Almanac Weekly #10 2020

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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 10 | Mar . 5 – 12

HILMA AF KLINT EXHIBITION IN HUDSON Hilma af Klint: Self Portrait (Wikimedia Commons)

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HILMA AF KLINT

If the name Hilma af Klint suggests a medieval abbess known for her ecstatic visions, you’ve got it half-right. The recently rediscovered Swedish artist lived from 1862 to 1944, but her life’s work was indeed driven by her efforts to contact ethereal presences. Growing up in an era when spiritualism was all the rage, she claimed from girlhood on to be clairvoyant and by 17 was conducting sĂŠances. She studied Theosophy and Rosicrucianism, and later Anthroposophy. With a group of young women friends who called themselves the Five, in the 1890s she began “communicatingâ€? with a roster of spirits they termed the High Masters, and af Klint claimed that they di-

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Carl Craig at Dia: Beacon (photo by Eva Deitch)

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he Dia Art Foundation commissioned acclaimed Detroit-based techno deejay and producer Carl Craig to create a sound installation at Dia:Beacon, in dialogue with the unique architecture of the space. Titled Party/After-Party, the work will mark Craig’s first commission for an art institution. This sound installation will reimagine Dia:Beacon’s lower level, creating a sonic environment that is anchored to the site’s manufacturing history as a former Nabisco packaging factory, recalling the underground techno tradition of reclaiming industrial spaces for experimentation. Party/ After-Party will be on view from March 6 through September 7. For more information, visit www.diaart.org.

rected her hand when she was painting.

Hardly anyone saw her artworks in her lifetime – one prominent exception being Rudolf Steiner, who was reportedly unimpressed, despite the fact that af Klint had studied his writings fervently and adopted his esoteric color theory. The artist became convinced that the world was not yet

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hundreds of notebooks as having been assigned by the High Masters. Some of the imagery evokes her youthful training in botanical illustration, and there’s an occasional picture of a dove or a swan, but for the most part she relied on abstracted curvilinear forms meant to connect the viewer to some higher reality.

Now a group of af Klint’s paintings, on loan from the Albert Steffen Foundation in Dornach, Switzerland, along with one of her plant sketchbooks, is coming to the Hudson Valley for the first time. Known as the “Tree of Knowledge series� and painted in 1913 and ’14, it was a part of a much larger progression of works – 193 in all – that the artist undertook in 1906 at the behest of her spirit guide Amaliel, which were eventually supposed to be hung in a spiral-shaped temple (making the Guggenheim a particularly apt venue for her breakthrough exhibition). The Tree of Knowledge series merges the Garden of Eden mythos with influences from Eastern religion and af Klint’s occult studies, as

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ready for her work, and the mystical messages encoded in it; at her death she instructed that it be kept in storage for another 20 years.

So, it’s not much of a surprise that the art world has been slow in catching up with her talents.

That is beginning to change; a major show at the Guggenheim in late 2018/early 2019, titled “Paintings for the Future,� was a surprise hit, and pundits began raving about the way her style, though aligned with no contemporary art movement, anticipated Abstract Expressionism by decades. Af Klint’s work, at least in her own head, was not unrepresentational at all; it was her attempt to convey complex, abstruse theories about the spiritual realm, using visual codes that she recorded in

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MOVIE REVIEW

THE CALL OF THE WILD TRADES FRONTIER REALISM FOR GOOFY CGI ANIMAL ANTICS

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erhaps predictably, considering that similar rumors were on the go during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, there’s fake news out there of late positing that the virulent Coronavirus strain now spreading across the globe was secretly cultivated in US government laboratories and deliberately released in China, with a view to devastating its economy. Apparently originating with a QAnon blogger, this rumor blew up in anti-vaxxer social media circles, and somehow led to speculation that Bill Gates and/or Hillary Clinton were behind the fiendish plan. Wacko conspiracy theories are, sadly, always an easy sell to a gullible American public.

20TH CENTURY STUDIOS What’s even weirder, though, is the fact that Jack London Harrison Ford does as professional a job as a viewer could ask in the (greatly expanded from the book) role wrote a short story in 1910, “The Unparalleled Invasion,” of John Thornton, a kindly prospector who becomes Buck’s human sidekick for a time. It must have taken that anticipated this scenario, with genocide through germ some deliberate focus to deliver dialogue with sincerity when talking to a dog that wasn’t there. warfare presented as the only effective counterweight to Chinese expansionism. (The author’s lifelong commitment to socialism coexisted wolf characters rendered in CGI. Sadly, though the technology has advanced greatly uneasily with racist tendencies and fears of Asian immigration to the US, the latter in recent years, mammals still suffer from the Uncanny Valley effect – especially common among Californians of his era.) This dystopian story, set in the 1980s, is when they’re the focus of nearly every scene.

Harrison Ford does as professional a job as a viewer could ask in the (greatly one of several cited by those who argue that London deserves a place among the expanded from the book) role of John Thornton, a kindly prospector who becomes pioneers of science fiction.

But that’s not the body of work for which most know of Jack London. We Buck’s human sidekick for a time. It must have taken some deliberate focus to remember him for his adventure tales set in Alaska and the Yukon Territories deliver dialogue with sincerity when talking to a dog that wasn’t there. Even more during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. They’re stories that still hold up unsettling is the realization that he was cuddling in these scenes with a human because they’re grounded in reality, the author having spent about a year working stuntman studded with motion-capture antennae, Terry Notary. the goldfields around Dawson City: long enough to develop scurvy and lose four The vaguely fake-looking dogs aren’t the worst part of The Call of the Wild 2020. front teeth. He quickly learned to respect the dangers of the northern frontier, Presumably in an appeal to the family-friendly movie market, this version pretty including the fact that hypothermia – not wolf packs nor grizzly bears nor greedy much sands off all the rough edges of the story. The violence of frontier life is drunken prospectors – was the most relentless killer lurking there. “To Build a markedly toned down, and even Buck’s epic battle with another dog, Spitz, for Fire,” London’s grim, straightforward account of an arrogant greenhorn’s inexorable alpha status on the sled team is bloodless and does not end in the loser’s demise. death in the Arctic wilderness after falling through ice and getting the lower half The background photography (shot in Canada) is often gorgeous, but verisimilitude in life-or-death situations is treated as expendable. I think the author of “To Build of his body and clothing soaked, is justly praised as one of the finest examples of a Fire” would have been appalled to see Thornton come out of a stretch of heavy the short-story form in the English language. whitewater with his sweater barely damp and not an inch of water in the bottom of Mostly we remember, with fondness, The Call of the Wild and White Fang: two novellas with canine protagonists that are mainstays of the middle-school literature his canoe, or the mail-sled captain Perrault (Omar Sy) being more worried about curriculum, despite being markedly harsh in tone and gory in details. These are a dog’s whereabouts than the fact that his musher Françoise (Cara Gee) might not pretty, sentimental animal stories. But they tend to stay with us. And, as with die within minutes after a plunge into a frozen lake if he doesn’t get her into dry other beloved literary works discovered in our youths, we worry when we hear that clothing stat. a new film or television adaptation is coming out. Sometimes the version on the Worst of all, these grittier details are often sacrificed in favor of slapstick scenes screen inside our heads is best left untampered-with.

– the sort that feel hokey, cheap and condescending even to smarter youngsters.

Chris Sanders’ newly released The Call of the Wild is a perfect example of a movie There’s not much merriment to be derived from The Call of the Wild, even when based on a childhood classic that should never have been made. Several big-screen that’s the filmmaker’s apparent aim. And the power of the tale’s harsh realism is versions already existed, including a 1923 silent film, a 1935 version starring Clark entirely dissipated. Unless you’ve got a very young crew in need of an afternoon’s Gable and Loretta Young, another from 1972 with Charlton Heston, one with Rutger excruciatingly wholesome entertainment, I’d give this one a hard pass. It does no Hauer in 1997, an anime interpretation and another animated film starring Snoopy. justice at all to a story we loved in our youth.

Until now, the live-action ones at least featured real live dogs as Buck and his sled– Frances Marion Platt teammates. The 2020 edition is neither fish nor fowl nor canine, with the dog and

well as her early grounding in naturalist illustrations.

This new show, “Tree of Knowledge Series: 1913-1914 Hilma af Klint,” opens on Friday, March 6 at the Lightforms Art Center in Hudson, with a reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Art historian David Adams, PhD, will present a lecture and slideshow

on “The Esoteric Botany of Hilma af Klint” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 8. The exhibition will be on view through June 29.

The Lightforms Art Center, located at 743 Columbia Street, is open Friday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

– Frances Marion Platt

Hilma af Klint opening reception Friday, Mar. 6, 6:30-9 p.m.

The Esoteric Botany of Hilma af Klint Sunday, Mar. 8, 7-9 p.m., Lightforms Art Center, 743 Columbia St., Hudson, (518) 822-1003 www.lightformsartcenter.com

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band screening in Rosendale & Woodstock The Rosendale Theatre’s excellent and long-running Music Fan Film

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Series reels in an interesting one in early March. The documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band examines the Band’s career through the perspective of member and principal Robbie Robertson. Here in the literal Land of Levon, the film will be received in complicated ways, as the guitarist’s and drummer’s versions of Band history are, to put it mildly, at odds. Directed by Daniel Roher, the film features interviews with many of Robertson’s friends and collaborators, including Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Taj Mahal and Ronnie Hawkins, as well as archival interview clips from the Band’s members. Ticket prices are $10 general admission, $6 for members, students and for matinÊes.

Showtimes are 7:15 p.m. on Friday through Monday, March 6 to 9 and Thursday, March 12; 1 p.m. matinĂŠes screen on Wednesday and Thursday, March 11 and 12.

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oe Lovano is about as first-tier, A-list and cream-of-the-crop as a jazz saxophonist is even allowed to be anymore. Yes, he has netted one Grammy (among 14 nominations), but that is never the gold star on a jazz curriculum vitae. The gold star, of course, is a) whom you’ve played with, and b) who has played with you. And by this standard, Lovano’s elite stature is stark. The tenor ace and composer has toured with Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jack McDuff, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Paul Motian Trio, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Carla Bley Band and Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine. Also: McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Judi Silvano, Ravi Coltrane, Chucho Valdez, Ornette Coleman.

Like many others, I first got to know his unmistakable voice as the soulmate foil of John Scofield on a series of the guitarist’s very best records in the ’90s. But Lovano’s own exceptional projects as leader include the 2000 Grammy-winning 52nd Street Themes and nearly 30 other releases, including the chamber-jazz masterpiece Rush Hour and an outrĂŠ favorite of mine, 2001’s Viva Caruso, in which Lovano pays tribute to the great Italian tenor in two distinct settings: a rambunctious small “street bandâ€? featuring, among others, the adventurous and hip drummer Joey Baron, and in a larger Opera House chamber ensemble, with elegant orchestrations courtesy of Byron Olson.

So, this is a big score for Jazzstock and its endless series of jazz shows at the Senate Garage in Kingston; but, frankly, shows of this caliber have been commonplace for Terri Roiger and John Menegon’s labor-of-passion jazz series in recent years. Best we not take it for granted. On Saturday, March 7, Jazzstock presents an evening of expressive music with Joe Lovano and friends. The friends in question, of course, are drawn from the small handful of people who are actually up to it: pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist/Jazzstock co-founder John Menegon and drummer Francisco Mela. Tickets cost $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the show. – John Burdick Joe Lovano, Saturday, Mar. 7, 7:30 p.m., $30/$25, Senate Garage, 4 N Front St., Kingston, https://jazzstock.com

The film is also showing this weekend at Upstate Films in Woodstock on Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8 at 5 p.m.

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson & the Band Friday-Thursday, Mar. 6-12, 7:15 p.m. + 1 p.m. on Mar. 11/12 $10/$6 Rosendale Theatre 408 Main St. (Rt. 213), Rosendale www.rosendaletheatre.org Also showing: Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday, March 7-8 at 5 p.m.

Upstate Films 132 Tinker St., Woodstock (845) 679-6608 https://upstatefilms.org

Upstairs at Murray’s in Tivoli presents film director Barry Sonnenfeld in conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue on Tuesday, March 10. Best-known for directing such successes as Addams Family Values, Get Shorty and the first three Men in Black movies, Sonnenfeld’s importance to modern cinema expands considerably when his cinematographer credits are added to the list: the Coen Brothers’ first three films, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller’s Crossing. He also was the director of photography on Throw Momma from the Train, Big, When Harry Met Sally and Misery. On this occasion, Sonnenfeld is in the house to discuss his hilarious new memoir, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother. $34 gets you tickets for two, plus one signed copy of the book. The $15 general admission price does not include the book, but the cost of the ticket may be applied in full toward the purchase.

Barry Sonnenfeld Tuesday, Mar. 10, 7 p.m. $34/$15, Murray’s Tivoli 73 Broadway, Tivoli www.murraystivoli.com

CIA hosts “Waste Not!� free lecture/demo, screening on March 12

Do you lose sleep over the prospect of our planet becoming unlivable for humans within our children’s lifetimes due to climate change? Feel helpless to prevent this scenario with your measly one person/one vote? Are you living as sustainably as possible but looking for more ways to shrink your own carbon footprint? In Paul Hawken’s book Drawdown, regarding the ways we can improve the prospects of survival on the planet, reduction of food waste is Solution Number Three.

A dose of useful advice is coming our way from Alexandra Ceribelli, a chef de partie at the Culinary Institute of America and a Statler Foundation fellow who manages the Menus of Change kitchen at the Culinary, specifically designed to reduce food waste. On Thursday, March 12 at the Anheuser-Busch Theatre in Roth Hall on the CIA campus, Chef Ceribelli will demonstrate many wonderful delectables we can make with food materials we otherwise may have tossed. Samples will be available to taste. Titled “Waste Not! Minimizing Edible Discards,� this event, sponsored by the League of Women Voters

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Quimby Theater • Vanderlyn Hall • Stone Ridge Campus Select SUNY Ulster music students are featured as soloists, accompanied by our outstanding String and Wind Ensembles. (Snow Date: Tuesday, March 24) For more information: 845-687-5262 www.sunyulster.edu

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of the Mid-Hudson Region, is designed to underscore the many ways we can reduce organic materials that might have been destined to a landfill or compost pile.

A food waste specialist from the EPA, Kimiko Link, will be offering additional waste reduction tips. Attendees can also view a screening of Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. This 90-minute documentary shows that every year 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away; that’s wasting one-third of all food grown for human consumption. Produced by Anthony Bourdain, this film explores the reasons for this waste, and looks for ways to minimize the problem.

Starting at 5:45 p.m., this event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are requested by March 9 so that just enough food samples can be prepared.

E-mail lwvmidhudson@gmail.com to reserve your spot at this event. Attendees are advised to enter the campus at the North Entrance, and park in the Anton Plaza visitor lot, below the terrace.

Waste Not! Minimizing Edible Discards Thursday, Mar. 12, 5:45 p.m.

Free/preregister Anheuser-Busch Theatre, Roth Hall, Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Dr. (off Rt. 9), Hyde Park (845) 340-2003 lwvmidhudson@gmail.com

Soul Rebels Mardi Gras Party at Revel 32 on Saturday

entry cocktail party and Mardi Gras party packs, are available for $60. Purchase tickets through the Bardavon box office or online.

Soul Rebels Mardi Gras Party Saturday, March 7, 8 p.m. $30/$25, Revel 32 32 Cannon St., Poughkeepsie (845) 473-2072, www.bardavon.org

Rest in Pieces: In Memory of Opera at Bard’s Fisher Center The Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and The Orchestra Now (TON) present Rest in Pieces: In Memory of Opera, a devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories and loves of this tempestuous artform. Conceived and directed by Stephanie Blythe with John Jarboe and conducted by James Bagwell, Rest in Pieces features the music of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland and Puccini. It will be performed by singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and The Orchestra Now on Friday and Sunday, March 6 and 8 in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater.

Ticket prices start at $15.

their hearts for the Spy. This will be an evening of fun with no real plans. No one knows where the story-swapping will lead. The audience will gather by the fireside in the dining room. There will be small bites compliments of George and Brigitte and a cash bar.

John, Dick & Harry Thursday, Mar. 12, 6-8 p.m.

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The Great Octave Foundation and New Paltz’s multipurpose art and education center Unison Arts will host the spiritual teacher and innovator Shulamit Elson on Saturday, March 7. Elson will teach a two-hour sound meditation workshop and then perform a concert. Admission to the workshop costs $25. Admission to the concert costs $15. For both, the price is $30.

MediSounds Sound Meditation: Theory and Practice Saturday, Mar. 7, 3-5 p.m. (workshop), 8 p.m. (concert), $25/$15 Unison Arts Center 68 Mountain Rest Rd., New Paltz (845) 255-1559, www.unisonarts.org

The Spy presents storytelling with “John, Dick & Harry” on Mar. 12 The High Falls Conservancy presents an evening of storytelling at the Spy in High Falls on Thursday, March 12. The storytellers in question are three notable and long-time community residents: John Novi, Dick Stokes and Harry Jansen. Besides being their own well-known selves, John, Dick and Harry all have a special place in

line at Kingston. She will tell you what she has learned about the stations that for a time were the lifeblood of their communities. This talk is free and open to the public.

O & W Railroad history talk Saturday, Mar. 7, 2 p.m., Free Saugerties Public Library 91 Washington Ave., Saugerties (845) 246-4317

Saugerties Library hosts O & W Railroad history talk on Saturday The Friends of Historic Saugerties present a talk about the O & W Railroad on Saturday, March 7 in the Community Room of the Saugerties Public Library. The O & W Railway ran through the heart of Ulster County. Many have walked or cycled along the rail trail that now follows the bed of the 1902 branch of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway in Hurley, Marbletown and points south. It was abandoned in 1957. Speaker Gail Whistance has collected stories and “then-and-now” photographs of each station along the route as it made its way from Spring Glen to the end of the

Rest in Pieces: In Memory of Opera Friday/Sunday, Mar. 6/8, 7:30 p.m./3 p.m.

Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (845) 758-7900 www.fishercenter.bard.edu

Sound Meditation with Shulamit Elson at Unison on Saturday

Poughkeepsie’s newest venue Revel 32, iHeart Media and the Bardavon combine to present a Mardi Gras Party featuring the Soul Rebels: Poetry in Motion Tour on Saturday, March 7 at Revel 32. The Soul Rebels are riding high into 2020, receiving national attention with recent performances with Katy Perry and DMX and on NPR’s Tiny Desk series, a debut latenight TV appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a headlining set at the TED Conference.

The Soul Rebels started with an idea: to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on.

They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock, all within a brassband context.

General admission tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the show.

Limited VIP tickets, including an early-

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Colonel Payne’s West Park legacy

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Payne’s West Park mansion (above) was faced with imported French limestone and built around a huge central courtyard lined with frescoes. The mansion’s 40-plus rooms were walled in rich Circassian walnut, leather and ebony with gold tracery. There were greenhouses, formal gardens, huge barns, a gatehouse and a stone boathouse, where Payne’s Aphrodite, the largest yacht in America, was moored.

Reclusive millionaire Oliver Hazard Payne was as wealthy as he was enigmatic.

The eight years this bachelor lived in West Park left a legacy that lingers today. This is a reprint of an article that we published in 1992.

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onasteries, apartment complexes and ranch houses line Ulster County’s west bank of the Hudson today. But once upon a time, some of the richest men and women in the world lived along what is now Route 9W. West Park sported residents like John Jacob Astor and Delores Ponce de Leon, daughter of the governor general of Cuba. The biggest mansion of them all belonged to an enigmatic recluse named Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne; today it’s tucked behind a small sign labeled Marist Brothers.

When the Colonel, as the people of West Park still refer to him, died in 1917, the only thing locals knew was that he was treasurer of Standard Oil. Payne’s holdings in that company were second only to John D. Rockefeller. Although he was childless, Payne’s eight years in West Park would have a far-reaching legacy, touching a multitude of lives: from the fabulously wealthy Whitney family to the son of John Burroughs to a future world heavyweight boxing champion.

When Payne was 70, he bought the former Astor estate, coupled it with another and commissioned society architects Carrère and Hastings to build him a massive Mediterranean palazzo.

Though Payne was actually a brigadier general, he preferred his more modest rank. Payne left Yale to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War. He was from a tightly knit, patriotic Ohio family; his father became a senator, and his brother became the mayor of Cleveland. Another relative penned the tune “Home Sweet Home.”

Dr. Karl Berntsen, a professor emeritus

at Cornell Medical College, spent time in Payne’s ancestral Cleveland home, sifting through the Colonel’s letters. Payne’s multimillion-dollar benefactions created the medical school at which Berntsen taught.

Payne was shot from his horse during the Battle of Chickamauga. No one knows exactly where the bullet went. “Some people think he got shot in the genitalia, which might explain why he never had any children,” says Berntsen.

In any case, Payne was extremely modest, before and after the bullet. During the Civil War, he never allowed himself to be photographed; he would only submit to a sketch artist, and even then only in profile. “He viewed himself as unattractive,” Berntsen explains. “But Payne was very popular at all stages of his life, especially as an officer.”

Heading through Illinois, Payne allowed his troops to go back to Ohio and recruit their friends. Membership in the 124th Ohio Volunteers grew rapidly. “I am the idol of my troops,” Payne wrote his brother. “Payne wanted to do things right, and he did them,” says Berntsen, who has taken a liking to his research subject. Such attention to detail was noticed by one general, who termed Payne’s camp “a model of sanitation.”

Payne’s scrupulous nature was firmly formed by the time he went to prep school.

He voluntarily mailed his father itemized expense reports, justifying the whereabouts of each dollar.

The Colonel wasn’t the most academic of the Paynes; his sister was. Flora Payne studied at Cambridge in special classes conducted only for women. She was a compulsive writer, well-traveled, outspoken and sharp-tongued. When Payne was wounded in the war, his sister wrote him, “You darling Oh – I hardly know which to write to, you or the bullet in you.” “Flora has a fine, masculine mind,” Payne wrote later about his favorite sibling.

Payne had so much affection for his sister

Though Payne was actually a brigadier general, he preferred his more modest rank of colonel. He left Yale to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War.

that he fixed her up with his handsome Yale chum William C. Whitney. As a wedding present, he built them a house on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and gave them a million dollars in startup capital. Payne could spare the money: The man who was called affectionately “my little captain” by the soldiers he commanded emerged from the Civil War with heroic status and $20,000 from his father.

Just at the beginning of the acquisitive age of the Robber Barons, he became an industrialist. Payne got his feet wet with iron manufacturing and ended up in oil refining.

After Rockefeller bought out his oil concern,

Clark, Payne & Company, he became a ground-floor associate at Standard Oil. It was said that Payne and a handful of others controlled the American tobacco industry and helped start US Steel.

Payne eventually moved his base of operations from Cleveland to New York, where he spent a good deal of time with his sister Flora and her family. Although Payne loved children and lavished gifts upon Flora’s brood, he never married. He had already announced at the age of 18 that he would be “eventually, from choice and not necessity, obliged to choose an old bachelor’s life.”

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Mar. 5, 2020 In a strange turn of events, Payne did become a bachelor father. Flora Whitney died of heart trouble in 1893. Her husband remarried three years later, and Colonel Payne and William C. Whitney never spoke again. Although it was done in a hush-hush manner, Payne convinced two of the four Whitney children to turn their backs on their biological father and become Payne’s heirs.

Payne was very generous with his charges Payne and Pauline Whitney. When Payne Whitney married Helen Hay, the daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, the Colonel gave jewels to the bride and a home on Fifth Avenue to the newlyweds. He also granted them the use of his Georgia mansion, private railroad car and yacht.

No one knows why Payne and Whitney’s once-warm friendship turned into a coldblooded feud. Some biographers have insinuated that Payne found out about a transgression between Whitney and a notorious burlesque actress. Others say that Payne thought Whitney’s remarriage showed a lack of respect for the deceased Flora.

Author Gore Vidal, in his best-selling novel Empire, insinuated that Payne fell in love with his brother-in-law and onetime Secretary of the Navy, Whitney. “This was a supposition on the Colonel’s treatment of Whitney, who was very handsome. It sounds to me like chagrin d’amour,” says Vidal, adding, “Whitney is the grandfather of my brother-in-law, Michael Whitney Straight.”

The archivist at the Cornell Medical Center in New York, Adele Lerner, points out that there is no hard evidence in the historical record to back Vidal’s claim, but that could be attributed to an era of extreme homophobia.

Payne went to great pains to keep his personal life out of the public eye, Lerner adds. He was “a tall, lean, quiet man who despised publicity and often made his gifts under the condition that he remain anonymous,” she explains, reading from a 1992 Cornell Medical College newsletter on the Payne/ Whitney legacy.

P u l i t z e r Prizewinning biographer William A. S w a n b e r g touched on the Payne/Whitney relationship in his biography, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress.

When Whitney collapsed in Wa s h i n gt o n in 1887, Oliver Hazard Payne hurried to his bedside. “He [Payne] was militarily erect, decisive and to outsiders so formal and possessed of such seeming hauteur that Henry Flagler, another Rockefeller partner, described him as kin to God,” Swanberg writes.

“He epitomized the Payne family solidarity,” Swanberg writes. “He loved his sister with an affection so tender that some – perhaps unfairly – were later to question its normality.”

West Parker Elizabeth Kelley Burroughs, granddaughter of naturalist John Burroughs, remembers Payne as a warm and open man. “Everybody said when the Colonel was young he was engaged,” Burroughs recalls, “but his fiancé died.”

Payne also owned a castle in Scotland, a mansion in Thomasville, Georgia, an estate named Paynehurst in Bermuda and a house on Fifth Avenue.

His West Park mansion was faced with imported French limestone and built around a huge central courtyard lined with frescoes. The mansion’s 40-plus rooms were walled in rich Circassian walnut, leather and ebony with gold tracery. There were greenhouses, formal gardens, huge barns, a gatehouse and a

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Julian Burroughs, son of the famous naturalist and nature essayist John, designed large barns, a poultry farm, a boathouse and a dock for the Colonel. Payne had total confidence in his inexperienced superintendent and never quibbled over price. “I would go into the library to see the Colonel and he would ask me how much money I needed,” Julian wrote. “Often I’d say 15 thousand and he’d write me out a check for 20.”

stone boathouse, where Payne’s Aphrodite, the largest yacht in America, was moored.

Payne brought his Ming porcelains and Rubens and Turner paintings to West Park. He brought in tapestries, bronzes and busts. The Colonel spared no expense on his Hudson River villa.

In 1913, Burroughs’ father, Julian Burroughs, became the superintendent of Payne’s West Park estate. Since Julian Burroughs was selling Victrolas at the time, the job offer at the Colonel’s – which included a house, motorcar, maid and chauffeur – came as somewhat of a surprise. Andrew Mason, the estate’s previous superintendent, died either in what the Town of Esopus Story refers to as an automobile accident or from what Elizabeth Burroughs recalls as blood poisoning. The Colonel’s right-hand person, a Swedish woman named Miss Larson, adopted Mason’s orphaned daughter. Larson convinced the Colonel to hire Julian. “It was like a fairy tale,” Elizabeth Burroughs says. “I was so happy

It has been more than 35 years since former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson walked the grounds of the old Wiltwyck School... He starts naming dorms, pointing to where the kids lined up for dinner, remarking that this was the first place he tried on boxing gloves.

to grow up there and know beauty of that sort.”

From all reports in West Park, the Colonel was very generous. He sent Elizabeth Burroughs and her sister Ursula to Newport on his yacht. He gave Miss Larson the go-ahead to buy them expensive Fifth Avenue dresses and lunches at New York City’s Clermont. He bought them toys from F. A. O. Schwartz, magic lanterns and slides. The Colonel and their brother, John Burroughs, shared a birthday, so every year they shared a cake. Payne also gave the Burroughs boy a pedigreed Sealyham puppy from his nephew Payne Whitney’s kennels.

Emily Burroughs, the children’s mother, received a bow-shaped diamond brooch from Tiffany’s after the Colonel noticed she didn’t wear a lot of jewelry. He also lent her his box at the Metropolitan Opera House.

But Julian Burroughs was by far the largest West Park beneficiary. “Those were my father’s best years,” recalls Elizabeth Burroughs with a bittersweet expression.

“At Riverby [the family farm where Julian’s

naturalist father John lived], it was always, ‘My boy.’ He was always dictated to by my grandfather.”

Julian designed large barns, a poultry farm, a boathouse and a dock for the Colonel. He commissioned custommade iron gates, stone engravings and tile mosaics. Payne had total confidence in his inexperienced superintendent and never quibbled over price. “I would go into the library to see the Colonel and he would ask me how much money I needed,” Julian wrote. “Often I’d say 15 thousand and he’d write me out a check for 20.”

But the Colonel’s architectural firm from New York City had problems with the young superintendent. They disapproved of his sketches and told the Colonel that they would never dream of having anyone other than themselves design a building for his estate.

Payne had reason to doubt the competence of his society architects. The Hastings-designed central courtyard at times collected ten feet of snow. The imported French limestone couldn’t handle the Hudson Valley winters. “When

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I first went there, the limestone around the cellar windows was all crumbling,” Julian wrote. “So we cut out replacements of our native stone, which are good to this day.”

Payne’s affection for native stone and native folk is still remembered. Although he didn’t attend the nearby Ascension Church, the Colonel had it wired for electricity and built the sexton’s house.

Payne threw a wedding reception for one of his servants on board the Aphrodite.

Every year his employees sailed to West Point and enjoyed an onboard picnic.

“Those were good days for West Park,” Elizabeth Burroughs says.

At the annual employees’ Christmas party, Payne gave out gold pieces to the children. Esopus resident John Mowell received a few of those coins when he was a boy. His father was a farmhand at Payne’s, and his grandfather worked in the estate quarry. “They also had a moving picture at Colonel Payne’s, where the Marist Brothers’ chapel is today,” Mowell says. “You could go to the movies every week if you wanted to.”

Mowell’s grandparents lived in a group of stone structures built to house the Payne estate workers. Because of their quaint design, these buildings on the western side of Route 9W were known as the English Village. Today they’re called Black Creek Apartments.

Mowell’s neighbor, Amy Markle, also remembers the glory days of Colonel Payne.

One day, she took a peek inside the “Big House.” “There were solid-gold-handled doorknobs,” Markle recalls, “and a room was papered in silk that came from Japan.

Money was no object. Everything was so big.”

Markle didn’t work on the estate; she only knew people who did. But Payne’s reputation preceded him. “The Colonel was sort of an eccentric, I heard,” says Markle.

“He spent all this money on the place, and his nephew didn’t want it.”

Colonel Payne died June 27, 1917 at his home on 852 Fifth Avenue. He was 78 years old and had outlived his four siblings. The bulk of his huge estate went to his favorite nephew, Payne Whitney. The niece, Pauline Whitney Paget, who sided with the Colonel in his dispute with William C. Whitney, died of heart trouble in 1914.

To keep his will from being contested, the Colonel had to leave something to his estranged nephew, Harry Payne Whitney, William C. Whitney’s eldest son. Payne willed him a single painting that Harry had once praised. It was Turner’s Juliet and Her Nurse. Dorothy Whitney Straight, Harry’s other sister, didn’t get a penny.

Payne left the 645-acre Esopus estate and two million dollars to his other sister’s son, Harry Payne Bingham of Cleveland.

When Bingham and the first of his three wives, Harriette Gown Bingham, moved into town, the trouble started. “It is almost a universal truth,” Julian Burroughs wrote, “that women like to change their surroundings, but men do not. Young Mrs. Bingham wanted to change everything.”

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over his plans for the unfinished barns to her architects. She told the workmen to destroy the four-by-five-foot stone engraving that Burroughs had designed with the Latin phrase Horae pereunt et puniunt, which means “The hours perish and punish.” She had a Bingham family crest put in its place.

The Burroughs family left the estate after less than a year, but not before they witnessed Mrs. Bingham’s renovations to the mansion. The gold tracery was chemically removed, and the ebony walls were painted a putty color. The long, custom-made silk curtains in the drawing room were dyed. “She was an utter fool,” says Elizabeth Burroughs. “She had so little knowledge about art. She really just wanted to be with her friends on Long Island.”

When Bingham couldn’t get his property taxes reduced, he gave the West Park estate to the Episcopal Diocese of New York in 1933. He was a Presbyterian at the time.

Hundreds of workers in West Park had to find new jobs. Slowly, they cleared out of the English Village. “Dad worked there until the place closed up,” recalls Mowell.

“Then he went to Hercules. Everybody was laid off. Mr. Buchanan, the man who was in charge of the chickens, was left with a brooder house and a thousand half-grown chicks. I think the estate must have turned them over to him.”

Before Bingham left, he donated a good deal of the Colonel’s art collection, including Rubens’ Venus and Adonis, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where, coincidentally, he became director.

Bingham also became a director of the First National Bank of New York and an avid collector of marine life. The Bingham Oceanic Foundation at Yale was established with more than 3,000 of his specimens.

The Episcopalians turned a portion of Colonel Payne’s estate into the English Village for Convalescents. “They were sort of the nutty kind,” recalls Mowell. “I came home one night and saw a patient playing golf in the middle of 9W.” The place never caught on.

The Episcopalians started an experimental summer camp for delinquent and homeless kids from New York City in 1937. The big stone barns were turned into dormitories, and teepees lined the slopes by the Colonel’s former chicken farm. The 20 boys in the pilot program benefited so greatly that the camp caught the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt, Pulitzer Prizewinning author James Agee and the State Department of Welfare, which bought the camp from the church and turned it into the Wiltwyck School for Boys in 1942. The English Village was renovated into three dormitories, a dining hall and a gymnasium for the Wiltwyck School’s interracial, non-sectarian population of 8-to-12-year-old kids. Although the kids were placed in West Park by the courts, there were no bars at Wiltwyck.

It has been more than 35 years since former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson walked the grounds of the old Wiltwyck School. At this point, he’s not sure exactly where it is. “Is it that left up there?” he asks hesitantly as his airconditioned Lincoln heads up Route 9W. Patterson’s squint widens with recognition as he pulls into Black Creek Apartments.

He starts naming dorms, pointing to where the kids lined up for dinner, remarking that this was the first place he tried on boxing gloves. He spent one of his two Wiltwyck Christmases at Eleanor Roosevelt’s house in Hyde Park. He didn’t realize who she was. “To me she was just

a nice lady,” he says.

Patterson came from a large, poor Bedford/Stuyvesant family. He ran away from home a lot, slept under the subway and stole at night. “I was a delinquent,” he says. “I had been in court a hundred times.

The judge even knew my name. ‘What’s it now, Floyd?’ he used to say.”

Patterson came to Wiltwyck in September 1945. He and another kid stole a neighbor’s rowboat, paddled to Poughkeepsie and jumped a train to the City. The cops brought him back to West Park in three days. There he met a teacher named Vivian Costen, one of the most important people in his life. Every Friday, Costen asked her Wiltwyck pupils a question. Whoever answered correctly first got a bag of candy. One day, Patterson thought he knew the answer. “Oh no, don’t answer. You’re way off-key,” he said to himself. No one won the candy that day, and Costen told them the answer that Floyd already knew. Patterson ran out of the classroom crying, only to be followed

by Costen. “I know you knew the answer, Floyd,” she said, giving him the bag of candy.

A little positive feedback went a long way, and Floyd started raising his hand like crazy. Costen had a soft spot for him.

Once in a while, she let him stay at her place in New York City, where she took him to movies and restaurants. Floyd never forgot her. He gave her tickets to all his New York fights. She saw him win the Olympics at the age of 17. But she died before he became world heavyweight champion.

Patterson received his first dose of nature at the Wiltwyck School. Now the middle-aged Patterson wrestles with the brambles by Black Creek, navigating a log and jumping up to the dam with a boxer’s grace. He can’t hide his disappointment: The old swimming hole dried up a long time ago.

Further through the woods. he stops abruptly in awe, gaping at the huge, ivyencrusted stone barns, the buildings that Julian Burroughs was working on when Colonel Payne died. To Patterson’s childhood memory they are “the castle.” “I always thought, ‘If I ever make it in this life, I’m going to live in a place just like this,’” Patterson says, eying the bucolic splendor around him. Eventually, he moved to New Paltz, where he continues to live today with his family. His adopted son, Tracy Harris Patterson, is the super bantamweight champion of the world.

The Episcopalians sold the rest of Colonel Payne’s estate to the Catholic Church in 1942. The Marist Brothers made a few renovations when they moved in with their religious preparatory students.

The frescoes of the Muses, Pegasus and a youth lining the central courtyard were covered with paint. “The murals outside weren’t quite appropriate for what we had in mind, what with the nudes and all,” says Brother Stephen Martin. “So we painted over them, which was our prerogative.”

The Marist Brothers transformed the mansion’s Great Hall into a chapel, and made the other rooms dormitories and classrooms. They built cinderblock extensions to house future novitiates in 1952 on the huge Payne-era garage and electric plant. But the number of brother aspirants dwindled, and the West Park Marist Brothers ran out of students.

The property became a retreat house for handicapped and mainstream students from New York City in 1971.

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Due to financial considerations, the Marist Brothers sold the mansion and the boathouse to another reclusive millionaire, Raymond Rich, in the late 1980s. The brothers moved their activities over to Colonel Payne’s garage and power plant. “The opulence seemed almost inappropriate in today’s day and age,” Brother Martin says. “That’s not the way we Brothers live. When I used to visit my family during the summer, my room felt like a bandbox. Forget what happened to the brothers that came from apartments.”

Karen Merker was there in the beginning. She came up with her high school class from St. Helena’s in the Bronx in 1972. Today Merker teaches third grade at St. Joseph’s Elementary School in Kingston during the week and returns to the Payne estate every weekend to cook for hundreds of retreat guests. She remembers what it was like to slave away in Colonel Payne’s kitchen, where a few amenities from a bygone era remained: a two-floor scullery with a spiral staircase, a dumbwaiter and an elevator where the Brothers stored brooms. A speaking tube that once connected the Colonel in the dining room to the kitchen was there as well.

The intricate wooden carvings upstairs in the Great Hall intrigued Merker most.

“I remember putting my finger in the mouth of a carved lion and there were ridges inside,” she says. “They went down to the last detail.”

Every week, Merker crossed an immense wrought-iron threshold with her bags of groceries. The door was so heavy, she recalls, that it literally ushered visitors inside. “I used to pretend that the mansion was my house and that 200 guests were coming for the weekend,” she says in her best mock-patrician voice.

Today, the Marist Brothers use the Payne buildings and grounds that they still own to host children each week during the summer. Some of the kids have terminal cancer. Others are developmentally disabled. “It was nice to have a big, beautiful mansion,” Merker adds, “but the spirit of the work is the real draw.”

The Colonel’s stone barns enjoyed a brief incarnation as a restaurant called the Creamery and a confederation of quaint gift shops called Wildwycke Village. A microfilm service for hospitals took up residence in the Colonel’s chicken farm, but it too has relocated.

The Colonel’s legacy continues to ripple down through the ages. In an ironic footnote, the Turner painting that he gave his estranged nephew, Harry Payne Bingham, sold for $6.4 million at auction in 1980, fetching the highest price for any work of art at the time. “I’m just staggered,” said the owner, Flora Whitney Miller.

The Whitney family continued to prosper, in part because of the Colonel’s wealth. Payne Whitney and his descendants continue to give heavily to the Cornell Medical College. Subsequent Whitneys have other success stories, including ownership of the New York Mets.

Miss Larson was set up with millions in stocks by Payne before he died. But, according to Elizabeth Burroughs, she was deceived by swindlers and left only with the house in Staatsburgh that the Colonel had helped her purchase and the more modest income that Payne’s heirs gave her.

The legendary Aphrodite had an even sadder fate. Not long before the Colonel died, he offered his favorite possession to the US Navy for wartime use. She was painted grey, and the contents of her Stanford White-designed interior were stored in a Long Island warehouse.

Vincent Astor, whose great-uncle had owned Colonel Payne’s West Park estate before him, served as a junior officer on board. But while the Aphrodite was away, the Long Island warehouse burned, taking the Colonel’s memories with it.

– Julie O’Connor

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A perigee or “SuperMoon” looks like every other Full Moon.

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.

Friday

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8am-5pm 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.

8:30am-10am Honoring Women’s History Month & Title IX Legacy. A discussion marking Women’s History Month that continues NPT’s advocacy of equity, diversity and inclusion in nonprofit leadership. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston. Info: 917-699-4493, susan@susanjragusa.com, bit.ly/2HVKgKT. 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-12pm Little Explorers: Winter Tracks & Traces. For kids age 2-6. We’ll meet at one of our Conservation Areas, read a story, then go for a short hike and explore nature together. We’ll ask questions, examine plants, look for wildlife, and learn about clouds and who lives in and around the pond! Registration: Hannah.Schiller@clctrust.org. Ooms Conservation Area, 480 Rock City Rd., Chatham.

10am Wappinger Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. The show continues through 3/15. Info: Info: 845-6329955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms,

160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

10am Kingston Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. The show continues through 3/15. Info: 845-336-6300. Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

11:30am-1:30pm Friday Soups. Soup and some stimulating conversations! New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz.

Info: 8456258087, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com.

12pm-5pm Private Past Life Regression and Angelic Channeled Sessions. With past life therapist and archangelic medium Margaret Doner. First Friday of Every Month at Mirabai.

Please indicate whether Past Life Regression or Angelic Channeling Session upon registration. $125 for 90 minute session. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/1 hour, $30/30 minutes.

12pm-1pm Heal Well Focus Team Meeting.

First Fridays. Conference Room #1, 3rd Floor.

Mission: To promote complete physical, mental and social well-being in the City of Kingston.

Kingston City Hall, 420 Broadway, Kingston. livewellkingston.org.

12:30pm-6pm Crystal Attunements and Chakra Attunements with Owl Medicine Woman, Mary Vukovic. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call ahead for appointment. Astrology Chart Readings available (by appointment).

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $30/30 minutes,.

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.

4pm Clash Royale: Tips & Tricks. An introduction to the free multiplayer online game. If you’ve never played, we’ll help you get started. If you already play, this is a chance to build a clan with other players. Teens welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

6pm-7pm March Learn to Swing Dance in Newburgh with Got2Lindy. Four week beginner swing dance class begins March 6 with Linda and Chester Freeman. No partner needed.

Maximum Fitness, 59 N Plank Rd, Newburgh.

Info: 845-236-3939, dancing@got2lindy.com, got2lindy.com. four-week series.

6pm-8pm Opening Reception: Historic Hudson Valley Architecture & Landscape Design. 2nd annual photography exhibit & sale.

Curated by celebrated Hudson Valley artist, gallerist and curator Franc Palaia. Exhibits through 4/26. Montgomery Row Art Exhibition Space, 6423 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. calvertvaux.org.

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In order of nearness, the six closest Full Moons of 2020 are the ones in April, October, March, November, September and May, respectively. That one in May, distancewise, earns sixth place out of the year’s 13 Full Moons. It’s right in the middle. It’s the year’s average Full Moon in terms of nearness. So why would anyone call that a “SuperMoon?”

Yet there it is, the third member in this supposed springtime trio of them.

It’s no wonder the world’s astrophysicists – and the pages of my magazine, Astronomy – ignore that term. We regard it as a form of hype. After all, “super” explicitly means something extraordinary, as in Superman or Super Bowl. Yet here we have a very normallooking Full Moon that could easily let down those who look up and then see nothing out of the ordinary. And as someone who very much wants people to gaze at the heavens, I feel that disappointment is the last thing astronomy needs.

So now you know why you’ll never see that term on this page.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

6pm-7:30pm “First Friday” Shabbat Dinner.

Family-friendly Kiddush, candle-lighting, singing, and blessings. Dairy/vegetarian potluck dinner. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

6:30pm-8:30pm Jewish Renewal Shabbat Service. Joyful, musical, spiritual, and meditative services open to everyone. Vibrant, heartcentered, and soulful. Woodland Pond, Woodland Pond Circle, New Paltz. Info: 845-477-5457, hello@kolhai.org, kolhai.org.

6:30pm-9pm Hilma af Klint Exhibition.

Artworks by Swedish spiritual avant-garde pioneer, Hilma af Klint never before shown in North America. Lightforms, 743 Columbia St., Hudson. Info: 518-822-1003, info@lightformsartcenter.com, lightformsartcenter.com. Free.

6:30pm-10pm Beacon Sloop Club Potluck Meeting. Meets every 1st Friday of the month at 6:30pm! Open meeting at 7:30pm, followed by a Song Circle. Everyone welcomed. Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr, Beacon. beaconsloopclub. org. Free.

6:45pm-8:30pm Children & Teen Ministries.

Meets Fridays: 6:45-8:30pm. Class for adults also offered. Info: 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com. Grace Bible Fellowship Church, Rt9 & Rt9G, Rhinebeck.

7pm-11:30pm Documentary: Icepick To The Moon. Special Screening of cult figure, Fred Lane. Q&A w/ director. Performances by: Gregory

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edia outlets such as Earth and Sky are saying that we are entering a “SuperMoon season,” with three SuperMoons in a row, on March 9, April 8 and May 7. Yet there’s no mention of this in any of the world’s astronomical publications. Something strange seems to be afoot.

Understanding what’s happening is actually simple. The Moon’s elliptical orbit ensures that it is continually changing its distance from us. Moreover, its orbital shape itself alters depending on whether its egglike long axis is, on any particular day, aimed toward the Sun. The Moon’s changing distance is never noticeable to the eye. Even serious Moonwatchers cannot tell whether it’s closer or farther from us than average. So a lunar “near approach” (called “perigee”) is visually a non-event, and nobody except fishermen and others concerned with tides ever cared to keep track until a few years ago.

That’s when someone created the term “SuperMoon” as a synonym for lunar perigee.

The catchy label proved irresistible to many in the media, who started displaying banner headlines urging readers, “Don’t miss tonight’s SuperMoon!” Photographers jumped on the bandwagon with telephoto or Photoshopped images depicting truly enormous Moons.

The problem: There’s never anything to see. A perigee or “SuperMoon” looks like every other Full Moon. Nonetheless, some writers, apparently discontent with only having one SuperMoon every few years, reserved for times when the Moon comes especially close, have greatly expanded its use so that here we are now, supposedly beginning a season with three of them!

Stovetop & Blood and Stomach Pills. The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-399-2491, kidbusy@gmail.com.

Suggested donation. Everyone welcome!

7pm-9pm Champagne for Caesar. Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, and Art Linkletter star in a hilarious film about a genius game show contestant. Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. Info: 845-647-5511, info@shadowlandstages.org, shadowlandstages. org. Purchase online in advance or at the door.

7pm Live @ The Falcon: Chris O’Leary Band.

An incendiary blues band of seasoned players.

Opener: Jaxx Café. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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.

7pm-8:30pm First Friday Concert Series.

Local musicians offer a community benefit concert. Admission by free will donation. Christ’s Lutheran Church, 26 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2336, bulletin@christwoodstock. org, bit.ly/2gaSj9e.

7pm Star Nations Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch. Meets

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monthly on the 1st Friday of each month, 7pm.

Info: 845-331-2662 or Symbolic-Studies.org. $5 suggested donation. Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson.

Tickets start at $15. Fisher Center at Bard, 60 Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter@bard.edu, bit.ly/ ripopera.

8pm-10pm Rest in Pieces: In Memory of Opera.

A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of renowned composers.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Johnny Dowd. American alt-country “Trashabilly”. Opener: George Spafford. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Underground, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

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9am-1pm First AID, CPR/AED training. Take advantage of our training program to help protect the safety and health of your employees. The first aid section includes first aid basics and information on medical, injury and environmental emergencies. The CPR section presents basic adult CPR and covers the proper use of AEDs in cardiac and breathing emergencies. Pre-registration required.

Cost: $120. Info & registration: apps.sunyulster. edu/courses/DCB,2134. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

10 minutes from Woodstock!

9am-1pm Let’s Bike Newburgh: Plan to Pedal.

To promote the lifelong benefits of bicycling— with an emphasis on social equity, youth and women. Featuring interactive talks by “Brown Bike Girl” Courtney Williams. Newburgh Armory Unity Center, 321 S. William St., Newburgh.

9am-12pm Forest Health Workshop. Join the Columbia Land Conservancy and other forest professionals to learn about pests and pathogens that can impact your forest, like emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid, and others.

Copake Grange, 628 Empire Rd., Copake. Info: 518-755-9642; clctrust.org/event/forest-healthworkshop.

9am Teen Hiking Club Beginning This Spring.

Teens ages 14-18 will get a trail name, 3500’ peak challenge, learn outdoor skills, leave no trace, adopt a lean-to, Catskills all trail challenge, learn trail maintenance. Meets every Tuesday. Led by NYS Licensed Guide Moe Lemire. Info: 845-2545469; info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill.

9:30am-10:30am Centering Prayer and Meditation. A receptive method of silent prayer. People of all faiths are welcome and no previous medita-

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tion experience is required. St Gregory’s Church, 2578 Route 212, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8800, matthew.stgregorys@gmail.com. free.

10am Poughkeepsie Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Info: 845-4544330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

10am Newburgh Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Info: 845-5690303. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300.

10am Wappinger Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Daryl David, The Country Gardener, will be there from 10am-2pm. Children’s seed starting 11am3pm. The show continues through 3/15. Info: Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

10am Kingston Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Children’s seed starting 11am-3pm. The show continues through 3/15.

Info: 845-336-6300. Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

10am-12pm Winter Survival Workshop. Woodstock Land Conservancy invites you to learn how to survive in the winter outdoors. Registration required. Info & registration: ellier.wlc@gmail. com. Israel Wittman Sanctuary, end of Old Sawmill Rd., Saugerties. Info: ellier.wlc@gmail. com, bit.ly/2VCJWJ6. Free.

10am-11:30am Jewish Renewal Generations Shabbat. Family-friendly, multi-generational, musical service with singing, sharing, and teaching from the Torah. Kol Hai, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-477-5457, hello@kolhai.org, kolhai.org.

10am-12pm Marist Graduate Admission Spring Open House. Physical Therapy and Physician’s Assistant, as well as, all non-health related programs will be featured in the Lowell Thomas Building. Campus tours and refreshments will be available. Marist College, Allied Health Building, 29 Beck Road, Poughkeepsie. marist.edu.

10am-3pm Coffee’s Ready with Polly. Weekly baked goodies & good conversation. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org.

10am-12pm Shabbat Morning Services. Music filled services and Torah study. Connect to tradition and open your heart. Family’s welcome.

Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2218, info@ wjcshul.org, wjcshul.org.

10:30am-12:30pm Ukulele Lesson & Jam. Meets the first Saturday of the month for a uke lesson and jam, from beginners to more advanced players. Ukes available to borrow. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. phoenicialibrary. org. FREE. 10:30am-11:30am Silent Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence. Sponsored by The Kingston Women in Black. Meet outside Cornell St PO. Cornell St PO, Kingston.

11am-3pm Repair Cafe. Bring your beloved but broken items to our Repair Café where volunteers will help you fix your bike, computer, electronics, lamps, clothes, jewelry, and more for FREE! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

11am-4pm Adams Food Show. Each year we host our Food Shows (within the Garden Shows) and feature dozens of local food vendors, sample their products, and offer a unique Hudson Valley experience that combines gourmet food with a stunning landscape. Admission is free for all.

Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240 Route 300.

11am Drop-In Snowshoe Lessons at Sam’s Point Preserve. Weather permitting. It is designed for people who are beginners, interested in trying snowshoeing as a new winter activity.

Each session will be run by a Sam’s Point employee. Info: 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor.

11am-1pm Laurie Berkner Greatest Hits Solo Show. Bestselling, award-winning children’s recording artist, Laurie Berkner is widely recognized as the uncrowned queen of children’s music.

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, 1008 Brown St, Peekskill. Info: 914-739-0039, boxoffice@ paramounthudsonvalley.com, paramounthudsonvalley.com.

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 Live @ the Falcon: Valley Central High Lab Band Benefit Concert Lunch. Student showcase to support Zylofone Studio. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

12pm-3pm Intro to Rug Hooking (Part 1). Learn the fundamentals of punch needle rug hooking with Rose Pearlman. Drop Forge & Tool, 442 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: katharine@dropforgeandtool.com, bit.ly/31uc16i. includes rug hooking kit.

12:30pm-6:45pm Tarot Readings and Expert Palmistry every Saturday with Stephanie.

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dams Fairacre Farms has a sweet tradition of mounting Lawn and Garden Shows at each of its locations just when we need them the most: in the dead of winter. The annual shows take place in each store’s greenhouse and feature live plants and shrubs that have been forced to bloom for our delight.

Talking with manager Mike Paesano at the Kingston store, I learned that each Adams – Kingston, Newburgh, Wappinger and Poughkeepsie – has its own landscape design team that puts together the displays. They close down the greenhouse after the holidays and start moving in hardscaping elements and mulch to create the displays of trees and shrubs and flowers.

“Everything is organized in each location,” says Paesano. “We’ve been doing it for a while now, and every year we tweak it a little more – take mental and written notes on what we can do for next year to make it a little better. I love it. It’s the best ten days of the year for our store, I think. Not businesswise; it’s just a great feeling. Customers look forward to it. They pull into the parking lot and know they’re going to feel spring. They can sit in here, have lunch and enjoy their day anytime from Friday to the following Sunday.”

“We’ll have vendors from different types of garden organizations for the whole weekend: Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It’s just beautiful. The landscaping division put together a different design this year, with walkways and water features. And we’re going to have a nice area to show our respects for Donald Adams, who passed this past year.”

This is the third year that the Kingston store will have a wedding display. Brides can talk with the floral designers on staff, check out the wedding-cake display and have a sample cupcake on Saturday, March 7. “On the back end, we’ll have a food show with local food vendors and a band on Saturday, March 14 from 11 to 3. Tents will be wrapped around this greenhouse.

People can come inside and have a snack, listen to some live music.”

The Lawn and Garden Show inspires home gardeners to reimagine their patios, ponds, walkways and wherever they might put any of the hundreds of flowering spring bulbs, annuals, trees and shrubs from the greenhouses. Knowledgeable garden staffers will be on hand to answer questions. The Lawn and Garden Show is free and also includes seminars, giveaways and free raffles. Click on a store location for information on vendors, events, giveaways and more.

“The show is something that Mr. Adams put together 40 years ago. It’s special to all of us because we know how much it meant to him. This showcases what he loved,” says Paesano.

There’s still time to check out the Lawn and Garden Shows in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, ending on Sunday, March 8. In Kingston and Wappinger, the shows begin on Friday, March 6 and run through Sunday, March 15. Check the website for talks and demos, such as seed-starting for kids, and the food shows being held at each of the four locations: https://adamsfarms. com/events. And in another Adams’ endeavor, the Kingston store is currently accepting pet food and pet supplies for the Ulster County SPCA throughout the month of March. Just drop off your donation at their Kingston office and they'll deliver it to the animal shelter for you.

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ment. 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-4pm Let’s Bike Poughkeepsie: Plan to Pedal. To promote the lifelong benefits of bicycling—with an emphasis on social equity, youth and women. Featuring interactive talks by “Brown Bike Girl” Courtney Williams. Family Partnership Center, 29 N. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie.

Registration required: eventbrite.com/e/letsbike-hudson-valley-featuring-courtney-williamsthe-brown-bike-girl-tickets-94027068493.

1pm-3pm The Enneagram of Personality. A 6-week class, taught on Saturdays, will focus on the ancient typology which maps out the nine fundamental types of human nature. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Rt 212, Woodstock.

1pm-4pm Hudson Valley Sudbury School Open House. Come check out our unique program of self-directed democratic education! Students, staff, and parents will be on hand to offer tours and answer questions. We’ll have plenty of good healthy snacks to munch too. Info: 845-6791002. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, 84 Zena Rd, Kingston. sudburyschool.com.

1pm-2:30pm Animal Tracks for Kids at Sam’s Point. Make your very own plaster track of one of the many types of animals that live at Sam’s Point. While the tracks are drying, we will hike

up to the Sam’s Point Overlook, looking for signs of animals along the way. This hike is just over one mile roundtrip. All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 18. Meet at the Sam’s Point Visitor Center. Preregistration is required by calling Sam’s Point at 845-647-7989. Sam’s Point Preserve, 400 Sam’s Point Road, Cragsmoor.

1pm-3pm Tea and Tarot. Intuitive and accurate readings, 1-3pm Saturday and Sunday. Call 845-750-4169 or drop in. 7 Maple Lane, Woodstock.

1pm-4pm Announcing the 2020 Penny Social for Animal Rescue Foundation. Raising money to support to ARF Beacon animals. Gift baskets, collectibles and gift certificates to be raffled.

Tickets: $1 for 25. VFW Hall, 413 Main Street, Beacon. Info: 845-831-5161, arfbeacon@optonline.net, arfbeacon.org. free.

1pm-3pm Scrabble at the Library. Held each Saturday in the Art Books Room. Come play with old friends or come play and make new friends!

Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock.

1pm Read to Stella. A certified therapy dog.

Walk-ins welcome. Discover the joy of reading aloud and improving your reading skills. Meets the 1st Saturday of each month at 1pm. Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

1:30pm-5pm Census 2020 Jobs Fair & Voter Registration. Residents can apply for 2020 Census jobs that pay in the $23/hour range and offer flex hours. Also, a voter registration table

will be set up. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Rt 212, Woodstock. Info: 917-763-3938, scott. widmeyer@widmeyer.com.

2pm-4pm Envisioning A Green New Deal for Ulster County. The event is open to the public, free and handicap accessible (ADA compliant).

The panel will include: Andres Bernal, economic and energy policy advisor for Alexandria OcasioCortez; Jen Metzger, NYS Senator (Dist 42); championing a green, renewable, sustainable future for New York State in the NYS Senate; Jonathan Bix, Executive Director, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson; speaking about Utility Justice Campaign and Energy Democracy Alliance efforts in the Mid-Hudson Valley. For more information, please contact Penny (ppcoleman@gmail.com).

Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston.

2pm Stories of the O&W. The O&W Railway ran through the heart of Ulster County. Gail Whistance has collected stories and “then & now” photographs of each station along the route as it made its way from Spring Glen to the end of the line at Kingston. All Friends of Historic Saugerties talks are free and open all.

Info: 845-246-4317. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

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,

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mous. 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.

premier listings Contact Donna at Donna.ulsterpublishing@gmail.com to be included Anxiety & Stress Solutions for Everyone Class (3/26, 6:30-7:30pm).

Learn how to reduce and eliminate anxiety and stress in this class. This class is taught by Dan Globus, Director and lead Meditation teacher of The Compassion Center. Dan has successfully taught hundreds of people throughout New York City how to reduce and eliminate their anxiety and stress. Dan now calls Woodstock his home and has made a commitment to teach Meditation and healing techniques to as many as he can to help them to be free of the challenges they face in their lives. Recurs on Sunday, March 29 from 11am-12pm. Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock. By donation. Info: 888-377-7761; info@thecompassioncenter.com; dan@thecompassioncenter.com. Note: Please be considerate to others and show up 15 minutes prior to the class start time. Please be considerate to others and show up 15 minutes prior to the class start time.

Learn How to Meditate Class (3/19, 6:30-7:30pm). Do you know how to meditate? This class is taught by Dan Globus, Director and lead Meditation teacher of The Compassion Center.

Dan has successfully taught hundreds of people throughout New York City how to meditate. He now calls Woodstock his home and has made a commitment to teach Meditation to as many as he can to help them to be free of the challenges they face in their lives. Recurs once on Sunday, March 22 from 11am-12pm. Mountain View

Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave, Woodstock. By donation. Info: 888-3777761; info@thecompassioncenter. com; dan@thecompassioncenter.com.

Note: Please be considerate to others and show up 15 minutes prior to the class start time.

Lydia’s Events. Located at 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge, 845-687-6373; lydias-cafe.com.

Music on Market. Coffeehouse, 40 Market Street, Ellenville. $10/pp including light refreshments.

Centering Prayer (Wednesdays, 5:30-7pm). Offering a space to take a break from the world’s noise, listen for something greater than ourselves and access a deeper wisdom. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

New Meeting: Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) Meeting. Similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, has been formed and will be meeting every Thursday, 6pm-7pm in the Conference Room @ The Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St Red Hook Info: EDAHudsonValley@gmail.com.

Ulster County Master Gardeners’ Spring Seedling Sale. Perennials, Peach Trees and More. The deadline for orders is March 13, 2020 but act now so you won’t be disappointed.

2020 Pick-up dates: Thursday April 30, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday May 1, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday May 2, 2019, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pick-up your order at Cornell Cooperative Extension Office, Kings-

and preregistration is not required. Info: managingdirector@kagyu.org or 845-679-1091. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

3pm-5pm MediSounds® Sound Bath Meditation Workshop. The Great Octave Foundation and Unison present MediSounds Sound Meditation theory and practice. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-2551559, ally@unisonarts.org, bit.ly/3a4lAvB. $25.

3pm-6pm Extra Effort: A Paul Heath Retrospective. The celebration of Paul Heath’s accomplishment in creating 104 paintings over the course of 2019. Gallery Fifty5, 55 Greenkill Ave, Kingston. galleryfifty5.com/events.

3pm-5pm Opening Reception: Large Works.

An exhibit celebrating works made on a grand scale. Curated from an open call, works included in this exhibit include landscapes, abstract and sculptures on an oversized scale. Exhibits through 4/11. Walt Meade Gallery of the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury. roxburyartsgroup.org.

3pm Catskill Diversity March. March down Main Street to Bridge Street to show the cohesiveness and diverse community of the Catskills.

After, we will round off the celebration at the Catskill Community Center with an all-ages dance party starting at 3:30pm. There will be Diversity Disco at The Avalon starting at 7pm. Meet at the county lot across from the Avalon Lounge (south side lot of 411 Main St.) on Church Street in Catskill. Free.

3pm-5pm Utopian Living: Byrdcliffe Artists in Residence Exhibition Opening Reception.

This arts exhibition will feature a wide range of works by Byrdcliffe’s 2019 Artists in Residence.

Show will exhibit through 3/29. Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2079, derin@woodstockguild.org, woodstockguild.org.

4pm-6pm Women & Earth with Sally Bermanzohn and Sarah Elisabeth. A talk about Native American women as farmers and leaders in the Eastern Woodlands, and the Wise Woman Tradition. A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Library, 43 Gill St, Kingston. Info: 845 802-0035, africanrootslibrary@outlook.com, bit.ly/32H3FIQ. 5pm-7pm Opening Reception: Henry Hudson’s Timeless River. Works by watercolor artist Raymond Curran. Exhibit runs through April 19. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston.

5pm-6pm Library Forum: Holly GeorgeWarren. Holly George-Warren reading from her highly acclaimed biography Janis: Her Life and Music. The book has been longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for excellence. Contact: sondra@woodstock.org. Woodstock Library, 5 Library Lane, Woodstock. woodstock.org.

5pm-9pm Masters at The Lace Mill II. A collection of some of the most notable artists in our area, Kate McGloughlin, Chris Gonyea, Karen O’Neil, Tricia Cline & more. Gallery hours are weekends noon to 4pm. Info: 347-387-6874; jwcornbroom@gmail.com. Lace Mill, 165 Cornell St, Kingston.

5pm-8pm Opening Reception: FemGens.

FemGens is an intergenerational show featuring six female artists from different backgrounds.

ton. See details: ulster.cce.cornell. edu/2020seedlingsale.

The 21st Annual Spring Garden Day - 2020 Garden Vision. April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Features 16 classes and a keynote address by Dr. Margaret Ronsheim, Professor of Biology at Vassar College. Dr. Ronsheim will focus on the history and evolution of the gardens at Vassar that were first planted in 1919 to study ecosystems. Dig your hands into topics that will have you looking at your 2020 garden with fresh eyes and a “can do” attitude. Pre-registration is highly recommended as classes fill up fast. For complete details and registration visit ulster.cce.cornell.edu/ GardenDay2020. The cost for the day is $50 in advance; $55 at the door. A catered lunch is available and must be purchased upon registering, or you can bring your own. Info: 845-340-3990 x335 or email dm282@cornell.edu.

Signing with Comic Writer Christopher Hastings (Every Wednesday, 4-7pm). October Country Comics, 246 Main St #15, New Paltz. Info: octobercountrycomics.com.

Trivia Sing-A-Long with Michael Dell (Every Wednesday, 6-9pm ).

Food, drinks, music & trivia! For reservations, call 845-334-2828 or text Dino at 845-332-6189. Vigneto Cafe Restaurant, 80 Vineyard Ave, Highland.

Live @ Lydia’s Cafe. Info: 845-6876373; lydias-cafe.com. Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209 Stone Ridge.

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Info: 845-338-0333; celebratewomxn845@ gmail.com. Art Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. askforarts.org.

5pm-8pm Opening Reception - Paper Trail: Art On Paper. 40+ local artists are participating in this exhibition of work made on or with paper.

Monotypes by Susanna Ronner will be featured.

Exhibit runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through March 29th. Emerge Gallery, 228 Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845-247-7515, emergegalleryny@gmail.com, bit.ly/2PuW2kp.

5pm-9pm Opening Reception: Monotype Modern. Pinkwater Gallery presents a survey of monotype work by three area abstract artists: Susanna Ronner, Wendy Stefanelli and Joan Ffolliott. Pinkwater Gallery | Uptown Kingston, 56 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY. Info: anne@pinkwatergallery.com, pinkwatergallery.com.

5pm-8pm First Saturday Arts in Kingston.

Gallery receptions offer a glimpse of what Kingston has to offer. Events throughout the year include live music, open studio tours, theatrical performances, historical reenactments, arts and culture activities. Various Kingston locations.

Info: 845-338-0331; artsalongthehudson.com/ kingston.

6pm-8pm Saugerties Film Society presents Musical March. Top Hat, screwball musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with music by Irving Berlin, 1935, 101 mins.

Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845-246-4317. Free.

6:30pm-8:30pm Art Exhibit: The Contemporary Art of Quilting. Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann St, Newburgh. annstreetgallery.org.

7pm-9pm Climate Action Film Festival by SunCommon. Come celebrate climate action with the first film festival to celebrate solutions.

All proceeds to local climate organizations. Story Screen Beacon, 445 Main Street, Beacon. Info: 866-452-7652, HVcommunity@suncommon.com, bit.ly/caffstoryscreen. suggested donation.

Upcoming Events at Mirabai! For details and upcoming events log onto mirabai.com. Mirabai of Woodstock Unique gifts, books & more. 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.

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.

Route 300.

10am Wappinger Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Children’s seed starting 11am-3pm. The show continues through 3/15. Info: 845-632-9955. Wappinger’s Falls: Adams Fairacre Farms, 160 Old Post Rd, Wappinger Falls.

7:30pm-10:30pm Swing Dance with Soul Purpose. Swing dance includes beginner swing dance lesson at 7:30-8 pm. All are welcome. No partner or experience needed. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. Info: 845-2363939, dancing@got2lindy.com, got2lindy.com. $20.

8pm-10pm MediSounds® Sound Bath Meditation Concert. Experience the power of the human voice to open the doorways to healing and transformation. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-1559, ally@ unisonarts.org, bit.ly/3a4lAvB. $15.

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.

8pm Live @ The Falcon: Scott Sharrard.

Touring guitarist for the Gregg Allman Band.

Opener: Telepathic Moon Dance. Info: 845-2367970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

8:30pm-11:30pm Fishbowl. Bring your 70’s vibe and dancing shoes. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com.

Pass the basket.

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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.

9:30am The Private Herman Siegel Post 625 Jewish War Veterans of The United States of America Meeting. All person of the Jewish faith are cordially invited to attend and participate. At each meeting we host an informal coffee and cake schmooze at 9:00 AM. Because the congregation is strictly kosher no food or drink may be brought into the facility. Follow our Post on Facebook. We have your six. Congregation Schomre Israel, 18 Park Ave, Poughkeepsie.

7:30pm-10:30pm English Country Dance.

Following potluck supper at 5:30 and workshop at 7, Gary Roodman and Lindsay Morgan will teach and call English Country dances. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen.

Info: 845-454-2571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail.com, hudsonvalleydance.org. $10

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.

7:30pm-9:30pm DJ Mr. Chips is Spinning Soul and Funk! Come join us for a gnarly Saturday night with DJ Mr. Chips spinning some soul and funk, while the rest of us sit back with a cold beer! Rough Draft Bar & Books, 82 John Street, Kingston. Info: 845-802-0027, roughdraftbar@ gmail.com.

7pm-8:30pm Gong Surrender. Sense the feeling of your body transform into a feeling of no body as we surrender to the gongs and allow them to do their work. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $25.

7:30pm Music on Market - In Honor of Women’s Day. Featuring the B2’s!Coffeehouse, 40 Market Street, Ellenville. $10/pp including light refreshments.

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.

adults; $5 full time students.

9am-5pm Purim Celebration. A fun-filled Day! Purim performance featuring our religious school students. Carnival featuring lots of games and prizes. Food, drinks & hamantaschen for lunch.

Plus Magician Andy Weintraub will be doing an all ages show for us at noon. Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North St, Newburgh.

7pm-11:30pm Open Mic/Open Stage Acoustic Evening. Meets the first Saturday of each month.

The Gallery, 128 Main St, Stamford. touhey.com. $5.

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 have: 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.

10am Poughkeepsie Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Info: 845-4544330. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

10am Newburgh Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Info: 845-5690303. Newburgh: Adams Fairacres Farms, 1240

10am Kingston Adams Annual Lawn & Garden Show. Vendors, knowledgeable staff and garden experts from throughout the region are there to answer all your questions. Daryl David, The Country Gardener, will be there from 10am-2pm.

Children’s seed starting 11am-3pm. The show continues through 3/15. Info: 845-336-6300.

Kingston: Adams Fairacre Farms, 1560 Ulster Ave, Lake Katrine.

10am-4pm 2nd Annual Kingston Women’s Bike Festival. Day of workshops for women new to cycling. Headliner: Courtney Williams, the Brown Bike Girl. RSVP for free lunch, raffles & child care. Everette Hodge Community Center, 21 Franklin St, Kingston. Info: 845-334-3909, eflynn@kingston-ny.gov, bit.ly/KWBikeFest.

10am-1pm Intro to Rug Hooking (Part 2). The second day of Rose Pearlman’s rug hooking workshops will go over ways to repurpose clothing to make rug hooking fiber. Drop Forge & Tool, 442 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: katharine@dropforgeandtool.com, bit.ly/2S7dzjE. $130.

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.

11am-4pm Adams Food Show. Each year we host our Food Shows (within the Garden Shows) and feature dozens of local food vendors, sample their products, and offer a unique Hudson Valley experience that combines gourmet food with a stunning landscape. Admission is free for all. Poughkeepsie: Adams Fairacre Farms, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie.

11am Mid-Hudson ADK: Catskill Visitor Center Hike & Fire Tower. Moderate Hike or Snowshoe, 1.5 miles. Leader: John Ragusa 917-6921159 or john.ragusa@bnymellon.com. Confirm with Leader. Heavy rain or snow cancels. Bring micro-spikes (required whether needed or not) or snowshoes if there’s snow on the ground. Bring picnic lunch. Catskill Visitor Center, 5096 Route 28, Mount Tremper.

11am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ the Falcon: Dave Keyes Solo. Top drawer keysman & vocalist. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. live@thefalcon.com.

11am-3pm Sunday Funday. Open recreation!

Pool table, Foosball and ping pong. Meets every Sunday. Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main St, Pine Hill. pinehillcommunitycenter.org. FREE. 11am-12pm Conversations Over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail. com, bit.ly/2xYW0bq.

11:30am-3:30pm UCSPCA Kitten Shower. Come

14 to our Kitten Shower and bring crucial supplies for our new spring kittens! Info: 845-331-5377; info@ucspca.org. Ulster County SPCA, Kingston.

12pm-5pm Second Sunday with Art Lab. Free admission for all on the second Sunday of each month. From 1 to 3 pm, our educators host a free gallery and art-making activity. The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren Street, Glens Falls. Info: 518-792-1761, frontofhouse@hydecollection.org, hydecollection.org. Free.

12pm-3pm Screening of Hidden Figures for International Women’s Day. Celebrate International Women’s Day with popcorn and a screening of Hidden Figures. Please call 845-647-5530 to register. Ellenville Public Library & Museum, 40 Center St, Ellenville. eplm.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 Voyager Tarot and Psychic Readings with Sarvananda. Walk-ins warmly welcome or call for appointment. 40 years of experience as a psychic and mastery of the tarot. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. $50/ one hour, $30/30minutes.

legal notices LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed proposals will be received at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Friday April 10th, 2020 at 4:00 PM for DESIGN OF PERRINES BRIDGE RFP-UC20-017. Specifications and conditions may be obtained at the above address or on our website at UlsterCountyNY.Gov/purchasing.

Ed Jordan, Ulster County Director of Purchasing LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS: Sealed competitive offers will be received, publicly opened and read at the Ulster County Purchasing Department, 244 Fair Street, 3rd Floor, Kingston, NY 12401 on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM for Rental of Uniforms and Misc. Items, BID #RFCO-UC20-021. 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 IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on December 18, 2019, deemed approved by the County Executive on January 17, 2020, and filed with the State of New York on January 29, 2020, 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: March 5, 2020 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 1 Of 2020 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Include Mandatory Food Scraps Composting By Large Generators BE IT ENACTED, by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 304 of the Code of the County of Ulster is hereby amended to include a new article, Article IV, which shall read as follows: Article IV – Food Waste Prevention and Recovery Section 304-45. SHORT TITLE. This Local Law shall be known by and may be cited as “Food Waste Prevention and Recovery Act.” Section 304-46. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The County of Ulster is dedicated to conserving resources and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, waste, litter, and pollution.

The Ulster County Legislature has actively been considering and implementing laws aimed at sustainability and protecting our environment.

In 2015, Ulster County established a sustainable green fleet policy to reduce emissions, decrease costs, and increase efficiency. Also in 2015, the County began regulating the use of polystyrene foam disposable food service ware by food service establishments in the County. On July 15, 2019, Ulster County will begin regulating the use of single use plastic carryout bags, another measure aimed at reducing the amount of plastic that can end up in our environment through litter,

ALMANAC WEEKLY 12:30pm A Lenten Study. A discussion dealing with your concerns about death and dying. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-246-2867. Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St, Saugerties.

1pm Short Films: Hudson Valley Women Artists in Their Own Voice. Kingston-based filmmaker and historian Stephen Blauweiss will present his short films featuring past and present female artists and artisans from around the Hudson Valley. The films showcase a wide variety of styles, disciplines, and mediums, including painting, photography, glass work, metalsmithing, installations, children’s book illustration, and silkscreening. Info: 845-339-7834; stephen@ blauweissmedia.com. Upstate Films Rhinebeck, 6415 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. blauweissmedia.com. $10.

1pm-4:30pm Hike the Mossy Glen Footpath at Minnewaska. Approximately four-mile hike along the Peter’s Kill stream, through mixed forests and across exposed quartz conglomerate rock. Meet in the Awosting Parking Area. Preregistration is required by calling 845-255-0752.

Minnewaska Preserve, Gardiner.

1pm-4pm 2nd Annual Experience the Power of Women. Art, music, poetry and spoken word by those who identify as Women. Silent auction to benefit the Family Inn in Kingston. Yard Owl Craft Brewery, 19 Osprey Ln, Gardiner.

Info: ‘-, resisterhoodnewpaltz@gmail.com, bit. ly/38y0Yf1.

845-750-4169 or drop in. 7 Maple Lane, Woodstock.

1pm-2:20pm Exhibition on Screen: Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait. The exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings. The Moviehouse, 48 Main Street, Millerton.

Info: 518-789-0022, events@themoviehouse.net, themoviehouse.net. $14.

1pm-5pm White Eagle Scholarship Dance.

Ballroom music by The Internationals. Threepiece band w/Vocals. Admission: $10 each, includes snacks. Light Lunch, low cost. Info: 845-339-5685; kwereszynski@gmail.com. White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY. 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.

1:30pm-4:30pm Purim Celebration. Includes the megillah, shpiel and carnival. There will also be a costume parade, fun & games and hamentashen. Congregation Emanuel of the Hudson Valley, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. Info: 845-3384271, chevoffice2@gmail.com, cehv.org.

1pm-3pm Tea and Tarot. Intuitive and accurate readings, 1-3pm Saturday and Sunday. Call

2pm-4pm Sonic Explorations w/ Rick Warren & Dane Johnson. The KAC Presents: Sonic Explorations w/ Rick Warren (gtr/electronics) & Dane

windblown debris, and over-flowing trash cans.

Under current consideration in the Ulster County Legislature is a law requiring restaurants and fast food service establishments provide plastic beverage straws solely upon request.

Ulster County was one of the first counties in New York State to receive Climate Smart certification, and continues making it a priority to increase awareness and provide education regarding environmental health.

Food waste is a matter intrinsically linked with the growing challenges of food security, resource and environmental sustainability, and climate change. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, food scraps and yard waste together currently make up about 30 percent of what we throw away. The proposed composting law requires regulated entities to prioritize their diversion practices based on a clearly delineated hierarchy. A significant amount of waste in our landfills should have been composted leaving critical landfill space open for material that cannot be recycled or composted.

Benefits to the County of composting include creation of nutrient rich soil for agriculture and landscaping uses, increased tilth and the ability of soil to retain water and to store greenhouse gases, and reduced erosion.

The Ulster County Legislature believes that banning disposal of food by large food waste generators aligns with Ulster County’s sustainability initiatives and vision. Diverting food waste from disposal to programs for the purpose of providing nourishment to the food insecure, programs to supplement local farms with animal feed, composting to improve soil quality, and/ or conversion to energy is key to a sustainable Ulster County by improving local health, and the county’s environment, and further reduction of its carbon footprint. It will also reduce the waste stream the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency is responsible for disposing of.

This law, commencing July 1, 2020, requires large food waste generators to separate such waste from the general waste stream and then either arrange for its reuse by the food insecure or for animal feed, to it on site, or to arrange for licensed services for the purpose of delivering it to a processing facility for composting or anaerobic digestion. The law will remove food waste generated on an annual basis from the waste stream incrementally from generators producing 2 tons per week to 0.5 tons per week

by April 22, 2023.

The Ulster County Legislature has determined that Ulster County should increase food scrap recycling beyond the basic requirements in New York State’s Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling statute. This local law expands food scrap recycling requirements by regulating generators of smaller amounts of waste, by including schools and hospitals, and through other extensions beyond State law. The Legislature finds that Ulster County has a robust network of facilities ready to accept food scraps for the above mentioned purposes, and that maximizing the removal of food from the waste stream is essential to reducing the overall volume of waste in the County.

The Ulster County Legislature believes education is a fundamental component of this legislation. The law will require the County to identify and recommend actions to address challenges, to encourage the continued viability of the County’s organic waste processing and recycling infrastructure, and to foster partnerships with local municipalities, stakeholders, the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency and other specified state and regional agencies. The law also would allow the County to cooperate with local jurisdictions and organizations to provide assistance for increasing the feasibility of food waste recycling and to identify certain financing mechanisms and state funding incentives.

The additional purpose of this legislation is to implement the food recovery hierarchy in Ulster County as set forth in US Environmental Protection Agency guidance and state legislation.

While this law shall apply to large food waste generators, residential and small-quantity food waste generators are encouraged to reduce food waste and compost organic waste.

The law applies within the boundaries of Ulster County, NY to all food waste generators.

This law is not intended to regulate large food waste generators otherwise regulated under New York State’s Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Act, ECL Art. 27, Tit. 22, and specifically exempts such large food waste generators from the requirements hereunder. The Ulster County Legislature intends this law to supplement the benefits of New York State’s Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling rather than supersede or establish duplicative regulation with such state law.

Section 304-47. FOOD WASTE HIERARCHY. The following hierarchy represents Ulster County’s policy for prioritizing the reduction, reuse and recycling of food scraps. The hierarchy shall be a basis for the County’s education and outreach programs, and all food scraps generators are encouraged to manage food scraps accordingly. Regulated large food scraps generators shall be required to implement the reuse and recycling tiers of the hierarchy, pursuant to the procedures specified in Sections 304-50 and 304-51.

1. The first tier of the hierarchy is source reduction, reducing the volume of surplus food generated. Food scraps generators may follow federal, state or county guidelines or use other methods to reduce spoilage, monitor waste and make other adjustments to reduce food waste and save money.

2. The second tier is recovery, feeding wholesome food to hungry people. Facilities with excess edible food should distribute excess foods for the purpose of providing nourishment to the food insecure through the local network of pantries and soup kitchens and other foodreuse programs in accordance with New York State Sanitary Code Part 14 and Ulster County Sanitary Code Article II. Donations of food are covered under the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996, 42 U.S. Code § 1791.

3. Third is repurposing, feeding animals.

Federal, state and municipal governments and entities regulate the use of food scraps in animal feed by setting requirements which govern the type of animals that may be fed food scraps and the kind of food scraps that may be fed to animals. When done responsibly and in conformity with applicable regulations, feeding food scraps to animals has many economic and environmental benefits.

4. Fourth is recycling, processing any leftover food such as by composting or anaerobic digestion to create a nutrient-rich soil amendment.

The material that is left over from anaerobic digestion must be either composted or land applied. For the purpose of this law, pulverizers and other sink disposal systems are not acceptable alternatives for composting.

Section 304-48. STATUTORY AUTHORITY. This article is adopted pursuant to Section 120-aa of the General Municipal Law and Section 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law. Section 304-49. DEFINITIONS. “AEROBIC” shall mean involving the presence of oxygen.

“AGENCY” shall mean the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency.

“ANAEROBIC” shall mean relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen.

“ANIMAL FEED” shall mean material, of an animal or vegetable origin, prepared as feed for domestic or farm animals.

“CONTAMINATION” shall mean the intermixing of non-compostable material into food waste, so as to render such food waste impossible to compost or to otherwise undermine the composting process.

“DIGESTION” shall mean treatment with heat, enzymes, or a solvent in order to promote

Mar. 5, 2020 Johnson (gtr/electronics) for our Sunday Afternoon series. 2pm. The Kingston Artist Collective & Cafe, 63 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-3992491, kidbusy@gmail.com, facebook.com/.

Suggested Donation. Everyone Welcome!

2pm-3:30pm Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field. Ricarda O’Conner takes you on an exploration of consciousness and intention: how to set it, release it, and hold space for it to manifest. Sage Academy of Sound Energy, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com. $25.

2pm-4pm Middle Way School Open House.

MWS is one of the first Buddhist schools for children in the west enrolling ages 2-10 for the 2020-21 school year. Middle Way School, 268 West Saugerties Rd, Saugerties. Info: 845-2465006, contact@middlewayschool.org, middlewayschool.org.

2pm-3:30pm Film: Woman Who Loves Giraffes. Moving documentary about Dr. Dagg, world’s first giraffologist retracing her journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.

Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale.

Info: 845-658-8989, info@rosendaletheatre. org, rosendaletheatre.org. $10.

2pm 35th Annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Exhibit. This show highlights young children’s interest in the visual arts. On view from 3/8-3/13.

Vassar College Palmer Gallery, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY. Info: 845-437-5370.

2pm Tibetan Ritual Peace Dance Perfor-

decomposition or extract essential components.

“FOOD SCRAPS” shall mean inedible food, trimmings from the preparation of food, foodsoiled paper, and edible food that is not donated.

Food scraps shall not include used cooking oil, yellow grease or food from residential sources, or any food identified in regulations promulgated by the department in consultation with the department of agriculture and markets or any food which is subject to a recall or seizure due to the presence of pathogens, including but not limited to: Listeria Monocytogenes, confirmed Clostridium Botulinum, E. coli and all salmonella in ready-to-eat foods.

“LANDFILL” shall mean a a facility where waste is intentionally placed and intended to remain and which is designed, constructed, operated and closed to minimize adverse environmental impacts.

“LARGE FOOD SCRAPS GENERATOR” shall mean a person, business, entity or institution that generates at a single location an annual average of one-half ton per week or more of food scraps based on a methodology developed by Ulster County. Large food scraps generators may include but are not limited to, supermarkets, food service businesses, hotels, correctional facilities, sports or entertainment venues, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities, caterers and food preparation and processing businesses. For a location with multiple independent food service businesses, such as a mall or college campus, the entity responsible for contracting for solid waste hauling services is responsible for managing food scraps from the independent businesses.

“ORGANICS RECYCLER” shall mean a facility, permitted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, that recycles food scraps through use as animal feed or a feed ingredient, rendering, land application, composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion, fermentation, or ethanol or biogas production. Animal scraps, food soiled paper, and post-consumer food scraps are prohibited for use as animal feed or as a feed ingredient.

The proportion of the product created from food scraps by a composting or digestion facility, including a wastewater treatment plant that operates a digestion facility, or other treatment system, must be used in a beneficial manner as a soil amendment and shall not be disposed of or incinerated.

“POST-CONSUMER FOOD SCRAPS” also known as plate waste, shall mean food that has been served pursuant to its intended final consumer use.

“SINGLE LOCATION” shall mean contiguous property under common ownership, which may include one or more buildings.

“TRANSPORTER” shall mean any person or entity licensed by the New York State Department of Transportation and/or the Department of Health to engage in the business or activity of collecting, storing, and transporting organic waste.

“VECTOR” shall mean any insect, arthropod, rodent, or other animal capable of transmitting the causative agents of human disease, or disrupting the normal enjoyment of life by adversely affecting the public health and well-being.

Section 304-50. APPLICABILITY. Large food scraps generators shall be subject to the requirements of Section 304-51 as of the following dates: Beginning July 1, 2020, a large food scraps generator whose acts or processes produce more than 2 tons per week of food scraps; Beginning January 1, 2021, a large food scraps generator whose acts or processes produce more than 1 ton per week of food scraps; Beginning January 1, 2022, a large food scraps generator whose acts or processes produce more than .75 ton per week of food scraps; and Beginning January 1, 2023, a large food scraps generator whose acts or processes produce more than .5 ton per week of food scraps.

Section 304-51. REQUIREMENTS FOR

Mar. 5, 2020 mance. You are invited to join the Lingdro group of Western meditation students to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Iron Rat, and to remember -Tibetan Uprising Day. The culmination will be a dance of Good Luck in which you, the audience, will be invited to participate. Suggested donation: $10. The Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, 16 S Chestnut St., New Paltz.

3pm-4:30pm Organizing for Victory: Women’s Suffrage in the Empire State. Sally DwyerMcNulty, Professor of American History at Marist College and Vice President of Historic Red Hook, explores the history, strategies, and significance of the campaign for women’s suffrage in the Empire State. Refreshments to follow presentation. Free.

Info: 845-758-1920; info@historicredhook.org.

The Elemendorph Inn, 7562 North Broadway, Red Hook. historicredhook.org.

3pm-5pm Rest in Pieces: In Memory of Opera. A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of renowned composers. Tickets start at $15. Fisher Center at Bard, 60 Manor Avenue, Annandale-on-Hudson. Info: 845-758-7900, fishercenter@bard.edu, bit.ly/ripopera.

3pm-6pm Swing Dance with Crazy Feet! Dance to this popular band with a friendly crowd and great floor! No partner needed. Beginner swing dance lesson 3pm. Band starts at 3:30. $15, $10 for students. Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-4542571, hudsonvalleycommunitydances@gmail. com, hvcd.info/calendar.

LARGE FOOD SCRAPS GENERATORS. A. A large food scraps generator shall separate excess edible food for donation for human consumption to the maximum extent practicable, and in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations related to food donation.

B. A large food scraps generator shall manage food scraps that cannot be donated for human consumption as follows: (1) separate its remaining food scraps from other solid waste; (2) ensure proper storage for food scraps on site which shall preclude such materials from becoming odorous or attracting vectors, such as a container that has a lid and a latch that keeps the lid closed and is resistant to tampering by rodents or other wildlife and has sufficient capacity; (3) have information available and provide training for employees concerning the proper methods to separate and store food scraps; (4) divert food scraps for consumption by animals, to the maximum extent practicable; and (5) for food scraps that cannot be used as animal feed, either (a) obtain a transporter that will deliver food scraps to an organics recycler, (b) self-haul its food scraps to an organics recycler, or (c) provide for organics recycling on-site via in vessel composting, aerobic or anaerobic digestion or any other method of processing organic waste approved by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, for some or all of the food waste it generates on its premises, provided that the remainder is delivered to an organics recycler.

C. If transported, food scraps must be sent to a New York State permitted or registered organics recycler. If the food scraps are transported to an organics recycler outside Ulster County, the large food scraps generator shall inform Ulster County of the destination.

D. Beginning on January 1, 2022, the requirements of paragraph B of this section shall not apply to any designated food scraps generator regulated under section 27-2203 of the Environmental Conservation Law. It shall apply to persons, businesses, institutions and entities not subject to regulation under section 27-2203 of the Environmental Conservation Law. E. Large food scraps generators shall report the amount of food waste they cause to be reused, composted or otherwise beneficially repurposed under this section, and other relevant information specified by Ulster County, on an annual basis, by February 1 of the following year, to Ulster County and the Agency in a form prescribed by the County.

F. Waivers. Ulster County may waive the requirements of paragraph B with respect to post-consumer food scraps if the County determines that a facility is not reasonably able to separate post-consumer food scraps without contamination, or that compliance with the requirements of paragraph B would result in extraordinary financial hardship to the large food scraps generator, or other unique circumstances.

Any waiver granted hereunder shall be for a maximum period of one year and shall include a requirement that the large food scraps generator participate in an education program designed to achieve compliance with this section. Waivers under this paragraph shall not be available to any designated food scraps generator regulated under section 27-2203 of the Environmental Conservation Law. Section 304-52. NOTIFICATION, TRAINING, AND EDUCATION. A. Ulster County or the Agency pursuant to an agreement with the County shall provide educational resources, including periodic guidance, training, updates, signage, and flyers, for any existing food scraps generator for the purposes of teaching and retaining effective procedures for sorting materials for organics. The County may enter into an agreement with the Agency to provide any portion of the training pursuant to this section.

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ALMANAC WEEKLY 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/.

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.

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-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.

4pm-5:30pm Young People Celebrate Women’s History. A student showcase of drama, music, and dance, followed by a brownie reception.

Handicap accessible, family-friendly, and free!

Art Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston.

Info: 845-594-1307, whmkingston@gmail.com, whmk.org/events/.

4pm-6pm Ritz Kidz “Newburgh’s Got Talent” Talent Show. The show features talented youth living within the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. Safe Harbors Lobby at the Ritz, 107 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12550, Newburgh. safe-harbors.org. $5.

4pm-6pm Ulster Activists (U-act) Monthly General Meeting. Join other concerned citizens as we work together on issues such as health care, election reform, and climate change. Meetings every 2nd Sunday of each month. New Paltz Village Hall, Plattekill Ave. New Paltz. Info: 845-901-0258.

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.

B. The County or Agency shall promote best practices for covered large food scraps generators to comply with the requirements of this law, and for all entities and the public to manage excess food, food scraps, and organic waste in a similar manner.

C. The County or Agency may collect and report information to promote improved management of excess food, food scraps and organic waste, including information on practices by covered large food waste generators, other entities and the public, or lists of entities and resources providing assistance for reducing such materials, facilities accepting such materials, or financing mechanisms and incentives available for recovery.

D. Ulster County shall notify large food scraps generators that they are subject to the requirements of section 304-51 at least one month prior to the applicable date of such requirements to the individual large food scraps generator under section 304-50.

Section 304-53. OVERSIGHT. Based on the information received from the annual reports, Ulster County and the Recycling Oversight Committee shall on an annual basis until 2025, consider the prior year’s experience under the law, and in particular, the effectiveness and costs of the implementation of the requirements of Section 304-51 and make a recommendation to the Legislature on whether this law should be modified. At their discretion, these agencies may also consider the statewide experience in implementing New York State’s Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Act, ECL Art. 27, Tit. 22, and any regulations promulgated by the Department of Environmental Conservation thereunder.

Section 304-54. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT. The County Executive shall designate a County department or departments to have responsibility for implementation and enforcement of the requirements of this Chapter. The Director of the designated Department(s) is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations and to take any other action reasonable and necessary to implement and enforce this Chapter, including, but not limited to, investigating violations, issuing fines and entering the premises of any large waste food generator during business hours. A copy of the rules and regulations will be provided to the Clerk of the Legislature before they are publicly disseminated. After July 1, 2020, the Director(s) shall begin efforts to enforce the requirements of section 304-51.

Section 304-55. PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS. A. If it is determined that a large food scraps generator has failed to comply with any requirement of this Chapter, a written warning notice will be issued to the operator of the large food scraps generator including the potential penalties that will apply for future violations.

The County may provide educational services to assist in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.

B. Any large food scraps generator that violates or fails to comply with any of the requirements of this Chapter after a written warning notice has been issued for that violation shall be guilty of a violation.

C. If a large food scraps generator has subsequent violations of this Chapter that are similar in kind to the violation addressed in a written warning notice, the following penalties will be imposed and shall be payable by the operator of the large food waste generator: (1) A fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first violation after the written warning notice is given; (2) A fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the second violation after the written warning notice is given; or (3) A fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the third and any subsequent violations after the written warning notice is given.

D. A fine shall be imposed for each day a

5:30pm Second Sunday Supper. Meet and greet other members of the community and dine together! Free admission. Held on the second Sunday of each month - September through May. Info: 845-687-9090. Rondout Valley United Methodist Church, 25 Schoonmaker Ln, Stone Ridge.

6pm-8pm Climate Action Film Festival by SunCommon. Come celebrate climate action with the first film festival to celebrate solutions.

All proceeds to local climate organizations. Story Screen Beacon, 445 Main Street, Beacon. Info: 866-452-7652, HVcommunity@suncommon.com, bit.ly/caffstoryscreen. suggested donation.

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: Lena Bloch & Feathery. Bone-deep gorgeousness by a premier jazz quartet. Info: 845-236-7970. The Falcon Main Stage, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

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E. All fines collected pursuant to this Chapter shall be used to assist the County with its costs of implementing and enforcing the requirements of this Chapter and/or for public education and outreach.

Section 304-56. DISPUTE OF STATUS AS LARGE FOOD SCRAPS GENERATOR. Any person, business, entity or institution at any time, including after receipt of a warning notice pursuant to section 304-55, may submit a waste audit to Ulster County indicating that the amount of food scraps that it generates is not sufficient to subject it to the requirements of paragraph 304-51. Ulster County shall publish guidance on the information required to be included in such waste audits. Submittal of such waste audit to Ulster County under this paragraph shall suspend the application of this chapter to such person, business, entity or institution pending the County’s evaluation of such information and transmittal of a written finding and response.

SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part of this law or the application thereof to any person, individual, corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or circumstance shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part of this law, or in its application to the person, individual, corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which such order or judgment shall be rendered.

SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This law shall be effective upon filing in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Adopted by the County Legislature: December 18, 2019 Deemed Approved by the County Executive: January 17, 2020 Filed with New York State Department of State: January 29, 2020 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 February 10, 2020, 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: March 5, 2020 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 2 Of 2020 County Of Ulster A Local Law Increasing The Salary And Hours Of The Commissioner Of Social Services BE IT ENACTED, by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature finds and determines that the Commissioner of Social Services is responsible for overseeing the Department of Social Services and ensuring that the Department adequately and efficiently assesses, plans for, and provides appropriate services to families and individuals in need.

The Ulster County Legislature further finds and determines that the Commissioner of Social Services is responsible for overseeing all units of the Department of Social Services including, but not limited to, Anti-Fraud Waste and Abuse, Child Support Enforcement, Children and Family Services, Coordinates Children’s Services, Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs, Food Stamps Programs, Safe Harbour Program, Temporary Assistance, and the Inter-Agency Council on Domestic Violence.

The Ulster County Legislature further finds that while performing his duties and responsibilities as the Commissioner of Social Services, the Commissioner dedicates more time than the standard thirty-five hour work week, and as such it is necessary and appropriate to increase the amount of hours worked per week from thirtyfive (35) to forty (40).

The Ulster County Legislature further finds that an increase in the amount of hours worked per week results in a necessary increase in salary.

The Ulster County Legislature further finds and determines that pursuant to N.Y. County Law §201 the salaries of County Officers serving for a fixed term of office may be changed and adjusted only by local law.

Pursuant to New York Social Services Law Section 116 the Commissioner of Social Services of a County serves for a fixed term.

Therefore, the purpose of this local law is to increase the amount of hours worked per week and salary of the Commissioner of Social Services for Ulster County.

SECTION 2.

The annual salary of such County Officer serving for a fixed term of office shall be adjusted and changed in accordance with provisions of Resolution No. 445 of 2019.

On and after the effective date of this Local Law, the foregoing officer shall be paid at such a rate which, will equal the annual salary fixed for such office for the year 2020 as set forth.

SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Local Law shall take effect January 1, 2020 subject to compliance with all applicable provisions of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York.

This Local Law is subject to a permissive referendum, and will be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the County of Ulster if within 45 days after the date on which it was so adopted, there is filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature a petition protesting against this Local Law, signed and authenticated as required by Section 24 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, by qualified electors of the County of Ulster registered to vote therein at the last preceding general election, in number equal to at least ten percentum of the total number of votes cast for Governor at the last gubernatorial election held in said County.

Addendum Title: 2019 Salary $112,306.00 2020 Salary $128,349.00 Commissioner of Social Services Adopted by the County Legislature: November 19, 2019 Approved by the County Executive: December 12, 2019 Filed with New York State Department of State: February 10, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO RESPONDERS: Sealed proposals for RFP-UC20-020 TAX COLLECTION & PAYMENT SOFTWARE will be received on or before Friday, April 3, 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

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Supervising Lifeguards, Lifeguards, WSI’s, Attendants, etc. for Moriello Pool (Town of New Paltz Pool) for Summer 2020. Appropriate certifications required. Application packets available at: Office of Town Supervisor, 52 Clearwater Road, New Paltz. 255-0604. EOE. Hiring Immediately: Part-time Front Desk Agent are often the first contact between a hotel and its guests and need to make sure customers feel welcome. Duties such as: making reservations, greeting guests, taking phone calls, handling correspondence, managing check-in and check-out’s, answering inquiries and cashier. Front Desk works closely with all departments, housekeeping, restaurant, bar and maintenance. The ideal candidate should demonstrate customer service orientation, accuracy, computer literacy, proactivity, and good communication skills. A knowledge of hospitality, excel and marketing a plus. Also hiring full and part-time Housekeeping. Please forward resume to hanahcc@yahoo.com Looking for an Experienced Line Cook.

Responsibilities: Professional Team Communication, Completes Daily Tasks and Assigned Project Work, Kitchen Set-Up and Breakdown, Dish Area Cleanliness and Trash Removal, Receiving and Rotation of Food Supplies, Adheres to Uniform and Grooming Standards, Continuous Development of Kitchen Knowledge, Practices Proper Food Safety & Sanitation Standards, Ensures Food Quality Standards, Ensures Food Presentation is Visually Appealing & Picture Perfect, Follows Hanah’s Recipes and Operating Procedures & Systems. Required: more than 2 years experience. Hanah Mountain Resort and Country Club, Phone: 845-586-4849, Fax: 845-586-3104, 576 West Hubbell Hill Rd, Margaretville, NY 12455. Forward resume to hanahcc@ yahoo.com.

Hanah Mountain Resort And C.C. is searching for a Full-Time Lead Mechanic at our Golf Course and resort. Health Insurance and vacation pay. Email/call w/any questions. 845-586-4849, Mciaravino78@yahoo.com. Work Requirements: ability to sharpen and maintain reels, bed-knives, and blades. Inspect, diagnose, and repair mechanical issues with all golf course and landscape equipment. Able to work early, long hours and holidays when needed. Keep parts inventory and cost of repairs for all equipment. Implement and maintain a preventative maintenance program for all equipment. Spot check equipment on a daily basis. Work on the golf course as needed.

Able to prioritize equipment repair & maintenance work. Work well with others, manage time effectively. Set-up all mowers after

each mowing. Experience: 1 year preferred in each - landscape maintenance, mechanical inspection, equipment repair, welding & fabrication. Forward resume to hanahcc@ yahoo.com HOUSEKEEPER; PART-TIME. Must be reliable, attentive, have high standards of cleanliness. Approx. hrs of work are from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Nice working conditions and environment. Competitive wages. Contact Karen 845-663-8152.

CRAFTERMAKERS WANTED. Specializing in wreaths, etc. Work from my home or yours. Homemakers - Artists welcome.

Flexible hours. 845-217-9982.

Water Maintenance Worker: The Village of Saugerties has a full-time opening in the water department. Applicants should have: a good knowledge of materials, practices, tools, and terminology required for the maintenance and repair of water systems and equipment; ability to understand and carry out written and oral directions, and make simple calculations; willingness to work outdoors under adverse weather conditions; physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position; possess a valid NYS driver’s license. Pay is $16/hr. based on qualifications. Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter to 43 Partition St., Saugerties, NY 12477 Attn: Mike Hopf.

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Experienced caregiver provides personal care, medication and light housekeeping with respect and compassion. Contact Suzanne at 845-338-1864 or klaresuzanne@ gmail.com

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POTTIE FOR YOUR PARTY! HAVING A PARTY? TLK LLC. PORTABLE TOILET RENTALS. Weekend, Weekly, Monthly Rentals. We have Gray, White, Blue, Tan, Green (pine-scented), Pink (rose-scented), Red & Blue Handicap Accessible. (We also have a few w/sinks). Great for Construction/Building Sites, Sporting Events, Concerts, Street Festivals, Parks, Outdoor Weddings, Campsites, Flea Markets, Party Events, etc. Call 845-6588766, 845-417-6461 or 845-706-7197. email: TLKportables@gmail.com

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HOME ATTENDANT NEEDED PT. Weekdays. $11.80/hour. Disabled 55-yr. old female looking for female home attendant to help w/basic needs. Reliable, caring + live within 30 minutes of Woodstock. Must have car. 845-684-5314. No calls before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.

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Come & play some music! The Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestra community ensemble has openings and is seeking new members. We play on authentic Balinese instruments and rehearse every Monday night from 7-9 pm. No prior experience is necessary. If you can clap in rhythm to a song you can learn to play. Rehearsals are held at Bard College in the Green Room located between the Olin Humanities and Olin Language Arts buildings. For more info call: 845-688-7090.

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The first is a ground floor room with high windows, ceilings, bluestone fireplace. The second floor space includes private bath-

room, large storage closets. Rooms can be rented separately $600 each or together to same tenant for $1,000. Utilities included.

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1 VAN DALE ROAD, WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK Step into spiritual amazement as you enter this former church, now residence. Unique opportunity to purchase this open oor plan sanctuary featuring 25 ft ceilings. Present owner occupies this gem, which has been preserved and forever holds its spiritual character. Gothic entry doors, tin walls and ceilings, limestone and walnut ďŹ replace mantel, from the Paramount Theatre in NYC. All original stained-glass windows. Open interior balcony room. Spiral staircase leads private meditation space and bell tower. Study, formerly Sunday school room. Full bath with claw tub and spa shower. Galvanized aluminum rooďŹ ng. Wooded property has been kept as wild as possible and indeed has become a sanctuary for animals in area.

Serene environment sets the stage for ideal Yoga / artists /creative studio. Views of Sawkill Creek. Listing by Jeanne Rakowski. ....................................................$585,000

COXSACKIE, NEW YORK Great opportunity to open your own “Turn-Keyâ€? Veterinary practice. Maple Ridge Veterinary is a successful practice which was established in 2007. Currently operated solely by current owner, it has excellent visibility and easy access to Coxsackie and Athens. The 1,622 square foot building sits on 3.9 acres set back from road. It boasts a Reception area and waiting area at the entrance. There are three exam rooms (one of which is being used as an ofďŹ ce), an X-ray room, operating room, photo lab, medical lab, and a holding room for the animals as well as a break area and two half baths. Sale includes Equipment inventory and clientele. Listing by Blanca Aponte. .......................................$625,000

3 VAN DALE ROAD, WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK Beautifully newly built custom cottage ranch home. Enter this bright an airy open oor plan layout featuring gourmet island kitchen.

Living room space that leads to landscaped garden patio. Gathering area features ďŹ replace, skylights and dining space. 2 Master bedrooms with skylights, walk in closets and loft storage.

2 full spa baths. Property is landscaped w natural rock and garden. Custom designed home was built in 2016 with top of the line materials and skilled workmanship.

Peaceful Woodstock retreat is presently being used as an air bnb /owner occupied.

Many amenities complete this gem. Makes an ideal weekender escape! Minutes to Towns of Woodstock, Kingston and Saugerties. Walking distance to Catskill Creek.

Former home of the Woodstock Times. Listing by Jeanne Rakowski ............ $459,000

SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CHARMING TOTALLY UPDATED MOVE-IN READY 4-bedroom 2 bath, 2533 sq. ft, Victorian Style home in the heart of the Village of Saugerties. Enter the foyer where you are greeted with architectural archways. This house offers ornate and decorative features such as wainscoting, crown molding, original decorative tin ceilings along with original stained-glass windows.

Modern updates include a new boiler, upgraded electric and natural gas. There is a large fully ďŹ nished 3rd oor den with plenty of extra storage. This extra room can be used for a bedroom, playroom, or family room. Conveniently located, only a few steps away from shops, ofďŹ ces, restaurants, sports complex, and schools. Open House March 15, 2020 from 12:00-3:00pm. Listing by Eliana Amodio................................$319,000 HUNTER, NEW YORK Privacy and location make this 3-family home a total gem. Set back on a deadend road with 27 acres.

Minutes to Hunter Mountain and the trending Scribner Lodge. This home which is 3 separate units can be rented out or converted into one mega Mountain home. Layout features open kitchens, full and half baths, multiple bedrooms and wood stoves in each unit.

Tons of natural light with oor to ceiling windows n one unit. The vision is there, and renovations have been started so you can see the amazing potential that awaits. Listing

by Karen Stanbrook. .....................................................................................$425,000

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

Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more!

We are now open Saturdays 10am-2pm SPECIAL! Receive a $100 gift card if you move in no later than April 1, 2020 with a 1-year lease

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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.

1-BEDROOM in Private home. Mature, responsible person. Washer/dryer, Kitchen & bathroom privileges. Off-street parking.

Available immediately. Near Rail Trail, bus station & campus. Smoke-free environment.

Call 917-992-0702, text or call.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $485/month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845255-6029 or 914-474-5176, leave message.

Sunny, one room apartment, walking distance to the center of Woodstock. Renovated with wood floors. $950/month includes utilities, plowing, grounds maintenance.

845-797-2909.

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SINGULAR SENSATION - Immaculate & distinctive custom designed country home on 5+ gorgeous acres w/ stocked POND, dramatic views, fire pit & screened pavilion. Generously proportioned 3000+ SF features soaring ceilings, LR w/ cozy gas fireplace, DR open to 50’ deck w/ awning, 2 main level BRs + ensuite MBR w/ fireplace, huge walkin & spa bath, loft, full walk out basement PLUS, 2-story detached carriage house style garage.

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1st floor master bedroom en-suite with large walkin closet complete with full bath with double sinks and a tub/shower combo. Downstairs on the lower level there’s a finished additional space which could be used as an office, media room, or gym.

Out back through the sliders off the kitchen is the multi tiered deck. Private backyard oasis offers an oversized solar heated above ground pool, outdoor wet bar, with a built-in gas barbecue in addition to the outside fireplace and a gazebo complete with a hot tub! $365,900

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EXPERIENCED HANDYMAN WITH A VAN. Carpentry, painting, flatscreen mounting, light hauling/delivery, cleanouts. Second home caretaking. All small/ medium jobs considered. Versatile, trustworthy, creative, thrifty. References. Ken Fix It. 845-616-7999.

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OPEN HOUSE - SUNDAY MARCH 8 @ 11-1:30 694 Buck Road, Stone Ridge, NY Along the back roads of the Ashokan Reservoir, this 4 bedroom Cape offers rugged elegance, lush gardens and an expansive covered porch, with a hot tub. It is well maintained, overbuilt, handicap accessible, and is the essence of country living. Rich mountain atmosphere, rolling lawns and mature trees makes this a truly special spot. Perfect environment to escape, relax, enjoy and entertain. Convenient to all the amenities and 2 hours to NYC..... $329,000 Call Thomas B. Roberts, Lic. Real Estate Salesperson at 646-404-1301 for more information.

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Look who’s being cared for at Saugerties Animal Shelter! We have such loving adult cats & kittens just waiting to become part of your family. SMOKEY; 8-year old tiger cat boy, very handsome & so sweet.

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PAULOWNIA; affectionate black kitten girl, 10-11 months old. LITTLE GIRL; petite black female cat girl, 7-years old & super sweet. She lived in the streets but now wants the easy life. How happy she’d be in a safe, loving home! BOB is a Pixie Bob. Bob is a very big brown tiger boy who’s as sweet as he is big! Bob needs lots of room & maybe daily walks on a harness. MISHU; 10year old orange medium hair kitty. He’s been at the shelter the longest of all the animals. Mishu needs to be the only pet.

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Charlotte needs to be your only pet.

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents. The cats will be neutered/spayed and up to date w/shots. Please call the Woodstock Feral Cat Project at 347-2582725.

L&M Pet Sitting Professional pet care visits for cats, dogs, birds, and other exotic species.

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

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Vehicles Wanted

CASH PAID FOR USED cars & trucks regardless of condition. Junk cars removed.

Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

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1999 Jeep Cherokee/Sport Classic, 4-door wagon sport utility, 4.0L16F (straight 6), 32,000 miles. Rear wheel drive w/4x4.

Rust free, very good condition. Clean car fax. Asking $9500. Text/call 845-6330658.

We are selling our beloved 2008 Volkswagen Touareg SUV 4 DOOR for $4850.

Dark Grey with Heated seats. NEW brakes.

Tow package. Bluetooth. 106250 Miles.

ALL SERVICE RECORDS. All Weather Tires. V6, 3.6L engine. Flex pipe has a small hole. Mud MATS. SUN ROOF. Cruise Control. CALL/TEXT 917-992-6960 for test drive. SEE Car is at 271 Tinker Street, WOODSTOCK.

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