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ALMANAC WEEKLY

A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, entertainment and adventure | Calendar Ca l e n da r & Classifieds | Issue 52 | Dec. 29 – Jan. 5

when it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with

gratitude

– g.k. chesterton

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Inside: Ways to ring in the new year

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Collective vision collage New Year’s Eve at CHRCH Project Space Does visualizing something truly make it more likely to manifest in the real world? As you may know if you’ve been keeping up with Bob Berman’s columns in this publication, quantum physics seems to be telling us lately that’s the only way that anything manifests. Scientific proof aside, plenty of people seem to believe in that approach: Build it in your head, and it will come. Better yet, illustrate your desiderata by making a “vision board.” It’s very trendy.

And what better time than the turning of the year to give form to your preferred change of fortune or perspective? In the late afternoon and early evening of New Year’s Eve, two artist/educators from SUNY-Ulster, Sean Nixon and Hope Windle, will convene a group of creative types at the CHRCH Project Space in Cottekill – a former church now belonging to the Women’s Studio Workshop – to collaborate on a “collective vision board.”

Participants are encouraged to bring along “something you like to drink, scissors, glue sticks, glitter, special drawing pen that you can’t live without…your friends, neighbors...people who like to get crafty.”

At 4 p.m., each attendee will have an opportunity to make a collage to add to a collective “world vision” for 2017, plus an individual vision board. Food will be shared. At 6 p.m., the world vision will be assembled for display, and at 6:30 p.m., participants may “put a voice to visions” in the form of a speech, a song, a joke, an interpretive dance. Cleanup happens at 8

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p.m., so you can still make it to the party of your choice to toast midnight.

The CHRCH Project Space is located at 167 Cottekill Road. Free parking is available across the street. For more info, visit www.chrchprojectspace.org.

Free Thursday-night fly-tying workshops in Pawling Among the consolations of spending one’s winters in a northerly clime where the ground freezes is the knowledge that many types of insect pests will either die or go dormant for part of the year. Conversely, the predictable emergence from the soil of certain species of bugs, like mayflies and stoneflies, is a sure sign of spring’s return – and a harbinger of delight to fly-fishers.

Do you look forward with longing to April 1, 2017, when trout fishing season reopens in New York State? Would you like to experience in person the conditions that made the West Branch of the Delaware River and its feeder streams in our own Catskills the legendary cradle of American fly-fishing? You have a whole winter ahead of you to learn the art.

Serious anglers tie their own flies. The feathery lures can be custom-designed to favor the ecosphere of your favorite fishing spots – and what’s more, they look far more elegant than the mass-produced flies that you can buy in a sporting goods store. Wouldn’t creating some be an absorbing way to pass the cold months ahead? You can practice to your heart’s content and learn from some experts for free on Thursday evenings at the Anglers’ NORA SCARLETT

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NATURAL WONDERS Black Dome Press publishes Nora Scarlett’s photo collection Trunks of the Gunks

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ne of the great pleasures of wandering the Shawangunk Ridge is the profusion of tree trunks, branches and roots that are forced into grotesque and fanciful shapes by their inhospitably rocky habitat.

You might descry an animal form, a human face, a gargoyle amidst their hollows, twists and bumps; or you might just admire their dogged determination to survive, to traverse a crevice or the face of a boulder in order to reach life-giving groundwater or sunshine.

Nora Scarlett, a serious studio photographer whose portfolio includes work as an assistant to the great Irving Penn – not to mention major advertising agency assignments on campaigns for such high-ticket clients as American Express, the Gap, Reebok, Kodak, IBM, Hershey’s and Seagram’s – is now based in New Paltz. While on a hike in the Shawangunks more than a decade ago, she writes, “I was captivated by a tree that appeared to be kissing a boulder.” That was the inspiration for Scarlett’s first serious departure from studio work: a series of large-format photos that she called “Trunks of the Gunks.” The series was first exhibited at the Unison Arts Center gallery in April 2012.

“I looked for intriguing formations, humorous characteristics, improbable locations, surprising shapes and other wondrous growths,” Scarlett writes. “I became awed at scene after scene displaying how life adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways. Tiny seedlings emerge from small cracks in rock, sprouting a handful of needles or tender leaves, knowing only to keep trying to grow. Enormous hemlocks hang off ledges, improbably rooted to something, looking as if they shouldn’t be upright, and yet…there they are.”

Now the expanded collection has been published in book form by Black Dome Press. Described as “a visual odyssey through the Shawangunk Mountains in search of the unexpected,” Trunks of the Gunks runs 112 pages and features 97 full-color photographs in 9.25-by-9.25-inch hardcover format, with a foreword

by Dr. Paul C. Huth of the Mohonk Preserve’s Daniel Smiley Research Center.

Priced at $30, the volume is available at Inquiring Minds and other bookstores throughout the region. To view selected images or find out more, visit www. norascarlett.com.

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Some cinematic remedies for cabin fever

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis, 1988) Feeling the need for an excursion to the Southern Hemisphere, where summertime is in full swing right now? You could hardly do better in under an hour than this hilariously sobering documentary about a pest-control experiment gone horribly awry in Queensland, Australia.

Billed upon initial release as “National Geographic meets Monty Python,” Cane Toads tracks the historical proliferation of these non-native amphibians, beginning with their introduction from Hawaii in 1935 as an intended predator to the cane beetle. Unfortunately, the cane toad is nocturnal and the cane beetle diurnal, so never the twain did meet. With no natural enemies having evolved in Australia that can cope with its toxic skin glands, the toad population boomed, squeezing a number of native species out of their accustomed ecological niches.

Cane Toads also explores conflicting public perceptions of the invasive critters among Australians. Some folks go out of their way to run them over with their cars, while others feed them cat kibble.

An adorable toddler dresses up one of the rubbery-looking toads in baby clothes.

And there’s apparently a whole criminal subculture of Aussies who get high on dried toad skins, rolling them up and smoking them like joints.

This is far and away the funniest documentary that you are ever likely to see. Highly recommended, if you can get your hands on it. Cane Toads: The Conquest, a much longer sequel – in 3-D, no less – was released in 2010, but I’ve yet to view it.

The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) Can a movie shot almost entirely in brutally glaring desert sunlight be classified as a film noir? For my money, The Wages of Fear can: The shadows in which its narrative lurks dwell within the deepest hearts of men twisted by greed. While Clouzot is probably better-known among US audiences for his bloodcurdling 1954

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murder mystery Les Diaboliques, The Wages of Fear is arguably his masterpiece; taken together, the two movies clearly illustrate why the director is sometimes dubbed the “French Hitchcock.”

I’ve never seen an action movie that outperforms The Wages of Fear as an edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thriller.

The tale is set in a grubby border town in South America – presumably Venezuela – where desperate men with dicey pasts tend to wash up, seeking work with the American-owned petroleum company that controls the local economy. Most of them are unemployable but can’t afford to leave the country, so they drink and gamble and whore and start fights to pass the time.

Then one day, a disaster strikes that promises escape for a “lucky” few: Four truck drivers are recruited to transport containers of nitroglycerine across rutted, washed-out backcountry roads to help put out an uncontrollable oilwell fire. Large rewards are offered, and soon we are getting to know those four drivers intimately as they pick their way slowly along the treacherous route. Yves Montand stars.

Pretty much everyone in the movie behaves badly, and outcomes bear little relationships to what a particular character might deserve. And yet we come to care about them, since their peril seems so real and so unrelenting. The Wages of Fear is a brilliantly dark, gritty, terrifying, rather misanthropic film that will make you feel very glad to be curled up safely on your couch with merely a blizzard on the way.

Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985) What’s more comforting on a cold winter’s day than a nice hot bowl of noodle soup? For college students, instant ramen is a necessary evil: the cheapest fare that can be easily cooked in a dorm room. But for people living in Japan, noodle houses are where the average working person goes for lunch. Though they’re classifiable as affordable fast food, ramen, udon and their kin are held to much higher culinary standards than the ubiquitous American burger.

Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) is a Japanese widow who is struggling to run her late husband’s noodle shop and to protect her young son from the neighborhood bullies. Things aren’t going well when truck driver Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) walks into the shop like a gunslinger pushing open the swinging doors of a saloon, gets drawn into a fight and ends up determined to help the proprietress learn to make a peerless bowl of broth and a perfect batch of noodles.

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Tampopo was marketed as “the first ramen Western,” and the stylistic borrowings from the spaghetti Western genre are amusing; but the fun doesn’t end there by any means. This movie is an extended meditation on food and the roles that it plays in the human comedy. Itami repeatedly deviates from the main plotline to take the audience on side excursions, related only in their depiction of how our lives are organized around eating. The movie is packed with sly, sometimes absurd humor, as a housewife dutifully rouses herself from her deathbed to make one last meal for her family before expiring, or a gangster and his moll explore the erotic potential of various foodstuffs in a fancy hotel room.

It’s a charming little gem of a film that will make you laugh, warm your heart and probably make you hungry as well.

Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968) Okay, so Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night is the iconic, artsy Beatles film that all the critics adore, and I can’t fault it. But when my spirits need a lift – like on a very dreary winter’s day – the Beatles movie that I turn to time and time again is Yellow Submarine. Not that I’ve kept count, but I’ve probably watched it more times than any other movie, period. The narrative is a minimalistically simple fairy tale/ heroes’ journey, but its eye-popping psychedelic animation, gloriously upbeat songs and infectious good humor never fail to adjust my attitude in an upward direction.

At the time that Yellow Submarine came out, animation as a cinematic artform was in the doldrums. Walt Disney had died two years earlier, leaving The Jungle Book (1967) mostly in the can, followed by quite a few years of subpar animated products from the Disney studios like The Aristocats. Animated feature films were largely of the low-tech Rankin/Bass and Hanna/Barbera ilk. The Golden Age of animation seemed to be well over. Then this pseudo-Beatles project came along, incorporating the Pop Art design ideas

of Heinz Edelmann and Woodstock’s own Milton Glaser and employing a variety of animation techniques – including old-fashioned rotoscoping in the “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” sequence. It all felt fresh and new, and gave the art of animation a much-needed shot in the arm, for which we should all be thankful.

Mostly, though, Yellow Submarine is just positive-thinking fun. The beautiful artistic Pepperlands that humans try so hard to construct keep coming under attack from “newer and bluer Meanies,” and it remains incumbent upon us who still believe in the power of love and music to leave the theater – or our winter-bound cabins – singing. Watching this movie is a reminder of all we have to lose, and what we must do to preserve it in times of adversity. “All Together Now!” – Frances Marion Platt

Talk on the Gunks on Wednesday in New Paltz Historical/cultural geographer Ronald G. Knapp and landscape photographer Michael Neil O’Donnell have collaborated on The Gunks: Ridge and Valley Towns through Time, an image-laden and intellectually savvy book that features nearly a hundred pairs of photographs taken approximately a century apart. In addition to presenting information about the fabled Lake Mohonk and Lake Minnewaska hotels, the book puts a spotlight on the economic and social changes over the past century in the Towns of New Paltz, Gardiner and Rosendale in the Wallkill Valley, and to a lesser extent, locations in the Rondout Valley.

On Wednesday, January 4 at 7 p.m., the New Paltz Historical Society presents a reading, talk and book-signing with Knapp and O’Donnell at the New Paltz Community Center, located at 3 Veterans’ Drive in New Paltz, behind the former New Paltz Town Hall building. For more information, visit the book’s companion website at www.gunksthroughtime.com.

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MOVIE The King Lear of Pittsburgh August Wilson’s classic drama Fences hits the screen with undiminished power

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oliday season at the movies means two things: first, beginning around Thanksgiving, the release of a spate of family-friendly films, including an animated blockbuster or two. Then comes all the Oscar bait, rushed to the screens in time to qualify for the year-end nomination deadline. If you’ve been avoiding the fluff at the cinemas lately, waiting for the meaty, serious stuff to come out, now’s your chance. It’s hard to think of a better choice to start cramming for Academy Awards night than Fences, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

It’s also hard to talk about this film without resorting to hyperbole – the sort of phrases like “Instant classic!� that would appear in bold type in movie ads. I suppose that it’s theoretically possible to mess up the inaugural film version of a toweringly great, Pulitzerwinning drama, with a screenplay by the playwright himself and starring the same two leads who copped Tony Awards for its 2010 Broadway revival. But the heady, hearty formula of Fences has in no way been compromised by the leap from stage to screen; this powerful family drama remains riveting from start to finish of its epic two-and-a-quarter-hour running time.

Written in 1983, Fences the play was the sixth – chronologically by setting – in August Wilson’s so-called Century Cycle, set in Pittsburgh during the decade from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Wilson’s body of work has been justly praised for

its lyrical language and its vivid, realistic rendering of the African American experience. But on another level, to say that these plays are about working-class black folks emigrating from the South to the Rust Belt is rather like saying that Shakespeare’s plays are about the English aristocracy of the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Though set against a backdrop of social challenges particular to race and class, their themes, in fact, are absolutely universal.

Wherever there are families, you will find families like the Maxsons.

If August Wilson is the 2 0 th- c e n t u r y African American Shakespeare, Fences’ central character, Tr o y Ma x s o n (Washington) is his Lear: a well-meaning father who makes bad choices regarding his children; a raging autocrat much larger than life, but ultimately subject to the same fears and self-doubts as any other mortal.

Wilson even gives Troy a scene shouting defiance at a thunderstorm, dispelling any doubts about the iconic stature of this character. He’s a particular black man in a particular city in a particular era of social change, chafing under the weight of injustices both real and perceived; but he’s also every son in life and literature who ever rebelled against his controlling father, only to become the same kind of father to his own offspring, and to shape them to replicate his own mistakes even as they rebel in their turns.

Troy is also a charmer in his way: a born storyteller, affording the audience glimpses of his hardscrabble backstory that are far too elegantly spun to be dismissed as mere “exposition,� even in this more visual medium. His admiring best friend and gentle counselor Bono (a wonderful Stephen McKinley Henderson) tells him, “You must have some Uncle Remus in your blood.� Troy claims to have wrestled with both Death and the Devil and is ready to take them on again anytime. But in his efforts to be a dutiful, responsible husband and father, he fails to discern the emotional needs of those closest to him. The fences that he is building to keep a hostile world at bay only serve in the end to estrange him from those who love him most.

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Amongst all these fine performances, the one that shines most brightly is Viola Davis’ long, slow smolder as Troy’s devoted-but-feisty wife Rose. It’s not until late in the second act that she gets her big soliloquy, but it’s a stunner, cementing her ever-growing reputation as

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Written in 1983, Fences the play was the sixth in August Wilson’s so-called Century Cycle, set in Pittsburgh during the decade from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Though set against a backdrop of social challenges particular to race and class, the themes of these plays are universal. Wherever there are families, you will ďŹ nd families like the Maxsons.

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Though Washington deserves high praise for bringing this classic to the screen with such fidelity and power, and for embodying Troy Maxson so thoroughly, it’s Davis who can seemingly do no wrong these days. Twice nominated for Academy Awards previously, for Doubt in 2009 and The Help in 2012, this may finally be her year to take that golden boy home – and well-earned. – Frances Marion Platt To read more of Frances’ movie reviews, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

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NIGHT SKY

Eclipse secrets Guaranteed: the best thing you’ ve ever seen

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his year may bring your life’s most astonishing experience. For the first time in nearly four decades, a total solar eclipse sweeps across the mainland US. Most backyard astronomers have never seen one. No surprise; they’re rare and expensive. For any spot on Earth, totality happens once every 360 years on average. Some places, like Los Angeles, will wait more than a millennium.

Everyone has seen photos. The image of a black Moon surrounded by the solar corona is familiar. But is it merely a lovely natural scene along the lines of a lunar eclipse, a nice comet or beavers building a dam?

Only when viewing it in person does the observer realize that this is the most wondrous event in his or her entire life.

The eye perceives gorgeous detail that the camera can’t capture. But beyond the visual sight is a feeling, a vibe. I’ve only met only one couple whose report was that it was lovely, but they wouldn’t feel the need to travel to see one again. Everyone else – hundreds over these many decades – has said that it was the most amazing thing they’d ever experienced.

I’m talking about this now, instead of in August, to encourage everyone to plan a journey into totality’s narrow path. A partial eclipse will temptingly appear over every backyard in the US. You might imagine that a deep partial will be “good enough,” since the Sun will be 75 percent blocked as seen from Kingston, Woodstock or New Paltz. A stay-at-home eclipse party might certainly sound attractive.

Don’t do it. Make “Totality or Nothing” your mantra on August 21. Check out a web totality map (search: NASA total solar eclipse August 21), decide where you’ll be, then watch the weather as the date approaches. It’ll all work out, even if you end up observing from a highway shoulder.

Our Eclipse Tour, where we had space for 90 people, has long been sold out. You could try some other tour company, or just drive. But be sure that you’re somewhere in the middle half of the eclipse track, not along the fringe, where the totality will be shorter. Also, avoid the Pacific Northwest, where there’s a good chance of clouds. And avoid the Southeastern states, where it’ll be an afternoon event with high humidity and an enhanced chance of clouds. Of course, if you have friends or relatives or Nashville, where it’ll be total, keep your fingers crossed and go for it!

I’ve been the eclipse astronomer for seven previous totalities, in places like northeastern Australia, Libya and Bengal. People pay thousands to position themselves in the Moon’s shadow. And now that shadow comes to our own country, within driving range!

Don’t imagine that this is an event like a lunar eclipse, a bright conjunction, a comet or a rich meteor shower. And don’t recall the partial eclipses that you’ve seen, all of which required eye protection. None of those are in the same league.

Only solar totality makes people weep, and makes animals go nuts. This alone has an impact and glory that is life-altering. Mark August 21 on the calendar and see it. You

Make “Totality or Nothing” your mantra on August 21.

Society (SDS), known as the Weather Underground? How, for instance, can one engage in active resistance without crossing the line into violence?

For many involved in the peace movement of the 1960s, the moment when things began unraveling – when antiwar activists’ hold on the moral high ground became hopelessly slippery – occurred on March 6, 1970, when three members of the Weather Underground were killed in an explosion that destroyed a townhouse at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, where they were working on constructing a nail bomb in the sub-basement. Two of their colleagues, Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson, whose father owned the building, were upstairs at the time and managed to escape relatively unhurt.

Both became fugitives, named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and Wilkerson successfully evaded the authorities for another ten years.

In 1980, Wilkerson gave herself up and served nearly a year in prison, convicted of criminally negligent homicide and illegal possession of dynamite. She has spent the ensuing four decades teaching mathematics and writing adult education curricula. Her memoir, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times in the Weather Underground, was published in 2007.

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With a long track record of volunteer work in the Civil Rights movement prior to her involvement with SDS and the Weathermen, Wilkerson has offered to share the hard lessons of her past with the activists of today who are trying to plan a constructive way forward under the Trump administration. Time & Space Limited (TSL) in Hudson will host the former radical on Friday, January 6 at 6:30 p.m. in a talk titled “Cathy Wilkerson: What’s Next?”

With a $10 admission fee to cover the cost of a group supper (tamales, rice and beans, salad and beer), this event is intended for TSL members only. However, new members can sign up at the door. RSVP by calling (518) 822-8100 or e-mailing fyi@ timeandspace.org. For more info, visit www.timeandspace.org. TSL is located

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The path of the total solar eclipse coming on August 21, 2017 can be found online at http://go.nasa.gov/2ibqRIk. You can see a partial eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun, anywhere in North America. To see a total eclipse, where the moon fully covers the sun for a short few minutes, you must be in the path of totality. The path of totality is a relatively thin ribbon, around 70 miles wide.

don’t need equipment, other than cheap shade number 12 or 14 welders’ goggles for $3, for viewing the partial phase that precedes totality. When totality arrives, you look at it straight on – no equipment needed. You can even view it through binoculars. Totally safe.

As an eclipse astronomer for 47 years, allow me to offer a few tips. First, don’t use up those two precious minutes fiddling with your camera. Getting a good image requires timeconsuming exposure bracketing. You sure you want to do that? I strongly suggest that you sacrifice no more than half the eclipse to the process. Then stop twirling that f/stop dial and look up.

Second, think about your soundtrack. Many enjoy the company of a crowd, and to hear people shouting excited commentary like, “Ooh, look at those prominences on the bottom!”

Me, I regard totality as a sacred event that demands silence. I never lecture during an eclipse, and always find a spot far away from the group. There’s no right or wrong; but decide in advance, because you won’t get a do-over.

When it’s over, the magical feeling quickly subsides. You want it back, but you can’t have it.

Logic and memory cannot fully recapture the otherworldly experience; it’s present only while totality unfolds – a good reason not to squander a single second. So check out the narrow path of the Moon’s shadow, and start making plans for where you’ll be on August 21.

Statistically, the clearest regions are in the middle of the track, from eastern Idaho through Wyoming to southern Illinois. You could stay over in St. Louis and then simply drive south in a rented car that morning and pull into any small town. Watch from a park, or the local library’s lawn, or even a highway shoulder.

After this one, there will be totalities in 2019 and 2020 in southern Chile and Argentina, and then the US will get another on April 8, 2024. Although we’ve waited 38 years for a totality anywhere in the mainland US, that 2024 event will be visible just seven years later, and that one happens almost in our neighborhood: along a path from Buffalo through Rochester and Syracuse to Burlington, Vermont.

The time has come. You must not let your lifetime expire without seeing a total eclipse of the Sun. – Bob Berman Want to know more? To read Bob’s previous “Night Sky” columns, visit our Almanac Weekly website at HudsonValleyOne.com.

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(Ford, I think) recently co-opted the Soup Dragons’ defiant 1991 Rolling Stones cover “I’m Free” in which the singer declared, in high British snot, “I’m free to do what I want any old time.” Jagger wrote the line

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had never wanted to write about music, as obvious a calling as it might seem to me now, as meet and good as it rather immediately showed itself to be once I began trying, five winters ago. My reasons were fourfold and dubious. First, as a guitarist and songwriter with stubborn-if-notdelusional aspirations, writing about my first and only love seemed to me much like painting sets or managing a box office would seem to an actor. Proximity to a dream is an intimate torture, not a consolation. Of course, that’s a diva attitude: immature and, worse, dismissive of the dignity and indispensability of those critical art-support professions, arts in and of themselves. But it is how I felt.

Second, we don’t know who said it first (Monk? Zappa? Miles? No one? Me?), but “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” There is noting wrong with dancing to skyscrapers – a Mary Tyler Moore swirl – and there is nothing wrong with music criticism. But this wonderfully absurd analogy reminds us of the first fact

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of music criticism: You are never going to get it right. The prospect of nailing the big target is not even in play. There are no verbal equivalencies for the experience and meaning of music. You’d do a better job describing it with a combination of math and fingerpainting, to be honest.

Dance away, but in humility, remembering the basic terms of your work: impossibility and inconsequence. All other benefits and functions – and there may be many – are subordinate to that. This is not a job for people who like to feel necessary.

Third, I just generally don’t like doing things, or expectations. A car company

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at the dawn of the counterculture and the antiwar movement, when revolutionary rhetoric usually had more to do with rising up, joining hands, turning on and burning sh*t down if required. Jagger’s casual and snotty declaration of an untroubled autonomy and the prerogative of slack was far more threatening to the status quo and the perpetuation of the social order. Still is, it seems – maybe now more than ever.

Ford Motors went ahead and changed the line to “I’m free to do what I want and have a good time.” Hedonism, yes; but heaven forbid that youth should excuse itself from servitude. Thomas Frank would have a field day with that. Well, I’m no Jagger.

I work for others all the time, of course; but every time a new job starts, I honestly feel like puking.

Finally, I know music writers. I know record store owners, cultural curators and completists of all stripes. My life, in fact, is crawling with them. I love and respect them and envy their appetites for experience and the whole story, but I have never been one. My musical purview – as deeply analytical and impassioned as it can be – always seemed to me far too idiosyncratic and unhip to even play along. Given Condition B – that music is essentially indescribable – arguing over it is just noise; the best that the critic can do is to serve and advance the

music, maintain an inclusive and accurate canon and make the art available and comprehensible to the people. I am vastly unqualified in all those ways. John Lefsky isn’t. Rick Lange isn’t. David Wills isn’t.

Chris Tanis isn’t. But I am.

Five years and hundreds and hundreds of articles and essays later, what do I have to say to those four objections? First, the editor and lifelong friend who finally talked me into giving it a go pitched it from the start as a thing that might serve my music career – not signify capitulation, as I might have feared. I would get to know all the regional venues and their key players; I would network with our deep local talent pool; I would happen upon many chances to get my own music heard in a sympathetic light. Five years later, I have to say that, on balance, she was right.

Certainly I have pissed some people off – and burned some bridges, too – but on the whole, my life as a working musician has been inarguably enriched by my music writing.

Describing music is essentially impossible, but I have grown to relish the challenge. The approach that I have developed is multimodal, consisting of some impressionistic and metaphorrich language, the poetry of sensory experience; some technical language for those who know the lingo; and – my least favorite, but still useful – the comparisons and reference cocktails that seem to dominate most music writing online. The earnestness with which I have accepted that challenge has actually led to a new revenue stream: artist bios and release announcements. They started seeking me out because, apparently, I have a way with it. Good to know!

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his modern blues skeptic is pretty much completely won over by the collaboration between the triple-threat guitarist, singer and writer/bandleader Chris Bergson and his vocal foil and co-writer Ellis Hooks. The results land somewhere between true-believer contemporary blues and the elegant period scholarship that we associate with the Daptone roster and its brilliant house arrangers. The dueling vocalists can sound nearly as silky as Sam Cooke or nearly as ripped-apart as Charles Bradley. The uptown horn charts and deep-pocket, polyglot grooves are both reverent and utterly alive.

Bergson is a regular and a favorite at the Falcon in Marlboro, but if his upcoming date there sounds anything like the show with Hooks captured on 2014’s Live at Jazz Standard, this is the show to catch. The Chris Bergson Band, featuring Ellis Hooks, bassist Matt Clohesy and drummer Tony Mason, will rock the Falcon on New Year’s Eve. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the music kicks off at 7. Per usual, there is no cover, but generous donation is strongly encouraged by Tony Falco himself: the man who has singlehandedly transformed the musical landscape of the Hudson Valley.

Royal Khaoz plays Marlboro’s Falcon Underground New Year’s Eve Multistage venues are not an uncommon phenomenon; but the Falcon in Marlboro has become an unusual one in several ways. Upstairs is still the marquee venue and restaurant, and the room that adheres to the Falcon’s original impetus as a jazz and blues club. The new venue – the Falcon Underground – is where Tony Falco is likely to place indie-rock bands, locals, singer/songwriters and artists who stretch the club’s stylistic range in one way or another.

But then there’s this: The Falcon Underground is hardly smaller than the Falcon. Also, because Falco’s housewide model is donation- and not cover-based, patrons are free to move between venues, or pause to enjoy the spectacular views and landscaping from either of the club’s terraced patios. It is a music mall, conceived and expanded in stunning detail.

On New Year’s Eve, while Falcon regulars Chris Bergson and Ellis Hooks are delivering uptown blues upstairs, the reggae band Royal Khaoz will be summoning a very different kind of spirit downstairs. This regional institution has shared stages with many of their heroes and influences: Third World, the Wailers with Aston “Familyman” Barrett, Michael Rose, Sista Carrol, Yellowman and Luciano. Royal Khaoz’s debut album, Life: The Journey, was released in 2012, and the follow-up is anticipated in 2017.

Music begins at 7 p.m. Per usual, there is no cover charge, but donations are strongly encouraged by the owner himself, who works both rooms and typically introduces all bands in a way that makes you wonder about the reality of cloning.

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

– John Burdick

a publisher who have – miraculously – let me be me. I cannot overstate my awe and gratitude over this fact. I always feel like I am doing it wrong. And that’s fun.

Finally, I have not become the encyclopedic completist that (I still believe) the job requires, or at least favors. Five lifetimes wouldn’t be enough for that. Provincial eccentricity is my lot, and I embrace it. In my multiple roles as local player, music fan, former academic, playful theorizer and lifelong mid-Hudson Valley resident, I believe that I have found the four stanchions of a wobbly authority: just stable enough to make me hope for another five years. Happy New Year.

– John Burdick

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Helsinki Hudson has thrown together a rich and somewhat bizarre evening of entertainment for New Year’s Eve. Headlining is the Woodstock-notable boutique soul singer/songwriter Simi Stone, who always has an A-list band in tow. The daughter of Meat Loaf, Pearl Aday mines the soulful side of classic rock. Her husband, Scott Ian of Anthrax, will also be on the bill. Finally, the Paul Green Rock Academy standout talent Lisa Green will perform the entirety of the Peter Gabriel-era prog/rock epic Supper’s Ready, and will perform in full Gabriel costuming with an assist from some the region’s premier players in Dan Littleton, Jason Bowman, Connor Kennedy, Will Bryant, Kendall Wind and Paul Green.

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9. After the midnight ball drop on Wall Street, the Big Takeover will rock the front room at BSP while Tony Touch and Shaman Vybez deejay in the back theater.

Admission runs about $35. For advance tickets and more information on attractions, offerings and sponsors, visit www.bspkingston. BSP is located at 323 Wall Street in Kingston.

Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds at Bearsville New Year’s Eve

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HOLIDAY The Catskills-bred, outrageous poly-roots rock and soul outfit Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds ring in the New Year at the Bearsville Theater on, well, New Year’s Eve. Crunchy, strident, smoldering and red-hot, 2016’s two-disc live effort Fowl Play ought to give celebrants an idea of what to expect when this big horn band takes the stage. This band was built for occasions like these.

The show begins at 9:30 p.m. For tickets and additional information, visit www. bearsvilletheater.com. The Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

New Year’s Eve dance party at Denning’s Point Distillery in Beacon The Denning’s Point Distillery in Beacon celebrates the turning of the calendar with “Dance Distilled,� a rock, soul, funk, Latin, disco, hip hop, jazz and electro dance party with tunes spun by deejays Zesto Q and Freefall.

The Distillery shows some good sense in offering either $7 cocktails or $50 unlimited wristbands. The affair kicks off at 9:30 p.m.

The Denning’s Point Distillery is located at 10 North Chestnut Street in Beacon. For more information, visit www. denningspointdistillery.com.

Stomp out the Old Year, dance in the New at Ashokan Center Each year, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason offer a satisfying way to celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge. From 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 31 until the wee hours

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his year’s theme for the Uptown Kingston New Year’s Eve celebration is “The Wild West.� Activities will be spread out all across town, in multiple venues, with thousands expected to hit the streets to usher in 2017. Father Time and Baby New Year will be on hand, and the ball will once again drop at midnight, followed by fireworks.

One of the primary spots to celebrate will be BSP in Kingston at 323 Wall Street, which will open its front and back theater spaces for a night of music, dancing and circus arts featuring the Felice Brothers, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, Shaman Vybez, Miss 360, the Big Takeover, deejay Tony Touch and aerialists from Hudson Valley Circus Arts. Photobooth fun and concessions by Kingston Candy Bar will be available, as will coat-check services. The doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35.

The New Year’s Eve event that started in the area just a few years ago has become “a huge community celebration that highlights all the best parts of Uptown Kingston,� says BSP’s manager, Trevor Dunworth. “It’s a full night of entertainment spanning multiple genres of music, tying together the arts and music with dining and nightlife businesses.�

The idea for a big New Year’s Eve party came up when a number of new businesses had opened in the area, and it seemed like a great way to get everyone involved in doing something together, he adds. As it turned out, “Uptown Kingston makes a great mini-Times Square,� Dunworth says. “And being able to see some of my favorite bands and deejays, followed by the ball drop and fireworks, all within walking distance from my house? You can’t ask for much PHYLLIS MCCABE | ALMANAC WEEKLY more than that on New Year’s Eve.�

Another choice spot to celebrate will be the Stockade Tavern at 313 Fair Street.

It’ll feature live music around 8:30 p.m. by Caprice Rouge, a fun acoustic ensemble who plays Balkan, Roma/Gypsy and klezmer dance tunes on traditional instruments. The cover charge is $8. Stockade co-owner Paul Maloney says that there will be plenty of champagne, flaming punch and great cocktails and food. Afterward, deejay Ali and deejay Sterling will keep the music going into the wee hours.

The Duo Bistro at 299 John Street will have two seatings for dinner, at 6 and 8:30 p.m., and it’ll host a late-night breakfast after midnight.

The event is sponsored by the Magic Hat Brewing Company, Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST, Sav-On Party Central, Dallas Hot Wieners, the Stockade Tavern, BSP Kingston, Duo Bistro, Boitson’s and KOVO Rotisserie, Timely Signs, Kingston Plaza, Herzog’s and Chronogram magazine with support from KUBA, the Kingston Uptown Business Association. The fireworks are courtesy of the Basch & Keegan law firm. Street parking is available, along with municipal lots with the city offering a free shuttle bus from 6 p.m. on. – Sharyn Flanagan New Year’s Eve in Uptown Kingston, multiple venues, midnight ball drop, North Front/Wall Streets; http://uptownkingstonnye.com.

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Admission to the dance portion only costs $30 for adults, $15 for kids and teens.

For an additional charge of $30, a family-style dinner will be served beginning at 6 p.m., with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. Nonalcoholic beverages are included in the price, and local beers and wines will also be available.

Want to make a mini-vacation of it?

You can arrive for the Ashokan New Year’s Camp as early as 2 p.m. on Friday, January 30 and stay through 2 p.m. on Monday, January 2, learning the moves of square and contra dancing, swing, Cajun and zydeco. When you get tired of music and dance lessons, concerts, jams and sing-alongs, you can step outside and enjoy the site’s cross-country skiing trails, ice skating on the lake and a delightful wood-burning sauna.

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New Year’s Eve celebration at Beacon’s Towne Crier In this neck of the woods, the venue that we associate most with Levon Helm is the Woodstock barn/studio that has been home for many years, both before and after his death in 2012, to the iconic musician’s Midnight Rambles. Less familiar is the story of Levon Helm’s Classic American CafÊ, a music club that he opened in New Orleans in 1998. It stayed in business for less than a year, but during that time, a house band formed called the Barn Burners, incorporated some of the Big Easy’s top session players of the day.

One of the New Orleans musicians recruited by Helm for his club was blues harpist and singer Chris O’Leary, who in 2007 reunited with another former Barn Burner, bassist Frankie Ingrao, to form a new ensemble simply called the Chris O’Leary Band. Ingrao has since moved on, but founding guitarist Chris Vitarello

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members) for the musical portion only; $125 per person ($110 members) gets you a full New Year’s Eve feast including dessert, plus a bottle of champagne per couple.

The Towne Crier Café is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon. For reservations, call (845) 855-1300 or visit www. townecrier.com.

New Year's Eve traditions from all over the world

Scotland: Fires & Crossing the Threshold Bonfire ceremonies and parades – with giant fireballs on overhead poles – symbolize the sun and purification.

During Hogmanay, “first-footing” requires that the first person stepping over a home’s doorstep must carry a gift for luck (often whisky).

Panama: Effigy-Burning Effigies of well-known people, beloved or otherwise, are burned to represent the old year and drive off evil spirits in the New Year.

Finland: Molten Metal Cast molten tin into a container of water and interpret the shapes to predict your chances for love, travel, riches and more in the New Year.

– Debra Bresnan

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he first time that someone does an event, nobody really knows how it’s all going to turn out. The second year they start calling it an annual event, and it usually is a duplication of what happened the first time around. But come the third year, an event begins to take on its own character, foreshadowing what will then, a decade later, become what it’s known for.

This will be the third annual Saugerties New Year’s Eve in the Village. Initiated in 2014 by police chief Joe Sinagra and mayor William Murphy as a way for Sawyers to “stay local, stay safe” on the big night, it also served to help small businesses and local restaurants, who were able to keep diners, shoppers and revelers close to home, rather than lose them to nearby Kingston’s big shindig on New Year’s Eve. The New Year’s Eve ball for the midnight drop that first year was purchased ready-made at a big-box store and strung with lights by the chief. This year the ball is custom-made by Saugerties resident Mike Ivino and his crew at J & J Tree Works, who volunteered their time and expertise for the project.

At six feet in diameter, the new ball is much larger than the previous one. Made of all-aluminum construction, it has been wired with thousands of lights on two different circuits. The ball will be lit by one set of lights for most of the night, Ivino explains; then, at midnight, the second circuit will be activated, creating an illusion that the ball gets brighter. “More lights will come on and they’ll sparkle and twinkle,” he adds, “flashing back and forth.”

Ivino’s crane will be used for the ball drop at the corner of Main and Partition Streets, as it has been since the first event. “Saugerties is a tight-knit community, and as a business-owner in Saugerties, we’re all about giving back,” he says. “And it’s fun to do it. The group of guys that work for me all enjoy it, so that’s why we do it.”

The celebration will be held on Main Street (closed to traffic) from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Admission is free. Local deejay Riley Cornelison will provide music, and the Boy Scouts will have hot coffee and cocoa available. Some of the restaurants in Saugerties are planning special New Year’s Eve menus and will stay open late.

Attendees are advised to dress warmly and bring a folding chair to sit on.

Updates can be found on Facebook at “New Year’s Eve in the Village.”

– Sharyn Flanagan

Did you know the first New Year’s Eve ball-lowering ceremony at Times Square took place in 1907? That original 700-pound ball was made of iron and wood and covered in lightbulbs.

Today’s Times Square ball contains 2,688 Waterford Crystals bolted to 672 LED modules on an aluminum frame. This 12-foot-diameter ball weighs nearly six tons.

Here are a few traditions from around the world. Maybe they’ll inspire you to create a new tradition for yourself: Spain: 12 Grapes Eat one grape at each of the 12 tolling midnight bells for good luck in the months of the New Year.

Denmark: Broken China & Leaping Save some broken plates and glasses to throw against loved ones’ doors, or jump off a chair at midnight to bring good luck and banish bad spirits.

Central & South America: Lucky Underwear Wear red undergarments on New Year’s Eve to attract love and yellow to attract money.

Philippines: Roundness Representing coins, round shapes – such as fruits and polka dots – are believed to bring prosperity.

Some towns pay for the privilege of calling their New Year’s Eve festivities by the trademarked name of “First Night.” A couple of years back, the City of Kingston adopted a more progressive (and less expensive) idea: calling the first of January “Day One.” It’s a rather idealistic new social movement that may be coming into its own this season, in reaction to the bitter divisiveness in America exemplified by the 2016 presidential campaign. Day One is the proverbial “first day of the rest of your life,” when one can let go of old attitudinal baggage and make a new start.

The visible manifestation of Day One is the Community Walk for Unity, which begins at Dietz Stadium in Kingston at 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day. “There is no agenda, no politics, no division; there is simply unity,” say the promotional materials. “We put aside what divides us and focus on what unites us: our humanity. It is not a protest, a march, a rally or a parade.”

All who opt to “walk together from Day One” will head down Broadway, turn right onto Cedar Street, right again onto Clinton Avenue and end up at the Kirkland at 2 Main Street. There, hot beverages will be served and conversations will be encouraged.

Sounds like a doable first step toward making this raw and ragged nation a more civil and livable place again. For more information, contact Micah Blumenthal at day1united@gmail.com.

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December 29, 2016

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Dec. 29Jan. 5 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29

Winter break fun Looking for something unique and interesting to do with the family during winter break, that’s also fun and educational? Here are some ideas that will appeal to a variety of ages and preferences!

• Fiberflame is crafting paradise for all ages and abilities, creatives and nonartists alike. And the best part? No messiness at your house! Choose your item to craft, select your colors and textures for enhancement and thrill in your newly finished piece! Walk-ins are welcome at both locations, and you simply pay for your blank piece (generally $8 to $20), along with a $10 fee for studio time.

Fiberflame is located at 1776 Route 212 in Saugerties, (845) 679-6132; 18B East Market Street in Rhinebeck, (845) 5165123; or online at www.fiberflamestudio. com.

• Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site housed our first president during the Revolutionary War (the same era as Hamilton: An American Musical!).

Stop by during their special extended holiday hours this week, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and participate in a different handson craft each day, free with museum admission: Make a whirligig, candledipping and make your own badge of military merit. Admission costs $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, and is free for children aged 12 and under.

Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site is located at 84 Liberty Street in Newburgh. For more information, call (845) 562-1195 or visit http://nysparks. com/historic-sites/17/details.aspx.

• Locust Grove Estate was once the residence of Samuel F. B. Morse, artist and co-inventor of Morse Code. This week, you and yours can take a look around the house while challenging your supersleuths to “Vintage Christmas,” featuring a scavenger hunt through 25 decorated rooms for antique toys, games and crafts.

Five of the rooms are even themed around Christmas carols! Tours are available this week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 31. Admission costs $11 for adults, $6 for youth ages 6 to 18 years.

Locust Grove Estate is located at 2683 South Road in Poughkeepsie. For more information, call (845) 454-4500 or visit

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31

Alt-New Year's Eve celebrations for kids Wish you could celebrate New Year’s Eve with your kids, but you haven’t found the right festive fit? Ring in 2017 with one of these daytime or evening parties for all ages taking place this Saturday, December 31!

• The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum hosts “New Year’s at Noon” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., including kid-friendly interactive countdowns, a deejay dance party and hands-on activities. The cost of $14 per person, $10 per member and $1 per baby under one year includes museum and party admission, and advance ticketing is recommended.

The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum is located at 75 North Water Street in Poughkeepsie. For reservations or more information, call (845) 471-0589 or visit http://mhcm.org/event/new-years-noon.

• Hyde Park Roller Magic announces its New Year’s Eve Day countdown party from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Admission includes skating, games, trivia, face-painting, noisemakers for the first 100 kids and a balloon drop at the end! The cost is $7 for kids, plus skate rentals cost $2 for

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quad rentals and $4 for blade rentals; admission is free for non-skating adults.

Hyde Park Roller Magic is located at 4178 Albany Post Road in Hyde Park. For more information, call (845) 229-6666 or visit www.hydeparkrollermagic.com/ category/announcements.

• Wood’n Wheel roller rink invites families to its Family New Year’s Eve Party from 12 noon to 3:30 p.m., with hats, horns, games, prizes, refreshments and a grand finale balloon drop! Admission costs $10.50 per person, and skate rentals are extra.

Wood’n Wheel is located at 365 Route 9W in Ulster Park. For reservations or more information, call (845) 331-9680 or visit www.woodnwheel.com.

• New Year’s Eve Millbrook offers puppet theater from Arm-of-the-Sea, magic with Steve Johnson, entertaining antics from the Bindlestiff Cirkus, live music from a host of bands and more! It all takes place at the north end of Franklin Avenue in Millbrook from 4 to 8:15 p.m. Buttons, event maps and programs are available at the Thorne Building, and refreshments are at VFW Post 9008.

For more information, call (845) 2647256 or visit www.millbrookrotary.org.

• The Castle is so good at fun that it presents an entire evening itinerary at its tenth annual Family New Year’s Eve Party from 6 to 9 p.m. We’re talking dinner buffets, lazer tag, arcade along with a $5 game card, rock wall, laser maze, Free Fall, Ballocity, Go Karts, roller-skating,

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• The Ashokan Center offers a chance to celebrate as long as you like, including staying overnight! The New Year’s Eve Dance & Dinner Party begins at 6 p.m. with a family-style meal, followed by two rooms of dancing at 8 p.m.: swing, Cajun, zydeco and waltzing in one room, and contra dances and squares in the other.

The costs for dance are $30 for adults, $15 for teens and under, dinner costs $30 and bunk-and-breakfast costs $75.

The Ashokan Center is located at 477 Beaverkill Road in Olivebridge. For reservations or more information, call (845) 246-2121 or visit http://ashokan. org/new-years-eve-dance-party.

• Saugerties’ New Year’s Eve in the Village features a stage right on Main Street with live performances, restaurant specials, a deejay and Boy Scouts handing out hot chocolate! Stay for the midnight countdown and ball drop with the mayor and police chief on Main and Partition Streets. It all takes place from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

For more information, call (845) 246-2321, extension 1, or visit http:// discoversaugerties.com.

• Uptown Kingston’s New Year’s Eve Celebration begins at 8 p.m. and culminates in a midnight ball drop and

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fireworks at the corner of Wall and North Front Streets, with lots of live music and restaurant specials for the 21-and-over set. BSP has some excellent performances scheduled by Lara Hope and the ArkTones and the Felice Brothers, along with entertainment by Hudson Valley Circus Arts and more! Tickets for BSP cost $34.35 per person (21 and over), and it’s located at 323 Wall Street.

For more information, visit https:// kingstonhappenings.org/events/uptownnew-years-eve-2017-celebration.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 1

Start a New Year |on the right foot What are your family’s intentions for setting the tone for the New Year?

Here are some ideas to explore for Day One of 2017!

• Day One: We Walk United’s motto is “No Agendas, No Politics, No Division.”

This community walk through Kingston creates the opportunity for dialogue with others for connection over divisiveness.

Day One: We Walk United takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., begins at Dietz Stadium and ends at the Kirkland. This event is free and open to the public of all ages, and folks are encouraged to spread the word.

Dietz Stadium is located at 170 North Front Street in Kingston. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ day1united.

• “New Year’s Day: Stepping into Your Potential” offers time for yoga and contemplation for the New Year. You dress comfortably and bring a pen and paper, and the self-expression will surely flow, right? The workshop takes place from 11 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. at YogAlive at 71 Main Street in New Paltz. The cost is $20.

For more information or to register, call (845) 256-0465 or visit www.facebook. com/yogaliveny.

• The Bear Mountain Ice Rink means skating outside surrounded by mountain scenery. Work off some of those holiday carbs and head over for this seasonal exercise and fun for all ages! Start times for 90-minute sessions on January 1 begin at 10 a.m., 12 noon, 2, 4, 6 and 8 p.m.

The costs are $5 for adults ages 12 and up, $4 for children 4 to 11 years, $2 for nonskaters and seniors and free for children aged 3 and under; skate rentals cost $4.

Parking costs $8 per car (if you don’t have the Empire Passport).

Bear Mountain is located along Route 9W. For more information, call (845) 786-2701, extension 266, or visit www. bearmountainicerink.com.

• Minnewaska State Park Preserve gets your energy flowing with not one, but two hikes on January 1! The “First Day Hike: Peter’s Kill” snowshoe hike takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This twomile jaunt includes stunning views, as well as a couple of challenging hills. The “First Day Hike: Awosting Falls” snowshoe hike happens from 1:30 to 4 pm. and lasts for 2.5 miles, ending with dramatic visuals of frozen falls. These hikes are free and open to the public of all ages, included in park admission at $10 per vehicle, and participants may rent snowshoes for $5 from the Preserve office.

Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located at 5281 Route 44/55 in

Kerhonkson. For reservations or more information, call (845) 255-0752 or visit http://nysparks.com/parks/127/details. aspx.

• The “First Day Hike” sets the tone for 2017 with the gorgeous landscape of the Olana State Historic Site. Arrive at 10:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. hike, walk for 1.5 miles or two hours, and bring your leashed pets to join in, too. This event is free and open to all ages, but advance registration is required.

The Olana State Historic Site is located at 5720 Route 9G in Hudson. For more information or to register, call (518) 8280135 or visit www.olana.org/calendar/ first-day-hike.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3

“Blow Your Own Ornament” at Beacon’s Hudson Beach Glass Does a gorgeous glass orb encapsulating a bit of your child’s breath sound like the perfect way to mark the passage of time? Because time is running out if you’d like to “Blow Your Own Ornament” at Hudson Beach Glass. Sign up now for your 15-minute slot to create this amazing piece.

The cost is $35 to make the ornament, which takes approximately 15 minutes to produce.

Hudson Beach Glass is located at 162 Main Street in Beacon. For more information or to register, call (845) 4400068 or visit www.hudsonbeachglass.com.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5

Nature-themed storytime at Mohonk Distilled childhood: storytimes and playing outside year-‘round?

“Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve” is one easy way to start your New Year with nostalgia! The first 2017 “Thursday Tales at Ten” takes place on Thursday, January 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Cozy up with your youngster ages 2 to 5 in the Visitor Center’s Discovery Room for a nature-themed story and hands-on activity. After storytime, go exploring, both indoors and out! This program is free and open to the public.

The Mohonk Preserve Visitor Center is located at 3197 Route 44/55 in Gardiner.

For more information or additional events listings, call (845) 255-0919 or visit http:// mohonkpreserve.org/events/thursdaytales-ten.

with dance, guided imagery, journaling, maskmaking and more.

An Open House and hands-on information session for girls and parents interested in this series takes place on Sunday, January 8 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Wellness Embodied: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, at a cost of $10 for supplies. The full series takes place over six sessions beginning Thursday, January 26 through March 2 from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. for $155, led by Nada Khodlova, MA, a board-certified dance movement therapist and licensed creative arts therapist.

Wellness Embodied is located at 126 Main Street in New Paltz. For more information or to register, call (845) 532-6064 or visit http:// wellnessembodiedcenter.com/girls--parents.html. To learn more about the presenter, visit www.nadakhodlova.com.

Get your game on at Poughkeepsie's Bridge Center Contract bridge is one of the world’s most popular games, but to the uninitiated, its rules, procedures and strategies can seem as arcane as the mystical formula for conjuring a demon. It’s not the sort of card game that can readily be learned by watching, and the last thing that a serious player wants is to have his or her concentration broken by questions from an eager wannabe.

If you’ve always been intrigued by bridge, however, or if you know some basics but want to get better at it, there is a local option for painless learning: the Bridge Center of Mid-Hudson Valley, Inc. Certified a “Star Club” by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), the Poughkeepsie-based organization offers both open games for experienced players and games and instruction for new and “social” players.

Regular players of bridge accumulate “masterpoints” – rather like frequentflyer miles – along with their experience, and your total number of points is the benchmark by which you qualify to participate at different levels of difficulty.

Newbies with zero to 99 masterpoints are welcome to attend “Learn ‘n’ Play” sessions that start at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Hellenic Center, located at 54 Park

Girl to Goddess!

Does the very idea of discussing maturity or body awareness with your pre- or pubescent 9-to-12-yearold daughter terrify you? Then, have a look at “Girl to Goddess: Dancing with Growth for Girls 9 to 12,” because instead of taking on this task by yourself, you can partner with your daughter, without having to be in charge!

This experience supports the wellbeing of girls by tending to the body, mind and spirit as they embark into adolescence and young womanhood

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Avenue in Poughkeepsie. Dutchess County Bridge Association president Lyn Baker gives weekly lessons on Fridays at 9:30 a.m., and beginner, intermediate and advanced classes with other staff members – some of them credentialed as Bronze, Silver or Gold Life Masters – are available periodically.

Once you’ve got the hang of it, you can join the games for players with under 350 masterpoints on Mondays at 2 p.m. or with under 500 masterpoints on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Timed open games for the more confident are held on Monday mornings, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons and some Tuesday evenings at the Hellenic Center. A group of advanced players from the Rhinebeck area also competes on Tuesday mornings at the Church of the Messiah Episcopal at 6436 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.

Entry to most games costs $9.

Complimentary coffee and snacks are served. For more info, visit the Bridge Center website at http://bridgecentermhv. com, call (845) 463-2919 or e-mail bridgecentermhv@gmail.com.

Historic Huguenot Street photography contest Could your crew use a break from selfies and Snapchat? How about something from the 16th century, instead? Redirect those perfect angles and lighting toward an essential local legacy: Historic Huguenot Street.

Introducing Historic Huguenot Street’s photography contest for all ages! Categories include “Buildings & Landscapes,” “People & Community,” “Details & Collections” and “Young Photographers,” and submissions are accepted immediately, through September 1, 2017. Contest-winners’ work will be included in the 2018 wall calendar, as well as in an exhibition at Historic Huguenot Street.

Historic Huguenot Street is located in New Paltz. For complete submission guidelines, call (845) 255-1660 or visit www.huguenotstreet.org/photocontest.

– Erica Chase-Salerno Erica Chase-Salerno is so grateful for your support this holiday season and all year ‘round. She can be reached at kidsalmanac@ulsterpublishing.com.

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12am 19th Annual Catskill Ice Festival. Choose from multiple clinics on all the skills and techniques you need to get out on ice - from basic skills, to dry-tooling, to glacier travel techniques.

Slide show will be held at Rock & Snow on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. The demo gear will also be located at Rock and Snow - so you can try out the latest harnesses, ice tools, crampons and clothing from the best companies. Rates are $150 per person per event. Slide shows are free.

The Catskill Ice Festival includes excursions to locations near Mount Tremper and Phoenicia.

Alpine Endeavors is an AMGA-accredited guide service based in the Shawangunk and Catskill mountains. Rock and Snow, 44 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 877-486-5769, alpineendeavors.com/ reference/catskill-ice-festival-2017.

6:30am-8am Mysore Ashtanga Practice.

Intended to help you build a personal, self-led practice. A teacher is on hand to guide you along.

Meets every Mon-Thur, 6:30-8am. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

8am-9am Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

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. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

9am-9:50am Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John.

Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels.

A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

9am-11:15am New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rt 32, New Paltz. HudsonValleyParents.com.

9:30am-10:30am Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Woodstock Town Hall. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10am The Mouse House Craft Workshop.

Staatsburgh’s Christmas tradition of displaying miniature mouse-size houses decorated for the holidays in hidden corners of the mansion. Children attending the workshop will have the opportunity to build and decorate their own mouse house. The workshop will be offered for children ages 6 – 10. 12/27 -12/30, 10am. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Staatsburgh at 845-889-8851. Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, nysparks.com/. $8/adults, $15/ per family, up to 3 children.

10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith. A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

10am-4pm Open House at Knox’s Headquarters. The Ellison mansion is open for tours at 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM each day. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion.

All Programs Are Free! Info: 845-561-5498.

Knox’s Headquarters, 289 Forge Hill Rd, Vails Gate. Info: 845-561-1765 ext. 22. 3/adults, $2/ srs & students.

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

10am-2pm Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads.

Informal weekly social gathering for rug hookers, knitters, crocheters, and all other yarn crafters.

Drop in any time between 10am & 2pm! Tivoli Free Library, Watts dePeyster Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli. Info: 845 757-3771, tivolilibrary.org. $1 suggested donation.

10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Ongoing, every Thursday at 10 am. Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845 246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

10:15am-3:15pm Locust Grove’s Holiday House Tours. All a glitter for the holidays! Featuring festive decorations and special exhibit from the museum collection; antique toys and games!

Guided tours with our expert guides. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie. Info: info@lgny.org, lgny.org/. $11/adults, $6/children.

12pm-2pm Children’s Holiday Tea. Tea, scones & breads, dainty finger sandwiches and desserts and a craft for children in our homestead decorated for the holidays. RSVP by 12/16. Mount Gulian Historic Site, 145 Sterling Street, Beacon. Info: 18458318172, info@mountgulian.org, mountgulian.org. $15 child; $20 dult.

12pm-4pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Featuring lavish decorations and children’s programs, from late November through New Year’s Eve. The decorations are done in turn-of-the-century style, recreating the atmosphere of holidays long-ago in one of the great estates of the Hudson Valley. Touring hours will be Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4pm (last entry at 3:30pm).

Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, nysparks.com/. $8/adults, $6/srs, free/12 & under.

12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation.

1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

2pm-5pm Nativity Scenes Display at Mariapolis Luminosa. Visit over 200 nativity scenes from around the world and enjoy Mariapolis Luminosa.

Admission free, suggested donation $5. Mariapolis Luminosa of the Focolare Movement, 200 Cardinal Rd, Hyde Park. Info: luminosa.office@ gmail.com, focolare.org/mariapolisluminosa.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm Free Fitness Class. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30 pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Meditation Support Group.

Meets at Mirabai every Thursday. Walk-ins welcome, no registration required. Donation appreciated. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100.

5pm-6pm Sacred Movement and Alignment with Clyde Forth. We will work with postural alignments and their relationship to expressive movement and balance to build strength and increase mobility. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

5:15pm Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6pm-9pm Love Poetry Gathering & Reading.

Open reading featuring Jack Vincent, Sylvia Bullett, Shiv Mirabito, Paul McMahon, etc. to celebrate “Poems for Lovers Poems with Friends.”

Woodstock Mothership Gallery, 6 Hillcrest Ave, Woodstock. Info: woodstock108@hotmail.com.

6pm-9pm Free Fly Tying Night at Anglers’ Den in Pawling. All experience levels welcome.

Feel free just to come hang out to If you plan on attending, we recommended that you call the shop or email prior to give us a heads up so we can best accommodate you! (845) 855- 5182. Anglers’ Den, 11 West Main St, Pawling. Info: 845-8555182, anglersden.net.

6pm-9pm Watt Christmas Wonderland. Drive through a fantastic display of sparkling lights with all the holiday themes. Weather permitting.

Suggested donation. Facebook: Watt Christmas

Wonderland. Watt Christmas Wonderland, Goshen. Info: 845-294-3391.

6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

6pm Tasty Tunes Open Mic. Each musician gets to perform 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first) of family friendly music. Meets every Thursday night at 6pm. Sign up for musicians begins at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Taste Budd’s Cafe, 40 West Market St, Red Hook.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-8pm STEPS OF MEDITATION. Free weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls.

Info: 518-589-5000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org.

6:30pm-8:30pm Thursday Japanese Free Movie Night: ANIME. Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 1: Beginnings 2012.

Directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto & Akiyuki Shinbo, 130 mins. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8811, GKnoodles.com.

7pm Winter Flight Nights. Enjoy 6 oz. Craft Beer Flights paired with Venison, Beef and Sausage Sliders. Enjoy at the Woodnotes Grille bar or cozied up next to a roaring fire on the deck or in the Great Room. $20 per pair! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage: Latin Jazz Express Celebrates the Music of Tito Puente.

The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm-9pm Open Mic Night with Jeff Entin. Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mic night. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com. Pass the hat.

7pm-11pm A Not Too OPEN MIC! Hosted by Ras T Asheber. Calling ALL Rappers, Poets, Story Tellers, Actors, Comedians, Singers and Players of Instruments, Every Thursday night, 8pm 11pm. Artists sign up 7pm - 8pm. For info call/ text 212-920-1221 or email showtime@gothamcitywork.com. No cover. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792814, thelodgewoodstockny@gmail.com, thelodgewoodstock.com/.

7:30pm-10:30pm Jazz @ the Station. Warm, intimate atmosphere. Peter Einhorn-guitar, Lou Pappas-Bass, feat: Veronica Nunn-vocals. Food & drink available. Station Bar and Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Free, $5 donation welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW. Ongoing. Family of Woodstock, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845 706-2183.

7:30pm Reading, Meditation & Discussion.

Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. Info: 845 679-8322, info@ matagiri.org.

8pm Hayes Carll. Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 5188284800, austin. helsinki@gmail.com, clubhelsinki.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&e ventId=173837. $25.

8:30pm Professor Louie & The Crowmatix with The Woodstock Horns. Celebration of Rick Danko. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St, Bearsville. Info: 845-679-4406, BearsvilleTheater.com.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-3484.

10pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: Pat O’Shea. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

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12am 19th Annual Catskill Ice Festival. Choose from multiple clinics on all the skills and techniques you need to get out on ice - from basic skills, to dry-tooling, to glacier travel techniques.

Slide show will be held at Rock & Snow on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. The demo gear will also be located at Rock and Snow - so you can try out the latest harnesses, ice tools, crampons and clothing from the best companies. Rates are

$150 per person per event. Slide shows are free.

The Catskill Ice Festival includes excursions to locations near Mount Tremper and Phoenicia.

Alpine Endeavors is an AMGA-accredited guide service based in the Shawangunk and Catskill mountains. Rock and Snow, 44 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 877-486-5769, alpineendeavors.com/ reference/catskill-ice-festival-2017.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower, flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:45am-10:45am Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10am Rock the Clock New Year’s Eve Bash.

Bring the kids and celebrate with the community as they ring in the New Year! Weather permitting. Downtown Middletown, Middletown. Info: 845-346-4180, middletownbid.org.

10am The Mouse House Craft Workshop.

Staatsburgh’s Christmas tradition of displaying miniature mouse-size houses decorated for the holidays in hidden corners of the mansion. Children attending the workshop will have the opportunity to build and decorate their own mouse house. The workshop will be offered for children ages 6 – 10. 12/27 -12/30, 10am. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Staatsburgh at 845-889-8851. Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, nysparks.com/. $8/adults, $15/ per family, up to 3 children.

10:15am-3:15pm Locust Grove’s Holiday House Tours. All a glitter for the holidays! Featuring festive decorations and special exhibit from the museum collection; antique toys and games!

Guided tours with our expert guides. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie. Info: info@lgny.org, lgny.org/. $11/adults, $6/children.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

11:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

12pm-4pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Featuring lavish decorations and children’s programs, from late November through New Year’s Eve. The decorations are done in turn-of-the-century style, recreating the atmosphere of holidays long-ago in one of the great estates of the Hudson Valley. Touring hours will be Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4pm (last entry at 3:30pm).

Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, nysparks.com/. $8/adults, $6/srs, free/12 & under.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

12:30pm-6pm Tarot Card, Crystal Attunement and Astrological Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Friday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $30 for 25 minute tarot reading.

1pm-3:30pm New Bridge Group at Community Center. Free. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 617-308-9993.

2pm-5pm Nativity Scenes Display at Mariapolis Luminosa. Visit over 200 nativity scenes from around the world and enjoy Mariapolis Luminosa.

Admission free, suggested donation $5. Mariapolis Luminosa of the Focolare Movement, 200 Cardinal Rd, Hyde Park. Info: luminosa.office@ gmail.com, focolare.org/mariapolisluminosa.

4pm “Knit Wits” Knitting Club. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Lego Club. All ages, with parents. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Rejuvenating and supported postures that

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Lots of props and dim lights. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

6pm-8pm Wine and Art Auction. The event is to support the Sports Adaptive Foundation in helping the handicapped to enjoy sports activities. Windham Fine Arts, 5380 Main Street, Windham. Info: 518-527-8757, cherisse@adaptivesportsfoundation.org.

6pm-9pm Watt Christmas Wonderland. Drive through a fantastic display of sparkling lights with all the holiday themes. Weather permitting.

Suggested donation. Facebook: Watt Christmas Wonderland. Watt Christmas Wonderland, Goshen. Info: 845-294-3391.

6pm-9pm Nick From No Where. Featuring 40’s standards and covers. Vigneto’s, 890 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Info: 845-834-2828.

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

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

7pm-9pm SUNY Professor to Speak. Dr. Don Roper will speak on “I Remember Carlton Mabee.” Don and Carlton were both Professors at SUNY New Paltz in the History department. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: (845) 419-5063, sharon.jean. roth@gmail.com.

7pm Community Candle Lighting. The magic of hundreds of lights at the Community Candle Lighting. There will be storytelling, singing and soufganiyot ( jelly doughnuts). Bring your own menorah to help light theirs. Congregation Emanuel, 243 Albany Ave, Kingston. TempleEmanuelKingston.org. $5, $3/child.

7pm Army Basketball. The Black Knights match hoops with Lehigh. Tickets. West Point/ Christl Arena, West Point. Info: 877-849-2769, goarmywestpoint.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: Daby Touré. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage: Bobby Harden & The Soul Purpose Band. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970,

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7pm Friday Night Jazz. NYC 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 Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

7:30pm Hudson Valley Recital Project: Prohibition. Andrea Shaut. Jazz. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0333, askforarts.org.

8pm Flash. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

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8am Writing Group. This writing group will offer bi-weekly practice exercises to improve writing technique & the opportunity to share work-in-progress. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

Olson. A fast-paced vinyasa flow class that works up a nice sweat while keeping things light and fun. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit thrift selling clothing for children/adults, household items, jewelry, games/ toys. No furniture. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Info: 845-3386126, comfortercobblestonethrift26@gmail.com.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9am. All welcome. No charge.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-3285.

9am Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

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10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-12pm Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845 687-7023, stoneridgelibrary.org/.

10am-9pm Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Candlewax in any condition to be recycled.

Ongoing. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

10:15am-3:15pm Locust Grove’s Holiday House Tours. All a glitter for the holidays! Featuring festive decorations and special exhibit from the museum collection; antique toys and games!

Guided tours with our expert guides. Locust Grove Estate, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie. Info: info@lgny.org, lgny.org/.

9:30am-12:30pm New Years at the Children’s Museum. Pop music, dancing, & activities!

Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, 75 N Water St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-471-0589, info@ mhcm.org, mhcm.org. $14.

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

10am-12pm Saturday Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, you are welcome to join.

New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-0624, newbabynewpaltz@yahoo.

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

Cornell St PO, Kingston. Info: 845 399-2805.

11am-4pm Winter Olana Tour. Friday-Sunday, first tour 11 am, last tour 3 pm. Olana, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. olana.org.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment.

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12pm-4pm ExhibitThe Art of Picturebooks.

Three professional children’s book illustrators will exhibit their original artwork. Show exhibits through December. Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12pm-4pm. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Rd, Warwick. Info: 845-9866962, amitygallery110@gmail.com, amitygallery110.wordpress.com.

12pm-4pm A Gilded Age Christmas. Featuring lavish decorations and children’s programs, from late November through New Year’s Eve. The decorations are done in turn-of-the-century style, recreating the atmosphere of holidays long-ago in one of the great estates of the Hudson Valley. Touring hours will be Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4pm (last entry at 3:30pm).

Staatsburgh State Historic Site / Mills Mansion, Old Post Rd, Staatsburg. Info: 845-889-8851, nysparks.com/. $8/adults, $6/srs, free/12 & under.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided).

Donations appreciated. Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. sarah@womenspowerspace.org.

12:30pm-6:30pm Tarot Readings with Stephanie. Every Saturday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23

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12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz.

1pm-3pm 9th Annual Mochi Rice Cake Pounding. The End of the Year Japanese Tradition.

Open to public. Free mochi. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, 232 Main St, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8811, GKnoodles.com.

1pm Sit and Knit. Bring a project or start a new one while sitting on the comfy couches in the Information Room window area. Meets every Saturday at 1 pm. All are welcome. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

2pm Free Meditation Instruction. Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. On-going.

Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-8pm Collaging a Common Vision for the Community. Free parking is available across the street. What to bring! Something you like to drink, scissors, glue sticks, glitter, special drawing pen that you can’t live without. Bring your friends, neighbors..people who like to get crafty. Make a collage to add to the collective voice vision of 2017.

Make a vision board for yourself. Eat food. Finish your world vision to be added to the collective vision. Put a voice to visions. Give a speech. Sing a song. Tell jokes. Dance an interpretive dance.

CHRCH Project Space, 167 Cottekill Rd, Cottekill. chrchprojectspace.org.

5pm New Year’s Eve Celebration at the Emerson. Ring in the New Year with the ultimate celebration at Woodnotes Grille! Dinner includes dancing to “Funky Grooves and Mojo Blues” with The D-Squared Band and a midnight champagne toast! $35 per person. Reservations are required! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant.

Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm New Year’s Eve Dinner & After Party.

Prix Fixe dinner starting at 7pm. Jazz with John Esposito on piano and Mark Usvolk on bass.

Dancing afterwards. Champagne at midnight.

Lydia’s Cafe, 7 Old US 209, Stone Ridge. Info: 845-687-3673, mark@lydiasdeli.com.

7pm Sun Spot Reading & Exhibition. Hosted by the Friends of D. R. Evarts Library. A project to merge Library and Gallery through development and installation SUN SPOT aims to create a satellite of Athens’ beloved D. R. Evarts Library at the Center a diverse and creative space for lovers of reading, art and literature. Curated by Athens artist Sarah Butler. Featuring “Laundry Pictures,” a documentary essay from the photojournalism collection of Katherine Montague, the exhibition also includes a crowd-sourced book table

by Friends of the Library. Show exhibits through

2/11. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. Info: 347-233-1165, friends@drevartslibrary.org.

7pm Saturday Night Jazz. NYC 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 Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7:15pm-10pm Saturday Night Jazz and Latin Dance. Featuring George Leary, Harvey Kaiser & Elliot Steel. No Cover. Station Bar and Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock.

8pm-9:30pm New Year’s Eve Restorative Yoga.

For the fifth year in a row, Barbara Boris leads this special New Year’s Eve NIGHT Yoga Class.

This meditative and restorative class is the perfect way to close out the year and to prepare for the next. A fully restorative sequence, will allow you to reflect on 2016 and be ready for 2017. Space is limited - please register in advance. $18 drop-in.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com.

8pm Blue Food. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8pm New Years Eve at BSP. The Felice Brothers, Tony Touch, The Big Takeover and more! Front and Back Theaters. Fireworks and Midnight Balldrop in Uptown Kingston! BSP Lounge, 323 Wall Street, Kingston. bit.ly/2gUFLSd. 8pm Uptown Kingston’s New Year’s Eve Celebration. Featuring live music and an old-fashioned ball drop at the corner of Wall and North Front Streets in Kingston at midnight! Kingston. bspkingston.com.

8pm New Year’s Eve Party. Live music with The Black Dirt Bandits, photo booth, hard cider from the Farm Cidery, midnight keg drop, free toast.

Reservations. Pennings Farm Market, Warwick.

Info: 845-986-1059, penningsfarmmarket.com.

8:30pm-11:30pm New Year’s Eve at the Winery.

Tickets include light fare, champagne toast at midnight and the incredible dance music of TWD band. Tickets available at the door, in advance, or online. Palaia Vineyards, 10 Sweet Clover Rd, Highland Mills. Info: 845-928-5384, palaiavineyards.com.

9pm Live @ The Falcon Underground: NYE! Royal Khaoz. Old School Reggae. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

9pm-1am New Years Eve Dance Party with FRENZI. Ring in the New Year at The Lodge with live music by FRENZI, Funk Rock R&B with a dash of Reggae, Guaranteed to make you Dance Till You Drop. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 2129201221, showtime@ gothamcitywork.com, NaomiLeslie.com. $10.

9pm Live @ The Falcon: NYE! The Chris Bergson Band featuring Ellis Hooks. Blues Rock & Soul. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

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9pm NYE at Helsinki Hudson. Performances

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9pm New Year’s Eve Party with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker. Ring in the new year with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker. This band is rocking and has everybody dancing the whole night. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com. Pass the hat.

9:30pm New Year’s Eve Silent Meditation & Chanting. Meditate, journal, practice asana - you may do anything as long as it’s in silence (no cell phones, please). Just before midnight, the studio doors will close to preserve the sanctity of the space. At the stroke of Midnight, we will chant OM and LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKHINOH BHAVANTU (May all beings everywhere be happy and free) to ring in and bless the New Year. By donation. All proceeds will go to Family of Woodstock. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter.com.

10pm Third Annual Saugerties New Year’s Eve in the Village. Stay local, stay safe. Stage on Main Street with performances 10:30 pm - 12:30am DJ, refreshments and boy scouts will be handing out hot chocolate. Specials at many restaurants and bars. Midnight countdown and ball drop with mayor and police chief on Main and Partition Streets. Some streets will be closed 10pm-1am.

Additional info: facebook.com/SaugertiesChamberofCommerce. Saugerties. Info: 845-246-2321, village.saugerties.ny.us.

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a Traditional New Year’s Day Celebration 2017 NEW YEAR 5 HOUR GONG PUJA with The Sage Gong Sangha. Come and go, sit or lie down, get your gong cleansing bath to start 2017. This is an open door policy for a 5 hour Gong Puja. Reflect on and move through the passing year while considering what you need to leave behind. Gonging for peace, as the sun’s light begins to return, we’ll renew our own inner light through the Sacred Gongs, releasing stagnant energy, awakening dormant prana, and shining brightly into the fulness of the new paradigm of 2017. The Gong Puja promotes a deep sense of peace and well-being, strengthening of the nervous system, balancing of the chakras and increased energy and vitality. Whhat to Bring: water bottle, pillow, blankets and bedding for a comfortable rest as you drift off to the sacred sounds of the gongs. Please keep in mind that the area you’ll be using as your receiving space is the dimension of a yoga mat. Loose, comfortable clothing is recommended..Suggested donation $10. Questions: sagehealingcenter@gmail.com or 845-679-5650. SAGE Center for the Healing Arts, 6 Deming St. 2nd Floor, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-5650, sagehealingcenter@gmail.com, sageacademyofsoundenergy.com.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony CafĂŠ @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

5pm-8pm JBNHS in Search of Saw-Whets. Join trip leader Peter Schoenberger. Info: pdsis@

yahoo.com or 914-466-2707. Free. jbnhs.org.

Mountain Rd, Woodstock.

8pm Live Latin Jazz. Every Sunday! Happy Hour begins from 6-8pm. No cover for this event.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

9am-9:50am Senior Fit Dance for Seniors with Adah Frank. Dance and movement for strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Bring a mat. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

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7:30am-8:30pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for silent sitting and walking meditation. For optional beginner instruction, please arrive at 7:20. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Donations welcome. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/communitymeditation.

8am-5pm Low-Cost Spay Neuter. Cats $70.

Dogs $120 & up. All surgeries include rabies vaccine. By appointment only. 845-343-1000. tara-spayneuter.org. Multiple locations. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, taraspayneuter.org.

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. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads

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.

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

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I with Barbara Boris. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-12pm Senior Drama with Edith LeFever.

Comets of Woodstock focuses on improvisation, acting exercises, monologues & scenes. Interested seniors are welcome to sit in. Sponsored

by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

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8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry Fister. For those who want to get up and go on a Sunday morning. Combines traditional asanas with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

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. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

9:30am-2pm Minnewaska Preserve/Sam’s Point: First Day Hikes at Sam’s Point. Sam’s Point, Cragsmoor. Info: 845-255-0752.

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10am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon Main Stage. Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound.

Gospel Blues. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

11am New Years Day Live Jazz Brunch. Dancing Cat Saloon @ Catskill Distilling Company, 2037 Rte. 17B, Bethel. Info: 845-583-3141, dancingcatsaloon.com.

12pm New Year, New Beginnings Yoga Class.

Ring in the New Year with a special meditative and energizing New Year’s Day class, led by Barbara Boris. We will sit for meditation and work off any ill-effects of the previous night’s parties. Open to all levels and students of all schools of yoga. By donation (minimum $15 or use your class card). Proceeds go to Family of Woodstock. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com.

12pm-3pm New Year’s Brunch with Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fi’s. Jazz and Blues. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-687-2699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe.com. Pass the hat.

New Year’s Eve Silent Meditation & Chanting.

Meditate, journal, practice asana - you may do anything as long as it’s in silence (no cell phones, please). Just before midnight, the studio doors will close to preserve the sanctity of the space.

At the stroke of Midnight, we will chant OM and LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKHINOH BHAVANTU (May all beings everywhere be happy and free) to ring in and bless the New Year. By donation. All proceeds will go to Family of Woodstock. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com. Ends at 12:30pm.

2pm New Year’s Day Clairvoyant Group Channeling with Rev. Betsy Stang. Betsy’s deep listening and validation of the voices our true spirit gives us the strength and affirmations to move ahead in alignment with our soul’s unfolding. Bring your questions, your dreams and your sense of humor. This is a letter in a bottle. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $25.

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2pm-3:30pm New Year’s Day Odyssey into the Heart. A musical journey to release the past, align with the present, and empower intentions for personal and collective transformation. The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale.

Info: 914-388-0632, amymctear@yahoo.com, amymctear.com/events. $15/advance, $20/door.

3pm-8pm Sage Academy of Sound Energy presents a Traditional New Year’s Day Celebration. Sage Academy of Sound Energy presents

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11am-6:45pm Private Shamanic Doctoring sessions with shamanic healer Adam Kane.

Adam connects with spirit helpers on behalf of a client and brings their healing through the medicine songs, drums, rattles and laying on of hands.

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organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11am-12pm Chair Yoga with Kathy Foley. Chair yoga is a very helpful way for those who need extra support in enjoying the benefits of yoga. Using chairs for support. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

New Year, New Beginnings Yoga Class. Ring in the New Year with a special meditative and energizing New Year’s Day class, led by Barbara Boris. We will sit for meditation and work off any ill-effects of the previous night’s parties. Open to all levels and students of all schools of yoga. By donation (minimum $15 or use your class card).

Proceeds go to Family of Woodstock. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter.com. Ends at 1:30pm.

12:15pm Rhinebeck Rotary Club Meeting.

Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St, Rhinebeck. Info: 914 244-0333.

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12:30pm-6pm Tarot Card, Crystal Attunement and Astrological Readings with medicine woman Mary Vukovic. Every Monday at Mirabai. Walk-ins welcome or call for appointment. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $30/25 minutes.

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1pm-2pm Needlework Group. Knitters, crocheters, rug hookers & stitchers of all types and beginners welcome. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580,

$5 Cover Valid Tuesday - Thursday Nights

2pm-4pm Senior Painting. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

3pm-5pm Math Help. Get those pencils sharpened! Phyllis Rosato is here to answer all of your math questions, from kindergarten to calculus.

Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-4:30pm Amateur Guitar Jam. Join this casual gathering of acoustic musicians. Bring your own guitar. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

New Year’s Eve SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2016 • 7:00 PM-1:00 AM

6 HOURS OF TOP-SHELF OPEN BAR Music Presented by Stylez Entertaiment COCKTAIL RECEPTION

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• Bruschetta Trio - Tomato Basil, Ratatouille, Olive Tapenade • Thai-Style Skewered Steak- Soy Chili Glaze • Hickory Bacon Wrapped Scallops- Miso Orange Glaze • Bang Bang Crispy Shrimp • Crispy Crab Wontons- Sweet & Sour Sauce • BBQ Pulled Pork Empanadas with Chipotle Cheddar Sauce • Battered Sesame Chicken with Ginger Soy Sauce • Melon Wrapped in Prosciutto

House Made Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Red Peppers & Vine Ripe Tomato paired with Baby Arugula Salad, Lemon Vinaigrette

Chilled Seafood Tower Display ~ Ice Sculpture Center Piece Surrounded by Fresh Seafood ~ Jumbo Gulf Shrimp with Classic Cocktail Sauce & Lemon Crescent Long Island Little Necks on the Half Shell Seafood Martinis| Lobster, Scallops, Calamari and Shrimp

The Chateau Market Table • Multinational Cheese Board • Antipasto Display of Pepperoni, Smoked Ham, Soppressata • Artisan Crackers and Flatbreads • Harvest Vegetable Crudités of Baby Carrots, Celery, Broccoli & Cauliflower Florets • Herb-Marinated, Fire-Roasted Vegetables • Artfully Displayed Seasonal Fruits & Berries • Chef ’s Selection of Handcrafted Chilled Salads • Marinated Black & Green Olives

A Taste of Roma • Orecchiette with Sausage & Broccoli Rabe in Fresh Garlic & Oil • Traditional Eggplant Rollatini | Herbed Ricotta, Shaved Pecorino Romano, Marinara Sauce • Bowtie Pasta| Crispy Pancetta, Wild Mushroom & Sundried Tomatoes in a Roasted Shallot Cream Sauce • Imported Penne Pomodoro • Assorted Focaccia Display

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Tableside Choice of: - Filet Mignon and Classic Maryland Crab Stuffed Shrimp | Gruyère Lorette Potato, Asparagus, Chardonnay Garlic Shallot Sauce - French-Cut Breast of Chicken | Fontina, Spinach and Roasted Shallot Stuffing, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Mushroom Pan Jus - Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon | Champagne Citrus Beurre Blanc - Vegetarian Lasagna | Spinach, Zucchini and Herbed Ricotta, Fire Roasted Tomato Sauce

Dessert Individually Plated Sampler • Red Velvet Cake • Pistachio French Macaroon • Fresh Strawberry Mousse

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. 28 West Gym, Maverick Rd & Rt 28, Glenford. $12/class.

5pm-9pm Saugerties First Friday. Every month businesses stay open late and offer special activities and discounts to visitors. Village of Saugerties, Partition, Market & Main Streets, Saugerties. facebook.com/saugertiesfirstfriday.

6pm Kingston Beginner Swing Dance Series.

Monday nights, four-week beginner swing dance series: January 2, 9, 16, 23 and January 30, February 6, 13, 20 with Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Beginner sessions 6-7pm. No partner or experience necessary.

Intermediate level 7-8pm. $85 per person per four-week series. For more info and to register visit got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

8pm Sports Night. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8pm Industry Night at The Lodge. Featuring live funk with Fishin’ Chicken. Happy Hour all Night! Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock. com.

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4pm-5pm Muay Thai for Kids. For ages 5 to 13.

Children learn the basics of the art of the eight limbs with our knowledgeable instructors. Build confidence and personal strength. Free. Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com.

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9am-10am Senior Dance with Inyo Charbonneau. The emphasis is on fun while benefiting from strengthening and aerobic exercise and celebrating life. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

9:30am-11am Level I Yoga with Terry Fister.

Taught in the Iyengar style. The basis of the method is taught in standing poses and other fundamental postures. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

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. Plaza Diner, New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. Info: 845 255-0609.

9:30am The Saugerties Seniors Meeting.

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premier listings Contact Donna at calendar@ulsterpublishing.com to be included New Year, New Beginnings Yoga Class (Sunday, 1/1, 12pm-1:30pm). . Ring in the New Year with a special meditative and energizing New Year’s Day class, led by Barbara Boris. We will sit for meditation and work off any ill-effects of the previous night’s parties. Open to all levels and students of all schools of yoga. By donation (minimum $15 or use your class card).

Proceeds go to Family of Woodstock.

Info: (845) 679-8700, Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

New Year’s Eve Silent Meditation & Chanting (Saturday, 12/31, 9:30pmto Sunday 1/1, 12:30am).

Meditate, journal, practice asana you may do anything as long as it’s in silence (no cell phones, please). Just before midnight, the studio doors will close to preserve the sanctity of the space. At the stroke of Midnight, we will chant OM and LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKHINOH BHAVANTU (May all beings everywhere be happy and free) to ring

in and bless the New Year. By donation. All proceeds will go to Family of Woodstock. Info: (845) 679-8700, Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, www.woodstockyogacenter.com.

New Year’s Eve Restorative Yoga (Saturday, 12/31, 8-9:30pm). For the fifth year in a row, Barbara Boris leads this special New Year’s Eve NIGHT Yoga Class. This meditative and restorative class is the perfect way to close out the year and to prepare for the next. A fully restorative sequence, will allow you to reflect on 2016 and be ready for 2017. Space is limited - please register in advance. $18 drop-in. Info: (845) 679-8700, Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, www. woodstockyogacenter.com.

Sage Academy of Sound Energy presents a Traditional New Year’s Day Celebration (1/1,3-8pm). 2017 New Year 5 Hour Gong Puja with The Sage Gong Sangha. Come and go, sit or lie down, get your gong cleansing

Settled and Serving in Place (SSIP)is a social selfhelp group for seniors who want to remain in their homes and community. Village Diner, Main St, Saugerties. Info: 845 255-0609.

9:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents.

More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-485-3445 x. 3423.

10am-4pm Storewide Fiction Sale to Kick Off 2017 for Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store. Storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction and children’s, kicks off 2017 for the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library’s Book Store. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents. Sale runs through 1/26, store hours: 10 am to 4 pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-485-3445 x.

3423, book_store@poklib.org, facebook.com/ PoughkeepsieLibraryBookstore/timeline.

10am The Country Scrappers & Stampers Meeting. Come for the whole day or drop by for an hour or two. New members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Ongoing. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1 Marl Rd, Walker Valley. Info: 845 744-3055.

10:30am-11:30am Together Tuesdays. Janice leads this story, craft, and play hour for kids birth through preschool. Come join the friendly gang of local parents. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary. org.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

12pm-6pm Private Spirit Guide Readings with psychic medium Adam Bernstein. Intuitive guidance for spiritually-minded individuals.

Receive messages from your spirit guides and deceased loved ones and benefit from their wisdom and perspective. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $75/1 hour, $40/half hour.

1pm-2pm Esopus Artist Group. Join this ongoing session of art making. Bring your own supplies. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

3pm-6pm Weekly Community Acupuncture with Kristin Misik. For details and to schedule appointments: wellnessembodiedcenter.com/ accupuncture.html. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com.

4pm-5pm Youth Hang-Time. Ages 9-13 Event includes crafts, outdoor games, book discussions, movies, wii and informal hangouts. Town

bath to start 2017. This is an open door policy for a 5 hour Gong Puja.

Reflect on and move through the passing year while considering what you need to leave behind. Gonging for peace, as the sun’s light begins to return, we’ll renew our own inner light through the Sacred Gongs, releasing stagnant energy, awakening dormant prana, and shining brightly into the fulness of the new paradigm of 2017.

The Gong Puja promotes a deep sense of peace and well-being, strengthening of the nervous system, balancing of the chakras and increased energy and vitality. Whhat to Bring: water bottle, pillow, blankets and bedding for a comfortable rest as you drift off to the sacred sounds of the gongs. Please keep in mind that the area you’ll be using as your receiving space is the dimension of a yoga mat. Loose, comfortable clothing is recommended..Suggested donation $10. Questions: sagehealingcenter@gmail.com or 845-679-5650.

Info: sageacademyofsoundenergy.com.

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New Years Eve Dance Party with FRENZI (12/31,9pm till .....). Ring in the New Year at The Lodge with live music by FRENZI, Funk Rock R&B with a dash of Reggae, Guaranteed to make you Dance Till You Drop! $10. The Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: NaomiLeslie.com.

Artist Call for Entry. Gallery Lev Shalem at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation is calling for entries for next exhibition. The theme is Other Places: A juried show 0f two dimensional artwork January 15-April 24,2017. Allison Constant, curator/ owner of Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY is the juror. Artists are invited to bring work to the Gallery on Monday, January 9, 2017 between 11am-3pm.

Artists may submit from 1-2 ready-tohang, 2-dimensional artworks up to 40”. Work must interpret the show’s theme, Other Places, real or imagined.

Submission fee is $5 per entry. Work not accepted must be picked up on Tuesday, January 10, 1-3pm. You will be notified via email the status of your entry. Opening reception is Sunday, January 15, 12-2pm. Gallery Lev Shalem, Woodstock Jewish Congregation, 1682 Glasco Turnpike, Wood-

of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen.

Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail. com, esopuslibrary.org.

3939. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy. com.

6pm-8:59pm Informational Meeting for Horse Bowl. Extension Education Center, 479 Rt. 66, Hudson. Info: 518-828-3346, Columbiagreene@ cornell.edu, ccecolumbiagreene.org.

9:30am Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com.

6pm-7pm Vinyasa Community Class with Selena Reynolds. An informative community class open to all levels. Reduced-price. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ ws?studioid=3496&stype=-7&sView=week&sLoc=0. $8.

6pm-9pm Ladies’ Night with Dorraine Scofield. Acoustic! Chicken Run, 5639 State Rt 23, Windham. Info: 518-734-5353, chickenrunwindham.com.

6pm-7pm Weekly Sitting Meditation w/ Walking Meditation. Instruction available.

On-going Tues, 6-7pm. Free & open to the public.

Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

6:30pm-7pm Smart Exercises. Part of the Complimentary Half-Hour to Health series led by Dr. David Lester and held at Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Lane, New Paltz. Lester Chiropractic, 3 Paradies Ln, New Paltz. Info: (845) 255-3300, Lester.chiropractic@gmail.com.

6:30pm-7:30pm Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Meditation with Donna Sherman. $80, pre-registration required. This eight class series will meet twice a week for one hour - Monday & Wednesdays. $99/8 classes. This 8 class series will meet twice a week for one hour. Living Seed, New Paltz. Info: contact@thelivingseed.com.

7pm-10pm Open Mic Nite. Hosted by Ben Rounds, Open Mic Nite at Woodnotes Grille makes Tuesday night the new Friday night for great entertainment. Listen to talented local singers and bands or showcase your own talents!

No cover. Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm Poetry Night. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

7pm-9pm Open Mic. On-going. Free admission.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

7pm-8:30pm Weekly Opportunity Workshop.

Learn how to help the environment, raise funds for non-profit organizations, and save money over time! Ongoing. Free to attend. Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Ln (across from Super 8), New Paltz.

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9am-10am Senior Kripalu Yoga with Susan Blacker. A gentle yoga class with each student encouraged to move and stretch at his or her own pace. Includes warmups, poses for strength and balance and breath work for relaxation. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

9:15am-10:15am Bliss Body Yoga with Linda Freeman. Gentle, Individualized and Therapeutic Yoga for your body and soul. Two locations offered: Classes Fridays and Sundays 9:3010:30am at Studio87-The Wellness House, 87 Liberty Street, Newburgh; and Wednesdays 9:1510:15am at the New Paltz Community Center on Route 32 North in New Paltz. $10 drop in. Linda Freeman is certified in Integrative Yoga Therapy.

Visit http://www.blissbodyoga.com/ or 845-236-

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:30am-10:30am ACTing Up! Free weekly program for 2-4-year-olds and their adults Weekly sessions running through. Creative time of songs, stories, games and crafts all facilitated by Jessica Coons. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. www.athensculturalcenter.org.

10:30am-11:30am Senior Strengthening with Linda Sirkin. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

11:30am-12:45pm Gentle Yoga with Donna Sherman. Soothe and balance the body, mind and spirit using breath and gentle yoga postures.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed. com. $10 - $11.

12pm The Woodstock Senior Citizens Club Meeting. Game of Bingo! Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

12pm-6pm Private Soul Listening and Energy Healing sessions with celestial channel Ahnjalia. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $75/1 hour, $40/half hour.

12pm-1pm Yoga Rolla with Terry Fister. A series of SOFT foam rolling exercises designed to address excessive tension and soreness which can inhibit proper alignment. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

12pm Rotary Club of Kingston Meeting. Fellowship, lunch, and an informative and interesting presentation from a guest speaker. Meets every Wed at 12 noon. Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Ave, Kingston. kingstonnyrotary.org.

1:30pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

2pm-3:30pm Mah Jongg. Learn to play this ancient Asian game. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

3pm-5pm Free Drop-in Hypnosis Mini Sessions. In celebration of World Hypnosis Day, Michael Salerno will be offering mini stress relief hypnosis sessions. First-come, first-served.

Starr Library, 68 West Market St, Rhinebeck.

Info: 845-876-4030, njackson@starrlibrary.org, starrlibrary.org.

3pm-4pm Gardiner Library Book Club.

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. The enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocable changes two families’ lives. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, facebook.com/

stock. Info: 845-246-5170 or wjc.arts@ gmail.com or whg1045@aol.com.

Ongoing Open Call. Athens Laundry is seeking projects in art, writing and design for the arts and literary publication by Friends of D. R. Evarts Library in Athens. Print and Electronic editions • Visit athenslaundry.tumblr. com for more info • Email friends@ drevartslibrary.org today .

Washbourne House Shelter Seeks Volunteers! Info: volunteers@familyofwoodstockinc.org or 845-3317080x157.

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Stationary Clinic for Dogs. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. $95 and up; includes spay/neuter, rabies vaccine, and cone collar. All surgeries performed by appointment only; Also, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Mobile Clinic for Cats( call for location and dates). $70 per cat includes spay/ neuter, rabies vaccine, ear cleaning, nail trim. All surgeries performed by appointment only; & Low-cost vaccine & dental Clinics available. The Animal Rights Alliance (T.A.R.A.), 60 Enterprise Pl, Middletown. Info: 845-3431000, tara-spayneuter.org.

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3pm The Chess Club. For experienced adult players from 3-4:30pm; Beginners will meet 4:30-5:30pm. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845 255-1255, librarian@gardinerlibrary.org.

4:30pm-6pm Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For more advanced students who are well-practiced in Iyengar Yoga. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris.

Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@ gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

4:30pm-5:30pm Art Hour. Fun for ages 3 to 103!

From paper flowers to crazy critters, we are always up to something creative. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5pm-6pm Juggling & Hula-Hooping. Learn and practice juggling & hula-hooping- for adults.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

5pm-6pm Beginner Muay Thai for Adults. For ages 14 to 65. Learn the ancient martial art of Muay Thai in this high intensity class. Students of all levels and abilities are welcome. Free ongoing class. Stockade, 302 Wall St, Kingston. stockademuaythai.com.

5:15pm-6:15pm Italian Conversation Class.

Weekly class is designed for people who have some knowledge of the Italian language and would like to improve their conversational skills.

Taught by Dr. Ornella Lepri Mazzuca. Held in the library community room. Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner. Info: 845-255-1255, nlane@rcls.org, gardinerlibrary.org.

5:30pm-7:30pm Prenatal Class. Ongoing on Wednesdays. Mackintosh Community Room, 147 Lake St, Newburgh. Info: 845 563-8043.

5:30pm-6:30pm Woodstock Informal Service.

Followed by reflections and spiritual discussions.

Everyone welcome. 845 679-9534. First Church of Christ Scientist, 85 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-9534.

6pm Highland Beginner Swing Dance Series.

Wednesdays, January 4, 22,28,35 and February 1, 8,15,22 with Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Beginner sessions 6-7pm. No partner or experience necessary. $85 per person per four-week series. Private lessons in swing and ballroom and for wedding couples available by appointment. For more info and to register visit got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939.

Boughton Place,, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

6pm-7:30pm Vinyasa Yoga with Lisa Watkinsa. Strengthen mind, body and spirit. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com. $15, $11 senior, $10 Vet Discount.

6pm-8pm Path to Entrepreneurship Program.

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur? Find Out Now! Please join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a free program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. This workshop is free but pre-registation is required. Ulster County BOCES Conference Center, 175 Route 32 N, New Paltz. Info: 845-363-6432, cmarsh-croll@ wedcbiz.org, wedcbiz.org.

6pm-7pm Tween Program. Includes 3-D Modeling Projects, Advisory Board, Robot Club, Games & even Pizza! Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6pm-7:30pm Creative Seed Support Work-

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old weather and short days have put a not-totally-unwelcome lull in the gardening year. Nonetheless, I wander into the greenhouse occasionally just to drink in the sight and smell of lush greenery suffused in warmth and humidity, and to pull some weeds. The figs in there could use some pruning; they are dormant and leafless and need all stems cut back to three to four feet in height.

Gardening lull or not, I can’t just toss those cut stems away, putting them to waste.

Each stem can make a whole new tree, and fairly easily. So I set up a little propagator for rooting some of these “hardwood cuttings.”

Being leafless, the cuttings lose little water, so have no need for the high humidity demanded by softwood cuttings, which are cuttings taken while plants are actively growing and leafy. Any cutting, hardwood or softwood, does need its bottom portion, where roots will form, cozied in moisture and air.

Some people just plop stems into a glass of water. That works for easy-to-root plants, like fig, as long as the water is occasionally changed, so that bacteria don’t build up and the roots get some oxygen from the freshly drawn water. Roots formed in water are morphologically different from those in soil, so the eventual and inevitable transfer to soil must be done with care, with attention to root breakage, aeration and moisture.

My cuttings will root directly in soil – or a “soil” of some sort: actually a soilless soil similar in makeup to most commercial potting mixes. This soil is nothing more than a mix of equal parts perlite (a “popped” volcanic rock) and peat moss. The perlite is for aeration; the peat moss is to hold moisture. (Coir – a byproduct of the coconut industry – or leaf mold could be substituted for the peat moss.)

Now here’s the cool part: After filling a large flowerpot with the rooting mix, I scooped out the center and put into the hole a smaller flowerpot. That smaller flowerpot has to be terra cotta and unglazed. It also needs its drainage hole plugged; some moldable wax, saved from when my daughter had braces, worked well. (I knew that I had saved that wax all these years for something!) Rapping the large pot and pressing lightly on the soil ensured good contact and a continuous capillary connection between the water in the inner pot, the porous wall of the pot and the surrounding soil.

I slid the cuttings into the circle of soil, with only one or two upper buds showing.

Until leaves appear (and there’s no rush), the only attention the pot needs is to keep the inner reservoir of soil filled with water. Once leaves appear, the cuttings need light.

Sometime I’ll have to figure out what to do with all my new fig plants.

New plants in the wings could have been the spark for a horticultural dream the night following setting up the propagator. In this dream, I lived in a large, modernistic house, the most significant features of which were its three stories and large south-facing windows. I evidently wasn’t all that familiar with the house, because I wandered around in amazement.

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

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-7:30pm Color Mandalas, Sip Tea and Relax. Come find peace & joy in coloring beautiful mandalas while you sip tea & listen to relaxing music. A creative & fun way to reduce stress.

Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@ gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

6:30pm-8pm Yin Yoga with Diane Davis. A slow, steady class that gently stimulates connective tissues to make them stronger, while cultivating mindfulness and awareness. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

6:30pm-7:05pm Learn Remembrance. A very holy and deep form of prayer (with roots in the Old Testament - Remember my name in the night) which connects you with the Divine within.

All are welcome, RSVP please. Free /donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup. flowingspirit.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon. com.

7pm Trivia Night. Calling all trivia nerds~Flex your mental muscles and compete for prizes at their weekly Trivia Night! Play solo or as part of a team while enjoying extended Happier Hour Specials. Think of it as “Jeopardy Night“ – Catskills style! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant.

Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-11pm Music by DJ Madd Mike. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Steakhouse, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie.

7pm New Paltz Historical Society Meeting.

Meetings held on the 1st Wednesday of each month. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veter-

ans Dr, New Paltz.

7pm-11pm Rosendale Chess Club. Free admission. On-going every Wed, 7-11pm. Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-9048.

7pm-9pm Volleyball. A pickup volleyball game.

Ongoing every Wednesday, 7-9pm. Enter the Center at the entrance on the left side, as you face the school from Lucas Ave. Rondout Municipal Center, 1915 Lucas Ave, Cottekill. Info: 845 616-0710. $6.

7pm-8pm Meditation and the Spiritual Path of Cafh. Learn the Discursive Meditation, a technique designed to explore from within the fundamental and transcendent issues of our lives.

A dialogue follows the meditation. Meets the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7-8pm. Cafh Retreat House, 146 Kerley Corners Rd, Tivoli.

Info: 845 481-0580, CafhHudsonValley@gmail. com.

7pm “Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism” Class. On-going. Free 90-minute program includes 30 min of Quiet Sitting Meditation followed by 1 of 8 lectures on the history, practices & principles of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 8/wk curriculum. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu. org.

7:15pm-8pm Silent Spiritual Practice. For people who would like to do spiritual practice together to increase the potency of the practice.

For those who would like to learn Remembrance, come to a teaching at 6:30pm. All are welcome RSVP please, Free /donations welcomed. Flowing Spirit Healing, 33 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-8989, Meetup.flowingspirit.com.

7 : 3 0 p m Chess Club. Me e t s e v e r y Wednesday,7:30pm. Free admission. Woodland Pond at New Paltz/ Performing Arts Center, New Paltz. Info: 845-419-2737, albiebar@aol.com.

7:30pm The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Barbershop Chorus. All male a cappella group, that sings in the uniquely American “Barbershop Style” of close four-part harmony. Guests are always welcome. Sight-reading not required.

Meets every Wednesdays at 7:30pm. Crown Heights Clubhouse, 34 Nassau Rd, Poughkeepsie. newyorkerschorus.org.

8pm Jim, Pete & Willy. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

8:30pm-11pm Live at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company: Acoustic Jazz Trio. Featur-

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Most amazing were the plants sitting in the windows: potted fruit plants of all sorts, everywhere I turned. In one window was a potted pawpaw tree, in another a peach, then a guava, and still other fruits in other windows. Turning to go down the stairway from the uppermost floor, I came upon small pots of strawberries. (The floors themselves were broad expanses of polished wood, and furniture was sparse or absent.)

Most amazing was the shadow of a lush plant hanging in front of a shaded window.

Coming closer, I saw that the plant in the hanging basket was a grapevine: a compactgrowing one that was loaded with tight bunches of delicious ripe grapes.

Much of the dream is not far-fetched. True, I don’t live in a large, modernistic house of three stories. But some of my windows are, in fact, home to such edibles as bay laurel and rosemary. I even have some fruiting plants: tropical and subtropical ones such as Meiwa kumquat and Golden Nugget tangerine, rather than pawpaw, grape and other temperate-zone plants that need to experience winter.

A strawberry guava that I once grew gave me good harvest in late autumn. Kumquats ripen in early winter. I look forward to my first tangerine and Meyer lemon harvest.

Fruiting takes energy, so all these fruit plants sit near sunny windows. Indoor fruiting by a shaded window only works in dreamland.

In that same dream, I was in school. (I spent an inordinate number of years in school.) In the dream, I couldn’t keep track of my school assignments – even what classes I was taking or where. I was too preoccupied with caring for all those plants in all those windows at home.

It was good to wake up to a gardening lull.

– Lee Reich Any gardening questions? E-mail Lee at garden@leereich.com and he’ll try answering them directly or in his Almanac Weekly column. To read Lee’s previous “Gardener’s Notebook” columns, visit his garden at www.leereich.com/blog.

ing Syracuse/Siegel Duo, bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel. No cover or minimum! Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, 51 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-7969.

10pm Reggae Night. Featuring Queen Tubby spinning vintage vinyl every Wednesday starting at 10pm. No cover. Happy Hour from 6-8 pm.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

Town Hall. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed. com.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents.

More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-485-3445 x. 3423.

6:30am-8am Mysore Ashtanga Practice.

Intended to help you build a personal, self-led practice. A teacher is on hand to guide you along.

Meets every Mon-Thur, 6:30-8am. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

10am-2pm Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic. For previously spayed/neutered cats and dogs only. No appointment needed. Dogs must be leashed and cats in carriers. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org.

8am-9am Senior Feel Good Aerobics with Diane Collelo. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10am-11am Women’s Yoga with Cory Smith. A variation of Gentle Yoga, this is a sacred space for women to deepen their spiritual practice while enhancing their health and well-being. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

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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. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

9am-9:50am Qi Gong with Marilyn St. John.

Uses gentle movement and relaxation to circulate the life energy. All ages and fitness levels.

A reduced-price class. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $8.

9am-11:15am New Paltz Playspace. NPZ Town Rec Center, off of Rt 32, New Paltz. HudsonValleyParents.com.

9:30am-10:30am Senior Flex and Stretch with Diane Colello. Movement for balance and breath, weight-training for bone health, and mat work for flexibility and core strengthening. Woodstock

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

10am Reformed Church of Saugerties’ Adult Bible Study. Ongoing, every Thursday at 10 am. Current study: Book of Jeremiah. Everyone is welcome. Contact Lecia Siebeking for more information 845 246-5975. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Parish Hall, Saugerties.

11:15am-4pm Crystal Light Healing Bed sessions with energy healer Amrita Eiehm.

First Thursday of every month at Mirabai. Personally blessed by John of God, the Crystal Bed is a powerful healing modality that utilizes seven vogel cut crystals each aligned with a different chakra center, radiating light and energy in specif-

ic rhythms to realign, balance and synchronize the chakras to support spiritual and physical healing. Amrita received training with John of God himself in his Casa in Abadiania, Brazil and obtained his personal blessing to connect clients in the U.S. to the healing spirit guides at the Casa.

Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock.

Info: 845-679-2100. $75/1 hour healing session.

12:15pm-12:45pm Free Weekly Community Meditation. All are welcome for half-hour of silent sitting meditation. Drop-in attendance welcome. Cushions, back-jacks, and chairs available. Admission by donation. Education Annex of Wellness Embodied, 126 Main St, New Paltz. wellnessembodiedcenter.com/community-meditation.

1pm-4pm Senior Duplicate Bridge with John Stokes. The Woodstock Bridge Club offers a short lesson and a game of Duplicate Bridge. Woodstock Rescue Squad building, Route 212 Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Rescue Squad Community Room, 222 Tinker St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

2pm-5pm Mah Jongg. Open to beginners and seasoned players alike. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

3:30pm-4pm Free Step Class. A high energy class. Ongoing. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4pm Backgammon Club. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Open to the public. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia.

Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

4pm Free Fitness Class. Drop in for a workout on Mondays at 4:30 pm & Thursdays at 4pm.

Class will be an aerobic warm-up followed by a combination of band and body work. Instructed

by Connie Scuitto. Connie is an RN and certified Reiki Master. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties. Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Meditation Support Group.

Meets at Mirabai every Thursday. Walk-ins welcome, no registration necessary. Donation appreciated. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100.

5pm-6pm Sacred Movement and Alignment with Clyde Forth. We will work with postural alignments and their relationship to expressive movement and balance to build strength and increase mobility. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

5:15pm Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6pm-9pm Free Fly Tying Night at Anglers’ Den in Pawling. All experience levels welcome.

Feel free just to come hang out to If you plan on attending, we recommended that you call the shop or email prior to give us a heads up so we can best accommodate you! (845) 855- 5182. Anglers’ Den, 11 West Main St, Pawling. Info: 845-8555182, anglersden.net.

6pm-9pm First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series hosted by Maureen and Don Black.

Maureen and Don welcome Phil Miller and Betty Altman, Fran Palmieri and Friends, and Mark Brown to the Cafe stage. High Falls Cafe, 12 Stone Dock Road, High Falls. Info: 845-6872699, highfallscafe@earthlink.net, highfallscafe. com. Pass the hat.

6pm-7pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Ongoing. Free and open to the public. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale. Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

6pm Tasty Tunes Open Mic. Each musician gets to perform 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first) of family friendly music. Meets every Thursday night at 6pm. Sign up for musicians begins at 6pm. Show starts at 6:30pm. Taste Budd’s Cafe, 40 West Market St, Red Hook.

6pm First Thursday Book Club. Ongoing. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845 688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org/.

6:15pm Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

6:30pm-8pm Crystal Attunement Healing Circle with astrologer Mary Vukovic. First Thursday of every month. This is a free-form gathering and group crystal healing for likeminded individuals wishing to attune to the current energies for personal expansion. Topics include crystal communication, current astrological placements and subjects related to the ascension process. No registration required. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $10.

6:30pm-8pm STEPS OF MEDITATION. Free weekly classes. Learn the fundamentals for an effective meditation experience. Peace Village Retreat Center, 54 O’Hara Rd, Haines Falls.

Info: 518-589-5000, peacevillage@bkwsu.org, bkwsu.org.

6:30pm-9:30pm Astronomy Night. On the first and third Thursday of each month, Raj Pandya

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and Amy Bartholomew of the SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics & Astronomy offer a free planetarium show. Followed by telescope observing (when the sky is clear) at the Smolen Observatory to the entire community including the general public. Tickets for the planetarium shows are required. They are available one week prior to show time. Tickets are NOT required at the Smolen Observatory. SUNY New Paltz/John R. Kirk Planetarium / Smolen Observatory, New Paltz. Info: 845-257-3818, pandyar@newpaltz.edu.

7pm SIREN Baroque. The critically-acclaimed all-female baroque ensemble will offer a concert of rare ancient music. The concert will feature music composed by cloistered women during the 1600s in Europe. This rare glimpse into the often reverential, sometimes naughty inner worlds of these ancient women will be a sensual delight for audiences. Olive Free Library, 4033 Rte. 28A, West Shokan. Info: 845-657-2482, emailprograms@olivefreelibrary.org, olivefreelibrary. org. $15/suggested donation.

7pm-8:30pm Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney present The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People. “The Doulas” introduces a new generation of direct care workers who believe in transformation and unconditional support.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

7pm-8:30pm Free Holistic Self-Care Class: Organic Hair Care with Allison Demorest & Tina Betterton. Learn to make healthier choices in beauty, hair care & hair coloring products. See demonstrations of styling, smell & touch product samples. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: info@rvhhc.org, rvhhc.org.

7pm Winter Flight Nights. Enjoy 6 oz. Craft Beer Flights paired with Venison, Beef and Sausage Sliders. Enjoy at the Woodnotes Grille bar or cozied up next to a roaring fire on the deck or in the Great Room. $20 per pair! Woodnotes, Rt 28, Mt. Pleasant. Info: 845-688-2828, emersonresort.com.

7pm-11pm A Not Too OPEN MIC! Hosted by Ras T Asheber. Calling ALL Rappers, Poets, Story Tellers, Actors, Comedians, Singers and Players of Instruments, Every Thursday night, 8pm 11pm. Artists sign up 7pm - 8pm. For info call/ text 212-920-1221 or email showtime@gothamcitywork.com. No cover. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792814, thelodgewoodstockny@gmail.com, thelodgewoodstock.com/.

7:30pm-10:30pm Jazz @ the Station. Warm, intimate atmosphere. Peter Einhorn-guitar, Lou Pappas-Bass, feat: Veronica Nunn-vocals. Food & drink available. Station Bar and Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock.

7:30pm-9pm Weekly Thursday Nite EFT Healing Circle & Recovery Workshop. Bring your physical, emotional, & spiritual challenges and issues, and have them quickly, effectively resolved and healed in a safe supportive environment. Free, $5 donation welcome. All proceeds go directly to FOW. Ongoing. Family of Woodstock, 39 John St, Kingston. Info: 845 706-2183.

7:30pm Reading, Meditation & Discussion.

Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, 1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt. Tremper. Info: 845 679-8322, info@ matagiri.org.

8:30pm Bluegrass Clubhouse. Featuring Brian Hollander,Tim Kapeluk, Geoff Harden, Fooch, & Eric Weissberg. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-3484.

Friday

1/6

Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed. com.

7:45am-8:45am Low-Cost Dental Clinic. TARA now offers low-cost dental cleanings for those in need. This service is for previously spayed/ neutered dogs and cats only. TARA (The Animal Rights Alliance, Inc.), 60 Enterprise Place, Middletown, NY. Info: 845-343-1000, info@ tara-spayneuter.org, tara-spayneuter.org.

8am NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2017.

Tix: facebook.com/events/1806588486280791/.

Various locations, Main St, Beacon. Info: info@ thisisourmusiclive.com, winterjazzfest.com/. $45 for single day passes, $80 dollars for two-day passes (Jan.6th and 7th).

9:30am-10:30am Bliss Body Yoga with Linda Freeman. Gentle, Individualized and Therapeutic Yoga for your body and soul. Two locations offered: Classes Fridays and Sundays 9:3010:30am at Studio87-The Wellness House, 87 Liberty Street, Newburgh; and Wednesdays 9:15-10:15am at the New Paltz Community Center on Route 32 North in New Paltz. $10 drop in.

Linda Freeman is certified in Integrative Yoga Therapy. Visit http://www.blissbodyoga.com/ or 845-236-3939. Studio 87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

9:30am-11am Vinyasa Level I-II Yoga with Alison Sinatra. Ideal for students transitioning from beginner to intermediate. Asanas are explored with increasing detail and a slower, flowing sequence. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6

Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

9:45am-10:45am Senior Chi Kung with Corinne Mol. Meditative, healing exercise consisting of 13 movements. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

10:30am Pilates Equipment Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

11:30am-5:30pm Private Past Life Regression and Private Angelic Channeling with Margaret Doner. First Friday of every month. Mirabai Bookstore, 23 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2100. $125/90 minute session.

11:30am Gyrotonic Tower Class. Using natural body spinal movements to decompress and strengthen the spine. It emphasizes full mobility of the joints and lengthening of the fascia and skeletal system. Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

12:05pm-1pm Senior Basic Pilates with Christine Anderson. A floor work course promoting improvementof balance, coordination, focus, awareness breathing, strength and flexibility. Sponsored by Woodstock Senior Recreation and open to Woodstock residents 55 and older.

Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2880. $1 donation.

1pm-3:30pm New Bridge Group at Community Center. Free. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. Info: 617-308-9993.

4pm “Knit Wits” Knitting Club. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

4:30pm-5:30pm Lego Club. All ages, with parents. Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St, Phoenicia. Info: 845-688-7811, phoenicialibrary.org.

5:25pm Jessica Scott, Photographer. Hours: M, Tu 10-5:30, Wed 10-8, Thur 11-5, Fri 10-7, Sat 10-4, Sun closed. Info: 845-338-5580. Town of Esopus Library/Duck Pond Gallery, 128 Canal St, Port Ewen. Info: 845.331.2699, infotech@hvc. rr.com, esopuslibrary.org/.

5:30pm-7pm Restorative Yoga with Barbara Boris. Rejuvenating and supported postures that soothe the nervous system and alleviate tension.

Lots of props and dim lights. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

6pm Newburgh Beginner Swing Dance Series.

Friday Nights, four-week swing dance series: January 6, 13, 20, 27 and February 3, 10, 24 and March 3 with Linda and Chester Freeman, Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Beginner sessions 6-7pm, no experience or partner needed. Intermediate level 7-8pm. T $85 per person per fourweek series. Private lessons in swing and ballroom and for wedding couples available by appointment. For more information and to register visit got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939. Studio87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

6pm Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck. Spiritual Judaism in New Paltz: Kol Hai Jewish Renewal Shabbat Services. See website for details & location. New Paltz. kolhai.org.

6pm-9pm Nick From No Where. Featuring 40’s standards and covers. Vigneto’s, 890 Vineyard Ave, Highland. Info: 845-834-2828.

6:30pm Cathy Wilkerson What’s Next. A special evening for TSL Members only. For four decades, Cathy Wilkerson has worked with the NYC public schools, at New Visions for Public Schools, written curriculum for CUNY adult education, and taught at the New School and Bank Street College. She has presented talks about racism and ways of supporting communities of color.

Cathy has offered to talk to TSL’s members about the questions they could be asking themselves at this time and place. RSVP. Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St, Hudson. Info: 518-822-8100, fyi@timeandspace.org, timeandspace.org. $10.

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

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

7pm-9pm Who Was Ezekiel Cooper? Rev Alfred Day to speak about Ezekiel Cooper, one of the founders of Methodism in this country.

Will dispel rumors. New Paltz United Methodist Church, 1 Grove Street, New Paltz. Info: (845) 419-5063, sharon.jean.roth@gmail.com.

7pm-9pm Star Nation Sacred Circle. A not for skeptics discussion group concerning all things paranormal. Dedicated to acknowledging the extraterrestrial presence on earth. Bring a drink, snack to share & a comfortable lawn chair to sit under the stars afterwards for a UFO watch.

Center for Symbolic Studies, 475 River Rd. Ext, Tillson. Info: 845-331-2662, airstudio@aol.com, AirStudioGallery.com.

7pm-8:30pm Peter Aaron presents The Band FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana. Aaron digs deep to discuss different facets of The Band’s collective and individual stories that make The Band the fathers of Americana. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 8452558300, inquiringmind-

sevents@gmail.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. The Funk Junkies with Corey Glover. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. Dylan Doyle Band. Blues Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Friday Night Jazz. NYC 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 Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7pm Weekly Senior Citizen’s Bingo. Seniors 50 and older. Ongoing every Wednesday at 1:30pm & Friday at 7pm. 50/50 tickets available at 3 tickets/$2. Half-time complementary refreshments. Shawangunk Valley Senior Center, Southwyck Square, 70 Main St, Napanoch. Info: 845 647-3902. $1.

8pm Community Playback Theatre. Audience stories brought to life onstage. See your story improvised! Contact Betty MacDonald. Info: 845-883-0392. Boughton Place,, 150 Kisor Rd, Highland. Info: 845-691-4118. $10/donation.

Saturday

1/7

Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement.

The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-2558212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed. com.

8am-1pm Talk: Eva Hesse, film w/producer.

EVA HESSE film + post-screening discusson w/ producer Karen Shapiro Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. Info: 845 416 7509, steve.leiber@gmail.com, upstatefilms. org/coming-soon/eva-hesse. $12/gen adm, $10/ seniors.

8am-6pm CatskillMercantile.com Online Shopping Hub. CatskillMercantile.com officially launches this month with an online shopping hub featuring products inspired by the Catskill and Adirondack regions of NY State. With the innumerable events, activities and attractions during the weekend, there can be limited time to shop. An increasing number of visitors are looking to the web for gifts and souvenirs that can be ordered online and delivered direct to their home. Today, Almanac Weekly readers receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”. Available Saturdays & Sundays through 1/22. receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”.

8am NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2017.

Tix: facebook.com/events/1806588486280791/.

Various locations, Main St, Beacon. Info: info@ thisisourmusiclive.com, winterjazzfest.com/. $45 for single day passes, $80 dollars for two-day passes (Jan.6th and 7th).

8:30am-9:30am Vinyasa Yoga with Laura Olson. A fast-paced vinyasa flow class that works up a nice sweat while keeping things light and fun. Great for kickstarting the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

9am-4pm Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Renewal Course. This course is a recertification for the PALS course. You must be certified in PALS to take this abridged course. Course completion results in a two-year PALS certification card from the American Heart Association. You will need to complete a pre-course assessment in the text prior to class. Current AHA PALS textbook required. Preregistration and payment are required. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-475-9742. $125, $165 with text.

9am-12pm Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store. Not-for-profit thrift selling clothing for children/adults, household items, jewelry, games/ toys. No furniture. Comforter Cobblestone Thrift Store, 26 Wynkoop Pl, Kingston. Info: 845-3386126, comfortercobblestonethrift26@gmail.com.

9am-9:50am Maintaining Wellness Tai Chi. With certified instructor Jing. 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month 9-9:50am (Introductory movements) & 10-10:50am (Different themes). For all levels. Minimum donation is $5. New Paltz Community Center, 3 Veterans Dr, New Paltz. elegantevidence.com.

9am Saugerties’ Christian Meditation. Meets every Saturday, 9am. All welcome. No charge.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Rt 9W, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-3285.

9am Pilates Equipment Group Class. A full body work out! Core stability and strengthening, full upper body and lower body program, classical and contemporary Pilates exercises.

Ulster Pilates, 32 Broadway, Kingston. Info: 845 658-2239, ulsterpilates.com.

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

10am QSY Society Amateur Radio Club’s

20 January Meeting. Feel free to bring any projects, items for show & tell or swap & sell, and questions you may have on any aspect of ham radio. They’ll do their best to get you an answer then and there.

The public is welcome to attend. Social half-hour begins at 10am, meeting begins at 10:30am. East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Route 376, Hopewell Junction. Info: 914-582-3744, n2skp@ arrl.net, qsysociety.org.

10am-12pm Winter Animal Tracking. Join naturalist/tracking specialist Julie Seyfert-Lillis for a memorable morning of animal tracking.

All ages are welcome as you search for clues left behind by animals ranging from bears to mink.

Tracks, scat, tree markings, dens, and kill sites are all things you’ll search out and discuss. The event is free and open to the public. The best footwear are waterproof winter boots. Thorn Preserve, 55 John Joy Road, Woodstock. woodstocklandconservancy.org.

10am-4pm Storewide Sale of All Fiction Books Kicks Off 2017. A storewide sale of all fiction, including science fiction, romance and children’s. All hard cover fiction, including children’s and young adult titles will be priced at 50 cents each, trade or oversized paperbacks at 25 cents, and standard paperbacks at 10 cents.

More than 20,000 books will be available on the store’s shelves in a wide variety of other categories including history, cookbooks, military, travel and others will be available at their regular prices of $2 or less. A selection of individually priced special books are also available. Friends of the Poughkeepsie Library Book Store, 141 Boardman Rd. - Store is at the back of the building, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-485-3445 x. 3423.

10am Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck. Spiritual Judaism in New Paltz: Kol Hai Jewish Renewal Shabbat Services. See website for details. Woodland Pond at New Paltz/ Performing Arts Center, New Paltz. kolhai.org.

10am-12pm Saturday Social Circle. This group is for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, you are welcome to join.

New Baby New Paltz, 264 Main St, New Paltz.

Info: 845-255-0624, newbabynewpaltz@yahoo. com, newbabynewpaltz.com.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level I. For students new to Iyengar, the basis of the method is taught in standing poses. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10am-12pm Knitting Group. Stone Ridge Library, 3700 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: 845 687-7023, stoneridgelibrary.org/.

10am-9pm Candlewax Recycling Drop-off.

Candlewax in any condition to be recycled.

Ongoing. Pachamama Store (near food court), Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston.

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

Cornell St PO, Kingston. Info: 845 399-2805.

11am-1pm Teen Gaming. 3 computers with League of Legends installed. Bring your own laptop. Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen. Info: 845-338-5580, organizedmode@gmail.com, esopuslibrary.org.

11am-4pm Winter Olana Tour. Friday-Sunday, first tour 11 am, last tour 3 pm. Olana, 5720 St Rt 9G, Hudson. olana.org.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment.

Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845-234-3204 or 845-416-8342, bannermancastle.org.

12pm-1pm Free Yoga Pizza Party. Join Women’s Power Space and My Place Pizza for a rejuvenating yoga class and pizza. Families, beginners, and children welcome (mats will be provided).

Donations appreciated. Ongoing. My Place Pizza, 322 Main St, Poughkeepsie. sarah@womenspowerspace.org.

12:45pm-1:30pm New Paltz Women in Black Vigil for Peace. Held in front of the Elting Library, corner of Main and North Front Streets.

Vigil is in its 15th year of standing for peace and justice. New Paltz.

1pm-5pm Voice Journey: Vibration as Meditation, Medicine, and Magic with Stephanie Rooker. Together we learn to use our voices to shift mood and mind state. No previous singing experience necessary. Free. Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main St, Stone Ridge. Info: info@rvhhc.org, rvhhc.org.

1pm The MET: Live In HD:Nabucco. Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character. Ticket holders are invited to a preopera talk by Leslie Gerber 30 minutes prior to curtain time in the theater. Bardavon, 35 Market St, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-473-2072, bardavon. org. $28, $20/12 & under.

1pm Sit and Knit. Bring a project or start a new one while sitting on the comfy couches in the Information Room window area. Meets every Saturday at 1 pm. All are welcome. Saugerties

ALMANAC WEEKLY Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845 246-4317, saugertiespubliclibrary.org.

2pm-5pm Kakizome. A Japanese cultural program celebrating the traditional first calligraphy writing of the New Year. Arts Mid-Hudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845-454-3222, artsmidhudson.org.

2pm-4pm Hudson Area Library Presents A Bengali Cultural Celebration. Bangladeshi poetry, song, dance, & samples of authentic food.

Free admission. Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson. Info: 518-828-1792, brenda. shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org, hudsonarealibrary.org/.

2pm Lighting the Lighthouse. Frank Almquist will present an illuminating talk on the history of lighthouse lighting from candles to modern LED lamps. His talk will include information about the Fresnel lens, the lens that was ultimately used in almost all lighthouses to provide a strong light beam for ship navigation. Frank uses illustrations and images to shine a light on this fascinating subject. Free and open to anyone who is interested in history. The talk will be cancelled if the Library is closed for inclement weather.

Check with the Library or go to the Friends of Historic Saugerties FaceBook page. Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Ave, Saugerties.

Info: 845-246-4317.

2pm Free Meditation Instruction. Held in the Amitabha Shrine Room. 60-minute class requires no previous meditation experience. On-going.

Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-7pm Opening Reception: Four Generations. Art making by four generations of one family. Show exhibits through 1/14, every day 12-4pm. Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, WARWICK. Info: 707-236-5775, amitygallery110@ gmail.com, amitygallery110.wordpress.com.

4pm The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People, Mary Mahoney & Lauren Mitchell. As more feminism migrates online, full-spectrum doulas remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships. The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock. Info: 845 679 8000, info.goldennotebook@gmail.com, goldennotebook.com/ event/mary-mahoney-and-lauren-mitchell-doulas.

6pm-7:30pm Peter Aaron presents The Band FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana. Aaron digs deep to discuss different facets of The Band’s collective and individual stories that make The Band the fathers of Americana. Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845-2558300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

6pm-8pm Katherine Mojzsis, “Shapes Effect,” Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY. Katherine Mojzsis, Paintings at John Davis Gallery in January. John Davis Gallery, 124 Warren Street, Hudson. Info: 5188285907, art@ johndavisgallery.com, johndavisgallery.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover. Rock. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. George Boone Blues Band. Blues. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Homophobia, Transphobia and Misogyny LGBT Issues. The civil rights of the transgender community are being affirmed, but the backlash has been intense. What’s going on? How does the controversy about LGBT rights, especially the rights of transgender women, reflect our society’s view of women in general? How is our cultural misogyny shaping the conversation about LGBT issues? What do terms such as gender identity and gender expression mean? And what’s the big deal about bathrooms? - A community conversation, facilitated by Drew Herzig. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham.

Info: 518-766-2992, oldchathamquakers.org.

7pm Saturday Night Jazz. NYC 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 Lew Scott & Rich Syracuse. Other musicians regularly sit in with the band. Kindred Spirits, 334 Rt 32A, Palenville.

Info: 518 678-3101.

7:15pm-10pm Saturday Night Jazz and Latin Dance. Featuring George Leary, Harvey Kaiser & Elliot Steel. No Cover. Station Bar and Curio, 101 Tinker St, Woodstock.

7:30pm-10:30pm Holiday Swing Dance. Kingston, 1st Saturday, Special Ring In the Holiday Swing Dance with the Swing Shift Orchestra. $15 admission includes basic lesson at 7:30pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Also, Swing Dance on February 4 same location and time DJ dance til 10:30pm. $10 admission. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. For more info visit got2lindy.com or call 845-236-3939. MAC Fitness, 743 East Chester (Rt 9W), Kingston.

Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

7:30pm Hudson Valley English Country Dance. Caller: Judi Rivkin. Band: Tiddley Pom:

December 29, 2016

Stewart Dean on concertina, Sue Polansky on clarinet, Katie Jeannotte on piano and others.

Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Salem Road, Port Ewen. Info: 845 679-8587. $10/adults, $5/ students.

show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon – 5pm and weekdays by chance and appointment.

Bannerman Island Gallery (BIG), 150 Main St, Beacon. Info: 845-234-3204 or 845-416-8342, bannermancastle.org.

10pm Dance Party. Featuring DJ Majic Juan.

Every Saturday night. Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-6792814, lodgewoodstock.com.

12:30pm-3pm Newburgh - Create Your Life / Create Your Year Workshop. With Linda Freeman, plan your perfect year and learn how to make it happen! Sliding scale $25-$45 per person. 12:30-3pm. For more information and to register visit got2lindy.com or 845-236-3939.

Studio 87 The Wellness House, 87 Liberty St, Newburgh. Info: 845-236-3939, got2lindy.com.

Sunday

1/8

Vinyasa Yoga. Experience a flow between postures connecting breath with each movement. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Health Center, 521 Main St. (rt. 299), New Paltz. Info: 845-255-8212, contact@thelivingseed.com, thelivingseed.com.

8am JBNHS Wallkill Valley Raptors. Join Christine Guarino for a minimal walk on this popular roadside trip between New Paltz and Wallkill.

Wintering raptors and waterfowl as well as half hardies will be the focus on this outing. Free. RSVP - chrissy.guarino@gmail.com. Info: info@jbnhs. org, http://www.jbnhs.org.

8am-6pm CatskillMercantile.com Online Shopping Hub. CatskillMercantile.com officially launches this month with an online shopping hub featuring products inspired by the Catskill and Adirondack regions of NY State. With the innumerable events, activities and attractions during the weekend, there can be limited time to shop. An increasing number of visitors are looking to the web for gifts and souvenirs that can be ordered online and delivered direct to their home. Today, Almanac Weekly readers receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”. Available Saturdays & Sundays through 1/22. receive a 10% discount off your purchase. Use coupon code “ALMANAC”.

8:30am-4pm American Heart Association Friends & Family CPR AED Course. The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the life-saving skills of adult Hands-Only® CPR, child CPR with breaths, adult and child automated external defibrillator use, infant CPR with breaths and relief of choking in an adult, child or infant. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment by using the AHA’s research-proven, practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible. This course is NOT suitable for community professions that require a CPR certification card. Preregistration is required as class size is limited. Text included.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

Info: 845-475-9742. $35.

8:30am-9:30am Yoga Workout with Terry Fister. For those who want to get up and go on a Sunday morning. Combines traditional asanas with modern core exercises. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-6798700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com, woodstockyogacenter.com.

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. Karma Triyiana Dharmachakra, 335 Meads Mountain Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-5906, jan@kagyu.org.

10am Behind the Scenes Winter Tours. Join us for the first ever Winter Tours at the Thomas Cole Site for a sneak preview into the installation of the Parlors Project. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring St, Catskill. Info: 5189437465, eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-scenes-wintertours-tickets-30223910530. $10.

10am-2pm Sunday Brunch @ The Falcon Main Stage. Times Square: Classic A Cappella Doo Wop. DooWop. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon. com.

10am Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Animal Tracks & Traces. Search for clues that tell the tale of who lives in the forest and what they do during the winter. Learn to identify common animal tracks and signs, plus make a plaster animal track casting to take home! Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall. Info: 845-5345506, x204, hhnm.org. $7, $5/child.

10am-11:30am Iyengar Yoga Level II with Barbara Boris. For students who are wellpracticed in Iyengar Level I. Taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

10:30am-12:30pm Meditation Practice at Sky Lake Shambhala Retreat Center. Sitting and walking meditation with short teaching and discussion from Pema Chodron books or video.

Free and open to the public. Ongoing. Sky Lake Meditation Center, 22 Hillcrest Ln, Rosendale.

Info: 845 658-8556, skylake.shambhala.org.

11am Barry Scheinfeld & Friends Jazz Brunch.

Dancing Cat Saloon @ Catskill Distilling Company, 2037 Rte. 17B, Bethel. Info: 845-5833141, dancingcatsaloon.com.

11am-12pm Conversations over Coffee. An open forum for discussions and opinions of topics relevant to the world around us. The Crafted Kup, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: (845) 242-6546, cocpoughkeepsie@gmail.com, facebook.com/ConversationsOverCoffee/.

12pm-5pm Winter Holiday Art Exhibition.

Presented by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. and Bannerman Island Gallery. Show will exhibit through 1/29. The exhibition will be a small works art show. Gallery Hours for the duration of the

1pm Hudson River Maritime Museum Sunday Series For Children. The general public can attend the program with the purchase of a regular price museum admission. In this first series, the museum will host activities themed around the ice harvesting industry. There will be a story time reading of Candace Christiansen’s picture book The Ice Horse, and a science experiment comparing modern and historic methods of insulation to demonstrate how people could harvest ice in the winter and keep it from melting all year long.

Kids will be able to compare ice harvesting tools pictured in The Ice Horse with real-life artifacts from the museum’s collections. Snacks and hot cocoa will be served. Advance RSVP is requested: education@hrmm.org. Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston. Info: 845-338-0071, hrmm.org.

1pm Sunday Football Brunch. Happy Hour begins from 6-8pm. No cover for this event.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

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

1pm-3pm Pallet Puppet Theatre offers Spanish Puppet Lesson. Ongoing on Sundays, 1-3pm. Materials for kids provided. The Green Palette,Medusa Antique Center Building, 215 Main St, New Paltz.

1:30pm-3:30pm Elting Library Scrabble Club.

Ages 18 & up please. All levels of play welcome.

Scrabbles sets provided. Meets in the Study Room. Elting Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, New Paltz. Info: 845-255-5030 ext. 2, eltinglibrary.org.

2pm-4:30pm CFD Death Cafe with Presentation. Free. Zen Mountain Monastery, 871 Plank Rd, Mount Tremper. Info: 845-339-2526.

2pm Sunday Salons: Reinventing Thomas Cole’s Home. Elizabeth Jacks, Alan Wallach, Nancy Siegel. Tickets for the Salons range from $10-12 and tickets for the Winter Tours are $10.

Winter Tours: 1:00 & 3:30pm. thomascole.org/ events. $12.

3pm-6:30pm Swing Dance. Swing to the Bernstein Bard Quartet. Spend a cold afternoon with some hot dancers having fun! Arlington Reformed Church, 22 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie. Info: 845 679-8587, hncd.dance. $12, or $8 for students.

3pm-5pm LGBTQ Task Force to Undo Mass Incarceration and Institutional Racism.

Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St, Kingston. Info: 845-797-7691.

3pm Sunday Silents: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Two silent films, The Doll and The Oyster Princess, directed by the famous Ernst Lubitsch, will be shown, accompanied by Marta Waterman’s original piano music. Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St, Rosendale. Info: 845-6588989, info@rosendaletheatre.org, rosendaletheatre.org. $7.

3pm Woodstock Ultimate Disc. Ongoing games -Sundays at 3pm. A free, casual, co-ed pickup game. Athletic Fields, 98 Comeau Dr, Woodstock.

WoodstockUltimate.org.

3:30pm-7:30pm Journey Blue Heaven & The Woodstockers. Harmony Café @ Wok ‘n Roll, 50 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock. Info: 845 679-3484.

4pm-5:30pm Fran Wishnick presents Craig Climbed a Tree: His Lifelong Struggle. Craig Climbed a Tree, challenges us to improve how to support and treat the strangers, friends, and families who have difficulties. Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties. Info: 845-255-8300, inquiringmindsevents@gmail.com.

4pm-6pm Woodstock Community Drum Circle. Sponsored by Birds of a Feather and Timekeeper Drums. Broadcast on Woodstock 104 at 8pm. All drummers, dancers are welcome.

Meets every Sunday, 4-6pm. Admission is free, donations appreciated. Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock.

5pm-6:30pm Restorative Yoga with Kate Hagerman. A gentle, supportive practice designed to bring stillness to the body and mind.

A perfect way to wrap up the weekend. Woodstock Yoga Center, 6 Deming St, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-8700, woodstockyogacenter@gmail. com, woodstockyogacenter.com. $18.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Underground. DeadGrass. Jerry Garcia. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

7pm Live @ The Falcon Main Stage. Tisziji Muñoz Quartet with John Medeski. Interplanetary Jazz. The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro.

Info: 845-236-7970, liveatthefalcon.com.

8pm Live Latin Jazz. Every Sunday! Happy Hour begins from 6-8pm. No cover for this event.

Woodstock Lodge, 20 Country Club Ln, Woodstock. Info: 845-679-2814, lodgewoodstock.com.

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Please send letters of interest to serve voluntarily on the Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Commission for Civic Design, Ethics Board, Comeau Stewardship Advisory Committee or Woodstock Environmental Commission. Letters or emails of interest should be addressed to the Town Clerk’s Office, 45 Comeau Drive, Woodstock NY 12498 or jearley@woodstockny.org Market Manager for the Woodstock Farm Festival. Guide the upcoming season (our 10th anniversary!) of the Farm Fest. Position requires attendance at Weds market

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a full-time position. Must have own transportation. Most jobs within 45 minutes of Kingston. Email: hugh@hnibuilders.com please include employment history and a phone number in correspondence. Background check required.

Ricci’s Barber Shop in New Paltz is looking for FULL-TIME help. Must know how to do flat tops and skin fades. Must be a responsible reliable worker. Call Kristina 845594-8805 or Ricci 845-849-4501.

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Call or text Joan at 845-594-1946 or email info@woodstockfarmfestival.com

DEAR BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN- We at Hardscrabble Flea Market & Swap Meet would like to congratulate you on being picked from over 100 businesses in your 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.

And, if you have leftover merchandise you’d like to sell- this would be a perfect way to unload it. Please give John a call for more details- (845)758-1170. Spots are $12-$35.

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As a KidsPeace foster parent, you can make all the difference in the life of a child. fostercare.com 845-331-1815 200 Aaron Court Kingston, NY 12401 We respect our clients’ privacy. The models represented in this publication are for illustrative purposes only and in no way represent or endorse KidsPeace. © 2015 KidsPeace.

Facilities Maintenance.

Supervisor **McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 5th on the Fortune 500 list, is hiring a Facilities Maintenance Supervisor and a Facilities Maintenance Technician for their brand new distribution center in Montgomery, NY. For details, or to apply online, please go to https://careers.mckesson.com/ Full-Time Carpenter Position. Seeking experienced Carpenter to join our family.

Looking for a good fit for our crew. This is

STU’S CAR SERVICE. Whose car determines the pay. Airports are our specialty.

Always ready to get you there. Doesn’t matter when or where. I drive the miles your way with smiles. Going to LaGuardia Airport? There is limited parking. Call Stu’s Car Service for prices. Cell- 845-649-5350; stu@hvc.rr.com Look for me on Facebook.

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Chess Lessons. My name is William Kane.

I am a chess expert offering private lessons in-person or via Skype. For more details, contact me at willykane@gmail.com

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.

NEW PALTZ: 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT at Village Arms. Top floor end unit w/view. Hardwood floors, A/C. Asking $115,000. Maintenance= $323/month. Call owner/broker at 845-594-4433.

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Two Separate Rooms available in a lovely Victorian building in New Paltz. All utilities and WiFi included. $415/ & $450/month.

(845)255-0559.

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EFFICIENCY: UTILITIES INCLUDED. No pets. No smoking. Country setting. Quiet. Available now. 5 miles from New Paltz.

Call 845-883-0072.

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THE GRAND HOTEL Opened in 1881, built by the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, and operated for 82 years in Highmount NY. It was destroyed by fired in 1972. Today, nestled in the heart of the Catskill Mountains and built on the same Knollatop Monka Knoll, was The Owl’s Nest Inn looking out across the valley towards Belleayre Ski Center and the outlying reaches of Ulster & Delaware Counties. Much of the main building has been renovated during the past few years. It’s just 2.5 hours from the Tri-State metropolitan area. The owner operated it as an Inn with some suites and 7 efficiency units. Hunter & Windham Mtns. are within 40 minutes. There are wonderful restaurants, playhouses, galleries, breweries and boutiques nearby. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity in this bucolic location. Call William St. John or Norm Jette ....................................$2,250,000

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday, either staying at home or visiting family & friends.

I know 2017 is going to be interesting. My wife Siddie and I enjoyed the holidays in Florida, but I am back to the Hudson Valley, and I feel like getting right down to business. Usually, during this time of year, things are a bit slow, but my agents work very hard to bring in NEW listings to show you.

I have listed just a few to get your blood warming. Take a read and give us a call. Happy New Year to Wi you all! nM or

CIR. 1900 2-STORY HOME This area in the Town of Ulster called “East Kingston” where Kingston NY housed the brick & cement making industry and many ice houses. East Kingston in earlier times was referred to as Flatbush. Originally named by the Esopus Indians, VlakkeBasch was the Dutch name. Frank Simpson has brought us this 2-story, 3-bedroom and 1½ bath home. The property and home are being sold “as is.” St. Colmans church was built in 1874, in the early 20th century, this home was used by the church for meetings and a Sunday School. There are updates to the windows, the roof and the gas heater too. There are many possibilities to this home.

Call Frank Simpson for more details! ..........................................................$105,000

COME SEE THIS IMPECCABLE HOME! Only 1.5 miles to downtown Woodstock NY, in move-in condition and sited on a 1-Acre lot. Custom-built by a Stonemason,the 4-bedroom with 3½ baths home shows his quality workmanship. Enjoy the warmth of the large, bluestone fireplace in the open living/dining areas.

Cook up your favorite meals in the fully equipped kitchen and the sliding glass doors give access to a big 12x35-ft deck. The hot tub will warm your soul and the central air will cool you off in the warmer months. A large Great Room makes a terrific spot to entertain, or just hang-out with the family. Another spacious area for the family is the fully finished and carpeted basement area. The garage has its own outside entrance and would be ideal as guest quarters, or an Air B&B rental. Call Norm Jette ..$438,000 THE POSTAGE INN IS FOR SALE! This Turn Key Restaurant is on busy Route 32, near the Hamlet of Rosendale, located in Tillson NY. The Restaurant/bar offers an expansive 5,000+ sf of large open dining areas, a cozy bar with a cocktail lounge and a well-equipped kitchen. The bar has 13 stools, the total occupancy in the lounge is for 45 people and the massive 37 x 44 main dining room has occupancy for 165 people. Just off the banquet room is a nice outdoor deck with a canopy for yearround events and dining. The property offers 2-large parking lots and an open lawn. Call Greg Berardi for more information! ...............................................................$695,000

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Kingston 845.339.1144 / Woodstock 845.679.2929 & 845.679.9444 / Saugerties 845.246.3300 HIGHLAND: 2-BEDROOM upstairs end unit. $1150/month. Heat & hot water included. Freshly painted. New carpet. Private, quiet neighborhood. On-site parking.

Next to Lloyd Town Hall, near Rt. 9W. Minutes to Poughkeepsie Bridge, Metro North, Rt. 9 & hospitals. 1 month security. No smoking. 845-453-0047.

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The Ridge at New Paltz: Energy-Star 2-bedroom unit. Private entry leads into open-floor plan. Kitchen includes gas range, dishwasher, microwave & refrigerator. Living room w/sliding patio doors onto private deck, fireplace, ceramic tiled entry, kitchen & bath, washer/dryer connection, large windows & walk-in closet.

Quiet country setting. Walking distance to village. Security & references required. No pets.

No smoking. $1450/month plus utilities. 845255-5047 or debbie@seakill.com

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!

“Now accepting credit cards! Move in & pay your security and deposit with your credit or debit card with no additional fees!”

Call 845-255-7205 for more information

NEW PALTZ GARDENS APARTMENTS

21A Colonial Dr., New Paltz. 1 & 2 BR apts.

Pets welcome! No security deposit option.

3-12 month leasing terms. Pool, laundry on site.

845-255-6171 SOUTHSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS offers semester leases for Spring 2017 and short-term for the Summer! Furnished studios, one & two bedrooms, includes heat & hot water. Recreation facilities. Walking distance to campus and town. 845-255-7205.

NICE UNFURNISHED ROOMS; Starting at $480/month. Excellent location.

Close to SUNY college. All utilities included. Call 845-419-2568, leave message.

ROOM FOR RENT. Can be used as residential or an office. $550/month plus security. Utilities included. Walking distance to everything. (845)664-0493.

2-BEDROOM APARTMENT, second floor. Wood floors, newly renovated, full bath, great light. 1870s barn. $1300/ month includes all except WiFi & electric.

No dogs, cats, indoor smoking. Available 1/15/17. 5 minutes by car outside village.

Please call 845-255-5355 or text 256-8160.

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Ridge Rentals

Near Rosendale, efficiency apartment, suitable for 1 person. Quiet park-like setting with pond on beautiful Shawangunk Ridge with hiking trails at your door. $725/month with utilities. First, last and security. Non-smoker. No pets. 845-6589332

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Kingston/ Hurley/Port Ewen Rentals

3-Bedroom, 1 bath Cape, Hurley. 5 minutes from NYC bus. On approx. 1-acre, situated back from road. Large back yard.

Screened-in front porch w/storm windows. Newly refinished hardwood oak floors, remodeled bathroom, walls & ceilings painted within last year. Upgraded furnace w/baseboard heat. Full basement that could easily be finished living space. $1500/month plus utilities. First, last, security. Background check, references and past rental history required. No dogs. Call 845-401-6637 or e-mail: watswill8@ aol.com Check hudsonvalley.craigslist. org/apa/5897306880.html 1-BEDROOM/STUDIO, Kingston Uptown. On bus route, walk to Stockade area, shopping, conveniences. No smoking or pets. Heat & hot water provided.

Security & references required. Call 845338-4574.

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Rhinebeck/Red Hook Rentals

1-BEDROOM GUEST COTTAGE, Rhinebeck. Kitchen, dining, living room, laundry, deck, carport. No pets/smoking. $950/ month plus utilities. Rental application, references, 1-year lease, first, last & security deposit. 845-392-3682 or 845-453-8562.

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Woodstock: 3-Bedroom Unfurnished House for rent in village. Quiet side street. 3-bedrooms, full bath, stainless kitchen appliances, working fireplace, front yard, veg garden, shed. $2250/ mo. Text/call 845.807.1233.

COTTAGE. 2 miles to the center of town of Woodstock. Large windows.

Full bathroom. Wood floors. Furnished. Beautiful plantings & grounds, big trees. Walk to Bear Cafe. On 2.5 acres of land. $700/month plus utilities. Owner/broker, call Mike 845417-5282 .

Woodstock: Lovely 1-BR in quiet, small apartment complex, beautiful grounds. Immaculately maintained!

Hardwood floors, newly painted. 16 min. walk to village of Woodstock. $885/month includes all utilities.

NO smoking. NO pets. References.

(845)679-9717.

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HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259.

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HAVE A DEAD TREE..... CALL ME! Dietz Tree Service Inc. Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding. Seasoned Firewood for Sale. (845)255-7259.

Residential, Municipalities.

CREEKSIDE STUDIO APARTMENT .

Walking distance to Woodstock & bus route. $525/month utilities not included. References required. Please call or *text preferred 845-594-9257.

ULSTER FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

HOUSE TO SHARE, WILLOW: 15 minutes to Woodstock. On horse farm by stream. Beautiful Victorian house w/antiques. Bedroom w/private deck. $650/month. 845-679-6590.

Getwood123@gmail.com We accept cash, checks, & credit cards.

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New & Used Books

Books Wanted. Barner Books buys quality used, rare, and out of print books wanted. Cash for your books and related goods (typewriters, maps, pens etc). Visit the store (3 Church Street, New Paltz), email us barnerbooks@ gmail.com , or call, 845-255-2635 .

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HONDA 2-STAGE 28” SNOWBLOWER , 2014, Excellent, lightly used condition. Gasoline engine, fuel gauge, work light, hydrostatic track drive, infinite speed adjustment, electric start, 3-position height adjustment, storage cover. Original Owner. $1995. Pick-up Glenford. 845-657-6224.

Firewood for Sale . $220 for 1 cord OR $160 for a Pick-up Truckload. Local delivery. Call 658-8766 or 845-706-7197.

Log Length- Cut & Split Firewood.

Top quality wood at reasonable prices.

914-388-9607 www.getwood123.com You will not be disappointed!!

Firewood for Sale . $220 for 1 cord OR $160 for a Pick-up Truckload. Local delivery. Call 658-8766 or 845706-7197.

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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 BOTTOM LINE... I pay the HIGHEST PRICES for old furniture, ANTIQUES of every description. Paintings, lamps, rugs, porcelain, bronzes, silver, etc. One item to entire contents. House calls & free appraisals.

Richard Miller Antiques (Est. 1972).

(845)389-7286.

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NEW PALTZ — SLEEK AND STYLISH RANCH Located in a quiet neighborhood just minutes from the happening Village of New Paltz. No expense has been spared in shining up this spacious brick ranch with brightly lit Open Floor plan. Freshly painted and squeaky clean this lovingly prepared home has a new roof, 5 year young furnace, new wood floors throughout, new appliances, Master Bedroom Suite, standby generator, and central air. Your new home is move in ready. Enjoy the seasonal mountain views from your tree house, deck or just lounge in the gazebo. There is a full height basement, potential recreation room, with endless possibilities for play, studio or hobbies. The location is ideal for commuters, just minutes from the I87, NYC bus, Rosendale, New Paltz, Wallkill Valley Rail Tail and Mohonk Preserve. Asking ... $249,500

SCRATCH THE SURFACE! In Real Estate, it’s often what’s NOT obvious which is most important - what’s behind that wall, what’s going on down the road, what’s happening in that town.

With over 35 years of recognized Real Estate success, Westwood agents have the skills, strategies and deep knowledge of all local markets that you need to make informed decisions about your significant property investments. Savvy buyers and sellers know that Westwood is the smart choice for Real Estate success.

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ENCHANTING WOODSTOCK - Storybook style antique clapboard 2 story with all the right stylish modern updates just steps to town center. Super charming interior features hewn beams, wide board floors, stone floored entry, open plan LR/DR with cozy stone fireplace, main level BR + 2 more upstairs, 2 full baths, den or home office, crisp modern kitchen w/ custom cabinets, detached garage, too! Level yard borders small stream. ..............$425,000

NEW PALTZ FARMHOUSE W/ POOL! - Perfectly sited on 7+ acres down a tree lined drive with coveted majestic Mohonk VIEWS! Classic center stair Colonial style farmhouse c. 1840 offers graciously proportioned 3600 SF. Featuring gleaming HW & wideboard floors throughout, living & dining rooms with cozy fireplaces, 5 BRs, 3 full baths, EI kitchen, screened porch, det. garage PLUS in ground POOL for summer fun! .....................................................$479,000

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Actively Seeking Gold and Silver of any kind, Sterling, Flatware & Jewelry.

Furniture, Antiques through Mid-Century.

We Gladly do House Calls. Free Appraisals.

We also do Estate/Tag Sales.

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NEW PALTZ GEM - Handsome Farmhouse Colonial offers a calm 2.5 acre oasis just minutes to vibrant New Paltz village. Gracious 2900 SF floor plan perfect for entertaining & casual country living. Features include 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, LR with cozy fireplace, formal dining room, family/media room, updated appliances in country EI kitchen, deck, full basement, garage PLUS expansive bonus room perfect for studio/crafts or home office. ..............$489,000

PONDSIDE PERFECTION - 16 ACRE sanctuary w/ ¾ acre spring-fed POND encloses this cedar & stone sided country contempo. It’s the perfect retreat! The sunwashed open plan features walls of windows, 2 cozy wood-burners, pine & slate floors, main level MBR + 2 more BRs up, 2 full baths, open kitchen w/ SS appliances & granite counters, vaulted & beamed ceilings, den/home office, wrap decking, patios, gardens & dipping pool, too! ......................... $475,000

www.westwoodrealty.com New Paltz 255-9400

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Come take a look at this completely renovated 4 BR, 2 bath Cape! Beautiful new kitchen with stainless appliances, granite counter tops, 2 brand new baths with blue tooth, new roof, 2 new garage doors. There is nothing to do here! Hardwood floors throughout, 2 nicely sized BRs downstairs as well as two upstairs.

Think about those cold snowy winter evenings that are on their way, you can pull right into your garage and up a couple steps and there you are in your nice warm home away from the elements! There is a fully fenced in yard & a full basement that can easily be finished for extra space! $239,900

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GBM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. Professional Moving and Delivery.

Residential/Commercial. Local and N.Y.C. Metro areas. N.Y.S. Dot T 12467, Shandaken, N.Y. Call 845-688-2253.

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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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OIL PAINTING RESTORATION. Cleaned, relined, retouched, refinished. Also frames & wood sculptures repaired. Call Carol (845)687-7813.

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The American Dream can be yours in this lovely 4 BR, 2.5 bath Brick Faced Colonial, situated in one of the most private neighborhoods Kingston has to offer. Beautiful entry foyer spacious living room & dining room with hardwood flooring throughout the house.

Kitchen complete with brandnew stainless appliances! Family room conveniently located off the kitchen with wood burning fireplace, perfect to cozy up and have a glass of wine.

2 car attached garage walks right into mud/ laundry room. $289,700

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

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Interior Painting & Staining, Sheet Rocking, All Stages of Remodeling Residential & Commercial • Free estimates, fully insured Accepting all major credit cards.

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COUNTRY CLEANERS Homes & Offices • Insured & Bonded

Excellent references.

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

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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.

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

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Call Dave (845)514-6503- mobile.

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER/HOUSEKEEPER. Help w/everyday problems, special projects; clutter, paperwork, moving, gardening & personal assistant. Affordable.

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”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. References. Free Estimates.

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This wonderful 3BR, 2 full bath ranch style home is situated on just under an acre and is conveniently located in a lovely country setting, yet minutes to all surrounding amenities. The living room offers a gorgeous blue stone fireplace and mantle along with the gleaming oak wood floor, fantastic kitchen leads to the family room with Brazilian cherry wood floors, vaulted ceiling and skylights! Plus, there’s a partially finished lower level. Outside offers a beautiful deck and above-ground pool!

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ADORABLE COTTAGE STYLE CAPE This adorable cottage cape is located on a quiet street minutes from the Historic Uptown Kingston Stockade area. All of the important items have been taken care of. The roof, boiler, hot water heater and windows were all replaced within the last 5 years. There are several rooms with hardwood floors downstairs and a full basement which is nice and dry. There are two more rooms up for an extra bedroom or home office. Also, a 1 car garage to make the package complete! $139,900

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HANDYMAN, HOME REPAIR, Carpentry, Remodels, Installations, Roofing, Painting, Mechanical repairs, etc. Large and small jobs. Reasonable rates. Free estimates.

References available.

(845)616-7470.

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1 Ridge Rd., Shokan, NY 12481 Stoneridge Electrical Service, Inc. www.stoneridgeelectric.com

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WINECOFF QUALITY CONTRACTING, INC. New Construction, Additions, Renovations. Decks, Kitchens, Bathrooms, All types of Flooring, Tile Work. Demolition, $99 Dump Runs, Rotten Wood Repairs.

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Contact Jeoffrey D. Devor, Assoc. R.E. Broker (845) 687-0232 ext. 126

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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 per-

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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 & pictures of cats to foster. Come see us & all of our other friends at the Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Road, Kingston ( just off the traffic circle). Open 6 days a week, 11:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. (Closed on Mondays.) (845)3315377.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Local Law, published herewith has been adopted by the County Legislature of the County of Ulster, New York on November 22, 2016, approved by the County Executive on December 8, 2016, and filed with the State of New York on December 15, 2016, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such Local Law may be herinafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said County is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violations of the provisions of the Constitutions.

DATED: December 29, 2016 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature Local Law Number 6 Of 2016 County Of Ulster A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Limit The Gifts That County Officers And Employees May Receive BE IT ENACTED, by the Legislature of the County of Ulster, as follows: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND FINDINGS. The Ulster County Legislature (“Legislature”) hereby finds that Ulster’s County’s current ethics law should be strengthened to preclude the possibility of improper gifting to officers and employees from members of the public.

The Legislature further finds that prescribing

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an annual, monetary limit for gifts received by officers and employees of the County from the same individual, business, or organization will reduce the opportunity for inappropriate influence to our County’s leadership.

SECTION 2. PROHIBITIONS. Section 44-4 Standard of conduct. C. Gifts. of Chapter 44. Ethics and Disclosure of the Code of the County of Ulster is hereby amended as follows: C. Gifts. No County officer or employee shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, accept, or receive any gift(s) or financial benefit valued over $75 from any one person, business, or organization in a calendar year under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence such County officer or employee in the performance of his/her official duties or was intended to be a reward for any official action on his/her part.

SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. In the event that any portion of this Local Law is found to be invalid, such finding will not have any effect on either the remaining portions or applications of this Local Law or any provisions of the Code of the County of Ulster, which shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Office of the Secretary of State.

Adopted by the County Legislature: November 22, 2016 Approved by the County Executive: December 8, 2016 Filed with New York State Department of State: December 15, 2016 LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 9 of 2016 (A Local Law Regarding Campaign Finance

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WOULD YOU LIKE AN OUTDOOR CAT? Do you have a barn, garage, shed or outbuilding? Would you like to consider having feral cats? You can help cats in need who will help keep your barn, etc. free of rodents.

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HORSE BOARDING, 4 STALLS. Full or rough board. Beautiful farm. Saugerties area. Mountain views. 15 years experience.

Very fair prices & very caring owner. Call 845-246-2708 or cell 518-291-2778.

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Just Reduced!!! 2009 Smart Car! Convertible, 29K miles, A/C, heated seats, excellent condition.

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SUBSCRIBE AT HUDSONVALLEYONE.COM Reform in Ulster County) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 9 of 2016, (A Local Law Regarding Campaign Finance Reform in Ulster County), on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 6:15 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

The proposed local law is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, where the same is available for public inspection during regular office hours and is available online at http://ulstercountyny. gov/legislature/2016/resolution-no-2916 PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons and citizens interested shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York, that the Ulster County Legislature will convene in public meeting at the time and place aforesaid for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposed local law described above and, as deemed advisable by said Ulster County Legislature, taking action on the enactment of said local law.

DATED: December 29, 2016 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF ULSTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 21 of 2016 (A Local Law Amending The Ulster County Charter, (Local Law No. 2 Of 2006), And Amending The Administrative Code For the County Of Ulster, (Local Law No. 10 Of

2008), To Modify The Term Of The Clerk Of The Legislature ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 21 of 2016, (A Local Law Amending The Ulster County Charter, (Local Law No. 2 Of 2006), And Amending The Administrative Code For the County Of Ulster, (Local Law No. 10 Of 2008), To Modify The Term Of The Clerk Of The Legislature), on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 6:10 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

The proposed local law is on file in the office of the Clerk of the Ulster County Legislature, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York, where the same is available for public inspection during regular office hours and is available online at http://ulstercountyny. gov/legislature/2016/resolution-no-489 PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons and citizens interested shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Law of the State of New York, that the Ulster County Legislature will convene in public meeting at the time and place aforesaid for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposed local law described above and, as deemed advisable by said Ulster County Legislature, taking action on the enactment of said local law.

DATED: December 29, 2016 Kingston, New York Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Ulster County Legislature

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ATL

ATL

ATL

ATL

BALTIMORE AT CINCINNATI

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BAL

BAL

BAL

BAL

CIN

NY GIANTS AT WASHINGTON

NYG

NYG

NYG

NYG

NYG

WAS

NYG

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TEN

TEN

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HOU

TEN

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HOU

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CARO CARO

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TAM

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TAM

GREEN BAY AT DETROIT

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GB

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GB

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INDY

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