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Register-Star WEEKEND The nation’s second-oldest newspaper • Serving Columbia and Dutchess counties since 1785 Copyright 2020, Columbia-Greene Media All Rights Reserved Price $2.50 Volume 236, No. 226 Saturday-Sunday, November 14-15, 2020 n FORECASTWEATHER FOR HUDSON/CA TODAY TONIGHT SUN Galvan to acquire former theater By Aliya Schneider The pillar paint is also peeling performance art space, but the Columbia-Greene Media and graffiti on the doors accom- project never came to fruition. Sun giving Mostly Mostly HUDSON — The Galvan panies a stapled-on sign that The 16,665-square-foot way to cloudy, p.m. cloudy Foundation on Friday an- reads “Order to Vacate, Danger- building, constructed in the clouds rain nounced plans to purchase the ous and Unsafe” under Hudson mid-1920s, began as Hudson’s HIGH LOW 50 former Hudson Community city code. Community Theater, according Theater building at 614-620 Co- Galvan’s purchase of the to Halstead Real Estate’s Zillow 49 27 37 lumbia St. property could be finalized listing. The large brick building, within the next couple of In January, the property was Complete weather, A2 which has “Community Tennis” months. listed by Halstead for $1.4 mil- engraved atop its distinctive pil- “We expect to complete the lion, according to Brownstoner

020 - C1 Saturday - Sunday, November 14-15, 2 MEDIA COLUMBIA-GREENE lars, is listed for $990,000 on Zil- transaction in January 2021,” Realty in New York City. low, a real estate listing site. Galvan said in a statement Fri- “Later uses were an indoor One marquee in front of the day. tennis court, movie theater, an- The Foundation is purchas- tiques warehouse and market,” SEEKING A SENSE OF old movie theater is lined with calm? beer cans and a coffee cup, and ing the property from artist Ma- according to the listing.

During tense times, Hollywood considers ways“aggressive” to relax movies your activate mentalnerves ag- Classical violinist Jennifer Koh will gression, while research conducted by rina Abramovic, Galvan spokes- But the rest of the building’s perform in a streaming concert Nov. 19 another has peeling paint sur- Courtesy of By STEVEN ZEITCHIK University College London indicated at the Library of Congress. The Washington Post that action movies can even take a toll on Jennifer Koh he modernentertainment busi- the cardiac muscle. ness is adept at putting viewers WELCOME TO SLOW TV in a state of tension — white knuckles, blood-pressure spikes So modern entertainment leaders This month and other bodily responses that have begun seeing another way and tak- ensure sleep stays far away. en steps t o experiment with it. They’re T But this year, the world has taking cues from the “slow television rounding a picture of heavy- man Dan Kent confirmed. storied history also includes Aliya Schneider/Columbia-Greene Media good job of mak- been doing a pretty movement,” an unusual phenomenon offers a host of originating in N orway a decade ago be- ing people tense. So a small but growing number of fi gures in Hollywood have set fore spreading across Europe and toould the in which people w a different goal: producing content that ains roll through the classical music calms. gather to watch tr As a fraught election season reachesm- its countryside and ships cruise on the open seas for hours on end. crescendo amid a devastating pande this spirit, executives at ic, stressing out ev eryone from ordinary Continuing Abramovic, 66, had planned to ViacomCBS’s streaming service Pluto The Columbia Street side of the former Hudson Community streams citizens to government offi cials, these weight champion Muhammad TV licensed a well of content from Ross, Offerings personalities believe soothing shows can First as an app, now as a series on HBO NOVEMBER EVENTS: be both smart business and a cultural ne- ks to help the ultimate soothe-meister, and created Max, “A World of Calm” see a channel devoted to him. If you want range from commissions cessity. Call it the calm collective: a groupn people ease the tensions of a modern of executives and producers offering a HBO Max to see happy little trees spring up every- to opera favorites pandemic world. where — all 380 episodes of them — they antidote to much of what Americans t to a glass- consume on entertainment platforms Central American rainfores are now available on the platform. INSIDEBy MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR networks) these days.TODAY!in H olland. Producers boomlet of British competition Ali, with graffiti below. transform the old theater into a See GALVAN A8 Theater and Community Tennis center. Weed advocates: Legalize COVID safety INSIDE TODAY! with fair distribution rules n SPORTS in effect By Kate Lisa and Sarah Trafton Johnson Newspaper Corp. Local officials cast doubt Fri- day they will enforce the state’s new COVID-19 regulation lim- iting gatherings in private resi- dences to 10 people — one of several new virus rules that went into effect Friday night, begin- ning a nighttime curfew for bars, Record number of gyms and restaurants to curb the spread of the disease. hunters expected Gov. Andrew Cuomo de- Gun season for deer clared executive orders Friday opens in the Southern mandating New York bars, Zone on Saturday, No- gyms and restaurants close each night at 10 p.m. and limiting pri- vember 21. It promises to vate house parties or gatherings be a busy one. to 10 people as COVID-19 cases PAGE B1 increase in the state, mirroring a raging national virus surge and hospitalizations across the n LOCAL globe. No more than 10 people Pet surrenders a will be allowed to gather in any private residence in the state, sign of the times excluding legal residents of the dwelling, as house gatherings Number of pet are expected to increase with surrenders rises at the approaching Thanksgiving C-GHS as owners lose and holiday season through De- jobs, homes to COVID cember. “That is all a problem — we PAGE A5 call it living room spread,” Cuomo said Friday afternoon during a conference call with re- n INDEX porters. “‘Well, I’m just with my family. My family would never Region A3 infect me.’ Your family’s not in Opinion A4 control of it. It’s not that they’re State/Nation A5 doing it intentionally, but your Obituaries A5 family is no safer than any other Melissa Ostrow/Mel O. photo Sports B1 group of people.” Classified B4 Various strains of cannabis flower on display for sale at Canna Provisions dispensary location in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at 380 Dwight St. Primary enforcement of all of Comics/Advice B7-B8 the governor’s executive orders By Kate Lisa Andrew Cuomo said Nov. 5 WAMC. “Even with everything underrepresented urban areas. and pandemic health rules rests On the web with localities. Johnson Newspaper Corp. — two days after Election Day else, we’re still going to need “It’s high time this gets legal- Governor’s office representa- www.HudsonValley360.com Recreational marijuana when voters in neighboring funding, and it’s also the right ized,” Dobson said. tives did not respond to multiple must be legalized fairly in New New Jersey approved a ballot policy. Amnesty must be granted requests for comment Friday York, dispensary owners and measure legalizing cannabis. “I think we’re going to get and records must be expunged about the penalty for violating Follow: hemp farmers said. The state’s mounting budget there this year.” for people with previous mari- @HudsonRegisterstar the private gatherings limit, State officials weigh legaliz- deficit and changing marijuana Benjamin Dobson, founder juana possession charges or who in the household is issued ing adult-use cannabis to join laws in border states will pres- and chief executive officer of convictions — especially wide- a summons and how much they www.facebook.com/ a growing number of states and sure lawmakers to reach a deal Hudson Hemp — a Hudson- spread among people of color will be fined. HudsonRegisterstar/ serve as a potential revenue on recreational marijuana us- based hemp processor that and poor Black and brown Columbia County officials do source to help offset the state’s age, Cuomo said. partners with several hemp communities, Dobson said. not plan to police homes, Co- estimated $50 billion budget “I think this year it is ripe farmers in Columbia, Dutchess “White suburban kids lumbia County Board of Super- deficit over two years caused by because the state is going to and Ulster counties — called weren’t getting stopped and visors Chairman Matt Murell, the COVID-19 pandemic. be desperate for funding — for intelligent legislation that frisked and no more or less of R-Stockport, said. New York is expected to le- even with Biden, even with the would ensure an adequate, them were smoking weed,” “Columbia County officials galize adult recreational use stimulus,” Cuomo said dur- affordable cannabis supply of marijuana this year, Gov. ing a Nov. 5 radio interview on chain in poor rural areas and See WEED A8 See SAFETY A8