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A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & C Classifieds lassifieds | Issue 48 | Nov. 26 – Dec. 3

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personally consider the “reason for the season,� there’s no denying that all the holidays that revolve around the Winter Solstice celebrate one thing in common: light. It’s something that everybody needs a little more of at this darkest time of the year.

In an effort to bring people of all belief systems together in a massive, festive, citywide pre-holiday extravaganza, 22 years ago (can it really be that long?)

Poughkeepsie began hosting its annual Celebration of Lights, returning next Friday, December 4. It started with a ceremonial tree-lighting and a parade incorporating music and dance from many cultures, reflecting the worldbeat influence of Ulster County’s own Vanaver

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Caravan on the organizing of the event in its early years. Before long fireworks were added to the menu; how often do you get to see a full-scale fireworks display in winter? At Disney World, maybe; but not at this latitude. It’s a rare treat.

The Bardavon 1869 Opera House has been a key partner in the Celebration of Lights from the get-go as well, presenting some family-friendly classic film on the big screen. This year the movie will be Miracle on 34th Street (1947), starring Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle, Maureen O’Hara as his boss at Macy’s and a very young Natalie Wood as her Santa-skeptic daughter. Tickets cost $6 and the show begins at 8 p.m., preceded at 7:30 with a concert on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ.

The evening’s festivities kick off at 6:30 p.m., when mayor John Tkazyik and members of the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council lead the parade down toward the Hudson River from the corner of Main and Garden Streets.

The first tree-lighting occurs on Main near Market Street, and a second one at Dongan Square Park at Main and Clover Streets concludes the parade. In between you’ll see performances, floats, riders or marchers from the Amerscott Highland Pipers, the Poughkeepsie Exempt Firemen’s Association Color Guard, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp Resort, Adams Fairacre Farms’ Layton Percheron horse-drawn hayride, Miss Hudson Valley, Miss Hudson Valley Teen, Dutchess Jeep &

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At 7:15 p.m., the Poughkeepsie River District Business Association and Legion Fireworks will present the fireworks display. Businesses along and near the parade route will showcase holiday window displays created by local artists and offer entertainment, and food and beverage specials. So whether you’re hurrying back up to the Bardavon for the movie or just want to linger amidst the holiday-spirited crowds, you’ll find plenty of convivial fun for the whole family. For more info, visit www.facebook. com/events/1716174718619638, www. bardavon.org, www.pokriverdistrict. org or www.middlemain.com.

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be Best Costume prizes, along with the usual awards in the 5K race for the male and female first-, second- and third-place runner in each five-year age category.

The awards will be created by local artist Solveig Comer.

Also new for 2015, according to Holt, “You have the option of chip timing, and for the first time it’s got USATF [USA Track & Field] certification.” The computer chip will be attached to the runner’s bib, and everyone who registers by the November 23 deadline for the timed race will also automatically have his or her downloadable picture taken at the Finish Line at the Water Street Market.

Entry in the half-mile Mashed Potato Run on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail for kids up to 7 years of age, which starts at 9 a.m., is free. Registrants in the chip-timed 5K race, which starts at 9:30 a.m., pay $25 if they’re age 10 or over; 8- and 9-yearolds pay $15. At 9:35 the untimed 5K Fun Run/Walk begins, following the same course as the “serious” runners: south on Water Street to Plains Road, returning to the Water Street Market via the Rail Trail. These more casual runners, walkers and strollers pay $20 for age 10 and up, $10 for ages 8 and 9 if they register by November 23. Registrants after that date pay $25 and $10.

There will be registration at the Water Street Market beginning at 8 a.m. on race day. Earlier registration can be done online at http://newpaltzturkeytrot. itsyourrace.com or in person at the Jewish Community Center, located at 30 North Chestnut Street, from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25.

Entertainment at the Water Street Market will be provided by Fuzzy Lollipop.

“They sing ‘We Are Family’ for the Turkey Trot every year,” says Holt. “By the time people arrive, they’re playing.” Carl Welden will emcee the proceedings, and Garvan McCloskey will host the awards ceremony.

“Family really relies on this as one of their big fundraisers,” adds Holt. The New Paltz Health & Nutrition Center and Kniffen Homes are this year’s major underwriters of the Turkey Trot.

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Love the excuse to eat all sorts of rich comfort food on Thanksgiving, but hate the idea of all the weight that you usually put on each year as we head into hibernation season? You’re not alone; and that’s why the concept of Turkey Trot races is catching on all over the place. Start your Thanksgiving Day with a 5K run or a brisk walk, and you get a pass to enjoy your ritual dinner guilt-free on the caloric front.

One of the relative newcomers on the local Turkey Trot bandwagon is Kingston, whose third annual outing kicks off from Dietz Stadium at 9 a.m. on Thursday, November 26, and ends at Forsyth Park.

It’s organized by the Junior League of Kingston, which offers the extra incentive of the event being a fundraiser for its campaign to install Little Free Libraries all over town. These are freestanding structures like big birdhouses where people can “Take a book, leave a book.”

The registration fee to support this worthy cause is $20 per runner or $60 for a family of four, whether you’re participating in the 5K race or the Two-Mile Fun Run/Walk.

Day-of registration begins at 8 a.m. at Forsyth Park, located on Lucas Avenue.

The Turkey Trot goes on rain or shine, with free parking available at Dietz Stadium. You can preregister online at www.active.com/kingston-ny/running/ distance-running-races/turkey-trot-2015, or pick up a registration form at the Dietz Stadium Diner, Academy General

Now in its fifth year, Phoenicia’s annual Turkey Trot is a great calorieburning option for folks with way too much to do in the kitchen on Thanksgiving morning to go for a run. It happens on the Saturday morning following the holiday, November 28, rain or shine.

The main event is a 2.4-mile “fun run, ramble, trot, walk or wobble,” which seems accommodating enough even to those of us nursing a two-day tryptophan (or wine) hangover from our Turkey Day pigout (dogs are not invited). Go for a brisk jog on Saturday, and all those leftovers in the fridge will take on fresh appeal! And the event benefits the good works of the Rotary Club of Phoenicia.

The Fun Run begins at 10 a.m., a shorter Tot Trot for kids aged 5 and under at 9:30.

Day-of registration, with fees of $15 per individual and $25 per family, happens from 8 to 9:45 a.m. at the Parish Hall on Main Street in Phoenicia. Or you can preregister, at $10 per person or $20 per family, at www.runreg.com/phoeniciaturkey-trot0. Entry in the Tot Trot is free.

For more info about the Phoenicia Turkey Trot, contact Heather Roberts at (845) 688-7064 or hrobertspt@gmail. com or Patti Rudge at (845) 254-4126 or rudgepatricia@gmail.com, or visit www. phoeniciaturkeytrot.com.

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volunteerism I ’ve been interested for a long time in American volunteerism and the truly exceptional role played by philanthropy in American society and its economy. If you add up the generous contributions of American citizens, it comes to a very large part of our economy. Last year alone, according to the National Philanthropic Trust, Americans gave $358.3 billion.

This money provides tens of thousands of jobs, as well as all the public services provided by the seemingly countless non-profit organizations that in other European and Asian countries just don’t exist, or if they do exist it’s on a much smaller scale.

I do not like the phrase “American exceptionalism,” especially when it’s used

by American politicians to excuse all sorts of arbitrary interventions in other nations.

But one aspect of our society that is truly exceptional is our habits of philanthropy and volunteerism.

The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville recognized this 175 years ago and wrote about it in his two-volume work Democracy in America. He frequently pointed out what he saw as the peculiar habit of Americans to help each other, whether it be the sick and the poor or people helping each other build farmhouses and raise barns on the prairies or the woods of New England. He’d never seen anything like it before in Europe.

What he saw then continues to exist today to a remarkable degree.

Most communities in America are served by volunteer ambulance corps, by volunteer fire companies, by all sorts of volunteer sports organizations – by thousands of public service volunteer activities in our churches and synagogues and mosques. In Europe, almost all these public services are provided by

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Today, one of the major problems of our volunteer society is getting enough volunteers, made worse by so many middle-class families having to work two

Most Americans are surprised if you tell them that we are the most generous people in the world.

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He became a vice president of Dow Jones in 1986 and served in that capacity until he retired in 2003. He served as a director of Dow Jones & Company for 17 years, retiring from that board in 2006.

Since his retirement, Ottaway has served as a volunteer on several nonprofit organization boards, as treasurer of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, trustee of Bard College, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Storm King Art Center and as a founding director of the board of Words without Borders, a free website that publishes the works of great modern writers from 125 countries translated into English. He edits book manuscripts for friends and helps them get published.

Ottaway is also regularly engaged in translating from the ancient Greek all 24 books of Homer’s Odyssey. He has translated 12 books and plans to finish the last book “when I celebrate my 90th birthday.”

He has lived in New Paltz since 1984 with his wife Mary, an accomplished photographer and painter, who volunteered as a director and secretary of the board of the Elting Memorial Library.

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Americans don’t know this difference, and are surprised if you tell them that we are the most generous people in the world.

Look at the giving of some successful corporate chieftains of our time, wealthy hedge fund managers, continuing the tradition of fabulous generosity practiced by our most ruthless robber barons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Think of Carnegie. Think of Rockefeller. Think of Mellon. Think of Bloomberg now. There’s a long list.

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and three jobs just to survive because their take-home pay has barely risen over the past 20 years. More and more nonprofit organizations are having trouble attracting the number of volunteers they need to continue operating. The problem of overworked parents who don’t have time to volunteer is hurting organizations like Little League baseball, volunteer fire companies and food pantries. They’re not getting the young people they need to train for the future.

In many small American communities, the busiest social center on a Friday or Saturday night is the volunteer fire company. As fewer and fewer young people follow their fathers as volunteer firemen, our fire companies are having a harder and harder time finding physically capable volunteers.

What do I volunteer for in my community? In New Paltz, my main volunteer organization is the Wallkill Valley Land Trust. I’ve been its treasurer since it began in 1987. It requires a lot of work for all ten board members and many other volunteers.

For many years, while I was flying around the world working to build European and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal, my one emotional connection to the land of my hometown and to my friends in New Paltz was the Land Trust. It gave me a sense of having roots in the community where my wife Mary and I have lived since 1984.

Everyone who lives around New Paltz and the Hudson Valley knows that we enjoy a wonderful range of changing seasons and beautiful landscapes. I have always felt that I should make a contribution to preserving our landscapes by encouraging private landowners voluntarily to put limits on development of their land by donating easements to the Land Trust. We now have 33 easements, protecting about 3,000 acres of open space in eight towns of southeastern Ulster County. Our air and water are cleaner, and some great views of the Shawangunk Ridge are protected by the Land Trust.

We who live in this beautiful place are lucky to have so many big volunteer private organizations protecting it: the Mohonk Preserve, the Mohonk Mountain House, the Open Space Institute, Scenic Hudson, a dozen small and large CSAs (Community-Supported Agriculture farms) and the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, to name a few. We live in a kind of paradise for volunteer environmentalists.

And we need more.

– Jim Ottaway, Jr.

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Duane Ragucci and Betty Mensch of the Storybrook program. The all-volunteer program helps inmates at the Dutchess County Jail to choose, read aloud and record a children’s book, which is then sent to their children on a CD.

Bedtime benison Storybook program helps Dutchess County Jail inmates read aloud to their kids – via CD

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very story about children and parents and what stands between them should have a storybook ending – especially when what stand between them are jail cell walls.

Once upon a time, in 2011, Betty Mensch of Rhinebeck got talking with a friend who was involved in a reading program at the Dutchess County Jail (DCJ) in Poughkeepsie. The friend, whose name is Pam Wright, mentioned that a corrections officer at the jail had asked her about a program that he’d heard about at prisons. The all-volunteer program allowed inmates to choose, read aloud and record a children’s book, which is then sent to their children on a CD. “It sounded like such a great idea,” Mensch recalled recently. She and Wright got together and, with the financial assistance and support of the outreach committee at Rhinebeck’s Church of the Messiah, Storybook was born.

“The idea isn’t new with us,” Wright said. “The Lutheran Church actually funds a program in prisons across the state of Illinois.”

She credits Dutchess with being one of the few county jails in the country (as

opposed to federal or state prisons) to provide Storybook-style programs inside its walls.

Pam Lamonica is a corrections officer at the jail in charge of workers and programs. She explained that many, though not all, of the jail’s inmates are short-timers – sometimes on their way to prison for longer stretches, but sometimes doing time on lesser charges or maybe tied up in the system, awaiting trial. The jail’s population is roughly 350 men and 60 women.

The majority of Storybook’s clientele are men, she said.

The place is always packed.

“A lot of people have problems with rehab programs,” Lamonica said in a tone that said that she didn’t agree. “I’ve never heard anything but positive stuff about Storybook.” Restoring the sometimestattered bond between parents and children can only be a good thing, she said.

Once a week, Mensch and her friend Duane Ragucci wheel a cart loaded with

new and like-new donated children’s and Young Adult books into a small room at the jail. There they meet four, sometimes five inmates over the course of several hours. The inmates select a book that they like and read it aloud. Mensch and Ragucci record their readings on a donated laptop, burn a CD of the recording and eventually send it, the book and a note from the parent to the child.

The men and women who participate in the program can be mothers or fathers or grandparents, Ragucci said.

Some mothers have read to unborn children they have yet to deliver.

Mensch indicates a battered-looking laptop that provides the recording. “It gives everyone – the parents or grandparents and certainly the children – a chance to connect, despite the conditions the adults are living in.”

Charles Cuevas is the corrections officer whose question to Pam Wright got Storybook launched. He has been on the job for 11 years. He has had all that

The place is always packed.

time to see the effects of incarceration on the men and women at DCJ. Cuevas has a simple explanation for his involvement in the program: “I like helping people.”

He figures that Storybook has provided as many as 700 imprisoned parents with the opportunity to connect with their children since the program began in 2011.

Mensch and Ragucci have to navigate expectably difficult waters at times; some inmates’ reading levels aren’t good. Many of them have never read aloud before, or in the company of strangers. Some are barely out of their own childhoods or are suffering the effects of childhoods blighted by poverty and its attendant demons. But the nervousness and embarrassment rarely lasts, they say. Soon, the wish to please and surprise a son or daughter or grandchild, to give them the gift of themselves, escapes impenetrable walls and, with any luck, finds a home in the hearts of their surprised and unsuspecting children.

At last count, 700 or so Storybook endings have escaped those jail cell walls.

Seven hundred…and counting.

– Jeremiah Horrigan

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arrived. She was in Albany Medical Center probably within 45 minutes, where she needed to be. We’ve been assured by her doctors and her mother that she’ll regain a normal life.�

Life as a firefighter, as a member of a team working with other teams, is good. “So many jobs are routine. Here, there’s camaraderie; we do things together, we care about each other. Some go on vacations together, go to dinner together‌â€?

Just then, the radio down the hall crackles to echoing life. “They got a worker?� Appa asks a man named Jeff who just walked past his office door. “Yeah,� says Jeff. “Says they got flames showing.�

A fire has broken out at Kingston’s Hoffman House restaurant. Appa’s up and out of his chair, making his apologies.

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ome people know what they’re going to be when they grow up even before they grow up.

Sam Appa leans back behind the paperstrewn desk that he occupies at Ulster Hose Company #5 and remembers with a smile when he knew his destiny. “I was 14, maybe 15 years old when I knew I wanted to be a fireman.� He smiles again at the memory and shakes his head. “I’ve been chief for seven years. Been with Ulster Hose for 38 years. I worked my way up through the ranks. Never had a doubt.�

Nor does he have a doubt about his role within those ranks. He’s the chief, yeah; but so much of firefighting is about teamwork. The chance to be part of that team is no small part of its appeal.

Working with the other members of the company is more like an honor than a duty.

Appa retired last year after 33 years as a dispatcher at the Dutchess County Department of Emergency Response. Like others in the company, he loves having the chance to escape the drudgery of a nine-to-five job. “It’s the not-knowing. I could be sitting here talking to you and in a minute, something devastating could happen.�

Ulster Hose #5’s 85 members are responsible for 13.2 square miles of real estate encompassing a population of 7,000 that waxes and wanes with the heavy traffic along car-clogged Ulster Avenue, the county’s primary retail stretch. If you view the Fire District from that vantage point – as a glut of character-free big boxes, impatient t r av e l e r s a n d glaring neon signage – it’s hard to detect any signs of community. But a sense of community lies at the heart of the fire station. Volunteering at this or any other fire company isn’t only about protecting a community; it’s about creating and living within one.

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The company was founded in 1940 by two men, Albert Montavani and John Osterhoudt. Their first fire vehicle was Osterhoudt’s Packard, which was equipped with rakes, brooms, fire extinguishers and a first-aid kit. Upon hearing the company’s siren, which was attached to a pole outside O s t e r h o u d t ’s home, the entire fi r e c o m p a ny would rush outside their homes and wait to be picked up on his way to the call.

Just about everything except what Appa calls the “family atmosphere� of the company has changed since then.

Sometimes family involvement stretches back through generations. The son of one of the company’s original members,

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Then, there are other times: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most recently, we had a young girl, 16, get hit by a train in town. She was in a very critical situation. And that was truly a call where our people went out there and made a difference in her life. The emergency medical service is a chain, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just one of the links in it. But that day, all the links fell into place for her. Within minutes we were there, working on her.

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PARADE at 1 p.m. Santa will be in attendance.

COMMITMENT TO KIDS is a fundraiser for toys for the needy children of Ulster County.

THE CHALLENGE: Businesses & Organizations are invited to create their own in-house program for collecting toys from friends, employees, member s & families. All new toys collected should be delivered to the BLOOMINGTON FIREHOUSE on 12/6 & entered into â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE CHALLENGEâ&#x20AC;?.

Distribution of toys will be on 12/7. If money is delivered in lieu of toys, each $10 contribution will be counted as a toy. Trophies will be awarded for the most toys collected in each division.

For more details call Deb 338-3319 or Darlene 338-7393.

t may be no coincidence that Dutchess Outreach, an organization whose mission it is to provide support for needy citizens in the greater Poughkeepsie community and beyond, got its start 40-plus years ago at the height of communal idealism and spiritual altruism. Those radical Boomers instigated all manner of social activism under the banner of peace, love and you-know-what. So what happens when they (I should say we) begin to â&#x20AC;&#x153;age outâ&#x20AC;? of active volunteerism? Are younger generations picking up the slack and stepping in to fill the need? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of our volunteers are either from the Baby Boomer generation, or are related to or in the families of, or are driven in some way through leadership from that generation, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the job, in school, in clubs or in scouting,â&#x20AC;? says Brian Riddell, executive director of Dutchess Outreach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing a fairly decent turnover in younger people coming in to volunteer for our programs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our food pantry and our emergency meal service programs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; particularly college-age people who are not doing it for credit, but for altruistic reasons.â&#x20AC;?

He comments on how the younger generation is concerned with sustainability and with not being wasteful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s translating into efforts to try to reduce the amount of food waste, and get it into programs like ours. At a group called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, a New York City-based organization that has a branch at Vassar College, a young woman is spearheading that movement here in the Valley.â&#x20AC;? Asked how leftover food is sourced, Riddell says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes from across the spectrum. They pick up food for us from events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for example, from the ALS Walk on the Walkway. We have a connection now from Hannafordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; they have also made connections with local farms, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve brought us fresh produce. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a highly organized effort, but there are others on a smaller scale that are going on, too.â&#x20AC;?

In fact, the scope of organized assistance provided by Dutchess Outreach is wide, with programs such as the recent coat drive to collect and distribute 6,000 warm coats to people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the wherewithal to go out and buy new winter garments each fall. These get distributed to six different sites throughout the county. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have locations in Beacon (two stops), Hyde Park, Pleasant Valley, Millerton, Wappingers; we really expanded this year.

Each of these communities has pockets of poverty.â&#x20AC;? Lunches and dinners are served daily at the Lunch Box, where up to 220,000 meals per year are provided for individuals and families, including HIV/AIDS patients. The Plenty Fresh Market is a mobile unit that supplies fresh vegetables and fruit to areas designated as

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VOLUNTEER

Can you spare a hand?

UlsterCorps matches volunteers with organizations in need

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olunteer work is sometimes perceived as something that only retired people have time to do. And there’s certainly some truth to that, as the demands of making a living take up a lot of our waking hours. But even the most stressed of us will usually admit that when there is something that we really want to do, we’ll manage somehow to make that time.

But it may not be a lot of time. And that’s where UlsterCorps comes in. The countywide resource that serves as a central hub to connect volunteers with the local agencies that need them fills a unique niche. In addition to the long-term opportunities toward which they steer people, there are single-day activities.

“If somebody doesn’t want to make a long-term commitment, but has a few hours on a weekend, they can go to our website and see if there’s something that calls to them,” says Beth McLendon, co-founder and director of UlsterCorps. “People have busy lives, so maybe they can’t do it all the time; but we try to make it easy for people who might have time once a month or once a week. Hopefully that works out well, and it makes them want to volunteer again. But if it doesn’t, they can try something a little different.”

And for the person who wants to volunteer but doesn’t know quite what it is that he or she wants to do, “UlsterCorps is that place to get started,” says McLendon. She and several others came up with the idea six years ago. “A few of us started this in 2009, when we had some friends who had never volunteered before. They were really frustrated; struggling to find a way to volunteer. They spent hours researching something, and then the agency they called didn’t call them back. The agencies are all so busy and the staffs are working so hard, they don’t always have time to do outreach.”

Seeing the need to make volunteering more accessible, McLendon and co-founders Nancy Pompeo and Rik Flynn met with Michael Berg, director of Family of Woodstock, as well as the heads of other agencies, and asked, “Do you think there’s a need for this?” The response was positive, and in the years since, UlsterCorps has brought together thousands of people with local organizations that provide food, clothing, shelter, emergency services, literacy training, mentoring, child and elder care, animal welfare and more.

UlsterCorps encourages people of all ages to consider the possibilities, and that includes youthful volunteers and families.

“We believe that if young people start volunteering at an early age, they’ll continue for the rest of their lives,” McLendon says.

“And many of our volunteers in this community are retired, and they do amazing things, and that’s fantastic; but so many places – food pantries, for example – need younger, strong bodies, too, to lift the heavy boxes and do the physical work.”

One of the projects that has been most rewarding for UlsterCorps is its collaboration with Family and the Rondout Valley Growers’ Association, she says. “We’ve been gleaning at local farms all summer long for our food pantry program, so that people get fresh local produce that would otherwise have been composted. The volunteers love that project; it’s such an immediate, fulfilling thing and you get exercise, you’re working on these beautiful farms, and it’s a great thing to do on the weekend. It’s an easy way to get involved, and it’s really fun.”

One recent group of 29 students from SUNY-New Paltz volunteered at Liberty View Farm in Clintondale recently. They were among 400 students who volunteered for “Make a Difference Day” at different sites around the county. “They picked out food for pantries, and some of the apples will be made into applesauce for Thanksgiving meals at the soup kitchens,” McLendon says. “The students enjoyed it, and it gets the word out about the businesses, too; we love to support local businesses that do so much for the community.”

The UlsterCorps website – www.ulstercorps.org – has an interactive map that makes it easy to zero in on volunteer opportunities close to home. The organization’s Facebook page also has information. “Or they can call us and we can just talk about what they’re interested in, and where in the county they live. We can find something that’s a match for them.”

First-time volunteers might be surprised at the range of other opportunities available. If a person just wants to help out at a fundraising festival for a few hours, or a 5K run, there are those things. There are educational positions at museums and cultural centers and mentoring activities in technology and literacy. UlsterCorps has collaborated with Harvesting a Lifetime, coordinating volunteers to record the stories of more than 70 seniors from around the county.

Some opportunities involve preparing for future need. A few Red Cross Shelter training sessions are coming up. “When a disaster strikes, there are so many people that want to help, but they don’t have any training,” McLendon says. “If you think you’d want to volunteer at a shelter, get the training now, so that you can be part of that response team when disaster strikes.”

The Red Cross training is free of charge, as is the Family of Woodstock hotline training that McLendon calls “one of the most amazing trainings” in which she has she participated. “It teaches you communication and listening skills and so many other things that will be useful to you in your own personal life, as well.”

Family will be starting a new text-counseling hotline soon, she adds, which will mean some upcoming training sessions for that. Family has had a telephone hotline for 45 years now, but teenagers today sometimes feel more comfortable texting than phoning; so if they’re in trouble or need to reach out, the idea is to provide communication on their terms.

UlsterCorps is founded on the conviction that volunteerism is central to sustaining healthy, resilient communities utilizing the diverse talents, interests and abilities of its residents. “And we really believe that the more responsibility you give volunteers, the more they will step up,” McLendon says. “The less engaged volunteers are, the more likely they are to step away. Agencies that invest in their volunteers are more likely to find people that are willing to make a commitment and be that incredibly valuable resource.”

– Sharyn Flanagan UlsterCorps, Stone Ridge; (845) 481-0331, ulstercorps@gmail.com, www.ulstercorps.org, www.facebook.com/ulstercorps.

“food deserts.” A Community Food Hub gleans fresh local produce, and a MicroFarm operation grows produce in the heart of the City of Poughkeepsie.

Perhaps most importantly, the organization promotes community awareness of hunger and other social problems, advocates on behalf of disadvantaged folks requiring various emergency services and encourages improvements in the response that the community is capable of generating to meet human needs. “Even the EPA [US Environmental Protection Agency] has moved giving food to the hungry higher up their list of priorities,” says Riddell.

“But getting food from the waste stream into food programs to feed people has its limitations. People are getting rid of food they don’t want: surplus that is destined to go to the dumpster. Making sure you get the quality food for your program is a lot of work. Places like the Poughkeepsie Farm Project and the Bruderhof are now doing crop planning for the purpose of feeding the hungry, too. It would be nice to get a decent supermarket in town; there

has been talk about getting one down at the lower end of town.

“We had a lot of success with the mobile market this first year, especially among senior citizens. We made sure people were able to use their coupons from the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.

People on WIC [the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children] also have those kinds of coupons. We maximized that. There is no Poughkeepsie farmers’ market right now other than the mobile market. Working with the farmers as we do, we could get people real value for their dollars. We see a lot of traffic for our food programs from the surrounding locations.”

When asked what is needed ongoingly, not just during the holidays, Riddell says, “Right now we need to look at making the mobile market more sustainable; we need to develop a stronger volunteer effort around that. For example, the Lunch Box, where we serve 220 lunches and 200 dinners a day, has an organized volunteer effort of ten or 12 people every day. We

need to focus energy on the mobile market, working on the farms and getting the foods to market. Our other programs are pretty well-covered – not to say we wouldn’t entertain anyone who wanted to volunteer.

“In terms of resources, we’ve done a lot to expand our capacity to handle fresh food – freezer and cooler space – that effort at the Pantry also requires a bit of a step-up in manpower and womanpower.

If we talk about in-kind resources, the things that are most costly are non-food items for the food service programs. It’s the consumables that are hitting the budget now: gloves, nets, soap, aprons, napkins, paper towels. All of that becomes expensive, and people don’t think about donating these. And the gas to run the mobile market; I’ve been trying to negotiate with the county to at least get county prices on gas.

“You never can project how much these things are going to cost when you plan your year. On our website we have instructions on how to conduct a food drive and the items we need most: protein

Brian Riddell of Dutchess Outreach

items like peanut butter and tunafish and baked beans, dried milk, cereal, which is a fairly expensive item. We could get a donation of 6,000 items from a food drive, and if there are 100 cans of fruit, that’s a lot. So canned fruit and canned soup are always needed. The world has way too much bread. Every supermarket has a bakery. People go to their market and bring us the day-old bread, but it reaches a point where…

“But there’s never enough pasta! We run out of that occasionally also. And non-food items: personal hygiene items, shampoo, combs, shaving stuff, feminine hygiene items, baby formula – when you think of someone who can’t breastfeed, and they don’t have enough formula for their baby – it’s a sad narrative in this country that somebody has to depend on a really small organization like ours for these necessities. It blows my mind.”

Given that stark realization, I asked Riddell how he has managed to do this work for more than two decades. He says, “I’m sustained by the energy of the people who connect to Dutchess Outreach. Not everybody is empathetic or sympathetic, but those who are bring tremendous energy and joy to the work. I feed off of that: meeting people who are helping us, listening to people who want to help us.

The occasional successes along the way are nice, a project that turns out the way you had planned. That gives me great satisfaction. Right now it’s exciting to bring younger people into the projects and listen to their perspectives and their goals.

I’m lucky to have a number of people 30 or so years younger than I am who are bringing forth that spirit, and they’re not looking at it as charity. They’re looking at it as food-as-a-human-right standpoint, which to me is very exciting.

“It’s probably something I’ve believed in all along, but not espoused because we have a lot of conservative people that believe charity is the answer, and I have to work with that. I’ve always walked the line between my human rights agenda and the charity agenda; I kind of work both sides of the aisle, so to speak. Charity is a step along the way, but hopefully with greater enlightenment we can figure out how everybody can eat. Food is like air. Take a deep breath and let it out slowly. It feels great. Now take a quarter of a breath – one out of four people aren’t getting enough food in Poughkeepsie – and how does that feel? It’s not whether you deserve it. It’s not whether you’ve worked hard to get it.

Everybody needs to eat, and we all need to help feed each other.”

Dutchess Outreach and the Lunch Box are located at 29 North Hamilton Street in Poughkeepsie. If you or a loved one is in need of these services, please contact Dutchess Outreach at (845) 454-3792 or at www.dutchessoutreach. org. For information about contributing to Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, contact info@ rescuingleftovercuisine.org or visit www. facebook.com/rescuingleftovercuisine.

– Ann Hutton

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November 26, 2015

“WE’RE NOT ONLY SEPARATED BY ethnicity, religion, by being rich or poor, but now also by virtual reality and computers.

How do you get people together in real live environments?”

Dutch treat Sinterklaas starts this Saturday with Kingston playing the traditional role of Spain

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all her a professional celebrator: Jeanne Fleming has spent the better part of her 70 years in the celebration business, from staging the Official Land Celebration for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty to decades at the helm of staging New York City’s Village Halloween

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In the present-day Hudson Valley Sinterklaas celebrations, Kingston plays the role of Spain and Rhinebeck assumes the role of Holland. Sinterklaas gets feted in a parade on the Rondout and then leaves Kingston by tugboat on Saturday, November 28 and arrives in Rhinebeck , via Rhinecliff, on Saturday, December 5. Both celebrations are family-oriented fun, and elevate children to the status of “Kings and Queens,” honoring them as the bringers of light in a season of darkness.

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“I had never heard of Sinterklaas, and after a couple of days of researching, I came across it. Not only was it perfect in every way for the requirements, but it was also about the history of our country, the history of the Hudson Valley; and it had elements of Santa Claus, too. Then,” she added, “there were imperfect things: How would it work for our time, be democratic and be a non-denominational holiday that includes everyone and is about children?”

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He was accompanied by a Grumpus, a wild-looking half-man, half-beast, who rattled chains and threatened to whisk

“It’s very sweet, it’s free and it’s for the whole family.” naughty children into his black bag and steal them away. Less naughty children received a lesser punishment – switches with branches – and good children were awarded a bag of goodies.

The celebration evolved over time to include a parade, led by the kindly bishop, who became the patron saint of children and needy others. And every December, Sinterklaas would leave Spain, where he lives during the rest of the year, and arrive in Amsterdam by boat. You can read much more about the history of Sinterklaas at www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

In the present-day Hudson Valley Sinterklaas celebrations, Kingston plays the role of Spain and Rhinebeck assumes the role of Holland. Sinterklaas leaves Kingston by tugboat on Saturday, November 28 and arrives in Rhinebeck on Saturday, December 5. Both celebrations are family-oriented fun, and elevate children to the status of “Kings and Queens,” honoring them as the bringers of light in a season of darkness.

Sinterklaas celebration on the Rondout in Kingston this Saturday, November 28 Five years ago, when the Rhinebeck Sinterklaas celebrations were already well established, Fleming approached Susan Linn with the idea of bringing them over to Kingston. “We would play the role of Spain, mount our own celebration here in the Rondout and send Sinterklaas off on his way ‘across the seas’ [over the Hudson River] to Rhinebeck, which represented Holland. Nancy Donskoj got involved then, too, and we’ve worked together on it for the past five years.”

In Kingston, Linn says, Sinterklaas is truly a small-town celebration. “It’s the difference between 15,000 people in Rhinebeck and the 3,000 people that come to celebrate Sinterklaas in the Rondout. We have some simultaneous events here in Kingston, but we only have about six active volunteers and can only do so much.”

“Only so much” is still quite a lot. The Kingston volunteers start planning in March and hold their first fundraiser in June.

On the Kingston Sinterklaas Celebration day (Saturday, November 28), festivities begin at the Kingston Library at 11 a.m. with the Parrots for Peace, and the day includes Crowns and Branches workshops, storytelling, face-painting, music and other fun events for children and families.

The Maritime Parade kicks off at 4:15 p.m., with the Send-Off Ceremony for Sinterklaas at the end, followed by the

Sinterklaas Soiree at Mariner’s Harbor.

“My favorite part is the parade. I love walking down Broadway with the Parrots of Peace and Mark Alexander, who creates the doves that walk on stilts down the hill,” says Linn. And everyone joins in – from community members and families and children who carry puppets, fishes, waves, stars, crowns and branches and honeybees (this year’s Honored Animal) – as well as Sinterklaas himself, accompanied by his loyal Grumpuses, who frolic, tease and throw goodies to all along the route.

“The kids love it, and they make some really beautiful Crowns and Branches.

It’s very sweet, it’s free and it’s for the whole family. There’s music for adults at Mint, and we have many events for kids, including – for the first time this year, at ASK – Catskill Mountain Music Together.

It’s all very participatory, and each year we try to do something a little different.”

“It’s not about commercialization. It’s about family, and it’s near and dear to my heart,” says Linn, adding that “It’s also ‘Shop Small Saturday,’ so the businesses in the Rondout will be open. It’s such a fun day, and it’s nice to go to one of the Rondout restaurants afterward and continue the celebration over a cocktail with friends.”

For the complete Kingston Sinterklaas Celebration schedule, including the times/ places for workshops and performances, visit www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

If you are interested in volunteering on Sinterklaas day – adults and children are needed to carry puppets in the Maritime Parade – contact Susan Linn at (845) 3394280.

Sinterklaas continues in Rhinebeck on December 5 In Rhinebeck, festivities begin at 10 a.m. at the Firehouse on Saturday, December 5, where Crowns and Branches workshops are held.

Throughout the day, the entire village is taken over by celebrations, performances, workshops, music, food, puppet/magic shows, dancing, a merry-go-round, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, special events for adults and – new this year – SinterUnderground for teens, too. If you have questions, just go up to an Ask Me Lady and you’ll get your answer. Festivities continue into the night, with the Children’s Starlight Parade, the Grand Finale Pageant and the Children’s Star Ceremony, followed by a wassail, a hoedown and dancing until 11 p.m.

Each year, an Honored Animal is featured, and this year, it’s the honeybee. Artist (and co-owner of Olivieri’s Arts & Crafts in Kingston) Felix Olivieri has created a

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gigantic hive with a 3-D Queen Bee inside, and it will be in Foster’s parking lot from 12 noon to 6 p.m. “It’s our answer to sitting on Santa’s lap and asking for stuff,” explains Fleming. “It’s a community ritual, and bees are all about communities that are threatened by division. One child at a time goes into the hive and the Queen Bee will give each child a secret message about how to live in community, take care of family – things like that.” Children have been busy working on 1,000 drawings of bee-children representing themselves, too.

“If you have an inspiring idea, things can happen quickly,” says Fleming, looking back over the way that the Sinterklaas Celebration has flourished and grown larger each year in Rhinebeck, now estimated to attract 15,000 people each year. ” “One of my favorite parts,” says Fleming, “is at the end of the Rhinebeck pageant.

I love it when the children touch the nose of the Peace Dove and sing a Medieval song about peace on Earth. It really brings us all together. The adults carry Sinterklaas stars and then go down on one knee, at the level of the children, who are the Kings and Queens, the tallest, and everyone cheers for the children. Then, the adults stand and everyone becomes one community under the stars.”

– Debra Bresnan Sinterklaas Celebration & Parade in Kingston, Saturday, November 28, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., free, various Rondout/Lower Broadway locations, Kingston, (845) 339-4280, www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

Sinterklaas Celebration in Rhinebeck, Saturday, December 5, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.,

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Williams initiated Coppersea’s floor malting, mashing and distilling techniques and is responsible for barrel management, blending and overall quality. He also develops Coppersea’s evolving agricultural enterprises on its 75-acre certified organic farm in New Paltz, which is focused on the production of organic corn, rye and barley, in addition to a new orchard comprised of European heirloom pear varietals and a pasture-raised pig operation.

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STAGE Evening the odds Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck stages a pleasurably tense, well-orchestrated Wait until Dark

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ver since I first saw Terence Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1967 film version of Frederick Knottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1966 Broadway drama Wait until Dark, it has ridden high on my list of whiteknuckle crime thrillers, and I have long awaited a chance to see how the same story plays out on a stage. That opportunity finally arrived last weekend, when the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck opened its CenterStage production of Wait until Dark, directed by Center stalwart Lisa Lynds. You have one more weekend left to catch it yourself.

Audrey Hepburnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career was riding high at the time that the movie was made, so naturally there is more screentime devoted to her blind heroine Susy than to any of the other characters. And the mobility of movie cameras enabled the filmmakers to depict the plot setup on external locations like an airport instead of having it recounted through verbal exposition, also allowing Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Susyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband Sam more visibility than the character gets in the play.

The stage version, by contrast, confines the action to a single set. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit awkward to have the first meeting of three criminals stalking Susy occur right in the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out for the evening; but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where they expect to find a heroin-stuffed doll that Sam unwittingly brought home from a business trip. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best not to fuss too much over implausibilities and plot holes (such as Susyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laxity about locking her apartment

The CenterStage production steps up admirably to the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenges, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real pleasure just to watch the actors move around the stage. Director Lisa Lynds has found her perfect Susy in Jessie Truin (above, right), who makes the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early gullibility, dawning suspicion and ďŹ nal desperate moves to retake control of her situation all seem believable .

door, which made Roger Ebert tear his hair in his review of the movie); just go with the flow. Limiting the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action to Susyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circumscribed world uses the theater space well while setting a much more claustrophobic tone that heightens the gradually building sense of danger.

Wait until Dark is quite a difficult bit of stagecraft to pull off, demanding explicit choreography from the director, exquisite timing from the actors, sound and lighting technicians and impeccable prop placement from the stagehands.

The onus is on the actress playing Susy to stumble believably from key object to key object as needed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; particularly in her

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final nervewracking standoff with the main villain, Roat â&#x20AC;&#x201C; without for a moment betraying to the audience that she actually can see whatever it is that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling around for. In this play, MacGuffins are so much more than mere MacGuffins; they are lifelines.

What sets Wait until Dark apart from most other thrillers is the simplicity of its basic plot premise: that a blind person can turn her disability to her advantage by making it impossible for her wouldbe killer to see as well, relying on the superiority of the other senses that she has honed since losing her sight. Way in advance of our era when â&#x20AC;&#x153;female agencyâ&#x20AC;? has become a buzzword in cultural critiques, this play turned the damsel-indistress trope on its head by letting fragile Susy change the rules in mid-game and go from victim to victor.

The CenterStage production steps up admirably to the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenges, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real pleasure just to watch the actors move around the stage. Lynds has found her perfect Susy in Jessie Truin, who makes the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early gullibility, dawning suspicion and final desperate

moves to retake control of her situation all seem believable, along with the fact that she has only gone six months without her sight: just long enough to begin to grasp the potentialities of enhanced focus on hearing and touch. The production consulted a professional rehabilitator from the Northeastern Association of the Blind, and it shows in Truinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance.

Among the rest of the cast, the standout is Brian Kubsch, portraying Talman, an excon who gets drawn into Roatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murderous plot against his inclination. Talman begins to feel some sympathy and admiration for Susy even as he carefully and inventively plays out his â&#x20AC;&#x153;good copâ&#x20AC;? part in the threeway con job intended to get her to hand over the doll. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most nuanced role in the play, and Kubsch conveys its shadings skillfully and persuasively.

Like Alan Arkin, who played him in the movie version back in the days when most audiences didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect villains to be multidimensional, Michael Frohnhoefer does a bit too much scenery-chewing as the vain and sadistic Roat. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how the part is written; and Frohnhoefer does exhibit a knack for doing different

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November 26, 2015 voices in scenes where he fools Susy (temporarily) into thinking that someone else has arrived. The third prong of the ill-intentioned triad, Carlino, seems oddly dense – aren’t con men supposed to be able to think on their feet? – but John Adair manages the slightly comedic role well.

The cast also includes Kevin McCarthy as Sam, Peter Pius in a brief appearance as a policeman and Ellie DeMan and Julia Osterhoudt alternating as Gloria, the bratty-but-resourceful little girl in the apartment next door who has borrowed the doll. Special kudos belong to all the techies whose care and attention to detail make this tricky puzzle work onstage, notably technical director/lighting and sound designer Dave Popieluszko and light-board operator Patrick McGriff. To get to the real meat of Wait until Dark, you literally do have to wait until the stage goes dark. And yes, even if you’ve seen the movie, that big “Boo!” moment will still make you jump, because you won’t be looking in the right place.

– Frances Marion Platt Performances of Wait until Dark continue this weekend, beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, November 27 and 28 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 29. Tickets cost $24 and $22, and can be purchased by calling (845) 876-3080 or visiting www.centerforperformingarts. org.

Goat Hill Poets reading in Kingston on Saturday The Goat Hill Poets will preside at the final Spoken Word of the year, to be held on Saturday, November 28, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston. A monthly salon of poets who meet to share their works and lend gentle critique back and forth, the group takes its name from its original meeting place in Saugerties: Goat Hill Road.

All are published poets with credits ranging from small to extensive, and all have been featured readers in poetry series in the Hudson Valley area.

Current members include Marianna Boncek (with poems in The Waywanda Review, The River Reporter, Home Planet News and Lifeblood), Leslie Gerber (Lies of the Poets), Judith Lechner (The Moon Sings Back), Alison Koffler (with poems in Iris: A Journal for Women, Heliotrope, Home Planet News, Lifeblood: The Woodstock Poetry Society Anthology and A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley), Guy Reed (The Effort to Hold Light) and Victoria Sullivan (Eating Figs at Twilight, Alzheimer Dreams and The Divided Bed).

All but Boncek are lined up for the fun at Spoken Word.

Hosted by Annie LaBarge, Spoken Word meets monthly to celebrate poets, actors and writers in the region. Audience members are invited to muster up the courage and take the mic for a poem or two, too. Refreshments will be available for purchase by donation.

– Ann Hutton Spoken Word, Saturday, November 28, 7 p.m., $5 suggested, Unitarian Univer-

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Mark Morganstern reads from Dancing with Dasein this Sunday at Rosendale Café

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The 14 short stories contained within Mark Morganstern’s newly published Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories are populated with vivid characters experiencing some sort of internal conflict with the current situation in their lives. Dasein is a German word usually translated in English as “existence” or “to be there”: a concept espoused by the Existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger to refer to the experience of living in relationship with other humans while being ultimately alone with oneself. To be human is to experience dasein, “to be there” immersed in the tangible, day-to-day world.

Morganstern’s protagonists – who include an Italian American Zen master from the Bronx who dispenses advice in the Hudson Valley, a failed graduate student who runs into his former Heidegger professor and finds him in reduced circumstances, a young curator assigned to coddle an infamous avantgarde artist whose assistant threatens her marriage and a reincarnated ancient Egyptian chef who travels thousands of years forward in time to open a bakery in a southern California surf town – are “all basically dancing with dasein,” says the author.

Morganstern will do a reading from Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories at the Rosendale Café on Sunday, November 29 at 3 p.m. There is no charge to attend.

(Morganstern is co-owner of the Café along with his wife, Susan; he jokes that he’s doing the reading there because “nobody can stop me.”)

The author first honed his craft in the writing program of the City University of New York, earning a Master’s degree in English and Creative Writing. He has had stories published over the years in magazines and small journals, but this is his first collection published as a book.

The stories were written over the course of years.

Morganstern was born in Schenectady, but says of the Hudson Valley, “This is my place.” Many of the stories take place locally, although not all of them, he points out. Still, most of them do, and it was a story that he had published in a collection of Hudson Valley stories that introduced him to his editor, Brent Robison. He says that Robison allowed him latitude in taking his stories as far as he wanted to take them before “roping them back

in, only stopping me when I went really ridiculously too far.”

Asked about his writing process, Morganstern says that he never sets out to write a certain kind of story; it’s more organic than that. “I usually just start with a sentence, then write another sentence, and eventually I start to understand what the story is about.” Some ideas are inspired by a real-life incident, while others may start with something he read or overheard in the café that he owns. “None of the characters are based on a real person,” he adds, “but having a café... all you have to do is pay attention.”

Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories is available on Amazon.com along with local sources that include the Rosendale Library, Half Moon Books in Kingston and the Golden Notebook in Woodstock.

The cover art for the book is a luminous watercolor of a local scene painted by Hudson Valley-based artist Staats Fasoldt, also vice president of the Woodstock School of Art. “He is a friend and a reader,” says Morganstern, “and one day after I had sent him a couple of the stories, I got that art in an e-mail as a gift. I looked at it and said, ‘That’s the book cover.’ I really like the idea of the book having an original book jacket, created by the artist based on

how they feel about what they read.”

The reading at the Rosendale Café this Sunday will be an informal affair: just him reading from some sections of the book. “It’ll be a fairly short reading,” Morganstern says, “then we’ll let people get at the cheese, crackers and wine.”

– Sharyn Flanagan Mark Morganstern reads Dancing with Dasein & Other Stories, Sunday, November 29, 3 p.m., free, Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main Street, Rosendale;(845) 658-9048, www.rosendalecafe.com.

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November 27 - 29 8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $24/ $22 Frederick Knott’s suspense-thriller concerning three con-men who target a blind woman in New York City and her fight to survive.

The film version starred Audrey Hepburn and garnered her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. It also ranks number ten in Bravo’s 100 scariest movie moments. A CENTERstage Production directed by Lisa Lynds. Starring John Adair, Ellie DeMan, Michael Frohnhoefer, Brian Kubsch, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Pius, Julia Osterhoudt & Jessie Truin.

Dec. 4 - 20 8pm Fri & Sat 3pm Sat (12/19 only) 3pm Sun Tickets: $24 Adults $ 22 Seniors $ 15 children under 12 An undisputed Christmas classic, this heart-warming play based on the 1947 film brings all the joy of the holidays right to the stage. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. A Rhinebeck Theater Society Production directed by Russ Austin.

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A Christmas Carol Sat., December 5 at 11 am

Warm your hearts with Dickens’ classic. Watch Mean Ol’ Scrooge as he discovers Christmas is not HUMBUG! The Puppet People’s spectacular show features beautiful marionettes, holiday music and guaranteed smiles!

Sat., Dec. 12 and Sat., Dec. 19 at 11 am The CENTER’s original musical adaptation of Dicken’s classic tale. Join Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge and some wacky ghosts as they find the true meaning of Christmas. Enjoy a live theater show with your favorite holiday songs performed by Kids on Stage, The CENTER’s after school workshop program. Directed by Lisa Lynds. Join us after the show on Dec. 19 for treats and a visit from Santa!

The Center is located at 661 Rte. 308, See you 3.5 miles east of the light in the at The Village of Rhinebeck CENTER!

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MUSIC of talents, it is hard to imagine how all this will sound; but with Byron at the reins, it is certain that it will sound like something very purposeful.

Admission costs $25. Club Helsinki is located at 405 Columbia Street in Hudson. For more information, visit www. helsinkihudson.com.

– John Burdick

Cherish the Ladies play Beacon’s Towne Crier this Saturday

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Sarah McLachlan plays UPAC this Sunday

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ust by virtue of her interpretive genius, Sarah McLachlan would have been a pop star in any era. She broke our hearts for good with her reading of Randy Newman’s “When She Loved Me” in Toy Story. Her cover of XTC’s “Dear God,” by Andy Partridge’s own admission, smokes the original. But McLachlan was also a

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highly successful songwriter in the ’90s and a staple on big stages and at the Lilith Fair festival tours that she founded.

She has scored numerous alt/pop hits, such as “Building a Mystery,” “Sweet Surrender,” “I Will Remember You” and many more.

The Bardavon presents Sarah McLachlan on Sunday, November 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston. Tickets cost $80 to $120 (based on location) and may be purchased at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 601 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 3396088; or via Ticketmaster at (800) 745-

3000. For more information, visit www. bardavon.org.

– John Burdick

All-female Celtic fusionists Cherish the Ladies make a stop at the Towne Crier in Beacon on Saturday, November 28 at 8:30 p.m. The popular ensemble has been hailed lavishly by critics: “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” wrote the Boston Globe; “an astonishing array of virtuosity,” said the Washington Post; “expands the annals of Irish music in America...the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” added The New York Times.

Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 at the door and are available at www.townecrier. com. The Towne Crier Café is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon.

Falcon presents Club d’Elf with John Medeski and the Cure’s Gabrels Bassist/composer Mike Rivard’s rotating-membership cerebral groove collective Club d’Elf returns to the Falcon in Marlboro on Saturday, November 28. This time around, the band features one regular contributor – the great keyboard iconoclast John

Don Byron fronts eclectic sextet at Helsinki Hudson

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Attend a concert of outstanding wind ensemble selections performed by the SUNY Ulster Wind Ensemble under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. and the Percussion Ensemble directed by Chris Earley.

Choral Concert & Guitar Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Quimby Theater.

Honors Recital

Friday, December 4

3:00 p.m. Quimby Theater.

Hear our very best perform. This concert features faculty-selected solo and chamber performances by students in our applied lesson program chosen based on outstanding performances at the convocation series.

Tuba Christmas

Saturday, December 5

3:00 p.m. Clinton Hall, Ulster Savings Bank Community Conference Center.

Join this seasonal favorite as a participant or audience member. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages perform traditional Christmas music from around the world. Participants register at noon, rehearse at 1 p.m. and perform the free concert beginning at 3 p.m.

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Enjoy classic, multicultural and seasonal choral music sung by students under the direction of Janet Gehres. The Guitar Ensemble, directed by Gregory Dinger will also perform.

Julie O’Connor Bob Berman, Debra Bresnan, John Burdick, Erica Chase-Salerno, Will Dendis, Sharyn Flanagan, Leslie Gerber, Richard Heppner, Jeremiah Horrigan, Ann Hutton, Megan Labrise, Dion Ogust, Sue Pilla, Frances Marion Platt, Lee Reich, Paul Smart, Lynn Woods

Photo of Don Byron by Dion Ogust The great jazz reed-player and student of style Don Byron came to fame with his avant-garde klezmer fusion.

This was followed by scholarly and inspired excursions into funk, eccentric swing and gospel, as well as a modicum of traditional jazz, Minimalist composition and free improvisation. Byron teams up with an assembly of local heavies for a show at Club Helsinki in Hudson on Saturday, November 28 at 9 p.m.

The six-piece ensemble includes Bowie drummer Zachary Alford, jazz guitarist Matt Finck, bassist and producer Scott Petito, organmaster Pete Levin and Screaming Headless Torso vocalist Dean Bowman. Given this rather bizarre range

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360-degree video/music performance in Troy with Pauline Oliveros

At the center of that brisk new way of playing was the cymbal-free drumming of our own Jerry Marotta (above), who, along with our own Tony Levin and the guitarist David Rhodes, formed the core of Gabriel’s experimental new ensemble for years.

On December 3 at 7:30 p.m., the Center for Cognition, Communication & Culture presents “What Goes around Comes Around,” an evening at the CRAIVE Lab of vibrant sound and visuals in a 360-degree environment. The piece features video work by noted visual artist Gisela Gamper, video programming by Lauren Petty and music by Pauline Oliveros on accordion, Jonas Braasch on soprano saxophone and Zach Layton on electric guitar.

Located at 250 Jordan Road in Troy, the CRAIVE Lab is a large-scale virtual reality facility that was erected with the support of the National Science Foundation. The Lab has a floor area of 30-by-40 square feet for 360-degree immersive video projection and immersive audio using 134 loudspeakers.

This performance is free of charge.

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Security Project plays Peter Gabriel at Bearsville this Friday

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eter Gabriel’s smash-hit fifth solo album, the Daniel Lanois-produced So, was the one that fully transformed the theatrical prog-rock trickster and Genesis frontman into a pop star, a key figure in the global fusions of the ’80s and a serious voice in international humanitarianism and activism. But amongst fans of prog and art-rock, the man had nothing at all to prove. His first four solo albums – along with a few aesthetically sympathetic records by Adrian Belew-era King Crimson – can be said to have reinvigorated if not outright rescued prog from its hazy mythologies, its rune-stitched robes, its overreaching formal ambitions and all the turgid block chords on poly synths.

Coming off his final and most ambitious statement as Genesis’ leader (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) and with an assist from Robert Fripp, Gabriel almost-singlehandedly made the case for prog-rock’s commercial and artistic viability in the age of punk and New Wave. Minimalist, weird, serious about global rhythms and multiculturally sourced stories, those four records yielded a handful of hits, from “Solsbury Hill” through ”Shock the Monkey”; but the hits are secondary to the massive influence of the sound and the global purview. All four records are titled Peter Gabriel, though the fourth gets called Security for reasons that aren’t too clear anymore, as the word appears nowhere on the product (except maybe a sticker on the original LP plastic wrap, if I recall correctly).

The man who had co-chaired a number of prog’s most notable and successful epic ventures ( the multicharacter “Supper’s Ready” and “The Battle of Epping Forest” at the top of the list) discovered an entirely new way to be epic in Minimalist, ambient world-rock masterpieces such as “Biko” and “San Jacinto.” These records demoed a new sound for art-rock as well as a new set of ensemble values. At the center of that brisk new way of playing was the cymbalfree drumming of our own Jerry Marotta, who, along with our own Tony Levin and the guitarist David Rhodes, formed the core of Gabriel’s experimental new ensemble for years.

Marotta now heads up a band dedicated to celebrating the radical legacy of those Gabriel solo records. It is called the Security Project, and it includes another late-era prog luminary in the Chapman Stick player and King Crimson alumnus Trey Gunn.

The Security Project reinterprets material from the first five Gabriel solo records and hits up late Genesis for encores.

On Friday, December 4, the Security Project plays Gabriel at the Bearsville Theater. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the show and $30 for Golden Circle seating with meet-and-greet privileges. The show begins at 9 p.m. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock. For more information, visit www.bearsvilletheater.com.

– John Burdick

All four records are titled Peter Gabriel, though the fourth gets called Security for reasons that aren’t too clear anymore

Security Project Plays Gabriel, Friday, December 4, 9 p.m., $20/$25/$30, Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

Medeski – and a bit of an unexpected luminary in the avant-rock guitar legend Reeves Gabrels: a former Bowie collaborator, current member of the Cure and a songwriter/composer in his own right.

The show begins at 7 p.m. Per usual at the Falcon, there is no cover charge, but generous donation is encouraged.

The Falcon is located at 1348 Route 9W in Marlboro. For more information, visit www.liveatthefalcon.com.

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The event is presented as a part of Ioneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21st annual Dream Festival. For more information, visit www.deeplistening.org/ dreamfestival.

Brazilian vocalist Maucha Adnet coming to Woodstock

Jazzstock presents the first in its monthly Jazz Series in Woodstock at the newly renovated Community Center at 56 Rock City Road on Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. The inaugural concert features the legendary Brazilian vocalist Maucha Adnet (who sang with Jobim), along with the trio of pianist HĂŠlio Alves, bassist Nilson Matta and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca. Together, they represent some of the finest living Brazilian jazz musicians.

For tickets and more information, visit http://jazzstock.com.

Brandi Carlile to play the Bardavon The roots/rock Adult Alternative artist Brandi Carlileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Acoustic Tourâ&#x20AC;? makes a stop at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on Saturday, December 5 at 8 p.m. The concert is coproduced by the Bardavon and Radio Woodstock. Carlileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2005 self-titled debut landed her on Rolling Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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JIMI HENDRIX BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS AT BEARSVILLE

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hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than combining legends with a reggae beat, the day after Thanksgiving? Realizing that the day is none other than Jimi Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 73rd birthday, in what would have been Bob Marleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 70th year? And that to celebrate, the venerable Upstate Reggae is bringing the great classic vocal trio the Mighty Diamonds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; founded in 1969 and hitting their commercial stride from the 1970s on â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to play a concert at the Bearsville Theater, just down the road from the church (now Upstate Films) that Hendrix rented for several months to find a new sound and rehearse for his gig in that â&#x20AC;&#x153;other Woodstock,â&#x20AC;? the festival that took place down the road a spell in Sullivan County?

Expect a raucous evening, complete with an opening Hendrix salute featuring Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Chogyi Lama and Gypsy Sun, a VIP after-party with deejay Queen Tubby, Ras Moses and friends and the Bearsville Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great new feel. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Smart Jimi Hendrix Birthday Party/Mighty Diamonds, Friday, November 26, 9 p.m., $50/$25, Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street (Route 212), Woodstock; (845) 679-4406, www.bearsvilletheater.com.

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Basilica Farm & Flea in Hudson

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hen native Canadian Melissa Auf der Maur first heard about “Black Friday” holiday shopping in this country, it seemed obvious to her, she says, that there ought to be an alternative for people like herself who prefer to gift friends and family with one-of-a-kind presents. As cofounder of Basilica Hudson – a circa-1880 17,000-squarefoot former industrial space in Hudson that hosts cultural events – her instincts told her that she wasn’t alone; that surely with the wealth of creative people in the region, there was an audience for a handcrafted holiday marketplace that would take the holidays out of the shopping mall and bring them back into our local communities.

It turns out that she was right: The now-annual Basilica Farm & Flea marketplace at Basilica Hudson on Thanksgiving Day weekend was a success from the start. “It was so inspiring after the first year to see that I was correct: that there are people like me who want an alternative, and want to be surrounded by other people who feel the same and want to support small businesses,” says Auf der Maur. “It was exciting to know that we could empower small-business owners who are all just trying to make ends meet by doing something that they believe in, something they’re good at and something that they love. They just need support from the community to make it.”

The third annual Basilica Farm & Flea marketplace kicks off on Friday, November 27 from 2 to 9 p.m. with a market preview that offers visitors first access to the wide selection of more than 125 vendors offering vintage goods, local food products and handcrafted artisanal wares. The Black Friday Soiree begins at 5 p.m., with Fridayonly vendors offering tastings of locally produced food, cider and distilled spirits accompanied by live music.

The marketplace on Saturday and Sunday, November 28 and 29 will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. New this year will be the Back Gallery, a vintage concept space copresented by Escape Brooklyn, featuring even more vintage collectibles than in years past and makers who incorporate vintage items or aesthetics into their handmade collections.

Along with the shopping opportunities, visitors can attend educational workshops and cultural lectures. Workshops will include two Saturday sessions on jewelrymaking by author Nancy Soriano, former editor of Country Living magazine, who will offer tips from her recently published do-it-yourself book, The Jewelry Recipe Book.

Workshops on Sunday will focus on beginning lampmaking with furniture designer Elise McMahon and a seasonal textile project with weaver Margot Becker.

General admission costs $5 for adults and is free for kids under age 12. Fees are charged to attend the workshops; details on registration and cost can be found on the Basilica Farm & Flea website. Space is limited.

Participating vendors at the marketplace are independent artists and designers, local food purveyors or collectors of high-quality vintage wares who agree to uphold the “no bar code” ethos of Basilica Farm & Flea. The event drew more than 7,000 people over three days last year, and going by the number of vendor applications that were submitted this year, 2015 will be the biggest event yet. “We got enough applications this year to hold two Farm & Fleas,” says Auf der Maur.

The event is held inside the vast Basilica Hudson, once a forge and foundry for steel railway wheels (it later housed a glue factory up to the 1980s). The building is “definitely the center Muse and inspiration to the project,” Auf der Maur says.

While the Basilica has a “grand” aspect to it, the space somehow becomes adaptable to the use that they put it to, she adds. “It impresses the eye, but it’s not impossible to fill. It can feel incredible with just 50 people inside, when we have art exhibits: a big beautiful empty space that people can wander around in, and yet it doesn’t feel empty. But when it’s packed for our music festivals, with 1,500 people at once, it feels packed, but it’s perfectly manageable. It’s an interesting scale to work with.”

Already a registered not-for-profit, Basilica Hudson is in the process of becoming a 501 (c) (3). Auf der Maur, a musician, co-founded the Basilica in 2010 with filmmaker

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In one of the region’s most distinctive holiday traditions, Tuba Christmas happens again on Saturday, December 5 at 3 p.m. in Clinton Hall, the Ulster Savings Bank Community Conference Center on the Stone Ridge

campus of SUNY-Ulster. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages are invited to bring their horns and perform traditional Christmas music from around the world. This is the 42nd anniversary of the international concert phenomenon, which began at the Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink as a tribute to tuba teacher and mentor William J. Bell, born on Christmas Day in 1902.

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Tony Stone, her partner in both business and life. “We fell in love with the building and had dreams – and continue to have dreams – of filling it with everything that we love,” she says. They started with what they knew (film and music) and expanded from there to embrace all of the arts.

The couple see Basilica Hudson as lasting far beyond their own input, however.

The move to become a 501 (c) (3) is in large part to establish its sustainability, Auf der Maur notes. “We’re the founders, but we’re not making this for ourselves. Basilica was born to be shaped by the needs and wants of the community. It’s very much a lifelong project, and we’re very conscious of wanting to let this grow on its own and eventually let go – to have others share it and be part of it and help shape it. We want this to be an institution that people will draw inspiration from and have a place to experiment and express themselves.”

They work in tandem now with other creative teams like the Hudson River Exchange, which is coordinating the Basilica Farm & Flea event. That group puts on its own summer market and curates pop-up events in the region throughout the year.

This weekend’s marketplace will serve as finale to the fifth year of programming at Basilica Hudson.

“And of all our events, the Flea feels like the most natural fit,” Auf der Maur says. “This has been the most satisfying and inspiring event to put on because of how happy it makes everybody and how effortless it is. There’s a need for it, a want for it and a love of it. It’s exciting to see it grow every year, and we’re blown away by the response to it.”

She and Stone, a native New Yorker, share a young daughter now as well. They settled in Hudson as a middle ground between New York City and her roots in Montreal. “With this being my first real home in this country, I’ve fallen in love with America by living in Hudson; and a large part of that has to do with the Basilica and learning about the region through the people who come through our doors,” Auf der Maur says. “This weekend will be an amazing way for us to be thankful for the region, thankful for our audience and thankful for this beautiful building that has allowed us to dream and to bring people together. It’s a great way for us to wrap up the season every year.”

– Sharyn Flanagan

“There’s a need for it, a want for it and a love of it,” says Auf der Maur.

“It’s exciting to see it grow every year, and we’re blown away by the response to it.”

Basilica Farm & Flea Black Friday Soiree, November 27, 5-9 p.m., marketplace, Friday, 2-9 p.m., Saturday/Sunday, November 28/29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $5, Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front Street, Hudson; (518) 822-1050, www.basilicahudson. com, www.basilicafarmandflea.com.

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NIGHT SKY

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just got back from leading a tour in Chile, exploring the amazing southern skies. We annually go into the Andes and Atacama Desert, and went to the mountaintop where they’re building the world’s largest telescope. Its mirror is the size of a house.

I use a special handheld instrument to measure the sky’s purity. Down there, the Milky Way casts shadows. It seems as though you can touch the stars, they’re so brilliant, with the background sky nearly black.

In such pristine conditions, it’s easy to see why the ancient Mayas regarded the Milky Way as the center of all existence. It’s more than a creamy glow; in pure skies, it contains countless intricate inky dust lanes and stunning detail. Okay, so how do our skies compare?

If this were Manhattan, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But in the Catskills – and also just east of us, near parts of the Taconic Parkway – many people do enjoy excellent skies. Nowadays, sky quality is charted by satellite and the light pollution map plotted using a series of colors. If you go to http://darksitefinder. com/maps/world.html and zoom in, you can discover the sky quality around your own home.

Brooklyn is coded white, meaning that only a few stars poke through the intense sky-glow. Poughkeepsie is coded red; dozens of stars are visible from there, though not the Milky Way. If you live in or can drive to a green area, that’s quite good. That actually comprises much of our region. One patch of the Catskills and a big one in the Adirondacks are even coded dark blue, which indicates an extraordinary sky.

We went to the mountaintop in the Andes where they’re building the world’s largest telescope.

Its mirror is the size of a house.

The scene where seeing exactly what’s happening is most crucial is a much quieter one, in which Katniss must cast the deciding vote in determining a controversial strategy for the rebellion.

Here, particularly, it helps to have read the books, in order to understand why the character acts in a manner that seems counterintuitive. Her careful choice of words, and the exchange of searching looks between Katniss and her Games mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), is key to interpreting their thought processes correctly. It’s all about who trusts whom and why, or why not.

More than anything, what makes this movie franchise work is the serendipitous casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.

The books are written from her point of view, as an internal monologue; it takes some damn fine acting chops to convey all those subtle processes with the facial muscles, stance and gesture alone.

Lawrence makes it admirably clear that the heroine with the inspiring speeches in the shiny Mockingjay suit is not the damaged, reluctant Games survivor. If non-reader audiences understand why she makes the complicated ethical and tactical choices that she does, it’s because they’re watching her closely. And Lawrence’s commanding screen presence insists upon being watched closely indeed.

As for the rest of the cast, the ones we most enjoyed in the earlier installments continue to shine in Mockingjay – Part 2: Harrelson; Donald Sutherland as the charmingly creepy President Snow; Elizabeth Banks as Katniss’ vapid chaperone Effie; Julianne Moore as the chilly rebel leader Coin; Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last-ever screen role as defected game designer Plutarch – whose final scene with Katniss, sadly, had to be turned into a message sent by letter when the actor died mid-filming. Even tiny roles are brought to memorable life by Jeffrey Wright as electronics whiz Beetee, Jenna Malone as flinty games survivor Johanna, Stanley Tucci as Capitol TV host Flickerman, Elden Hensen as mute cameraman Pollux, Gwendoline Christie as a rebel commander and others too numerous to mention.

That leaves the two weakest acting

links, tasked with fleshing out the least compelling characters in the story: Katniss’ two suitors. As her fellow District 12 Games survivor Peeta, who has become a loose cannon following sophisticated torture and brainwashing, Josh Hutcherson gets more interesting stuff to do here than in Mockingjay – Part 1, where he was mostly seen in Capitol propaganda clips. He does more with it as well, but still comes off a bit pallid.

Liam Hemsworth as Peeta’s rival Gale, Katniss’ childhood hunting buddy, still functions as mere beefcake (and the series’ worst casting choice); the director does the character further disservice by not reminding the audience more vividly of the morally dicey role that Gale plays as a tactician for the rebellion.

In sum, Mockingjay – Part 2 is not your perfect dystopian sci-fi action thriller, but it’s ultimately satisfying – if you found yourself gratified rather than disappointed by the way that the books ended. If the visceral charge of uncomplicated heroism and glory is more of what you’re after in a movie, don’t despair: More Star Wars is coming very soon.

– Frances Marion Platt

Half Moon Theatre performs “streamlined” Christmas Carol at CIA For three weeks in December, Half Moon Theatre (HMT) is bringing some holiday sparkle to its new home at the Marriott Pavilion at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park. The Poughkeepsie-based troupe will present what it describes as a “streamlined, highly theatrical,” “funny, dynamic and fast-paced new adaptation” of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. There will be 12 performances from December 4 to 19.

“We were delighted to discover this exciting adaptation by Patrick Barlow, which premiered at the Delaware Theatre Company in 2012,” says HMT managing director Kristy Grimes. Barlow, creator of the Tony award-winning The 39 Steps, “highlights the humor and spookiness of the tale – with lots of physicality, as the

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Since these next two weeks are the final period when the Cygnus Milky Way can be seen until summer of 2016, check it out. The Moon is absent the first three hours after nightfall starting this Monday, November 30. After this weekend, we have increasingly moonless nights until the middle of December. Moreover, there’s no snow yet, which makes a difference. Because it’s so reflective, snow cover causes the sky to glow more brightly, since streetlights are reflected upward.

If it’s clear this coming week or next weekend, it might be worth taking a drive to see the cosmos at is best. Next weekend (December 4 to 6) the Moon is totally gone, and Orion and the brilliant winter patterns stand in full display by 9:30 p.m. One area that is almost perfectly pure is reached by going up Route 28 just past Margaretville, then turning left onto Route 30 for about ten minutes. When you reach a bridge crossing the Pepacton Reservoir, both ends have pull-offs for cars. Those spots have truly pure skies.

You don’t need a telescope. You’ll be swept away just gazing up and seeing what the universe really looks like.

– Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyAlmanacWeekly.com.

actors have to continually ‘transform’ into different characters – but without losing the heart of the story.” A cast of five plays all the characters, including Darrell James as Scrooge along with Wayne Pyle, Maria Silverman, Shona Tucker and Ryan Walter. Michael Schiralli directs.

Performances of A Christmas Carol begin at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, December 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19; at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, December 5, 6, 12, 13 and 19; and at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16. Ticket prices range from $22 to $50, with a special meet-thecast reception following the December 5 evening show and a talkback after the December 13 matinée. Call (800) 8383006 or visit www.halfmoontheatre.org to purchase tickets.

The CIA’s Bocuse Restaurant, American Bounty and Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici are offering special dining options for theatre patrons preceding some of the shows. For details and reservations, call (945) 905-4533 or e-mail ciarestaurantgroup@culinary. edu.

– Frances Marion Platt

Holiday on Huguenot Street next weekend In years past, the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce, Historic Huguenot Street and the New Paltz Reformed Church have all organized their own pre-holiday festivities, sometimes on the same date and competing for residents’ attendance.

This year, for the first time, “Historic Huguenot Street and the Reformed Church are working together. That’s really big,” says Chamber president Kathy Prizzia of the events unfolding on Huguenot Street next Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5. “It’s really strengthening what we’re doing at the Chamber: trying to work together as a community…. We want to cross-promote from within.”

From 4 p.m. on Saturday to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Huguenot Street will be closed to traffic, lined with luminaries and full of various family-friendly events,

including horse-drawn wagon rides on Saturday, co-sponsored by the Chamber.

The annual community tree-lighting by local dignitaries and group caroling will take place on the Deyo House lawn at 74 Huguenot Street at 7 p.m. on Friday evening, after which Santa will arrive with a little treat for all the children.

An intriguing new offering this year will be a pop-up chocolate shop hosted by the DuBois Fort Visitor Center at 81 Huguenot Street. Open from 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday, it will be run by Lagusta’s Luscious, so you can expect out-of-the-ordinary flavor combinations, each one delectable. Also getting underway at 4 p.m., and setting out from the DuBois Fort on the hour until 9 Friday night and again from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, will be Historic Huguenot Street’s special holiday-themed stone house tours. There’s a $15 per person charge for the tours, and they fill up, so preregistration is recommended at http://historic-huguenot-street-museumshop.myshopify.com/collections/events/ products/a-holiday-on-huguenot-streettour-tickets.

At 5 p.m. on Friday, the Reformed Church’s Christmas Fair opens in the Wullschleger Education Building at 92 Huguenot Street. It will reopen at 9 a.m. on Saturday. At 6 p.m. on Friday, the Church’s front steps will become a magnet for chilled visitors as it presents its popular Soup on the Stoop event, accompanied by a live outdoor concert from the Reformed Church Choir. At 7:30 p.m. at the Church, vocalist Kate Weston will front the Big Blue Big Band with some holiday swing.

On Saturday, December 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Reformed Church’s Social Hall will host a Christmas Café. Horsedrawn wagon rides will depart from the DuBois Fort Visitor Center every 15 minutes from 1 until 4 p.m. The charge is $5 per person; children age 3 and under ride for free. Beginning at 2 p.m., Deyo Hall at 6 Broadhead Avenue will host a Kids’ Crafts workshop courtesy of Hurds Family Farm.

– Frances Marion Platt

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NATURE GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Autumn in the greenhouse – Mediterranean-style

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ith yellowing leaves and dropping leaves, my greenhouse figs are looking sickly. But all is well in figdom. A common misconception is that figs are tropical trees; they’re not.

They’re subtropical, generally tolerating cold down to near 20 degrees Fahrenheit. And their leaves are deciduous, naturally yellowing and dropping this time of year – just like maples, ashes and other deciduous trees.

My greenhouse thermostat kicks on when the temperature inside drops to about 35 degrees. Daytime temperatures depend on sunlight; they might soar to 80 before awakening the exhaust fan on a sunny day in January, or hover around 35 on an overcast day that month. All of which is to say that the weather inside my greenhouse matches

pretty well that of Barcelona and Rome, with hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters. And figs grow very well in those Mediterranean climates – and go dormant.

I harvested my last good fig, from the variety Rabbi Samuel, around the middle of this month. Can figophiles enjoy the fruits that late in the season in Barcelona and Rome, I wonder? Many apparently ripe fruits were still hanging from the stems after that date. With cool weather and/or less sunshine from shorter days, the fruits developed an overripe, off flavor.

I can’t complain; harvest began in July, and I periodically picked enough to have to dry the excess.

I didn’t turn my back on my plants after harvesting my last fig; I jumped right into readying the plants for next year’s harvest. The first step was hur-

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Lee in his greenhouse, pruning fig espalier

rying the plants along into dormancy by actually pulling off all remaining leaves.

Next, pruning. Two of my varieties, Bethlehem Black and Brown Turkey, bear fruit only on new shoots of the current season. Unpruned, new shoots would originate further and further up and out from the trunk: a problem in the limited confines of my greenhouse. Severity of pruning needs to be balanced against when ripening begins. More severe pruning would be more dramatic in its effect, but delays ripening (which is why fig trees – their roots, at least – might survive outdoors here under mulch or snow; but when the plant dies back that close to the ground, new sprouts don’t have time to ripen their fruits the following season).

Pruning these trees back to stubs between three and four feet from the ground keeps them to size and stimulates plenty of new

shoots next spring, on which fruit ripens from late summer on.

Rabbi Samuel and San Piero fig varieties ripen a July crop on one-year-old stems, as well as a second crop, onward from September, on new shoots. So with these varieties, I pruned some stems severely and others enough to leave some year-old wood for the early crop. Easiest was Rabbi Samuel, because it’s trained as an espalier in the form of a T, with a permanent short trunk and two permanent arms emanating in opposite directions from atop the trunk.

Fruiting shoots grow vertically six to 12 inches apart from the arms. Today I cut every other fruiting shoot to a stub, from which I’ll allow just one new vertical shoot for the September crop. I cut each of the other shoots down to about a foot long; they’ll bear the early crop, and then, if fruiting stems are crowding each other, can be cut back right after the early

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It’s all simpler that it reads, and looks very tidy in the greenhouse now overcrowded with lettuce, celery, arugula, mâche, claytonia, parsley and Swiss chard – all of which are staples of the Mediterranean vegetable garden in winter.

Like figs, citrus also are subtropical plants. Depending on the kind of citrus fruit, they’ll tolerate winter cold

November 26, 2015 into the teens (kumquat) or just below freezing (lime). The plants neither grow as vigorously nor bear as heavily as do figs, so you don’t get much bang for your buck with a potted citrus without choosing carefully what to grow. I grow mine in pots: kumquat, because you can eat the whole fruit, sweet skin and tart flesh, wasting nothing; and, the newest addition to my citrus family (genus, actually), Meyer lemon.

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Paltz-based acupuncturist Jason Elias tells the tale of his own transformation as a healer, beginning with the discovery of a great-grandmother who was known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Little Doctor,â&#x20AC;? whose healing stories became a significant element in his own life. Kissing Joy as It Flies: A Journey in Search of Healing & Wholeness taps into those ancestral roots in the old country prescriptives of Eastern Europe. Upon earning his MA degree in Psychology from the New School in 1969, Elias went on to pursue an education in life itself, awakening to his own potential as a healer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this along-the-way portion of the memoir that engages the reader so thoroughly.

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November 26, 2015 “To me the universal theme that crosses all healing modalities is: connecting the person to their own healing story. Every tradition can do that.”

Asked how he gets to an individual’s source story, he says, “I encourage the person I’m working with to talk about what they’re experiencing, how they feel the symptoms. In Chinese medicine, there are the ‘three pillars of diagnostics’: the subjective experience of the patient. We talk, and I’ll use my intuition, asking, ‘Does this have something to do with grief ?’ for example... Of course, I do pragmatic work with a patient – take the pulse, examine the body, get a history – and bringing all that together, I’ll come up with a treatment strategy. I always try to connect the story. I’ll ask, ‘How do you feel about this? How is it impacting your life?’ That’s my way of working. And there are herbs I can prescribe and give advice nutritionally. What I’m looking for is a bridge – where we can use the best in Western medicine, which is good at fixing things – along with the things that are good at caring. It’s pragmatic.”

A reading and reception at the Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts in Woodstock will be hosted by the Golden Notebook this Saturday, November 28 at 6 p.m.; copies of Kissing Joy as It Flies will be available for purchase. For more information about Integral Health Associates and the practice of Jason Elias, visit http:// fiveelementhealing.net.

– Ann Hutton Jason Elias: Kissing Joy as It Flies booksigning/reception, Saturday, November 28, 6-8 p.m., free, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock; (845) 679-8000, www.goldennotebook. com.

James Schlett at “Philosophers’ Lodge” lecture at Olana

Join aut h o r and historian Ja m e s Schlett at the Olana State Historic Site on Saturday, November 28 for the Armchair Travel Series program “The Philosophers’ Lodge” lecture and book-signing. Schlett is an awardwinning journalist and the author of A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015). In August of 1858, a gathering of America’s leading intellectuals met at Follensby Pond, including Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz and Cambridge, Massachusetts poet James Russell Lowell. They were led into the Adirondack wilderness by Frederic Church’s first pupil, William James Stillman. Schlett will explore the artistic, political, economic and scientific trends that brought these men together in Boston and the Adirondacks.

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Winter Walk returns to Hudson’s Warren Street next Saturday Sleighrides to Grandmother’s house for Christmas dinner may be the stuff of rural holiday fantasies, but there’s really nothing so attractive as a bustling, walkable downtown with sparkly lights and decorated shop windows in the weeks preceding the holiday when you need to hunt down somebody’s perfect present. More and more Hudson Valley’s charming town and village centers are capitalizing on that nostalgia factor to lure shoppers away from the convenience of the megamalls.

Hudson may qualify as a small city, but in its renaissance of recent decades it has gotten the old-fashioned shopping atmosphere down pat, and its Winter Walk organized by the Hudson Opera House has been going on for 19 years now.

Billed as “Hudson’s liveliest, largest and most colorful event of the year,” the annual celebration and retail therapy opportunity returns next Saturday, December 5 from 5 to 8 p.m., rain, snow or moonshine.

Hudson’s mile-long Warren Street is transformed into a festive boulevard with twinkling lights, brightly decorated shops, Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, live reindeer, a petting zoo, a horse-drawn wagon, carolers and a legion of characters and performers. At 5 p.m. the carillon bells of the First Presbyterian Church launch the Santa Parade from the Opera House to City Hall, where free books are distributed to children all evening. Holiday frolicking continues throughout the evening, with activities and performances both inside shops and on the street. From jazz to classical, African drums to banjo, music is everywhere. Face-painting, stiltwalkers, animal balloons by Tots the Clown and Roger the Jester compete for children’s attention. At 8 p.m., fireworks launched from Promenade Hill at the foot of Warren Street light up the winter sky marking the conclusion of the festivities, but many businesses (especially restaurants) stay open long afterwards.

For more info about Winter Walk, visit http://hudsonoperahouse.org/winterwalk.

– Frances Marion Platt

less stage productions of A Christmas Carol and ballet companies dancing Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker will soon be competing for a piece of your holiday ticket-buying budget. But for two decades now, the Ulster Ballet Company (UBC) has been trumping them all by presenting its own version of Dickens’ seasonal classic, choreographed and directed by Sara Miot, formerly of the New York City Ballet. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge gets his comeuppance from the three ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in his nightshirt, not a tutu, but it’s still a gas to see these iconic characters have to get up and dance. And it’s tempting to imagine the ghost of tap phenomenon/local hero Peg Leg Bates smiling down from the balcony upon the hoofing efforts of poor lame Tiny Tim with his crutch.

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inter in America” at the Jack Shainman Gallery’s amazing space in Kinderhook, the School, is described by the noted New York gallerist as being about our nation’s current “season of malaise” as it struggles with “war, intolerance, environmental degradation, fear, gun violence and alienation, all of which seem to quell any optimism and growth.” Yet it be could also be called a visualization of “Black Lives Matter.”

The exhibit, spread across three floors, includes a number of major world artists

expressing their darker sides, from some rare versions of Andy Warhol’s electric chairs to pieces by early photographer Edward Curtis, hipster provocateur Matthew Barney, the amazing Italian Dolomite three-dimensional artist of represented angst Gerhard Demetz and surreal photographers Robert and Shana Parkeharrison. But what grow to dominate the senses are the various African American artists on view (including many from Shainman’s own collection) and the curated sense of what black experience means these days.

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loud, funk-soundtracked video of radical chic looks in black women; Radcliffe Bailey’s sculptures of a boat and Huey Newton’s iconic wicker cobra chair, created of a glittery black material that resembles hair; a grand portrait of Michael Jackson when he was a young man; and Shainman’s own “Black Panther Archives” of imagery tied to the movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It has a radical sheen about it, with plenty of sexual references and violence below and above surface textures and messages. Yet it also feels contemporarily chic, especially in the cleanly renovated European chill of the recreated old school

building.

Up into April, the show is major, and it fits perfectly into the “quiet introspection” of the season – especially when one exits its chilly observations onto a grand American Main Street, where the sound of busy leafblowers and a few passing cars remind one of the disconnect between today’s existential angst about global problems and the relative comforts of “normal” lives today.

It’s augmented with a special show of drawings, maquettes and new sculptures by the great sculptor Mark di Suvero.

– Paul Smart “Winter in America: A Multimedia Group Exhibition,” Saturdays through April 15, 11 a.m-5 p.m., the School, 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook, (518) 7581628, www.jackshainman.com.

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Wired Gallery Sevan Melikyan of High Falls’ Wired Gallery knows how to put together an inventive exhibit that hits all pistons. His latest, “Collectors Curate,” is a group show in which art collectors present pieces by their favorite local artists. The exhibition opens this Saturday, November 28. “The purpose of this show is to celebrate individuals whose passion for the arts provides much-needed fuel to our local art scene,” says Melikyan. “Collectors often work discreetly in support of artists. This show gives four collector teams the opportunity to take center stage and showcase the works of their favorite artists.”

The key local artists on view will include the likes of such solid mid-career talents as Judy Sigunick, Tim Rowan, Maxine Davidowitz, Robert Hite, Melissa Stern, Joan Lesiken, Polly Law and Barbara Esmark, who used to have her own gallery in the same space where Wired is now located.

– Paul Smart “Collectors Curate” opening, Saturday, November 28, 5-7 p.m., Wired Gallery, 11 Mohonk Road, High Falls; (682) 5645613, www.thewiredgallery.com.

Kate McGloughlin painting to be raffled at Woodstock School of Art Holiday Sale

The Woodstock School of Art (WSA) is all about continuation, with an eye to provenance of a deeply localized (yet eternally world-reflective) relevance. It was born of the classicalyet-Modernism-spurring Art Students’ League, on a campus given the nod by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt. Its late founding light, Bob Angeloch, passed on his love of art as a facile-yet-heartfelt business to a full faculty of talented painters, printmakers, drawers and sculptors (all media in which he worked throughout his long and productive life).

On Saturday, December 5, the WSA will be hosting its annual Holiday Sale as a means of raising funds to keep its grand and historic campus the best that it can be. There’ll be artworks and art supplies for sale, as well as a chance to win a gorgeous oil painting by the School of Art’s vivacious new president and printmaking guru, Olive-born-and-bred Angeloch protégé Kate McGloughlin: July, Hurley Flats, which captures the beautiful locale with a shimmer that would make the same setting’s earlier chronicler, Winslow Homer, proud.

The big sale runs from 1 to 4 p.m.; the winner of the McGloughlin painting (valued at $5,000) will be announced at 3 p.m.

– Paul Smart Holiday Sale/Benefit Raffle, Saturday, December 5, raffle tickets $25/1, $100/$5, Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock; (845) 679-2388, www.woodstockschoolofart.org.

Olana hosts Zentangle Workshop What’s Zentagling? Gaining fame over the past year or so, it mingles a structured-pattern form of doodling with Zen practices and “increases focus and creativity, providing artistic satisfaction along with an increased

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sense of personal well-being.” A workshop in the means, complete with supplies (and chocolate!), will be taking place at Frederic Church’s Moorishinspired home Olana in Hudson on Saturday morning, November 28, in the historic site’s Wagon House Education Center.

Drawing from ancient cultural patternings, with an eye to Church’s own love of such things, the workshop will be led by Andrea Porrozzo-Nagle of the Catskills-based Creative Meditations.

Each participant will receive paper, pens and chocolate – and by session’s end, a grand new occupation for the winter months ahead.

– Paul Smart “Zentangle Workshop: The Art of Thoughtful Doodling,” Saturday, November 28, 10 a.m.-12 noon, $10, Wagon House Education Center, Olana State Historic Site, 5720 Route 9G, Hudson; (518) 828-1872, www.olana.org.

Wilderstein hosts Yuletide Tea Christmas is better with a Victorian bent to it; even better with a Beaux Arts angle, and best lent a Gilded Age sheen. It has to do with baubles and the allure of the decorative, as well as the fussiness of a world lent glimmer and gloss by candlelight and the crackle of a roaring fire.

Fortunately, we in the Hudson Valley may be privy to the best old-style holiday celebrations that our nation offers north of New Orleans and south of a few choice Vermont villages. There are grand treasure hunts and decoration extravaganzas at the 19th-century mansions lining the Hudson, Sinterklaas and, at the grand old Victorian manse that is Wilderstein, both weekend house tours and a December 5 Yuletide Tea celebration in midafternoon.

Like all high teas, expect cookies and cakes and those wonderful edges-gone light afternoon sandwiches – plus an alluring gift shop.

– Paul Smart Yuletide Tea, Saturday, December 5, 1 p.m., $30, decorated house tours, Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays through December, 1-4 p.m., Wilderstein, 330 Morton Road, Rhinebeck; (845) 8764818, www.wilderstein.org.

min served as chair of the SUNY-New Paltz Department of Political Science, presiding officer of the faculty and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1996-2008. He also chaired the Ulster County Charter Commission and is the Director & Associate Vice President for Regional Engagement at the Benjamin Center on campus.

One piece in this year’s show is a blackand-white photo of a woman smoking in the old Times Square Automat, circa 1956.

Another is a 1946 painting of a Resting Harlequin, partly Picassolike, partly filled with a postwar American energy about to explode into Abstract Expressionism.

The third is a raw, Grosz-inspired take on a congressional filibuster, capturing all the partisanship in our democratic traditions that we may have thought was brand-new. Now imagine how someone as bright and funny as Dr. Benjamin can talk about what he sees in all three, and 17 more such works.

– Paul Smart Gerald Benjamin discusses “Reading Objects” exhibit, Wednesday, December 2, 12 noon, free, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY-New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz; (845) 257-3844, www.newpaltz. edu/museum.

Lace Mill to host “Made in Kingston” exhibition/sale On Thursday, December 10, there will be a “Made in Kingston” exhibition and sale at the brand-new Lace Mill artist loft building in Midtown Kingston, with all donations at the door going to celebrate the Community Fund at the region’s latest new arts institution and purchase funds going directly to artists and craftspeople.

– Paul Smart

spotting some hapless candidate for the title of “Charlie Brown’s tree.” The other is Vince Guaraldi’s irresistible piano instrumental “Linus and Lucy,” which quickly became a jazz standard, the default Peanuts theme song and eventually even wakeup music for astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle.

That all-knowing oracle Wikipedia says that sales of aluminum Christmas trees (a horrific memory of many Baby Boomers) plummeted to nearly nothing within two years of the first airing of the Peanuts special, in which such glitzy substitutes for real conifers are treated as emblematic of the commercialization of Christmas. Another fun factoid: When the original cast was recording the voices for A Charlie Brown Christmas, the members of Jefferson Airplane were cutting a record in the studio next door and stopped in to ask the child actors for their autographs.

A Charlie Brown Christmas made the leap to the stage with live actors a while back, and the Woodstock Playhouse will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the TV special by presenting the theatrical version next weekend, performed by the youth ensemble from the New York Conservatory for the Arts. Also on the bill will be a production of Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester. Sounds like a great pre-holiday family outing that’s more about catching a little art and thinking about non-material values than spending money on the latest trendy gadget.

A Charlie Brown Christmas live onstage at the Woodstock Playhouse begins at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 6. Tickets cost $21 general admission, $18 for seniors, students and children, and can be purchased by calling the box office at (845) 679-6900 or online at www. woodstockplayhouse.org.

– Frances Marion Platt

Made in Kingston, Thursday, December 10, 5-8 p.m., Lace Mill, 165 Cornell Street, Kingston; (845) 331-3112, (917) 388-7412, www.facebook.com/made-inkingston-778554718875383/?fref=nf.

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True, we’re called Ulster Publishing, for that was the land from which we sprang. Today we cover our historic homeland as well as Dutchess, Greene and Columbia counties.

Catskill

Tivoli Red Hook Rhinebeck

Saturday December 5 and Sunday December 6

Hyde Park

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hudson

Tannersville Saugerties

Phoenicia Mt. Tremper

Woodstock Kingston

Stone Ridge Kerhonkson

Ellenville

Germantown

High Falls

Rosendale New Paltz Highland

Poughkeepsie

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KIDS’ ALMANAC

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Kids’ Almanac Meet a real reindeer, build a LEGO Christmas City, bid Sinterklaas bon voyage

Volunteering for all ages Were you an active volunteer in the community before having children?

Have you struggled with ways to get your kids involved in charity work?

Local Mom Roxanne Ferber explores this topic on her blog, http://thewhatevermom.com, highlighting ways for kids of all ages to help without leaving home!

Her initiative, Operation Christmas Cheer, is a perfect example: Children and adults simply mail holiday cards to children with cancer or other terminal illness to hang in their rooms. Roxanne explains, “My kids are too young for most volunteer opportunities, so I created Operation Christmas Cheer as a way for us to volunteer together. It’s something they can do at any age.”

She lists Bonnie Boxes as another way for families to support others all year round by creating gift packages for children or adults with cancer, including items such as hats, snacks, word puzzles and more. I know that I enjoyed receiving one at my first chemotherapy session! Roxanne also describes hosting a coat drive or collecting supplies for a food pantry. Check out her blog for more information.

Debbie St. Onge is another local community organizer who volunteers year-round and believes that “Everyone should get involved; everyone has talents they can share.” How about giving the gift of music? Debbie recommends caroling at area nursing homes or other agencies.

Our family agrees and welcomes Kids’ Almanac readers to dress festively and join us in our annual caroling outing for all ages at the Mountain View Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in New Paltz on Sunday, December 6 from 2 to 3 p.m. Kids could make a craft ahead of time to distribute to the senior residents during the visit!

Volunteer work is needed throughout the year, and Debbie suggests running events such as a food drive and donating the contributions to your local food pantry, or even participating in the postal sort in the spring, organizing the food donations from the drive. Teens can volunteer at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie, or even the Walkway over the Hudson. Youth can be of great help at your town’s Community Day. Debbie is a frequent volunteer at the Dutchess Outreach soup kitchen in Poughkeepsie, the Lunchbox: a terrific way for young people ages 8 and up to help prepare a meal, serve and clean up. And remember our animal friends by running a pet food drive, or making dog or cat toys to donate to an area shelter. No matter the age of your children, there are ways for everyone to volunteer and support our community!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

Family holiday programs at Albany Institute of History & Art Want to see a live reindeer or take a photo with Santa without heading to the North Pole? Make plans to take

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Sinterklaas sendoff in Kingston

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ingston is the place to be this Saturday, November 28 with celebrations and activities leading up to the big sendoff of Sinterklaas from Kingston (“Spain”) to Rhinebeck (“Holland”), where the festivities will resume next weekend. Activities are happening in Kingston beginning at 11 a.m. with the Crowns and Branches workshop at the Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout. Or how about the ornament-making workshop at the Jay Teske Leather Company at 25 Broadway, or the cookie-decorating workshop at Milne’s at Home Antiques at 81 Broadway?

Take a photo with your crowns and branches between 12 noon and 3:45 p.m. at the Hudson River Maritime Museum, and take a swing at the Bee Hive piñata in T. R. Gallo Park at 3:30 p.m. The littlest ones, from birth on up, can join Miranda Haydn at 3 p.m. at the Arts Society of Kingston at 97 Broadway for songs and movement with Music Together. Be sure to walk in the Children’s Maritime Parade at 4 p.m. at the corner of Broadway and Garraghan Drive for the big Sinterklaas sendoff!

For more information and a complete schedule of Sinterklaas sendoff events, visit www.sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/ sinterlass-kingston.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

your family to the Albany Institute of History & Art this weekend. The Albany Institute hosts special holiday family programming this Friday, November 27 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 28 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Sunday, November 29 from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. Additional activities include making cards, seeing America’s first commercially produced Christmas card, looking at the exhibitions on display and more.

Admission costs $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students, $6 for children aged 6 to 12 years and is free for children under 6. The Albany Institute of History & Art is located at 125 Washington Avenue in Albany. For more information, call (518) 463-4478 or visit www.albanyinstitute. org. I also recommend checking out the Visiting with Children portion of the website for helpful family guides for touring the museum.

Haunted houses in Wappingers & Ulster Park turn frosty It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and the two places that I mentioned last month for Halloween festivities have switched gears and are now in holiday mode, displaying decorative light exhibits, interactive elements and more!

Kevin McCurdy’s Holiday Spirit Festival at Bowdoin Park begins Friday, November 27 and runs on Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Admission costs $12 for ages 12 and up, $10 for military personnel, seniors and

children ages 11 and under. Children under 2 years of age get in free. Bowdoin Park is located at 38 Sheafe Road in Wappingers Falls. For more information, call (845) 297-XMAS or visit http://holidayspiritfestival.com.

A Frosty Fest is the holiday transformation at Headless Horseman, which opens on Friday, November 27 and takes place on Fridays from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and Sundays from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Admission costs $12.95 for children under 12 and $15.95 for adults. A Frosty Fest is located at 778 Broadway in Ulster Park. For more information, call (845) 339-2666 or visit www.afrostyfest.com.

Meet the Animals at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Build on the memories of Thanksgiving by taking an outing with the family to experience nature. All weekend long, the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum invites you to its Meet the Animals presentations at 1 and 2:30 p.m., crafts, a story walk and more. You can visit the museum on Friday and Saturday, November 27 and 28 and Sunday, November 19 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. All programming is included in the regular admission of $3 for ages 3 and up.

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum is located on Muser Drive in Cornwall, across from 174 Angola Road.

For more information, call (845) 5345506, extension 204, or visit http:// hhnaturemuseum.org.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Magic show with David Garrity at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Do you believe in magic? Take the family for a performance of wonder and illusion with David Garrity this Saturday, November 28 at 11 a.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. You’re sure to enjoy an event filled with fun, amazement and laughter. Tickets cost $7 for children and $9 for adults and seniors.

The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck is located at 661 Route 308 in Rhinebeck. For tickets or more information, call (845) 876-3080 or visit http://centerforperformingarts.org. To learn more about the performer, visit www.magicalartist.com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

Panel discussion on public school issues at SUNY-New Paltz Looking for clarity about school testing, policies that result in segregation and what happens if a school gets taken over by the government?

Head over to “Receivership, HighStakes Testing & Social Justice in New York State’s Public Schools,” a panel discussion taking place this Tuesday, December 1 at 7 p.m. at the Coykendall Science Building Auditorium at SUNY-New Paltz. Panelists include Jamaal Bowman, principal of CASA Middle School in the Bronx; Kevin Gibson, Buffalo parent and educator, secretary of the Buffalo Teachers’

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located at 30 Church Street in Highland.

For more information, call (845) 6912275, extension 16, or visit www. highlandlibrary.org.

College Common Application workshop at Adriance Library in Poughkeepsie Things have changed since you and I attended college decades ago. The biggest shift is the creation of the College Common Application, which enables students to apply to many more colleges much more efficiently. Before your teens start applying to colleges, have them learn more at the College Common Application workshop taking place this Tuesday, December 1 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Adriance Library. This program is free and open to the public, and no registration is necessary.

The Adriance Library is located at 93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 485-3445 or visit http://poklib.org.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

Storytelling about gratitude in Rhinebeck Treat your family to a special evening away from network shows and enjoy the enchanting tales of Phoenix Rising Kawamoto this Wednesday, December 2 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck. The stories will focus on gratitude and will make your heart sing, whether you’re 5 or 105. The cost is $20 for adults, and children are admitted free.

The Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck is located at 6369 Mill Street (Route 9), Suite 101 in Rhinebeck. For more information, call (845) 516-4713.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

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LEGO Santa’s Workshop in Kingston

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ant to give your child a holiday LEGO experience without the mess in your own home? Register your child for LEGO Santa’s Workshop taking place this Friday, November 27 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the Stockade Martial Arts in Kingston. Participants ages 5 to 12 years will build a LEGO Christmas City as well as their own LEGO holiday ornament to take home. The cost is $45.

The Stockade Martial Arts in Kingston is located at 302 Wall Street. For more information or to register, call (845) 255-1318 or visit http://midhudson.snapology.com.

– Erica Chase-Salerno

Federation; Ellen Roach, parent and Board of Education member-elect, Albany City Schools; and Bianca Tanis, parent and special education advocate. This event is free and open to the public.

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Erica Chase-Salerno is grateful for what she is and has. She and her husband Mike live in New Paltz, along with their two children: the inspirations behind hudsonvalleyparents.com. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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11/26

Happy Thanksgiving!

8AM Rhinebeck Ferncliff Forest 5k Turkey Trot. Walkers Welcome! Get a group together and come on out. You dont have to be a runner.$35 Adults, $30 Age 11-17, $15 Under age 10Course: Montgomery St /Mt Rutsen Road from W. Market St to Ferncliff Forest and back. Paved road course out and back. Gentle rolling Hills.

Lin e-up: 7am Event Day Registration / Bib Pick up, 8am Walker Start, 8:15 pm 5k Race Start.

Free Food for racers- bannas, bagels & drinks.

Bonus: There will be a prize of a free dinner for 2 at Beekman Arms for the best Thanksgiving related Costume. Funds will benefit all projects and operating expenses at Ferncliff Forest. Packet Pickup: Bib pick up and late registration11/25, 5-7:30pm at Staley Real Estate, 52 E market St, Rhinebeck 8AM Annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot.

5K Timed Race & Fun Run. Proceeds benefit Family of New Paltz food pantry and crisis services. 5K starts at 9:30am. Music by Fuzzy Lollipop. Info: www.newpaltzturkeytrot.com or 845-255-7957. Water Street Market, New Paltz.

9:30AM Thanksgiving Yoga Fundraiser! All Levels Yoga with Linda Lalita. All proceeds will benefit People’s Place. Held at Linda Lalita Studio, 1685 Sawkill Rd, Kingston. Info: www. shaktiyogawoodstock.com or 845-679-0706.

10AM Orange 5K Turkey Trot. Rain, snow or shine and registration begins at 6:45am. Info: 845-926-6097, www.OrangeTurkeyTrot.com.

Galleria at Crystal Run, Middletown.

10AM-7PM Santa Claus at the Poughkeepsie Plaza. Through 12/24. Hours are 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays; 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays; and 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays. Info: www.poughkeepsieplaza.co. Poughkeepsie Plaza, 2600 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

11AM Free Feldenkrais Community Class for Healing.Led by Tatiana Light. On-going, Thursdays, 11am. 845-679-6299. Community Room,18 Woodstock Meadows Ln, Woodstock.

11:30AM-1:30PM Town of Rochester Annual Thanksgiving Luncheon. Please make reservations by Friday Nov. 20 to the Recreation Dept.

Donations of food, fixins or your time are gratefullyaccepted. Call 845-626-2115 Community & Youth Center, 15 Tobacco Rd, Accord. Free.

12 PM-2 PM 5th Annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner. Reservations appreciated, 845-5868649. Sponsored by the Interfaith Council.

Purcell Center of the Sacred Heart Church, Margaretville.

1PM-4PM Family of Woodstock’s 40th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner. All are welcome! To Volunteer time or food call 845-679-2485 Mescal Hornbeck Community Centerr, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, free.

Friday

11/27

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream.

Handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts.

11/27-11/29 & weekends through 12/20. Info: 914-806-3573 or 646-256-9688. Pablo Glass on the Millstream, 10 Streamside Terrace, Woodstock.

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

11AM-4PM Hurley Heritage Society Museum Shop Sale (11/27 & 11/28, 11am-4pm). Local history.books, t-shirts, ornaments, colonial and rooster-themed decor, rooster notecards, oldfashioned toys,potted paperwhites, plus much more! Special discounts.on select merchandise.

Visit www.hurleyheritagesociety.org or Facebook/ Hurley Heritage Society for more details.Hurley Heritage Society Museum Shop, 52 Main Street, Hurley.

12PM-3PM Lego Santa’s Workshop. Children will build a Lego Christmas city plus they will make their own Lego holiday ornament to take home. Ages 5-12 years old. Info: 845-255-1318 or www.midhudson.snapology.com/Calendar___ Register.html The Stockade Martial Arts, 302 Wall St, Kingston.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Special Thanksgiving Weekend Activities.Visit with the Museum’s live animals and enjoy fun crafts for kids. Enjoy the Story Walk. “Meet the Animals” presentations at 1pm and 2:30pm. Info: www.hhnm.org or 845-534-5506,x 204.Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $3.

12PM Santa & Elves will be making an appearance! This will be the first Santa siting in the Hudson River Valley.Skydiving Santa and his friendly elves are experienced sky divers from the Blue Sky Ranch in Gardiner. Celebrating their 6th annual day after Thanksgiving goodwill jump for area families. Free gift for the kidsHurds Family Farm, 2187 State Rte. 32, Modena.

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12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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12:30PM-6PM Tarot, Crystal and Soul Path readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic.

Walk-ins welcome or call for appt. Also available: In-depth Astrology Readings. $125 for 90 minutes (call at least 48 hrs. in advance w/ birth date, time and place of birth.). Info:845679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes, $50 /45 minutes.

1PM-4PM Crowns & Branches Workshop II. Small workshops where each child will create crowns from art materials and scepters from small tree branches to wear during the Sinterklaas parade. Info: 845-339-6925. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St, Kingston, free.

1PM-3PM Gift Making on Black Friday. As an alternative to the shopping rush this Black Friday, craft handmade gifts with materials found in nature. Drop into make two creative projects.

Make a rustic mobile from pinecones and decorate an ornament with acorns to give as gifts.Projects are suitable for children with supervision as well as adventurous adults. This event is free and open to the public.Red Hook Public Library, 845-758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org. Red Hook Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook .

4PM Knitting Club “Knit Wits.” Saugerties Public library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 845-246-4317, x 3.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All welcome. Children 7 and under must be with an adult. Duplos available for younger kids. Every Friday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

6:30PM Swing Dance Workshops with Lyudmila & Yevgeniy. 6:30-7:15pm & 7:15-8pm.

Admission $20 both/$15 one. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Info: www. hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-454-2571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

7PM Movies That Matter: In Our Son’s Name.

An intimate portrait of Phyllis and Orlando Rodr¡guez, whose son, Greg, dies with thousands of others in the World Trade Center. First Presbyterian Church of Beacon, Info: 845-838-2415.

First Presbyterian Church ofBeacon, , McKinley Hall, 50 Liberty St, Beacon, free.

7PM-9PM Unplugged Open Mic at Unison. Are you a musician, poet, dancer, creator or spontaneous unscripted performers looking to take the stage? Performers will have 10 minutes to display their talents on stage. Call Mark Schida at 845-674-3222 for more information.Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $5.

7PM Friday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists LewScott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

8PM Tango Meets Swing at Unison. Tango instruction with Nina Jirka at 8 p.m. with the Bernstein Bard Quartet taking the stage at 8:30pm. Info: 845-255-1559 or www unisonarts. org. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $15.

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

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

2571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

8:30PM-11:30PM Swing Dance to The Lustre Kings. Beginner’s lesson 8-8:30pm; Dance 8:3011:30pm. Admission $15/$10 full time students.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-4542571. The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie.

8:30PM Black Light Party with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker. Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, Saugerties.

Saturday

11/28

Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar. Seasonal refreshments, homemade gifts from local artisans, Starving Artist Sale, frame sale, art supply swap table. Info: www.wallkillriverschool.com.

Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St, Montgomery.

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream.

Handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts.

11/27-11/29 & weekends through 12/20. Info: 914-806-3573 or 646-256-9688. Pablo Glass on the Millstream, 10 Streamside Terrace, Woodstock.

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

9AM-2PM Hyde Park Farmers’ Market. Info: 845-229-9336. 4390 Rte. 9, Hyde Park.

9:30AM-11AM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Saturday, 9-10:30am. Everyone welcome. Info: 845-679-8800. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church (the A-Frame), 2578 Rte 212, Woodstock.

9:30AM 5th Annual Turkey Trot . A benefit the the Rotary Club of Phoenicia. 2.4 mile run/walk.

Free Tot Trot for kids five and under at 9”ree Tot Trot for kids five and under at 9:30am. Race starts at 10am. Registration and sign-in begins at 8am 9:45am. Info: www.runreg.com Parish Hall, Main St, Phoenicia, $25 /family, $15.

10AM-3PM Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market Sponsored by Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest.

Info: www.greigfarm.com/hudson-valley-farmers-market.html. Greig Farm, Pitcher Ln, Red Hook.

8PM The Mighty Diamonds. Jimi Hendrix Salute. Info: 845-679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 297 Tinker St, Woodstock.

10AM-5PM Monastery Christmas Craft Fair.

The only place where 10 varieties of artisanal vinegars are available for sampling and purchase.

There is also a wide selection of creches with figurines from all over the world and stables made at the monastery. Our Lady of theResurrection Monastery, 246 Barmore Rd, LaGrangeville.

8PM Levon Helm Studios Presents Amy Helm - “Oh To Be Home Again” featuring special guests The Midnite Ramble Horns. Info: www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm. Levon Helm Studio, Woodstock, $65 /seating, $45 /standing room.

10AM-12PM Zentangle Workshop: The Art of Doodling. Ages 6 and up. A short demonstration, making session, and snacks. Each participant will receive their own little pouch with pens and paper.. Info: 518-828-1872 or www.olana.org Olana, Wagon House Education Center,

8PM Another Antigone. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Conflict, comedy and campus chaos result when a classics professor refuses to accept his student’s version of Sophocles ancient play. Info: 845-6797900 or www.performingartsofwoodstock.org.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $23, $20 /senior/student.

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

8PM-8:30PM Beginner Swing Dance Lesson.

Beginner’s lesson 8-8:30pm; Dance 8:3011:30pm. Admission $15/$10 full time students.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances.

Info: www.hudsonvalleydance.org or 845-454-

10AM-3PM Holiday Vendor Craft Market Fundraiser. Benefits the Newburgh American cancer Society Relay for Life. Moulton Memorial Baptist Church, Fellowship Hall, 54 Old Little Britain Rd, Newburgh.

10AM-9PM Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Open every Saturday, 10am-9pm. Candlewax in any condition to be recycled. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10AM-4PM 44th Annual Holiday Craft Fair.

Info: www.sunydutchess.edu or 845- 431-8403.

SUNY Dutchess, Main Campus, Poughkeepsie.

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

11AM-4PM Hurley Heritage Society Museum Shop Sale (11/27 & 11/28, 11am-4pm). Local history.books, t-shirts, ornaments, colonial and rooster-themed decor, rooster notecards, oldfashioned toys,potted paperwhites, plus much more! Special discounts.on select merchandise.

Visit www.hurleyheritagesociety.org or Facebook/ Hurley Heritage Society for more details.Hurley Heritage Society Museum Shop, 52 Main Street, Hurley.

11AM-3PM Crowns & Branches Workshop III Each child will create crowns from art materials and scepters from small tree branches to wear during the Sinterklaas parade. Info: 845-3396925. Hudson River Martime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, free.

11AM The A, B, C and D’s of Medicare. Info: programs@olivefreelibrary.org or 845-6572482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

11AM-6PM Small Business Saturday: Holiday Gem and Mineral Sale. A wide variety of crystals and stones from all over the world, including Herkimer “diamonds, “ cactus spirit quartz, amethyst altar points, rare Brazilian crystals such as phenacite, lemurian and trigonicquartz. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

12PM-1PM Free Yoga Pizza Party. Recurring event every Saturday. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided). Donations appreciated. Info:sarah@womenspowerspace. org My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

12PM-6PM Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar.

Seasonal refreshments. Info: www.WallkillRiverSchool.com or 845-457-2787. Wallkill River School, 232 Ward St, Montgomery, free.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Special Thanksgiving Weekend Activities.Visit with the Museum’s live animals and enjoy fun crafts for kids. Enjoy the Story Walk. “Meet the Animals” presentations at 1pm and 2:30pm. Info: www.hhnm.org or 845-534-5506, x204.Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $3.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Marvelous Moths Exhibit and the Hall of Live Animals. Children will love the outdoor Story Walk. At 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. join a Museum Educator to “Meet the Animal”. Info: www. hhnm.org or 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

12PM-5PM 78th Anniversary Open House: Kingston Model RR Club A complete ‘O’-scale railroad in action! Located off Pine Grove Ave behind Kingston YMCA. Info: 845-334-8233.

Kingston Model RR Club, Susan St, Kingston, $6, $2 /under 12.

1PM-3PM Woodstock based Ars Choralis will perform a collection of songs for the holiday season. Info: 845-336-0590. Barnes & Noble, Ulster Ave, Kingston.

1PM Anime Club. Students from Bard College’s Anime Club will share their passion for the popular genre with tweens and teens. learn about Japanese culture, practice Japanese language, draw comics, play related card games like Yu-gi-

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included Notice: Coat/Warm Clothing Drive.

Hats, gloves, scarves, ear warmers, etc. every Saturday in November.Clothes will be distributed to those in need 11/ 28 from 11 am-1 pm at the church.

Info: 845-795-2357. Christ Episcopal Church, 426 Old Post Rd, Marlboro.

Upcoming Events at Clermont: A Child’s Christmas at Clermont (12/5 & 12/6, 10am-12pm). Drop in with children ages 3-10 for this fun family program. Stocking foot tour of the museum, stories under the Christmas tree, and treats in the historic kitchen. $3 per person.; Candlelight Evening (12/13, 3-6pm). Costumed Tableaux Vivants of holidays through history, glittering decorations, and wassail in the historic kitchen. $12 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under. Call for tickets. ; & Christmas at Clermont Open House (12/29, 11am-4pm).A great day for families. Visit the mansion at its holiday best for free selfguided tour. Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Ave, Germantown, 518-537-4240.

Upcoming Events at Staatsburgh:Special Evening House Tour (12/11, 6-8pm). Spend a festive evening at the fully decorated mansion, with costumed guides, music, and shopping; & Holiday Whodunit (12/6, 12/13,12/20 & 12/27, 1-4pm).

Children become detectives to solve a history mystery. Costumed interpreters throughout the house provide clues to help kids find the solution.Staatsburgh State Historic Site, 75 Mills Mansion Dr, Staatsburg,845-889-8851.

Kingston Public Policy/Politics Book Club. Are you passionate about politics and policy? Tired of talking

only to those you agree with? This book club is designed to be a a nonpartisan, all-inclusive group--liberals, conservatives, libertarians, progressives, anarchists and any we’re missing--all welcome. We agree on books and meet monthly for an informed, civil, non-ad hominem discussion of the issues.

Look us up on Meetup.com and join there--or send an email to pubpolicybookclub@gmail.com.

Upcoming: Commitment to Kids -2015- Toy Extravaganza & Winter Carnival (12/6, 12-5PM). Bloomington Firehouse, Rt. 32 & Taylor Street, Parade kicksoff at 1 pm. Santa will be in attendance. A fundraiser for toys for the needy children of Ulster County.

Upcoming: Winter wonderland Parade & Tree Lighting (12/12, 5:30pm). Anyone wishing to participate, please call 845-331-3549. Rain date 12/13. Info: www.esopus.com.

Reserve Now! The Annual Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner(12/5, 11:30am & 1pm). Sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs of Ulster and Kingston Admission isfree andallSeniors are welcome.Two sittings: 11:30am and 1pm.Due to the limited seating (300 at each meal) we ask that you make reservations as soon as possible. Reservations can be made by calling Peggy Kelly at 845- 331-5949 or Mary Strasser at 845-336-5959. Bus Transportation is available and must be made when making your reservation. John A. Coleman High School on Hurley Avenue, Kingston.

Transformational Reading of A Course Of Love in Gardiner ( 12/1, 6:30-8pm).Ongoing meetings to

oh. Info: 845-758-3241. Red Hook PublicLibrary, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

2PM Shaun the Sheep. Animated movie. Rated PG. Info: programs@olivefreelibrary.org or 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

2PM Gardiner Library Music Lover’s Group Meeting. The group meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2pm. Gardiner, free, 845-255-1255.

2PM-8PM Good Karma Sales. 10% discount on any painting, along with an artist-signed limited edition poster to anyone who purchases a painting. And in the spirit of giving, we will be donating a portion of the day’s profits to a favorite charity.

Info: 518-943-0380 M 2PM Free Meditation Instruction. On-going every Saturday, 2pm in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-679-5906, 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

3PM-5PM Armchair Travel Series: The Philosopher’s Lodge. Ages 12 and up. A short demonstration, making session, and snacks. Each participant will receive their own little pouch with pens and paper.. Info: 518-828-1872 or www.olana.org Olana, Visitor Center, Hudson, $10.

4PM Book Signing: Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks is Dead: The Many Livesof America’s Hippest Street. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8000 or www.goldennotebook.com.

5 PM-7 PM Opening Reception: Collectors Curate. A group show where art collectors present works by their favorite local artists.

Exhibits through 2/7/16. Info: at 682-564-5613 or www.TheWiredGallery.com. Wired Gallery, 11 Mohonk Rd, High Falls.

5:30PM Live @ The Falcon: Club d’Elf featuring John Medeski & Reeves Gabrels. Info: 845-2367970 or www.liveatthefalcon.com/ The Falcon, 1348 Rte 9W, Marlboro.

6PM Book Signing: Jason Elias, author of Kissing Joy as it Flies. Hosted by The Golden Notebook. Held at Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Tinker St, Woodstock.845-679-8000.

6:30PM Laura Ludwig presents Poetry and Performance Art. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties.

7PM Vine Van Gogh. The Hudson Valley’s premier “Sip and Paint” for a night of drinks, painting, fun, and relaxation. Info: 845-687-2699.

High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, Saugerties.

7PM Kingston’s 4th Saturday Spoken Word.

Five Goat Hill Poets: Leslie Gerber, Alison Koffler, Judith Lechner, Guy Reed, Victoria Sullivan.

Host: Annie LaBarge. Info: www.uucckingston. org or 845-331—2884 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

7PM Saturday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of

read and discuss A Course Of Love, a continuation of A Course In Miracles, Meeting 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month: Nov. 3rd & 17th and Dec. 1st.

It is helpful but not necessary to be familiar with A Course In Miracles.

Free. All are welcome. Hosted by Roy Capellaro. Info: 845-518-1070 and Hope Mauran, email Hope@hopeivesmauran.com.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Cats. $70 per cat includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. Thursdays, 10am2pm. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed & Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Males, $120 and up; females, $150 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only. Info: 845-343-1000. tara-spayneuter.org.

The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown.

New York Triathlon Expo Coming to Citi Field in 2016 (3/19, 10am6pm). Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are still available. nytriexpo.com/sponsors/ for more details.

For tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/ ny-tri-expo-2016-registrants-tickets-17869086920.

Notice: Coat/Warm Clothing Drive (hats, gloves, scarves, ear warmers, etc.) every Saturday in November.

Clothes will be distributed to those in need 11/ 21 and 11/ 28 from 11 am-1 pm at the church.Donated items must be clean and in reasonably good condi-

the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7PM Saturday Night Live Music & Noodles. 2nd set at 8:30pm.No cover, $5 donations to musicians recommended. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.

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

8PM Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra: Mostly Mozart. Featuring Mozartean Pianist, Anna Polonsky. Conductor, Robert Manno. Info: http://www.catskillmtn.org Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main St, Hunter, $30, $25 /senior, $7 /student.

8PM David Bromberg. Info: 845-679-4406.

Bearsville Theater, 297 Tinker St, Woodstock.

8PM Milkweed. Info: 845-658-9048. The Rosendale Cafer, 434 Main St, Rosendale, $10.

8PM Professor Louie & The Crowmatix. with The ROA Kingston Horn Section led by Dan Shaut. Info: 845-610-5900. Sugarloaf Performing Arts Center, 1351 Kings Hwy, Chester.

8PM Another Antigone. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Conflict, comedy and campus chaos result when a classics professor refuses to accept his student’s version of Sophocles ancient play. Info: 845-6797900 or www.performingartsofwoodstock.org.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $23, $20 /senior/student.

9PM Don Byron and Friends. Info: 518-8284800. Helsinki Club, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

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11/29

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream.

Handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts.

11/27-11/29 & weekends through 12/20. Info: 914-806-3573 or 646-256-9688. Pablo Glass on the Millstream, 10 Streamside Terrace, Woodstock.

10AM-5PM Monastery Christmas Craft Fair.

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tion nothing tattered and/or unsuitable for winter weather). Some minor tears and/or stains are acceptable.

Items may be left at the clothing shed behind the church during the week, or directly to the church Sunday mornings between 9-11am.Info: 845-7952357. Christ Episcopal Church, 426 Old Post Road, Marlboro.

Children’s Holiday Book Sale at Elting Memorial Library. Hundreds of like-new books for holiday gifts.

Discounted 70% to 80% off published price. 11/21 through12/22 Open during library hours. Elting Library, New Paltz.

A Call for Volunteers! Sinterklaas Send-Off Event in Kingston. (11/28, 11:30am-6pm) face painting, music, street performances, balloon sculpting, story-telling, puppets, Parrots for Peace, tree lighting, Sinterklaas on his white horse! Info: 845- 399-2902 or 845-339-4280.

Holiday House Decorating Contest.

The Athens Cultural Center is sponsoring the contest with a grand prize of $75 for one outstandingly decorated home. Judging will take place the week of 12/6. Email your address toinfo@ athensculturalcenter.org or call 518945-1957 by 12/5.

Holiday Wishes For Kids Toy Drive: Accepting new, unwrapped presents (toddler through age 12) and gift cards at drop box locations in local businesses around Washingtonville. Donations will also be accepted at the tree lighting on Dec. 5. Info: 845-321-2143. Washingtonville Fire Dept.

Stream Management Implementation Funds Available. Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program announces the availability of approximately $500, 000 for projects to implement stream management priorities in the Ashokan Watershed.

Deadline 12/1. Info:www/ashokan-

vinegars are available for sampling and purchase.

There is also a wide selection of creches with figurines from all over the world and stables made at the monastery. Our Lady of theResurrection Monastery, 246 Barmore Rd, LaGrangeville.

10 AM-3 PM Last Stop Shop Holiday Craft Boutique. Handcrafted items by local artisans, home decor, folk art and primitive painting, handmade candles and soaps, holiday items, wreaths, stitchery, knit items, tree ornaments, pet accessories. Benefits the NeversinkValley Area Museum.

Info: 845-754-8870. D&H Canal Park Visitors Center, 58 Hoag Rd, Cuddebackville.

10AM-4PM 44th Annual Holiday Craft Fair.

Info: www.sunydutchess.edu or 845- 431-8403.

SUNY Dutchess, Main Campus, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-4PM Holiday Craft and Vendor Fair: Over 40 vendors with homemade items, food, raffles, 50/50, bake sale and more. Bring an unwrapped toy, personal hygiene products or canned food donation for the New Windsor Food Pantry children. Proceeds benefit the New Windsor Food Pantry. New Windsor Community Center, 555 Union Ave, New Windsor.

10AM-2PM Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market. 61 East Market St, Rhinebeck.

10AM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Grasshopper Grove: Gateway to Nature Play. First nature play area in the Hudson Valley. Info: www. hhnm.org or 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $3.

10:30AM-12:30PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Sunday. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 orwww.skylake.shambhala.org. Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

11 AM -4 PM Support Local Artisans and Farmers- Rosendale. Join friends and neighbors

streams.org/projects-funding/ Shokan.

Create Your Own Victorian Holiday Kissing Ball! Learn the secrets to making an old fashioned kissing ball.

Class size is limited; registration deadline is 11/20. Class held on 11/30 at 5:30pm. Info: www.ulster.cce.cornell. edu/events/2015/11/30/kissing-ballworkshop. CCEUC Education Center, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston.

Upcoming: Commitment to Kids - 2015- Toy Extravaganza & Winter Carnival (12/6, 12-5pm). Parade kicksoff at 1 pm. Santa will be in attendance. A fundraiser for toys for the needy children of Ulster County.

Bloomington Firehouse, Rt. 32 & Taylor St, Bloomington.

Our Loving Hands Sunday School classes are making Blessing Bags for the Warming Center and needy. Donations of the following items needed: Wash Cloths, Soap, Hand, Body and Facial Shampoo, and Conditioner, Deodorant, Disposable Razors, Tooth Brushes, Tooth Paste by12/4. Info: 845—331-7188. Clinton Ave United Methodist Church, 122 Clinton Ave, Kingston.

Win This Painting! July, Hurley Flats, oil on linen, 24 x 36, 2015 Kate McGloughlin. Benefit Raffle for The Woodstock School of Art Building Fund Campaign. Winner will be announced 12/5, 3pmat the Annual Holiday Sale in Studio 2. Info: www. woodstockschoolofart.org. WoodstockSchool of Art, Woodstock, $25 /chance.

Reserve Now! Annual Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner. 12/5, 11:30am & 1pm.

Reservations can be made by calling Peggy Kelly at 845- 331-5949 or Mary Strasser at 845-336-5959. Bus Transportation is available and must be made when making your reservation.

John A. Coleman HighSchool, Hurley Ave, Kingston, free.

for this indoor market. Shop for your self, get a head start on holiday shopping! Every Sunday through December 20th at Creative Co-op Rosendale 11 am - 4 pm located at 402 Main St, Rosendale. Offered: Hudson Valley Vertical Farms: Organically grown greens and basil; Nifty Knitters gorgeous hats, scarves, and more; Guersion, fine quality skin creams and lotions, Morning Glory goatsmilk soaps, floral elxirs, Medicine Gardens healing salves and herbal beauty line, Farfetched Coffee Roasters: direct trade coffee roasted in Rosendale! cbcofroendale@gmail. com or 845-527-5672 11:30AM-12:30PM Free Bhagavad Gita Class.

On-going Yoga Philosophy Class taught by Ira Schepetin. Learn the subtleties of Indian Advaita Vedanta Philosophy by studying this perennial classic. OK to drop-in at any point in the series.

Donations appreciated. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Marvelous Moths Exhibit and the Hall of Live Animals. Children will love the outdoor Story Walk. At 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. join a Museum Educator to “Meet the Animal”. Info: www. hhnm.org or 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Hudson HighlandsNature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, $3.

12PM-5PM 78th Anniversary Open House: Kingston Model RR Club A complete ‘O’-scale railroad in action! Located off Pine Grove Ave behind Kingston YMCA. Info: 845-334-8233.

Kingston Model RR Club, Susan St, Kingston, $6, $2 /under 12.

12PM-4PM Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Special Thanksgiving Weekend Activities.Visit with the Museum’s live animals and enjoy fun crafts for kids. Enjoy the Story Walk. “Meet the Animals” presentations at 1pm and 2:30pm.

Info: www.hhnm.org or 845-534-5506, ext. 204.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Muser Dr, Cornwall, $3.

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1PM-3PM Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm.

Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette, 215 Main Street inside of the Medusa Antique Center Building, New Paltz.

1PM-2PM Silent Peace Vigil by Woodstock Women in Black. Info: 845-679-7148 or rizka@ hvc.rr.com. Village Green, Tinker St, Woodstock.

1:30PM Another Antigone. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Conflict, comedy and campus chaos result when a classics professor refuses to accept his student’s version of Sophocles ancient play. Info: 845-6797900 or www.performingartsofwoodstock.org.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock, $23, $20 /senior/student.

2PM A Course in Miracles Study Group. This study group is open to all students of the course, whether you are a beginning student or an advanced teacher. Every Sunday at 2pm. Potential group members may contact Arthur at acimwoodstock@gmail.com Woodstock Library, 5 Library 3PM-5PM Play Reading: Measure for Measure.

Open to all ages ( including adults). Info: 845-6575867. New Genesis Productions, 23 Vision Path, West Shokan, free.

4PM-6PM Woodstock Community Drum Circle.

Hosted by Birds of a Feather. Singers & dancers are all welcome. Bring your drums and percussion instruments. On-going on Sundays, 4-6pm.

No experience necessary. Free. Village Green, Woodstock.

5:30PM Business Recognition Dinner. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce hosts their annual Business Recognition Awards Dinner. Res reqr’d.

Info: www.newpaltzchamber.org or call 845-2550243. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

7:30PM Sarah McLachlan. Multi-platinum, three time Grammy winning singer-songwriter brings her show to Kingston. Info: 845-339-6088.

Ulster Performimg Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $120, $80.

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8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

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VOLKSWAGEN OFF KINGSTON week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

Come learn how to play backgammon, or better your game and make new friends. All ages. Every Monday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

9AM-9:50AM Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Bring a mat.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

6:30PM-8:30PM Mid-Hudson Rainbow Chorus Rehearsal. Info: rainbowchorus1@gmail.com or 216-402-3232. This four-part chorus of LGBTQ & LGBTQ-friendly singers always welcomes new members.Sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses all voice parts needed. Ability to read music not req but helpful. Rehearsals every Mon, 6:30-8:30pm.

No charge for first rehearsal. LGBTQ Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston, $25 /month.

9:30AM Settled and Serving in Place (Kingston Chapter). A social self-help group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community.

Info: ssipkingston.org. Olympic Diner, Washington Ave, Kingston. 845-399-2805.

10AM-12PM Adult Art Workshop. Oils, Acrylics, Brushes supplied. $45 per 18 week semester, or $5 drop-in fee. Crafters free of charge. Judith Boggess, Instructor. Info: 845-657-9735. Shokan.

10AM-12PM Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, 12:15PM Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, 914-244-0333.

12:30PM-6PM Tarot, Crystal and Soul Path Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic.

Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $30 /25 minutes, $50 /45 minute.

1 PM Needlework Group. On-going every Monday, 1pm. Info:845-338-5580, x1005. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen.

2PM-4PM Senior Art with Judith Boggess. In addition to instruction, art supplies and periodic group exhibitions, the class offers friendship and camaraderie. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older for minimum contribution of $2.

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock 3PM-5PM Math Help with Phyllis Rosato. All ages welcome. From kindergarten to calculus.

Every Monday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

4:15PM-5:30PM Healthy Back Class w/ Anne Olin. Build strength and increase flexibility and range of motion with attention to your special needs. Class is on-going and meets on Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm. $12/class. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford.

6PM-7PM Backgammon Club with Christian.

7PM-8:15PM “Habits of Happy People: Creating Your Personal Plan” Workshop with Sherill Silver. Designed to help you begin developing your happiness toolbox. Info: 845-255-1255 or visit www.gardinerlibrary.org. Gardiner Library, library community room, 133 Farmer’s Tnpk, Gardiner.

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9AM-10AM Senior Dance Exercise with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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

Plaza Diner, New Paltz.

10AM The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Meets every Tuesday. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Call 845-744-3055 for more information. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley.

10:30AM Together Tuesdays with Francesca.

For kids birth through preschool. Story, craft, and play. Come join the gang of local parents. Every Tuesday. Info: 845-688-7811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

12PM-6PM Private Spirit Guide Readings with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. First Tuesday of every month. Receive messages from Spirit Guides and deceased loved ones and benefit from the divine wisdom they have to offer. Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $40 /30 miutes, $75 /1 hour.

12PM-3PM Red Elephant: Art & Fashion Show in support of World AIDS Day in the Hudson Valley. Free red nail polish or make a donation for red hair highlights. Info: www.hudsonvalleycs.org/redelephant Ridley Lowell Cosmetology Salon, 289 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

1:30PM-3PM Israeli Folk Dancing with Josh Tabak at Unison. Steps will be taught at the beginners level or adjusted for participants.

No experience required, just the joy of dancing to Israeli music. Info: 845-255-1559 or www unisonarts.org. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org.

Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

7PM Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis Blues and Dance Party. Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls Café, 12 Stone Dock Rd, Saugerties.

7PM-8:30PM Weekly Opportunity Workshop . Meets every Tuesday night, 7pm-8:30pm.Free to attend: learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango & Salsa - Lessons & Dance.

Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Open Mic. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

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

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

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

7PM New Paltz Historic Society Meeting.

Featuring an Art exhibit by Susan Stessin-Cohn, New Paltz Town Historian.New Paltz Town Hall, New Paltz.

7:30PM Life Drawing at Unison. On-going.

Offering professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models under controlled lighting. $15.Info: www.unisonarts.org or 845-255-1559. Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz.

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9AM-10AM Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. Gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

11 AM Knitting Circle. Wednesdays. Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

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

12PM Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12noon. Web: www.kingstonnyrotary.org.

Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston.

12PM-6PM Private Soul Listening Sessions with celestial channel Kate Loye. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Info: 845-679-2100.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $40 /30 miutes, $75 /1 hour.

12PM The Woodstock Senior Citizens Club Meeting. Featuring entertainment by the Kingston Singers. Please note to save the date: for the club’s upcoming Christmas lunch on 12/16, restaurant to be determined. Community Center,

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1PM The Sawkill Seniors Meeting. Gathering begins with a formal meeting format, followed by a raffle, socializing and refreshments. Then for those who wish to join in, there is a card game.

All seniors are welcome. Town Hall, 905 Sawkill Rd, Kingston.

3:30PM Math Regents Prep. Every Wed. @ 3:30pm Certified Math Teacher - Don’t fail Algebra, Geometry, and Trig. Empowering Ellenville, 159 Canal St, Ellenville, 877-576-9931.

5PM Get Crafty. Paper ornament making series.

A different ornament will be made at each session using a variety of folding and cutting techniques.

Wednesdays, December 2 through 16. Res reqr’d.

Info: 845-758-3241 or www.redhooklibrary.org.

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

5:30 PM Woodstock: Christian Centering Prayer and Meditation. On-going, every Wednesday 5:30-6:30pm Everyone welcome.

845-679-9534. First Churchof Christ, Scientist, 89 Tinker St, Woodstock.

6PM-8PM Ukulele Circle. Pull up a ukulele and learn a song! This is a friendly group who welcomes all comers. Info: 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, Rt 28A, West Shokan, free.

6PM Holiday Craft Project Make & Take activities. Info: programs@olivefreelibrary.org or 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

6PM-7:30PM Creative Seed Support Group.

For artists to voice their works inprogress in a supportive environment. For Songwriters, Playwrights & Actors.Held by Patrice Blue Maltas, Actress, Playwright, Musician and founder of Blue Healing Arts Center. MeetsWednesday nights, 6-7:30pm. Info: Patricebluemaltas@gmail.com or www.bluehealing.co. Blue Healing Art Center, 107 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

6PM Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing: Josh Vogel, author of “The Artful Wooden Spoon” Info: 845-876-0500. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck.

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

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

6:25PM-6:50PM Learn Remembrance. Info: 845-679-8989. Every Wednesday, 6:25-6:50pm.

Remembrance is a deep practice to connect with the Divine in your heart. Spiritual practice (see

separate listing) at 7, immediately following this introduction, all are welcome ifyou attend or not.

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

6:55PM-8PM Silent Spiritual Practice. Info: 845-679-8989. Every Wednesday, 6:55-8pm.

Group is for both people who currently have a silent spiritual practice such as meditation or Remembrance and those who would like to start such a practice. Q&A to follow.Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, free /donations welcome.

7PM-11PM Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission-no dues. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm.

Rosendale Café, Rosendale.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Sofia Ribeiro (Brazilian Jazz). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-2367970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. Info: 845-679-5906, x 1012 or jan@ kagyu.org. On-going every Wed, 7pm. This free 90-minute program includes 30 minutes of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by one of eight lectures on the history, practices andprinciples of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

8 wk curriculum. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock, free.

7PM-9PM Tango with Nina Jirka at Unison.

Join Nina Jirka every Wednesday night for tango.

Tango basics will be taught from 7-8 p.m. and intermediate tango follows from 8-9 p.m. Info: 845-255-1559 or www unisonarts.org. Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, $10.

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8PM The Choral Ensembles. Women composers are featured on the evening’s program.

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7:03PM-10PM Jazz Night! ublic is invited to enjoy live jazz music from talentedlocal musicians, along with light refreshments. A portion of all concert Proceeds will benefit Hudson Valley Public Radio. Info: www.hvcommunitycenter.com or 845-471-0430. The Hudson Valley Community Center, 110 South Grand Ave, Poughkeepsie, $7.

7:30 PM The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. Meets every Wednesday night, 7:30pm. An evening of singing, fun & fellowship.A male a cappella group that sings in the American “Barbershop Style”of close fourpart harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight reading not required. Info: wwwnewyorkerschorus.org. St. Andrews Church, 110 Overlook St, Poughkeepsie.

8:30PM-11PM Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio with Syracuse/ Siegel Duo + Special Featured Guest. Featuring Bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Info: 679-7969.

Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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8AM Senior Exercise for Early Risers with Diane Colello. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation. Open to Woodstock residents 55 & older. $1 donation. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

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32 8:30AM-9:30AM Free Daily Silent Sitting Meditation. On-going every Morning, seven days a week, 8:30-9:30am in the Amitabha Shrine Room. For info contact Jan Tarlin, 845-6795906, x 1012. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

9AM-11:15AM New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rte 32, New Paltz.

9:15AM-10:15AM Free Story Hour at High Meadow School. For ages 4 years and under.

On-going. 845-687-4855. High Meadow School, 3643 Main St, Stone Ridge.

9:30AM-10:30AM Senior Fit After 50 with Diane Collelo. Three-part class offering movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Town Hall, Woodstock.

10AM-7PM Santa Claus at the Poughkeepsie Plaza. Through 12/24. Hours are 10 am to 7 pm on weekdays; 10 am to 6 pm on Saturdays; and 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays. Info: www.poughkeepsieplaza.co. Poughkeepsie Plaza, 2600 South Rd, Poughkeepsie.

10AM-11:30AM Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dance & Exercise Class. Led by Anne Olin. For people with PD & other neurological disorders. Groups are challenging, creative and fun! Info: 845-679-6250. $12 for one or $22 for two. St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave, Kingston.

10:30AM Art Hour with Francesca. Ages 3 to 103! Frannie will cook up something creative to do each week. Every Wednesday. Info: 845-6887811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

11AM Free Feldenkrais Community Class for Healing.Led by Tatiana Light. On-going, Thursdays, 11am. 845-679-6299. Community Room,18 Woodstock Meadows Ln, Woodstock.

12PM-6PM Along the Farm/Art Trail with Debbe Cushman Femiak and Elizabeth Ocskay.

Refreshments served; featuring fresh produce from local farms and local wines. Emerging Artist Jim Muhlhahn will be featured in a solo exhibit in the workshop room. Show datesare Dec. 1-30.

Info: www.wallkillriverschool.com, or 845-4572727. Wallkill River School Art Gallery, 232 Ward St, Montgomery.

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

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

1PM-3PM Minnewaska State Park Preserve: Homeschoolers- Lenape Indians. Learn about this native culture, hear stories and play Lenape games. Recommended for children between the ages of seven to twelve years old. Pre-registration is required. Info: 845-255-0752Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Nature Center, Gardiner, $10 / per car.

4:30PM-6PM Meditation Support Group meets at Mirabai every Thursday. Walk-ins welcome. .

Info: 845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5.

5:30PM-7:30PM Locust Groveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sunset Sensationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Laura Pensiero of Gigi Hudson Valley.

Enjoy samplings from Hudson Valley chefs and wine pairings from around the world. Info: info@ lgny.org. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, $29.

6PM Arts and Crafts for Kids Participants must contact the library in advance to sign up for the

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6PM Mr. Holmes. Info: programs@olivefreelibrary.org or 845-657-2482. Olive Free Library, 4033 Route 28A, West Shokan.

6PM-7PM Free Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Ctr. Meets every Thursday, 6-7pm. Free and open to the public. Contact info: 845-658-8556 or www.skylake.shambhala.org.

Sky Lake, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

6:30PM Word CafĂŠ. Hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Open mic for participants and friends. Info: www.wordcafe.us. outdated: an antiques CafĂŠ, 314 Wall St, Kingston, $15, free /teen/college students.

6:30 PM -8 PM Free Bhagavad Gita Class.

On-going Yoga Philosophy Class taught by Ira Schepetin. Learn the subtleties of Indian Advaita Vedanta Philosophy by studying this perennial classic. OK to drop-in at any point in the series.

Donations appreciated. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

6:30PM-7:30PM Seminar on Arthritis of the Knee, Hip and Shoulder The seminar will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis including dietary supplements, medications, exercise, injections and surgery. Info: 845-5345768. Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie.

7PM Cafe Singer Showcase hosted by Barbara Dempsey and Dewitt Nelson. They welcome Caitlin Donohue of Cosmic Hotel, Lauren and Debbrah, and don Lowe to the Cafe stage. Info: 845-687-2699. High Falls CafĂŠ, 12 Stone Dock Rd, Saugerties.

7PM-9PM Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night. Info: 845-255-8811 or www.GKnoodles. com. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz.

7PM Swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Newburgh Dance. Beginner swing dance lesson provided by Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios 7-7:30pm.

Swing Shift Orchestra plays by donation 7:309:30pm. On-going every, 1st Thursday of every month.. Visit www.got2lindy.com for details.

TheNewburgh Brewing Company, 88 South Colden St, Newburgh, free.

7PM-8:30PM Free Holistic Self-Care Class. Sound Healing With Kate Anjahlia Loye. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Fabian Almazan & Rhizome (Chamber Jazz). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM-8:30PM Free Holistic Self-Care Class. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for SelfCare:You Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stop the Waves but You Can Learn How to Surf â&#x20AC;? with Stephanie Speer, M.A. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St. (Rt 209), Stone Ridge.

7:30PM Choral Concert & Guitar Ensemble.

Enjoy classic, multicultural and seasonal choral music sung by students under the direction of Janet Gehres. The Guitar Ensemble directed by Gregory Dinger, also will perform. Info: www. sunyulster.edu or 845-687-5000. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

8PM Student Honors Recital. Classical student performers from the music department will present an evening of musical masterpieces.

Info: www.newpaltz.edu/music or 845-257-2700.

SUNY New Paltz, Julien J. Studley Theatre, New Paltz, $8, $6, $3.

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8:30PM Bluegrass Clubhouse with Brian Hollander, Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Info: 845-679-3484. Harmony CafĂŠ @ Wok â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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Our Loving Hands Sunday School Classes are making Blessing Bags for the Warming Center and needy. Donations of the following items needed: Wash Cloths, Soap, Hand, Body and Facial Shampoo, and Conditioner, Deodorant, Disposable Razors, Tooth Brushes, Tooth Paste by12/4. Info: 845â&#x20AC;&#x201D;331-7188. Clinton Ave United Methodist Church, 122 Clinton Ave, Kingston.

9AM-3PM 10th Annual Holiday Fair . Huge assortment of themed gift baskets and holiday items. Katsbaan Reformed Church Hall, 1800 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties.

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

10:30AM-5PM Blood Drive. The American Red Cross reached out to the hospital for help due to an urgent need for life-saving blood donations.

Info: 845-871-3471. Northern Dutchess Hospital, cafeteria conference room, 6511 Springbrook Ave, Rhinebeck.

11:30AM-4:30PM Private Past Life Regression sessions with Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month. A process that assists you in uncovering the karma and motivations that guide your present life in order to better understand your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose. Info:845-679-2100. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock, $5.

12:05PM-1:15PM Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvement of balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Open to Woodstock residents 55 and older, $1 donation requested. Mescal Hornbeck Community Center, Woodstock.

3PM Honors Recital. This concert features faculty-selected solo and chamber performances by students in the applied lesson program chosen based on outstanding performances at the convocation series. Info: www.sunyulster.edu or 845-.687-5000. SUNY Ulster, Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge.

4PM Knitting Club â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knit Wits.â&#x20AC;? Saugerties Public library, Washington Avenue, Saugerties, 845-246-4317, x 3.

4:30PM-5:30PM Lego Club. All welcome. Children 7 and under must be with an adult. Duplos available for younger kids. Every Friday. Info: 845-6887811 Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

5PM-9PM Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holiday Open House.

Events held thoughout the hamlet, Mr. & Mrs. Claus,The Grinch, Dave Mason,Jazz Ensemble, Victorian Carolers, Kingston Catholic School Chorus & Ice Sculpting. Refreshments, raffle prizes & . Info: www.woodstockchamber.com.

5 PM-9 PM Sparkle 2015. The gardens and grounds will showcase beautiful lighting displays.

Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus, Snow Queen Stilt Walker, Ice Carving Demonstrations, the illuminated Hoop Dancers and caroling with The Taghkanic Chorale. Res reqrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Info: 845-265-3638. Boscobel, Rt 9D, Garrison.

Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks.

The parade will commence on Main St & Garden St & proceed to the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Christmas tree lighting on Main St & Market St. Second second Christmas tree lighting at Dongan Square Park.

Then fireworks. Info: 845-.473-5288 Poughkeepsie.

7PM Robinson & Rohe: The Longest Winter: A Christmas Living Room Concert and Singalong. This folk duo bring their lightbox Christmas concert for the 2nd Annual Living Room Concert at Creative Co-op Rosendale.Supper will be served. Doors open at 6:30 pm $10 - $15 entry includes supper. Info: cbcofrosendale@gmail. com or 845- 527-5672. RSVP as seating is limited.

7PM-11PM Local Talent Night. Every Friday.

Seeking bands and performers. Primoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1554 Rt 44/55, Clintondale, 845-883-6112.

7PM-9PM 1st Fridays: Star Nation Sacred Circle. Meets every 1st Friday, 7-9pm.Info: www.

SymbolicStudies.org. A positive, not for skeptics, discussion group for experiencers of the paranormal. Open to all dreamers, contactees, abductees, ET Ambassadors. Bring adrink, snack to share & lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson.

7PM Scrooge & Son. A Catskill Christmas Carol, written and directed by Jim Milton. Info: 917-6876646 Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main St, Tannersville, $10, $5 /child.

7PM Second Annual Community Tree Lighting.

Carolers from the Reformed Church of New Paltz choir and the New Paltz High School chorus will launch the event. Historic Huguenot Street, Deyo House, New Paltz.

7PM Book Reading: Mark Hogancamp, author of Welcome to Marwencol. The book interleaves striking reproductions of Hogancampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art with his tragic story. Info: 845-246-5775. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St, Saugerties, free.

7PM Live @ The Falcon: Slam Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holiday Soul-a-bration! (Soul/Blues). Info: www.liveatthefalcon.com or 845-236-7970. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

7PM Friday Night Jazz! New York City saxophonist Al Guart leads ensembles comprised of the best Hudson Valley Jazz musicians. A rotating roster of performers includes pianists John Esposito & Peter Tomlinson, guitarists Steve Raleigh & Peter Einhorn, bassists LewScott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Info: 518- 678-3101. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

7PM Book Reading: Suzanne Kelly, author of Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth. Info: 845-255-8300. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church St, New Paltz, free.

7:30PM Ulster Ballet Company presents: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carol. A Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; holiday classic. Choreographed and directed by Sara Miot, formerly of the New York City Ballet. Info: 845-339-6088. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston, $22, $18 /senior, $15 /12 and under.

7:30PM Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. Info: 845-757-5106 x2. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, $30, $10 /child/ student rush.

8PM Vassar College Jazz Ensemble. James Osborn, director. Info: www.music.vassar.edu/ concerts.html or 845-437-7294 . Vassar College, Skinner Hall of Music, Poughkeepsie.

6PM-8PM Opening Reception: Chronogram Covers Show. The fifth installment of the Chronogram covers show. Exhibits through the end of December. Info: www.chronogram.com/ covershow or 845-334-8600 ext. 114. Keegan Ales Brewery, 20 Saint James St, Kingston.

8PM Half Moon Theatre presents A Christmas Carol. Book Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Barlow. Info: www.halfmoontheatre.org or 1-800838-3006. Tickets 45/adults, $40/srs, $35/ matinee, $25/18 & under. The Culinary Institute of America/The Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park.

6PM-7:30PM Hudson Harvesters 4-H Club.

Create a living succulent wreath. Open to all youth ages 8+ in Columbia and Greene Counties. RSVP. Info: 518-828-3346 x100 t Extension Education Center, 479 Rt. 66, Hudson.

8PM Community Playback Theatre Improvisations of audience stories of audience stories. $10. Info: 845-691-4118. Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland, $10.

6PM-8PM Celebrate Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open House with a heart-warming respite at Mirabai with the Magical Madrigals! Sit, relax and enjoy festive holiday songs from around the world performed

by Michael Esposito, Paul McMahon and Loula Pollack. Info: 845-679-2100. MirabaiBookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

6:30PM 22nd Annual City of Poughkeepsie

8 PM Miracle On 34th Street. Info: 845473-2072. Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie, $5.

9PM Jackie Greene. Info: 518-828-4800. Helsinki Club, 405 Columbia St, Hudson.

9PM Security Project Plays Peter Gabriel with Jerry Marotta. Info: 845-679-4406. Bearsville Theater, 297 Tinker St, Woodstock.

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HOUSEKEEPER/CARETAKER; Your own adorable cottage, rent free. Impeccable references, housekeeping skills. 15 hours/ week. Small salary in addition to free cottage. Couple OK. Shandaken. (845)6885062.

New Paltz;, PART-TIME OFFICE HELP. Must haveflexible hours and able to work the summermonths. Excellent people skills, computer knowledge,and more. Apply in person: Southside Terrace Apartments, 4 Southside Ave. Leasing Office.

LICENSED SECURITY GUARDS NEEDED. Apply at Shire Reeve Assoc. 318 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845)331-7444. Ulster & Dutchess Counties.

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HELP WANTED Full Time position for ground personnel with a tree service.

Chainsaw operator/experience required.

657-7125

HELP WANTED for senior citizen doing assorted tasks like house cleaning, gardening, shopping. Once a week for 3-4 hours. $12/hr. Located in Palenville. (518)6783450.

HOME ATTENDANT NEEDED PT. 4 evenings/week 6-8 pm. $11.30/hour on the books. Disabled 48-yr. old female looking for female home attendant to help w/basic needs. Reliable, caring + live within 40 minutes of Phoenicia. Must have car. 845-6883052. No calls before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.

WOODSTOCK FERAL CAT PROJECT NEEDS TRAPPERS.We are a local not for profit organization committed to reducing future feral cat populations through spay/ neuter. If you’re interested in contributing to our mission by humanely trapping feral cats to have them spayed/neutered, “TNR”, please call (973)713-8229.

We NEED YOUR HELP to assist in the upkeep of a Thrift Shop in Highland for the 1st United Methodist Church. Part-time- perfect for someone who doesn’t mind the work or the pay- none. Dedicated staff of 3 right now. Your help is much needed. Thank You. Please contact B. Vashey at 691-7300 or Pastor Dawber at 338-3833.

Drivers: NE Regional Run. $.44cpm.

Monthly Bonus. Home Weekly. Complete Benefit Package. Rider Program Immediately. 100% No-Touch. 70% D&H. 888406-9046 Ricci’s Barber Shop in New Paltz is looking for PART-TIME, possibly FULL-TIME help. Must know how to do flat tops and skin fades. Must be a responsible reliable worker. Call Ricci 845-849-4501.

FULL-TIME FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST NEEDED in busy, fun family chiro office. Must love kids. Send resume w/ cover letter to: david@lesterchiropracticny. com or fax 845-255-4220.

Seeking PART-TIME RECEPTIONIST/ OFFICE ASSISTANT for well established acupuncture office located in Kingston.

Position is approximately 15-20 hours per week and requires computer proficiency.

MAC is preferred. Previous experience in a medical setting is a plus. Please send resume to Qihealer@aol.com Woodstock Taxi needs a P/T-F/T DRIVER. Applicants must be very flexible as to availability. Driver scheduling changes daily.

Shifts will include weekday hours as well as on call weekend hours. Clean license & thorough knowledge of Woodstock and surrounding areas a must. Class E license (very easy to obtain) required. Local residency gets first consideration. During business hours, please call 679-TAXI. Personal Assistant: An occasional collegeeducated typist to do two hours of dictations on Saturdays and Sundays at a time convenient to theapplicant. First-rate spelling and grammar essential, and superior knowledge of any Western European languages a plus. You will type a Word document into a computer. Please send resume to nevans@ overlookny.com

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FOSTER HOMES NEEDED FOR KITTENS AND PREGNANT CATS.The WOODSTOCK FERAL CAT PROJECT is a local not for profit organization committed to reducing future feral cat populations through spay/neuter. We often find orphaned kittens who need a loving home until they are old enough to be adopted. Some orphaned kittens are so young that they require bottle feeding. We affectionately call them “bottle babies”. We recently placed three pregnant cats in three wonderful homes. The cats gave birth and when the kittens are weaned (no longer nursing), we will look to find loving homes for the kittens and their mothers. If you are interested in fostering or would like to learn more about fostering, please call (917) 282-2018 or email DRJLPK@AOL.COM. DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed for Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

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field. We believe we can help each otherWe have a swap meet every Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Holy Cow Shopping Center, in addition to a flea market/garage sale. We find that when business people set up a table w/ business cards & flyers or “show how to do” projects it will definitely increase your business (and mine). It’s a great way to introduce your business to new/old customers.

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Experienced Licensed RN. Many years in hospital & home care. Good at multi-tasking & household assistance, child/adult care, etc. Available Evenings, weekends, weekdays. Affordable rates. Excellent references. 845-883-3058 or 843-602-0765.

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”COMMITMENT TO KIDS”- 2015- TOY EXTRAVAGANZA & WINTER CARNIVAL; Sunday, December 6 at Bloomington Firehouse, Rt. 32 & Taylor Street, 12-5 p.m.

PARADE at 1 p.m. Santa will be in atten-

dance. COMMITMENT TO KIDS is a fundraiser for toys for the needy children of Ulster County.

Cookie Walk and Craft Sale at Atonement Lutheran Church, 100 Market Street, Saugerties. Saturday, 12/5, 10am-3pm. Cookies at $9/pound. Handmade items and gifts.

Free coffee. (Snow date: 12/6, 12pm-3pm)

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STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the pay. Always ready to get you there.

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SAUGERTIES: Residential/Commercial; 3.5 miles to Woodstock. 37 acres & residence. Well, pond, electricity, bluestone quarries, mountain views. Access from town road. $462,500. Call 845-246-1415. FOR SALE BY OWNER- Listing #24040645 WOODSTOCK HISTORIC STONE HOUSE. High ceilings, rooms like Dowton Abbey. Ideal live & work place or air B&B. Great location, excellent condition.

(845)679-6877 or (845)399-1521.

PLATTEKILL: 2-BEDROOM COTTAGE on 2 acres. Enclosed porch, landscaped.

Great opportunity! $94,000. Cornwall Realty. (845)471-2605.

BEAUTIFUL LAKE GEORGE SUMMER HOME, located on the north end of the Lake, 66 plus feet of Lake Front comes with this home. Watch the sun set from your expansive deck which encompasses 2/3 of this home. Three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen and full bath. 3 sliding glass doors looking directly to the lake. Basement for storage, all on 6/10 of an acre. As a bonus there is a commercial dock for your boat and others. Please call for more information and price 845-691-2770.

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RENOVATED MOBILE HOME for rent.

2-bedrooms, washer/dryer, 2 full baths.

Non-smoking property. No pets. Located on quiet country road in Gardiner. Call 845-255-2525 .

COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES! â&#x20AC;&#x153;COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITYâ&#x20AC;? VILLAGE OF SAUGERTIES JUST LISTED! Building offering many opportunities, walking distance to Main Street in the Village. Zoned I 1, which allows for townhouses, ofďŹ ce, restaurants, bus and truck terminal,research labs, wholesale est., laundry/dry cleaner, manufacturing etc., and so much more with a special use permit.. 3400 sq. ft. Building footprint is 75â&#x20AC;&#x2122;X24â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Plenty of parking around the entire building. Hardware in place for 15 ft. over head doors, high ceilings on the ďŹ rst and second ďŹ&#x201A;oor. Entrance doors ALL around building if one wanted to partition the inside. Upstairs is now an Archery Club with archery simulation. Downstairs is an automotive store. CALL FOR ZONING INFO. ............................................................................ ASKING - $350,000

â&#x20AC;&#x153;TWO STORE FRONTSâ&#x20AC;? VILLAGE OF SAUGERTIES Stunning 1800â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retail building in the heart of the quaint Village of Saugerties. Beautiful architectural details inside and out. Two store fronts offering double display windows, hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;ooring, high ceilings and both 1,100 sq. ft. two 1,100 sq. ft. apartments on the second ďŹ&#x201A;oor. Parking lot and studio apartment in the rear. Full attic and full basement. Busy pedestrian and car trafďŹ c location between two lighted intersections. Saugerties has been the destination for HITS, Garlic Festival, Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market, Christmas in the Village, Sawyer Car show, Concerts, Beer Fest., more events every year. Close to Woodstock and Hunter Mountain. GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY! ................................. ASKING - $650,000

â&#x20AC;&#x153;COMMERCIAL / INDUSTRIALâ&#x20AC;? SAUGERTIES JUST LISTED! This is a 20+ acre parcel Zoned industrial. There is a 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ROW off of North Street to access this property. If you were to take Tompson Road (diagonal from exit 20,before Starway diner) all the way to the end, you will see the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peak Tradingâ&#x20AC;? a new company that was purchased this year. This property listed, is behind. Thompson road is a private road and a ROW would have to be discussed with the owner, but would be an easy access. This bordering business does have Municipal water and sewer, to extend that could be a discussion with the town. Many options with this property with site plan review. Many businesses are inquiring about Saugerties, perfect place to live and work. ................. ASKING - $249,900 R E A L T Y

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3 ACRE BUILDING LOTS. Contemplating dividing 28 acres into 3 parcels on Horsenden Rd. Mostly wooded, 6 minutes to town.

22 acres; $145k; 3 acres; $55k; 3 acres; $64k. Email: woodrckt@yahoo.com

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1-BEDROOM APARTMENT, MODENA: near Junction 32 & 44/55. Second floor of converted 19th Century barn. Parking.

Snow-plowed. Trash, recycle weekly. 1-year lease, 1 month security. No smokers, no pets.

References. $675/month excluding utilities.

845-883-0857.

MODENA: 1-BEDROOM,. New floors, kitchen, fresh paint, bright. Convenient to Hannafordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 44/55 & 32. 1100/month includes heat & hot water. Sam Slotnick, Real Estate Sales Agent, Century 21 Alliance, 845656-6088. e-mail: samsk100@aol.com SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM. Quiet setting.

Wood floors, big closets. Patio/deck. $1025/ month includes heat. Close to Ridge. Minutes to New Paltz and Mohonk Preserve. No pets and smoke-free property. Credit, references, security, lease. 845-558-4097.

GARDINER/SHAWANGUNK RENTAL. 2-3 BEDROOMS, 3 BATHS, SINGLE FAMILY HOME ON PRIVATE WOOD-

845-246-9555 www.helsmoortel.com

PO BOX 88, RT 9W, BARCLAY HEIGHTS, SAUGERTIES

ED LOT. FULL FINISHED BASEMENT, 2-CAR DETACHED GARAGE. WALLKILL SCHOOLS. $1500/MONTH. TENANT PAYS ALL UTILITIES INCLUDING TRASH AND SNOW REMOVAL. RIDGELINE REALTY 845-255-8359

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HIGHLAND: HOUSE #1: DELIGHTFUL, PRIVATE HOUSE. Serene surroundings, large porch, large kitchen, mirrored LR, 3-bedrooms, large den, 1.5 Bathrooms, numerous closets. $1100/month. APARTMENT #2; BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM airy, spacious apartment. Large kitchen, many closets, private balcony, 2 entrances, serene surroundings. $950/month.

APARTMENT #3; BEAUTIFUL 1-BEDROOM, airy spacious apartment. Skylight in LR, balcony off LR, large kitchen, many closets, serene surroundings. $900/month.

Call (570)296-6185.

EFFICIENCY: UTILITIES INCLUDED. No pets. Country setting. Quiet. Available now. 5 miles from New Paltz. Call 845-8830072.

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PICTURESQUE STREET; Shared House.

Private part of lovely house on quiet street in village. Garden views, porch, everything

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/ Phoenicia 845.688.2929 / Olive 845.657.4240 / Commercial 845.339.9999

Log Home on 7 Acres Woodstock Location *AAA location on dead end rd *Private, quiet, great wild life *5 minutes into Town shopping *Large living room, 2 bedrooms *Lots of room to expand home *New carpet & newly painted *Basement is 90% finished *Owner is very motivated!

Asking $329,000 Taylored R.E. (845)679-0636 new, privacy, off-street parking, 1-block to college. $895/month plus share of utilities.

Call 845-430-5336.

SUNNY ROOM for Rent. Quiet wooded setting close to college. Separate entrance, deck and heat control. Share large kitchen. $740/month- utilities, Washer-Dryer & wifi included. No smoking. Call Glenn 845-2554704.

SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2016 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-2557205.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; $480/ month. Excellent location. Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call (914)4745176, between 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (845)2556029, between 12-9 p.m., leave message.

PRIVATE STUDIO COTTAGE W/LOFT in Village neighborhood.Full K&B. $875 + utilities. References required. No smoking or pets please. Available Jan 1, 2016.845255-8089; kngavin@gmail.com BEAUTIFUL MODERN 5-BEDROOM HOUSE, just renovated, in park-like setting. Near shopping center. Living, dining, family, utility room, eat-in kitchen, 2 baths, red oak floor whole house, 2-car garage. $1600/month, 1 month security. References. No pets. Call both (845)255-6467 & (212)826-3587.

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT. Walking distance to college. Heat & hot water included. Off-street parking. No smoking. No pets. $740/month. Available now. Call 845255-0839.

New Paltz: Southside Terrace Apartments Year round and other lease terms to suit your needs available!

We have, studios, one & two bedroom apartments, includes heat & hot water. (furniture packages available) Free use of the: Recreation Room, Pool, New Fitness Center & much more! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!â&#x20AC;?

Call 845-255-7205 for more information Beautiful 1-BR Village Apartment .

Upper-floor apartment in a great old house; very nice eighborhood; perfect for quiet, responsible individual; no smoking; no pets; 1 month security and references required; private back porch, garage space, heat, hot water; also includes snow/garbage removal; $1,075/ month; available January 1. Call anytime before 8PM (845)255-7612.

AWESOME 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. 3 blocks from SUNY. Includes French doors overlooking gardens & wooded area, wireless & lots of storage!

Walk to movies & shopping. Off-street parking. Cats okay. $1000/month including all utilities. Mature/quiet tenant only. Available 1/1. 845-594-2071.

Apartment for rent; 1-BEDROOM with kitchen, living room and full bath. Newly remodeled. $750/month plus security deposit. 845-389-5832.

LARGE 2-BEDROOM w/OFFICE , separate entrance, new kitchen and bath. Washer/dryer on site. Large yard. $1300/month plus utilities. 215-9833445 .

ROOM FOR RENT . Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

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It’s a joyous time to give Thanks to our friends and family.

We wish you peace, love and harmony on this Thanksgiving Day!!

THANK YOU! In the spirit of the holiday, we thank all of our past and present clients for the confidence and trust which has resulted in our 35 years as Ulster County’s residential Real Estate industry leader. We pledge to continue to provide the most informed and professional real estate services available to all the towns and villages we love so much. Best wishes for a peaceful Thanksgiving!

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ELLENVILLE 1) Custom 4500sf 1-2 Family on 10acs or 60acs with Marble floors baths saunas, & stone fpl, in-law Apt, $395,000+ 2) 20 Unit Mobile Park Terms 3) Retail/Apt bldg, 6900sf, 3.8acs, 2Br House, 13-unit mhp. $550k

Realty600 (845) 229-1618 BRIGHT, AIRY 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT. Eat-in kitchen. Available 11/1. Walking to town & SUNY. Off-street parking.

Backyard. Heat & hot water included. Pet friendly. $1000/month. Please respond w/ phone & e-mail address. nycbicycle@aol.com 1-BEDROOM/STUDIO. Full kitchen, balcony, separate bathroom. In the heart of the Village of New Paltz. $850/month utilities included. Call (845)664-0493 2-BEDROOM CONDO w/RIVER VIEW. Remodeled kitchen, reserved parking, walk to village. Balcony, hardwood floors, ample storage, Heat/HW, maintenance included, laundry in complex, quiet neighbors. Great for mature professional or small family. $1500/month, 1 month security, references and credit check required. No smoking or pets. Available December for 7-12 month lease. Contact Eli at 845-430-2077.

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ROSENDALE ROOM FOR RENT/HOUSE SHARE. Furnished room available (share kitchen and bath) in artsy cottage. Excellent location, easily in walking distance to town and Rail Trail/Tressle. Parking, washer/dryer on site. Two sweetest-ever cats also included, so no further pets, sorry. $600/month. 845323-2193 or email jefferss@sunyulster.edu

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TUCKED AWAY! - Enchanting storybook Cape hidden from the road in a fine location on NYC bus route & walk to shopping. Contemporary open plan offers lovely hardwood floors, airy living & dining space with a cozy woodburner, modern kitchen with breakfast bar & custom cabs, and a bedroom with renovated full bath.

Full floor MBR upstairs has a skylight, cedar closet and updated half bath. Level yard with brick patio .......................................$179,000

PRIVACY PLUS - Hidden down a long drive on 12 West Hurley acres discover this one owner custom built 2000+ SF contemporary with appealing rustic detail throughout- high ceilings, beams, crafted wood detail, gorgeous stone & brick fireplaces in 23’ LR and dining room, spacious main level MBR + 2 BRs up, 2 full baths, hardwood floors, family/media room, full basement, deck and 4 car att. & heated garage. HOT TUB, TOO! .......$429,700

Contact: Melissa Ann Mayes, RE Salesperson 646-246-7310 Mobile 275 Route 375 West Hurley, NY 12491

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KERHONKSON: 3-BEDROOM HOUSE. Move-in condition. Newly renovated. No pets, non-smokers preferred. References required. $1500/month plus utilities. First, last month rent & 1.5 months security. 973493-7809 or 914-466-0911.

HIGH FALLS: 2-BEDROOM HOUSE on quiet street. Kitchen, dining room, living room, closed-in porch, 1-car garage & cellar space. Walk to restaurants. No pets. $1100/month plus utilities & security. Call (845)705-2208.

TILLSON: 1-BEDROOM. On Rt. 32. Acess to local buses & Trailways. Includes heat, hot water, off-street parking. $850/month.

1 month rent, 1 month security. No smoking. No pets. Max. 2 people w/references.

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PURE WOODSTOCK - Perfectly enchanting storybook style cedar shingled cottage c.

1930 just a few steps to town! Amazing original charm & detail throughout - LR with slate fireplace and artist’s north light window, sweet country kitchen & dining area, hardwood floors, 2 bedrooms down & 1 up, full bath, lovely woodwork, French doors PLUS adorable outbuilding w/ electric perfect for petite STUDIO or guest space ... $264,500

WALK TO TOWN! - Stroll to Woodstock from this airy & open contemporary ranch style with separate 450 SF STUDIO for your artistic endeavors. Gracious floor plan features 22” LR with cozy woodburner, dining space, generous custom EI kitchen w/ pantry, French doors, inviting library/media room, hardwood floors, tons of closets, detached garage & stone patio in private fully fenced rear yard perfect for entertaining .. $419,000

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South of Stone Ridge Rentals

KERHONKSON/ROCHESTER RENTAL; 3-BEDROOM, 1 BATH SINGLE FAMILY HOME ON DEAD-END STREET THAT LEADS INTO STATE PARK. $1200/ MONTH. TENANT PAYS ALL UTILITIES INCLUDING LAWN & SNOW REMOVAL. RIDGELINE REALTY 845-255-8359

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

KINGSTON: Uptown Studio & efficiency apts. Bus routes, convenient to shopping areas, utilities included. Reasonable. 845338-4574 PORT EWEN: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT available. Newly remodeled. Offstreet parking. Hot water included. Quiet area. Near marina. Garbage removal included. NO SMOKING. 1 year lease. 201-2891135.

PORT EWEN: STUDIO APARTMENT available. Newly remodeled. Off-street parking. Quiet area. Near marina. Designated parking. Garbage removal included.

1 year lease. No smoking inside. 201-2891135.

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Krumville/ Olivebridge/ Shokan Rentals

West Shokan: SMALL CABIN, 2-bedrooms, full bath, kitchen/living room, large deck, oil heat, quiet wooded setting. No smoking. Pets negoitable. $850/month plus utilities. First and last months rent plus security. Must have references. Call 845-657-8143.

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Saugerties Rentals

BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR RENT in the woods. Quaint 1-bedroom home w/loft located on 4 acres of land overlooking babbling brook. Newly renovated. Must see. $1100/month. Contact Jane 845-548-7355.

Saugerties Village: CHARMING SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM. First floor, quiet, well-maintained, walk to town. Off-street parking. $900/month includes electric, hot water, garbage removal. Tenant pays for heat and cooking gas. 845-453-1082.

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Woodstock/West Hurley Rentals

Woodstock/Lake Hill. Comfortable furnished rooms in historic house near Cooper Lake and NYC bus. Available monthly from October. Private phone, internet. Piano, cats. $500-$600 includes all. FREE RENT!: Work exchange for very handyperson. homestayny@msn.com. 845-679-2564.

Situated high on a knoll with 5.06 acres with gorgeous mountain views both to the front and back of the home. Over 3800 sq. ft. of space and currently set up as as a single family w/accessory apartment. Two bedrooms in main portion of house along with sunroom and a 23 x41 room with inground (indoor) swimming pool. Accessory apartment has an 18.8 x 15.4 living room, 8 x 15.4 kitchen, small dining area, mud room and personal deck w/ views. $295,000

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FABULOUS NEW PALTZ HOME Great 3 BR, 2 full bath split level cedar sided G h home located approximately 2 miles outside th the village of New Paltz. Located on the end of a cul de sac you have the best of both worlds close to restaurants, schools, and shopping yet private setting. Open floor plan concept with wood floors and a stone fireplace in the living room, and wonderful kitchen w/ large granite topped center island. Spacious great room off the dinning room is perfect for entertaining.

Sliders in the master leads to the back deck with hot tub! $289,900

HUDSON RIVER FRONTAGE AND VIEWS

HISTORIC 1700’S MARBLETOWN STONE HOUSE

HUDSON RIVER views & frontage is yours. Secluded, romantic and hidden at the end of a private road.

Watch the seasons change as the ships pass and Mother Nature abounds. If you’re a bird watcher you’ll want to call this home. Open floor plan with soaring cathedral ceilings in living room. Upper level offers large master suite. Newly renovated cooks kitchen with AGA stove, custom cabinets, wine cooler & walk-in pantry. 3 season porch leads to the deck, patio & hot tub. This is a must see, call for more details! $525,900

Welcome to the Davis House built in 1726 where business for Marbletown was once conducted. This is a diamond in the rough.

Original charm graces you from the Rumford fireplaces w/sun baked brick, tear drop knocker, cigar bolts on the doors for security, 18-22” wide plank floors, original beams & so much more. New cedar shake roof, well, boiler & underground service just added. Living room planks were replaced & fresh paint in kitchen. Call for more details! $260,000

1-BEDROOM HOUSE on Mink Hollow Road, Lake Hill. 1 block from Rt. 212. On 1 acre, beautiful land by a small stream.

Available now. $950/month plus security.

(845)679-8259.

RENOVATED SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM. New cabinets, double sink, new appliances. All new bathroom fixtures, new pecan & ceramic flooring. $1450/month includes heat, electric, water, trash, sewer, maintenance, plowing & shoveling. Located off NYC bus route in 2-family quiet apartment complex. Landlord is NYS licensed R.E. agent 845-802-4777.

ONE-BEDROOM COTTAGE. Great location, one mile from Village Green.

Newly renovated – all modern. Central air.

Skylight. Mountain stream. No smoking, no pets. $1200/month includes utilities. 400 sq. ft.

845 430-4730.

SPACIOUS 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT recently renovated. Convenient location off NYC bus route. $1000/month includes trash, repairs, shoveling & plowing. Call 845-802-4777.

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LOG CABIN at Indian Trading Post for Rent. Walk to Boiceville town center and Bread Alone. Located in a NYS listed historic Sculpture Park. Sleeping loft. New kitchen and bathroom. On site parking. Pet friendly. Close to Fishing, hunting, hiking, biking, skiing, badminton. Available immediately unfurnished. $1100/month + utilities. 917-332-7111.

Shokan: Large One Bedroom Apt., $750/ month, 960 sq.ft.; Also, Large two bedroom Apt., $1200/month, 1200 sq.ft., 7 miles west of Woodstock, peaceful, calm, quiet, country setting. Please, No smokers or pets, utilities not included. Walk to Ashokan Reservoir, 1-year lease, two months security, pictures on craigslist.org search Shokan. Call 845-481-0521.

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Kingston Rondout House- Weekends & All Summer- Exclusive use, on weekends and in summer, of fully furnished house on Wurts Street. Walking distance to the shops, restaurants, and museums of the Strand. Your bedrooms, yours alone. One has a king sized bed, the other has a full bed as well as a trundle bed. $1000/month. All utilities, cable, and Internet included. Pets welcome. Bonus: Full week, 12/24/15-1/1/16 included. 917-5333208 tanyagarment@gmail.com BEAUTIFUL 2-BEDROOM HOUSE. Eat-in kitchen, fireplace in living room, hardwood floors, efficient 3-zone heat, furnished, cable & Wi-Fi. Quiet accessible road, Between Woodstock & Saugerties. No pets. Available thru April. $1000/month plus utilities.

Security & references. Call (917)846-5161, (212)877-4368, davsar@aol.com

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ROSENDALE ROOM FOR RENT/HOUSE SHARE. Furnished room available (share kitchen and bath) in artsy cottage. Excellent location, easily in walking distance to town and Rail Trail/Tressle. Parking, washer/dryer on site. Two sweetest-ever cats also included, so no further pets, sorry. $600/month. 845323-2193 or email jefferss@sunyulster.edu

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Free Stuff

FREE!! 3/4 BED. Covered with plastic. Call 255-0018.

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For Sale

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: Leg curl & leg extension w/weight stack, Smith Machine, Hip Sled, Universal adductor/abductor machine. Please call George at (845)255-8352.

MEDIUM OAK HARDWOOD DINING TABLE; 72x48 wide w/2-self storing 20” leaves & lion claw feet & 6 Windsor chairs2 Captain, 4 regular. Call (845)255-8352.

Wood stoves, new and used. Cheap. 845339-4546 White Muscoby Ducks... beautiful pets for a farm/family home. Many sizes and ages to choose from. Prices vary for age and quantity. 845-679-7192.

Moving Must Sell; Living room, dining room furniture. MPEX workout bench w/ free weights. Exercise bike. 2 custom Teak outdoor lounges. Call 845-246-8938.

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Snow plowing

SNOW PLOWING starting at $40

(845) 331- 4844

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Tree Services

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale.

(845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

STUMP GRINDING

ALLEN LAWLESS • 845-247-2838 SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK CELL.: 845-399-9659

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Firewood for Sale

HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259. Residential, Municipalities.

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Studio Sales

Holiday Sale at Pablo Glass on the Millstream. Beautiful handblown glass ornaments and unique gifts. November 27-29 (Friday-Sunday), and weekends through December 20. In Woodstock at 10 Streamside Terrace. For more information, call (914)806-3573 or (646)256-9688.

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Buy & Swap

OLD FURNITURE, CROCKS, JUGS, paintings, frames, postcards, glasswares, sporting items, urns, fountain pens, lamps, dolls, pocket knives, military items, bronzes, jewelry, sterling, old toys, old paper, old boxes, old advertisements, vintage clothing, anything old. Home contents purchased, (select items or entire estates purchased.)

CASH PAID 657-6252 CASH PAID. Estate contents- attic, cellar, garage clean-outs. Used cars, junk cars, scrap metal. Anything of value. (845)2460214.

BOTTOM LINE... I pay the highest prices for old furniture, antiques of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals. Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972). (845)3897286.

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Musical Instruction & Instruments

Fingerstyle guitar for solo performer.

Taught at NYC’s Mannes College & Guitar Study Center. Break out of “Pattern Playing”, create inst breaks, improvise accompaniments. Susan Hoover, 845-679-7887.

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Furniture, antiques through mid-century. We gladly do house calls, free appraisals. We also do Estate/Tag Sales, 35 years experience. One call does it all.

Call or text anytime 24/7- 617-9811580.

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HUDSON VALLEY

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Surrounded by nature, mountain views, quarry ponds, bluestone walls & gardens. This is one of the few round homes in Ulster County. In ĂĚĚŝƟŽŶ͕ ƚŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ƐĞǀĞƌĂů ďƵŝůĚŝŶŐƐ͖ Ă ƐƚƵĚŝŽ͕ Ă ŚĞĂƚĞĚ ǁŽƌŬƐŚŽƉ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ϮϬ Ō͘ ĐĞŝůŝŶŐ Θ ĂŶ outdoor sauna. As unique as you are!

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Yard & Garage Sales

AID TIBET THRIFT STORE. Fall & Winter Clothes & Coats, BOOK SALE; 5 FOR $1, Furniture, Art, Records, Vintage Items, Housewares, Jewelry. Open 7 days, 10 a.m-6 p.m. VOLUNTEERS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. 875 Route 28, Kingston. 845-383-1774.

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Counseling Services

LAURIE OLIVER....

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING. Give the gift of wellness. Make positive changes in your life through hypnosis. Smoking cessation * pain management * stress relief * past life regressions. Certified Hypnotist by NGH. Intuitive, sensitive guidance.

Spirit communicator. Specializing in dealing with grief, stress, relationship issues, questions about your life past & current life’s path. Call Laurie Oliver at (845)679-2243. Laur50@aol.com

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Professional Services

GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253 .

GO AWAY CAREFREE... I will take care of your house so you will have no worries. Shandaken area. Reasonable rates.

Excellent references. Air B&B Management. Call Lynn Davidson 688-7020 .

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Personal & Health Services

CERTIFIED AIDE LOOKING FOR PRIVATE CARE for elderly. 10 years experience. Live-in or hourly. References available. Ulster County area.

(845)706-5133 .

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Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. *According to Ulster ŽƵŶƚLJ D>^ ^ƚĂƟ ƐƟ ĐƐ ϮϬϭϭͲϮϬϭϰ͘

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Art Services

OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol (845)687-7813.

ULSTER WINDOW CLEANING CO. **Estate, **Residential. **Free Estimates, Fully Insured.

Call 679-3879

J.H. CONSTRUCTION

DUMP RUNS Garage & House Clean-Ups

Call 845-249-8668 COUNTRY CLEANERS

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Organizing/ Decorating/ Refinishing

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable rates. Fully Insured, Confidentiality Assured. MargotMolnar.com; Masters Psychology, former CEO, Certified Hospice Volunteer. margotmolnar1@gmail.com (845)679-6242.

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Painting/Odd Jobs

”ABOVE AND BEYOND” HOUSEPAINTING by Quadrattura, since 1997.

Interior/Exterior, Decorator Finishes, Restorations, Expert Color Consultation, Plastering, Wallpaper Removal, Light Carpentry. Add value to your home economically. Environmentally conscious work done w/old world craftsmanship and pride. (845)332-7577. Senior Discount.

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Cleaning Services • Residential / Commercial • Moving • Delivery • Trucking • Local & NYC Metro Areas

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

HAPPY HOUSEKEEPERS caring and through cleaning service. We do it all from polishing furniture to disinfecting doorknobs! Weekly, biweekly and Vacation home service. References available. Call for free estimate 845-214-8780.

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Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

Contact Jason Habernig

November 26, 2015

en, Doors, Windows, Decks, Roofs, Gutters, Tile, Hardwood Floors (New-Refinish), Sheetrock, Tape. Snowplowing. Call 845616-9832.

YOU CALL I HAUL. Attic, basements, garages cleaned out. Junk, debris, removed.

20% discount for seniors and disabled.

Gary (845)247-7365 or www.garyshauling.com

845-331-4966/249-8668

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ASHOKAN STORE-IT

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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HANDYALL SERVICES: *Carpentry, *Plumbing, *Electrical, *Painting, *Excavating & Grading. 5 ton dump trailer. Trees cut, Yards cleaned & mowed. Snow Removal.

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HB Painting & Construction INC. *Painting: Interior/Exterior, Pressure-Washing, Staining, Glazing... *Construction: Home Renovations, Additions, Bathrooms, Kitch-

www.stoneridgeelectric.com

• Standby Generators

• Service Upgrades

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

• Roof De-icing Systems

• Warm Floor Tiles

Septic Systems • Drainage Driveways • Tree Removal Retaining Walls • Ponds

Authorized Dealer & Installer

Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electric

Experienced- TROMPE O’LOEIL and FAUX FINISHING, 20 yrs. in Paris, and 10 yrs. locally. References and insured. Call Casimir: 845-430-3195 or 845-616- 0872.

Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc.

1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481

Low-Rate Financing Available

(845) 679-4742

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Building Services

WINECOFF QUALITY CONTRACTING, INC. New Construction, Additions, Renovations. Decks, Kitchens, Bathrooms, All types of Flooring, Tile Work. Demolition, Dump Runs, Rotten Wood Repairs. FREE EXTERIOR HOME INSPECTIONS. OH!!!

HANDYMAN PROJECTS TOO. Stefan Winecoff, 845-389-2549.

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Reliable, Dependable & Insured Call for an estimate

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he Holiday Season is a wonderfully busy time in the Hudson Valley with each community offering their unique and special events. It is also a crucial time for local businesses who want to finish the year strong. Eventgoers and Holiday Shoppers are looking for new and special gifts.

Our readers are motivated to come out and participate and to buy local.

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PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. (Never known to fail.) Oh, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh, Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. Oh, show me herein you are my mother. Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3x).

Holy Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3x). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me, I want in this short prayer to thank-you for all things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank-you for your mercy towards me and mine. The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

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DIANA’S FANCY FLEA MARKET: Nice Items Needed For Next Sale! Call Diana 626-0221. To Benefit Diana’s CAT Shelter in Accord.

White Muscoby Ducks... beautiful pets for a farm/family home. Many sizes and ages to choose from. Prices vary for age and quantity. 845-679-7192.

FOR ADOPTION; Lily of the Hudson Valley...Lily is a petite orange and white kitty (w/an orange mustache!) who’s one of the sweetest cats you’ll ever meet. She’ll sit on your lap, give you kisses, and be an allaround wonderful companion. Lily would like to be your one-and-only cat. She’s about 2-years old, spayed, litter pan trained and up to date w/shots. If you would like to know more about Lily, please call (845)679-7922.

FOR ADOPTION- LOVELY SPECIAL NEEDS KITTY; TRINKA; about 1-year old and so very sweet. Unfortunately, Trinka tested positive for Feline Leukemia. She’s been spayed and is up to date w/shots.

Trinka has energy, plays and gives little love bites! She follows her foster mom around the house and is always up for pets. She’s a love and deserves the best life she can have.

If you have feline leukemia positive cats or would like to love Trinka as your only kitty, please call 347-258-2725, or email: carriechapmancat@gmail.com FOR ADOPTION; STARSKY. Very sweet 3-year old female tabby (striped) who’s looking for a forever home. She’s been spayed & up to date w/shots. If you’d like to learn more about this sweet kitty please call (917)282-2018.

Red Butler is a red/orange, big paws, long and lanky, male tabby cat w/white under his chin and on his belly. And if that weren’t enough, he’s very, very sweet!! He’s about a year old, neutered, up to date w/shots and litter pan trained. If you’d like to know

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W W W . R U G E S S U B A R U . C O M more about this lovely cat boy, please call (917)282-2018 or email DRJLPK@aol. com With the Holiday season just around the corner, here at the Ulster County SPCA, we’re hoping to get as many of our residents a home for the holidays! The Ulster County SPCA Animals of the Week; Sorbet; handsome fluffy gray gentleman who’s a morning cat; he likes all of his attention before noon. He’d love to lounge around your home and relax all day long. Clownfish; brown tiger cat fellow who’s exceedingly friendly. Riddle; black & white 10-year old cuddly cat who’ll gladly take up residence on your lap. WE ALSO HAVE MANY DOGS who’d love to share the holidays w/you. Diamond; beautiful 3-year old American Shelter dog who’d love to be the center of your world, and she’d love to show you how to play w/tennis balls and chew toys. Arturo; extremely friendly all white American Bulldog mix who’s okay w/cats, but not dogs.

He’ll love to run and exercise w/you. Bagel; senior hound mix who’s 9-years young. He loves to jump, (so no small children,) loves leash walks and sniffing every square inch of your yard. Maybe you’ve been LOOKING FOR A MINIATURE HORSE? We happen to have one living here named Scout and he’s about 15-years old. He’s very friendly and walks well on his halter. Come CHECK THEM ALL OUT TODAY at the UCSPCA, 20 Wiedy Rd., Kingston, off Sawkill Road.

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FOR FOSTER or ADOPTION; BOB the CAT... Bob is an older gentleman who’s very handsome in his Tux! He loves to cuddle w/me but doesn’t care for other cats except for his cat girlfriend, Minni. Bob & Minni were abandoned in a local trailer park. When they were found, they both

were sick & near starvation. Poor Minni didn’t make it. After many weeks of loving care, Bob is ready for his forever or foster home. He’s very low maintenance, neutered, tested negative and has been dewormed. Are you the one who will make things right for Bob and give him a loving & caring home? If you think you might be, please call (973)713-8229.

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PROJECT CAT is a non-profit cat RESCUE & SHELTER. Please help get cat off the streets & into homes. Adopt a healthy & friendly cat or kitten companion for a lifetime. High Falls/Accord area. (845)6874983 or visit our cats at www.projectcat. org 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 (973)713-8229.

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Want to help but can’t adopt a cat? Don’t forget about our Foster program! Visit our website, UCSPCA.org, for details and pictures of cats to foster. Come see us and all of our other friends at the ULSTER COUN-

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

Call 246-0214. DMV 7107350.

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1997 CAMRY LE. Tan. 149K miles. 1 family-owned car. Aftermarket Alpine speakers & deck. New alternator, battery, oxygen sensor & brakes. Great for commuter or first car. $1800 OBO. Contact Spencer at 845802-1761.

2002 HONDA CIVIC EX, sedan, manual, 187K, sunroof, new tires, front brakes, black, clean. Very reliable. Great on gas. $3700.

845-679-3879.

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