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CRASH VICTIMS’ FAMILY PUSHES FOR LAW CHANGE

Clear-cutting along power line path prompts questions, stop work ordersBY NICOLE [email protected]

Within the past week, residents in the towns of Clinton and Pleasant Valley have noticed a lot of activity around the power lines as large machinery and clear-cutting have left behind debris and ecological disruption, prompting questions from both homeowners and local offi cials.

“This past week, we have discovered signifi cant land clearing operations being started in Clinton under the 345 kilovolt and 115 kilovolt towers,” Town of Clinton Supervisor Ray Oberly said. “This is not to be confused with the normal roadside and residential power line clearing.”

Asplundh, a company contracted by the National Grid, has been clearing vegetation along the power lines’ right-of-ways for several weeks, according to a representative for Asplundh, who said the company is complying with North American Electric Reliabil-ity Corporation (NERC) regulations.

Crews from Asplundh clear along the power lines right of way on Schoolhouse Road in Clinton on Monday morning. Photos by Nicole DeLawder.

and also operating the vehicle without an ignition interlock device.

He was arrested and charged with DWI, a class-D-felony since he had two prior DWI convictions within the prior ten years, those being on March 25, 2010 and December 17, 2012, both in Orange County, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the fi rst degree, a class- E felony since his license was both suspended and revoked for a DWI related offense and he was intoxicated while operating the vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without an ignition interlock device, a misdemeanor, as well as traffi c infractions.

Perry had a total of four active suspensions and four active revocations which were dating from 2009 thru 2013, fi ve of which were DWI-related.

Perry, who is also currently on probation for DWI in Orange County, was later arraigned in the City of Poughkeepsie Court where he was remanded without bail. He is scheduled to appear back in City of Poughkeepsie Court at a later date.

Over three pounds of pot recovered in PoughkeepsieOn Wednesday, March 11, members of

the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department Neighborhood Recovery Unit were assisted by the New York State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team and the City of Poughkeepsie Police Emergency Services Unit in executing a search warrant in the rear garage of a home on Thompson Street. The search warrant was the result of an investi-gation conducted by the Neighborhood Re-covery Unit regarding marijuana distribution at the location.

As a result of the investigation, offi cers recovered approximately three and a half pounds of marijuana and seized approxi-mately $4,170. Poughkeepsie residents Clive A. Scott, 47; Dexton H. Brown, 48;

Parent arrested after school conference

On March 6, Troopers were dispatched by Dutchess Coun-ty 911 to the Webutuck Middle School for a report of a parent causing a disturbance. Follow-ing a meeting with school ad-ministrators, Teresa A. Lovett, 53, of Amenia, became irate and used profane language. Lovett was instructed to leave school proper-ty and she failed to comply, prompting school staff to contact 911 for assistance. Lovett va-cated school property prior to police arriving on scene.

Lovett was located a short time later at her Town of Amenia home and placed in custody for trespassing on school grounds.

New York State Police Bureau of Crimi-nal Investigation charged Lovett with criminal trespass in the third degree, a class-B misde-meanor, and disorderly conduct, a violation.Lovett was arraigned and remanded to the Dutchess County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash bail or $5,000 bond.

Marlboro man arrested for felony DWI

At approximately 3:22 a.m. on Friday March 13, Andrew Perry, 29, of Marlboro, was stopped by a Dutchess County Deputy Sheriff on Garden Street in the City of Poughkeepsie. Perry had fi rst been observed passing a red light and driving over the center lines on Washington Street.

Subsequent investigation revealed that Perry was intoxicated, operating with a suspended and revoked driver’s license

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NERC is a non-profi t international regu-latory authority that “monitors the bulk power system in North America.”

In 2014, National Grid hired a survey company to mark the side boundaries of both the 345 kilovolt and 115 kilovolt rights of ways. In the past week, Asplundh has been clearing the borders of a 250-foot-wide right-of-way of the 345 kilovolt power lines, removing all trees, large bushes and brush, in accordance, they say, with National Grid’s deed of the land.

Clearing that has been completed in Clinton has left a “big mess” according to Oberly and local residents. Small branches along the right of way have been mowed down, and all chips, debris and tree trunks have been left behind. The crews are also operating large equipment including skidder bucket trucks and excavators that have left large tire prints in ecologically-sensitive areas. Oberly added that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has been contacted to review the area after trimmers disrupted wetlands and interfered with the fl ow of a stream between Ruskey Lane and East Fallkill Road.

“The town was alerted to the clear-cutting operation last Tuesday night and asked the town’s zoning enforcement offi cer to see if there were any laws or regulations National Grid must comply with for this clear cutting of the power lines,” Oberly continued. “There were requirements that National Grid had to comply with before undertaking this clearing.”

On Thursday night, the Town of Clinton Zoning Offi cer Bob Fennel issued a Stop Work Order to cease operations and evaluate Asplundh and National Grid’s course of action. On Friday, the town attorney received an email from National Grid’s attorney stating that National Grid has the right to clear their rights-of-way for the power lines. Kevin Cushing, National Grid stakeholder relations manager, sent an email to Fennel on Monday morning requesting the Stop Order be removed.

Cutting resumed Monday before 11 a.m. on the 345 kilovolt lines from Ruskey Lane to Hollow Road.

A fl yer was left on the doors of some of the houses near the power lines advising of the upcoming work, but the clearing caught many residents off guard, as Hudson Val-ley News witnessed several locals stopping to ask tree cutters exactly what they were doing and how long they were going to be moving the large equipment and chainsaws through the normally-quiet neighborhoods.

In Pleasant Valley, Supervisor Carol Campbell is also considering a Stop Work Order to determine requirements for the National Grid. “My zoning administra-tor has researched our town code and has made a preliminary determination, and has stated that if actual physical work is occur-ring on the AC transmission line without benefi t of the site plan approval process and the sections and parts which this en-tails, such work is subject to a Stop Work Order, as well as an Order to Cease and Desist, and an Order to Remedy. Addi-tionally, the town code provides for legal and fi scal penalties for non-compliance.”

Campbell, who owns a house that abuts the power lines said, “I have lived in that house for 41 years and I don’t ever remember them doing clearing at this time of year.”

While a representative for Aspludh said the cutting has no relation to proposed upgrades to the AC transmission lines, the company has been clearing between Leeds and Pleasant Valley – one of the initially proposed routes for upgraded lines. The public has until March 30 to comment with the New York State Public Service Commission on the upgrade proposal. A technical conference has been scheduled for June to evaluate the need for the new power lines, according to the Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition.

Clinton Town Supervisor Ray Oberly asks if residents see any activity in the right-of-ways of the tower transmission lines, to call him at 845-266-5721 ext. 105.

Downed trees and logs cut along the west side of the power lines with a skid steerer on East Fallkill Road. Photo by Ray Oberly.

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BY JIM [email protected]

Dutchess County Legislator Mike Kelsey has been making all the wrong type of news of late. He ran a remarkably strong race against heavily favored Assemblywoman Didi Barrett last fall before losing by a few scant votes. The buzz was the Republican legislator was on his way and he would likely be in demand in 2016 as a candidate for one office or another.

That all ended with his December 15 indictment on first-degree sexual abuse charge and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The charges allege Kelsey sexually abused two 15-year-old Boy Scouts while on a camping trip. Kelsey pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial on the matter.

Shortly after the charges were brought, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and County Legislature Chair Rob Rolison called on Kelsey to resign. Kelsey answered with a wall of silence, and did not resign. Only recently has Kelsey begun attending legislative meetings but has refused to comment publicly. Neither Rolison nor Molinaro have the authority to remove Kelsey and he continues to receive his salary and benefits.

Given the nature of the charges it came as something of a shock when Kelsey submitted requests for the legislature to commend two scouts from the Fishkill troop who will attain the rank of Eagle Scout in June. The two scouts recommended are not the same two Kelsey is accused of abusing.

Chairman Rolison immediately denied the request saying, “I think it’s inappropriate for the legislature to accommodate the request based on the circumstances. I advised him they would not be honored.” Kelsey then asked Rolison why the requests were being denied via an email. According to sources, Kelsey has had no direct contact with Rolison since December. Rolison further indicated he would be uncomfortable honoring any scouts in the legislative chamber as long as Kelsey remains a member.

It is unclear what Kelsey’s motive was in making this request but it only added another bizarre chapter to this unusual situation. Kelsey is due in court in the Town of Pierrepont on April 20.

Theodore G. Freeman, 35; and Shaquan D. Smith, 22, were all arrested and charged with criminal possession of marijuana in the second degree, a class-D felony.

All subjects were arraigned in the City of Poughkeepsie Court and subsequently remanded to the custody of the Dutchess County Jail.

Red Hook arrests• Red Hook Police arrested Bailey C. How-

arth, 30, of Hudson, on Thursday at 4:55 p.m., and charged her with criminal pos-session of a controlled substance (heroin) as well as criminal possession of a hypo-dermic needle, both misdemeanors, and the infraction of speeding. She was pro-cessed and released on tickets to appear in town court at a later date.

• Red Hook Police arrested Zachary S. Couse, 29, of Red Hook, on Friday at 9:45 a.m., and charged him with criminal possession of a controlled substance (heroin), a misdemeanor. He was processed and released on tickets to appear in Village Court at a later date.

SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHINGReward for information on hit-and-run that killed

18-year-old in Poughkeepsie increased to $25KBY HV NEWS STAFF

On March 13, 2013, the body of 18-year-old Shequila Brown was found at the intersection of Church and Hamilton Streets in the City of Poughkeepsie. She had been hit by a speeding car and left for dead. Brown was an admired student at Poughkeepsie High School and an active member of the Beulah Baptist Church.

The outpouring of grief over this senseless act galvanized the community, yet police have been unable to identify the driver of the vehicle that struck Brown. Various witnesses have given conflicting descriptions of the vehicle, describing it as a large pickup truck, black or dark red in color, and with a loud exhaust. The license plate has not been identified.

As time passed both Brown’s church and family have offered a reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the driver. That reward has increased twice since the incident. Last week, on the second anniversary of Brown’s death, that reward was increased to $25,000.

Police have said they believe somebody knows something. One police source said, “You just don’t put an experience like that behind you. It has to weigh on you and the people around you.” By raising the reward amount it’s hoped that someone will be motivated to come forward and allow the Brown family to put this awful chapter in their lives behind them.

Anyone with information on the identity of the driver who killed Shequila Brown is asked to call the City of Poughkeepsie Police at 845-451-4000 or the tip line at 845-451-7577.

County mourns passing of Warren Wigsten

BY HV NEWS STAFFCounty Executive

Marc Molinaro issued a statement Monday on the death of former Pleasant Valley Supervisor, County Legislator and Dutchess County Fair Director Warren Wigsten. Molinaro said, “I join all Dutchess County residents in honoring the life of Warren Wigsten, whose impact on the county spanned decades.”

Wigsten died Saturday at the age of 88 after a lifetime of achievement. He is credited with making the Republican Party a force in Pleasant Valley, as evidenced by his own political success.

Wigsten was the owner and operator of Wigsten Highline Farms, a dairy and vegetable farm. The farm continues to be operated by his son, Paul, and Paul’s wife, Robin. Wigsten was also well known for his prize-winning heifers for which he won many national honors in the 1950s.


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THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

BY PASTOR ALLEN MICKLE

OPINION

BY THE REV. CHUCK KRAMER

GOD, LIFE ANDEVERYTHING

Character CountsShould it be any surprise, according

to a Gallup poll, that when asked which profession is seen as dishonest and unethical, politicians top the list? It seems to be a common understanding amongst Americans that all politicians are corrupt, and perhaps that’s just the way things have to get done on Capitol Hill. It wasn’t always this way.

Once upon a time ago, there was something to be said for character amongst our governmental leaders. We would expect that people who represent us on a national and international level would strive to be honest, prudent and ethical people with the interest of the people at heart. Of course, now, the expectation is that all politicians are corrupt, unethical liars. And unfortunately, it seems that is more often the case than not.

Now, as a Canadian who cannot vote in the U.S. (yet), I don’t have a horse in this race. Also, being Canadian makes me a little unique as I don’t fit in either extreme of left-ward liberal progressives nor right-wing tea party conservatives. I’m probably more center-right. That being said, it’s important to mention that character should count when it comes to politicians, which brings me to Hillary Clinton.

I’ll start out by saying the mantra, “All politicians are corrupt.” Tis true. The heart is desperately wicked for all of us (Jeremiah 17:9). So this could easily be addressed to any potential Republican presidential candidate. But since the matter in the news is Hillary’s emails, I’m going to address that. Bernie Sanders (Indep.-VT) recently wrote regarding the email scandal, “Let’s start having serious discussions about the real issues impacting the people of our country.” I’m with Bernie on this one. There are more important issues out there than whether Hillary did the right thing with her email correspondence while working for Foggy Bottom. That being said, the issue at the core of Hillary’s email problems are about

character. And who we are at the core of our being determines how we will handle all those other issues.

As a pastor, I’m constantly reminded that my character makes or breaks my ministry. Paul told us pastors in 1 Timothy 3:2 that we are to be “above reproach.” There shouldn’t be things in our lives that people can point to and then call our ministries into question. It’s because we represent something vital as undershepherds of Christ within the church. In the physical realm, our government plays something of such a vital role that too, our politicians should strive to be above reproach. If they are to represent the best interests of this nation, they cannot do it for their own misguided, self-interested pursuits, but must do it for the better good. Let’s bring this back to the Clintons.

Certainly, the Clintons are not unknown to scandal. We may think of Whitewater or Monica Lewinsky. And none of us are without sin. As I mentioned, all of our hearts are desperately wicked. Yet, for those of specific callings, and the highest in the land being president, we should be considering whether or not our hopefuls are above reproach, or do past scandals and current ones, call into question the ethical positions of those who might one day be in our highest office. If our president is willing to do whatever they want for their own sake, what might that mean for the future of our nation?

Emails and policies and procedures are certainly low on the priority list of issues facing this nation. Yet, they reveal something about our hearts and about our character. There’s an important warning, to both us and our governmental leaders, from former President, James Garfield:

“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.”

Let us not tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption in our own lives, nor in the lives of our leaders.

Rev. Allen Mickle, a Canadian expat living in the Hudson Valley, is Pastor of Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Church in Clinton Corners. He can be reached at [email protected].

Plus/MinusWouldn’t it be great if life had a plus/

minus?What is a plus/minus, you ask?It is a hockey term I learned when I

was playing in an adult league hockey for a few years. I really like the plus/minus.

Still unclear? Well, basically, a plus/minus measures how well the team does while you are on the ice. If a goal is scored for your team while you’re on the ice, even if you never touch the puck, you get a +1. Even if you screwed up big time on a play, you still get the +1. Conversely, if you’re on the ice when a goal is scored against your team, even if you’ve been playing brilliantly and it’s not your fault, you get a -1.

Got the idea?This statistic is kept not only for games

but for entire seasons. Look at NHL statistics for individual players, and you see guys with a +23, a +5, or maybe a -6. That means in all the time they were on the ice that season, the team scored, for example 23 goals more than were scored against the team.

Why is this important?Because it measures the unmeasurable.

It’s an attempt to recognize that sometimes your contributions aren’t counted in number of goals scored or assists, or even hits you get on another player.

Sometimes, the team is just better when you’re there.

As I say, I always liked the plus/minus because I’m a lousy player. I scored one goal in two seasons. Not one goal each season - one goal between them. I might have gotten three or four assists over that period of time, but I could be deluding myself.

However, my plus/minus was generally in positive territory. I like to think that my “hustle” helped the team even when my skills were lacking. And that made me feel that I contributed enough to want to keep playing.

We live in a world that constantly measures our performance, constantly

tells us what we are worth by the salary we earn, by the positions we hold, by the numbers of awards we’ve received, by the number of FaceBook friends we have. We are constantly trying to quantify our lives, to determine how valuable we have been.

Pretty sad, isn’t it? And also pretty egotistical. We focus

on what we’ve done to figure out what we’re worth.

Wouldn’t it be much nicer if we could focus on our plus/minus? That is, if we could focus on whether or not the world, our community, is better while we’re here? I know, that’s a hard thing to figure out - it’s not like we can count the scores for or against our team while we’re on earth, especially since our team is pretty much the world.

On the other hand, I bet we can figure out a way to look at the people around us and ask ourselves, “Are they better off for me being here?”

Almost invariably, the answer will be “Yes,” even if we’ve made huge screw-ups of our lives. There was a news report in Georgia about a woman on death row for killing her husband. Her execution was delayed earlier this month on a technicality.

What is interesting about her, however, is that in her seventeen years in prison, she is said to have been a positive influence on many of the other inmates, encouraging them to graduate high school, comforting them in times of greater stress than normal (given the setting), and in general, being a person who made life better for the people around her despite the difficult circumstances.

I wondered what her plus/minus would be. A life with one huge, major screw-up and years of helping others.

Like I said, I don’t really know how to measure the plus/minus on life, but I have a feeling we would be better off if we started to think about it. If nothing else, it wouldn’t hurt for each of us to look at our own lives and figure out what a plus/minus for us might look like.

I like that statistic because it doesn’t count on my being particularly good at what I do, just in there, hustling away at the game of life and trying to do what I can.

What’s your plus/minus?

The Rev. Chuck Kramer is rector of St. James’ Episcopal Church, Hyde Park. You can leave a comment for him at [email protected].


OPINION

USUALLY RIGHTBY JIM LANGAN

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Bartering ethics BY TERRY GIPSON

For the second year in a row, the topic of ethics reform is being used as a bartering chip to determine how over $140 billion of our tax dollars will be spent.

Last year the governor bartered with GOP Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and IDC Leader Jeff Klein to shut down an ethics investigation, known as the Moreland Commission. It was only after they shut it down that they fi nally got around to working on the budget. This was done in a closed door meeting without input from other members of the legislature.

This year the governor is bartering with ethics once again. Governor Cuomo has even stated that he’s willing to delay passage of the budget beyond the March 31st deadline if the legislature does not agree to his proposed ethics reforms.

As taxpayers, we should be questioning the ethics of using “ethics reform” to negotiate the serious business of how our money will be managed. And more importantly, we should remind our elected representatives that they have the power to pass ethics reform right now. There’s absolutely no reason to tie this important

issue to the budget, and there’s no legitimate reason to delay meaningful ethics reform any longer.

Every member of the state legislature should be demanding and working to pass these needed measures now. Any offi cial convicted of abusing the public’s trust should be stripped of their tax- payer funded pensions, and the campaign fi nance laws must be changed so that LLCs and big corporations can no longer buy and sell the outcomes of our elections.

The New York State Legislature has the ability to solve these pressing issues today. Failure to do so could lead to a late budget, which would place important funding for entities such as school districts, cities, towns, villages and public health services in jeop-ardy. We should not tolerate such irrespon-sible actions, and we should insist that our government seize this historic opportunity to pass truly effective ethics reform now. Then they must direct their full attention to passing an on time state budget that provides solutions to reducing the cost of living and doing business in our communities.

Terry Gipson is a former state senator for Dutchess and Putnam counties.

Hillary needs a parachuteI have to admit watching Hillary

Clinton at that press conference was fun. Here’s the most arrogant, entitled woman on the planet once again trying to defend the indefensible. Her rationale for maintaining a server in her home rather than use a state department email as a simple convenience didn’t pass the laugh test. When she said she didn’t know you could operate more than one email on a smart phone everyone in the room was cringing. As one commentator on Fox said that’s like saying you thought you needed two forks to eat surf and turf. Throw in Hillary’s haggard, unenergetic appearance and her performance ranks right up there with Richard Nixon’s 1962 press conference after losing the California governor’s race.

So if we’re willing to concede the rollout of Hillary ’16 has been a disaster, why are her poll numbers not only high but holding steady? She should be dropping like a stone after the last few weeks, but isn’t. I think I’ve fi gured out why. First, she’s virtually unopposed for the Democrat nomination so Democrats are stuck with her for the moment. It’s also important to factor in the identity agenda part of Hillary’s candidacy. Democrats know Hillary is a fl awed candidate but they’re willing to stay with her if that means achieving their ideological goals.

Republicans are perceived as usurpers of the far left agenda and a threat going forward on immigration, redistribution of wealth and gay rights. So unless someone presents themselves as a credible

Democrat alternative to Clinton, the nomination is hers.

There’s also the longevity factor with Hillary and Bill. The Clintons walked onto the national stage in 1992 and have never left. Hillary’s poll numbers don’t show many undecided. If you haven’t made up your mind on Hillary you’re either comatose or don’t care.

None of this analysis suggests I think she’s a lock for 2016. Au contraire, my little political junkies. At the rate Hillary is free falling, it’s conceivable the Democrats will turn to someone else if she can’t stop the bleeding. The poll numbers Democrats are going to be watching very carefully are the match-ups with Scott Walker, Marco

Rubio and Jeb Bush. If they become convinced Hillary’s nomination will doom their slate in Nov. 2016, they still have time to fi nd an alternative.

Remember, Hillary was inevitable in 2008 until Barack Obama surfaced. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren comes to mind. She checks all the ideological, class warfare boxes and still delivers the fi rst female president demographic. The other unspoken aspect of the Clinton candidacy is what candidate Barack

Obama said in a 2008 debate, “Hillary’s likeable enough.” Translated that means Hillary is a nasty piece of work with more baggage than a plane headed for Miami Beach. The likeability factor just isn’t there and people are more likely to throw you under the bus if they don’t like you.

So where does Hillary go from here? Word is she’s hoping to officially announce before Memorial Day but this email investigation is going to make that difficult. I’m sure she’ll continue to justify her campaign by wrapping herself in the security blanket of gender equality and the first female president thing, but I think that’s getting old. Americans are all in on the first female president thing, but maybe somebody other than Hillary Clinton.

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mind on Hillary, you’re either comatose or don’t care.”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“The inevitable front-runner is inevitable until he or she is

no longer inevitable.” – Martin O’Malley, former Maryland Governor

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• Happy to say I reported for jury duty last week and didn’t get picked. The process is always very entertaining. My favorite moment was listening to a very loud, fat guy explain he

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couldn’t serve because he had an appointment to get stitches out of his � ngers that he had gotten after sticking them in the business end of a snow blower. Said he was trying to retrieve something. Not sure I’d want a deep thinker like that deciding my fate.

• It’s beginning to look like the Obama team was behind the Hillary emails leak. Not really surprising since they both despise each other and Obama doesn’t want to spend his last two years in o� ce competing with Hillary for attention.

• Have you seen a photo of Monica Bellucci, the 50-year-old bombshell due to become the 24th so-called Bond girl? Good for the Bond producers for saying you’re not dead after 40. She’ll star opposite 46-year-old Daniel Craig in “SPECTRE” coming out late this year. Hey, I might start hitting a few AARP meetings if the women look like that.

• Could someone tell the Poughkeepsie Journal that no one really cares about Hopewell Junction’s Joe Panik. At least not enough to justify the embarrassing number of stories they’ve done on the San Francisco Giant second baseman. And don’t get me started on the “Mike Tyson had a � ght at the Civic Center 30 years ago” story.

• We hear the Bender family’s purchase of Foster’s in Rhinebeck may have hit a snag or fallen through entirely. The Benders have been on something of a real estate bender of late, snapping up large swaths of property in Rhinebeck and Red Hook.

• Speaking of Red Hook, I was at the conces-sion stand at the Lyceum Cinema recently and observed a very heavy man ordering a large buttered popcorn. After paying, he then un-screwed the top of the salt shaker and poured half the shaker on his popcorn. I’m guessing there’s a cardiac event in this guy’s future.

• We keep getting calls about all those trees coming down across the street from the CIA. The property owners have a lumber permit and are simply trying to get a little money out of what has become a money losing proposition. It was originally thought the grand St. Andrews project would take � ight, but it, and just about every other commercial venture, has died in Hyde Park in recent years.

• Anybody see Al Sharpton or Eric Holder rushing to Ferguson after those two cops were shot by an assassin during yet another tiresome protest? Do you think they would have been on the � rst plane if two black protesters were shot by an unknown assailant at that same rally? Just asking.


• Did you see that video of those teenage girls viciously assaulting another girl in New York? The girls were 15-19, members of some hideous gang and most had a criminal record. Given how common this behavior is in schools these days, Mayor de Blasio’s decree that teachers and principals will have far less authority to discipline or suspend unruly students seems ridiculous. He claims such discipline is racist.

• Speaking of schools, after turning down the Dutchess County Historical Society’s bid to rent a signi� cant piece of the former Hyde Park Elementary School, it sits vacant and is costing taxpayers money to heat and maintain the building.

• Had to chuckle at the DCSPCA’s ham-handed e� ort to capitalize on the Gizmo story. Gizmo is the cute dog abused by his owner, rescued by Poughkeepsie detectives and put up for adoption. But instead of the usual process, the DCSPCA decided to make a production out of it requiring letters and essays on why you should get the dog. Applying to Harvard is less of a hassle. And what does that say to all the other dogs who didn’t make the papers?

• This week marks the beginning of “March Madness,” the time when grown men get to pretend they’re back in college for two weeks and actually know something about basketball. I’m picking Kentucky and their number one fan, Ashley Judd.

• We’re sad to report the passing of Tammy Buchanan, co-owner of Porto� no’s in Staatsburg for 22 years. Tammy died after a brief illness and was beloved by so many friends, family and patrons of Porto� no. Her charm and presence will be very much missed in the community. R.I.P.

• Finally, here’s a challenge for all you armchair athletes out there. A 95-year-old man just set the record in the 200 meter run at 55.48 seconds. Let the snow melt and the � elds dry and see what you can do it in and send us the results. I’m guessing you’ll be surprised how tough it is. I’m going to give it a shot.

Hudson valley news | [email protected] | March 18-24, 2015 {7}Pictured: Cherry Lifesaver and Daemon Mistress battle it out. Photo by Greg Paret

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FRIDAY, MARCH 20 THROUGH THURSDAY, MARCH 26Matinees (shows before 6pm) Daily – all matinees on Sat. & Sun. only & one late day matinee only Fri. & Mon. thru Thurs.*

Run All Night (R) 1:35 (4:15) 7:15 9:35 McFarland USA (PG) 1:15 (4:15) 7:00Cinderella (PG) 1:00 2:00 3:30 (4:30) 6:00 7:00 8:20 9:20 2nd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) 1:20 (4:00) 7:00 9:30 Chappie (R) 9:25Insurgent in 3D (PG-13) 1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30Insurgent in 2D (PG-13) 2:00 (4:30) 7:00 9:30

Run All Night (R) 1:35 (4:15) 7:15 9:35 Focus (R) 1:25 (4:05) 7:15 Chappie (R) 9:25The Gunman (R) 1:25 (4:15) 7:15 9:35Insurgent in 2D (PG-13) 2:00 (4:30) 7:00 9:30Insurgent in 3D (PG-13) 1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30Cinderella (PG) 1:00 2:00 3:30 (4:30) 6:00 7:00 8:20 9:20

Cinderella (PG) 1:00 2:00 3:30 (4:30) 7:00 9:15

2nd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) 1:15 (4:15) 7:00 9:25Insurgent in 2D (PG-13) 1:25 6:00 8:25 9:35Insurgent in 3D (PG-13) (4:15) 7:00

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST AND MAPLE SUGAR DEMONSTRATION

Sunday, March 22; 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Bowdoin Park, 85 Sheafe Rd., Poughkeepsie; Breakfast followed by hands-on maple sugaring program; $5 breakfast, program free; dutchessNY.gov.


Bocuse Anniversary Wine Tasting Dinner; Wednesday, March 18; The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park; Six-course meal with recreation of offerings from offi cial opening; $95; ciarestaurantgroup.com.

Jenny Offi ll In Conversation with Elisa Albert; Wednesday, March 18; 7 p.m.; Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Free; 845-876-0500.

Third Thursday Luncheon; Thursday, March 19; 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.; The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; $6, $7 take-out orders; 845-876-3533.

event listings throughout the Hudson Valleye-mail us your events: [email protected]. Deadline is noon on Friday.

Listings are accurate as of press time but be sure to confi rm details before you go.

Stamp Out Fraud Workshop; Thursday, March 19; 1 p.m.; Starr Library, 68 W. Market St., Rhinebeck; People’s United Bank will discuss identity theft, internet and telephone scams; Free; Register at 845-876-4030 or starrlibrary.org.

Kaatsbaan Open Rehearsals; Thursday, March 19; 2 p.m.; Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli; Stephen Petronio Dance; ZviDance on April 2, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company on May 7; Free and open to the public; 845-757-5106 ext. 2.

“Arthur Wicks – The Cleaner Who Controlled the Senate;” Friday, March 20; 5:30 p.m.; Senate House, Kingston; Kingston’s Buried Treasures series; Free; kingston-ny.gov.


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THIS WEEK (March 18-24, 2015) The privilege of photography

BY RANDI BUTLER, PHOTOGRAPHERIn my 21 years of life I feel I have already made a number of regrettable choices, but

despite the guilt or consequences of my decisions I can at least say each was in line with my heart. My young, naïve and very stupid heart.

I never took a path I did not immediately believe the universe told me to and it’s brought me wisdom and insight that some twice my age never get. These scars and these battle wounds have allowed me to view creation as a privilege. To go out into the world, naked and vulnerable, your hopes, dreams, fears and secrets displayed for everyone to see as a terrifying but beautiful privilege. More often than not, photographs are as raw and real as artistic creation allows.

Mankind was amazed when fi nally we could preserve the world as we saw it in that 1/30, 1/125 or 1/4000th of a second. For many photographers this is how they work, but it is not so for me. The realness is not necessarily in its content but in the act of creating and the hard work done to set up the portrait. The lights, the angle, the pose, the styling and fi nally the post processing is where I get to transform this frozen reality.

When I went to school, the magic I found in creating was lost to competition. Ev-eryone was obsessed with what was popular, who had better equipment, and meeting the aesthetic tastes of other people. That was how you got noticed and unless you got noticed, what was the point?

The pressure to conform was and still is great. I found myself trying to mimic other people’s work and it felt empty. I felt rejected because I could not resonate with it. I watched the joy fl icker out of people, the little sparkle that made them make that effort to come here in the fi rst place. For a while I abandoned photography all together for a new frontier, but missed it deeply.

As 2015 ushered in I decided to begin a “52 Weeks” project. Amongst the chaos and confi nes of college life I would go out of the way to produce something once a week. Force myself to. This is why I say to all of you – if you are someone who creates, if you are somebody trying to offer something to this world, don’t give up in spite of it. To be able to create is a privilege we take for granted, and when we no longer can do it is akin

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“Neighbors Helping Neighbors Rebuild” Benefi t; Friday, March 20; 4-8 p.m.; The Beekman Arms and Delimiter Inn, 6387 Mill St., Rhinebeck; Silent auction and raffl e with all proceeds going towards the rebuilding and restoration of the Green Goat herd; $35.

Chris Fryer and Robert Crane Presentation and Book Signing; Friday, March 20; 7 p.m.; Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Author event on the book “Crane: Sex Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murder;” Free; 845-876-0500.

“A Hard Day’s Night;” Friday, March 20; 7:30 p.m.; Bardavon 1869 Opera House, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie; Screening of the Beatles’ 1964 musical comedy; $6; bardavon.org.

43rd Annual HVP String Competition; March 21-22; Skinner Hall, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie; Free competition featuring nearly 30 musicians; bardavon.org.

“The Wizard of Oz;” March 20-21, 7:30 p.m.; March 22, 2 p.m.; Stissing Mountain Middle/High School, Pine Plains; $10-12; stgboxoffi ce.seatyourself.biz.

5th Annual Pancake Breakfast; Saturday, March 21; 8-11 a.m.; Red Hook Fire House; Bounce house, pie eating contest and face painting; Benefi t for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital; $6; Tickets available at Holy Cow, Red Hook.

Invasive Species of the Hudson Valley Forum; Saturday, March 21; 9 a.m. - noon; Cary Institute Auditorium, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook; Free with registration required; caryinstitute.org.

Community Clay Day; Saturday, March 21; 1-3 p.m.; Art Centro, 485 Main St., Poughkeepsie; Watch professional potters and take a turn behind the wheel; artcentro.org.

“Ocular Concepts” Opening Reception; Saturday, March 21; 5-7 p.m.; Montgomery Row, second level, 6423 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Photographs by Andrew Halpern; On view through April 24; andyhalpern.com.


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The Stissing Theatre Guild in cooperation withThe Pine Plains School District

presents

Director & Choreographer - Lisa BaldwinMusical Director - Joe Deveau

Friday & Saturday March 20th-21st 7:30pm

Sunday March 22nd 2:00pm

For tickets: (518) 398-1272www.seatyourself.biz/stgboxo�ce

Stissing Mountain High SchoolPine Plains, NY

All seats reserved:adults $12sr. citizens & children $10

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How to play: Each column must contain all of the numbers 1 through 9 with no two numbers in the same column [solution on page 13]

Festival of Dance heats upHudson Valley dance companies come together on stageBY HV NEWS WEEKEND [email protected]

Forget Old Man Winter and get inspired to get moving with the 32nd annual Festival of Dance this Saturday, March 21 at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston beginning at 8 p.m. During the evening, dance companies from around the region will merge a diverse range of styles and techniques with an original program hosted by the Ulster Ballet Company.

Featured dance companies include Silver Screen Ballroom, Syncopated City Dance Company, the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, ZEST COLLECTIVE Contemporary Performance Art, The Dance Conservatory Performance Project, and Vanessa Van Wormer Dance with Chamber Ballet Brockport.

Returning local favorites include Red Hook’s Solas An Lae American Irish Dance Company, Kingston’s Energy Dance Company and the Ulster Ballet Company.

Tickets for the Festival of Dance are $22 for adults, $18 for senior citizens and UPAC/Bardavon members. For groups of ten or more, and children 12 and under, tickets are $15. To purchase tickets, call the UPAC box offi ce at 845-339-6088; visit Ticketmaster at ticketmaster.com, or call 800-745-3000.

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to purgatory. Respect your craft and believe in yourself. There are so many who don’t and the beauty of their potential stays hidden.

Randi Butler is a commercial and fi ne arts photographer who freelances state wide. Her experience includes everything from commercial portraiture to weddings and runway shows. She previously attended The Fashion Institute of Technology for photography and is cur-rently enrolled at SUNY Purchase for new media. She was the recipient of the 2013 Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Award for Student with Exceptional Promise in the Arts, and gar-nered 25 Scholastic Regional Competition Awards in 2011 and 2012. See more of her work at randibutlerphotography.tumblr.com.

Arts Mid-Hudson is celebrating its 50th year of serving up fresh arts and culture across the region. To learn more about Arts Mid-Hudson, its services, events and grant opportunities, and to see a broad range of our art and cultural projects, visit www.artsmidhudson.org.

This is the 21st in a series of columns for Hudson Valley Weekend showcasing arts, artists’ work and arts events across the Mid-Hudson region presented with the support of Arts Mid-Hudson.

Highlights of the Hudson Highlands Opening Reception; Saturday, March 21; 5-8 p.m.; Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon St., Poughkeepsie; Contemporary visual art by area college student artists; On view through April 16; barrettartcenter.org.

Church Auction; Saturday, March 21; 7 p.m. with silent auction from 6 to 6:45 p.m.; Lyall Memorial Federated Church, 30 Maple Ave., Millbrook; Free admission; 845-677-3485.

Jane March Coffeehouse Concert; Saturday, March 21; 7:30 p.m.; Unitarian Fellowship, S. Randolph Ave., Poughkeepsie; Open mic and feature performance; $6, $5 Hudson Valley Folk Guild members; [email protected]; 845-229-0170.

Third Saturday Contra Dance; Saturday, March 21; 7:30-10:30 p.m.; St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 55 Wilbur Blvd., Poughkeepsie; Featuring Jay Ungar and Molly Mason; $10, $5 full-time students; 845-473-7050.

32nd Annual Festival of Dance; Saturday, March 21; 8 p.m.; Ulster Performing Arts Center, 661 Broadway, Kingston; $15-22; 845-339-6088; ulsterballet.org.

Kingston Model Train and Railroad Hobby Show; Sunday, March 22; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Andy Murphy Midtown Center, Kingston; Largest model train and hobby show in Ulster County; $6; kingstontrainshow.com.

Easy eatsBY CAROLINE CAREY

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I was at a meeting last week and heard from several of the attendees how much they liked this recipe column. Well, that was nice! But then they said they cut out the recipes but hadn’t tried many of them. And they asked if I really cooked all the dishes? I do.

But what I realized was that I also have many dishes that are simple and are some of my go-to dishes when I am pressed for time or just want to make dinner with ingredients I have on hand. Here are two of the most simple, yet yummy, and quick, dinners. Please try them!

Ro-Tel GoulashDirections:

Cook the pasta according to instruction on the package. Drain pasta. While pasta is cooking, cook the hamburger in a sauté pan until browned and cooked through. Add the pasta and Ro-Tel to the hamburger and toss to mix. Season with salt and pepper (and serve with grated cheese).

Quick and Easy ChickenDirections:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.Mix the sour cream and the relish. Place chicken in

a baking dish and spread the sour cream/relish mixture over the chicken. Top with stuffing. Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Easy and delicious!

Author Laura Van Den Berg; Tuesday, March 24; 7 p.m.; Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Free; 845-876-0500.

ONGOING“Rouge;” Through March 31; Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, The Courtyard, 43 E. Market St., Rhinebeck; Watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso and the Cross River Artists; 845-516-4435; betsyjacarusoartist.com.

“Paperwork;” Through April 5; Red Hook Community Arts Network Gallery, 7516 N. Broadway, Red Hook; Juried show on works rendered on or with paper; rhcan.com.

“Resonance;” On view through April 9; The Moviehouse Studio Gallery, 48 Main St., Millerton; Paintings and drawings by Elizabeth Seewald Hill; themoviehouse.net.

“Exposure;” On view through April 10; Mill Street Loft, 45 Pershing Ave., Poughkeepsie; 12th annual national juried photography exhibition for grades 9-12; millstreetloft.org.

“The Beacon Portrait Project” and “CoMFY 15”; Howland Public Library, 313 Main St., Beacon; “CoMFY 15” is on view through April 25; “The Beacon Portrait” is on view through June 14; beaconlibrary.org.

“The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England” Exhibit; On view through June; Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie; Free; 845-437-5370.

UPCOMINGDog Grooming 101; Wednesday, March 25; 6 p.m.; Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook; Learn how to tame your pooch’s coat with tips from Rebecca Kent of Canine-Corner; Free; Reserve a spot at 845-758-3241.

“For the Love of Rivers;” Friday, March 27; 7 p.m.; Cary Institute Auditorium, 2801 Sharon



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Ingredients:1 box of elbow or small shell pasta1 pound hamburger2 cans Ro-Tel diced tomatoes and green chiliesSalt and pepper

Ingredients:½ pint sour cream or plain yogurt½ jar cranberry-orange relish4 boneless chicken breasts½ package of Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix

WEEKEND EATS

"World War I and the End of the Gilded Age" Tour; Sunday, March 22; 1 p.m.; Mills Mansion, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Staatsburg; $8-10; 845-889-8851; facebook.com/StaatsburghSHS

30th Annual Iyoya Children’s Art Show Opening Reception; Sunday, March 22; 2 p.m.; Palmer Gallery, Main Gallery, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie; Exhibition featuring artwork from Hudson Valley students; On view through March 27; 845-437-5370.

The General’s Lady; Sunday, March 22; 2 p.m.; Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, 84 Liberty St., Newburgh; Talk by Ruth Pierpont, New York State deputy commissioner for historic preservation and the presentation of the Martha Washington Woman of History Award; Free; 845-562-1195.

Hudson Valley YA Society; Sunday, March 22; 4 p.m.; Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Featuring authors Andrew Smith, Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black; Free with RSVP required; [email protected].

Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby First Bout of the Season; Sunday, March 22; 6 p.m.; Hyde Park Roller Magic, 4178 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park; Portion of proceeds will benefit the Grace Smith House; $10; horrorsrollerderby.com.

“Works on Paper;” On view through March 22; Tivoli Artists Gallery, 60 Broadway, Tivoli; 845-757-2667.

"La Cage Aux Follies;" Through March 22; The Center for Performing Arts, Rte. 308, Rhinebeck; Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein will be presented by Up In One Productions; $25-27; 845-876-3080; centerforperformingarts.org.

Queen City Pride pops up in PoughkeepsieThe Middle Main Initiative and the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center will officially open the

POK Pop-Up Shop to the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center gallery at 317 Main Street, Pough-keepsie this week. The POK Pop-Up Shop will feature items for sale that are Poughkeep-sie branded or Poughkeepsie made. The goal of the pop-up shop is to generate pride in Poughkeepsie and provide a space for local artists and merchants to sell their wares.

The POK Pop-Up Shop will open on Friday, March 20 with a Poughkeepsie Pride-themed launch party from noon to 2 p.m. to kick off Queen City Weekend. Regular hours for the shop will be Tuesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Featured items in the Pop-Up Shop include merchandise from the Poughkeepsie Un-derwear Factory, the Middle Main Initiative, the Poughkeepsie Bicycle Advocates and other groups and local artists working to enhance the quality of life in the Queen City.

Proceeds will support creative place-making strategies for Main Street, the redevelop-ment of the innovative community space in the Underwear Factory, Poughkeepsie bicy-cling tours, arts activities and more.


WEEKEND EVENTSCraven’s Nightmare, top, and Roxy Ramalotte lead the pack. Photos by Greg Paret.

BY LAURA J. [email protected]

Women’s roller derby season is in full swing in the Hudson Valley, with local teams DracuLadies and ApocaLips going head-to-head on March 22 at Hyde Park Roller Magic. This spectator-friendly sport, wherein women in roller skates trying to pass each other by any means necessary (sometimes by using force), is also full of positive attributes like teamwork, charity and a whole lot of fun.

Modern women’s roller derby began when famed sportswriter Damon Runyon noticed crowds going wild when women collided during standard skate derbies – which began in the early 1930s as pure endurance competitions. So Runyon, along with Chicago-based promoter Leo Seltzer, began popularizing full-contact women’s races.

By the 1960s and into the 1970s, women’s roller derby began to devolve into a cheesy, fake-fighting form of entertainment, not unlike Hulk Hogan-type wrestling. However, contemporary roller derby has a much more post-punk, campy, DIY aesthetic, including plenty of tattoos, makeup and sequins.

The rules of roller derby are schoolchild-simple: knock each other down. (For those who’d like to geek-out on point systems and play-by-plays, please Wiki away!)

Danielle Loftus (a.k.a. Bonnie Black Block, which is her derby name when she skates with the Hudson Valley Horrors) spoke to Hudson Valley Weekend about the joys of roller derby and the reward of giving back.

The Hyde Park–based league “started in 2006 at the beginning of the sport’s revival,” said Loftus. “Now we have a junior league for girls 9 to 17, boot camps, and of course, teams that play at home and a traveling group.”

“Roller derby is an all-woman sport – it’s empowering and pushes you to do try new things, challenges, and we’re very supportive of each other,” said Loftus. “Women play roller derby as a sport. The sexy outfits, a bit of a throwback to the ’70s, are still worn, but we want to be seen as athletes, no just girls in tights.”

For each bout (match), the teams of the Hudson Valley Horrors selects a local charity and gives a portion of their proceeds to them. The March 22 game will benefit the Grace Smith House in Poughkeepsie. “We’re a very close family, very community oriented,” says Loftus, “and this refuge for women and children fleeing domestic violence is dear

HELL ON WHEELSHudson Valley roller derby season laces up

to our hearts. Most of our members also volunteer on their own as well.” For women interested in the fitness, joy and camaraderie that roller derby delivers, it’s

not an easy path. Loftus said, “We have tryouts once a year and we encourage bootcamp for newbies pre-tryouts, so that you’re comfortable on wheels. Then each new member goes through a three-month ‘fresh meat’ period, where they hone their skills—it’s a hellish time. Once they pass, then they do scrimmaging with other teams.” Members of the DracuLadies and ApocopaLips “practice every Monday and Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m.,” Loftus said.

“We have a huge age range, from 9-year-olds in the junior leagues to women in their mid-50s who are grandmothers,” said Loftus. “We leave practice really tired and ready for bed. Some people will see changes in the way they feel and how they act, even when they are not skating.”

Bottom line, says Loftus, “No matter where you go, no matter what event you go to, if you skate in a derby league, you always fit in with other participants. Automatically, you’re family to a group of women that spans the globe.”

See the DracuLadies and the ApocaLips go head-to-head on March 22 at Hyde Park Roller Magic, 4178 Albany Post Road. Doors open at 6 p.m., the bout begins at 6:30. Tickets are $10, available through BrownPaperTickets.com, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Grace Smith House.

Mid-Hudson Misfits ‘Brave the Shave’ for fight against childhood cancer

BY HV NEWS WEEKEND STAFFOphelia Knockers and Square Broot of the Mid-Hudson Misfits roller derby squad took part in “Brave the Shave” over the weekend, shedding their locks to raise money for the fight against childhood cancer. See the full video from the event that benefitted St. Baldrick’s on Hudson Valley Weekend’s Facebook page.

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900 times. And think about the ways in which this family-centered movie infl uenced people during the Vietnam war and the days of the counterculture. And how did the actual von Trapps respond to the fi lm? O tempora, o mores!

Pick it up, put it down. That’s been the story of this reader’s life this week, as far as novels are concerned. I tried at least six, but with no luck. May’s the month, I should know by now, so I’ll wait patiently, and meanwhile read lots of nonfi ction and memoirs.

Mothers? Everybody has, or had, one, and rare is the daughter who’d claim that relationship to be confl ict-free, smooth sailing, and perfect. Alice Eve Cohen has given us a truly wise and delightful “study” of mothers in her new memoir, “The Year My Mother Came Back” (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $24).

Cohen speaks here not only about her mother, and the bond that they shared, but about her own adopted daughter – who wants to seek out her birth mother – and her biological daughter as well. What is it like to be both a mother and a daughter at the same time? Cohen’s story is one of reunion, in many ways, and an assertion that “you don’t have to be perfect to be a good mother.” Her book, Cohen said in an interview, is about “revisiting my relationship with my mother three decades after her death, when a year of crisis in my life brings her back in a fl ood of memories.”

And then a big switch in tone to Kevin Sessums’s memoir with the wonderful title, “I Left It On the Mountain” (St. Martin’s Press, $26). I was not familiar with Sessums, nor had I read his fi rst memoir (with the delightful tile “Mississippi Sissy”) but I soon realized that this fi ne writer had an extraordinary story to tell, and a great voice to tell it in. Describing himself as “a bald gay guy” of 53, he recaps his Mississippi boyhood, then takes his readers on his climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro – “a journey toward self-forgiveness.” He speaks of his jobs at Interview magazine, and at Vanity Fair, and of his loneliness at age 50, assuaged by the acquisition of two dogs, about whom he writes with great alacrity and love.

The central story of the book is his walk across the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and the question, “Does the Camino change you, or do you become even more the person you’ve always been?” Follow him on his outer and inner journeys as he decides to “reinvent himself” – and face his demons. Indeed, he concludes, we are “fi xable.” This book is a triumph.

Imagine, if you can, a world without trees…. Time for a book of nonfi ction, just for a change of pace,

before going back to the world of YA fi ction and more questions about monsters. If you love trees, and are concerned with the fate of the ecosystem, pick up a copy of Jim Robbins’s book, now in paperback, “The Man Who Planted Trees – A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet” ( Spiegel & Grau, $16). It’s the story of a heroic man, David Milarch, who undertook a mission to clone the world’s biggest and oldest trees to preserve their genetics. This is his story, and also the story of the fate of trees on a planet with a rapidly changing climate. Trees, we learn, will become increasingly important as the planet warms.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book at a time. As I read the memoirs and the monster stories – moments at a time, pick it up, put it down – I also picked up (and put down) several novels, some of them permanently, others to pick up later, “when I have more time.” But one of those novels deserves “unlimited attention,” Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Discreet Hero.” This is by far the fi nest work of fi ction I’ve read in months….so back to it now! More on this one next week. Enjoy the sunshine!

Ann La Farge left her longtime book publishing job to do freelance editing and

writing. She divides her time between New York City and Millbrook, and can be reached at [email protected].

Keeping it weirdBY ANN LA FARGE

What kinds of books are our kids reading these days? And why? Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant tackle that question for us in their new, big (450-page) book, “Monstrous Affections – An Anthology of Beastly Tales” (Candlewick Press, a Junior Library Guild Selection, $23). Kelly Link will join others on Sunday, March 22, at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck as part of the “Keep YA Weird” event that will take place at 4 p.m. Hmmmm.

“Let’s be honest,” the authors suggest in the introduction. “We have questions about monsters. That’s why we put this book together…” Monsters, we learn, “are a sign that something is wrong with the world. …If monsters exist, then the world is larger and stranger that we ever hoped it could be.” We, the readers, are then presented with a pop quiz. Aw, go on, take the quiz. Then read the stories… and then let’s all try to fi gure

out the answer to that question: Why is the weird so popular? Better yet, ask a teenager.

On the other hand, there’s nostalgia – and the fun of remembering the music and movies and maybe even the books that an earlier generation revered. Many memories surfaced as I read Tom Santopietro’s new book, “The Sound of Music – How a Beguiling Young Novice, a Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing vonTrapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time” (St. Martin’s Press, $27). How many times did the kids insist on seeing this movie? This month marks its 50th anniversary, and the book includes interviews with some of the actors, and even with Johannes von Trapp himself. Read what the critics had to say (not all positive!) and hear from a woman in Wales who has seen the fi lm over


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ART: The Rotary Clubs of District 7210 Hudson Valley are recruiting for the Rotary Peace Fellowship, a generous program that gives about 100 fellows the opportunity to obtain a professional development certifi cate or a master’s degree in Peace and Confl ict Resolution. The Fellowship includes tuition and fees, room and board, round-trip transportation, and more. Successful candidates study at one of six university Rotary Peace Centers around the world: Australia, England, Japan, Sweden, the United States and Thailand. Interested applicants should contact Bill Bassett at 845-361-4732 or at [email protected] before April 1. For more information, visit www.rotary.org/rotarycenters and http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en.pdf/084en.pdf

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Send your best photos from around the Hudson Valley to [email protected] by midnight on Mondays to be our featured photo in print and online!

ART: The Olana Partnership and Columbia County Council on the Arts announce a Call for Entries for artists wishing to be considered for the fourth annual Plein Air event at Olana, “Creating Landscapes Within the Landscape,” taking place July 9-12, 2015. Participat-ing artists will paint on location throughout Olana’s 250-acre artist-designed landscape. The deadline for all submissions is midnight Saturday, April 18th. For a prospectus contact Cynthia Mulvaney, Executive Director at Columbia County Council on the Arts at [email protected] or 518 671 6213.

Cohen speaks here not only about her mother, and the bond that they shared, but about her own adopted daughter – who wants to seek out her birth mother – and her biological daughter as well. What is it like to be both a mother and a daughter at the same time? Cohen’s story is one of reunion, in many ways, and an assertion that “you don’t have to be perfect to be a good mother.” Her book, Cohen said in an interview, is about “revisiting my relationship with my mother three decades after her death, when a year of crisis in my life brings her back in a fl ood of memories.”

And then a big switch in tone to Kevin Sessums’s memoir with the wonderful title, (St. Martin’s Press, $26). I was not familiar with Sessums,

What kinds of books are our kids reading these days? And why? Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant tackle that question for us in their new,

“Monstrous Affections – An (Candlewick Press, a

Junior Library Guild Selection, $23). Kelly Link will join others on Sunday, March 22, at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck as part of the “Keep YA Weird”

quiz. Then read the stories… and then let’s all try to fi gure

BY HV NEWS STAFFHaley Hines, family member and future employee

of the Holy Cow in Red Hook, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor when she was 2 ½-years-old.

Haley, now 8-years-old, has been tumor free for two years but continues with check-ups at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. In response to the wonderful care and love exhibited to Haley and her family by St. Jude, Holy Cow is organizing its fi fth annual Clown Cake Breakfast.

Volunteers from the community will be helping to cook and serve pancakes, sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs, juice and coffee. Go join the gang as they have fun raising awareness and money for St Jude.

Turnpike, Millbrook; Presentation by Colorado State University professor Dr. Kurt Fausch; Free; 845-677-7600 ext. 121.

Swing Dance to the Gordon Webster Sextet; Friday, March 27; 8 p.m.; Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, 135 S. Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie; $10-15; 845-454-2571; hudsonvalleydance.org.

Easter Egg Hunt; Saturday, March 28; 10 a.m. - noon; Grinnell Library, 2642 E. Main St., Wappingers Falls; Indoor egg hunt with a visit with Mr. Bunny; Free; 845-297-3428.

Bee Bee the Clown Book Release Party; Saturday, March 28; 10:30 a.m.; Red Hook Public Library, 7444 S. Broadway, Red Hook; Award-winning entertainer Jackie Reynolds will perform and answer questions about her new books; Free; 845-758-3241.

Easter Egg Hunt; Saturday, March 28; 11 a.m.; Forsyth Park, Lucas Ave., Kingston; Free; 845-481-3534; juniorleaguekingston.org.

"Pete Seeger: The Storm King;" Saturday, March 28; 4 p.m.; Wallace Center, FDR Library, Rte. 9, Hyde Park; Audio-visual presentation of Seeger's words set to live music and video; Free with registration required; 845-486-7745.


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HOLY COW’S 5TH ANNUAL CLOWN CAKE AND

PANCAKE BREAKFASTSaturday, March 21; 8 - 11 a.m.

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An American Dream and Italian Cuisine now on Exhibit Culinary Institute special collection celebrates centennial of Francesco GiambelliBY HV NEWS WEEKEND STAFF

To mark the centennial of Francesco “Frank” Giambelli’s birth, a new addition to The Culinary Institute of America’s archives and special collections is now on exhibit in the college’s Conrad N. Hilton Library in Hyde Park. The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Collection is a delightful illustration of the American Dream becoming a reality.

The photographs, menus, tableware, restaurant memorabilia, awards and correspondence serve as examples of the success of a hardworking immigrant who established a traditional-style, high-end restaurant that excelled because of attentive service and noteworthy cuisine.

Giambelli had a long career as proprietor of one of the most celebrated Italian restaurants in New York City. The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation donated items to the CIA that follow his life and career from Voghera, Italy, where he was born in 1915 and opened his fi rst restaurant in 1948, to America, where he met his wife and launched a restaurant that would serve New Yorkers for more than 50 years. Giambelli 50th, known for its impeccable service and authentic Northern Italian cuisine, was a place where both U.S. presidents and tourists were welcomed and entertained by the Giambellis and their staff. It closed in 2009, three years after Giambelli’s death.

Three notable events in his career are also depicted in the exhibit: purchasing an 1878 bottle of Chateau Lafi te Rothschild, hosting Pope John Paul II, and being awarded the Guinness World Record for buying the largest white truffl e ever at auction (2.4 pounds. for $41,000).

Highlights of the Francesco and Mary Giambelli Collection will be on display in the library’s Tober Exhibit Room through April 9. It is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The collection is part of a larger gift to the college from the foundation, which includes a statue of Mercurio from Giambelli’s restaurant, now on permanent display in the Francesco and Mary Giambelli Atrium Lobby in the CIA’s Marriott Pavilion.

Clown cake breakfast in Red Hook supports St. Jude

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Annual Penny Social; Saturday, March 28; 5:30 p.m.; Stanford Grange Hall, 6043 Rte. 82, Stanfordville; 845-233-5717 or 845-868-7869.

Author Abigail Thomas on “What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir;” Saturday, March 28; 7 p.m.; Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck; Free; 845-876-0500.

Spring Tea Party; Sunday, March 29; noon - 2 p.m.; Hudson Valley Community Center Auditorium, 110 S. Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie; Fundraiser for the Sol Silver Early Childhood Center; $35; 845-471-0430.

Sukey Molley in Concert; Tuesday, March 31; 10:30 a.m.; Millbrook Library, Friendly Ln., Millbrook; Sing-along and dance for ages 6 and under; 845-677-3611 ext. 4.

“Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards in to Battlegrounds;” Wednesday, April 1; 5 p.m.; Sanders Classroom Building, room 212, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie; Jim Sterna examines 20th century wildlife conservation efforts; Free; 845-437-5370.

“Lobby Hero” by Kenneth Lonergan; April 2-26; Carpenter Shop Theater, Broadway, Tivoli; tangent-arts.org.

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weekend field notes Running with the Irish in the RondoutPHOTOS BY NICOLE DELAWDER

The annual Shamrock Run and St. Patrick’s Day parade filled Kingston’s historic Rondout neighborhood with Irish glee on Sunday. While there were 534 runners donning traditional Irish kilts, the Shamrock Run fell short of the Guiness World Record of 1,764 runners in kilts. Full photo gallery at thehudsonvalleynews.com and on our Facebook pages.

Baptist home celebrates St. Pat’s in Rhinebeck

BY JIM LANGAN

Residents of the Baptist Home in Rhinebeck celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday. Family and friends were treated to Irish treats and a

performance by the D’Amby Project.


The following is an excerpt from the 2014 Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook

LOCAL HISTORY


Zimmer Brothers Jewelers and the Poughkeepsie Tower ClockBY MICHAEL D. AND DEBORAH ZIMMER GORDON

In 1858, when Poughkeepsie was surrounded by rolling land and the sound of a church bell could be heard for more than a few miles, an important landmark was erected on the southwest corner of Main and Little Washington Streets in the center of downtown Poughkeepsie, the New First Reformed Church was dedicated on September 7, replacing the old church which had been destroyed by fire the preceding year, on January 18, 1857.

The Tower ClockThe new church was a magnificent edifice with a 65-foot tower

that contained a four-faced clock. Its six-foot dial, which could be seen from practically anywhere in the city, and the sound of its huge bell soon became well known. The clock became known as the “tower clock” and later the “town clock.” The church became known as “the town clock church.” In October 1913, there was another major change: the congregation of the First Reformed Church decided to join the congregation of the Second Reformed Church and moved in with them on Hooker Avenue, Poughkeepsie. After the last service in the tower clock church on October 12, 1913, the clock was given into the care of the Poughkeepsie common council.

The common council maintained the clock and passed a resolution declaring it the official city clock. The empty church stood until late in 1919 when it was torn down to make way for the construction of the Strand Building. In early 1921, the clock was relocated into the tower of the Strand on the same site at Main and Little Washington Streets.

History of Zimmer Brothers Jewelers Meanwhile, we shift our attention to the firm of Zimmer Brothers Jewelers. Zimmer

Brothers was founded in Poughkeepsie in 1893 by Thomas J. Zimmer, Jr. Thomas began his jewelry career as an apprentice in Poughkeepsie at the age of fourteen. He became an accomplished manufacturing jeweler and moved to New York City. In the city, Thomas became shop foreman for the former George O. Street Co., a firm known widely in the trade for their fine quality and craftsmanship. While at George O. Street, Thomas specialized in work for Tiffany & Co. Thomas returned to Poughkeepsie and, in 1893, opened his first store. A few years later, he was joined in the business by his brother, Fred, a master watchmaker.

After Fred’s untimely death in 1911 at the age of 49, Thomas bought out his late brother’s interest in the store and was joined by his youngest son, Leonard Sr. in 1914. Leonard was a graduate of the Philadelphia School of Horology where he had learned watchmaking, hand engraving and jewelry manufacturing. Leonard eventually took over the business and guided it through the perils of the Depression years and World War II.

Leonard Sr.’s oldest son, Leonard Jr. joined the firm in February 1948. In those years, Zimmer’s windows, along with the artful skill of Leonard Jr. as a jeweler, became recognized in the Mid-Hudson area.

Zimmer’s won a number of national awards and industry-wide acclaim. After Leonard Sr. passed away in 1962, Leonard Jr. continued to run the business. In 1970, Leonard’s older daughter, Deborah, married Michael Gordon; he joined the firm a year later.

The Vicissitudes of the Town Clock and Rescue by Zimmer BrothersIn 1924, the city contracted with Zimmer Brothers to take care of the winding

and servicing of the huge tower clock. This arrangement worked very well and three generations of Zimmers made the weekly trek up the tower to wind the weights that drove the heavy gears. When the church was torn down, the large 4,000-pound bell was removed. The bell, cast in Sheffield, England, just prior to its installation in 1858, was not reunited with the clock in the Strand Building.

In the late 1950s, the city lost interest in maintaining the clock. The Colonial Theatre organization erected a large steel and neon sign on the east side of the tower, covering the east face of the clock, thus, cutting two of the Roman numerals off and using the clock’s steel frame as a support for their sign.

Early in 1972, as the Strand Building was being demolished, the old clock got a reprieve. Poughkeepsie Jeweler, Leonard Zimmer Jr., grandson of the first Zimmer to wind the clock, climbed up the tower along with his son-in-law (this author), and saved the three undamaged faces of the clock. It was an eleventh-hour rescue, the kind you see in the movies, with the wreckers’ shovel bucket taking bites out of the southwest end of the building, that old tower swaying and groaning with each bite. A wet mixture of snow and rain was falling that made the task a bit more difficult.

The most well-preserved of the faces of the clock was painstakingly restored by hand by Mr. Zimmer himself. New hands were cut from cedar wood to the exact measurements of the weather-ravaged originals. A pattern of the clock was made on paper and new panels, cut from a frosty Lucite, were cut and fitted to replace the opaque glass. The new electric movement was custom-made by a Massachusetts firm and fitted into the building. On August 24, 1973, the Poughkeepsie tower clock was installed on the face of the newly enlarged and remodeled Zimmer Brother Building on the Main Mall.

On September 5, 1973, the Poughkeepsie common council unanimously resolved “that the restored ‘Poughkeepsie Tower Clock’ now situated on the face of the Zimmer Building overlooking the Main Mall be, and it hereby is, designated the ‘official clock’ of the City of Poughkeepsie.”

Interest in the clock was strong. When word of its restoration was carried by the Poughkeepsie Journal, Zimmer Brothers was deluged with phone calls and letters of reminiscence from people who remembered the grand old clock, each from a different angle and direction as they had grown up.

In 1973, Zimmer Brothers issued a bronze coin, depicting the Poughkeepsie Tower Clock, in honor of the clock’s 115 years in Poughkeepsie and Zimmer Brothers’ 80 years; 10,000 coins in bronze and 50 coins in silver were struck. The bronze coins were given to the public at the grand opening of Zimmer’s newly enlarged store on downtown Poughkeepsie’s Main Mall.

In 1986, Zimmer Brothers built a new store on Raymond Avenue in the Arlington section of Poughkeepsie and installed a second restored dial from the clock on the front of the building. The third dial was donated back to the Reformed Church, who gave it back to Zimmer’s in 2007. This third dial was installed on an interior wall as part of the store’s renovation in 2008.

The New First Reformed Church at the corner of Main and Little Washington Streets in Poughkeepsie with the four-sided Tower

Clock and church bell, built 1858.

The Zimmer Brothers store in the Arlington section of Poughkeepsie, built 1986. One of the faces of the Tower Clock installed on the facade.

Business card of Zimmer Brothers store, 1918.


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‘The Farmer’s MBA Program’The Cornell Cooperative Extension

Dutchess County (CCEDC) is hosting a business plan development program in an effort to provide farmers and fruit and vegetable growers with the plan they will need to obtain funding. A solid business plan is one of the fi rst pieces of information that lenders will want to see. Creating, updating and putting into practice a solid business plan is the focus of this course. Whether you have an existing business plan that needs some updating or you just don’t know where to begin, this is the class for you. It will be held on Tuesday, March 24 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 25 from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the Dutchess County Farm & Home Center, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook.

The cost is $25 per farm (up to two people from the same farm are included in the price). For more information and to register, please contact Nancy at the 845-677-8223 ext. 115 or [email protected]. Prepayment is required.

Library Spring Egg HuntThe Clinton Community Library

invites the community children to their free Spring Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4 from 10 a.m. to noon at the library. All tiny patrons are welcome to hunt. There will be two age groups to make the hunt more fair. The children are requested to bring their own baskets to carry the eggs they collect. The library is located at 1215 Centre Road (County Route 18, north of Schultzville). For more information, call the library at 845-266-5530 or visit clinton.lib.ny.us.

Mount St. Mary College Inaugurates Sixth President

The Mount Saint Mary College community and cherished friends celebrated the inauguration of Dr. Anne Carson Daly, the college’s sixth president, on March 12. Succeeding Father Kevin E. Mackin, OFM, STD, Dr. Daly was appointed unanimously by the college’s board of trustees after a competitive nationwide search.

Before coming to the Mount, Dr. Daly served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, where she led more than 160 full- and part-time

faculty; oversaw the educational program of almost 1,700 students; supervised more than 50 majors, minors and concentrations; and managed the staff, budgets, and programs of all academic departments. Dr. Daly also helped to lead the college through its 10-year re-accreditation. During part of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, Dr. Daly served as the second-in-command at the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement, which advised the president, the congress and the secretary of education on educational matters nationwide. From 1994 through 2000, at Pfi zer, Inc., the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, Dr. Daly supervised policy communications on fi ve continents. She earned her B.A. in English and history from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Johns Hopkins, the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she co-translated a major work on the founding of the Jesuits from French to English, and has penned more than 80 articles and reviews on a wide array of topics, including literature, religion, architecture, education and business. She has also given more than 100 lectures throughout the United States and Europe.

The inauguration ceremony was held in Aquinas Hall Theater. The Half Moon Brass Quintet, accompanied by an organ, provided the music for the academic procession and recessional. The academic processional was very impressive with the mace bearer, fl ag bearers, grand marshals, the faculty in their academic robes, 36

presidents and delegates from institutions of higher education in variously colored academic robes, student leaders, the board of trustees and administration council, and fi nally the president’s party. The college’s charter and the ceremonial mace, which is emblazoned with the college’s motto “doce me veritatem” (teach me the truth), were presented to Dr. Daly.

Then Dr. Daly gave her inaugural ad-dress. She thanked the many faculty, staff, students, and friends of the college who made the inauguration celebration possible, as well as the Dominican Sisters of Hope who founded the college more than 50 years ago. The new president noted that the col-lege’s focus on the liberal arts and “the triad of goodness, truth and beauty” rose out of the Dominican commitment to prayer and learning. “The liberal arts open the mind and heart, not only freeing the soul from preju-dice and ignorance and pettiness, but also helping to free it for justice, and generosity, and wisdom,” Dr. Daly explained.

Church Luncheon for Seniors The Evangelical Free Church of Clinton

Corners held its free senior luncheon on March 3 in the church hall. The luncheon had an Irish theme including the meal. The beautiful sunny day brought a large crowd. Tom Fiorino came from Poughkeepsie to play background piano music from the 40s and 50s to the delight of the attendees before the luncheon started.

The whitetable cloth had two votive candles in a medium sized vase with a green garland with gold and green shamrocks surrounding the vase. The centerpiece was a kelly green plastic hat with a small Irish

fl ag and a Gaelic blessing stuck in it. To fi nish the theme, green plates, napkins and cups were used.

Dee Hoiem introduced Matt Plumeri, a discharged Marine from the Town of Washington. At an earlier senior luncheon, the group heard of Matt’s desire to bring home his mine-sniffi ng dog and the group made donations to help the dog and Matt be reunited again. Matt came to express his thanks to the seniors, and to introduce them to his dog, Gulliver. While deployed for seven months in Afghanistan, the pair did about 60 patrols to fi nd mines and protect the lives of his fellow Marines and himself. On December 20, 2013, Matt returned to San Diego and inquired if he could adopt Gulliver. He had to wait until Gulliver was trained to be a civilian dog and Matt had to get the funds to bring Gulliver home with him. Matt is going to Marist College now and has three semesters to go before graduation. Marist students started a fund drive to bring Gulliver to Matt. Now that Gulliver is here, he is learning to adjust to the cold weather and the snow. As Matt quickly left for class, he told everyone thanks for their donations and help.

The speaker was Mike Gray who is an architect, contractor and church member. He sang while playing a guitar the Psalms from the Bible that he wrote music for. He gave a personal testimony that for 20 to 30 years he had various medical problems which were all fi nally determined to be heart problems. God helped him through the recovery process. His conversion to a Christian life helped him, and with the support of a medical staff, allowed him to mostly recover.

Dee Hoiem thanked Gray for his concert and gave a brief closing prayer. Thanks were given to the church for providing the luncheon, the church members and Upton Lake Christian School staff and students for cooking, serving, setting up and cleaning up. The next luncheon will be held on April 7.

Ray Oberly currently serves as the town supervisor for Clinton. To respond to his column, email [email protected].

Dr. Anne Carson Daly’s inauguration as the sixth president of Mount Saint Mary College with Ray Oberly representing Lehigh University at a ceremony on March 12.


around town

BY HEIDI JOHNSON

Spring is sprung! Well, almost. The Vernal Equinox will be this Friday, Mar. 20 at 6:45 p.m. The snow is almost all melted, and mud is everywhere. Alas. But, that’s the price we pay for warmer weather – all that frost has to melt. I won’t promise there will be no more snow, but that seems to be the prediction of most climate models. Don’t put away the snow shovels yet, but if, like me, you have studded snow tires, remember that those do have to come off by April 30. I’ll probably take mine off well before then and take my chances. Not just yet, though…that would be inviting a snowstorm!

Along with the better weather comes the Spring musical season. High schools throughout the Hudson Valley are performing their spring shows. We have friends who have recently played in “Mary Poppins” (Coleman High School), “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying” (Hyde Park), and “The Adams Family” (Arlington). This coming weekend we are sad to miss “Gypsy” at Red Hook High School. We won’t be able to attend the Red Hook show because it is the same weekend as the Stissing Theatre Guild performance of “The Wizard of Oz.”

Now I know if you have been reading my column every week for the past month, you are probably getting a bit tired of my pitching this show. I just really don’t want anyone to miss out on seeing a truly fi ne production. As I write this column, we are in the middle of Tech Sunday, which is where the cast and crew fi rst get to work with sound, lighting and full costumes. It’s a long day for all of us, but it’s where we fi nally get a taste of what the show will be like. Our lighting director this year is Rob Cordella, a Pine Plains graduate who has gone on to a career as a professional lighting designer. Pretty cool!

“Wizard” will be up to the high standards of STG – professional, exciting and full of high-energy dance numbers. Check it out. Shows are this coming Friday and Saturday, Mar. 20-21 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Mar. 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets available by calling the box offi ce at 518-398-1272, or go to seatyourself.biz/stgboxoffi ce to purchase tickets online.

The show is very family friendly, and the auditorium is also suitable for seniors

and handicapped patrons. So, bring both grandma and the kids! It’s going to be a fantastic show.

Stissing Mountain Girls Basketball Goes to States!Really big news this week, in case

you haven’t heard: The “Lady Bombers” (Stissing Mountain girls varsity basketball team) defeated Pierson/Bridgehampton to win the Class C regional fi nal last week. The win earned them a place in the state tournament – the fi rst girls’ team to make the fi nal four in 10 years. The semi-fi nal game will be this coming Saturday at 2:15 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy vs. Northern Adirondack.

Congratulations to the entire team for a superb season so far and…go get ‘em on Saturday!

“Prom Closet” Dress DriveThe National Honor Society at Stissing

Mountain High School is sponsoring a Dress Drive for their Prom Closet. The dresses will be distributed to students that cannot afford the high cost of a new gown. If you have a prom-suitable dress you would like to donate, please bring it to the high school between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., now through Apr. 9. For more information, call 518-398-7181 ext. 1108.

Upcoming Library Programs• If you get this paper in time, you

can still make it to the book signing and magic show at the library today with Bee Bee the Clown (aka Jackie Reynolds). There are two events today, Mar. 18 – one at 10:45 a.m. and the other at 2 p.m. Jackie will be signing her two new books: “Bee Bee’s Circus

Number Fun” and “Bee Bee’s Circus at the Counting Fair.” She will also read and sign books, which will be available for purchase. And, she’ll also perform a magic and puppet show. Come out and support our beloved Bee Bee, and support her new endeavor as a writer!

• Internet Security: Tonight is also an identity theft presentation by an investigator from the State Police Computer Crime Unit. Starts at 6:30 p.m.

• Vegetable Gardening: Coming up on Saturday, Apr. 11, at 10 a.m., the library will present a how-to class on starting a vegetable garden. The class will be taught by Lorraine Seach of Cornell Co-operative Extension. This event is a ways off yet, but be sure to mark your calendars because this class sounds interesting.

• Thursday Movies: This week’s fi lm is “St. Vincent,” the story of Maggie, a single mother, who moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her 12-year-old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she

has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for alcohol and gambling. Rated PG 13 – 1 hr. 42 min.

• Alzheimer’s Association presentation: Monday, Apr. 20 at 2 p.m. “Understanding and Responding to Dementia Behavior.” Learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers, and strategies to help intervene with some of the common behavioral challenges.Please call the library to pre-register

for any of the above programs at 845-868-1341. And a reminder that the AARP tax help program is still ongoing every Friday until Apr. 1. Call 2-1-1 to make an appointment. During the call, you will be instructed what paperwork is needed for your session.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! See you all next week.

Heidi Johnson can be reached at 845-392-4348 or [email protected].

Read Rev. Chuck Kramer’s favorite columns from the Hudson Valley News and

more! To get your copy, visit the reverend at St. James’ Episcopal Church in Hyde

Park, or email him at [email protected]

The cast of “The Wizard of Oz” rehearses a scene in preparation for this weekend’s performances. Photo by Tim Hennessy.

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LOCAL HISTORY

BY HV NEWS STAFFThe Town of Hyde Park Historical Society is looking for names and addresses of families who had members or friends volunteer

in the 1940s as “spotters” in the WWII Aircraft Warning Service building. The building is located on Violet Avenue, across from the Rhinebeck Bank in Hyde Park. They are planning to unveil a historic marker sometime this Spring and would like to invite those families, and anyone else interested, to join them at the ceremony.

If you know anyone that would like to attend this unveiling ceremony, please call or send an email to Patsy Costello at [email protected] or call 845-229-2559 so they can invite them. This WWII historic marker was selected for a grant from The William G. Pomeroy Foundation, and coordinated by Carol Kohan, historical society member and Hyde Park town historian.

The WWII Aircraft Warning Service building in Hyde Park. Photos were submitted by Jeannette Phelps, shown in the picture with her sister Penelope. Their father, Pierson Phelps, was one of the spotters.

Recent HistoryIn the 1970s and later, the business

continued to grow with the partnership of Leonard Zimmer Jr. and his son-in-law, Michael Gordon. They opened a store in the South Hills Mall in 1979 and another in the Galleria in 1991. In 2001, Michael and Deborah’s daughter, Jocelyn, joined the firm. Jocelyn’s eye for fashion and design, along with her excitement and natural ability to connect with customers has added a fresh dimension to the store.

Sadly, Leonard Jr. passed away in 2008 after 60 years with Zimmer Brothers Jewelers, but he did have the good fortune to see his son-in-law and grand-daughter working with him in the business he loved.

Requests for the Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook can be made at [email protected] or 845-471-1630.

WWII Spotters to be recognized in Hyde Park

Troopers honored for valor by American LegionBY HV NEWS STAFF

On March 6, three members of the New York State Police Troop K, were recognized by the American Legion for acts of valor and heroism.

Trooper David G. Rose was awarded the Medal of Valor for actions he took to disarm a distraught veteran in the Town of New Lebanon in July 2013. After successfully engaging the despondent, non-communicative person in dialog about his military service, he convinced the young man to release the shotgun he was threatening to harm himself with.

Trooper Matthew Colwell received the Gold Star of Heroism for two separate acts of heroism. The first incident, which occurred in October of 2013, involved his response to a report of a child being unable to gain entry to his residence in Livingston after returning from school. Trooper Colwell took swift and decisive action by utilizing a neighbors ladder to access a second story window into the home. He subsequently located the child’s mother suffering from life-threatening, self-inflicted lacerations. He was able to notify rescue personnel and administer critical first aid until their arrival, thereby saving her life. The second instance occurred in March 2014 when Trooper Colwell responded to an automatic fire alarm at a retirement home in the Town of Livingston. Upon arrival he observed an apartment engulfed in flames. After successfully evacuating the occupant, he utilized a fire extinguisher from his patrol vehicle to extinguish the fire, which had begun to engulf an entire wall of the residence. His swift actions likely saved the occupant and the entire structure from destruction.

Sergeant Paul E. Strobel received the Gold Star of Heroism for rescuing a mother and her child from a burning residence in July of 2013. Utilizing only a face mask and his training, Sergeant Strobel had to enter the smoke-filled residence to locate and retrieve the victims because they were paralyzed with fear and unable to find their way to the exit.

Pictured, left to right, Trooper Colwell, Sergeant Strobel, County Commander William Hogan, State Commander Frank Peters, Trooper

Rose and Lieutenant Eugene Hallenbeck. Courtesy photo.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Notice of Forma-tion of Lobofit Strength & Condi-tioning, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/14. Office location: Dutchess County Princ. Office of LLC: 807 Main Street, Poughkeep-sie, NY 126030 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any Law-ful activity.

Notice of Forma-tion of Home Eq-uity Assets Realty LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on February 3rd 2015. Office Lo-cation Dutchess. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 430 Main Street, Agawam, Mass 01001. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

T23 CATERING COMPANY, LLC Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organi-zation filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 01/13/15. Office loc. Dutchess County. NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o The LLC, 76 West Road, Pleasant Valley, New York 12569. There is no specific date set for disso-lution. Purpose: to engage in any law-ful activity or act. Name and Business

Address of Orga-nizer is Adeline P. Malone, Esq., 6369 Mill Street, P.O. Box 510, Rhine-beck, NY 12572.

Ginesthoi, LLC. Notice of forma-tion of Limited Li-ability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 01/06/2015. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o Kara DeDonato, 218 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT 06039. There is no specific date for dissolution. Name and address of organizer is Kara DeDonato, 218 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT 06039.

Notice of Formation of Stissing Lake Ad-visors, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secre-tary of State of NY (SSNY) on Febru-ary 9, 2015. Office location, County of Dutchess. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Stissing Lake Advisors, LLC, 156 Lake Road, Pine Plains, NY 12567. Purpose: any law-ful act.

Buttonwood Com-m u n i c a t i o n s Group, LLC, a do-mestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/2/15. Office lo-

Notice of forma-tion of Hudson Valley Hops, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on June 10, 2014. Office in Dutchess County. SSNY has been designated as agent to whom can be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Hudson Valley Hops, LLC, 12 Al-ley Road, Lagrang-eville, NY 12540.

Notice of formation of Pret-a-Metier LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/2/2015. Office location, County of Dutchess. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 36 Tee Ln., Red Hook, NY 12571. Purpose: any lawful act.

146 LINCOLN PLACE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/9/2015. Office in Dutchess Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro-cess to 61 Chestnut St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572. Purpose: Any lawful pur-pose.

agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Shelter Rock Road, Danbury CT 06810. DE address of LLC: U.S. Cor-poration Agents, Inc., 1521 Concord Pike #301, Wilm-ington DE 19803. Cert of Formation filed with Delaware Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful pur-pose.

138 East Market Street, LLC Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Or-ganization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 03/12/2015. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o The LLC, PO Box 657, Rhinebeck, New York 12572. There is no specific date set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ac-tivity or act. Name and Business Ad-dress of Organizer is John R. Marvin, Esq., 44 West Mar-ket Street, P.O. Box 151, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 144 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY 12508. Purpose: any lawful act.

Chris Gilbert En-terprises, LLC Notice of forma-tion of Limited Li-ability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 03/12/2015. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o The LLC, 93 Fraleigh Lane, Red Hook, New York 12571. There is no specific date set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ac-tivity or act. Name and Business Ad-dress of Organizer is John R. Marvin, Esq., 44 West Mar-ket Street, P.O. Box 151, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

Rebound Medical LLC. App. for Auth. Filed with the SSNY on 10/29/2014. Office: Duch-ess County. LLC formed in DE on 07/08/2013. SSNY designated as

location, County of Dutchess. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 29 Hilee Rd., Rhine-beck, NY 12572. Purpose: any lawful act.

AH Photography, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/2/15. Off. Loc.: Dutchess Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2517 Route 44, 11-158, Salt Point, NY 12578. General Purposes.

Gradus Global, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 1/21/15. Office: Dutchess Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 99 Ridgeline Dr. Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Craft Beer Tours, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/2/15. Office: Dutchess County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 24 Long Meadow Drive, Staatsburg, NY 12580. Pur-pose: General.

Notice of Forma-tion of Society of Lash. LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secre-tary of State of NY (SSNY) on January 13. 2015. Office location, County of Dutchess. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC

Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/4/15. Office in Dutchess Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom pro-cess against it may be served & shall mail process to Tate Kunkle, 128 Bangall Road, Mill-brook, NY 12545. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Livingston Park Associates, LLC Notice of forma-tion of Limited Li-ability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 02/27/2015. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o The LLC, 94 Huyler Drive, Hyde Park, New York 12538. There is no specific date set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ac-tivity or act. Name and Business Ad-dress of Organizer is John R. Marvin, Esq., 44 West Mar-ket Street, P.O. Box 151, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

Inner Light Reiki, LLC filed with SSNY on 2/3/15. Office location: Dutchess County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom pro-cess against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Michele Anderson, 91 Bax-ter Road Red Hook, NY 12571. Pur-pose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of forma-tion of Staatsburg Storage LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/2015. Office

Brian Robinson, 161 Forest Avenue, New Rochelle, New York 10804. There is no specific date for dissolution. Purpose: Any law-ful purpose.

Walking Tall Pi-lates and Fitness, 34 Front St, Mill-brook, NY 12545, LLC Articles of organization filed New York Sec. of State 12/30/2014 (“NYSS”). Of-fice Loc. Dutchess County. United States Corporation Agents Inc. (USCA designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. c/o The LLC, P.O. Box 657, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. There is no specific date set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ac-tivity or act. Name and Business Ad-dress of Organizer is Cheyenne c/o Lega lzoom.com Inc., 9900 Spec-trum Drive, Auston, Tx,78717

Wren House, LLCNotice of forma-tion of Limited Li-ability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 02/18/2015. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o The LLC, c/o Michael Ostrow 4312 Al-bany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York 12538. There is no specific date


cation: Dutchess County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 29 Spy Glass Hill Road, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533. Pur-pose: Any lawful purpose.

EMJ Construction, LLC. Notice of for-mation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Art. of Org. filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 11/14/2014. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. NYSS des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any process to Corporation Ser-vice Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. There is no specific date set for dissolution. Pur-pose: to engage is any lawful activity or act. Name and Business Address of Organizer is Eric Jennings, 295 Mountain Road, Stanfordville, NY 12581

Fish Grease En-tertainment, LLC. Notice of forma-tion of Limited Li-ability Company (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed New York Sec. of State (“NYSS”) 10/21/2014. Of-fice loc. Dutchess County. SSNY des-ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any pro-cess to c/o the LLC,

set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ac-tivity or act. Name and Business Ad-dress of Organizer is John R. Marvin, Esq., 44 West Mar-ket Street, P.O. Box 151, Rhinebeck, NY 12572.

Notice of forma-tion of RBU1 GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/10/2015. Office location, County of Dutchess. SSNY has been designat-ed as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 85 Frost Rd., Rhine-beck, NY 12572. Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FOR-MATION OF LIFE SCIENCE QUEST, LLC Articles of Or-ganization were filed with the Secre-tary of State on Feb-ruary 5, 2015. Of-fice of the Compa-ny is to be located in Dutchess Coun-ty. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent upon whom pro-cess may be served. Post office address to which the Sec-retary of State shall mail process is c/o Allstate Corporate Services, 1222 Av-enue M, Suite 201, Brooklyn, New York 12230. The purpose of the business of the Company is any lawful activity.

Kunkle Law Firm, LLC filed with

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