ALMANAC WEEKLY
A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 4 | Jan. 23 – 30
New life at former zoo LONG NECK INN WELCOMES HUMAN VISITORS TO OLD GAME FARM IN CATSKILL
The return of the queen Vassar professor Sarah Kozloff unveils book one of feminist fantasy series in Rhinebeck
Welcome in the Year of the Rat at Bard Linda Mary Montano’s Art/Life/Death 78th BirthdayArama Party
Will Betelgeuse blow? Levin Brothers play Senate Garage
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already accepted into the Science Fiction Writers of America. Unsurprisingly, “cinematicâ€? is one of the adjectives being employed by early readers of The Nine Realms, the first volume of which has already been released by top-tier fantasy publisher Tor Books. A Queen in Hiding will be closely followed by The Queen of Raiders in February 2020, A Broken Queen in March and The Cerulean Queen in April. In Book One, readers meet CĂŠrulia, Princess of Weirandale. Orphaned, exiled and hunted, she must master the magic that is her birthright, become a ruthless guerrilla fighter and transform into the queen that she is destined to be. To do it, she must win the favor of the spirits who play a role in mortal affairs, assemble an unlikely group of rebels and wrest the throne from a corrupt aristocracy whose rot has spread throughout her kingdom. Sounds like catnip to readers who love badass female characters in a medieval setting. Can a movie or TV miniseries deal be far behind? Kozloff ’s book launch event for her debut novel, A Queen in Hiding, gets underway at 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 26 at Oblong Books, located at 6422 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck. To reserve your spot, or to order a signed copy (for $12.99), visit www.oblongbooks.com/ event/book-launch-sarah-kozloff. To learn more about the Nine Realms series and the author, visit https://sarahkozloff.com. – Frances Marion Platt
The return of the queen Vassar prof Sarah Kozloff unveils book one of feminist fantasy series on Sunday at Oblong Rhinebeck
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antasy literature used to be treated as “niche� or “genre� work, even “pulp,� barely deserving consideration as “literature� at all. The same has held true in the cinematic realm. But in recent decades, that prejudice has been gradually eroded by the release of new works whose quality bears comparison to other contemporary classics, and new generations of readers and viewers have embraced the identity of fantasy geek wholeheartedly. It’s all happening just in time for the holder of an endowed chair at Vassar College, Sarah Kozloff, PhD, to make her debut as a fantasy author. She’ll be at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on Sunday touting A Queen in Hiding, Book One of her new quartet of novels The Nine Realms. The full series is already written, and the sequels will be released, originating in paperback, on a monthly basis. “Genre� wouldn’t be a daunting
pejorative in any case to Kozloff, who cut her teeth in film production and has been at Vassar since 1988 as professor of Film History. Her scholarship focuses on American cinema, particularly on issues related to speech, narrative and ideology. Her typical courseload includes surveys of genre films such as Musicals, War Films, Romantic Comedy; cultural studies courses such as The McCarthy Era and Film; and in-depth seminars such as The Films of Alfred Hitchcock and American Women Directors. It was in the process of teaching that American Women Directors class that it occurred to Kozloff that some of her most beloved movies, Peter Jackson’s screen adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, flunked the “Bechdel Test,� a now-standard parameter for judging whether or not a
work of literature, film or TV show is sexist. The bare-bones baseline: Is there at least one scene in which two or more named female characters have a full conversation about something other than a man? Alas, Tolkien’s novels on which Jackson’s films were based also flunked the test. It was that epiphany that inspired her to begin writing an adult fantasy series of her own, putting female characters at center stage. As she told one interviewer, “My vision was: What if Aragorn had been a woman? What if a realm awaited the return of a queen?� And so, beginning in 2017, she reduced her teaching to one semester a year to begin a new life as an author of epic fantasy. Her academic credentials probably didn’t hurt, as she has been
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Bo-Nita opens January 29 at Denizen Theatre New Paltz’s adventurous small, professional Denizen Theatre presents Elizabeth Heffron’s Bo-Nita, with shows from January 29 through March 1. Funny, gritty and real, BoNita is Heffron’s tale of the dark young life of a spunky and undaunted 13-year-old girl played by Terri Weagant and directed by Summer Wallace. Bo-Nita’s mother Mona, newly released after two years of jail, along with a slew of her ex-boyfriends, her grandfather and even her deceased grandmother are all brought to life as Weagant transforms into seven different characters in this “quick-change performance worthy of the late Robin Williams� (Your Observer). Bo-Nita opens at the Denizen after its awardwinning run last fall at the NYC United Solo Festival, where it was awarded the Best in Storytelling prize. Showtimes are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $28 general admission, $24 for seniors and those under 30 and $5 for students. Bo-Nita Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 29-March 1
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Sunday, Jan. 26, 2-4 p.m. $25/$20 Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock (845) 679-2100 https://bit.ly/2TJUgOv
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NOËL COWARD’S PRESENT LAUGHTER FROM OLD VIC ON SCREEN IN ROSENDALE
Trevor Zoo celebrates Hot Chocolate Day on Saturday
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he most nearly autobiographical of Noël Coward’s comedies, Present Laughter was written in 1939, partly with the intent of distracting British audiences from the pall of a World War about to start. Coward himself starred in the original production, and insisted on opening it with a 25-week national tour in the wake of the London Blitz in 1942, telling his producer, “The provinces can’t MANUEL HARLAN come to the West End any more, therefore Andrew Scott, of Fleabag and Sherlock fame, and Indira Varma star in Present Laughter the West End must go to the provinces.” The show, a door-slammer farce about the travails of a vain actor surrounded by sycophants, was a huge hit, revived innumerable times since. The most recent production at the Old Vic was directed by Matthew Warchus and starred Andrew Scott, BAFTA winner for his long-running role as Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock and most recently seen as the Hot Priest in Fleabag and John Parry in His Dark Materials. Described as “a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness,” the Old Vic production of Present Laughter was captured on film and is now being presented onscreen via National Theatre Live. The Rosendale Theatre will be screening it at 2 p.m. this Sunday, January 26. Tickets cost $12 general admission, $10 for members. To learn more, visit www.rosendaletheatre.org/2019/07/18/national-theatre-present-laughter and http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ ntlout36-present-laughter. National Theatre Live’s Present Laughter, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2 p.m., $12/$10, Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St. (Rt. 213), Rosendale, (845) 658-8989, www.rosendaletheatre.org/2019/07/18/national-theatre-present-laughter
$28/$24/$5 Denizen Theatre, Water Street Market 10 Main St., New Paltz, (845) 303-4136 www.denizentheatre.com
Snowshoe hike to Awosting Falls at Minnewaska on Sunday Minnewaska State Park Preserve hosts a waterfall snowshoe outing on Sunday, January 26, starting from the Peter’s Kill Area. Preregistration is required for this two-and-a-halfmile snowshoe hike to Awosting Falls. Participants will hike briefly on the Awosting Falls Connector Footpath before beginning the gentle ascent up the scenic Awosting Falls Carriage Road. If weather conditions are cold enough, a frozen volcanolike structure forms at the base of the waterfall. A limited number of snowshoes are available for participants to borrow for this program from the Education Department, located at the Peter’s Kill Area. Otherwise, snowshoes may be rented for $5 per person. Waterfall Snowshoe Outing Sunday, Jan. 26, 1-3 p.m. Peter’s Kill Area, Minnewaska State Park Preserve, 5080 Rt. 44/55, Gardiner (845) 255-0752
Learn Algonquin meditation techniques in Woodstock on Sunday Need to destress yourself ? Why turn all the way to the Far East or the Himalayas for guidance on meditative practices when we have techniques available that are indigenous to our own continent? Learn how to tap into those old New World nature vibes via a workshop with author, educator and Mi’kmaq descendant Evan Pritchard, titled “Stay Calm & Carry On: Algonquin Techniques for Inner Peace.” It will be hosted from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 24, at Mirabai of Woodstock. In Algonquin spirituality, one-pointed meditation is the path to serenity: a focus on one physical object or motion to fill the mind with that pure thought to the exclusion of all others. Once free of cluttered thoughts and desires, the practitioner can rediscover a fundamental clarity of mind and purpose and an awareness of how all life is interconnected. Pritchard’s workshop explores the seven
levels of unfoldment, the four goals of shamanism, the four paths to fearlessness and the four gifts of our birthright: the benefits named in traditional Algonquin teachings. These techniques, he says, can be used to help resolve conflicts while fostering a personal sense of fearlessness and profound flashes of insight. The fee for “Stay Calm & Carry On: Algonquin Techniques for Inner Peace” is $20 if registered and prepaid by January 24, $25 thereafter. To sign up or learn more, visit https://bit.ly/2TJUgOv. Evan Pritchard teaches Algonquin Techniques for Inner Peace
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January 25 is National Hot Chocolate Day, even in Key West and Santa Fe. Locally, this important event is observed at the Trevor Zoo at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, where free hot chocolate will be available all weekend in the gift shop. Purchase a Trevor Zoo coffee mug, beverage traveler or stainless water bottle and get free entrance to the zoo. This boutique and fascinating zoo makes an exceptional day trip for locals. It houses more than 180 exotic and indigenous animals, with 80 different species represented, including nine endangered species. It’s the only zoo in this country that is located at a high school and its facilities are extended over six acres. National Hot Chocolate Day Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Trevor Zoo, Millbrook School 282 Millbrook School Rd., Millbrook (845) 677-3704 www.millbrook.org
Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino 1940–2016
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CULTURAL FREQUENCY: WHAT IT MEANS & WHAT IT COULD BE GOOD FOR Friday, February 7 – Friday, March 20 Opening reception: Fri., Feb. 7 • 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Live Performance: Wed., Mar. 4 • 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. & 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Does Industry tell us what we need to use technology for or do artists tell us what it could be good for? Participating artists, Jason and Debora Bernagozzi, Eric Souther, and Alan Powell will exhibit works that experimentally explore the medium of technology to probe the core of this question.
Leonard Contino, Runic Magic, 1977, courtesy the Estate of Leonard Contino
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EXPLO∏E
Long Neck Inn welcomes human visitors to Old Game Farm in Catskill
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temporary zoo housing humans on vacation? That’s one way to look at what’s happening on the former site of the Catskill Game Farm, but its new owners, Ben and Cathy Ballone, prefer the mission statement, “Keeping the memory alive and breathing new life into the property!” You won’t find any captive
critters there anymore, but the former Giraffe House at the iconic tourist attraction has now been converted into a boutique hotel, the Long Neck Inn. First opened in 1933 by Roland Lindemann, with an initial population of deer, donkeys and sheep, the Catskill Game Farm was the first privately owned zoo in the US, and a much-loved
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weekend destination for families from the tri-state metropolitan area for eight decades. While exotic animals including a black panther and two white rhinos were among its 2,000+ four-legged inhabitants after it became officially recognized as a zoo in 1958, what distinguished the Game Farm among very young visitors in particular was its status as the apotheosis of the petting zoo, where a child might bottle-feed one of hundreds of wandering lambs, kids or fawns. L i n d e m a n n’s daughter Kathie Schulz shut down the zoo operation and sold off the animals in 2006. In 2012, the Ballones bought the 200+-acre property, renaming it the Old Game Farm. Until recently it was being rented out on occasion for photo shoots or events such as the 2016 Meltasia festival, but otherwise lying fallow. Now the
proprietors have done a full renovation on the Giraffe House building and converted it into a hotel with five bedrooms that, during the warmer months, can be rented out separately or all at once for a wedding or family reunion. There are also communal spaces including an eight-person hot tub, living room, Pond Room, game room, dining room, kitchen, coffee station and wet bar. Fa n c i f u l l y decorated with animal art and old Game Farm signage, the rooms are geared to evoke nostalgia among people whose parents took them to visit the zoo during its long heyday. Each has a queen or king bed; three of them are also equipped with a chaise that can be converted into a twin bed. Three have balconies, three are pet-friendly and the most luxurious, the Giraffe Room, comes with a three-
Many of the old Game Farm buildings still stand, and the site’s 3.5 miles of paved walkways – which connect to a 20+ mile trail system that leads to waterfalls and swimming holes – are open to visitors.
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NIGHT SKY
Will Betelgeuse blow? A supernova in our lifetimes is not impossible
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ith Orion’s famous star Betelgeuse still looking weirdly dim, much is being made of the possibility that it could explode into a supernova. What would that look like? What would it do to us? Let’s review supernovae that have actually happened in our Milky Way galaxy. It’s a very exciting subject. We now think that each galaxy experiences one or two supernovae per century, on average. When they happen, most of the time people observe a brand-new star that’s bright enough to cast shadows. And that’s with the supernova typically being thousands of light-years away. What if it were Betelgeuse, which is only around 640 light-years? People saw supernovae in the years 1006, 1054, 1181, 1572 and 1604. That 1604 event was the last one observed in our galaxy, and the final one visible to the naked eye – until 1987. That year, a supernova went off in the nearest companion galaxy to us, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Despite its huge 750,000-light-year distance, it could be seen by the naked eye, but was too far south to be visible from the US. So, I took a small group of Woodstockers to near the Equator to see it that year. What a thrill! It wasn’t bright, but just to observe the first naked-eye exploding star since before the telescope was invented was a fantastic experience. Two decades later, I met and hung out with the Chilean astronomer who had accidentally discovered it while casually glancing up one night: another thrill.
Orion now looks very different from its normal appearance since Betelgeuse is now only as bright as its belt stars. Hopefully, all readers will take a glance up to the east these nights to see this very rare phenomenon
person Jacuzzi. The Zebra and Elephant Rooms share a common vestibule and can be rented in combination. All rooms offer private en suite baths, memory foam mattresses, radiant-floor heating, individually controlled air conditioning, smart TVs and Bluetooth radio. Pricing ranges from $188 to $275 per room per night. Glamping is also a feature of the newly refurbished resort. The four sites, featuring a variety of views, canvas tents on platforms plus room for additional pop-up tents, rent for $135 to $145 per night via Tentrr. Many of the old Game Farm buildings still stand, and the site’s 3.5 miles of paved walkways – which connect to a 20+ mile mountain biking/hiking trail system that leads to waterfalls and swimming holes – are open to hotel visitors and campers. Self-guided tours by the general public can also be arranged, from April to November. The Old Game Farm plans to host events including photography workshops conducted by Matthew Christopher, author of Abandoned America; the first one in 2020 is scheduled for May 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. To reserve a room in the Long Neck Inn or arrange to tour the Old Game Farm site, call (518) 719-9172, e-mail theoldgamefarm@gmail.com or visit www.theoldgamefarm.com. The Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ theoldgamefarm is the best place to keep tabs on upcoming events. – Frances Marion Platt The Long Neck Inn/Old Game Farm 400 Game Farm Road, Catskill (518) 719-9172 theoldgamefarm@gmail.com www.theoldgamefarm.com
Backyard Sugaring at Mountain Top Arboretum on Saturday The Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center in Tannersville presents
a workshop in Backyard Sugaring on Saturday, January 25. Anyone with access to sugar maple trees can make their own maple syrup. This event covers the basics of starting a backyard sugaring operation in preparation for this year’s season. This presentation is for the beginning sugarer and will cover how to identify and select trees for tapping, options for collecting sap and do-it-yourself approaches to backyard boiling. It will also discuss the science behind maple sugaring, how to bottle the finished product and options for expanding your operation once you are hooked on this very sweet hobby. Admission costs $10 and is free for members. Backyard Sugaring Workshop Saturday, Jan. 25, 10 a.m.-noon $10, Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center, 4 Maude Adams Rd., Tannersville www.mtarboretum.org
Why the T in Dutchess? There are a lot of interesting theories floating around out there about why Dutchess County is spelled with a T in the middle. You may believe that it comes
Anyway, the possibility, however remote, of a relatively close supernova is of course very exciting. If it were Betelgeuse, its 640-light-year distance would make it an unusually brilliant one; but that distance would be enough to protect us from all but very mild radiation exposures. It would be as bright as the Moon, with all the brilliance concentrated in a pinpoint of sky, making it almost too intense to look at. It would cast vivid shadows each night. This possibility, though unlikely, is why, here at the Willow Observatory, I’ve been observing it spectroscopically to see if there are compositional changes that might be the first signs that something profound is happening to this suddenly enigmatic star. Orion now looks very different from its normal appearance, since Betelgeuse is now only as bright as its belt stars. Hopefully, all readers ILLUSTRATION BY ESO | L. CALCADA | NASA will take a glance up to the east these nights to see this very rare Why is Betelgeuse fading? No one knows. Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most recognized stars in the phenomenon for themselves. night sky, is only half as bright as it used to be only One is reminded that the last five months ago. Such variability is likely just normal time it got very dim (though not behavior for this famously variable supergiant, but quite as faint as now) was in 1941. the recent dimming has rekindled discussion on how Then, amazingly, Betelgeuse not long it may be before Betelgeuse does go supernova. only rebounded, but attained a Known for its red color, Betelgeuse is one of the few near-record brilliance the very stars to be resolved by modern telescopes, although next year, in 1942, when it very only barely. The featured artist's illustration imagnearly matched the brightness ines how Betelgeuse might look up close. Betelgeuse of blue/white Rigel, the famous is thought to have a complex and tumultuous surface Orion foot-star. Could that that frequently throws impressive flares. happen again? As for exploding, it could occur tonight or in 100,000 years. Hopefully it’ll be tonight. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.
from the Dutch folk who populated the area in the mid-17th century, back when it was still part of New Netherland. Or you may have heard the hypothesis that Dutchess is a corruption of Deutsch or Deutsches, in reference to the German Palatine refugees who immigrated to Saugerties and Germantown in 1710 – similar to the way a group of Germanspeaking settlers came to be called the Pennsylvania Dutch. Both explanations are incorrect, as it turns out. According to Henry Gannett’s 1905 book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, “The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York; dutchess is an archaic spelling of the word duchess.” Once the homeland of the native Wappinger peoples, Munsee-speaking kin to the Lenape, the eastern side of the mid-Hudson Valley was named Dutchess County by the English on November 1, 1683 – one of the first 12 counties of the Province of New York. Its original boundaries included what is now Putnam County, plus the towns of Clermont and Germantown in what is now Columbia County. The county seat, the City of
Poughkeepsie, takes its name from the Wappinger phrase U-puku-ipi-sing, translated as “reed-covered lodge by the little water place.” – Frances Marion Platt
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MUSIC Chinese New Year concert and reception at Bard’s Fisher Center
Bard’s US-China Music Institute presents The Sound of Spring, its first annual Chinese New Year Concert featuring Bard College’s The Orchestra Now performing a collection of Chinese symphonic works on Saturday, January 25. Conductor and director of the US-China Music Institute Jindong Cai will share the stage with guest conductor Chen Bing and Chinese instrument masters from the faculty of China’s Central Conservatory of Music. The program features HongMei (Red Plum) Capriccio for Erhu, by Wu Houyuan; Yun Xiang Hua Xiang Pipa Concerto, by Wang Danhong; Long Teng Hu Yue Percussion Concerto, by Li Minxiong; YanAn YanAn for Tenor, Suona and Orchestra, by Li Shaosheng; Wan Li Xing Sheng Concertino for Sheng and Orchestra, by Hao Weiya; and The Spring Festival Overture by Li Huanzhi. A special Chinese New Year public reception to welcome in the Year of the Rat before the concert starts at 6 p.m. Admission costs $20. The Sound of Spring Saturday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m. $20
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Chico Freeman plays Falcon on Sunday
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enuine jazz legends are never strangers at the Falcon. On Sunday, January 26, the jewel of Marlboro welcomes the legendary saxophonist and composer Chico Freeman, who has spent more than 40 years in the center of the modern jazz maelstrom, mostly as a leader and as sideman with McCoy Tyner, Lester Bowie, Jack DeJohnette, Wynton Marsalis and others. Freeman’s ensemble for this performance includes the great pianist Chuck Lamb (beloved in these parts as the leader of the fusion quartet Dry Jack), bassist Peter Mack and legendary Woodstock drummer Harvey Sorgen. This being the Falcon, there is no cover charge – just a persuasive call to donate generously and to support living artists.
Chico Freeman, Sunday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m., by donation, The Falcon, 1348 Rt. 9W, Marlboro, www.liveatthefalcon.com
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Sosnoff Theater, Fisher Center Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7900 https://fishercenter.bard.edu
Front Row Dave tribute concert on Sunday at Colony
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Front Row Dave tribute concert Sunday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m. Colony 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock www.colonywoodstock.com
Strawberry Hill Fiddlers Sunday, Jan. 26, 3 p.m. $15/12 Saugerties United Methodist Church 67 Washington Ave., Saugerties (845) 679-5733 www.saugertiespromusica.org
Strawberry Hill Fiddlers perform on Sunday in Saugerties
Swimming Bell plays Tubby’s on Saturday
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The Hudson Valley music community sustained a serious a blow on October 29, 2019 with the passing of David Beesmer, the avid music fan and concert photographer/videographer known as Front Row Dave. Friends have organized a night of tribute at Colony in Woodstock on Sunday, January 26. Performers include Cold Flavor Repair, Gus Mancini’s Sonic Soul Band, Carl Mateo, Queen Bee and the Hive, Sharon White, Mister Roper and more. It will be a celebratory evening of music and stories.
Ever adventurous, inclusive and broad in its programming, Saugerties Pro Musica enthusiastically welcomes back the Strawberry Hill Fiddlers on Sunday, January 26, at the Saugerties Methodist Church. An ensemble of middle school and senior high students from throughout the Hudson Valley who are dedicated string musicians, Strawberry Hill Fiddlers perform high-energy, foot-stomping traditionals, folk, Celtic and classical pieces arranged for string instruments. Admission costs $15 for adults, $12 for seniors. Students are admitted free.
Tubby’s, the hip and adventurous new(ish) Midtown Kingston bar and venue, keeps the demonstratively broad and challenging bookings coming, presenting the critically lauded luminous mood-pop band Swimming Bell on Saturday, January 25, appearing with Mistresses and Emily Ritz. Swimming Hole’s 2019 debut Wild Sight is of a piece with Laurel Canyon revivalism, managing – in revivalist style – to seem both retro and modern/ambient in one delicate and occasionally stormy swoop. Swimming Bell Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. Tubby’s 586 Broadway, Kingston www.tubbyskingston.com/calendar
Restless Age plays BSP The Restless Age, the mid-Hudson’s guitar-free roots/pop trio of veteranbut-still-young touring aces Will Bryant, Lee Falco and Brandon Morrison,
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dawgs and has collaborated with Willie Nelson, Patti LaBelle, Galactic, Harry Connick, Jr. and Lenny Kravitz. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 on the day of the show. Shamarr Allen Thursday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. $15/$12 Colony 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock www.colonywoodstock.com
Gabe Schnider headlines 23Arts’ Portraits in Strings at Mountain Top Library
LEVIN BROTHERS PLAY SENATE GARAGE ON SATURDAY
The 23Arts Initiative kicks of its 2020 “Arts in the Snow Series” with Portraits in Strings, the annual winter school outreach and free concert on the mountaintop featuring guitarist Gabe Schnider, supported by drummer Charles Goold and bassist Marty Jaffe. Part performance, part education, Schnider leads this study of the foundations of modern guitar music and beyond, taking a nonlinear approach to the instrument’s various styles, key composers and influences throughout history. The series continues with four more stellar free shows throughout the winter.
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Portraits in Strings featuring Gabe Schnider Friday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m., Free Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main St., Tannersville, www.23arts.org
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ndividually, the Levin Brothers have been involved in some of the most daring and experimental music of the last 50 years: Tony cutting a striking figure as bassist and Chapman-stick player with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, his own project Stickmen and many more; Pete working more behind-the-scenes as an ace keyboardist and first-call synthesist on the legendary New York session scene of the ’70s and beyond, moving effortlessly between jazz and pop. So, when the historically talented Levin Brothers finally decided to make a jazz album together, perhaps no one expected how traditional and user-friendly a release it would be. The Levin Brothers record emphasized great tunes, singable and short solos and deep groove above all: a celebration of the cool jazz they grew up loving and that set them on their paths. Their 2014 eponymous debut has proven sturdy enough to keep the project rolling on a semi-regular basis – though cats of this caliber tend not to find a lot of open dates on their Google Calendars. Jazzstock – on a pretty incredible hot streak recently – welcomes the locally residing, internationally known Levin Brothers on Saturday, January 25 at the Senate Garage in Kingston. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the performance. Levin Brothers, Saturday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., $30/$25, Senate Garage, 4 North Front St., Kingston, www.jazzstock.com
has conceived a novel tour idea: a circuit of weekly residencies that keeps them traversing the same geographical area for a month. The local stop on the loop is BSP in Kingston, where the Restless Age will settle in on Thursdays beginning on January 23, including a set from special guest Jules Olson. Other nights in the residency are January 30 and February 6 and 13. Admission costs $10.
Hazy Cosmic Jive Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m., by donation Falcon Underground, 1348 Rt. 9W, Marlboro, ww.liveatthefalcon.com
Colony presents Shamarr Allen on Thursday
The Restless Age Thursday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m. $10, BSP, 323 Wall St., Kingston http://bspkingston.com
Hazy Cosmic Jive at Falcon Underground on Saturday Leading lights of the revitalized Hoboken scene Glenn Mercer (the Feelies) and Richard Barone (the Bongos) team up to present Hazy Cosmic Jive at the Falcon Underground in Marlboro on Saturday, January 25. Barone and Mercer will be exploring songs by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and T. Rex among others, along with songs from their own Bongos and Feelies catalogues. They will be joined by Feelies percussionist Dave Weckerman on drums, bassist Bob Torsello, and special guests. As usual, there is no cover charge at the Falcon, but generous, direct-to-artist donation is strongly encouraged.
A complex embodiment of the musical identity of New Orleans, Shamarr Allen appears at Colony in Woodstock on Thursday, January 23. Allen claims influence from in jazz, hip-hop, rock, funk rhythms, blues and country. He is the lead vocalist and trumpeter of his band Shamarr Allen & the Under-
Science in Your Life lectures return to Poughkeepsie As we continue to watch actual scientists in charge of federal government agencies being replaced by political hacks, it becomes ever more important for the layperson to make the effort necessary to stay informed about scientific discoveries and issues. Back in the late 19th century, when the Vassar Brothers Institute was founded, attending a lecture was regarded as a capital evening’s entertainment, as well as a source of enlightenment, intellectual stimulation and sophistication. When was the last time you attended one? Cold, dark wintry evenings are the ideal time for the return of the Vassar Brothers Institute’s Science in Your Life series of midweek talks, which has been running annually since 1983, reviving a tradition of lectures at the Institute that dates back to 1882. This winter’s science talks take place at three different Poughkeepsie locations, on January 29, February 5 and 13, and admission is always free. As in the past, each program will consist of an understandable talk by a scientist involved in research on the topic, and an opportunity for questions from the audience. Each one is preceded by a live musical performance. Science in Your Life 2020 kicks off at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 29 at the Orville A. Todd Middle School Dining Hall, located at 11 Croft Road in Poughkeepsie,
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with a mini-concert by the Arlington High School Philharmonia. It’s followed at 8:15 p.m. by a lecture by Bradford Walker, fourth-generation jeweler and executive vice president of Shreve, Crump & Low in Greenwich, Connecticut, titled “The World of Gemology: History and Value of Precious Gemstones.” Sapphires, rubies and emeralds: Where are they found and why are some regions more desirable than others? What contributes to their color and other properties? Walker will also examine some of the most notable gems owned by monarchs, celebrities and American royalty, past and present. Do exotic Moon rocks hold more allure for you than terrestrial sparklies? Come on out to the Auditorium at Our Lady of Lourdes High School at 131 Boardman Road in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, February 5. The Arlington High School Jazz Machine will perform at 7:30 p.m., and at 8:15, a Science in Your Life favorite, chief NASA scientist Dr. James Green, will return to speak on “The Importance of the Moon: Past, Present and Future.” As an architect of NASA’s strategic science objectives, Dr. Green’s opinion matters when it comes to making the case for the agency to revive the lapsed lunar landing program as a precursor to visiting Mars. A number of recent stunning advances in lunar science have fostered a realization that going back to the Moon will provide scientists with the opportunity to accomplish transformational science in understanding the origin and evolution of our solar system. Finally, on Thursday, February 13 at the auditorium of Spackenkill High School at 112 Spackenkill Road in Poughkeepsie, the Vivace Orchestra will open the show at 7:30 p.m., followed at 8:15 by “Into the Heart of Cuba,” an illustrated lecture by Daryl Hawk. A photographer, documentarian, adventure tour guide and creator of the weekly cable TV series and website The Unconventional Traveler, Hawk will share the story of his circumnavigation of the island of Cuba in 2016 and 2017. Besides recounting his dayto-day adventures and discoveries, he will discuss his style, philosophy and the various techniques he uses when photographing subject matter. Equipment, lighting on location, environmental portraits and travel tips on planning a trip to Cuba will all be covered as well. For more details on this year’s Science in Your Life lecture series, visit https:// vbi1882.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/ science-in-your-life-2020. – Frances Marion Platt Vassar Brothers Institute’s Science in Your Life Lecture Series, Jan. 29-Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m., free, various venues, Poughkeepsie; https://vbi1882.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/science-in-yourlife-2020.
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IN TERMS OF PAINTING, THE DOT AND THE LINE are the essence of what creates all form ... They’re very related to the conceptually driven particle points. Dots and lines are points and waves. They’re not abstractions, but descriptive of what a landscape is, which is energy.
Weekly’s Lynn Woods recently interviewed him at his Catskill home and studio. Both you and your brother have cultivated a purity of purpose in pursuing your creative impulses. Was there something special in your childhood that enabled you to preserve this sense of innocence? Maybe it has something to do with being from the Northwest. We grew up in a small town on the Kipsap Peninsula, which was close to nature. My father owned a business installing residential heating systems. My brother and I went to the University of Washington, and because my folks dissuaded me from majoring in Art, I majored in English Literature. Nevertheless, it was here I heard the calling to become an artist. Bill Vanderbilt was our godfather and a mentor of my father’s. We had a summer place near his place in Manchester, Washington. He had a library and a collection of Chinese artwork, and his intellectual curiosity inspired both my brother and me. How were your conceptual and performance pieces received by the public?
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Artist Jim Holl at his Catskill home/studio
I was always disappointed. There was all this cynicism. When I attended an event of Joseph Beuys and he was just standing there surrounded by people in costumes, it seemed such a pretense. I wondered, where was the authenticity? Innocence is grounded in one’s connection to the natural world. It’s a spiritual condition.
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You experimented with the currents of conceptualism, interactive and performance art, anti-art, social commentary art et cetera. but write that you were a Modernist at heart.
Jim Holl’s “Both a Point and a Line” on view at Atwater Gallery in Kingston
Minimalism and conceptualism had been working off the Modernist premise of “Make it new and original,” but when I arrived in the mid-1970s this had been debunked, to my chagrin. Shortly after my arrival, I was impressed by Richard Tuttle’s exhibition at the Whitney, which made the aloof coldness of Minimalism personal and intimate. I saw that as a way to go forward, coupled with narrative.
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oth a Point and a Line” is a show of abstract oil paintings by Jim Holl currently on display at Kingston’s Atwater Gallery. Although they are inspired by the smashing of protons in the world’s largest particle collider, there’s nothing technical or overly cerebral about these square-formatted works, which include smaller paintings on handmade paper. Instead, they are meditations in purely painterly terms, whose delicate color harmonies and tactile surfaces are both mysterious and seductive. Swooping linear networks and shapes are integrated into the colored ground, whose subtle undertones suggest a rapturous atmosphere. While suggesting infinitudes beyond the edge or within the pictorial space, each piece reads as a complete and harmonious whole pared down to its essence: a quality that yet defies stasis, instead beckoning the eye on a journey rich with epiphanies. “A quintessence of painting is that it stills time and by this essence radiates forever,” Holl writes in the accompanying catalogue. This simple statement represents the apotheosis of a decades-long quest: When he arrived in New York City from his native Washington State in 1974, he aspired to high ideals, but it was to take many years of navigating through the contemporary “isms” of the 1970s and 1980s art world before he ultimately reached the goal of creating art whose “salient feature is truth.” After graduating from the University of Washington, Holl spent a year in a cabin on Puget Sound, making art and reading essays on conceptual art. Once in New York, he earned an MFA from Columbia University, embarked on a career as a conceptual artist and meanwhile paid the bills by becoming a successful graphic designer, starting his own firm in 1981. Holl created socially engaged works that utilized performance, audience interaction, installation and sculpture. He was among
the first artists to show and have a studio at PS 1, and also exhibited at the New Museum and other seminal downtown venues. An example of a socially engaged art piece was a collaboration with architect Elizabeth Diller and performance artist Kaylyn Sullivan at “Art on the Beach,” a summer art exhibition funded by Creative Time held for several years on the expanse of sand excavated for the World Trade Center. Holl wore the costume of a harlequin, stationed in a booth erected before two hills of sand in which the trio had buried 100 Chinese slippers filled with their grant money, divvied up into small denominations. Audience members were invited to dig up the slippers containing the money and in exchange were given new shoes, donated by one of Holl’s graphic design clients, from the harlequin in the booth. The piece’s intent was to reverse the convention of art as commodity (instead, the commodity – money and the shoes – was the art) and transform the passive viewer into an art-making participant. But as people requested returns in order to obtain betterfitting shoes, Holl became disillusioned, feeling like he was back at his high school job selling suits at J. C. Penney. “I had become a clerk,” he wrote in Jim Holl: The Landscape Painter: An Autobiography 1974-1994. “That day, I realized I couldn’t project my intentions onto other people.” So, he began experimenting with narrative; in his installation at PS 1 called The Entourage, he based the sculptures that comprised the set and props, as well as the dialogue of three characters, on an absurdist text. Holl went on to critique consumerism in World Toy Company, an installation of faux toys and packaging that was exhibited in the New Museum’s storefront windows on 14th Street, before deploying more sophisticated fabrication techniques to create layered constructions of spray-painted forms cast in resin or plastic and combined with steel, wood and electric lights, in which he took on
the role of director and designer. By 1986, he felt that he’d reached a dead end. “I realized I was making art intended for an audience, not for myself,” he writes in The Landscape Painter. He began making constructions that emanated from a more meditative, felt response to form. Worried about the toxicity of fiberglass, he shifted to natural materials, such as wood, wax, cloth and plaster, creating sculptures of rough, simple forms that referenced figures and frequently suggested a narrative. In the mid-1990s, he and his wife, photographer Susan Wides, started spending summers in Bridgehampton in a rented cottage. “It got me into the sunlight and helped create the opening for painting,” Holl said. “I’d been going to my studio in Brooklyn after work for many years, working in the dark.” Ultimately, his quest for an art that expressed “one’s synthesis with nature, an expression of the spirit or a transcendental truth” brought him to painting. “I prefer to consider the painting as a unique object, expressive of the maker,” he writes in the catalogue to the current show. “Within the definition of painting, I could emphasize form to allow viewers to bring their own associative meanings.” Holl has shown at the Seattle Art Museum, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and other institutions as well as numerous galleries in New York City, the Northeast and the Seattle area. After many years of residing in a Union Square loft, he and Wides moved to Catskill in 2002. He currently is associate professor of Art at Marymount Manhattan College. He’s the younger brother of architect Steven Holl; an exhibition of his paintings in 2010 inaugurated the “T” Space gallery, part of a multi-interdisciplinary arts organization operated by the Steven Myron Holl Foundation at a wooded preserve in Rhinebeck (Wides serves as director of “T” Space, which is open in the summer and fall). Jim Holl has also designed, written and published a number of books. Almanac
You painted early on, but then gave it up for two decades. Why? I always made paintings; I just didn’t show them. Painting in the mid-1970s had reached a theoretical crisis, so the answer was to go into three dimensions. Your sculptural forms, which often involved painted surfaces, were in a primitive style, like folk art, and the painted surfaces in your installations resembled signs. The idea was to be direct to the idea. Anything superfluous was unnecessary. Signs point to an idea. Then you moved to making sculptural forms fabricated out of fiberglass, steel and other industrial materials. It was a question of authorship: planning a piece out like a designer and having it executed, then using lights and motion for a high display. That work was a comment on commercialism and the idea of need that advertising instills in people. My World Toy installation, which included dancing figures I cut out of plastic, was shown at the New Museum, right before Jeff Koons’ stacked vacuum cleaners were displayed in the same space. You turned away from this approach and went in a very different direction. There is a cause-and-effect, the effect being to resolve yourself in the studio, re-center one’s response. This is very different than the
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at plants. In a catalogue for a show of your particle point collision paintings held early last year at a gallery in Seattle, you write, “Images of particle point collisions show a trace and a point. The trace is a line made by the direction the point passes in time. All of nature at its most fundamental is dots and lines, points of energy passing in time.” Is the dot and the line then the organizing principle of these paintings? In terms of painting, the dot and the line are the essence of what creates all form. A filled-in shape is a large dot, and a dot is static. A line is dynamic. They are opposite areas of contingency or graphic expression. Formally, they’re very related to the conceptually driven particle points. Dots and lines are points and waves. They’re not abstractions, but descriptive of what a landscape is, which is energy. I also make painterly decisions. I want to hold your eye and also bring you into the pictorial space. The depth is suggested by the color. Your color schemes, with their close midrange values and balance of warm and cool hues, remind me of Bonnard and Matisse. There’s an analogy between music and color. Music is energy; we’re talking about a vibration, and sound can be elicited from color as well. You can make a tune out of color. Color is a transmitter of feeling. The small scale of some of the works, such as the paintings on paper, and the sense of the artist’s hand convey an intimacy. MITCHELL PAYNE
Linda Mary Montano. Chicken Dance, The Streets of San Francisco, March 3, 6, 9, 1973 (still); performance, in front of Reese Palley Gallery, 550 Sutter Street, San Francisco.
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nown among other things for her multiyear “endurance art” pieces, for her Sacred Sex workshops with Annie Sprinkle and Barbara Carrellas, for founding the Art/Life Institute in Kingston, for having spent two years as a nun and for fascination with the subjects of chickens and death, internationally renowned performance artist Linda Mary Montano regularly returns to her birthplace, Saugerties, for an audience-participation event. At the 2018 Shout Out Saugerties festival, she performed The Psalms R Us in the Reformed Church; last fall, she led a LaughCryathon at the Saugerties Library. Montano will be back on Saturday, January 25, with another Interactive Laugh-Cry event, titled Art/Life/Death and described as a 78th-BirthdayArama. Dedicated to nursing home Certified Nursing Assistants and curated by Jennifer Hicks, it will be hosted by the 11 Jane Street Art Center/Gallery. On the program, besides some guided/spontaneous group creativity, are two film premieres: one about cremations in Benares, India, and the other about Saugerties’ Father Harty Drum Corps; an invocation of Angel Blessings by “guest preacher” Reverend Lynda Carré; Desmond Conrad-Ferm leading the Chicken Dance; and a question-and-answer session. The birthday-party part involves an invitation for anyone so moved to bring along “a very very very Creative Art Cake for our viewing pleasure and mutual celebration.” Admission is by a $10 suggested donation. To purchase tickets, visit https://bit.ly/2tvN2mC. – Frances Marion Platt
Linda Mary Montano’s Interactive Laugh-Cry Art/Life/Death 78th BirthdayArama, Saturday, Jan. 25, 7-8:30 p.m., $10 donation, 11 Jane Street Art Center, 11 Jane St., Saugerties, www.11janestreet.com
role as director. Last time I made this kind of work was in 2011, with the installation Let’s Talk about Art, curated by Alan Baer at Byrdcliffe. [Holl shows the video, in which people take down hanging pieces of canvas, in an outdoor setting consisting of a podium and church pews, and write down what art means to them. The installation also was exhibited at Governors’ Island the following year.]
little. It’s a philosophical idea you get out of looking hard. The kind of realistic painting that Gainsborough did is deterministic; it isn’t the way the world is.
How did you make the transition from installation work to your first major series of paintings, the Indeterminate Landscapes?
After 9/11, when we bought a house and studio in Catskill. Because of the drop-off in my business from the dot-com bubble crash and increase in rent, we also got a cheaper apartment in Hell’s Kitchen and later moved to a place in Harlem, where I stay when I’m teaching.
The one thing I hadn’t tried was concentrating on one theme for a long period of time, which ended up being ten years for the Indeterminate Landscapes. In 2001, I flew in a glider above Joshua Tree National Park, which is a vast desert inhabited by unusual trees and large rock outcroppings. When looking straight down, I could not see the horizon line to orient myself in space. This changed my perception of scale. Our human scale in relation to the universe is indeterminate. The opposite of that is a “scalelessness,” a hypothetical in which everything little is big or everything big is
That would explain the term “Indeterminate” and the fact that these paintings lack a horizon line and their scattering of rounded shapes don’t have a clear reference point. When did you start making these?
Describe your painting process. I look more than I paint. I have a dialogue with the painting. It has a voice, and responding to it is analogous to making a tune more harmonious. When the painting doesn’t speak back to you for a long time, it’s finished. To start, I’ll put down a ground of a single color; then I’ll take a contrasting color and put another ground down. The paint builds up by adding and subtracting. The impasto technique is expressive. In the catalogue, you describe the paintings in your current show as “impressions of the primary matter that creates the universe.” Could you explain?
How long have you been teaching? Since 1990. It was to supplement my graphic design studio income. I started out at Marymount Manhattan College as an adjunct because of my expertise in Photoshop, and in 1999 was hired to institute a Graphic Design curriculum and later an Illustration and Animation program. I love being a teacher. It keeps me concurrent with technology and youth culture.
The idea is particle point collisions, and the source material is photographs from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which smashes components of atoms called particle points. These are vibrating bundles of energy, both a point and a wave. They’re the essence of matter. I was led to that through a previous series called All the Living Things: paintings inspired by my hikes in the Olympic Mountains and very close looking
Intimacy is important. Another influence is Giacometti, who has a singular individuality. You can’t innovate in painting anymore. I’m not trying to make it new; I’m trying to make it real. It’s difficult in our time of alternative facts and facsimiles and simulacra for authenticity to still be emergent or of value. You have to forgo the Modernist logic of deconstruction and embrace other essences of what art is. It’s a discovery of one’s aesthetic and sensibility being in the world. It’s sensual and spiritual and philosophical, aside from the contextual issues. You have to find your being in nature. The focus is the essence of nature. Your paintings draw one in. While initially the language appears simple – networks of lines interspersed with small rectangles or circles against an absorbent color field – the more you look, the more you see subtleties of hue, tone and form. You have to step away from literalness and be more associative, which allows the viewer in; you allow the viewer in by being evocative. – Lynn Woods “Both a Point and a Line,” paintings by Jim Holl, through January 31, Atwater Gallery, 793 Broadway, Kingston; (845) 338-2838, atwatergallery@gmail.com, http://jimholl. com.
Cannabis Legalization Rally January 30 in Woodstock NORML hosts the Hudson Valley Cannabis Legalization Rally on Thursday, January 30, at Colony in Woodstock. Jeffrey Collins, candidate for New York’s 46th Senate District, will speak on the pending legislation to legalize marijuana for adult recreation use and how it will have a positive impact on the Hudson Valley. There will also be a presentation on the newly signed industrial hemp legislation and what people can do to support the growing CBD industry in the Hudson Valley. A full set of music will be provided by the Deadbeats. Cannabis Legalization Rally Thursday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. Colony 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock www.colonywoodstock.com
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CALENDAR Plan your weekend: Each issue of Almanac Weekly is packed with local activities. It’s the best guide to Hudson Valley art, entertainment & adventure. We’ve printed this weekend’s events here, but if you'd like to read what’s happening during the workweek, visit our website at https://calendar. hudsonvalleyone.com/events.
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9am-10am Woodstock Senior Senior Feel Good Fitness with Diane Collelo. All aspects of fitness: flexibility, balance, strength and aerobic capacity done to music from many decades that makes us feel like dancing. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies. 10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For PD patients, caregivers and friends to address the symptoms of PD and other neurological disorders. Balance, gait, muscle strengthening, improving flexibility & fluidity and having fun are all included. Weekly, on-going group meets every Thursday at 10am. Info: Anne Olin, 845-679-6250; anneolin.com. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. $12 for one or $22 for two. 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle and Tarot Readings with Esoteric Scholar and Author, Timothy Liu. Every Thursday. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. $30/30 minute. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 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 Ed Reisner. 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. 3pm-6pm Farm Hub Winter Market in Kingston. The Farm Hub is once again partnering with the Kingston YMCA Farm Project on the weekly winter market to make fresh produce available to Kingston and surrounding communities through
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4pm-6pm Social Media & Marketing for Artists. For Artists with expert Angela Speziale of Repuvue. Art Juxtapose, 430 Main Street, Rosendale. artjuxtapose.com. $25. 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-7pm MedSpa Grand Opening and CoolSculpting Event. Free raffle for a chance to win Spa Prizes. The Inn And Spa At Beacon, 151 Main Street, Beacon. Info: 8454771313, info@innspabeacon.com, facebook.com/event. FREE. 5pm-6:30pm New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Meeting. Meets every Thursday. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz. newpaltzclimateaction.org. 6pm-8pm Progressives Unite!! Joint Panel Discussion and Signature Gathering. Join the delegates for three progressive candidates of the Democratic primary in an evening of conversation and signature gathering, and become engaged in this most critical election of our life time. The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave, Kingston. 6pm-7:30pm Poetry Generator. Image, Music, & Form 4 week Poetry class starts 1/23 Thursdays 6-730pm. Info: brownpapertickets.com/ event/4488636. The Idea Garden, 346 Broadway, Kingston. for 4 week class. 6pm Tech Time. Call the Library at 845-3387881 if you would like to reserve a spot or drop in for a fifteen-minute one-to-one session with a library staff member who will answer your general tech questions. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org. 6pm-7pm Talk with Acclaimed Author Courtney Maum. She will be discussing her book, Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book. For more information, visit the Oblong Books website. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, bit. ly/Courtney-Maum. RSVP requested. 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 Sisterhood Rosh Chodesh. At the home of Rochelle Timperio. Please RSVP to 845-6566996. Hosted by the Temple Beth Jacob. 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 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org. 7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls. org, gardinerlibrary.org. 7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.
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Instructional and workshop listings appear in the calendar when accompanied by a paid display ad or by a paid individual calendar listing. Community events are published in the newspaper as a community service and on a spaceavailable basis.
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7:15am MLK Catharine Street Community Center Breakfast. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. 8:30am-12pm Stronger Together - A Dialgoue on Nonprofit Capacity and Collective Needs. A nonprofit community dialogue to discuss resources, trends and opportunities for our social sector community. Ulster Savings Bank/Kingston, 180 Schwenk Dr, Kingston. Info: 917 699-4493, susan@susanjragusa.com, bit.ly/2Qhrpha. 9am-12pm Call for Event Submissions - WHMK. Submit an event for March 2020 now through February 10 online at WHMK.org to join our community collaboration, celebrating Women’s History. Info: whmkingston@gmail.com. For details log onto whmk.org/. Kingston. whmk. org/. 9am-5pm National Hot Chocolate Day. Celebrating all weekend at the Trevor Zoo! Get free hot chocolate in Gift Shop. Purchase a Trevor Zoo coffee mug, beverage traveler or stainless water bottle and get free entrance to the zoo! Info: 845-677-3704. Trevor Zoo, Millbrook School, 282 Millbrook School Rd, Millbrook. facebook. com/events/462611697756224/. 9:30am Mid-HudsonADK: Ski with Marty Carp. Every Mon & Fri until March 31. 3-5 hours, depending on conditions. No snow, they will do a moderate hike 6-9 miles. Questions welcomed. Info: 845-214-8520 or martymcarp@ gmail.com. Meet @ the Mohonk Visitor Center for drive/shuttle to trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/ outings-events-list. 9:45am-10:45am Woodstock Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-5pm Art Sale - Hudson Valley Watercolors by Staats Fasoldt. Hours available: Monday and Friday 10am to 5pm; Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 10am to 7pm; Saturday 10am to 4pm; & Sunday 1pm to 4pm. Sales ends 1/29. Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck. 12pm-1pm Play Well Focus Team Meeting. 4th Fridays. Conference Room #1, 3rd Floor. The Play Well Focus Team develops, implements and/or supports policy, systems and environmental change to facilitate growth and maintenance of public parks, recreational facilities and open space in order to increase safe and accessible places for physical activity. Facilitates the development of programs that encourage utilization of parks and open spaces. Kingston City Hall, 420 Broadway, Kingston. livewellkingston.org.
7pm Bingo! Meet the 2nd & 4th Thursdays. Doors open at 6pm. Prizes & food. Sponsored by the Beekman Fire Company Auxiliarly Inc. Beekman Fire House, 316 Beekman- Poughquag Rd, Poughquag.
12pm Art Gallery 71 Exhibit. New art gallery in Rhinebeck, NY featuring 15 Hudson Vallery artists. Artist of the month Trevor Hunter. Exhibit displays through 2/3. artgallery 71, 71 E. Market st., rhinebeck ny. Info: 845-516-4878, contact@ artgallery71.com, artgallery71.com. free.
7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.
12:30pm-6pm Crystal Attunements and Tarot Card Readings with Owl Medicine Woman, Mary Vukovic. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. $50 for 45 minute reading and chakra attunement. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes,.
8pm Live @ The Falcon: Latin Jazz Express: Music of the Masters. Where Salsa Meets Jazz - Dancing Encouraged! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.
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. 5:30pm-9:30pm Lydia’s Bistro Dinner Theatre - Yelp Me! Yelp Me! Disasters in Dining. Bite size plays by Laura Shaine Cunningham, Mikhail Horowitz & Mary Louise Wilson w/ all-star cast. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe. com. Donation Requested. 5:30pm-7:30pm Art After Hours. View the artwork while sampling tastings from local craft breweries, amazing food vendors, and music! $10/person under 18, $40/person 18 and older, $70/couple. Info: 845-471-7477; info@feelthearteffect.org. Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn, 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie. feelthearteffect.org. 6pm-8pm Psychic Development: Opening the Doors – An Experiential Workshop with Psychic Medium, Adam Bernstein. Awaken to and rediscover your innate higher intuitive abilities and spiritual growth. This empowering workshop will cover self-protection, turning your abilities “on” and “off,” the “Clairs” of psychic senses and which ones you are naturally attuned to. Energy attunements, spirit guides, group exercises, meditation techniques and skills will augment all forms of spiritual training. $20 if registered by January 22. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25. 6pm-7:30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Services. Friday evening services. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org. 6:30pm-7:30pm Intermediate Swing Dance Workshop. Dance lesson with professional instructor(s). See hvcd.info for details of steps to be taught, name of teacher, and prerequisites. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hvcd.info/ calendar. $20. 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-9:30pm Movies that Matter Film Series: On the Basis of Sex. Doors open 10 minutes before film. Snacks & refreshments available. Discussion after. Free and open to the public. PG-13, 104 min. 2018. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton. miltonlib.org. 7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Halftime complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch. 7:30pm-11pm Swing Dance with Eight to the Bar. This popular band returns for a special dance. Featuring instrumentalists and sophisticated musical and vocal arrangements! Dancers at all levels are welcome. No partner necessary! No experience necessary! Snacks to share are welcome. More info: hudsonvalleydance.org or hvcd.dance or 845-454-2571. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hudsonvalleydance.org. $20, or $15 for students. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Gratefully Yours. Premiere Grateful Dead cover band. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com. 8pm Tikkun. A new drama by Roselee Blooston. Directed by Emily DePew. Appropriate For All Audiences. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org. $25.
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premier listings Contact Donna at Donna.ulsterpublishing@gmail.com to be included Black Stories Matter@Black History Month (2/15, 7pm). Featuring storytellers from the Nubian Cafe & Circle of Brothers. Free & open to the public (suggested donation - $20). RSVP: TMIproject.org.
$30 for non-attorneys. $40 for attorneys, including CLE credit. Call Laura at 845-218-1288 for more information and to RSVP. Scholarships available in the event of financial need. Info: mhwba.org.
Call for Event Submissions - WHMK. Submit an event for March 2020 now through February 10 online at WHMK. org to join our community collaboration, celebrating Women’s History. Info: whmkingston@gmail.com. For details log onto whmk.org/.
Sign-Up Now! Intuitive Imagination Workshop (1/31-2/20). Develop & practice it safely? Boughton Place, Highland. Info: class@intuitionuse. com; BeYourOwnPsychic.org; Facebook@BYOP.TWAI; EtaoquaMahicanu@Etaoqua.
Swing Dance with Eight to the Bar (1/24). Pot Luck & Dance Party: 7:30-8pm: Free Beginners’ Lesson 8:00-11pm: Eight to the Bar 9pm: Exciting Performance by the Uptown Lowdown Dance Admission: $20/15 full time students. This popular band returns for a special dance. Featuring instrumentalists and sophisticated musical and vocal arrangements! At 6:30pm, a Special Intermediate Workshop with Emily Vail: 6:30 - 7:30pm - Ballin’ the Jack: learn a short solo jazz routine called Ballin’ the Jack, based on the 1942 performance by Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Workshop Admission: $20. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie. The Tennis Club bar will be open 7:30-10:30 Dancers at all levels are welcome. No partner necessary! No experience necessary! Snacks to share are welcome. More info: hudsonvalleydance.org or hvcd.dance or 845-4542571.
Opportunity for Artists - Open Call: Large Works. The Roxbury Arts Group Announces an Opportunity for Artists! Submissions due by 1/24. Art work is not restricted to merely the size of a canvas or the space on a wall. Roxbury Arts Group invites artists to bust open the boundaries of art and spill out into large form for an upcoming exhibition and Open Call for Large Works which opens in the Walt Meade Gallery and into the Hilt and Stella Kelly Hall of the Roxbury Arts Center on March 7, 2020. Artists can submit up to three pieces for consideration by completing an application through the Submittable online application with a $20 fee. Fees will be waived for emerging artists. For more information visit roxburyartsgroup.org or email Samantha Nick, Grants & Community Coordinator, at community@roxburyartsgroup.org; 607-326-7908.
Litigation in the Supreme Court (1/29, 12-1:15pm). Presented by civil rights attorney Stephen Bergstein, Esq. Sponsored by Mid-Hudson Women’s Bar Association. Held at the Farmers and Chefs Restaurant in Poughkeepsie. Cost includes lunch: LGBT
SongClub with Debbie Lan. Learn a song, harmonize, make a video! A drop in singing event where the Audience is the Choir. $10 fee at the door, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. MaMA, Marbletown Multi-Arts, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-853-5154, cometomama.org/ event/the-daily-flame-listening-to-the-
8pm Live @ The Falcon: Lindsey Webster. Smooth R&B vocalist & soul traditions. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.
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New Paltz Chili Challenge. Info: 845-401-4499; waterstreetmarket@gmail.com. Water Street Market, 10 Main Street, New Paltz. 9am-5pm National Hot Chocolate Day. Celebrating all weekend at the Trevor Zoo! Get free hot chocolate in Gift Shop. Purchase a Trevor Zoo coffee mug, beverage traveler or stainless water bottle and get free entrance to the zoo! Info: 845-677-3704. Trevor Zoo, Millbrook School, 282 Millbrook School Rd, Millbrook. facebook. com/events/462611697756224/. 9:30am-10:30am Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Visitor Center. Preregistration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor. 9:30am-10:30am Centering Prayer and Meditation. A receptive method of silent prayer. People of all faiths are welcome and no previous meditation experience is required. St Gregory’s Church, 2578 Route 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8800, matthew.stgregorys@gmail.com. free. 10am-12pm Primrose Hill School Winter Open House. Experience the Waldorf-inspired school community and make a craft! Primrose Hill School, 23 Spring Brook Park Suite 2, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-1226, administration@primrosehillschool.com, primrosehillschool.com. 10am-12pm Election Security: Protecting Your Vote. The League of Women Voters of the MidHudson Region will host a forum with a panel of experts, who will delineate how this democratic process is carried out. They will explain what security measures are in place to ensure our votes are properly counted, and how to improve. Q&A. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-340-2003, jenclark3@gmail.com, facebook.com/LWV%20Mid-Hudson. 10am-12pm Maple Sugaring. Come learn the basics of starting your own backyard maple sugaring operation in preparation for this year’s season. Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Rd, Tannersville. Info: 5185893903, info@mtarboretum.org, mtarboretum.org/events. Free to Members.
voice-of-our-inner-wisdom-a-booktalk-with-lissa-rankin-md/. Meeting Notice: Overeaters Anonymous. Meets on Wednesdays, 10-11am at Woodstock Reformed Church on the Village Green. For more info go to midhudsonoa.org. Enter door in back by parking lot. Upcoming Events at Mirabai! Thursday, January 23 12:30 – 6pm Chinese New Year Astrological Readings, I Ching Oracle, Tarot and Akashic Readings with esoteric scholar and author Timothy Liu. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. $30 for half hour reading; Friday, January 24 12:30 – 6pm Crystal Readings and Chakra Attunements with owl medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. $30 for half hour Crystal Reading; $50 for 45 minute Crystal Reading and Chakra Attunement.Astrology Chart Readings available (by appointment.); Friday, January 24 6-8pm Psychic Development: Opening the Doors – an experiential workshop with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. $20/adv,$25/door; Saturday, January 25 12:30 – 6:30pm Tarot Readings and Expert Palmistry with Stephanie every Saturday at Mirabai. 30 years experience and mastery of the tarot. $30 for half hour reading; Sunday, January 26 12:30 – 6pm Voyager Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda. $30 for half hour; $50 for one hour reading; Sunday, January 26 2-4pm Algonquin Techniques for Inner Peace: an experiential workshop with author Evan Pritchard. $20/adv,$25/door; Monday, January 27 12:30 – 6pm Crystal Readings and Chakra Attunements with owl medicine woman and astrologer Mary Vukovic. $30 for half hour session; $85 for one hour shamanic healing
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. 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-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 Writing is Easy: Writing Workshop. Whatever type of writing you do – Sparrow, the Phoenician poet and essayist, can help you. 3 Saturdays. Register at 688-7811. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 12pm Live @ The Falcon: Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra. Bridge Arts Winter Jazz Fest Lunch Concert. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 12:30pm-6:45pm Tarot Readings and Intuitive Guidance every Saturday with Stephanie. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30minutes. 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-2pm Project FeederWatch at Sam’s Point. Become a Citizen Scientist and help us learn more about the beautiful birds that visit the feeders at the Visitor Center. Pre-registration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor. 1pm-4pm Hyde Park Winterfest. A winter afternoon enjoying seasonal activities like snow tubing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing. Warm up around the fire pit and roast marshmallows. Special displays inside the Program Building include a children’s craft table, Dutchess County’s Medical Reserve Corps, Hyde Park’s Historian, and more. HP Fire Dept. will have a display and presentation on “Ice Rescues”. A Snowman Contest and Nature Hike round out the afternoon. Info: recdirector@hydeparkny. us. Hackett Hill Park, 59 East Market St, Hyde Park. HydeParkNY.us.
10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies & good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.
1pm-2pm Free Ice Skating Class in Honor of National Skating Month. Participants of all ages can learn the basics from professional instructors in a fun-filled environment. Stay for the free public skate immediately following. Info: icetimesports.org. Ice Time Sports Complex, 21 Lakeside Rd, Newburgh.
10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music
2pm Ham Radio Demonstration. 24-hour
session. Astrology Chart Readings available (by appointment); uesday, January 28 12-5pm Spirit Guidance, Reiki Healing and Angelic Oracle Readings with Reiki Master Maureen Brennan-Mercier. $30 for half hour reading; $50 for one hour reading; $75 for one hour Reiki Healing Session; Wednesday, January 29 12:30 – 6pm Tarot Readings with tarot scholar Malley Heinlein every Wednesday at Mirabai.$30 for half hour reading; $50 for one hour. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock.Info: 845-679-2100. Thursday, January 30 12:30 – 6:00 I Ching Oracle, Tarot and Akashic Readings with esoteric scholar and author Timothy Liu. Every Thursday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call ahead for appt. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 679-2100. $30 for half hour reading. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. 845-679-2100. Club Mahjong. Whether you are new to the game, or a seasoned player, there’s a seat at the table for you! Every Monday, 1-4pm at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation. For more information contact Heather at MJCRobinson1010@gmail.com; or text 914-388-3577. City of Kingston Arts Commission Accepting Nominations for Distinguished Artist Award. Nominees must be Kingston residents for at least two years. Artists in any discipline may be nominated: music, theatre, dance, literary, visual, or media arts. A small stipend will be provided to the awardee and additional funding may be available for a programming budget. Submission forms can be found at kingston-ny.gov/ArtsCommission and must include a one-page narrative that highlights the nominee’s qualifications. Mexican Mondays (5-9pm). Mexican Cuisine offered: $5 Tacos $6 Margaritas Authentic. Info: 845-679-5763; oriole9.com. Oriole 9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock.
event, ham radio stations across the US contact each other using off-grid power and temporary antennas. All are welcome. Ferncliff Forest, 68 Mt Rutsen Rd, Rhinebeck, NY. bit.ly/3aqEM7I. 2pm-4pm Middle Way School Open House. Meet the community and learn about our approach to education. Middle Way School, 268 West Saugerties Rd, Saugerties. Info: 845-2465006, contact@middlewayschool.org, middlewayschool.org. 2pm-4pm Opening Reception: Student ShowOnteora School District. An exhibition of artworks created by high school students of the Onteora School District. Exhibits through March 14. Info: 845-657-2482; helpdesk@olivefreelibrary.org. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. olivefreelibrary.org. 2pm-3:30pm Introduction to Meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. Taught by KTD’s lamas , this class offers brief, basic meditation instruction combined with a presentation setting meditation in the wider context of the practices and principles of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Time will be set aside for questions from the participants. The class is free of charge, and preregistration is not required. Info: managingdirector@kagyu.org or 845-679-1091. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. 3pm-5pm Chat with Senator Jen Metzger. Hoot Owl Restauraunt, 26 Awosting Road, Pine Bush. Info: 845-344-3311, metzger@nysenate. gov, bit.ly/2FPy1i4. FREE. 3pm-5pm Meet the Maker: Amass. Join us for a complimentary tasting of their full range of products: “Los Angeles Dry Gin” and “Copenhagen Vodka.” Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, 13 Scribner Hollow Rd, Hunter. Info: 347-506-5081, rebecca@scribnerslodge.com, scribnerslodge. com. 3pm-7pm Rhinecliff Winter Bonfire. Dress warm and join us to celebrate Winter around a bonfire made from local holiday trees. Bring a veggie to add to Sandy’s Stone Soup and enjoy soup and hot cocoa on-site! Musicians welcome! Rhinecliff Firemen’s Field, Valley Rd., Rhinecliff.
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Sign-up Now! Archery, Karate, Yoga, Dance, Sewing, Chess & Ceramics. Register online 845-246-3744, ext 156. Woodstock Day School, 1430 Glasco Tpke, Saugerties. Volunteer Drivers Needed To Transport Cancer Patients to Treatment. The American Cancer Society needs individuals who can volunteer one hour at least once a month to drive a cancer patient to a local cancer center in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Orange County. Locally, the greatest need is for drivers who can pick up patients at their home and take them to treatment -- even one time once a month would be tremendously helpful, according to Patrice Lestrange Mack, Communications Director for the American Cancer Society. All drivers must A current, valid driver’s license, A good driving record, Access to a safe and reliable vehicle, Regular desktop, laptop, or tablet computer access, & Proof of car insurance. To learn more about volunteering for the Road To Recovery program, visit cancer.org/road. Oncology Support Programs offered at HealthAlliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer. Info: 845-339-2071; oncology.support@ hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program. Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-3431000, tara-spayneuter.org.
5pm-6pm Two-Part Woodstock Library Forum. For the first time in it’s thirty-four year history The Woodstock Library Forum will present a Forum in two parts. Part One, Music for a Troubled Nation; 1967 and the Rise of a New Consciousness with author and historian Evan Pritchard. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. 5pm Frederick Dellenbaugh: Drawings From His Travels. Info: library@cragsmoorfreelibrary. info; 845-647-4611. Cragsmoor Free Library, Cragsmoor. 5pm-9pm Hudson Valley Wingfest 13. This year more restaurants, food trucks and caterers battle it out for Wing Supremacy. All new King of the Wings tag team battle for big cash! Email us to be a vendor or wing entry winfestinfo@ yahoo.com. Tickets: $30+. bap.ticketleap.com/ hv-wingfest-13/dates/Jan-25-2020_at_0500PM. Majed J. Nesheiwat Convention Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. 6pm-8pm Saugerties Film Society presents the 3 Muses: Giulietta, Grace and Anna. Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live), 1962, 85 mins., starring Anna Karina, written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org. free. 6:30pm-8:30pm Poetry Reading & Open Mic Night. Read your own poems and/or those of your favorite Poets! Hosted by, Laura Lonshein Ludwig. Readings are held the last Saturday of every month. All poets, writers and musicians of all ages welcome. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Saugerties Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. 7pm-9pm Thousand Pieces of Gold: Special Screening + Q&A. Remastered in 4K followed by Q&A with the film’s screenwriter Anne Makepeace. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. Info: 518-789-0022, events@themoviehouse. net, themoviehouse.net. $14. 7pm-10pm Tim Regusis/Ron Horton Quartet w/ Lew Scott & Tony Jefferson. Tim has performed w/ Patti Austin, Ruben Blades, David Byrne, Celia Cruz, Chuck Mangione, Najee, Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, Jonathan Butler.
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Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-6373, mark@lydiasdeli.com, lydias-cafe. com. Donation Requested. 7pm-9pm The Sound of Spring: A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now. Celebrate Lunar New Year and look forward to spring with a lively concert of Chinese orchestral works. Fisher Center at Bard, 60 Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter@bard.edu, bit.ly/2FHFcZr. $20. 7pm-10pm Film: King in the Wilderness. Stunning documentary chronicling Martin Luther King Jr.’s final, harrowing years. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-389-9201, gerryharrington@mindspring.com, bit.ly/2FAF11Y. donation. 7pm-8:30pm New Moon Sacred Sound Ceremony Within the Indigenous Realms. Using sacred sound tools and song, ceremonies help us find our way back to Oneness with an open heart with Lea Garnier. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20. 7pm-8pm Latin Dance for Everyone. Meets every Saturday, 7-8pm. $5/suggested donation. Info: 845-331-5300; LGBTQCenter.org. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. lgbtqcenter.org. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Cindy Cashdollar & The Syncopators. Master of Texas swing, jazz, rockabilly, and more! Dancing encouraged! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. 8pm Tikkun. A new drama by Roselee Blooston. Directed by Emily DePew. Appropriate For All Audiences. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org. $25. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Richard Barone & Glenn Mercer “Hazy Cosmic Jive”. Songs from the post-Velvet Underground universe. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.
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9am-5pm National Hot Chocolate Day. Celebrating all weekend at the Trevor Zoo! Get free hot chocolate in Gift Shop. Purchase a Trevor Zoo coffee mug, beverage traveler or stainless water bottle and get free entrance to the zoo! Info: 845-677-3704. Trevor Zoo, Millbrook School, 282 Millbrook School Rd, Millbrook. facebook. com/events/462611697756224/. 10:30am-12:30pm Open Meditation. Shambhala Meditation is based on the premise that the
natural state of the mind is calm and clear. It’s a practice that anyone can do. Free/donations appreciated. Sky Lake Lodge, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.
screen. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. Info: 518-789-0022, events@themoviehouse. net, themoviehouse.net. General $21 / Gold Members $16.
11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ the Falcon: Saints of Swing. Swing, standards & more! Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.
1pm Game Day Appetizers. With Sean Lacy, Adams Meat Manager. Come try new and classic appetizers for the big game. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300.
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.
1pm The Perfect Game Day Chili. With Justin Corson, Adams Café Manager. Learn how to make and sample. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.
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-3pm Waterfall Snowshoe Outing at Minnewaska. A two-and-a-half-mile snowshoe hike to Awosting Falls. If there is no snow, this outing will be a hike. Meet in the Peter’s Kill Area. Pre-registration is required by calling Minnewaska at 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.
11:30am-1pm FilmWorks Forum/Salisbury Forum: Parkland Rising. A free community screening of Cheryl Horner’s 2019 documentary about the Parkland school shooting. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton. themoviehouse. net. Free community screening. Ham Radio Demonstration. 24-hour event, ham radio stations across the US contact each other using off-grid power and temporary antennas. All are welcome. Ferncliff Forest, 68 Mt Rutsen Rd, Rhinebeck, NY. bit.ly/3aqEM7I. Ends at 12pm. Art Gallery 71 Exhibit. New art gallery in Rhinebeck, NY featuring 15 Hudson Vallery artists. Artist of the month Trevor Hunter. Exhibit displays through 2/3. artgallery 71, 71 E. Market st., rhinebeck ny. Info: 845-516-4878, contact@ artgallery71.com, artgallery71.com. free. Ends at 12pm. 12pm Seminar: Chocolate Bark. With Rosie Mendez, Adams Sweet Shop. Learn how to make this tasty treat and sample some of Rosie’s favorite. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls. 12pm Oncology Support Programs of Health Alliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness, integrative and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer including cancer support groups for women of all ages, young women, men, caregivers, women with ovarian cancer, & people living with metastatic. Info, times and dates: 845-339-2071; oncology. support@hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program. Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm Voyager Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-6792100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/ one hour, $30/30minutes. 12:55pm-3:30pm Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle. A brand new production of Giselle broadcast live in HD from the Bolshoi Ballet onto our cinema
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1pm Elting Library Scrabble Club Meeting. Scrabble sets and the Official Scrabble Player’s dictionary are provided. This club is intended for adult players 18 or older. Meets every Sunday, 1pm in a study room of the library. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. 1pm-2pm Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Village Green/Woodstock, Woodstock. 2pm-4pm Algonquin Techniques for Inner Peace: An Experiential Workshop with Author, Evan Pritchard. In this workshop we will learn several Algonquin meditations from which we can achieve serene awareness and inter-connection with all life. We will explore one-pointed meditation and the seven levels of unfoldment, the four goals of shamanism, the four paths to fearlessness and the four gifts of our birthright as names in traditional Algonquin teachings. $20 if registered by January 24. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $25. 2pm Thomas Cole National Historic Site: The “Sunday Salons”. Maggie M. Cao, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will speak about environmental concerns in the landscapes of Martin Johnson Heade. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. thomascole.org. 2pm-3:30pm Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought. The Records offer one of the most powerful tools on the planet today to help us “re-member” our oneness with God/ Spirit/ Source. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $20. 3pm Tikkun. A new drama by Roselee Blooston. Directed by Emily DePew. Appropriate For All Audiences. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Rt 308, Rhinebeck. centerforperformingarts.org. $25. 3pm Saugerties Pro Musica: Strawberry Hill Fiddlers. Youth String Orchestra. Info: 845-6795733; info@saugertiespromusica.org. Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespromusica.org. $15, $12/ senior, free/student. 3pm-5pm Closing Reception for Bianco: An Exhibition of Art Celebrating White. 49 artists from the Hudson Valley and New York Metropolitan area celebrate the color white through their art. Emerge Gallery, 228 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-247-7515, emergegalleryny@gmail. com, bit.ly/2uaTLlO. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/. 3pm Reading and Meditation. Ongoing every Sunday night at 3pm. Info: matagiri.org; 845-679-8322. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. 4pm-5pm Event with Recital Publishing. The folks at Strange Recital podcast present two new books: Tom Newton’s Seven Cries of Delight and Brent Robison’s Ponckhockie Union. Inquiring Minds New Paltz Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com. 4pm-5pm Book Launch: A Queen in Hiding (The Nine Realms, Book 1). Sarah Kozloff will be there to launch her new book. For more information please visit the Oblong Books website. Oblong Books & Music Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, bit.ly/Sarah-Kozloff. RSVP requested. 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.
Jan. 23, 2020 6pm-7pm Meditation Session. Meets every Sunday 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: Chico Freeman & Co. One of the most important saxophonists of our time. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.
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8am AARP Tax Free Assistance. IRS certified tax preparation provided by AARP Taxaide at sites through Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail. com. Throughout Ulster County. 9am-10am Gentle Yoga Class. With Kathy Carey! A fun class, lightly paced. $3/class. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. $3. 9am-9:50am Woodstock Senior Fit Dance with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9:30am Mid-HudsonADK: Ski with Marty Carp. Every Mon & Fri until March 31. 3-5 hours, depending on conditions. No snow, they will do a moderate hike 6-9 miles. Questions welcomed. Info: 845-214-8520 or martymcarp@ gmail.com. Meet @ the Mohonk Visitor Center for drive/shuttle to trailhead. Mohonk Preserve, 3197 Route 44/55, Gardiner. midhudsonadk.org/ outings-events-list. 9:30am-12pm Weekly Bridge Game. For intermediate level players. Meets weekly on Mondays, 9:30am-12pm and Wednesdays, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094. Frank D. Greco Memorial Senior Citizens Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties. 9:30am Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Info: 845-303-9689. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. ssipkingston.org. 10am-12pm Woodstock Senior Drama with 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10:30am Preschool Story Hour. For three to five-year-olds Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org. 12pm-1pm 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 12:30pm-6pm Crystal Attunements and Tarot Card Readings with Owl Medicine Woman, Mary Vukovic. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes. 1pm-4pm Club Mahjong. Whether your new to the game, or a seasoned player, there’s a seat at the table for you! Every Monday at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation. For more information contact Heather at MJCRobinson1010@gmail. com; or text 914-388-3577. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, 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 Wulfe Schimmrich. In addition to painting supplies and instruction participants will take part of periodic exhibitions, friendships and camaraderie! Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 2:30pm-3:30pm Tai Chi. Vince Sauter leads this weekly class. No experience necessary - wear comfortable 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 Read to Zoey. Zoey, our friend and certified therapy dog, visits and offers young readers a chance to increase their confidence in reading by spending time in a relaxing, stress-free environment. Registration required. Call to schedule a 15-minute session with Zoey. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org.
4pm After School Program. Each week is a different activity and snacks are provided. Ages 5 to 12 welcome. Check website for an updated list of activities for each week. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org. 4pm-5:15pm Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Led by Anne Olin. Exercises to strengthen back and abdominal muscles and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays at 4pm. $12. Info: 845-679-6250; anneolin.com. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12. 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. 5pm-9pm Mexican Mondays. Mexican cuisine offered: $5 tacos, $6 margaritas. Info: 845-6795763; oriole9.com. Oriole 9, 17 Tinker St, Woodstock. 6pm-8pm Environmental Book Club Meetup. Join our new book club for their inaugural book meet up. The book for January is The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail.com. 6:30pm Music - Mendelssohn Club Meeting. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 7pm-8:30pm 8th Annual Film & Discussion Series: Re-Building Our Local Ecosystem from the Ground Up. This year’s program focus is on how we as a community can re-build our local ecosystem in a thoughtful and sustainable way. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. bit.ly/372Hnmf. Donations are welcome. 7:30pm Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club’s Evening Lecture Series. Birding in South Africa. Take a trip to the southern hemisphere with South Africa native Debbie van Zyl and discover the feathered delights of South Africa. Learn about the world renowned Kruger National Park, famous for its raptors in the north all the way south to the majestic Cape where mountains and seas collide. Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, 1168 Rte 55, LaGrangeville.
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Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail.com. Throughout Ulster County. 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. 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting. Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP) is a social self-help 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. 10am-12pm Senator Jen Metzger’s 2020 Mobile Office Hours. Walk-ins are welcome and no appointment is necessary to meet with Senator Metzger’s staff. For questions about mobile office hours, call the Senator’s office at 845-344-3311 or email metzger@nysenate.gov. Roscoe Free Library, 85 Highland Ave, Roscoe. 10am-1:30pm Tuesday Trek: Old Powerhouse and Peter’s Kill Loop Snowshoe Outing at Minnewaska. The total distance for this outing is approximately two-and-a-half miles. If there is no snow, this outing will be a hike. If conditions are icy, participants may want to bring Micro Spikes or other traction devices. Meet in the Peter’s Kill Area. Pre-registration is required by calling Minnewaska at 845-255-0752. Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.
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1:30pm-4:30pm Play Bridge. Contact: 845-4195258. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr /32 North, New Paltz. Free.
6pm-7:30pm Policy and Politics Book Club Meetup. Come join the Kingston Policy and Politics Book Club, reading Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@gmail.com.
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 Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/. 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-7pm Where the Wild Books Are. January’s book club read is The Overstory, by Richard Powers. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. Info: facebook.com/ColumbiaLandConservancy. Columbia Land Conservancy Inc, 49 Main St, Chatham. 6pm-7pm Get Introduced to the Basics of Advocacy. Get tips for visiting with legislators and advice on how best to raise your voice and make a difference for the Catskills. Jeff Senterman (the Executive Director) will lead two advocacy primer workshops at the Catskill Center in Arkville. Attendees will learn about the Catskill Park Coalition (which the Catskill Center Co-Chairs), about previous advocacy successes and learn more about the Coalition’s 2018 priorities for the Catskill Park. Those who are unable to attend in person, can join via conference call at 845- 414-3399. Catskill Center/ Erpf Gallery,
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: 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-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.
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10am-12pm Comforter Fiber Connection Knit and Crochet Group. Learn, share, donate to local agencies. Tuesdays 10am-12 noon. Contact: ewepurlly@hotmail.com; 845-9015330. Reformed Church of the Comforter, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. 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. 12pm-5pm Spirit Guidance, Reiki Healing and Angelic Oracle Readings with Reiki Master Maureen Brennan-Mercier. 30 years experience in angelic mediumship and Reiki energy healing. Every Tuesday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. $75 for one hour Reiki Healing Session. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes. 12:30pm Woodstock Senior Basic Pilates with Ruth Beyl. A standing/floor course promoting improvement of strength, breathing awareness, balance, concentration and posture. Movements will be altered for those with osteoporosis. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center,
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14 Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail.com. Throughout Ulster County. 9am Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club Field Trip: Harlem Valley Rail Trail. Coleman Station Rd. (off Rt. 22/44 north of Amenia) - Meet at parking lot. James Baird State Park, 14 Maintenance Ave, Pleasant Valley. 9am-10am Woodstock Senior Gentle (chair) Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-11am Meeting Notice: Overeaters Anonymous. Meets every Wednesday,10-11am at Woodstock Reformed Church on the Village Green. For more info go to midhudsonoa.org. Enter door in back by parking lot. 10:30am-11:30am Classics in Religion. The January theme is Prayer. Rev. Don Carragher will provide material for discussion that will include the Kaddish, the purpose of prayer as taught in the Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book), and the Celtic tradition. All Wednesdays in January. Info: rcohen4@hvc.rr.com, 845-338-6180. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Ave, Kingston. 10:30am Baby & Me Story Hour. Children ages 0-3 and caregivers welcome. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.org. 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 11:30am Get Dance Fit: Moving Through The Decades with Maryanne. Dance based workout class that improves cardio vascular endurance. Classes $6 or free with Medicare Silver Sneakers Supplement. Info: 845-254-5469; maryannemoves@hotmail.com. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. 12pm-1:15pm LGBT Litigation in the Supreme Court. Presented by civil rights attorney Stephen Bergstein, Esq. Sponsored by Mid-Hudson Women’s Bar Association. Held at the Farmers and Chefs Restaurant in Poughkeepsie. Cost includes lunch: $30 for non-attorneys. $40 for attorneys, including CLE credit. Call Laura at 845-218-1288 for more information and to RSVP. Scholarships available in the event of financial need. Info: mhwba.org. 12pm Oncology Support Programs of Health Alliance Hospital. WMC Health offers emotional support, wellness, integrative and healing arts programs for people affected by cancer including cancer support groups for women of all ages, young women, men, caregivers, women with ovarian cancer, & people living with metastatic. Info, times and dates: 845-339-2071; oncology. support@hahv.org; hahv.org/service/cancersupport-program. Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House, 80 Mary’s Ave, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm Tarot Readings with Tarot Scholar, Malley Heinlein. Every Wednesday. 30 years experience and mastery of the tarot. Walkins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes. 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: 856-3051546. 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, 1:30-4pm. For info, contact Neale Tracy at 845-247-0094. Frank D. Greco Memorial Senior Citizens Center, 207 Market St, Saugerties. 1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Halftime complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Senior Center, 70 Main St, Napanoch. 3pm-7pm Senator Jen Metzger’s 2020 Mobile Office Hours. Walk-ins are welcome and no appointment is necessary to meet with Senator Metzger’s staff. For questions about mobile office hours, call the Senator’s office at 845-344-3311 or email metzger@nysenate.gov. Empowering Port Jervis, 11 Fowler St, Port Jervis. 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 Wednesday! Fun for ages 3 to 103! From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to some-
ALMANAC WEEKLY thing creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary.org. FREE. 5pm-9pm Wallkill Fire Dept Bingo. Doors/ Kitchen Open at 5pm, selling starts @ 6pm & 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 takes place every Wednesday, 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 LGBTQacupuncture. $5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. 5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service. Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions. Everyone welcome. 845-679-9534. First Church of Christ, 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 Houseplant Care 101. With Maureen Drury, Adams Tropical Greenhouse Manager. Practical info for helping your houseplants thrive. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300. 6pm The White Hart Speaker Series: Author and Historian Tom Shachtman - “The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution”. For more information please visit the Oblong Books website. The White Hart Inn, 15 Undermountain Rd, Salisbury, CT. Info: 845-876-0500, events@oblongbooks, bit.ly/Tom-Shachtman. RSVP requested. 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. 7pm Live @ The Falcon: Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions. Sit in at a “home” for traditional blues & roots. 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. Play solo or as part of a team. Info: 845-688-2828; 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-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. 845-6160710. 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 The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. An 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 Wednesday at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org.
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AARP Tax Free Assistance. IRS certified tax preparation provided by AARP Taxaide at sites through
Ulster County through 4/13. For an appointment and location information, call 845-443-8823 or log onto UlsterTaxAide@mail.com. Throughout Ulster County. Modfest 2020. Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. For a complete list of events, visit vassar.edu/news/ events/2019-2020/200130-Modfest-2020.html. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 9am-10am Woodstock Senior Senior Feel Good Fitness with Diane Collelo. All aspects of fitness: flexibility, balance, strength and aerobic capacity done to music from many decades that makes us feel like dancing. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies.
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10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For PD patients, caregivers and friends to address the symptoms of PD and other neurological disorders. Balance, gait, muscle strengthening, improving flexibility & fluidity and having fun are all included. Weekly, on-going group meets every Thursday at 10am. Info: Anne Olin, 845-679-6250; anneolin.com. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. $12 for one or $22 for two.
peacevillage@bkwsu.org. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org.
11am Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan 2020 State of the County Address. Snow date: 1/20 at 11am. Kingston High School Auditorium, 403 Broadway, Kingston.
7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.
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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 12pm-8pm Winter Book Sale. New & gently used books, CDs, & DVDs at great prices! Fill a cute tote bag for $10. Runs through Feb. 1. For questions call 845-795-2200. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton. miltonlib.org/. 12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle and Tarot Readings with Esoteric Scholar and Author, Timothy Liu. Every Thursday. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. $30/30 minute. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 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 Ed Reisner. 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. 3pm-6pm Farm Hub Winter Market in Kingston. The Farm Hub is once again partnering with the Kingston YMCA Farm Project on the weekly winter market to make fresh produce available to Kingston and surrounding communities through the coldest months. Runs every Thursday. YMCA lobby, 507 Broadway, Kingston. hvfarmhub.org/ winter-production-ramps. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/. 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 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. 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-7pm Self-Taught and Outsider Art From a Private Teaching Collection. This exhibition includes works from Jones’ teaching collection. Curated by Arthur F. Jones Show runs through Feb. 6th. Vassar College Palmer Gallery, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY. bit.ly/37FInNU. 5pm-6:30pm New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Meeting. Meets every Thursday. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz. newpaltzclimateaction.org. 6pm Legal Notice - Town Board Audit Workshop Meeting Dates. Take notice that the Town of Rochester Town Board has delegated the following meeting dates for the monthly Audit/ Workshop meetings to be 1/30, 2/27, 3/26, 4/30, 5/28, 6/25, [..] You may view the latest post at townofrochester.ny.gov/2020/01/06/ legal-notice-town-board-audit-workshop-meeting-dates. Rochester Town Hall, 50 Scenic Rd, Accord. 6pm Tech Time. Call the Library at 845-3387881 if you would like to reserve a spot or drop in for a fifteen-minute one-to-one session with a library staff member who will answer your general tech questions. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.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
7pm Reflect: Back from India. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit.ly/2sdOXLV. 7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls. org, gardinerlibrary.org.
7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome. 8pm Live @ The Falcon: Leon x Jae Sole. Soulful sound with a dose of jazz. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.
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Modfest 2020. Vassar College’s annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. For a complete list of events, visit vassar.edu/news/ events/2019-2020/200130-Modfest-2020.html. Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 9am-10am Woodstock Senior Senior Feel Good Fitness with Diane Collelo. All aspects of fitness: flexibility, balance, strength and aerobic capacity done to music from many decades that makes us feel like dancing. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org. Cost varies. 10am-11:30am Parkinson’s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For PD patients, caregivers and friends to address the symptoms of PD and other neurological disorders. Balance, gait, muscle strengthening, improving flexibility & fluidity and having fun are all included. Weekly, on-going group meets every Thursday at 10am. Info: Anne Olin, 845-679-6250; anneolin.com. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston. $12 for one or $22 for two. 11am Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan 2020 State of the County Address. Snow date: 1/20 at 11am. Kingston High School Auditorium, 403 Broadway, Kingston. 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. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. 12pm-8pm Winter Book Sale. New & gently used books, CDs, & DVDs at great prices! Fill a cute tote bag for $10. Runs through Feb. 1. For questions call 845-795-2200. Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library, 56-58 Main St, Milton. miltonlib.org/. 12:15pm Fine Arts Recitals. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. 12:30pm-6pm I Ching Oracle and Tarot Readings with Esoteric Scholar and Author, Timothy Liu. Every Thursday. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. $30/30 minute. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. 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 Ed Reisner. 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. 3pm-6pm Farm Hub Winter Market in Kingston. The Farm Hub is once again partnering with the Kingston YMCA Farm Project on the weekly winter market to make fresh produce available to Kingston and surrounding communities through the coldest months. Runs every Thursday. YMCA lobby, 507 Broadway, Kingston. hvfarmhub.org/ winter-production-ramps. 3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Ongoing games - Tuesday, Thursday & Sundays at 3pm. See WoodstockUltimate.org for details. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Drive, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org/. 3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. saugertiespublicli-
Jan. 23, 2020 brary.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 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. 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.
legal-notice-town-board-audit-workshop-meeting-dates. Rochester Town Hall, 50 Scenic Rd, Accord. 6pm Tech Time. Call the Library at 845-3387881 if you would like to reserve a spot or drop in for a fifteen-minute one-to-one session with a library staff member who will answer your general tech questions. Info: 845-338-7881. Town of Ulster Public Library, 860 Ulster Ave., Kingston. townofulsterlibrary.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.
5pm-7pm Self-Taught and Outsider Art From a Private Teaching Collection. This exhibition includes works from Jones’ teaching collection. Curated by Arthur F. Jones Show runs through Feb. 6th. Vassar College Palmer Gallery, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY. bit.ly/37FInNU.
legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC20-010 ULSTER COUNTY OFFICE FOR THE AGING LEGAL SERVICES will be received on or before Friday, February 21, 2020 at 4:00 PM at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www.co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing Ed Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed bids will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 3:30 PM for Pump House Generator, BID #RFB-UC20-009. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at www. co.ulster.ny.us/purchasing. Ed Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE SYNOPSIS OF EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEDURE LAW DETERMINATION AND FINDINGS ULSTER COUNTY MIDTOWN LINEAR PARK- PIN 8761.82 In accordance with Section 204 of the New York State Eminent Domain Procedure Law, a synopsis is hereby given of the Determination and Findings regarding the acquisition of real property rights required for the Ulster County Midtown Linear Park, City of Kingston, County of Ulster, State of New York. The Determination and Findings were adopted by the Ulster County Legislature pursuant to Resolution No. 539, dated December 18, 2019. Copies of the Determination and Findings will be forwarded upon written request without cost. THE PUBLIC USE, BENEFIT, OR PURPOSE TO BE SERVED BY THE PROPOSED PUBLIC PROJECT INCLUDE: Provide and expand non-motorized transportation opportunities for pedestrians and bicyclists in the City of Kingston. Expand recreational opportunities for local residents and visitors, including for persons with disabilities and for those of all skill levels and age groups. Transform the midtown Kingston neighborhood by connecting pedestrian access to the only supermarket and major public bus (Ulster County Area Transit) hub in the area, while also revitalizing a blighted corridor by creating a safe recreation space. THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION FOR THE PROPOSED PUBLIC PROJECT AND THE REASONS FOR SELECTION OF THAT LOCATION: The proposed public Project is located in the City of Kingston extending from Westbrook Lane by Kingston Plaza to Cornell Street in midtown Kingston along the abandoned Ulster & Delaware Railroad right-of-way. The location was selected as it creates a direct and safe off-road connection between midtown Kingston and the Kingston Plaza and uptown Kingston, including the City’s only major supermarket and the public bus transit hub. It also creates much-needed park space for low- and moderate-income residents in midtown Kingston with limited park facilities near their neighborhoods. The following alternatives were considered for the proposed public Project: Null Alternative: The No Build “Null” Alternative proposes no action. This alternative does not address any of the Project public purposes. This alternative was retained only as a baseline for comparison to the preferred alternative and
The Emerson Resort and Spa, 5340 Rt 28, Mt. Tremper.
7pm Old Dutch Choir. Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.
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 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls. bkwsu.org. 7pm Reflect: Back from India. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-437-5370, bit.ly/2sdOXLV.
7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Ongoing. 845-706-2183. Family of Woodstock/Kingston, 39 John St, Kingston. Free, $5 donation welcome.
7pm-8pm Gardiner Library Knitting Group. Sit and knit. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls. org, gardinerlibrary.org.
8pm Live @ The Falcon: Leon x Jae Sole. Soulful sound with a dose of jazz. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.
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5pm-6:30pm New Paltz Climate Action Coalition Meeting. Meets every Thursday. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave, New Paltz. newpaltzclimateaction.org. 6pm Legal Notice - Town Board Audit Workshop Meeting Dates. Take notice that the Town of Rochester Town Board has delegated the following meeting dates for the monthly Audit/ Workshop meetings to be 1/30, 2/27, 3/26, 4/30, 5/28, 6/25, [..] You may view the latest post at townofrochester.ny.gov/2020/01/06/
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https://calendar.hudsonvalleyone.com/events. does not meet the public purposes of the Project. Alternative A: This alternative would utilize the existing Ulster and Delaware railroad alignment from I-587 to Westbrook Lane. This alternative meets the public purposes of the Project but was rejected because it would not allow tourism railroad passengers to load at the eastern end of Kingston Plaza. Alternative B: This alternative would deviate from the Ulster and Delaware railroad alignment and follow the interim trail to the south of that alignment for a distance of 800 feet to 1100 feet between Westbrook Lane and the I-587 underpass. This alternative meets the public purposes of the Project and was determined to be the Preferred Alternative. The Project may reduce or eliminate the 300 remaining feet of track proposed for removal based on future Legislative determinations on the matter. THE GENERAL EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED PUBLIC PROJECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND RESIDENTS OF THE LOCALITY: State Environmental Quality Review Act Classification: The Project as proposed is classified as a Type I Action per 6 NYCRR Part 617, Subpart 4(b)(9) of Title 6 of the Implementing Regulations of the Official Codes, Rules, and Regulations of New York State (“SEQRA”). The County of Ulster conducted a coordinated review as permitted under SEQRA. After review of the Environmental Assessment and Draft Design Report prepared by the County’s consultants, the County Legislature pursuant to Resolution No. 391 of September 17, 2019, issued a determination of non-significance (“Negative Declaration”) in accordance with SEQRA, identifying the Project as one that will not have a significant adverse effect on the environment. National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”): This project is being progressed as a NEPA Class II action (Categorical Exclusion). In accordance with the Federal Highway Administration’s regulations in 23 CFR 771.117(c) this is an action which will not have significant environmental effects and does not normally require additional federal approval regarding NEPA. Specifically, this action meets the description in 23 CFR 771.117(c)(3) described as “Construction of bicycle and pedestrian lanes, paths, and facilities”. The NYSDOT/FHWA is the lead agency for the final environmental determination under provisions of NEPA concurrence, which is pending. The proposed Project has been designed to minimize environmental impacts to the greatest extent possible and maximize positive impacts on the local community. The proposed Project will have no adverse effect on the residents of the locality, cultural resources, or the environment. LEGAL NOTICE Ulster County Area Transit Public Meeting Regarding City of Kingston Proposed Base Fare and Providing an Opportunity for Public Comment on UCAT Red, Yellow and Blue Routes to be held on February 10, 2019 at UCAT Offices The Public is invited to attend a meeting and provide comment on the proposed fare structure effective April 1, 2020 for the Red, Yellow and Blue Routes operating in the City of Kingston. The meeting will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 pm on Monday, February 10, 2020 at Ulster County Area Transit, 2nd floor training room, located at 1 Danny Circle in the Golden Hill Complex in Kingston. The meeting can be accessed by using UCAT’s 5:00 p.m. Red Route Bus from the Kingston Plaza. Return trips following the meeting can be completed using the 6:38 p.m. Red Route Bus from the UCAT offices, which arrive at the Plaza at 7:00 p.m. Both the Yellow and Blue Routes will complete an additional run that day. Comments on the proposed fare change are invited from the general public, not-for-profit organizations, private bus and taxi companies, other public transportation providers and human service agencies. Feedback concerning the
new City of Kingston Routes is also welcome. Ulster County Area Transit’s promotional “FREE” bus fares within the City of Kingston are scheduled to expire on March 31, 2019. The proposed base rate of $0.50 per ride on the Red, Yellow or Blue fixed routes will take effect on April 1, 2020. The fare structure will be as follows: Half fare between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Seniors, Persons with disabilities, and Persons with a valid Medicare Card $0.25 Transfer between the Red, Blue, or Yellow Buses within the City of Kingston $0.50 Transfer to County UCAT Routes outside City of Kingston $1.00 Transfer to County Buses traveling outside of Ulster County $1.50 Transfer to City of Kingston Routes from County Routes $0.50 If you wish to comment on any aspect of the proposed rate change, you must make your interest known in writing within ten days of the date of this publication. Your requests and/ or comments must be forwarded to the following contact: Sajaa Ahmed, Interim Acting Director Ulster County Area Transit 1 Danny Circle, Kingston, NY 12401 Tel: (845) 340-3335, Email: ssah@co.ulster. ny.us LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on November 19, 2019, approved by the County Executive on December 12, 2019, and filed with the State of New York on December 23, 2019, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions. DATED: January 23, 2020 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 8 Of 2019 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending Local Law No. 3 of 2019, A Local Law Establishing the Ulster County Electrical Licensing Board And Providing For the Qualifications, Examination, Licensing And Regulation Of Electricians In Ulster County, New York BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: SECTION 1. Section 3 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended to include the following definitions: “Electrical Contractor” – Includes any person, partnership, limited partnership, limitedliability company, or corporation which engages in or carries on the business of installing, erecting, altering or repairing, for the public at large, electrical wiring, apparatus, fixtures, devices, appliances and equipment utilized or designed for the utilization of electricity for light, heat or power purposes or for signaling systems operating on 50 volts or more under the supervision of a master electrician. “Electrical Work” – The installation, erection, alteration or repair of electrical wiring, apparatus, fixtures, devices or other equipment used or to be used for the transmission of electricity for electric light, heat, cooling, power (including solar), signaling, communication, alarm or data transmission. SECTION 2. Section 7 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows:
A. Every person seeking a Master Electrician’s License, a Class B Electrician’s License, or a Class C Electrician’s License in Ulster County shall make application, along with the required fee, to the Board in the form and manner prescribed by this Local Law and any rules and regulations of the Board. B. No person shall apply for a license unless, prior to the administration of a written examination, such person satisfies the qualifications set forth herein for that license. SECTION 3. Section 8 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. The Board may issue and renew a Master Electrician’s License. Such license shall permit the licensee to engage in the business of an electrical contractor who is an owner, officer or partner of an electrical contracting business within the County of Ulster for the period of one year from the date it was issued. A Master Electrician will only be entitled to possess one (1) valid Master Electrician’s License pursuant to this Local Law for any given year. B. The Board may issue and renew Class B Electrician’s Licenses. Such license shall permit the licensee to do electrical work at a specific facility in Ulster County as an employee of that facility. C. The Board may issue and renew Class C Electrician’s Licenses. Such license shall permit the licensee to engage solely in the work of a specified electrical profession. D. The license fee for a Master Electrician’s License shall be as follows: (i.) Residents of Ulster County – one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars - for persons who (a) have passed the examination, or (b) are entitled to a temporary license under Section 17 or (c) can be issued a license under Section 16 (Grandfather Clause); (ii.) Residents of New York State - seven hundred and fifty ($750) dollars; (iii.) Non-residents of New York State - one thousand five hundred ($1,500) dollars. E. The license fee for a Class B and Class C license issued in accordance with this Local Law shall be one hundred ($100) dollars. F. Each application shall be accompanied by a non-refundable check or money order representing the fee as determined by the Board for administration of the examination. G. Renewal. All licenses issued under this Local Law must be renewed annually on or before the expiration thereof for the period of one (1) year upon payment of the applicable annual fee set forth below: (i.) Master Electrician’s License: seventy-five ($75) dollars for residents of New York State and three hundred and fifty ($350) dollars for nonresidents of New York State. (ii.) Class B or Class C Licenses: fifty ($50). H. Each application for renewal of a license must also be accompanied by proof that the individual has successfully completed a refresher course within the last twelve (12) months on changes to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and the current National Electrical Code version adopted by New York State. I. Licensed Master Electricians who are not actively engaged in the business of Master Electrician may shelve such a license for a fee of fifty ($50) dollars per year. Class B and Class C Licensees not actively engaged in the electrical work covered by their licenses may shelve such license for a fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars per year. J. Licensees may retire their licenses by notifying the Board of their retirement in such form and in such manner as shall be set forth in the Board’s rules and regulations. No licensee who has notified the Board of his or her retirement shall be eligible for a renewal license. K. Unless retired, the failure of a licensee to renew such license after fifteen (15) days of the expiration date shall result in a penalty of fifty ($50) dollars. If renewal is not received within
16 thirty (30) days from the expiration date, it shall result in revocation of the license unless, upon good cause shown, an additional thirty-day extension is granted by the Board. L. Each Master Electrician and Class C Licensee duly licensed under this local law shall list his or her license number in each advertisement, estimate, bill or contract and post such license number at each job and prominently display it on the electrical license decal issued by the Board on each vehicle while in the course of said licensee’s trade or business. One decal shall be provided free of charge upon the issuance of a license hereunder. A fee of ten dollars ($10) shall be charged for each additional decal needed to comply with the provisions contained herein. Said decals shall include the words “Ulster County” and “electric” or “electrical”, which must be clearly legible from a distance of fifty (50) feet. M. The fee for a Master Electrician’s License, “Certificate of Name Change” after initial issuance of Master Electrician’s License shall be one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00). The fee for a Certificate of Name Change after initial issuance of a Class B or Class C License shall be fifty ($50) dollars. A “Certificate of Name Change” for a Master Electrician shall only be issued to a qualified person as required by this Local Law who is also the owner, officer, or partner of an electrical contracting business. SECTION 4. A new subsection G is hereby added to Section 9 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 and shall read as follows: G. Any installation, maintenance, replacement and/or improvement of electrical work done by a municipal employee in their role as a municipal employee on property owned or leased by a municipality. All such work must comply with local municipal building permit requirements. To the extent that a building permit is required, such electrical work must be inspected by a certified electrical inspector as defined under Section 22 of this local law. SECTION 5. Section 10 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: Every person desiring to obtain a Master Electrician’s License, a Class B License, or a Class C License under this local law and who meets the qualifications set forth herein shall apply for a license in such form and detail as the Board may prescribe. Such application shall state, among other things: 1. Name, home and business address; 2. Telephone number; 3. Social security number and employer identification numbers; 4. Valid passport photos for identification; 5. A statement of all qualified work experience and education, setting forth names, addresses and descriptions of work performed or degrees attained, and dates of employment or attendance; 6. A statement of whether the applicant was licensed under any other law, where such license is currently valid, whether such license was ever suspended, revoked or other action taken and, if so, the disposition thereof; 7. A statement of whether the applicant was ever convicted of a crime other than a minor traffic infraction, and if so, the disposition thereof; 8. An authorization to the Board to investigate the facts set forth in the application as required to make a determination as to the person’s qualifications for an electrical license; 9. A statement that such application is made under penalties of perjury. SECTION 6. Section 11 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. Master Electrician’s License. To qualify for the Master Electrician’s License examination, all applicants must possess a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in the installation, alteration, and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling in or on buildings under the requirements of the National Electrical Code as required by the New York State Department of State, Division of Code Enforcement and Administration and/or any municipal codes within the United States which equal or exceed the requirements of the National Electrical Code. The applicant’s years of experience must include at least one of the following: 1. Completion of a four-year apprenticeship program approved by both a Federal agency and a Federally-certified State agency and has worked at least two (2) years with his or her tools on the installation, alteration and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling purposes in or on buildings. A Certificate of Completion issued by the apprenticeship program and a certification by an employer regarding the additional two (2) years of hands-on work experience shall be submitted with the application for the electrical license examination; or 2. A journeyman electrician who has worked at least two (2) years as a journeyman with his or her tools on the installation, alteration and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling purposes in or on buildings. The applicant shall submit proof of having satisfied the definition of a qualified journeyman electrician and a certification by an employer regarding the additional two (2) years of hands-on work experience; or 3. A graduate engineer of a college or university who holds a degree of electrical engineering, master engineering or Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and has in addition worked at least three (3) years with his or her tools on the installation, alteration and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling purposes in or on buildings. The applicant shall
ALMANAC WEEKLY submit a copy of his or her diploma and a certification by an employer regarding the additional three (3) years of hands-on work experience; or 4. A high school or equivalent who is a graduate of a vocational, industrial or trade school in electric wiring, installation and design or applied electricity, and has worked at least six (6) years with his or her tools on the installation, alteration and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling purposes in or on buildings. The applicant shall submit a copy of his or her diploma or equivalency diploma and a certification by an employer regarding the additional six (6) years of hands-on work experience; or 5. A person who attended courses in a college or university leading to a degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering, who passed all subjects in the required courses shall be credited with practical experience equal to fifty (50%) percent of the number of curriculum years he has satisfactorily completed which, in no event, however, shall exceed one (1) year’s credit of practical experience, and an additional six (6) years of hands-on work experience must have been obtained by working with his or her tools on the installation, alteration and repair of wiring and appliances for light, heat and power and signaling purposes in or on buildings. The applicant shall submit a copy of his or her school transcripts and a certification by an employer regarding the additional six (6) years of hands-on work experience; or 6. A person who worked in the field of electrical contracting for at least seven (7) years immediately preceding the date of application. The applicant shall submit a certification by an employer regarding the additional seven (7) years of hands-on work experience. A year of practical hands-on experience shall be credited if such person was employed in a part-time capacity and the hand on experience was completed within a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months. B. Class B License. To qualify for a Class B License an applicant shall have successfully served as a Journeyman for at least five (5) years in the electrical contracting and construction field. Trade school training may reduce the five (5) year requirement at the discretion of the Board. The applicant shall have a working knowledge of electricity, and the natural laws of electricity, appliances and devices for electric light, heat, power and signaling purposes used and required in such work, combined with a practical working knowledge of the National Electrical Code. The applicant shall demonstrate his knowledge in a written examination. C. Class C License. The Board shall promulgate rules and regulations providing the qualifications required for Class C Licenses. Such rules and regulations shall take into account the different types of professions covered by such licenses and the Board may use different qualifications for each profession. SECTION 7. Section 12 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. A person who applies for a license pursuant to this local law must prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is a competent electrician and qualified to do the work covered by the license; has a working knowledge of electricity and the natural laws, properties and functions of electricity and of appliances, apparatus, materials, devices for electric, light, heat, power and signaling systems used and required in such work, combined with a practical working knowledge of the requirements and provisions of the National Electrical Code and a knowledge of the provisions of this local law and the rules and regulations of the Board and the State of New York, if any, and of the County of Ulster for installation of electrical wiring, devices, appliances and equipment and of the provisions thereof requiring permits therefor. B. In addition to the requirements set forth above in subsection A, a person who applies for a Class B Electrician’s License pursuant to this local law shall also prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she is in the employ of the owner, lessee or manager of a building, plant or structure and that he or she will exclusively use the license for electrical work on that building plant or structure during the course of his or her employment. SECTION 8. Section 13 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. All applicants for a Master Electrician’s License or a Class B License must submit to and pass an examination. Examinations shall be in writing or in such form as determined by the Board from time to time. An applicant must receive a grade of seventy-five (75%) percent or more to pass the examination. A complete record of every examination given shall be kept on file for three (3) years after the date of the examination. Examinations shall be held at such times and places as the Board may fix. B. The applicant must present himself for examination at the time and place specified in a notice from the Board. C. An applicant who fails his or her first examination shall not be eligible for reexamination until the next regularly scheduled exam. A person who fails the examination twice shall not be eligible for further reexamination until at least six (6) months have elapsed from the date he or she last took the examination. D. The Board shall determine if examinations are appropriate for Class C Electrician’s Licenses. The Board’s determination shall be set forth in its rules and regulations and need not be the same for each of the professions covered
by the license. SECTION 9. Section 14 of Local Law 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. Upon meeting all the requirements of this Local Law, the Board shall direct the Chairman or his/her designee to issue a license to the applicant. The individual’s name shall then be placed on the Ulster County list of qualified Master Electricians, Class B Licensees, or Class C Licensees as appropriate. B. Failure to pass any exam required by this local law or by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Board with a grade of seventy-five (75%) percent or more, or to meet the qualifications and other requirements set forth herein, shall be summary grounds for denial of a license under this Local Law. SECTION 10. Section 16 of Local Law 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. Any person possessing a certified copy of a Master Electrician’s License issued by Kingston, which was valid and effective as of the date of the adoption of this Local Law and who completes an application to the Board as required by the Board no later than two (2) years from the date of the adoption of this Local Law shall be granted an Ulster County license without examination. B. Any person who can show proof that he or she has been in business as an electrical contractor continuously and competently doing the work of a Master Electrician in Ulster County for at least eleven (11) consecutive years prior to the date of the adoption of this Local Law and this work is a principal source of livelihood for that person, and who completes an application to the Board as required by the Board no later than two (2) years from the date of the adoption of this Local Law shall be entitled to a Master Electrician’s License without examination, which will not apply in the City of Kingston, where an examination has been a requirement. C. Any person who can show proof that he or she has been continuously and competently doing the work of a Class B Licensee in Ulster County for at least five (5) consecutive years prior to the date of adoption of this Local Law and that this employment is a principal source of livelihood for that person and who completes an application to the Board as required by the Board no later than two (2) years from the date of the adoption of this Local Law shall be granted a Class B License without examination. D. Any person who can show proof that he or she has been continuously and competently doing the work of a Class C Licensee in Ulster County for at least five (5) consecutive years prior to the date of adoption of this Local Law and that this employment is a principal source of livelihood for that person and who completes an application to the Board as required by the Board no later than two (2) years from the date of the adoption of this Local Law shall be granted a Class C License without examination. E. Any person who is issued a license under this Grandfather Clause may renew said license annually on or before the expiration of the license upon payment of an annual renewal fee. F. If a person is issued a Master Electrician’s License under this Section, such person may renew his or her license for an additional fee without taking the written examination only if: (a) he or she has been actively and continuously engaged in work as a Master Electrician under the supervision of a licensed Master Electrician since the issuance of his or her last valid Master Electrician’s License; or (b) he or she has been actively and continuously engaged in work as an inspector of electrical work; or (c) he or she has not been actively or continuously engaged in work as a Master Electrician during the past two years but can provide proof acceptable to the Board that he or she has recently participated in a continuing education course updating his or her knowledge of the work of a Master Electrician. G. If a person is issued a Class B License under this Section, such person may renew his or her license for an additional fee without taking a written examination only if: (a) he or she has been actively and continuously engaged in the work of a Class B Licensee; or (b) he or she has not been actively or continuously engaged in work as a Class B Licensee during the past two years but can provide proof acceptable to the Board that he or she has recently participated in a continuing education course updating his or her knowledge of the work of a Class B Licensee. H. If a person fails to apply for a license under the Grandfather Clause of this local law within five (5) years of enactment of this local law, then said person must comply with all the other requirements contained in this local law in order to receive a license. SECTION 11. Section 17 of Local Law 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: SECTION 17. PROVISIONAL LICENSES. A. Master Electrician. A person who has been in the electrical business in Ulster County, continuously and competently doing the work of a Master Electrician, for a period of less than eleven (11) consecutive years but more than seven (7) consecutive years, prior to the date of the adoption of this Local Law can apply to the Board for a Provisional Master Electrician’s License. Upon completion of eleven (11) consecutive years of successfully and competently performing electrical work in Ulster County, such person may apply to the Board for a Master Electrician’s License under Section 16 (Grandfather Clause) of this local law.
Jan. 23, 2020 B. Class B Electrician. A person who has been in the electrical business in Ulster County, continuously and competently doing the work of a Class B Licensee, for a period of less than five (5) consecutive years but more than three (3) consecutive years, prior to the date of the adoption of this Local Law can apply to the Board for a Provisional Class B License. Upon completion of five (5) consecutive years of successfully and competently performing electrical work in Ulster County, such person may apply to the Board for a Class B License under Section 16 (Grandfather Clause) of this local law. C. Class C Electrician. A person who has been in the electrical business in Ulster County, continuously and competently doing the work of a Class C Licensee, for a period of less than five (5) consecutive years but more than three (3) consecutive years, prior to the date of the adoption of this Local Law can apply to the Board for a Provisional Class C License. Upon completion of five (5) consecutive years of successfully and competently performing electrical work in Ulster County, such person may apply to the Board for a Class C License under Section 16 (Grandfather Clause) of this local law. SECTION 12. Section 19 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A licensee may be fined or his or her license refused, suspended or revoked by the Board for anyone (1) or more of the following reasons: 1. Violation of any provision of this local law or of any rule or regulation adopted hereunder by the Board or any other law or ordinance pertaining to electricians; 2. Violation of any law, rule, regulation or any building code governing electrical work, or any order issued by building departments of any municipality in Ulster County; 3. Violation of any requirement contained in the rules and regulations of the National Fire Protection Association or the National Electrical Code; 4. Conviction of a crime by a court of competent jurisdiction where there is a direct relationship between the crime and the specific license sought; or the issuance of the license would invoke an unreasonable risk to the property or to the safety or welfare of specific individuals or the general public; 5. Fraud, misrepresentation or bribery in securing a license; 6. The making of any false statement as to a material matter in any application for a license or name change; 7. The business transactions of the licensee have been marked by a practice of failure to perform contracts or the fraudulent manipulation of assets or accounts; 8. Failure to display the license decal issued under this Local Law; 9. Maintaining, conducting, operating, advertising, engaging in or transacting a business as a Master Electrician, Class B or Class C Licensee in the County of Ulster with a shelved license; 10. Employing an unlicensed subcontractor or subcontractors to perform electrical work or any combination thereof in the County of Ulster.; 11. Holding a Class B License and engaging in the work of a Class B Licensee for a company, employer, or facility other than the employer identified in the license application; or 12. Holding a Class C License for a specified profession and engaging in the work of a Class C Licensee in a different profession. SECTION 13. Section 20 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. Failure to comply with the provisions of this Local Law shall constitute a Violation and shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and/or imprisonment not to exceed fifteen days. B. The Commissioner, and/or his or her designee, shall have the authority to issue violations and/or appearance tickets as they are defined in this local law and Article 150 of the Criminal Procedure Law. C. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Commissioner from proceeding to enforce by both Criminal and Civil Action the requirements of this Local Law. D. The Board may withhold the issuance of a license, either new or renewed, to any person who has failed to pay any fine imposed pursuant to the provisions of this Local Law. E. Nothing in this Local Law shall prevent a local municipality or law enforcement agency from initiating independent proceedings against a licensee or any other person who has violated any other law. F. Prior to the imposition of any fine or penalty or the refusal, revocation or suspension of a licensee, the applicant or licensee shall receive in writing, all the particulars of the alleged violation and shall have an opportunity to present his or her defense at adjudicatory proceeding as set forth in the attached regulations. G. Provided that this section shall not be operative as to, nor shall any fines be assessed under this Law for, any violations of this Local Law arising on or before April 1, 2020. SECTION 14. Section 21 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. This Local Law shall not be construed to relieve, limit or reduce the responsibility of any person owning, operating, controlling or installing any electric wiring, devices, appliances or equipment for loss of life or damage to person or property caused by any defect therein, nor shall the County of Ulster be deemed to have assumed any such liability by reason of any license issued pursuant to this Local Law. B. Every person holding a Master Electrician’s
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License shall submit proof to the Board that he or she maintains liability, workers compensation and disability insurance for damage to persons and property in connection with the carrying on of his business as a Master Electrician in such amounts as shall be established by the Board from time to time. C. The failure to maintain an insurance policy or file proof of coverage shall be grounds for the summary suspension of such person’s license under this local law, which suspension shall continue in effect until coverage is obtained or reinstated. SECTION 15. Section 23 of Local Law No. 3 of 2019 is hereby amended as follows: A. The Legislature may authorize the County Executive to enter into reciprocal license agreements with individual municipalities or other jurisdictions within New York State. For Master Electrician licenses, such agreements may be authorized only upon the recommendation and finding of the Board that the qualifications required for a Master Electrician’s License in such municipality or jurisdiction are equal to or greater than those required by this Local Law. For Class B and Class C licenses, the Legislature may authorize the County Executive to enter into reciprocal license agreements only upon a recommendation and finding of the Board that there is a substantially similar license in such municipality or jurisdiction, and that the qualifications for such license in such municipality or jurisdiction is equal to or greater than those required by this Local Law. Reciprocal agreements may cover all or some classes of licenses. B. Pursuant to such formalized reciprocal license agreements, the Board shall be authorized to issue reciprocal licenses upon such terms and conditions as are applicable to the individual reciprocating municipalities and other jurisdictions. Said licenses may be granted without examination upon application to the Board and payment of all required fees. C. However, a reciprocal license shall only be issued if the municipality or jurisdiction which licensed such individual is similarly issuing a reciprocal license to individuals licensed pursuant to this section. Said licenses may be granted without examination upon the filing of an application with the Board, submission of a certificate from the reciprocating municipality or jurisdiction that the individual requesting such license is in good standing, the payment of all required fees and such other and further terms and conditions as the board deems appropriate. D. Reciprocal licenses shall only be valid for a period of one year and may only be renewed from year to year if there is reciprocity between the County of Ulster and the reciprocating municipality or jurisdiction at the time of each such renewal. SECTION 16. The following is hereby attached to the end of Local Law No. 3 of 2019: Regulations for Adjudicatory Proceedings Intent, Purpose, and Applicability. The Electrical Licensing Board is hereby authorized to use the following rules and regulations governing the conduct of adjudicatory proceedings and appeals relating to compliance with this local law, providing for the qualifications, examination, licensing and regulation of electricians in Ulster County New York and the conduct of hearings held thereunder. These rules and regulations shall apply to all proceedings undertaken by the Board. Persons subject to the requirements of the law shall be entitled to receive an adjudicatory proceeding as to every action or decision as to them taken by the Board, including but not limited to qualifications, examinations, denials, extensions of time, waivers and/or exemptions from the licensing requirements. 2. Definitions. “Board” shall mean the Ulster County Electrical Licensing board established pursuant to Local Law No. 3 of 2019. “Hearing Officer” shall mean the presiding officer in adjudicatory hearings or proceedings conducted pursuant to these regulations, which shall be independent of the Board and of the County of Ulster, and shall be provided by the County. 3. Notice of Hearing or Proceeding. Where the Board elects to go forward with a proceeding to determine compliance with the requirements of this local law, or to take such other action as may be authorized by law, the Board shall serve a written notice, by certified mail or other appropriate method of service authorized under the Civil Practice Law and Rules, to the parties and their representatives of record at least twenty (20) calendar days prior to the date of any hearing or proceeding under these rules. The Notice of Hearing or Proceeding shall contain the following: a statement of the time and place of the hearing or proceedings; a statement of the nature of the hearing or proceeding; a reference to the particular statutes, local law provisions, and rules relevant to the hearing or proceeding; a short, plain language statement and violations asserted, if any; and a statement of hearing impaired parties and participants concerning the provision of deaf interpretation services without charge. 4. Time and Place of Hearing or Proceeding. The time and place of the hearing or proceeding shall be contained in the Notice of Hearing or Proceeding. The time and place of the hearing or proceeding shall not be changed unless a party formally
ALMANAC WEEKLY requests a change pursuant to the adjournment request procedure contained in Section 8 of these rules. The time and place of the hearing or proceeding shall, as far as practicable, take into account the convenience of the parties and the availability of witnesses. 5. Evidence and Proof. The formal rules of evidence do not apply to adjudicatory hearings or proceedings conducted pursuant to these rules. However, the rules of privilege recognized by law shall be given effect. Objections to evidentiary offers may be made and shall be part of the record. Subject to these rules, any party may, for the purpose of expediting the hearing or proceeding and when the interests or the parties will not be substantially prejudiced thereby, submit all or part of the evidence in written form. The hearing officer may exclude irrelevant or unduly repetitive evidence or crossexamination from any hearing or proceeding. The burden of proof shall be upon the Board to establish by clear and convincing evidence of the facts and findings which support its requirements under the law. No decision or determination by the hearing officer or the Board shall be made except on consideration of the record as a whole, or such portions thereof as may be cited by any party to the hearing or proceeding and as supported by and in accordance with substantial evidence. Each party shall have the right of crossexamination. Official notice may be taken of all facts of which judicial notice may be taken and of other facts within the specialized knowledge of the Board. When official notice is taken, every party shall be given notice thereof and shall, on timely request, be afforded an opportunity prior to decision to dispute the fact or its materiality. All findings of fact shall be based exclusively on the evidence in record and on matters officially noticed. 6. Representation. Any person compelled to appear in person, or who voluntarily appears in any hearing or proceeding conducted according to these rules, shall be accorded the right to be accompanied, represented, and advised by counsel. Nothing herein shall be construed either to grant or to deny to any person who is not a lawyer the right to appear for or represent others in any hearing or proceeding herein. 7. Oaths. All oaths required by these rules may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths within the State of New York. Oaths shall be administered to all witnesses who testify or appear in any hearing or proceeding conducted pursuant to these rules. 8. Adjournments. Adjournments of any hearing or proceeding conducted pursuant to these rules shall be granted only for good cause. Written request for adjournment shall be submitted to the hearing officer in the hearing or proceeding for which the adjournment is sought. The request must be accompanied by an affidavit which contains sufficient detail to allow the hearing officer to rule on the request. All parties must be copied on the request. 9. Time Limits. Under these rules, adjudicatory proceedings shall be conducted in an expeditious manner with all due regard for the rights of the parties concerned. Every effort should be made by the parties to effectuate a speedy disposition of the case. Parties to any hearing or proceeding are required to file all papers, statements, proofs, and other evidence with the hearing officer at a time to be designated by the officer. An extension of time for filing those items will be granted by the hearing officer only upon formal request. 10. Decisions after Hearing or Proceeding. The Hearing Officer shall issue a final recommendation within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the hearing. All final recommendations of the hearing officer and all decisions and determinations of the Board shall be in writing or stated in the record and shall include findings of fact, conclusions of law, and reasons for the decision or determination and, when appropriate, shall direct that specific action be taken by the parties. The final decisions or determinations of the Board shall be binding upon the Board. A copy of all final decisions and determinations of the Board and recommendations of the hearing officer shall be made available to the parties to the hearing or proceeding, and shall be delivered or mailed forthwith to each party and to its representative of record. Except as required for the disposition of ex parte matters authorized by law, members or employees of the Board assigned to make a determination or decision, or to make findings of fact and conclusions of law in any hearing or proceeding, shall not communicate directly or indirectly, in connection with any issue of fact, with any person or party, nor in connection with any issue of law, with any party or its representative, except upon notice and opportunity for all parties to participate. Any member or employee of the Board may communicate with other members or employees and may have the aid and advice of agency staff, other than staff which has been or is engaged in the investigative or prosecuting functions in connection with the case under consideration or a factually related case. The Board shall issue its final decision within thirty (30) days of receipt of the Hearing Officer’s final recommendation. The Board’s final deci-
sion shall be filed, indexed, and maintained in the Boards records. The index and the notice of civil assessment, if any, shall not be made available for public inspection and copying except as provided in Section 16 of these rules. 11. Conduct of Hearings. The hearing officer, exercising discretion, may elect to conduct any hearing or proceeding under these rules ex parte after a showing that the party who is the subject of the hearing and its representative of record has been notified by certified mail of the pending hearing or proceeding or otherwise served with notice of the hearing. The party who is the subject of the hearing shall at no time be deprived of the opportunity to appear. However, if a party has been served with two (2) written notices of a hearing and fails to appear after each notice, the hearing officer, upon proof of service, shall have the authority to proceed with the scheduled hearing. Proof of the service shall consist of a signed certified mail receipt or affidavit. 12. Hearing Officer. All hearings or proceedings under these rules shall be conducted by a hearing officer, retained and provided by the County of Ulster, who shall have the power and authority of presiding officers or hearing officers as defined by the State Administrative Procedure Act (SAPA), any other pertinent statute or local law, ordinance, or resolution, and these regulations. The hearing officer shall be an individual who has in no way been involved with the action or proceeding in question. 13. Powers and Duties of Hearing Officers. A hearing officer is authorized to do the following in any hearing or proceeding to which he or she is assigned: administer oaths and affirmations; at the request of any party, sign and issue subpoenas in the name of the Board requiring the attendance and giving of testimony by witnesses and the production of books, papers, documents and other evidence. Subpoenas shall be regulated by the Civil Practice Law and Rules. Nothing herein contained shall affect the authority of an attorney for a party to issue subpoenas under the Civil Practice Law and Rules; provide for the taking of testimony by deposition; regulate the course of the hearings, set the time and place for continued hearings and the time for filing of briefs and other documents; direct the parties to appear and confer to consider the simplification or settlement of the issues by consent of the parties; and prepare findings of fact and recommendations. 14. Fines, Penalties. At the close of the hearing or proceeding, the hearing officer shall make findings of fact and a recommendation as to the appropriate penalty or fine to be assessed or any other action to be taken including the suspension or revocation of such person’s electrical license. The proposed findings of fact and recommendation shall be transmitted to the Board for approval and simultaneously mailed or delivered to the parties to the proceeding. The parties shall have an opportunity to respond in writing, in the form of a brief, to the findings of fact and recommendation of the hearing officer, and such written response shall be directed to the Board for its consideration within fifteen (15) days after the service of the hearing officer’s findings and recommendations upon the parties. In their brief submitted in response to the findings of fact and recommendation of the hearing officer, the parties may not submit or discuss evidence which is not a part of the official record of the hearing or proceeding. The Board shall act on the findings of fact and recommendation as expeditiously as possible. In no event shall the decision be issued later than thirty (30) days after receipt of the Hearing Officer’s recommendation. The Board may affirm or reverse the findings of fact and recommendation of the hearing officer in whole or in part, or it may remand and/or dismiss the proceeding based upon the record produced at the hearing. The assessment of civil penalties or other penalty under the applicable law and procedures shall not preclude the referral of an appropriate violation to a prosecutor for prosecution of criminal charges. If the alleged violation has been established, and the Board determines in light of all the circumstances that the violation is not serious enough to warrant assessment of a civil penalty or other penalty, or if the imposition of civil penalties is not otherwise authorized by law, the Board in its discretion may take such other action as appropriate, including but not limited to a written admonition or a referral to a prosecutor for prosecution of criminal charges. 15. Records of Hearing or Proceeding. The record in hearing or proceeding under these rules shall include: (i) all notices, pleadings, motions, and intermediate rulings; (ii) evidence presented; (iii) a statement of matters officially noticed, except matters so obvious that a statement of them would serve no useful purpose; (iv) questions and offers of proof, objections thereto, and rulings thereon; proposed findings and exceptions, if any; (vi) any findings of fact, conclusions of law, or other recommendations made by the hearing officer; and any decision, determination, opinion, order, or report rendered. The Board shall make a complete record of
17 all hearings and proceedings conducted before it. For this purpose, unless otherwise required by statute, the Board may use whatever means it deems appropriate, including but not limited to the use of stenographic transcriptions or electronic recording devices. Within a reasonable time after the Board gives notice of its decision, determination, opinion, or order, but before commencement of judicial review, any party to the hearing or proceeding may request the Board to prepare the record of any part thereof, together with any transcript of the hearing or proceeding or any part thereof. The Board shall then prepare the requested portions of the record and transcript within a reasonable time and furnish a copy to the requesting party at no charge. 16. Privacy/Confidentiality. Records shall be released only as required by the provisions of Article 6 of Public Officers Law. SECTION 17. SEVERABILITY. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. SECTION 18. EFFECTIVE DATE. This law shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary of State. Adopted by the County Legislature: November 19, 2019 Approved by the County Executive: December 12, 2019 Filed with New York State Department of State: December 23, 2019 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on November 19, 2019, approved by the County Executive on December 12, 2019, and filed with the State of New York on December 23, 2019, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be hereinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions. DATED: January 23, 2020 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 9 Of 2019 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending Local Law 6 of 2014, To Improve And Strengthen The Sustainable Energy Loan Program BE IT ENACTED, by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND PURPOSE. This Legislature hereby finds and determines that the County of Ulster enacted Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (codified as Chapter 190 of the Code of the County of Ulster), pursuant to provisions of New York General Municipal Law, to establish a Sustainable Energy Loan Program. This program authorized the Energy Improvement Corporation (“EIC”), a local development corporation acting on behalf of the County of Ulster, to make funds available to qualified property owners for the installation of renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency measures. This Legislature further finds that in the past, EIC utilized two products to offer these loans: the Energize NY PACE Finance 1.0 and the Energize NY PACE Finance 2.0. However, it was difficult to obtain financing for those products. Accordingly, EIC has developed a new product for offering the sustainable energy loan program (known as the Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program) which will enable EIC to obtain additional funding and thereby offer more loans to qualified property owners for the installation of renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency measures. EIC has requested that the County amend Local Law No. 6 of 2014 to enable EIC to offer the Energize NY Open CPACE Financing Program to qualified property owners within the County. Therefore, the purpose of this law is to amend Local Law No. 6 of 2014 so that it will permit EIC to offer the Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program to qualified property owners within the County. SECTION 2. Section 1 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: This local law shall be known as the “Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program.” SECTION 3. Section 2 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND PURPOSE. A. It is the policy of both the County of Ulster (the “County”) and the State of New York (the “State”) to achieve energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate the effect of global climate change, and advance a clean
18 energy economy. The County finds that it can fulfill this policy by providing property assessed clean energy financing to Qualified Property Owners (as defined below) for the installation of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency measures. This Local Law establishes a program that will allow the Energy Improvement Corporation (as defined below, “EIC”), a local development corporation, acting on behalf of the County pursuant to the municipal agreement (the “Municipal Agreement”) to be entered into between the County and the EIC, to make funds available to Qualified Property Owners that will be repaid by such property owners through charges on the real properties benefited by such funds, thereby fulfilling the purposes of this Local Law and fulfilling an important public purpose. This Local Law provides a method of implementing the public policies expressed by, and exercising the authority provided by, Article 5-L of the General Municipal Law (as defined below, the “Enabling Act”). B. The County is authorized to execute, deliver and perform the Municipal Agreement and otherwise to implement this Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program pursuant to the the Constitution and laws of New York, including particularly Article IX of the Constitution, Section 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the Enabling Act and this Local Law. C. This Local Law, which is adopted pursuant to Section 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law and the Enabling Act shall be known and may be cited as the “Energize NY Open C-PACE Local Law.” SECTION 4. Section 3 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS. A. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned in the Enabling Act. B. For purposes of this local law, and unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context requires, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: ANNUAL INSTALLMENT AMOUNT Annual Installment Amount shall have the meaning assigned in Section 9, paragraph B. ANNUAL INSTALLMENT LEIN Annual Installment Lien shall have the meaning assigned in Section 9 paragraph B. AUTHORITY The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, as defined by Subdivision 2 of § 1851 of the Public Authorities Law, or its successor. BENEFIT ASSESSMENT LIEN Benefit Assessment Lien shall have the meaning assigned in Section 4, paragraph A. BENEFITED PROPERTY Qualified Property for which the Qualified Property Owner has entered into a Finance Agreement for a Qualified Project. BENEFITED PROPERTY OWNER The owner of record of a Benefited Property. COUNTY The County of Ulster, a municipality of the State constituting a tax district as defined in Section 1102 of the RPTL of the State. EIC The Energy Improvement Corporation, a local development corporation, duly organized under section 1411 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law of the State, authorized hereby on behalf of the County to implement the Qualified Property Owners and providing for repayment of such funds from monies collected by or on behalf of the County as a charge to be levied on the real property. ELIGIBLE COSTS Costs incurred by the Benefited Property Owner in connection with a Qualified Project and the related Finance Agreement, including application fees, EIC’s Program administration fee, closing costs and fees, title and appraisal fees, professionals’ fees, permits, fees for design and drawings and any other related fees, expenses and costs, in each case as approved by EIC and the Financing Party under the Finance Agreement ENABLING ACT Article 5-L of the General Municipal Law of the State, or a successor law, as in effect from time to time. ENERGY AUDIT A formal evaluation or assessment of the energy consumption of a permanent building or structural improvement to real property, conducted by a contractor certified by the Authority, or certified by a certifying entity approved by the Authority, for the purpose of identifying appropriate energy efficiency improvements that could be made to the property. ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT Any renovation or retrofitting of a building to reduce energy consumption, such as window and door replacement, lighting, caulking, weather stripping, air sealing, insulation, and heating and cooling system upgrades, and similar improvements, determined to be cost-effective pursuant to criteria established by the Authority, not including lighting measures or household appliances that are not permanently fixed to real property. FINANCE AGREEMENT The finance agreement described in Section 7(A) of this Local Law. FINANCING CHARGES All charges, fees and expenses related to the loan under the Finance Agreement including accrued interest, capitalized interest, prepayment premiums, and penalties as a result of a default or late payment and costs and reasonable attorneys’
ALMANAC WEEKLY fees incurred by the Financing Party as a result of a foreclosure or other legal proceeding brought against the Benefited Property to enforce any delinquent Annual Installment Liens. FINANCING PARTIES Third party capital providers approved by EIC to provide financing to Qualified Property Owners or other financial support to the Program which have entered into separate agreements with EIC to administer the Program in the County. MUNICIPAL LIEN A lien on Qualified Property which secures the obligation to pay real property taxes, municipal charges, or governmentally imposed assessments in respect of services or benefits to a Qualified Property. NON-MUNICIPAL LIEN A lien on Qualified Property which secures any obligation other than the obligation to pay real property taxes, municipal charges, or governmentally-imposed assessments in respect of services or benefits to a Qualified Property Owner or Qualified Property. PROGRAM The Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program authorized hereby. QUALIFIED PROJECT The acquisition, construction, reconstruction or equipping of Energy Efficiency Improvements or Renewable Energy Systems or other projects authorized under the Enabling Act on a Qualified Property, together with a related Energy Audit, Renewable Energy System Feasibility Study and/or other requirements under or pursuant to the Enabling Act, with funds provided by Financing Parties under the Program to achieve the purposes of the Enabling Act. QUALIFIED PROPERTY Any real property other than a residential building containing less than three dwelling units, which is within the boundaries of the County that has been determined to be eligible to participate in the Program under the procedures for eligibility set forth under this local law and the Enabling Act and has become the site of a Qualified Project. QUALIFIED PROPERTY OWNER The owner of record of Qualified Property which has been determined by EIC to meet the requirements for participation in the Program as an owner, and any transferee owner of such Qualified Property. RPTL The Real Property Tax Law of the State, as amended from time to time. SECURED AMOUNT As of any date, the aggregate amount of principal loaned to the Qualified Property Owner for a Qualified Project, together with Eligible Costs and Financing Charges, as provided herein or in the Finance Agreement, as reduced pursuant to Section 9, paragraph C. STATE The State of New York. SECTION 5. Section 4 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 4. Establishment of an Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program. A. An Energize NY Open C-PACE Financing Program is hereby established by the County, whereby EIC, acting on its behalf pursuant to the Municipal Agreement, may arrange for the provision of funds by Financing Parties to Qualified Property Owners in accordance with the Enabling Act and the procedures set forth under this Local Law, to finance the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and installation of Qualified Projects and Eligible Costs and Financing Charges approved by EIC and by the Financing Party under the Finance Agreement. EIC, on behalf of the County, and with the consent of the Benefited Property Owner, will record a Benefit Assessment Lien on the Benefited Property in the Secured Amount (the “Benefit Assessment Lien”) on the land records for the County. Such recording shall be exempt from any charge, mortgage recording tax or other fee in the same manner as if recorded by the County. B. Before a Qualified Property Owner and a Financing Party enter into a Finance Agreement which results in a loan to finance a Qualified Project, repayment of which is secured by a Benefit Assessment Lien, a written consent from each existing mortgage holder of the Qualified Property shall be obtained, permitting the Benefit Assessment Lien and each Annual Installment Lien to take priority over all existing mortgages. SECTION 6. Section 5 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 5. Procedures for eligibility. A. Any property owner in the County may submit an application to EIC on such forms as have been prepared by EIC and made available to property owners on the website of EIC and on the Ulster County government website. B. Every application submitted by a property owner shall be reviewed by EIC, acting on behalf of the County, which shall make a positive or negative determination on such application based upon the criteria enumerated in the Enabling Act and Section 6 of this Local Law. EIC may also request further information from the property owner, where necessary, to aid in its determination. C. If a positive determination on an application is made by EIC, acting on behalf of the County, the property owner shall be deemed a Qualified Property Owner and shall be eligible to participate in the Program in accordance with Section 7 of this Local Law.
SECTION 7. Section 6 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 6. Application criteria. Upon the submission of an application, EIC, acting on behalf of the County, shall make a positive or negative determination on such application based upon the following criteria for the making of a financing: A. The property owner may not be in bankruptcy and the property may not constitute property subject to any pending bankruptcy proceeding; B. The amount financed under the Program shall be repaid over a term not to exceed the weighted average of the useful life of the Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements to be installed on the property as determined by EIC; C. Sufficient funds are available from Financing Parties to provide financing to the property owner; D. The property owner is current in payments on any existing mortgage on the Qualified Property; E. The property owner is current in payments on any existing real property taxes on the Qualified Property; and F. Such additional criteria, not inconsistent with the criteria set forth above, as the State, the County, or EIC acting on its behalf, or other Financing Parties may set from time to time. SECTION 8. Section 7 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 7. Energize NY Finance Agreement A. A Qualified Property Owner may participate in the Program through the execution of a finance agreement made by and between the Qualified Property Owner and a Financing Party, to which EIC, on behalf of the County, shall be a third-party beneficiary (the “Finance Agreement”). Upon execution and delivery of the Finance Agreement, the property that is the subject of the Finance Agreement shall be deemed a “Benefited Property”). B. Upon execution and delivery of the Finance Agreement, the Benefited Property Owner shall be eligible to receive funds from the Financing Party for the acquisition, construction, and installation of a Qualified Project, together with Eligible Costs and Financing Charges approved by EIC and by the Financing Party, provided the requirements of the Enabling Act, the Municipal Agreement and this Local Law have been met. C. The Finance Agreement shall include the terms and conditions of repayment of the Secured Amount and the Annual Installment Amounts. D. EIC may charge fees to offset the costs of administering the Program and such fees, if not paid by the Financing Party, shall be added to the Secured Amount. SECTION 9. Section 8 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby deleted. SECTION 10. Section 9 of Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) shall be renumbered as Section 8 and is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 8. Terms and conditions of repayment. The Finance Agreement shall set forth the terms and conditions of repayment in accordance with the following: A. The principal amount of the funds loaned to the Benefited Property Owner for the Qualified Project, together with Eligible Costs and Financing Charges approved by EIC and by the Financing Party, shall be specially assessed against the Benefited Property and will be evidenced by a Benefit Assessment Lien recorded against the Benefited Property on the land records on which liens are recorded for properties within the County. The special benefit assessment shall constitute a “charge” within the meaning of the Enabling Act and shall be collected in annual installments in the amounts certified by the Financing Party in a schedule provided at closing and made part of the Benefit Assessment Lien. Said amount shall be annually levied, billed and collected by EIC, on behalf of the County, and shall be paid to the Financing Party as provided in the Finance Agreement. B. The term of such repayment shall be determined at the time the Finance Agreement is executed by the Benefited Property Owner and the Financing Party, not to exceed the weighted average of the useful life of the systems and improvements as determined by EIC acting on behalf of the County. C. The rate of interest for the Secured Amount shall be fixed by the Financing Party in conjunction with the EIC, acting on behalf of the County, as provided in the Finance Agreement. SECTION 11. There shall be a new section 9 inserted into Local Law No. 6 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) which shall read as follows: SECTION 9. Levy of Annual Installment Amount and Creation of Annual Installment Lien. A. Upon the making of the loan pursuant to the Finance Agreement, the Secured Amount shall become a special Benefit Assessment Lien on the Benefited Property in favor of the County. The amount of the Benefit Assessment Lien shall be the Secured Amount. Evidence of the Benefit Assessment Lien shall be recorded by EIC, on behalf of the County, in the land records for properties in the County. Such recording shall be exempt from any charge, mortgage recording tax
Jan. 23, 2020 or other fee in the same manner as if recorded by the County. The Benefit Assessment Lien shall not be foreclosed upon by or otherwise enforced by the County. B. The Finance Agreement shall provide for the repayment of the Secured Amount in installments made at least annually, as provided in a schedule attached to the Benefit Assessment Lien (the “Annual Installment Amount”). The Annual Installment Amount shall be levied by EIC, on behalf of the County, on the Benefited Property in the same manner as levies for municipal charges or taxes, shall become a lien on the Benefited Property as of the first day of January of the fiscal year for which levied (the “Annual Installment Lien”) and shall remain a lien until paid. The creation or any recording of the Annual Installment Lien shall be exempt from any charge, mortgage recording tax or other fee in the same manner as if recorded by the County. Payment to the Financing Party shall be considered payment for this purpose. Such payment shall partly or wholly discharge the Annual Installment Lien. Delinquent Annual Installment Amounts may accrue Financing Charges as may be provided in the Finance Agreement. Any additional Financing Charges imposed by the Financing Party pursuant to the Finance Agreement shall increase the Annual Installment Amount and the Annual Installment Lien for the year in which such overdue payments were first due. C. The Benefit Assessment Lien shall be reduced annually by the amount of each Annual Installment Lien when each Annual Installment Lien becomes a lien. Each Annual Installment Lien shall be subordinate to all Municipal Liens, whether created by Section 902 of the RPTL or by any other State or local law. No portion of a Secured Amount shall be recovered by the County, EIC, or an assignee upon foreclosure, sale or other disposition of the Benefited Property unless and until all Municipal Liens are fully discharged. Each Annual Installment Lien, however, shall have priority over all NonMunicipal Liens, irrespective of when created, except as otherwise required by law. D. Neither the Benefit Assessment Lien nor any Annual Installment Lien shall be extinguished or accelerated in the event of a default or bankruptcy of the Benefited Property Owner. Each Annual Installment Amount shall be considered a charge upon the Benefited Property and shall be collected by EIC, on behalf of the County, at the same time and in the same manner as real property taxes or municipal charges. Each Annual Installment Lien shall remain a lien until paid. Amounts collected in respect of an Annual Installment Lien shall be remitted to EIC, on behalf of the County, or the Financing Party, as may be provided in the Finance Agreement. E. EIC shall act as the County’s agent in collection of the Annual Installment Amounts. If any Benefited Property Owner fails to pay an Annual Installment Amount, the Financing Party may redeem the Benefited Property by paying the amount of all unpaid Municipal Liens thereon, and thereafter shall have the right to collect any amounts in respect of an Annual Installment Lien by foreclosure or any other remedy available at law. Any foreclosure shall not affect any subsequent Annual Installment Liens. F. EIC, on behalf of the County, may sell or assign for consideration any and all Benefit Assessment Liens and Annual Installment Liens to Financing Parties that provide financing to Qualified Properties pursuant to Finance Agreements. The Financing Parties may sell or assign for consideration any and all Benefit Assessment Liens and Annual Installment Liens received from EIC, on behalf of the County, subject to certain conditions provided in the administration agreement between EIC and the Financing Party. The assignee or assignees of such Benefit Assessment Liens and Annual Installment Liens shall have and possess the same powers and rights at law or in equity as the County would have had if the Benefit Assessment Lien and the Annual Installment Liens had not been assigned with regard to the precedence and priority of such lien, the accrual of interest and the fees and expenses of collection. SECTION 12. Section 10 of Local Law No. 4 of 2014 (as amended by Local Law No. 2 of 2018) is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 10. Verification and report. A. EIC, on behalf of the County, shall verify and report on the installation and performance of Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements financed by such Program in such form and manner as the Authority may establish. SECTION 12. SEPARABILITY. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this local law shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. SECTION 13. EFFECTIVE DATE. This local law shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary of State. Adopted by the County Legislature: November 19, 2019 Approved by the County Executive: December 12, 2019 Filed with New York State Department of State: December 23, 2019
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MATURE, EXPERIENCED, RELIABLE PERSON AVAILABLE to care-take your property in exchange for rent. Can share room in house or cabin on property. Very handy, small projects OK. Long-term commitment. New Paltz, Gardiner, Modena, Rosendale, Kingston area preferred. References available. Call or text 845-532-1652.
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845-657-2494 845-389-0504 OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, 1/26 2-5 PM 8846 ROUTE 28, PINE HILL ATTENTION SKIERS!- Just 5 minutes to Belleayre & all the work’s been done! Newly renovated Cape on 1.5 acres has NEW windows, doors, walls, floors, roof and it all sparkles. Airy open plan on main level with kitchen, dining area and living room. Handy main level bedroom & full bath + 2 more bedrooms and full bath upstairs. There’s even a den/ office or extra guest room. Heart of the Catskills location just minutes to Phoenicia............$199,900 Dir: Route 28 West, on right just before turn-off for Pine Hill Jeoffrey D.Devor, Associate Real Estate Broker m 845.389.0688 3027 Main St., Stone Ridge, NY 12484
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$700/month everything included. For more information call Althea at 845-658-9900 or althea@centuryhouse.org
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MATURE, EXPERIENCED, RELIABLE PERSON AVAILABLE to care-take your property in exchange for rent. Can share room in house or cabin on property. Very handy, small projects OK. Long-term commitment. New Paltz, Gardiner, Modena, Rosendale, Kingston area preferred. References available. Call or text 845-532-1652.
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HIGHLAND: LARGE 1-BEDROOM END UNIT. $1025/month heat & hot water included. Private, quiet neighborhood. Private parking. 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. No pets. 845-453-0047. HIGHLAND: 2-BEDROOM second floor end unit. Separate entrance. $1225/month. Heat & hot water included. Carpeted. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking. Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-453-0047.
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New Paltz Rentals
1-Bedroom in Village. Walk to everywhere. Clean, spacious. Lease, $1100/month includes heat and hot water. No Pets. 845706-0220.
New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available! Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more! “Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”
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21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts. Pets welcome! No security deposit option. 3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.
845-255-6171 NEW PALTZ: LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT. Single person. $850/month all utilities included. 5 miles to town. No pets. Call anytime, leave message 845-255-2316 or 845-389-6195. SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for SPRING 2020 and Short-Term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205. NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $485/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-255-6029 or 914-474-5176, leave message.
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, STONE RIDGE, NEW YORK SHANGRI-LA! On almost 5 acres, nestled in nature with privacy and lush landscaping, this beautiful contemporary home offers tons of outdoors space conducive to relaxation and entertaining with decks, screened in porch, 20x55 heated salt water pool (with night lights and a solar cover), a jacuzzi, a tennis court with LED lighting for night time playing, a cabana tennis court side with a wet bar and lounging. Let’s not forget the 2-car garage with a huge studio upstairs, both levels having radiant heat. The house boasts 3 en suite bedrooms and hardwood floors throughout. The property is located on a dead-end road to ensure total privacy and tranquillity yet is so close to all amenities. Listing by Sylvie Ross. ................$1,045,000
WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK RE PRIC DU E WOODSTOCK INVESTMENT CTI ON Commercial building within ! walking distance to the village of Woodstock that is currently used for professional offices. The building was the original site for WDST FM, a local radio station that outgrew the space and moved into the UTOPIA building in Bearsville. Very good condition and lots of parking in the rear and on the street. Improvements in 2005 were gutting the interior, installing structural supports, updating plumbing and electric, refinishing the wood floors, exposing the wooden beams, new windows, new sheetrock and a new roof. Excellent investment if you want to own a little piece of Woodstock! Listing by Doreen Marchisella. .. $549,000
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SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK WATERFRONT Dock and access to the Hudson River from your home. Fifty feet of waterfront on the lower Esopus Creek. Enjoy the sight and sounds of the Diamond Mill waterfall from multilevel decks. Three bedrooms, one and a half baths, eat in kitchen, dining room/wood stove, living room and observatory, Family room includes wet bar and spiral staircase to lower level. Master Bedroom suite on main floor with deck to water views. Listing by Blanca Aponte. ...........................$235,000
WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK Perfect home for a weekend retreat or a full time resident. This cedar sided 2-bedroom, 1 bath midcentury ranch, on a pretty 1/2-acre parcel has what you want. Privacy, views, convenient location to both the Woodstock Village and historic Kingston. Some of the great features include: Beautiful wide board oak and cherry flooring, a large Living room with a brick fireplace and a high efficiency Jotyl stove insert, cathedral ceilings and a spacious screened in porch with Trex flooring. Another important amenity is a whole house generator that goes with the sale. Listing by Richard Miller...................................................... $295,000
NEW WEST HURLEY, NEW YORK REN THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN TAL !! - Located 2 minutes to the village of Woodstock and 8 minutes to the NY State Thruway. This is an end unit with privacy and lush landscaping. Walkout to a blue stone patio and 1 car detached garage. Open and bright floor plan with brick fireplace, wood floors and exposed stairs to the 2nd level. Master bedroom has wall to wall closets plus a walk-in connecting closet to the master bath. 2nd bedroom is large with spacious closet. HEATED IN-GROUND SWIMMING POOL. THIS WILL NOT LAST! Listing brought to you by Doreen Marchisella. .........................................$1,600 month
Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 / Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Catskill 518.800.9999 / Commercial 845.339.9999
Kingston 845.338.5832 Woodstock 845.684.0304 www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com
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New Paltz Custom Contemporary in a Fantasy Setting Enjoy your own private lake from this gorgeously sited custom home! Step out the door to go for a swim or paddle, or take in the view year round from windows in every room...or from the patios, decks, and screened porches. If you love the outdoors, this could be your dream home! ...........$1,100,000
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Near Rosendale; Efficiency Apartment, suitable for 1 person. Quiet park-like setting with pond, on beautiful Shawangunk Ridge, with hiking trails at your door. $750/month with utilities. First, last and security. Nonsmoker. No pets. 845-658-9332. 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT in Rosendale. Sunny, clean. Very large LR/DR. Newly renovated bathroom. Chaired yard w/views of Rondout Creek- ideal for picnics! Includes off-street parking & trash/snow removal. No smoking. No pets. 2 person max. $1200/ month + utilities. 845-505-2568.
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HURLEY 2-BEDROOM. Spacious, bright, separate entrance and private yard. $1400/ month includes heat and hot water. First and last month plus security and references required. (845)389-9358.
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Saugerties: 2-Bedroom, first floor, full bath. Quiet location, good neighborhood, off-street parking, coin laundry, garbage pick-up, water, sewer included. Locked mailboxes. Absolutely NO pets, no smoking. $1000/month plus utilities. 845-246-3320.
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WOODSTOCK/LAKE HILL: Welcome to our restored rural historic inn on NYC busline! Private furnished room available mid January. Fully equipped kitchen, living room with piano, friendly working cats, gardens. $575/month includes utilities & internet. Security, refs, car essential. 845-679-2564 ; waydhomestays@msn.com Woodstock: Large 2-Bedroom, two bath, vaulted ceilings, great room, eat-in kitchen, loft, dishwasher, new washer/ dryer, radiant and wood heat, stone patio, semi private, walk to town. Avail. April 1st. $1750/month plus utilities. One year lease. References, proof of income. First, last and security. No smokers, pets negotiable. 845-750-0036 . CHARMING COTTAGE. Walk to Woodstock Village. Loft/balcony plus bedroom, deck, quiet & private. $950/ month plus utilities. Includes lawn care & snow plow. Security, references. 845679-6816. STUDIO CABIN. Great eat-in kitchen, bathroom. Parking. Perfect for 1 person. 1 mile from the center of town of Woodstock. $750/month. Call 845-417-5282. CHARMING 1-BEDROOM HOUSE on Mink Hollow Road within walking distance to Cooper Lake, 4 miles to center of Woodstock. On 1 acre. Wood floors, newly renovated bathroom. $1000/ month. 845-417-5282.
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GUNS WANTED. CASH PAID. Japanese swords, and Militaria. I come to you. Transfers, Estimates and Appraisals. Federal Firearms License. Spartan Trading Co., 90 Dug Hill Rd., Hurley, NY. 914-388-9286
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BOTTOM LINE... HIGHEST PRICES PAID For old furniture through the 1960s & ANTIQUES of every description: Paintings, Lamps, Silver, Rugs, Pottery, China, Asian items, etc. One item-Entire Estates. Housecalls. Free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques. 35+ years in business. Call/text 845389-7286.
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BLAIR COLLECTIBLES is your trusted local BUYER of old COINS, Paper Money, Jewelry (and other Gold & Silver items), Marbles & Toys, Pocket Watches, etc.
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Craftsman Style Home! All Clean and Great Stuff — from kitchen/bedroom/ high end pool furniture/garage full!
PRICED TO SELL! Call 203-536-4865 for inquiries.
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*Jessica Rice*; Beautiful Images Hair Salon, 123 Boices Lane, Kingston. Hair845-383-1852; www.beautifulimageshairsalon.com Makeup- 845-309-6860; www. jessicamitzi.com GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery. Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.
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THINK NEW! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Impressively distinctive & perfectly modern country contempo to be built on 14 glorious acres w/ STREAM. Dramatic roof line & walls of glass enclose soaring open spaces, exceptional high ceilings, gourmet equipped kitchen, 4 BRs incl. deluxe ensuite w/ spa bath, double sided ďŹ replace, hardwood & concrete ďŹ&#x201A;oors, whole house sound system PLUS 1700 SF lower level w/ garage & rec space. SIMPLY STUNNING!.................................... $1,299,000
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This well maintained contemporary home has a wall of glass looking out on the most gorgeous Catskill Mountain view and a stone fireplace for cozying up on those cold winter nights. Privately sited on 6 acres that abuts up to NYC DEP land. Just minutes to Woodstock & Phoenicia. Belleayre/Hunter Mountain for skiing is just a short drive away. Warm and cozy with stone fireplace, cathedral ceilings, 3 BRs & 2 baths on the main floor with a large open sleep loft (with extra storage areas). Gourmet kitchen with wonderful cookstove, granite countertops, nicely appointed cabinetry, walk in pantry and breakfast stools for countertop snacking. Dining area is right off of the kitchen and is perfect for entertaining. Large full basement with workroom and wood stove. Nothing to do but move in and enjoy!!! $549,000
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Drive down the long country road that was once a farm. Tucked up on the hill overlooking the fields you will be happy to find this meticulous ranch with an 30 x 40 oversized garage with work shop in the back of garage. Circular drive is a plus for easy access. Stone walls all around and a spacious deck overlooking yard. Metal roof, hardwood floors and a gourmet Kitchen. Fabulous kitchen that opens up into the dining, living room area Lots of natural light and a slider on to the deck. Come take a look. House does have an attached 1 car garage and workshop as well! A must see, call for an appointment!
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Blue Mountain Contemporary Come enjoy this classy contemporary one level home in the quiet woods of Blue Mountain, on a dead end road in beautiful Glacier Park. Immerse yourself in nature at this little oasis, just 15 minutes to Woodstock and Saugerties for all of the wonderful restaurants, galleries and the Arts. Enjoy those warm summer days on the deck. The ranch has a mostly open ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan that ďŹ&#x201A;ows around the custom kitchen, pantry, dining room, living room and main hallway. Central air conditioning and hydronized forced hot air heating yield a very high level of comfort and easy living. The poured concrete basement has high ceilings and could be ďŹ nished for additional living space. ...................................... $329,000
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