and music from France. Famed wine expert Kevin Zraly of the Windows on the World Wine School leads an exceptional tasting of some of the top wines from this beautiful region. Enjoy a culinary demonstration with Frances LargemanRoth and be immersed in the tastes of France. See website for schedule of events. Availability is limited. For reservations, call 888-447-9580; mohonk.com/events/food-wine/new-york-foodand-wine-festival/. Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. 2:30pm-3:30pm Youth Scrabble Club. Monthly Youth Scrabble in kids’ section in activity room. Learn about Scrabble, compete or just play for fun. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. https://bit.ly/2KERyTO. 3pm-6pm Opening Reception: Exposure Exposure Exposure. Featuring works by Janet Pumphrey. Show will display through 1/27. Info: 510warrenstgallery@gmail.com. 510 Warren Street Gallery, 510 Warren St., Hudson. 510warrenstreetgallery.com. 5pm-8pm First Saturday Arts in Kingston. Gallery receptions offer a glimpse of what Kingston has to offer. Events throughout the year include live music, open studio tours, theatrical performances, historical reenactments, arts and culture activities. Various Kingston locations. Info: 845-338-0331; artsalongthehudson.com/ kingston. 5pm-9pm Ring Out The Old and Bring In The New. Lace Mill Arts Presents OLD & NEW works by Lace Mill artists and friends to bring in the New Year. Art show will run through January 27th. Info: 845-481-5402; freyad2000@yahoo.com. The Lace Mill Gallery, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. 6pm-8pm Artists Reception: Tiny Mirrors. Featuring paintings by Brian Rego in the Main Galleries. Gallery hours: Thursday-Monday, 11am-5pm. Exhibit will display through 1/27. John Davis Gallery, 124 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-5907, art@johndavisgallery.com, www. johndavisgallery.com. free. 7pm-10pm Roland Vazquez Sextet. Hot Latin Jazz led by world renown composer/arranger/ drummer Roland Vazquez. Dinner reservations highly recommended. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe.com. No cover charge but donations are welcome. 7pm-10:30pm Hudson Valley English Dance. Dorothy Cummings will teach and call English Country Dances to be performed to traditional tunes played by Tiddley Pom. Workshop at 7pm. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com. adults: $10; full-time students: $5. 7pm-11:30pm Open Mic/Open Stage Acoustic Evening. Meets the first Saturday of each month. The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. touhey.com. $5. 7:30pm Folk Guild Coffeehouse Series. The coffeehouse performances start at 7:30 pm with

7:30pm-10:30pm Hurley Swing Dance. Dancing with the Swing Shift Orchestra No partner or experience needed to attend. This monthly dance series is always a fun, social event for all. Beginner lesson 7:30-8 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Admission $15, includes lesson. All are welcome. Info: got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. Hurley Reformed Church - Schadewald Hall, 11 Main St, Hurley.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lara Hope & The ArkTones. Neo-Rockabilly stars! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 8pm Rhett Miller & Ryan Cronin: Concert & Gallery Opening. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, info@unisonarts.org, https://bit.ly/2UxQJRm. $25, $22 Seniors, $20 Members, $10 Students.

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High Five! Early Literacy Family Program. For families with children birth to 5. Free books, prizes & lunch. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2. Free. 7am-12pm Wallkill Fire Department Pancake Breakfast - All You Can Eat. Menu includes - Egg. Pancakes, French Toast, Hash Browns, Sausage, Toast, & Coffee/Tea/Orange Juice. Wallkill Fire Dept, 18 Central Ave, Wallkill. per person 7.50 senior. 8:30am-9:30am Sunday Flow with Deborah Adams. Open and approachable class for all levels. Breath and movement are linked to calm the nervous system and energize the body. Expect to move, try something new and participate in your own personal well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, www.woodstockyogacenter.com. drop in rate. 9am-4pm Belleayre Toy Drive. Donate a new, unopened toy (value of $15 or more) and receive a discounted lift ticket for $42. Info: 845-2545600; belleayre.com. Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Discovery Lodge, Highmount. 9:30am-1pm Minnewaska Preserve: Two Views Snowshoe Hike. An approximately two-mile snowshoe outing in the Peter’s Kill Area featuring views of the Rondout Valley and Clove Valley from cliff top ledges. There are a few modest hills on this route, which some people may find challenging on snowshoes. This program is recommended for physically fit adults and children older than eight years old. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. A limited number of snowshoes are available for participants to borrow for this program from the education department. Early arrival is suggested if you would like to borrow snowshoes. If there is insufficient snow cover, this program will be offered as a hike. This outing will meet in the Peter’s Kill Area. Preregistration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. 10am-2pm Warwick Winter Farmers’ Market. More than a dozen farmers and vendors offer locally & regionally grown, raised and produced foods, beverages and body care items. Info: 845-258-4998, Facebook: Warwick Winter Farmers Market. Warwick Indoor Winter Farmers Market, 115 Liberty Corners Rd, Pine Island. 10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon: Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis. Swinging pre-rock era blues. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open Recreation! Pool Table, Foosball and Ping Pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 11am-12pm Conversations over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail.com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq. 1pm-2pm Folktales & Stories for Children & Families. Pamela Badila performs, tells and reads folktales from around the world in this special story hour. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, http://hudsonarealibrary.org. 1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock. 2pm-4pm Buster Keaton in “Our Hospitality”. A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman whose family is in a feud with his. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, www.rosendaletheatre.org. General Admission. 2pm-6pm Sunday Jazz. J. Drechsler Quartet/

Septet with special guest artists in concert at 2pm. Daily featured composers and theme based selections. Sign up at 3:30pm to sit in with the band at 4pm. All musical levels given time! Great coffee, baked goods, friendly service, relaxed atmosphere. No worries. No cover! Info: 845-633-8287. Cafeteria Coffeehouse, 58 Main St, New Paltz.

Edith Lefever. Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues and scenes, and offers public performances. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

ealibrary.org/2. Free.

2:30pm Wine Tasting Weekend with Kevin Zraly at Mohonk Mountain House. Explore food, wine and music from France. Famed wine expert Kevin Zraly of the Windows on the World Wine School leads an exceptional tasting of some of the top wines from this beautiful region. Enjoy a culinary demonstration with Frances LargemanRoth and be immersed in the tastes of France. See website for schedule of events. Availability is limited. For reservations, call 888-447-9580; mohonk.com/events/food-wine/new-york-foodand-wine-festival/. Mohonk Mountain House, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

10:30am-11:30am Hanna Somatics at The Living Seed. Join Carisa Borrello for Hanna Somatic Education® weekly clinical classes that will teach you to reverse chronic muscle pain. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, https://bit. ly/2K8mlZ2. $18/$16 students or seniors.

9am-10am Free Weekly Community Meditation. On-going on Tuesdays 9-10am. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive 10 minutes early. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Check website for cancellations: wellnessembodiedcenter.com. Wellness Embodied Community Education Annex, 126 Main St, New Paltz.

3pm The Ceres Quartet. Featuring works by Beethoven’s quartet masterwork, Opus 130, Béla Bartók’s lyrical Sixth Quartet, and Haydn’s String Quartet Opus 76, No. 5. The concert is followed by a reception with the artists. Snow date: 1/13. Tickets are available at the door or online. St. George’s Church, 105 Grand St, Newburgh. newburghchambermusic.org. $25, $5/student. 3pm Community Playback Theatre. Audience stories brought to life onstage. $10 suggested donation. For information: 845-883-0392. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. http://woodstockultimate.org/. 4pm-8pm Sunday Supper. Remember the good old days when the family gathered around the table every Sunday for dinner? Carry on the tradition with Sunday Supper at Woodnotes Grille. Enjoy house made selections ranging from Prime Rib dinner, seasonal roasts, or chicken and dumplings for $21 per person! Call 845-688-2828 for reservations. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. 4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast - Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome. Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. At the community center when raining or cold, on the green when warm. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock. 5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Restorative yoga is a gentle, completely supportive practice that is designed to bring stillness to the body and the mind.Dress in layers, wear socks and bring an eye pillow if you have one. $18 drop-in, discounted with class card or membership. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700. 6pm-7pm Meditation Session. Meets every Tuesday at 6pm. Free and open to the public. Info: skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation & Retreat Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. 7pm Storytelling with Janet Carter. Info: 845-246-5775. Free admission. Inquiring Minds Saugerties Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Marvin Bugalu Smith Trio. International Jazz Eccentric & Trio. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 8pm Rhett Miller & Ryan Cronin: Concert & Gallery Opening. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, info@unisonarts.org, https://bit.ly/2UxQJRm. $25, $22 Seniors, $20 Members, $10 Students.

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11am-12pm Chair Yoga with Kathy Foley. A gentle stretching using sturdy chairs. Wear comfy, loose clothing and non-skid shoes. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-3385580, organizedmode@gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 12pm-3pm Beginner Cross-Country Ski Lessons at Mohonk Preserve. Open to everyone - Jan. 3, 7, 26, 29. Ski lesson tours from noon-3 p.m. Confirm with leader Marty Camp martymcarp@gmail.com; 845-214-8520. Mohonk Preserve Spring Farm parking lot, Upper Knolls Rd, High Falls. 12:15pm-1:15pm Senior Strength and Stamina with Linda Sirkin. Low impact aerobics performed with light weights. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 2pm-4pm Woodstock Senior Painting with Jennifer Schimmrich. In addition to instructions, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the calss offers freindship adn camaraderie. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 2:30pm-3:30pm Tai Chi. Instructor: Vince Sauter. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes. Clinton Community Library, 1215 Centre Rd, Rhinebeck. 3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians. Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 4pm-5pm LEGO Lounge/Color Club. Come play with our large selection of LEGOS! Or have a quiet time coloring. Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845-757-3771, tivoliprograms@gmail.com, www.tivolilibrary.org. 4pm-5:30pm Girls Inc at Family of New Paltz. For girls ages 13-15 learn how to make Zines. Free. 845-255-7957. Family of New Paltz, 51 N Chestnut St, New Paltz. girlsinc.org. 4pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12. 4:30pm-6pm Kingston Meditation Group. We offer a 90 min. session of sitting and walking meditation with guided instruction, and discussion. It’s ok to come for 45 min. Mudita YogaLab, 243 Fair St., Kingston. suggested donation. 4:30pm-5:30pm Fitness Hour. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30pm & Thursdays at 4pm. Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespubliclibrary.org. 6pm-9pm Knitting Night. Think knitting is just for grandmas? Think again! Darkside Records and Knitting is Metal present Stitch N’ B*tch! All welcome. Admission free. Darkside Records, 611 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4528010, info@darksiderecords.com, darksiderecords.com/InStore. 6:30pm-8:30pm Key of Q: Chorus Auditions. Fun & friendly a cappella chorus seeking all voice parts. Ability to read music is preferred but not required. Info: keyofq.org/auditions/. Info: keyofq.chorus@gmail.com, http://www.keyofq. org/audition. 6:30pm-8:30pm Model Monday. Open Studio Life Drawing. Gesture, long and short poses. time keeper, no instruction, Bring your materials. Donation based. Roost Studios & Art Gallery, 69 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-568-7540, Chirp@ roostcoop.org, www.roostcoop.org. 6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meeting. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 7:15pm Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal. Free. No auditions required. Info: 914-388-4630; midhudsonwomenschorus.org. St. James United Methodist Church, 35 Pearl St (corner of Fair & Pearl sts), Kingston.

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9am-12pm Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains. Broaden your understanding of youth trafficking with guest Author Dr. Lutnik. Panel to follow. Info: 845-3403927, ulster.safeharbour@gmail.com, https:// ulstercountyny.gov/soc. Free.

9am-10am Woodstock Senior Dance with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise and celebrating life. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting. Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP) is a social selfhelp group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties. 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 Plaza, New Paltz. 9:30am-11am Iyengar Yoga Level I-II with Barbara Boris. For all students new to Iyengar Yoga. The basis of the method is taught in standing poses, and other fundamental postures. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700. $18. 10am-12:30pm Minnewaska Preserve: Tuesday Trek- Cross-Country Ski past Kempton Ledge. A five-mile-long, cross-country ski outing to Kempton Ledge and a couple of the other scenic views beyond it. Participants must provide their own ski equipment and must have previous crosscountry skiing experience. They should also wear appropriate winter gear and bring adequate food and water. If there is no snow, this outing will be a hike. Meet at the Wildmere Parking Area. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner. 10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley. 11am-11:45am Free Music Together Mixed Age Sample Class. For children birth – 5. Sing, dance, play, learn in a safe, mommy and me setting. Meet teacher Annie Internicola. RSVP necessary. Info: 845-750-4663; director@catskillmountainmusictogether.com. Dream Studio, Red Hook. catskillmountainmusictogether.com. 12pm-1:30pm Feng Shui of Setting Goals || Ulster County Women’s Network. The first 2019 networking event for Ulster Country Women. Yasuda Japanese Restaurant, 579 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-688-5472, info@ucwn.org, http://bit.ly/ucwntix1. 12:05pm-1pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates (Introductory Level) with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 1pm-2pm Hospice Information Session. Nikki Weisman of Hudson Valley Hospice will be here to talk about hospice care. Call 845-418-1022 to register. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 1pm-3:30pm Esopus Artist Group. Ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org. 1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free. 2pm-3:30pm Level I - Basics with Kate Hagerman. This class reviews the fundamentals of the yoga asanas (poses) through anatomy and alignment. It is a perfect class to start your yoga practice (if you have no major injuries) or if you are returning after a while. This is not a “flow” class. The focus is on the elemental aspects of each pose. Every class will end with meditation and a long relaxation. $18. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. 2pm-3pm Building Your Family Tree. With Moe Lemire. Learn the tips and tools available to research and build your family tree. Bring a laptop computer if you own one. Free. Info: 845-2545469. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free. 3pm Gaming Tuesday. Play board games, card games, & video games. For grades 7-12. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 3pm-5pm Knitting & Crocheting with Tea & Cookies. In the Art Books Room. Some yarn, crochet and knitting needles available for beginners. Crafters share your knowledge! Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. Info: 8456792213, info@woodstock.org, www.woodstock.org/calendar. free. 4pm-6pm Scrabble. Test your vocabulary against your family and friends - all ages welcome. Meets

every Tuesday, 4-6pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 5:30pm-6:30pm Italian Conversation Class. Weekly class is designed for people who have some knowledge of the Italian language and would like to improve their conversational skills. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, https://bit. ly/2p1Uekl. 6pm-7:30pm Stress Reduction & Mindfulness Meditation Series. This series will provide you with user-friendly tools designed to cultivate increased mindfulness in all realms of your daily life. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, https://bit.ly/2K8mlZ2. for 6 week course. 6pm-8pm Qigong: Transforming Your Stress into Vitality. Qigong is an ancient Chinese selfhealing art and is considered a branch of Chinese Medicine. Woodstock Healing Arts, 83 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-393-4325, ino@woodstockhealingarts.com, www.woodstockhealingarts. com. Suggested Donation. 6:30pm-8:30pm Key of Q: Chorus Auditions. Fun & friendly a cappella chorus seeking all voice parts. Ability to read music is preferred but not required. Info: keyofq.org/auditions/. Info: keyofq.chorus@gmail.com, http://www.keyofq. org/audition. 6:30pm-7:30pm Slide Night. Every second Tuesday of the month we host Slide Night, where we hear from current artists-in-residence about their work. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston. Info: 845-658-9133, info@ wsworkshop.org, http://bit.ly/2HLZ9Sj. 6:30pm-7:30pm WSW Slide Night. Meets every second Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm. Hear from current artists-in-residence about their work. Free admission. Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston. Info: 845-658-9133, info@wsworkshop.org, http://bit.ly/2HLZ9Sj. 6:30pm-8pm The Creative Seed Artist Group. A support group for artists to have a space to develop & share their work in progress- Actors, poets, playwrights & musicians welcome. Every Tuesday. Info: bluehealing or 203-246-5711. By donation. Call ahead. Blue Mountain Co-op Retreat Center, Woodstock. 7pm-10pm Open Mic Night. Join host Ben Rounds and take your shot at becoming the next Catskills Singing Sensation! Woodnotes Grille No Cover. Info: 845-688-2828. Woodnotes Grill - Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. emersonresort.com. 7pm-10pm Open Jazz Jam. Hosted by The Poughkeepsie Jazz Project. Info: 845-452-3232. Free,everyone welcome! PA, drums and keyboard provided. The Derby, 96 Main St, Poughkeepsie. 7pm-8pm Scrabble Night. Every Tuesday! Bring snacks to share starts 7pm. All welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. free. 7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille. Hosted by Ben Rounds. Open Mic Nite makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents! No cover. For more information, contact us at 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper. emersonresort.com.

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Jan. 3, 2019

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Barbering my bonsai

ow, in its tenth year, my weeping fig is just waking up. (This plant is not one of my edible figs weeping from sadness, but a species of fig – Ficus benjamina – with naturally drooping branches.) As a tropical tree, its sleep was not natural, but induced, by me. In its native habitat in the tropics, weeping fig grows to become a very large tree that rivals, in size, our maples. The effect is all the more dramatic due to thin aerial roots that drip from the branches, eventually fusing to create a massive, striated trunk. Because the tree tolerates low humidity, it’s often grown as a houseplant. Growth is rapid, but with regular pruning the plant can be restrained below ceiling height. At ten years old, my weeping fig is about four inches tall, with a trunk about 5/8 inch in diameter and no aerial roots. Four inches was about the height of the plant when I purchased it in the houseplant section of a local lumberyard. Actually, four of these plants were growing in a four-inch-square pot. I separated them and potted one up with the idea of creating a bonsai. The bonsai has been a success. Each year the trunk and stems have thickened to create the wizened appearance of a venerable old tree, in miniature. The soil beneath the spreading (if only three-inch) limbs is soft with moss, which has crept slowly up the lower portion of the trunk. Even after ten years, the plant is in the same pot in which I originally planted it: a four-by-six-inch bonsai tray only about an inch deep. Biennial repotting and pruning has been necessary to keep the stems and roots to size, and to refresh the potting soil to provide nutrients and room for roots to run (albeit very little room for a tree with such size potential). Back to my tree’s sleep: A few weeks ago, the sun dipping lower in the sky for a shorter time each day seemed to me like a good time to give the plant a rest, which it surely would be taking following my operation. I began with the roots. After tipping the plant out of its pot, I used a fork to tease soil away from the bottom of the root ball. Roots left dangling down in midair as I held the plant aloft were easy to trim back. I was careful to leave the top portion of the roots and soil undisturbed in order to keep the mossy blanket intact. With enough fresh potting soil added to the pot so the tree (despite its size, I think I can call it a “tree”) would sit at the same height in the pot as previous to pruning, the tree was ready to return to its home. I firmed it in place. Next, I turned to the aboveground portions of the plant, beginning by pruning stems so the tree would look in proportion to the size of its container and to maintain the increasingly rugged look of a tree, in miniature, beyond its actual years. Finally, I clipped each and every leaf from the plant. This shocks the plant to sleep and reduces water loss: important for a plant from which a fair share of its roots have been sheared off. Clipping off leaves also induces more diminutive growth in the next flush of leaves, so they are more in proportion to the size of the whole plant.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700. $18. 9:45am-10:30am Free Music Together Sample Class. Sing, dance, play, learn in a safe, mommy and me setting. Meet teacher Celeste Widom. RSVP necessary. Make music, have fun! Info: 845-7504663; director@catskillmountainmusictogether. com. The Hot Spot Kingston, 218 Plaza Rd, Kingston. catskillmountainmusictogether.com. 10am Reiki Circle & Sound Healing. Meets the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month. Admission by donation. Info: reikyogachant.com; 203-2465711. Reiki Yoga Chant Healing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 10:30am-12:30pm Senior Writing Workshop in Woodstock 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 non-fiction, short stories, plays, memoir, or poetry, writers age 55 and above may join the group, which will meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 10:30am-12:30pm. 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. For further information: woodstockny.org/content/Parks/View/3. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10:30am-11:30am Woodstock Senior Weights and Bands with Linda Sirkin. Improve muscle tone, protect bones and enhance balance. Fire Co. #1, Route 212. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 11am-5pm Great Estates: The Paintings of Joseph E. Richards & Bill Sullivan. Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to present “Great Estates”, a two person show that will feature paintings by Bill Sullivan (1942 – 2010). Exhibit display through 2/24. Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1915, carriehaddadgallery@gmail.com, https://bit.ly/2BrLXMr. 11am-12pm Know the 10 Signs: Early Detection Matters. A free educational program on how to recognize the 10 signs of Alzheimer’s and why early detection is important. Info: 800-272-3900; dradwin@alz.org. Haverstraw King’s Daughters Library, 10 W. Ramapo Road, Garnerville. 1pm Sawkill Seniors Annual Christmas Party. Monthly meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 1pm. Meetings begin with

a guest speaker and formal format, followed by a raffle, socializing and refreshments. There is also a card game or bingo for those who wish to participate. New members are welcome. Info: 845-546-0159. Diamond Mills, 25 S Partition St, Saugerties. 1pm-3pm Pinochle. Card Game every Wednesday! Looking for a 4th player. Anyone interested - email info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 1pm-3pm Social Circle. Good conversation! Every Wednesday. Everyone welcome. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. 1pm Kingston Community Singers Meetup New Members Welcome. Open to all men and women. No auditions necessary. Info: 845-3317715. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 1:30pm-4pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:304pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-2470094. Saugerties Senior Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties. 1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch. 3pm-5:30pm Tech Time. Help with computers, cell phones, email, the internet, online services, social media, or software programs such as Excel or Photoshop. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, www.phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 4pm Family Lego. Info: 845-876-4030. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. starrlibrary.org. 4:30pm-5:30pm Weekly Art Hour. Meets every Monday! Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, http://www. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 4:30pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are well-practiced in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. 5pm-9pm Wallkill Fire Dept Bingo. Doors/ Kitchen Open at 5pm, selling starts @ 6pm &

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After a thorough watering, the tree was back in its sunny window. And there it sat, leafless, until a few days ago, when small new leaves emerged. Pruning and repotting the bonsai wasn’t enough gardening for me. A couple of sunny days couldn’t help but drive me outdoors. A pile of wood-chip mulch delivered a few months ago beckoned me; I spread it in the paths between my vegetable beds: a preemptive move to smother next season’s weeds. I don’t usually prune this time of year (The Pruning Book, by me, recommends against it!), but couldn’t restrain myself. I started with the gooseberries and currants, both of which are super-cold-hardy plants, so are unlikely to suffer any damage from pruning now. Plus, they start growth very early in spring. Any of this gardening could be postponed until late winter or early spring. But why wait? – Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit his garden at www.leereich.com/blog.

calling begins @ 7pm. Bingo held every Wednesday Night! Wallkill Fire Dept, 18 Central Ave, Wallkill. min admission. 5pm-6:30pm Hudson Valley LGBTQ’s Community Accupuncture Clinic. Reserve your spot today! Weekly community acupuncture clinic at the Center! The clinic takes place each Wednesday, from 5-6:30PM in a relaxed and low-lit group setting using points on the ears, hands and feet. RSVPs highly suggested, though walk-ins will be welcomed when space is available. Reserve your spot at http://bit.ly/LGBTQacupuncture. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 5pm-6pm Youth Scrabble Club. For grades 3-8 .Learn about Scrabble, compete in Scrabble or just play for fun. Meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday every month. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@ rcls.org, http://bit.ly/2GuwmxE. 5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service. Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions. Everyone welcome. 845-679-9534. First Church of Christ Scientist, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock. 5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. 845-563-8043 for more info. Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh. 6pm-7pm Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Learn about the impact of Alzheimer’s and the difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s. To RSVP, call the library at 845-4523141. LaGrange Library, 488 Freedom Plains Road, No. 109, Poughkeepsie. alzhudsonvalley.org. 6pm Saugerties Writers Club. Do you like to write? Club meets on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday at 6pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. 6:30pm-8pm Ulster County Photography Club. Commit to a year- long photography project now! Come to this meeting to share ideas and brainstorm. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, www.esopuslibrary.org. 6:30pm Gurdjieff Study Group. Meets on Wednesdays, 6:30pm in Stone Ridge. For information and directions, respond to Jim by email: gstudygroup@gmail.com. 6:30pm-8:30pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. This yin class will be slower, where asanas are held for longer periods of time. For beginners and advanced students. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700,

http://woodstockyogacenter.com. $18. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground. Sign-up & Sit-in Session. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 7pm-10pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds ~ Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at our weekly Trivia Night! Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying the regular menu items plus a $10 all you can eat Sliders, Wings, and Fries Buffet. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! Info: 845-688-2828 or emersonresort.com. Woodnotes Grill - Emerson Resort, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. emersonresort.com. 7pm-8:30pm Actors & Musician Creative Seed Support Group. Come share your work in progress! Weds nights 7 - 8:30pm. Admission by donation. Info: reikyogachant.com; 203-2465711. Reiki Yoga Chant Healing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 7pm-11pm Chess Night. Free every Wednesday. Players should bring their own boards & pieces. Info: 845-658-9048. Rosendale Cafe. 7pm-9pm Volleyball Game. A pickup volleyball game. Ongoing every Wednesday, 7-9pm. Enter the Center at the entrance on the left side, as you face the school from Lucas Ave. 845-616-0710. Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. $6. 7pm-8:30pm Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Class. 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. 845-679-5906 for more info. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. 7:30pm Chess Club. Meets every Thursday. Open to all chess players. Free admission. Info: 845-4192737; albiebar@aol.com. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. 7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. All 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. Meets every Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Myles Mancuso Unplugged. Myles in a “Southern State of Mind.” Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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PORT EWEN, NY Here is your contemporary with great River Views!! Walk out your side door to Freer Memorial Park and the beach. Watch the sunrise up over the Hudson River from your little 3rd floor master bedroom Balcony. Watch the ships go by and the eagles fly from this little gem. This efficient 3 story home has 2 bedrooms, large updated eat in Kitchen, family room and 4 baths. Just a few minutes to the Rondout historical district, just across the bridge with all that the Rondout waterfront area has to offer. Wonderful restaurants, galleries, shops are plentiful. Listing brought to you by Chris St. John. .............. $299,900

INVE SHANDAKEN, NY OPPO STMENT RTUN Two family home is located ITY! on a quiet country road framed by 1+ acre of land. Each apartment has separate utilities offering 3 bedrooms and 1 bath in each unit. Each unit has its own entrance with a washer/dryer hook up, living room area, eat in kitchen and off-street parking. Big open yard with a play area and scenic views of the mountains. Investment opportunity with separate utilities. Property is located less than 10 minutes to Belleayre Ski Center and about the same to the quaint Town of Phoenicia and the world class Esopus Creek trout stream. Listing brought to you by Megan Rios. ..$139,999

OLIVE, NY Cozy 1920’s Bungalow with seasonal mountain views. 2-bedroom 1 bath with the potential for another bedroom on the second floor. Close to skiing, hiking and swimming. Minutes to Woodstock. Walk next door for a cup of hot coffee and delicious pastries. Listing brought to you by Eliana Amodio and Angela Galetto. ............................................... $80,000

WOODSTOCK, NY Great Woodstock rental. Walk to town location, set way back off a quiet street, vaulted ceilings, a great room with loft area, 2 good sized bedrooms, 2 full baths, eat in kitchen, sunroom, slate, wood and tile floors, bluestone patio, deck, large yard and flower garden. Energy efficient radiant heat and Vermont Castings woodstove. Brand new LG W/D, ceiling fans, very quiet dishwasher. Semi-private. No smokers or cats. Pets negotiable. Rent does not include utilities. Listing brought to you by Michael Veitch. .... $1,750/Month

SAUGERTIES, NY Located on a very busy route, offering high visibility. Commercial lot zoned general business. Corner lot being rectangular in shape offers a lot of level road frontage. It is Approximately 3 minutes to the thruway interchange (exit 20). Saugerties has become a very popular “destination.” The owner has used this 1,401 sq. ft building many years as a successful retail outlet. Listing brought to you by Joanne Cobey. .............$159,000

Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 / Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Catskill 518.800.9999 / Commercial 845.339.9999 ing in front of unit. Next to Highland Town Hall/Court on Church Street, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to SUNY New Paltz, Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-453-0047.

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845-255-6171 ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $595/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. Available now. (845)664-0493. 3-BEDROOM. Barn/loft, full of great details. $1800/month includes all utilities. No indoor smoking, vaping and no dogs. 5 minutes by CAR outside village, 10 minutes by bike. Please message 845-256-8160. APARTMENTS available late DecemberJanuary. 5 minutes BY CAR outside village. 1-BEDROOM, full bath, separate entry; $1090/month includes utilities. 2-BEDROOM; $1250/month plus utilities. NO DOGS, VAPING or INDOOR SMOKING. Please call 845-255-5355.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for SPRING 2019 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.

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Rosendale: Large, private 1-Bedroom Apt. One off-street garage parking space. New lighting and fresh paint. No pets, no smoking. $850/month utilities not included. Call 845-430-9476.

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SHOKAN– Totally renovated 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT w/all new appliances including W/D. Convenient location. $900/ month + utilities. Includes hot water & garbage service. NO Pets or Smoking. Perfect for one person. Requires security & references. CELL: 845-594-1779.

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MODERN 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT on quiet cul-de-sac in residential neighborhood, Barclay Heights. Tiled entry/bath, new appliances/carpet, storage & laundry in building. Ideal for 2 people. $980/month plus utilities, lease, security. 845-246-6777. COZY STUDIO APARTMENT in house on a farm. Mountain views. Private entrance. Very quiet. $900/month includes utilities. Call 845-246-2708.

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Beautiful Woodstock In-Town Carriage House Apt. w/2 decks and 2 garden areas, seasonal Mtn. View, a/c, oil heat, woodstove. Gas stove for cooking. Wood & tile floors. 1-bedroom w/walk-in closet, vaulted living room w/patio doors to deck. Kitchen w/ door to deck & fenced-in yard facing Comeau property. Tile shower & vanity w/ granite top. An oasis in-town w/off-street parking & all Woodstock has to offer. Walk to NYC bus. Entrance area has room for desk, etc. Complete separate laundry room with washer/dryer & laundry sink. No smokers. Pets considered. Perfect for 1 quiet, clean individual w/refs. & credit check. $1100/month plus $400 for oil heat, electric, propane for cooking, water, sewer, garbage/recycling, lawn care, snow plowing of

driveway & use of pool during summer. First, last & security. Available now for 1-year lease. Call Halter Associates Realty @ 845-679-2010. HEART OF WOODSTOCK; 3-BEDROOMS; 1700 sq.ft. New appliances, washer/dryer, wooden floors throughout, fireplace, wood blinds on all windows, screened-in porch, 2 Bluestone slate patios w/Pergola, large fenced-in yard, custommade shed, firewood shed. Onteora schools. On private road w/driveway. MOVE-IN CONDITION. Barbara 718-755-4947. 2-BEDROOM, CHARMING, CHEERY HOUSE IN THE WOODS. LARGE, AIRY “GLASS-ROOM” IDEAL ARTIST’S STUDIO. 3.3 secluded acres, Heatilator-fireplace, gas-stove, washer/dryer, new refrigerator, Woodstock-Saugerties. Shed. No pets. $1400. 1st/last/security. References. 845-679-2300. FABULOUS LARGE STUDIO. 1 mile to center of town. 20 ft. of large windows facing a field. Private driveway, secluded. Fully furnished. $1200/month. Security, deposit, references required. Call 845-417-5282. STUDIO CABIN. Great eat-in kitchen, bathroom. Parking. Perfect for 1 person. Near town but nicely secluded. $800/ month. Security, deposit, references required. Call 845-417-5282. Owner. No fee. LOVELY ENGLISH-STYLE COTTAGE close to town. 2-bedrooms, large living room, 1.5 baths. Beautiful light w/Overlook Mountain views. Very clean, in excellent condition. $1250/month plus utilities, security, references. 845-679-7107. NEWLY RENOVATED COTTAGE BY A WATERFALL. Cozy. Private. Workroom, sun-room, LR, 1-bedroom w/large window facing stream, kitchen, wood floors, 2 decks. 2.5 miles to center of town. Short/longterm. $1200/month. 845-417-5282.

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SHARE BEAUTIFUL NEW HOUSE, on a farm w/mountain views in Saugerties. Very private, surrounded by trees & fields. Upstairs loft= Large bedroom & bath, living room. Share huge kitchen. $700/month includes utilities. No pets. 845-246-2708.

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)389-7286.

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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

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable. Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured. MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)6796242.

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Cleaning Services

CLEAN UPS, CLEAN OUTS. Indoor/Outdoor. Junk & debris removal. Estates prepared for Moving and Sale. (845)688-2253.

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Shandaken, NY 845-688-2253 Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

845-331-4966/249-8668 Visit my website: Haberwash.com

COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices â&#x20AC;˘ Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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Gary Buckendorf Painting: Interior - Exterior Plastering, Taping, Structolite Wall coverings, Color Matching Many references in Catskill area and Manhattan garybuckendorf@gmail.com

917-593-5069

EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN . Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, clean-outs. Second home caretaking. All small/medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845616-7999.

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Jan. 3, 2019 HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut. Call Dave 845-514-6503- mobile.

QUALITY • VALUE • RELIABILITY • SINCE 1980

$35.00 – Wash & Wax Buff Finish $25.00 – Interior Detailing (precision attention to detail)

ALWAYS READY SHINE

Schedule an appt. today! Serving Ulster and Dutchess Counties Contact: Julio Jackson, Automotive Paint Tech, (845) 397-7134 C

AUTOMOTIVE RESTORATION AND DETAIL CO.

• Int. & Ext. painting • Power Washing • Sheetrock & Plaster Repair • Free Estimates Multiple References Available Upon Request Licensed & Insured • ritaccopainting.com

House & Estate Cleanouts, Junk Removal, Dump Runs. Helping homeowners, realtors and property managers for 20 years. One call, it’s gone! Senior & disabled discounts. 845-247-7365. GarysHauling.com

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Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

• LED Lighting

• Standby Generators

• Heated bathroom floor tiles

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

• Service Upgrades • Roof deicing cables

Authorized Dealer & Installer Low-Rate Financing Available

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Building Services

TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly rentals. We have Gray, white, blue, tan, green (pinescented), pink (rose-scented), red & blue handicap accessible. (We also have a few w/ sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-658-8766, 845-417-6461 or 845706-7197. e-mail: TLKportables@gmail. com

Interiors & Remodeling Inc s ’ d e T

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

Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

845-591-8812

www.tedsinteriors.com

4 LEAF CARPENTRY Over 60 yrs. combined Experience No job Too Big or Small All phases of Construction Flooring • Siding • Bath • Roofing • Kitchen • Decks Reasonable Rates, Free Estimates, Fully Insured 845-324-1632 • 4leafcarpentry@gmail.com

HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates. References available. (845)616-7470. D AND S IMPROVEMENTS: Home improvement, repair and maintenance, from the smallest repairs to large renovations. Over 50 years of combined experience. Fully insured. www.dandsimprovements.com (845)339-3017

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Gardening/ Landscaping

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Animals

FOR ADOPTION: BETTY and Her Babies... Betty is a year old gray tabby cat girl who’s a wonderful mother to her 5 kittens: 2 boys (Antonio & Max) and 3 girls (Mikie, Tish and Alexandria). The kittens are also tabbies & are sweet, playful and loving & will be ready to go to their forever homes right after Christmas. Betty will be available for adoption when she is finished nursing the babies & spayed. We’re accepting adoption applications and look forward to meeting adopters within the next few weeks. Please email: DRJLPK@aol.com or text/call (917)282-2018 and leave your full name, best way and best time to reach you. Thank you! We have wonderful adult Cats & Dogs at the Saugerties Animal Shelter! They’re looking for homes where they’ll be loved, cared for and given the kindness all animals deserve. In return, you will get unconditional love and a companion of a lifetime. Why adult cats or dogs? You know how large or small they’ll be, their temperament which will only get sweeter when taken out of the stress of being in a cage in a shelter. Speak to Elly, Morgan, or any of the volunteers to

see which one or ones would do best in your home. DEXTER; 8-year old Pit mix, is so stressed at the shelter. His caregivers, whom he loved dearly, surrendered him. If you’d like to adopt an older dog whose heart is broken, please visit Dexter at the shelter. Dexter needs to be your one and only; please- no children or other pets. Dexter wants to love again and to be loved. QUEENIE; 8-year old petite shorthair tabby, very sweet, loves to give kisses & have her tummy rubbed: a great lap cat! She’s used to being around other cats. We believe she was abandoned. ATHENA; 2-year old affectionate black & white tuxedo cat girl. She was a wonderful mama to many kittens; so wonderful that she took in some orphaned babies and loved them like they were her own. Athena does well w/other respectful kitties. BRITTANY; approximately 3-years old mostly black cat girl w/a white bib & muzzle. She’d love a home where she could be the star of the show. All adult cats have been spayed/ neutered, up to date w/shots and litter pan trained. Saugerties Animal Shelter can welcome you Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Call (845)679-0339. MEOW!!!

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Pet Care

WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents. The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-258-2725.

Call William, for your free estimate (845) 401-6637

Lauren Storm & Michael Steeley (607) 431-3392 LnMpetsitting@gmail.com

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Horse Care

HORSE BOARDING, 4 STALLS. Full or rough board. Beautiful farm. Saugerties area. Mountain views. 15 years experience. Very fair prices & very caring owner. Call 845-246-2708.

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed. Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

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Contracting & Development Corp.

William Watson • Residential / Commercial

Professional pet care visits for cats, dogs, birds, and other exotic species.

Paramount SNOW PLOWING & SANDING

L&M Pet Sitting

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