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April 16, 2021 Celebrating 10 Years! Support us at highlandscurrent.org/join A Boon for Bender Resigns Beacon Schools from Cold Outside funding changes Spring Board outlook for district Says tone and priorities By Jeff Simms counter to values s recently as December, Ann Marie By Michael Turton Quartironi, the deputy superin- A tendent of the Beacon City School eidi Bender, who was elected to District who oversees the budget, was the Cold Spring Village Board in contemplating cuts. HNovember, resigned on Thursday Because of the pandemic shutdown, (April 15), saying in a statement she could the district faced a 20 percent reduction no longer abide the tone and priorities of in state funding, a far more important the board. source of revenue for Beacon than wealth- Mayor Dave Merandy commented ier districts such as Haldane or Garrison. that the resignation “took everyone by Her daunting job was to figure out which Maya Gelber in The Greek Trilogy, which will be performed at Haldane High School next surprise,” but did not read Bender’s letter programs, or staff, to recommend that the week Photo by Jim Mechalakos of resignation into the record. Bender school board cut first. earlier provided a copy to The Current. There were several moving parts at Bender and Trustee Fran Murphy did play. The district knew it would receive not attend the meeting, which was held an infusion of federal pandemic relief The Shows Will Go On! via Zoom. that month, but for every federal dollar spring; Haldane High School has a drama Bender, who co-owns received, the state was deducting the Local high schools plan for around Thanksgiving and a musical in Split Rock Books on same amount from its aid package, calling in-person performances March; and James O’Neill High School in Fort Main Street with her it a “pandemic adjustment” — an immedi- Montgomery, which many Garrison students husband, Michael, ate zero-sum game. By Alison Rooney attend, has the same schedule plus a gala. wrote that she “ran While the state promised it would repay he natural rhythms of the school Not this year. A tangle of hybrid, all- for village government those adjustments in 2021, Gov. Andrew Bender year are in disarray this academic virtual and in-school learning, as well as because I thought I Cuomo’s preliminary 2021-22 budget was year, and the traditional timings of an abundance of snow, wreaked havoc on could have a positive effect, and am now murky. He proposed $31.7 billion in school T convinced that is not possible at this time.” high school drama and musical produc- rehearsals. funding, a 7.1 percent increase over last year, tions are as much a casualty of the But, in the grand tradition of the stage, She added: “While healthy disagree- but it was contingent on Congress approv- pandemic as team sports. and the typical upbeat energy of theater ment is an important part of any democ- ing a second federal stimulus plan, which Usually, like clockwork, Beacon High kids — the shows will be going on. racy, frequently the tone of conversation (Continued on Page 19) School presents a musical in the fall and (Continued on Page 13) (Continued on Page 7) Town Hall Gets a Makeover Major restoration earlier in the month while providing a tour. “In the end, we’ll have a building that is a real completed on 1867 building legacy. The building was in danger of falling By Chip Rowe down because of water damage and decay. It just hadn’t been attended to since the 1870s. major restoration of the 1867 Phil- There had been Band-Aids put on things but ipstown Town Hall was completed the building didn’t function in a way that lent A this week and the clerk, supervisor, itself toward modern government.” assessor and Justice Court moved back in In September 2019, the Town Board from temporary quarters at the Old VFW approved up to $2 million in bond financ- Hall and the American Legion. ing for the renovations. At the time, Shea, The renovations began 16 months ago who is a contractor, said the bonding total on the building, at 238 Main St. in Cold exceeded what the town expected to spend Spring. The rehab work, which was slowed because “we know that when they start tear- by the pandemic shutdown, cost about $1.8 ing into this building, they’re probably going million, Supervisor Richard Shea said on to find some surprises — not the good kind.” Wednesday (April 14). Shea said on Wednesday that there had Philipstown Supervisor Richard Shea inside the renovated Town Hall earlier this month. “We saved for about 16 years to get in a been the expected surprises and additional The town returned to the building this week after 16 months in temporary locations. position where we could do this with no costs, and that “without the work of the Photo by Ross Corsair impact for the tax assessment,” he said (Continued on Page 20) 2 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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By Brian PJ Cronin can tackle on their own? Door sweeps, believe it or not. We put one By Michael Turton olly O’Grady is the “energy naviga- in because our house is my guinea pig, and tor” in Beacon for a Cornell Cooper- even though the door fits snugly, I could tell Hative Extension program that helps the difference right away. There is rope caulk How do you break people make their homes more efficient. you can put around window frames, espe- cially if you don’t want to cover your windows the spell if you Why did you volunteer as an energy with plastic. We changed our light bulbs with get really bored? navigator? ones that are much more energy efficient and I recently moved from an overheated, we could see the effect on our bill right away. small apartment in New York City to a house in Beacon. I realized it was a very One training topic was “energy I don’t get bored different ballgame: There are lots of choices justice.” What is that? a homeowner has to make. The program There’s quite a movement in New York to easily, but if I do, was helpful to me personally thinking ensure that all residents have opportunities I walk anywhere about how to make my house greener, little to upgrade their efficiency, not just people that’s green. by little. who can afford it. It’s one of the things I’m advocating, along with the Green Beacon What was the training like? what’s a better way to heat water? Coalition. We list programs at midhud- It was a 10-week program. We started by sonenergychoices.org. Heating is such a big looking at our utility bill. When I lived in What are some changes you’ve made? expense that it’s important for people who an apartment, I felt I had little control over I had heard about signing up to get your live in homes that haven’t been upgraded, my choices. But the utility bill becomes a electricity from community solar farms but or with things that haven’t been addressed very interesting document when you own always thought, “I’ll get to that later.” After over a number of years, to know there are a house. You say, “Wait a minute, where I was in the program, I realized “Why not?” grants to improve their heating efficiency did I spend all that money?” We also went It’s a change that costs nothing. Another so that they don’t have to live in drafty, cold through the choices people can make about thing we’re starting to look at is more insu- houses. We can walk people through what electric usage, heating options. It moves lation in drafty areas. That doesn’t require they need to do to qualify. from the most basic document to a broader a huge investment. ~ Patrycja Warda, Beacon discussion, especially if you’re replacing O’Grady can be reached at h.ogrady.en@ things. If the hot water heater goes, well, Is there low-hanging fruit that people gmail.com.

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The Rev. Tim Greco announced the Beacon Man Tells Police change in a Facebook post. The merger, he He Has Explosives said, fulfills his “sincere desire for years to take our church to the next level and reach WHERE TO FIND After standoff, sent for mental health our community with the love of the Lord.” evaluation Greco is a board member of FaithChurch. Beacon man was sent for a mental CC, which has a location in New York City A health evaluation after he called 911 and two in Connecticut. at 1 a.m. on Sunday (April 11) and told the Greco and his wife, Beth, who is CEO dispatcher he was sitting in his vehicle on and president of The Hoving Home, which Main Street doused in gasoline with explo- has a campus in Garrison, will remain as sives and a loaded weapon. co-pastors. Sunday worship will start a PICK UP YOUR FREE COPY The 64-year-old man, whom police did half-hour earlier, at 10 a.m., in preparation not identify, was located by officers inside for adding a second service, Greco said. Each Friday afternoon, we distribute copies to these locations: his vehicle and said he would fire on anyone who approached, according to a statement Philipstown to Fight Dirty BEACON NELSONVILLE by the Beacon Police Department. After Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Juanita’s Kitchen, 289 Main officers cordoned off the area, the Dutchess Earth Day event will launch Bank Square Coffeehouse, 131 Main County Sheriff’s Office dispatched its Crisis campaign Beacon Bread Co., 193 Main* PHILIPSTOWN Negotiation Unit. campaign spearheaded by Krystal Beacon City Hall, 1 Municipal Plaza Allstate Insurance, 3182 Route 9* The man spoke with the county 911 oper- Ford, the recently appointed Climate Beacon Natural Market, 348 Main* B&L Deli, 3182, Route 9 ator, a negotiator from the Sheriff’s Office A Smart Coordinator for Philipstown, and Beahive, 291 Main BP Station, 3188 Route 9 and a member of the Beacon Police Depart- the nonprofit Ecological Citizens’ Project Big Mouth Coffee, 387 Main Round-up Texas BBQ, 2741 Route 9 ment, the statement said. After about two hopes to draw attention this week to local BJ’s Restaurant, 213 Main Vera’s Farm Market, 3091 Route 9 hours, he surrendered and was transported efforts to fight climate change. to Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital. Police Forrestal Heights lobby, Route 9D Philipstown Fights Dirty will launch said they found a gas can inside the vehicle Key Foods, 268 Main* GARRISON virtually on Earth Day (Thursday, April but no weapons or explosives. Mr. V’s Deli, 297 Main 123 Food Stop, 871 Route 9 22) at 6 p.m. with Supervisor Richard Rite Aid, 320 Main Appalachian Market, 1467 Route 9 Shea signing a resolution for the town to Trax, 1 East Main Garrison Cafe, 1135 Route 9D* Indian Point Wage Bill pursue “carbon neutrality” by 2040. Based Garrison Gulf, 1122 Route 9D on a town-wide greenhouse gas inventory Becomes Law conducted in 2019, that equates to reduc- COLD SPRING Garrison Post Office, 1145 Route 9D Holtec must pay workers prevailing ing annual emissions by the equivalent Cold Spring Farmers’ Market, Garrison Restaurant, 2534 Route 9 wage of 10,000 metric tons of CO2 annually, or Boscobel about 1 ton per resident, the group said. Cold Spring Pizza, 120 Main FISHKILL oltec, the Florida company that will The event will also include the launch Country Goose, 115 Main Hometown Deli, Hdecommission the Indian Point of philipstownfightsdirty.org with recom- Current Office, 142 Main* 812 Route 52 nuclear plant, must pay employees the mendations for residents to reduce emis- Drug World, 55 Chestnut* prevailing wage and abide by collec- sions; the introduction of the Philipstown Foodtown, 49 Chestnut *LOOK FOR tive bargaining agreements under a law Climate Fund to provide project grants; Foundry Cafe, 53 Main THE BLUE BOX enacted last month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. and performances by Dar Williams and Tall Garden Cafe, 116 Main The bill had been introduced in the County. Register at bit.ly/PFDlaunchevent. Assembly by Sandy Galef, whose district NYP/Hudson Valley Hospital, includes Philipstown. 1756 Route 9D Entergy, which owns the plant, located Putnam Hospital Tourist Information Booth, on the Hudson River in Buchanan, won Lays Off Nurses foot of Main* federal approval to transfer its operating license to Holtec last year. The company Facility cites reduced patient volume plans to decommission the plant over the he New York State Nurses Association RECEIVE A DIGITAL COPY next 12 to 15 years. Indian Point’s last oper- criticized the Putnam Hospital Center ating reactor is scheduled to be shut down T this week after the facility dismissed 11 We email a digital version of the print paper to our members early at the end of this month. nurses, including seven the union says Along with Galef, Assembly Member on Friday morning. To join, see highlandscurrent.org/membership. were redeployed during the pandemic to Jonathan Jacobson, whose district includes treat COVID-19 patients. The hospital cited Beacon, and State Sen. Sue Serino, whose “diminished patient volumes” for the move. district includes the Highlands, each voted The nurses, including one who the union for the bill. HAVE THE PAPER DELIVERED said had worked for 30 years at the hospi- An earlier version of the bill passed the tal, were told on April 7 they would be laid Assembly and Senate during the 2019-20 Sustaining members who donate at least $10 per month receive off, effective immediately, according to the session but Cuomo declined to sign it. After NYSNA. free mail delivery. Or subscribe for $30 for one year or $50 for negotiations, the new bill made adjust- Putnam has received at least $12.3 two years at highlandscurrent.org/md or by sending a check or ments such as keeping current collective million in federal COVID-19 relief fund- bargaining agreements in place, Galef said. money order to 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516. Please ing. 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EDITOR Chip Rowe LETTERS AND COMMENTS [email protected] I believe that Chris Davis’ goal to preserve Here is the big question: How does this SENIOR EDITOR Golf course to close Leonard Sparks The view out my south-facing windows The Garrison land is fantastic, but I wonder relate to the Philipstown comprehensive is The Garrison golf course. My family and about the effects of all of these people on plan? What impact will this have in the BEACON EDITOR I are proud to call Garrison our home for our natural oasis. I am sure that there could Route 9 corridor, which is already poorly Jeff Simms more than 15 years. When we first heard be other types of usages that could preserve planned? Will any of this property be taken the land without so much impact, but obvi- off the tax rolls and what impact will it have ARTS EDITOR that the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festi- Alison Rooney val would move to the golf course, we were ously this is for Mr. Davis to decide. on taxpayers? Why not have a transparent [email protected] tentatively supportive, but wanted to know When I read that Davis McCallum, the conversation about our future? more (“Shakespeare Plans: An Update”). HVSF artistic director, is surprised that the Sarina Tamagna, Cold Spring REPORTERS We have always loved the HVSF and last HVSF is being characterized as a developer, I Tamagna is a candidate for the Philip- Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong year bought tickets to show our support wonder why, when you consider the scope of stown Town Board. Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney its wish list. I see this as a massive commer- Pamela Doan • Deb Lucke [despite the shows being canceled]. Skip Pearlman • Michael Turton The more we read about the scope of this cial land development. Though HVSF consid- As Shakespeare wrote in Henry V, “the project, the more our support has turned to ers itself an arts organization that has been game is afoot.” Davis McCallum said that STUDENT CORRESPONDENTS concern. I am in touch with many neigh- on Route 9D for 33 years and wants to move if you look at The Garrison site from across Ezra Beato (Philipstown) bors who feel similarly. I have watched all of to Route 9, I see a commercial events/enter- the river, “you’ll see the golf course, because Rachel Thorne (Beacon) the Philipstown Planning Board meetings tainment company seeking a tremendous 80 acres of trees were clear-cut to create it” expansion of its existing business model. (“Four Big Questions”). LAYOUT DESIGNER and attended a site visit. The more I hear, Pierce Strudler the more questions that I have. Though I At the March 18 Planning Board meet- It must be recognized that the ridgeline am sure all of the experts will create a beau- ing, the chair, Neal Zuckerman, said that all on which the development plans to place its ADVERTISING DIRECTOR tiful design, the issues are not so much with think this is a good project but asked: “How 500-seat, permanent tent was visible from Michele Gedney the looks but about the effects and impacts much is too much? How much activity can across the river before the golf course was For information on advertising: this area handle? What is too much, from the built. When I was a bit younger and Bill 845-809-5584 by the tens to hundreds of thousands of number of people, to the number of build- Brown’s Physical Training Farm was still [email protected] visitors in their cars on our community, highlandscurrent.org/ads roads, resources and environment annu- ings, gallons of water, number of toilets?” in operation, I remember those fields quite ally. We must not just think about next year He couldn’t have said it better. Let’s take well. I expect the extreme wind, summer MEMBERSHIP but possibly 10 years or more in advance. our time to analyze this massive project care- lightning strikes and intermittent grass fires Emily Hare We are a tiny hamlet and the thought of a fully and think clearly about its impacts on kept them open and the views extraordinary. [email protected] potential Caramoor [in Katonah] or Jacob’s the Garrison that we love so much as it is now. I believe that the club also had a short three- Stephen Wallis, Garrison hole pitch and putting course set up to help COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Pillow [in Massachusetts] is worrisome. Teresa Lagerman Jackie Gleason and his cronies stay sober! [email protected] I was working on the clearing crew back in 1962 for Larry Wanamaker, who headed up the crew for The North Redoubt Club, as it was then to be called. Most of our work was clearing the land for what are now THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT (USPS #22270) / ISSN 2475-3785 holes No. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, the land of the April 16, 2021 Pope estate north of Philipse Brook Road. Volume 10, Issue 17 Hole No. 8 was also a thicket, and perhaps is published weekly by Highlands Current clearing it was the quid pro quo that New Inc., 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819. York City needed to allow present holes No. Periodicals Postage Paid at Cold Spring, NY, and at additional offices. POSTMASTER: Send 7 and 8 to be built on its property. address changes to The Highlands Current, John Benjamin, Garrison 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819. Mail delivery $30 per year. highlandscurrent.org/delivery This is wonderful — so good for Garrison [email protected] and Cold Spring and the planet (“Garrison Distribution audited by the Circulation Golf Course to Close This Year,” April 9). A Verification Council golf course isn’t good for birds or plants, © Highlands Current Inc. 2021 uses lots of chemicals and fertilizer, and All rights reserved. No part of this keeps these views from anyone who isn’t a publication may be reproduced in any form, mechanical or electronic, without written golfer. The new park will be environmen- permission of the publisher. tally much healthier for pollinators and for people, and will be accessible to all of us for * picnics and dog walking. The only traffic it Winner: 76 Better will bring is when the festival lets out — for Newspaper Contest Awards less than a half-hour when the parking lot * New York Press Association, 2013 -20 empties at a non-rush hour time. NNA* Winner: 55 Better Anne Sumers, via Facebook Newspaper Contest Awards * National Newspaper Association, 2016-19 We have to decide on what our community deems beneficial use, and the answer seems NYNPA* Winner: 11 Awards to be somewhere between zero development for Excellence and zero access to anyone. The whole reason * New York News Publishers Association, 2017- 19 (Continued on Page 5) highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current April 16, 2021 5

In the advertising categories, Pierce Strudler won first place for best advertising The Current Wins 18 NYPA Awards campaign for his ads created for psycholo- gist Michael McKee called “Coping with Staff takes home eight a finalist in the annual competition orga- in college; and in news stories for Leon- Stress.” Strudler also won first place for nized by the New York City chapter of the ard Spark’s report, “Placed in Harm’s best house ad for his promotion for the first-place honors Society of Professional Journalists for Way,” about a mother’s interaction with paper’s Student Journalists Program. the best reporting in a newspaper with the Putnam County child welfare system. In design categories, Strudler won he Highlands Current won 18 a circulation under 100,000. The other Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong won third second place among tabloids for over- awards, including eight first- finalists are stories from The Journal place in the same category for her report all design and Summer Pierre won third T place honors, last week in the News and The Record/NorthJersey.com. on the battle over proposed development place in graphic illustration for a draw- annual competition sponsored by the The winner will be announced on May 17. on a Revolutionary War site in Fishkill. ing called “Comic Sensibilities” about a New York Press Association for editorial With two exceptions, The Current’s Sparks and Jeff Simms won first place book club she leads. and advertising in 2020. The paper has NYPA awards came in the division for in the news series category for COVID In other awards, the paper placed third won 76 NYPA awards since 2013. smaller papers. It won, for the second 2021: What Lies Ahead (Cronin took in coverage of the arts and Ross Corsair The competition, which included 2,440 time in four years, the Thomas G. Butson second place for The Fading Forest) and received honorable mentions in the feature entries from 151 smaller mid-size news- Award for In-Depth Reporting, for Turton won first place for best columns for photo and picture story categories. The papers across the state, was judged by Cronin’s Fading Forest series. The weekly “Reporter’s Notebook” (Cronin received Current also placed third for general excel- members of the Pennsylvania Newspa- also won first place in sports features for an honorable mention for “Out There”). lence and Chip Rowe finished third among pers Publishers Association. Michael Turton’s story on Aaron Nastasi, Simms’ article on The Mayor, a well- newspapers of all sizes for best online In addition to the NYPA wins, a series who 20 years ago after a stellar basket- known chicken-about-town in Beacon, news project for his weekly CurrentPLUS by Brian PJ Cronin, The Fading Forest, is ball career at Haldane decided not to play was named the best feature story. email newsletter for members.

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(Continued from Page 4) there is no way any sexual predator should do not have the same opportunity to escape. get a minimum sentence. Sean Conway, Cold Spring for conservation is to conserve nature and Correction Joe Hyatt, via Facebook allow people to enjoy it while it lasts. One In a story in the April 9 issue, we extreme or the other is not the answer. Beacon apartments reported that rates would increase We need a multi-level parking lot in the A Shakespeare theater, with its nuisance Library solar on Hudson Valley bridges for As you have reported, the Desmond-Fish downtown area, plus single-side parking and cars and parking lots and noise, may E-ZPass users to $1.35 beginning Public Library is seeking approval to build on Main Street (“Beacon to Consider More not be the most preferable environmen- May 1. In fact, a four-year increase a solar-panel array on its property. When Apartments,” April 9). tal option, but at least the beauty is used in tolls began in 2020; the increase Alice Curtis Desmond donated the money Frank Wright, Beacon for something. I still resent that there’s no this year will be from $1.35 to to build the library on open fields recently Dockside by the river. Well-meaning envi- $1.45. The cash rate will remain used for hay, she probably did not expect The city wants to extend weekend shuttle ronmentalists took that beautiful site out at $1.75, while the rate for those the landscape to be defaced with any struc- bus service to include Sundays to bring visi- of circulation for no reason. on the commuter plan (minimum ture, and certainly not one as visually unap- tors from the Metro-North station to Main There’s no purpose to conserve nature if 17 crossings per month) will rise pealing as a solar-panel array. Street. But it has done nothing for the busi- the aim is that no one can use it. We can be to $1.20. The annual increases will Solar energy is vital to the U.S., and we nesses and city residents in Groveville on respectful of the environment and still make continue through 2023, when they are fortunate that there are potential sites Fishkill Avenue coming into Beacon. Why use of land and enjoy Hudson Valley nature. reach $1.65 for E-ZPass users, for panels all over the country. The limited does the bus turn by Ron’s Ice Cream to go up Mahmoud Shahbodaghi, Garrison $2.15 cash and $1.40 on the open space surrounding the library is part to the mountain when there is only one busi- commuter plan. of the open land that forms the center of ness there? The bus service is free. The only HVSF has promised limited public access, Garrison and makes its character. We have reason it does not go past Ron’s is because it though it is struggling to describe the when established a conservation easement on does not want the residents of Hedgewood, and where of it, as well as how it might be the fields we own across the road from the an assisted living facility, on the bus. controlled. Like so many aspects of the be addressed or treated in any meaningful library and the state has taken action to This city administration, like the one proposed development, the public access way in prison (“Hustis Sentenced to Five further this conservation. before it, does not care that there are over aspect has not been thought through. It’s clear, Years,” April 9). Whether he was physically Gas stations and garbage dumps have to 15 businesses and 1,000 taxpayers near however, that this is envisioned as a ticketed and verbally abused at home and endured be put somewhere. The tiny amount of land Groveville. If you are not on the “golden entertainment venue. When it’s showtime, the homophobia as an adult is suspect and owned by the library is not the place for them mile” of Main Street, you don’t exist. lights go down and the public goes home. irrelevant; what needs be acknowledged and solar panels are in the same category. Instead, let’s build more condos/apart- Tim Nolan, Garrison is that his lack of impulse control, coupled with the loneliness and giddiness of his Power from renewable energy can be bought ments, with no parking, near Main Street. through Central Hudson. And the library Dennis Moroney, Beacon The people of Philipstown have a prob- texts, created a perfect storm. cannot engage in the commercial enterprise lem with a golf course closing and the land While the crime was by no mean victim- of selling excess power to Central Hudson being preserved? It sounds like an environ- less, the lack of empathy from the federal Tree cutting that would violate zoning and the terms or mentalist’s dream. court is deeply distressing. I don’t believe It is sad that the cell tower company could spirit of the Desmond gift. You will not find Patty Villanova, Putnam Valley this man who served his village and was not find a way to serve the residents of a prominent member of his parish under- solar panels in Central Park or on the Mall in Nelsonville and Cold Spring without making Washington, nor on the White House lawn. The all-access, affordable, ecological and stood the harm he may have inflicted on a deleterious impact on our local environ- They do not belong at our library. low-impact leisure sport of the future is disc the recipients of his texts. But five years in ment by way of sullying our scenic viewshed, David Ward, Garrison golf. The Highlands are woefully short on prison seems mighty punitive. sullying the historic Cold Spring Cemetery disc-golf courses, and The Garrison would Tom Tannery, Cold Spring and endangering our threatened northern be a prime site. Disc golf is a low-cost, low- QAnon long-eared bats (“Down They Go,” April 2). carbon-footprint sport and is compatible Seems like a fair sentence. It sounds like This story presents a dangerously over- Moreover, it has had no respect for the with restorative landscape measures and Mr. Hustis has issues that need to be dealt looked perspective when talking about our neighbors who live near this unfortunate reforested settings. with — if they can be dealt with — but unfor- neighbors succumbing to fringe theories environmental debacle. Have they all Ethan Timm, Cold Spring tunately, the penal system isn’t about that. and ideologies — the effect on teenagers and learned nothing from the environmental David Calderone, Garrison children (“QAnon at Home,” April 9). While movement? Have they learned nothing of Hustis sentence adults often have the option of ignoring or good corporate behavior and citizenship? avoiding peers or acquaintances espousing Very disappointing! The tragedy is that Chuck Hustis has a This is just another example of what’s extremist views, children within the home Harold Akselrad Nelsonville disease that has ruined his life and will not wrong with the criminal justice system; , 6 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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¢ The board approved the village’s (from Page 1) Bender Resigns continued participation in the Commu- Philipstown Goes Greener and the priorities of the majority of the nity Choice Aggregation Program that Backs emission reduction, Leonard said allowing the project to board are at odds with the values I ran to enables municipalities to source electric- proceed would be “a serious mistake” that represent,” and called on the board to offer ity on behalf of its residents. Beacon and solar energy would “make it harder to meet our goals” “more participatory stewardship.” Philipstown are also part of the program. Bender sometimes sparred with Merandy By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong environmentally. and Murphy on issues such as the budget ¢ At an April 6 meeting, Bruce Croush- n a mission to “save this planet,” the Garrison post office and police reform, leading to tense ore asked the trustees to pass a resolution Philipstown Town Board last week Aman Raju, whose family owns the exchanges during meetings. She and Kath- supporting his request for the pedes- approved measures to cut green- parcel that contains the U.S. Postal Service’s leen Foley joined the board last year after trian crosswalk at Oak Street and Chest- O nut Street (Route 9D) to be moved 30 feet house gas emissions, produce solar energy branch in Garrison, told the board that running unopposed for two open seats. and recommit to a regional program offer- changes there include fewer trucks since Her letter also called for the village to south, citing drainage problems and poor ing energy from non-polluting sources. Amazon stopped its heavy collaboration consolidate with Philipstown. “So much of nighttime visibility. However, the cross- The board continued the push this week, with the USPS around Jan. 1. “Operations the work done by the village is in duplicate, walk is under the jurisdiction of the state scheduling a workshop for Wednesday have been very minimal for several months” or triplicate, with the Town of Philipstown Department of Transportation and trust- (April 21) with the Hudson Highlands Land and now only one early delivery occurs, and the Village of Nelsonville, and I believe ees said they would need to hear broader Trust to launch an East Highlands Green between 5 and 6 a.m., he added. taxpayers could benefit from consolida- public support for a move. Corridors Plan that would use protected In March, a representative of about 15 tion,” she wrote. parcels to link conservation areas and nearby households told the board that post She thanked “everyone in the village ¢ The public restrooms near the pedestrian allow animals — including humans — to office activities disrupted the neighbor- who has shown kindness and offered guid- tunnel will reopen from Thursday through “move and thrive across the landscape.” hood and created traffic hazards. ance,” and offered to continue as a board Monday beginning today (April 16). They will It’s all of a piece, Supervisor Richard Raju, who lives alongside the facility, member until a successor was named to be open daily after Memorial Day weekend. Shea said April 8 at the board’s monthly said he has since visited all the neighbors. fill her term, which ends in 2022.The seats The Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce has meeting, held via Zoom. “You look at this A few described persistent noise problems held by Merandy, Murphy and Marie Early asked the Village Board to support requests agenda: It is heavy on an effort to save this but overall the conversations were quite will be on the November ballot; Murphy from volunteers who man the information planet,” he said. “Philipstown is leading positive, he said. “There’s a lot more good has said she will not run for a fourth term. booth for improved Wi-Fi, designated park- the way in the Hudson Valley” in pursuing it brings to the community than harm,” he Merandy said the November election will ing and liability insurance coverage. sustainability. said of the post office. now include a special election to fill Bend- On April 8, the five-person board unani- Shea said that on his frequent stops er’s seat for the second half of her term. He ¢ The Zoning Board of Appeals ruled at mously approved three initiatives. there “everything has been spotless. I see added that as mayor, he could appoint a its March 18 meeting that the owners of the a vast improvement” from the way it once trustee to serve during the months leading Old VFW Hall on Kemble Avenue can allow ¢ Greenhouse-gas reduction: Goals looked. He credited the Raju family for an up to the election. He also has the option a preschool to operate there, provided it is adopted by the board would eliminate “exemplary” demonstration of “how to be of not filling the vacancy before the elec- registered with the state Department of emissions from town facilities and the good neighbors.” tion, he said. Education. community by 2040, paralleling state plans to, by 2050, stop emissions that, ¢ The Historic District Review Board in a hothouse effect, contribute to global Putnam County In other business … Shea praised Putnam County in general last month approved applications for the warming. As one means to its end, the ¢ There’s no shortage of opinions about and County Legislator Nancy Montgomery, a development of two single-family houses Town Board advocated making build- the Cold Spring Police Department. In Philipstown resident, in particular for bring- on Paulding Avenue as part of the Butter- ings and operations more energy-effi- late March, the Village Board issued a ing COVID-19 vaccination clinics to the Phil- field redevelopment project. In his monthly cient through innovations that decrease 16-question survey on its operations, part ipstown Recreation Center. “A lot of county report, Sean Conway of the Review consumption and waste. of its response to an order by Gov. Andrew resources have gone into this; a lot. We are Board said it was “satisfied these prop- Cuomo requiring municipalities to review erties create a softer transition between ¢ Solar power: After several years of work, grateful,” he said. “It’s been a refreshing their law-enforcement operations. At a the multifamily condo complex and the the board moved forward on harnessing the change to work so closely with the county.” meeting on Tuesday (April 13), Trustee historic residences along Paulding.” sun, adopting a proposal from SunPower, a Fran Murphy said 43 percent of 625 resi- Short-term rentals firm based in Modena, to install solar panels dents and business owners who received Shea said he supports allowing resi- ¢ Cold Spring police officers responded atop the Recreation Center in Garrison. a link to the online version of the survey dents to use their homes for Airbnb or to 67 calls for service in March. Two arrests had already submitted responses, which ¢ Community Choice Aggregation: Phil- other short-term rentals because “it’s a were made under the mental-health law, she called “phenomenal.” She said 22 people ipstown continued its membership in the good thing for people to be able to make both involving the same person. Officers had submitted paper responses. Murphy CCA, which includes Cold Spring and some extra money and conduct a business issued 18 traffic and 18 parking tickets. said volunteers had fanned out across the Beacon and other Mid-Hudson municipali- at home.” Nonetheless, he cautioned home- The Cold Spring Fire Co., which is in the village to distribute printed instructions ties. The CCA allows customers to obtain owners: “Don’t foul it up for the whole midst of a drive to recruit new members, on how to receive the survey. She contin- their electricity from renewable energy town.” He raised the issue after receiving responded to 15 alarms. ues to get four or five requests per day and sources, in cooperation with Central a letter from Manitou residents about a will begin reporting results in early May. Hudson. They can decline, but Shea said house apparently rented out frequently ¢ Fifty residents who are behind on (Requests for a link to the online survey can most Philipstown customers participate. and “producing quite a lot of disturbance their water bill payments will be offered be emailed to [email protected]; and noise. We’re going to take action,” Shea a payment plan rather than having the paper copies are available at Village Hall.) Although no vote was taken, Shea and warned. “We have a zero-tolerance policy balance added to their tax bills. Town Board Members Judy Farrell and when it comes to disturbing the peace.” ¢ There were no comments during a public Mike Leonard reiterated Philipstown’s Philipstown’s zoning code allows bed- ¢ Jennifer Zwarich, chair of the Tree Advi- hearing on Tuesday (April 13) on the tenta- opposition to the plan to transform the and-breakfasts but requires Planning sory Board, reported there would be no public tive 2021-22 budget, which includes projected part-time Danskammer power plant on the Board approval. It defines a bed-and- celebration of Arbor Day on April 30 but there spending of $2.65 million. The board said Hudson north of Beacon into a full-time breakfast as “a dwelling in which over- will be a planting at Village Hall and recog- that the tax rate of $11.39 per $1,000 of facility fed by natural gas, a fossil fuel that night accommodations not exceeding five nition of Cold Spring’s designation as a Tree assessed value was not expected to increase. contributes to global warming. Danskam- bedrooms and breakfast are provided for City USA for the fifth consecutive year. mer has said the plant could later convert transient guests for compensation.” The to use of a non-polluting fuel. Philipstown, code also covers “lodging facilities,” which like Cold Spring and Beacon, had previ- include establishments “providing sleep- ously formally objected to the expansion. ing accommodations for transient guests, Farrell said April 8 that most participants with or without a dining room or restau- at an online public hearing she and Leonard rant, excluding bed-and-breakfast estab- Follow the attended urged rejection of the company’s lishments.” It restricts lodging facilities to plan. “It’s going to have detrimental effects,” certain zoning districts and demands that on Facebook & Twitter she said. “We don’t need to go backward.” owners obtain special-use permits. 8 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org What’s Inside the State Budget New York buoyed by federal of workers across the Hudson Valley.” There is new funding for environmental The Real Estate aid, tax increase programs: $500 million for clean water proj- By Leonard Sparks ects (bringing total funding to $4 billion) and $300 million for environmental protection. Market is Booming! year ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and In addition, under the budget measure state lawmakers approved a $177 voters will be asked in November 2022 to Contact these top local agents to see A million budget against hurricane- approve a $3 billion bond to “fund envi- strength headwinds: pandemic-high deaths, ronmental improvements that preserve, the latest listings, or to sell your home the widespread closures of businesses, enhance, and restore New York’s natural millions laid off from work and a predicted resources and reduce the impact of climate $13.3 billion shortfall in tax revenue. change,” according to the state. A year later, Cuomo and lawmakers have The environmental funding will “help passed a $212 billion spending plan buoyed shoreline communities become more resil- Kathyrine M. Tomann by $5.5 billion of the $12.6 billion New York ient to the devastating impacts of the will receive through the American Rescue climate crisis,” said Jeremy Cherson, of HOULIHAN LAWRENCE | ASSOCIATE REAL ESTATE BROKER Plan signed by President Joe Biden last Riverkeeper, which supports the measure. [email protected] | 914-204-0415 month. It also includes revenue from a tax www.houlihanlawrence.com increase on people earning more than $1 The budget also: million annually. • Increases the top state personal income Enacted by Cuomo on April 7, the budget tax rate to 9.65 percent, from 8.82 percent, had the support of Assembly members for individual filers whose income is more Jonathan Jacobson, whose district includes than $1 million annually and joint filers Beacon, and Sandy Galef, whose district making more than $2 million. includes Philipstown, both of whom are Krystal Campbell Democrats. Sen. Sue Serino, a Republican • Establishes two new brackets: a rate whose district includes the Highlands, of 10.3 percent for those whose income BROKER | NOBLE SQUARE REALTY voted “no.” is between $5 million and $25 million [email protected] | 845-401-9326 State agencies now begin the process of annually and 10.9 percent for those with www.noblesquarerealty.com distributing the funds. incomes of more than $25 million. The Empire State Development Corp. will • Increases the tax rate to 7.25 percent, from give $800 million in grants to small busi- 6.5 percent, through 2023 for businesses nesses to help with payroll, rent or mort- with income exceeding $5 million annually. gage payments, property or school taxes • Slightly lowers the rate for joint filers and other expenses. Another $2.4 billion making between $43,000 and $161,550 will go to renters facing eviction because from 6.09 to 5.97 percent, and for those of the COVID-19 shutdown. 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Many scientists believe that could same-day vaccine appointment. occur when 75 percent to 85 percent of the He said his mother was gravely ill in Cali- U.S. population has been vaccinated. fornia and he was leaving the next day to Shah says team members have booked see her. He had gotten his first shot but thousands of appointments for seniors, not his booster. Harrison, who also lives in working people, college students, disabled Beacon, began working the phones, reach- residents, immigrants and others who might ing out to pharmacies and county officials. find it difficult to navigate the system. At 5 p.m., the Dutchess County health Although a lot of media attention has department called with good news. It had been given to people reluctant to get vacci- space at a second-dose clinic inside the nated, a significant number of people who former JCPenney space at Poughkeepsie want to be inoculated are encountering Galleria. obstacles. “It was such a sad situation for him While technology and transportation because he’s worried about his mom but remain particular barriers for seniors — Heidi Harrison of Beacon is a member of the volunteer Vaccine Appointment Assistance needed that second dose,” said Harrison. Harrison said her 85-year-old father still Team. Photo by L. Sparks That type of vaccine-related stress is uses a flip phone — working families may On April 8, she received a call from a what inspired the creation of the grassroots struggle to set aside time to drive to clin- Brooklyn woman referred by a doctor for Vaccine Appointment Assistance Team, ics; 16- and 17-year-olds can only receive the whom Harrison had found an appointment. volunteers who use their internet skills Pfizer vaccine; and immigrants may not be COVID-19 by The woman wanted the one-shot Johnson & and can-do personalities to help people find fluent in English or have fears about the Johnson vaccine. Harrison called 10 phar- the Numbers appointments. Initially the efforts were U.S. medical system. “A lot of people give macies in the woman’s ZIP code before informal, for family members and friends, up,” she said. finding an appointment 2 miles away and PUTNAM COUNTY but the group’s members found each other Harrison puts on music before manning available within two hours. Number of confirmed cases: on Facebook. her laptop and tackling a spreadsheet of “Every platform is different; every phar- Anna Shah, an attorney in the Town of requests each morning. She is full of stories. macy has a different registration process. 10,113 (+223) So you just have to stalk each page and Active Cases in Philipstown: 11 check ZIP codes,” she said. There are others, like the 87-year-old Tests administered: woman who was legally blind and also wanted the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 203,986 (+6,008) or the family who called on behalf of their There’s a new Percent positive: son, who was seeking a shot in Pennsylva- nia, where he attended college. 5.0 (0) community Athena Torri Cervantes and her partner, Toni Maeck, who live in Beacon, are also on Percent vaccinated: the Vaccine Appointment Assistance Team. garden Cervantes, who is Ecuadorian, volunteered 43.6 last year as a translator for the U.S. Census and Mutual Aid Beacon. Number of deaths: “Any kind of medical thing in the U.S. is in Philipstown! (0) very hard when you don’t speak English or 91 aren’t completely fluent,” she said. DUTCHESS COUNTY The scarcity of vaccines that character- ized the initial months of the rollout in Number of confirmed cases: December, January and February is melt- (+688) Announcing New Leaf Restoration, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonpro t ing away with increases in production and 27,720 the number of places offering shots. Active Cases in Beacon: 25 organization with the mission of planning and implementing Not only are appointments more plenti- a restoration of a portion of the Philipstown-owned pasture ful, but they are available closer to home Tests administered: near the corner of Routes 9D and 403 into an intergenerational, and during hours when people are not (+17,836) collaborative garden and community resource. typically working, said Maeck. “It used to 660,604 be that you’d have to drop everything and Percent positive: • Town-wide community garden drive a long way,” she said. 4.2 (0) • Modular, fenced garden plots To request assistance from the Vaccine Appointment Assistance Team, email Percent vaccinated: • Solar-powered drip irrigation [email protected], call 845-605-2562 or visit bit.ly/vaatform. 42.3 • Permaculture practices implementation Number of deaths:

433 (+5) RESERVE NOW! Limited plot availability. Please visit For the latest on newleaf-restoration.org to reserve a plot or for more info. COVID-19 and vaccines, Source: State and county health departments, as of April 14, with weekly change in parentheses. see highlandscurrent.org. Active cases in Philipstown as of April 8. Percent vaccinated reflects at least one dose. 10 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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 SENATOR STOP — Sen. Chuck Schumer visited Boscobel in Garrison on Monday (April 12) for a discussion of economic relief for the Hudson Valley under the American Rescue Plan. Boscobel officials noted that revenues there fell by 65 percent last year and its staff dropped from 50 people to 17.

 TOT PARK IS OPEN! — Mark Daisley stands by a sanitizing station he constructed at Tot’s  NEW HIRE — Lashaveous Dicker, a case worker with Mental Health America of Park in Cold Spring, which Dutchess County, began working this month with the Beacon Police Department. re-opened on Saturday Dicker, who will assist officers in responding to people in crisis, is shown with Chief (April 10). Sands Frost and Lt. Tom Figlia. Photos provided

HIGHLAND STUDIO HOWLAND ARTE POVERA: CULTURAL Ballet Arts CENTER ART OF at the Gazebo Sat. + Sun. – Apr. 17 + 18 COLLABORATION APRIL 24 AT 3PM -FREE PERFORMANCE! ANNUAL FRIENDS ART SHOW AND SALE Artist friends of the Howland Weekends 1-5 pm thru May 1 April 17, 2021, 12:00 p.m. EST Alighiero e Sauzeau Boetti Putnam Theatre Alliance: Dr. Teresa Kittler, Magazzino Italian Art’s Freedom Project 2020-2021 Scholar-in-Residence

His Honor, The Mayor, www.magazzino.art/magazzinodacasa PRINTMAKERS by Orson Welles, AND Thurs. Apr. 22 – 8 pm FINE ART The Secret Secrets of LIVESTREAM: THE VALLEY HOUR ep 8 Jazz pianist Aaron Parks and Wonderland County by Rebecca Haviland and Whiskey Heart PRINTING Hosted by Annalyse & Ryan – Tix: thevalleyhour.com SCANNING John Leonard Pielmeier LARGE FORMAT STREAMING MAY 13-16 Q&A WITH PLAYWRIGHT, ACTORS AND HUDSON VALLEY’S DIRECTORS MAY 14 AND MAY 16 AT 8PM ARCHIVAL PRINTING Sun. May 2 – 8 pm SINCE 1997 STREAMING: TERRENCE WILSON, PIANO Night Train: Presented by ALIVEmusica Storytelling Tix: www.howlandmusic.org PICTURE FRAMING on the Patio print & map gallery with Joe Charnitski, Richard Cardillo, Ron Sopyla, Debbie Gordon,and Kalista Parrish AND MORE 845-809-5174 May 8: The Artichoke is back! Our storytelling night - ONLINE MAY 21 AND MAY 29 AT 7PM Tix: www.artichokeshow.com May 15: Famed jazz bassist William Parker via Elysium Furnace Works - Tix: available April 19 31 STEPHANIE LANE HCC may not be open for in-person audiences during performances or seating tickets may be limited. COLD SPRING, NY Tickets at 477 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508 www.howlandculturalcenter.org (845) 831-4988 www.thehighlandstudio.com philipstowndepottheatre.org facebook.com/howlandcenterbeacon howlandculturalcentertix.com highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current April 16, 2021 11 The Calendar

The curve of Main with Matteawan Station at right Trackside at Matteawan Station

pursue a doctorate at the University of Groningen on dream research, Heynick found he needed a diversion. That’s when he began to diagram and build “Mini- Europe” in the much smaller “N” scale, or 1:160. It included the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland and “it took years. It devel- BEACON AT SCALE oped organically and, when I moved to a Brooklyn man has city in his apartment larger apartment, it grew, too.” Back in Brooklyn, he switched back to By Alison Rooney the shopfronts and buildings across from it the “O” scale and began to build “Mini- — a resonant, picturesque, architecturally Gotham” in his new apartment. It takes nce you’ve built a scale model of a rich stretch of Main. up most of his living room, although Frank Heynick works on "Mini-Gotham" in Manhattan landscape with seven He made several trips to Beacon to he reduced the number of floors in the his Brooklyn apartment. Photos provided O skyscrapers, streetscapes and sketch details and mark off 1-foot lengths skyscrapers due to the height of his ceilings. trains inside your Brooklyn apartment, to get the dimensions. Back home, he used The model contains 30 structures spanning affection for Beacon, it was the logical what could possibly come next? Google Maps for present-day images. He the 1920s to the 1950s, with emphasis on thing to do.” Beacon, of course! When model-maker constructed Matteawan Station largely art deco and moderne styles. That project remains unfinished, as Frank Heynick ran out of room for his from balsa wood. Everything is made from scratch. After well, which Heynick says is of little concern 6-foot-high “Mini-Gotham” (mini-gotham. The Beacon Historical Society had hoped making calculations, Heynick cut sheets because “the whole thing is never finished.” com), he turned to a lower-rise “Mini- to exhibit the model but the logistics of of Plexiglas and sprayed acrylic coating on With the Beacon model, “it’s mainly the scen- Beacon.” The model depicts the East moving, protecting and finding space to everything but the windows. From there, he ery missing. You can see where the moun- End bend on Main Street, including the display it were daunting, said Diane Lapis, added “trim, bits of wood, things like that.” tains and the stream are, but they’re not done. Matteawan Station, which was built in 1876 the society president. The project is ongoing, but with only a But, there’s no urgency, I’ll get to it.” and saw its last passenger train in 1933. Heynick, an author and linguistics small area of his apartment open for expan- Time isn’t the issue as much as space. “If With the assistance of the Beacon Histor- scholar, says he has loved modeling since he sion, Heynick said he decided to create a I won the lottery, the first thing I’d want is ical Society, Heynick gathered postcards, was a child growing up in Brooklyn. “I had “rural” setting. He chose Beacon because to rent a bigger apartment,” he says. photos and other source material on the Lionel trains on ‘O’ scale, the largest,” at a he is familiar with the city. For now, Heynick is also busy translating section of town containing the 1:48 ratio, he recalls. “At Brooklyn Techni- “When I was a kid, quite a while ago, my a novel he wrote into German. “There are Matteawan cal High School, I studied industrial design, father and his good friend in the garment many dreams in the novel, and one involves Station and including some architecture.” industry had a cabin near Wiccopee,” he Beacon,” he says. “I’m sure I’ve dreamt After moving to the Netherlands to recalls. “We often spent weekends there. about Beacon.” I recall going up Mount Beacon when the cable car was working. With my

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THE WEEK AHEAD Edited by Pamela Doan ([email protected]) For a complete listing of events, see highlandscurrent.org/calendar.

COMMUNITY SUN 25 TUES 20 EARTH DAY Emi Ferguson and Ruckus Challenges to THURS 22 neutrality in Philipstown by 2040. SAT 17 KATONAH Herd Immunity Open Barn Earth Day Stream-A-Thon Dar Williams and Tall County will 3 p.m. Caramoor | caramoor.org GARRISON perform. WAPPINGERS FALLS In this livestream, the baroque 1 p.m. The Hastings Center MILLBROOK 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Stony Kill Farm flutist and the continuo band will CCE Dutchess County thehastingscenter.org THURS 22 stonykill.org/programs/open-barn perform music from Fly the Coop, ccedutchess.org Mildred Solomon, president of Thomas Cole and Visit the chickens, cows, pigs, their album of Bach sonatas and The Hastings Center, will lead a Cornell Cooperative Extension turkeys and sheep. Register online preludes. Cost: $15 to $45 virtual discussion with Dr. Rhea will mark Earth Day with a series His Views for a time slot. Also, SAT 24. Boyd, a public health advocate and of virtual presentations. See the COLD SPRING TALKS & TOURS scholar, and Maya Goldenberg, website for details on how to watch. 7 p.m. Putnam History Museum SUN 18 author of a new book on vaccine putnamhistorymuseum.org Flea Market SAT 17 hesitancy, on the reasons people THURS 22 In this virtual celebration, Barry turn down vaccines. Register online. BEACON Wildflowers of Hudson Valley Green Jobs Ross will discuss Thomas Cole, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Henry Street Early Spring HYDE PARK the founder of the Hudson River School of painting. The weekly Beacon Flea Market WAPPINGERS FALLS TUES 20 5:30 p.m. Via Zoom will return for its 2021 season, 11 a.m. Stony Kill Farm Graphic Novel Book Club 845-229-0106 | [email protected] which continues through mid- 79 Farmstead Lane | stonykill.org COLD SPRING Students are invited to learn SAT 24 November. Masks are required. Meet at the Woodland Trail 7 p.m. Split Rock Books about careers in environmental Earth Day Talk trailhead for a guided hike to 845-265-2080 | splitrockbks.com and sustainability areas in this COLD SPRING SAT 24 identify spring wildflowers. For The group will discuss Over panel discussion hosted by state Noon. Little Stony Point ages 16 and older. Cost: $5 Easy, by Mimi Pond, via Zoom. Sen. Sue Serino, whose district 3011 Route 9D | haldanepta.org Drive-Thru Food includes the Highlands. Call or Jamie Margolin, the 19-year-old Collection email to register. founder and co-executive director BEACON SUN 18 THURS 22 of Zero Hour, a climate action 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Salvation Army Workshop on Food Waste DIY Facial Scrub & Mask THURS 22 organization based in Seattle, will CARMEL 158 Fishkill Ave. | 845-831-1253 BEACON Philipstown Fights Dirty speak at this event organized by facebook.com/BeaconLionsClub 3 p.m. Sustainable Putnam 6 p.m. Howland Public Library PHILIPSTOWN the Haldane PTA’s Equity Diversity The Beacon Lions Club and bit.ly/putnamfoodwaste beaconlibrary.org 6 p.m. Climate Smart Philipstown and Inclusion Committee. the Salvation Army will accept Martha Elder, executive director The mother-and-daughter team bit.ly/PFDlaunchevent Margolin is the author of Youth donations of canned and dry goods of Second Chance Foods, will discuss behind the Grounded Goodwife to Power: Your Voice and How to Join this virtual launch of at the rear entrance. the organization’s food rescue efforts. will demonstrate how to make a Use It. facial sugar scrub with lime and a the campaign to reach carbon SAT 24 “I’m Going Bananas” facial mask. Medication Take Back Day Register online. CARMEL THURS 22 CIVIC 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Putnam County Sheriff FRI 23 Dan Flavin MON 19 3 County Center Hudson Valley BEACON preventioncouncilputnam.org Amphibians and Reptiles Noon. Dia:Beacon City Council Bring your prescription, over-the- GARRISON 845-231-0811 | diaart.org BEACON counter and pet medications for 7 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library Dia educators will speak about 7 p.m. Via Zoom disposal at this drive-thru event. No 845-424-3020 | desmondfishlibrary.org the artist’s work with fluorescent 845-838-5011 | beaconny.gov syringes, lancets and sharps accepted. Dan Liebel, a reptile keeper and light as his primary medium. breeder, will discuss the migration MON 19 MUSIC and nesting habits of local frogs, KIDS & FAMILY Village Board snakes and salamanders. NELSONVILLE SAT 17 SAT 17 7:30 p.m. Via Zoom Hudson Valley SUN 25 Fairy Tales in Films 845-265-2500 | nelsonvilleny.gov Philharmonic Chains Across the Hudson PUTNAM VALLEY 2 p.m. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center POUGHKEEPSIE GARRISON TUES 20 8 p.m. Bardavon 4 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library 729 Peekskill Hollow Road School Board 845-473-2072 | bardavon.org SUN 18 845-424-3020 | desmondfishlibrary.org tompkinscorners.org GARRISON youtube.com/c/BardavonPresents/videos Bubby’s Stories In this online discussion, Bevis Jonathan Kruk will share the 7 p.m. Via Zoom This virtual concert will include PUTNAM VALLEY Longstreth will discuss the historical stories behind popular films such 845-424-3689 | gufs.org commentary and a diverse program 4 p.m. Reform Temple of Putnam Valley events that inspired his latest novel, as Shrek and Snow Queen, with of classic and contemporary music. 845-528-4774 | rtpv.org which takes place in the Highlands Tom McCoy on piano. Cost: $20 Roslyn Rothstein will share, via during the Revolutionary War. per family; no one turned away for TUES 20 ability to pay THURS 22 Zoom, the story of seven generations School Board The Valley Hour of her family, from Belarus in the VISUAL ARTS COLD SPRING 1800s to the 20th-century Bronx. To SUN 18 BEACON 7 p.m. Via Zoom register, email [email protected] SAT 17 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center Family Nature Activities 845-265-9254 | haldaneschool.org or leave a voicemail. thevalleyhour.com Alighiero e Sauzeau Boetti COLD SPRING This monthly livestream hosted PHILIPSTOWN 11 a.m. Hubbard Lodge WED 21 by Annalyse MON 19 Noon. Magazzino Italian Art 2880 Route 9 East Highlands Green Spring Into an putnamhighlandsaudubon.org and Ryan magazzino.art Corridors Plan will feature Organized Home Scholar-in-residence Teresa Pete Salmansohn will lead a PHILIPSTOWN Aaron Parks Kittler will discuss duality and scavenger hunt and other activities GARRISON 7 p.m. Via Zoom | philipstown.com and Rebecca 7 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library collaboration in the artist’s work. for families and children ages 6 and Haviland Watch live on the website. older. Cost: $8 (children free) The Town Board and Hudson 845-424-3020 | bit.ly/spring4-19 Highlands Land Trust will host this and Whiskey In this webinar, Jamie Novak, the Heart. workshop on the project. To attend, author of Keep This Toss That, will email [email protected]. share room-by-room strategies for See Page 7. dealing with clutter. highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current April 16, 2021 13

Shows (from Page 1) Here’s an update on each school’s plans for the spring.

HALDANE: THE GREEK TRILOGY At Haldane, rehearsals for the spring production of The Greek Trilogy have been a hybrid of in-person and virtual; the perfor- mances will be in-person for limited audi- ences and also filmed and shown online. Martha Mechalakos, who directs Haldane Drama, says she decided early in the school year that staging the usual drama and musical was going to be out of reach for 2020-21, hampered by the inability to congregate in person as well as frequent Damian Vladimiroff (below), Chloe Rowe and Jaclyn Landolfi in The Greek Trilogy Photos by Jim Mechalakos quarantines that affected the parent volun- resident who directs the O’Neill drama Point; or filmed remotely and edited. teers who usually build sets, paint, do elec- program, says getting word in early Although Arneson has scheduled Trophy trical work and make costumes. September that the school would not be Point for May 27, 28 and 29, her current She opted instead for a spring play, and opening until November was the kind of plan is to film the show on the O’Neill stage then, to facilitate small groups, broke hurdle she could jump over. as soon as feasible. That way, she says, if an that into three plays: Helen and The She proposed to the administration that actor tests positive or is required to quaran- Trojan Women, by Ellen McLaughlin, and her students could do an all-virtual fall play. tine in the week leading up to our show, “we Eurydice, by Sarah Ruhl, each derived from They agreed, and she licensed Clue, conced- at least have something to stream. Things Greek myths and stories, all presented from ing, that “it was nobody’s first choice, but will likely be in the air for a while still.” women’s perspectives. “I felt when I picked it was that or nothing, and the kids and The school board on Tuesday (April the three I could do a kind of one-step solu- parents were grateful to have this outlet, 13) gave the drama club the OK to begin tion,” she says. particularly as they were still on remote.” in-person rehearsals with weekly testing. Rehearsals began in January, largely Usually O’Neill presents a spring musical Despite the restrictions, things have been in-person, one play at a time. “I’ve felt we and follows it with an end-of-year gala. For going well with online auditions and rehears- shouldn’t build or paint,” she says. “We 2021, they swapped them. “We did the gala als, Arneson says. “There have been a few just needed a location, or locations, and first, and streamed it live with technical students who said, ‘I’m not up for the virtual outdoors ones are easy.” That also allowed help from alumni,” Arneson says. experience, I’m overloaded with online,’ but for for distancing, because she wanted the and musicians struggling to survive and Before the pandemic shutdown began a the most part they are doing whatever it takes. students to perform unmasked. “We can’t create in New York’s Lower East Side, under year ago, Arneson had planned on mount- “There are such hardcore drama kids — they have actors cut off two-thirds of their the shadow of AIDS. It was the 1996 winner ing Crazy for You as the spring musical. just have to have that outlet,” she says. “And I expressiveness,” she says. of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the “We had such big plans — it’s a tap musical, was determined these seniors would get their Plans are changing fast. Initially the plan Pulitzer Prize for drama. The students will and we were preparing to bring in Broad- show. There’s clear guidance from the state for was to record the performances, then they present a “school version” that removes some way tappers for workshops, and fundrais- sports, but not for theater or singing — it’s frus- were OK’d for a livestream, and now for a language and one song (“Contact”). ing for this lavish, expensive grand plan.” trating. I know what it would have meant to small audience. They will still be filmed Anthony Scarrone, the director and With that off the table, Arneson down- me to lose an entire year of high school theater and posted online, she says. adviser of Beacon Players, the high school’s sized for the spring to a musical adapta- — I would have been devastated. There’s no “When Broadway shows were shutting drama and theater arts organization, says tion of Little Women, which, she notes, “is way I’m going to let this happen.” down a year ago, I didn’t think we would that most rehearsals and design meetings, one of the few musicals available now for Wanting to give her students “some- still be going through this,” Mechalakos which began in February, have taken place livestreaming with remote rights. It’s not a thing extra special,” Arneson arranged for says. “I feel for them. My understanding in person, with masks and social distanc- big show; there are no big dance numbers, a virtual meeting with Mindi Dickstein, is that across the country this is the way it ing. He said the set is being built following so it lends itself well for a concert.” who wrote the lyrics for Little Women, and is. There’s lots of push for athletics, lots of, the same guidelines. Believing that the actors would not be Allan Knee, who wrote the book. “We were ‘We have to get them back to sports’ — but Scarrone notes that “singing without able to perform for a live audience, Arneson delighted and inspired, and so grateful to what about theater? masks is permitted with a 12-foot distance. says she developed three plans: an outdoor them,” Arneson says. “We’re trying to move forward, to give We opted to use clear masks as an addi- concert, with audience and actors spaced out For updates on the production, see insta- them all a performance opportunity, and tional precaution.” but no movement on stage, filmed for online; gram.com/oneilldrama. some kind of hope, though it’s killing me The director described the actors’ morale as a performance filmed at Trophy Point at West that we’re not doing a musical this year,” she “great. Kids are excited to have had the oppor- says. “Still, the kids are grateful. We were tunity to perform. Theater and the arts is a rehearsing a few weeks ago when a student wonderful release for so many high schoolers. told me, ‘I’m just so glad to be here.’” Having a place to go, to interact with their The Greek Trilogy plays will be performed peers, is so critical. We crafted our season to in rotation from Thursday (April 22) through provide some sense of normalcy within the Sunday (April 25). In-person tickets are structure of precaution and safety.” limited to 75 for each performance; masks The Beacon Players this year also and reservations are required. Tickets are launched an art and set design appren- $12, or $5 for students and free for senior tice program for eighth-graders that is citizens at bit.ly/greek-trilogy. designed, Scarrone says, to “provide some sense of normalcy for the middle school BEACON: RENT kids who had nothing this year regarding their drama programs, as well as giving While the Beacon Players’ performances them a head start on high school.” of Rent will take place at 975-seat Seeger Rent will be performed by two alternat- Theater at the school, with full sets and ing casts on May 14, 15, 16, 22 and 23. Tick- lighting, only 200 people will be allowed to ets are available at beaconplayers.com. watch each of six performances under state pandemic guidelines. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, O’NEILL: LITTLE WOMEN Rent follows a group of impoverished artists Natalie Arneson, the Putnam Valley 14 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

The Poet Next Door and I will find a poet or poem that’s going to make them lovers of poetry. I try to get students closer to speech, which gets them Prayer for That James Hoch closer to their inner lives, and to saying real things. I’ve read a lot of beautiful poems, Little Exhaustion ames Hoch, who has been a and I’ve been to a lot of bad poetry read- professor of creative writing ings. When a poem is read well, whether of Light the poem is great or not, you feel that pres- Jat Ramapo College since 2006, ence. There ought to be a prayer will publish his third collection of for that little exhaustion of light poetry, Last Pawn Shop in New So you should write assuming the poem will be read aloud? where bullets worm clear through Jersey, next year. With National Yes. Poetry is speech. The disruptions apples clinging to limbs. Poetry Month upon us, the Garri- and oddities of speech are a distraction in There ought to be a prayer son resident spoke with Chip Rowe writing but become pleasures and engage- ments in poetry. We don’t know what for flesh they pass through, about his work and teaching. Shakespeare’s voice sounded like. We only space left, bits blown into grass, know how it sounds when we say the words. that they resemble teeth, When did you think, “Poetry is what I So if you don’t own the language — actors and the grass taking teeth. want to do”? know this — it fails. The first time I read a poem aloud to a Look how sky eats report, group. It was at the bar in Philadelphia. I How do you start a poem? Staring at a how skins of trees drink sound. had been to so many punk shows where blank page? Prayer for saplings lined in rows, they had sign-up sheets to get on the mail- I am so old I’ve done it any number of ing list, I just signed up but didn’t realize study people like this Shakespeare guy who ways. I went for walks by the river. I’ve winters we burlapped young trunks, it was for an open mic. The organizer says, know how to do it [laughs]. I had a naivete, fallen into the river. I’ve started with snip- fed shovels of shit and ash. “And now here’s James Hoch” and he read a delusion, but nobody checked it. Today I pets. I’ve had poems appear out of nowhere; The prayer ought to feel like hours off my entire address, including the ZIP think social media would shame you and the first poem I sold for any bit of money code. I was 19, so I carried around a few of keep that from happening. was done in 20 minutes. But I’ve also taken with the assassin of our orchard, my poems so if I got hit by a train, the great 10 years to write a poem. I don’t know. whose eyes are cold rain, work of James Hoch would survive. As I How do you teach poetry? whose heart is cistern, read this poem about a jazz trio I saw at a I try to find for each student a poem simi- Where did the title of your next collec- who has no use for prayer. bar in South Philly, I felt this overwhelm- lar to what they’ve been trying to write, tion come from? ing emotion. A friend later asked me, “What or a poem that is in conversation with a I’ve been thinking about identity. If you We know because we made him. are you going to do with your life?” And I poem they are writing. Maybe it’s the could walk into my life or walk into me, Because we made him, he is alive. said, “I think I’m going to be a poet.” And voice, content, form, tone. I’m like a poetry it’d be like, there’s that lamp from 1976. Who could blame us for wanting he said, “I can see that.” I realized I should matchmaker: Give me a reader of poems, I’m more of a collection of experiences and things than I am a self-governing entity, a gauze to pack holes, let’s put it that way. I don’t feel like I’m a god to backfill with breath? in charge of anything. Maybe it’s being a Now, a table in the mutilated orchard, WANTED parent, where these characters are walk- ing in and out of your life. It’s part of my let us bow our heads over cider. Philipstown Rec is Hiring For the Summer! job as a parent to provide a stage for these The prayer should be brief, creatures to live in. It’s the self as a place as the way brief blows itself out. opposed to a thing occupying space. • SUMMER RECREATION INTERN The prayer will fail, always We are looking for a college junior, senior or recent Are there common themes in your between what language says work? and does. Where prayer fails, graduate who is looking to or interested in pursuing I get into ruts where I get fixated on a few now mouths full of autumn, a career in recreation, community services, youth tensions. I’ll write different types of poems about different experiences, with different now the leaf fury reddens. development or a similar field, Responsibilities will conceits and openings, but when I go to Yes, we are scared. Yes, we tire include learning how to develop, implement and compile a book, it’s like, “This is one poem.” being afraid, pleading now evaluate various aspects of community programming Richard Hugo said, “Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary.” in that light, that damn light. in the recreation setting as it applies to youth, adults and seniors. All interested candidates should submit a letter of interest to amber@philipstownrecreation. com by April 30th. Your letter should state why you think this experience will help you develop your future career path. This is a paid position for the months of May to August. Start date/end dates are LIVE on the lawn! somewhat flexible based on availability. SATURDAY, APRIL 17th AT 2 PM Jonathan Kruk’s • CAMP NURSE “Fairy Tales Found in Films” Our day camp program is in need of a camp nurse. Storytelling for Families Please call 845-424-4618 or email SUNDAY, MAY 2nd AT 2 PM 5th Annual Pete Seeger [email protected] for more Festival with Fine Crafts information regarding the position. www.TompkinsCorners.org highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current April 16, 2021 15

now. When I asked a friend what she thinks Prison Break: The Power of Words about prison, she said, “You just hope they’re all really bad guys and they put them away.” Philipstown resident creates program for inmates That’s not true. These are human beings. By Michael Turton What’s the current state of rehabilitation? ynthia Kling of Philipstown is a co-founder, with Jamel Brown, The fact that we have no rehabilitation of Transforming Lives (transforminglivesny.org), a project that in prisons is bizarre; these people are going pairs inmates with writing mentors. to come out and be our neighbors. Presi- C dent Reagan started getting rid of reha- Kling, whose career as a journalist included stints at Newsweek and bilitation, but it was President Clinton who Harper’s Bazaar, recently published Scrolls from a Forgotten World: got rid of it. Everyone forgets he ran as the Prisoners’ Writings and Reflections. The anthology was edited by Brown, law-and-order Democrat. He apologized for what he did, but there are about 900 people who is serving a 26-year sentence at Sing Sing for a gang-related murder. in prison in New York state under his ridic- Kling’s responses have been edited for brevity. ulously long sentences. I hope Transform- ing Lives is rehabilitative. Before founding Transforming Lives, being able to say, “Do you want to be in the you were fired from a similar program program?” I hope the guys in the middle Cynthia Kling Photo provided What’s the first thing you would at Bard College. What happened? can find us, because some of them can’t change about prisons? I worked to help Alex Duran, an inmate read or write. An inmate’s mother asked need to participate, get involved. All these I would bring some light into the system, and part of my writers’ group, who had been us what we were going to do about it, that prisons around here are as much a part of so incarcerated people have a reason to move convicted in a case where a friend shot and is, basic literacy. what we own as Fahnestock State Park — forward and up. Rather than paying inmates killed someone. The district attor- or anything else people are fussing over — 35 cents an hour to make license plates — ney offered a three-year sentence Do inmates write about prison the Chapel, the golf course. I want people to slave labor — set up a system with higher-level if he’d testify but Alex refused life or avoid the start thinking about that. These are people. jobs that require more skills and pay more. and received 14 years. With subject? Citizens in cells. It’s not easy to think about. about a year left, he was framed Some like to write and As a journalist, does it drive you crazy by other inmates and placed think about home, their Has working with inmates made you that Jamel left grammatical errors, in solitary confinement. A grandmother, their first “soft on crime”? typos and incorrect subject-verb agree- Bard rule and a prison rule girlfriend. Others write It hasn’t. It’s made me more aware of ment in some of the inmates’ writing? was that we were supposed about prison, its darkness, how screwed up the punishment system is. No. I’m so not a copy editor! But neither to do nothing, to just look the deaths, the suicides. One A friend’s son gets arrested and gets three Jamel nor I wanted any editor to go in there away. But I started knock- guy is writing about a 70-year- months. The Black guy in the South Bronx gets and start fussing. We decided this is how ing on doors, causing old who died of COVID-19 in 15 years. It’s a dual system; we all know that we are leaving it. Raw. trouble. We got Alex out prison. And they draw. They of “the box” and out of draw the urinal in their cell. prison. And I got fired. They draw the cell. They draw the most important thing in the Where is Alex now? cell — their pen. Nobody touches He’s a partner in Transforming Lives. their pen. He was hired by the Ford Foundation after his release, then the Soros Foundation. He Has the writing surprised you in any You can plan works on criminal-justice issues. way? Collectively, I can’t believe how good they your funeral What makes Transforming Lives are. I think it’s because they didn’t go to valuable? school and have it banged over their heads: It enables incarcerated citizens to do “Don’t do that — do this.” Bam! … they go in advance creative work, rehabilitative work, while right into their story. Every one of them is behind bars. When they sit down and write, like that. to ensure: it can change everything. Most inmates have grown up in prison, having gone in at age 17 What’s the takeaway for readers? or 18. They have no identities. One inmate I hope it’s that they think about the - Your final wishes are told me the program changed him from prison community as part of our commu- carried out as you plan being a prisoner to being a writer in prison. nity. We choose to not know about it. We It’s about these guys thinking about where them to be they are; their writing helps them understand how they got there. When they go before the - Price is locked in - parole board they have to be able to explain PUBLIC NOTICE costs rise with time what put them in prison or they don’t get out. We didn’t realize publishing their writing Spring, Easter and non- but the price you would give them and their families such a conforming decorations pay is set huge sense of pride. 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Roots and Shoots collection was a natural step. “The library is a place for people to grow in every way, not just through books,” she said. “We also Get Some, want to be a place of sustainability, which is why we have tools and equipment, too.” My family personally appreciates the Share Some library’s tent and other tools. By Pamela Doan The seed collection can continue to expand through donations, such as a he Butterfield patron’s recent contribution of marigold Librar y in seeds. Experienced gardeners have jumped T Cold Spring on the program and more seeds are coming began its seed collec- in as more learn about the collection. tion in February 2020, Reinhardt noted some people come to the just before the pandemic library to browse seeds only, not books. restrictions began. Donated seeds need to be dried. Any “Before we were fully shut down at the end amount of moisture can trigger a seed to of March, it gave us a way to connect with sprout. The library has packets or you can people,” says Johanna Reinhardt, the library’s bring in your own. By your inclusion of the interim director. “It felt like an encouraging Latin names and cultivars, if any, other thing to do and made us feel good.” Johanna Reinhardt with the seed library at the Butterfield library Photo by Michael Turton gardeners can know exactly what they are Reinhardt said she and her son wore getting because common names aren’t reli- masks and gloves and delivered seeds to plant that grew in my yard and give it a creating locally diverse, regionally adapted able. What I know as a coneflower, some- about 20 homes. chance in the next season, that plant is seeds. This is a good thing to have as the one else knows as Echinacea. Also, there This year feels like a fresh start after the adapting to the unique conditions of my impact of climate change continues to shift are many types of coneflowers. The more halted launch, she says. landscape. The traits that I’ve selected will temperatures, change rainfall patterns and information you provide, the better. The seed library has since grown to be the ones that strengthen in each genera- cause more extreme weather. Not many seed Reinhardt hopes a volunteer will step include 80 varieties of vegetables, herbs tion. My actions are shaping and influenc- companies are testing and growing for seed forward to help catalogue the seeds and vet and flowers. Library patrons have started ing what the plant will be like each season. in the northeast right now, but what works the collection. While seeds are less expen- donating their own seeds, which is what To produce a replica of a plant you like, in California or the heartland might not be sive than books, financial donations also makes a community seed bank come alive. the seed must be open-pollinated or an heir- the best fit for our soils and conditions. can be directed to the seed library and will I was excited when I learned about the loom. Seed companies that sell hybrids have Companies like Hudson Valley Seed, help it grow. seed bank because, through interviews and crossed parentage lines for certain traits and which coincidentally grew out of a librar- Want to learn more? Look out for details research, I understand the power of saving the seeds will not grow true to type. ian’s seed collection, provide only open- in the late summer about a seed saving seeds from our gardens to plant again and Given that we’ve lost 90 percent of our pollinated and heirloom varieties with the workshop we’re planning. It’s a fun and share. seed biodiversity over the past century, seed hope that gardeners will save their seeds. easy way to support the library and the Every season that I save a seed from a libraries in communities can play a role in From Reinhardt’s perspective, a seed community.

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Mouths to Feed A year ago, after our two older sons were sent home from college, I was abruptly forced to rouse myself out of many familiar cooking Almost There routines. Henry, our middle son, had turned vegetarian the previous fall, and by spring, By Celia Barbour George, the oldest, had joined him. While my rational brain wholeheartedly supported o sit still in their decision, my emotional brain responded springtime by turning sulky and peevish. (Not fair! Now T seems impos- I can’t make all those beloved family suppers sible. I say this as a I’ve perfected over the years.) veteran sitter, an old But we all must grow up eventually, both hand (and equally old inside and out. Realizing I was actually tush) at parking myself lucky to have to rethink the cooking ruts on a chair or bench. Every responsibility I’d fallen into over those selfsame years, I or deadline that keeps me indoors for more started exploring. than an hour makes me wish this entire month were a video stream I could watch A little Madness in the later, at my leisure. Still, it can be hard to know quite how Spring/Is wholesome to celebrate this season. Emily Dickin- even for the King. ~ Emily Dickinson son wisely wrote, “A little Madness in the Miso Tofu with Grilled Asparagus Spring/Is wholesome even for the King.” Not surprisingly, my meanderings often But how, exactly, are we supposed to go brought me face to face with tofu. I’ve mad? The compulsion to fling oneself into never had an aversion to tofu, even plain 1 15.5-ounce package extra firm tofu 1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauce a patch of daffodils or yodel from the top and raw; I find its curious, slightly bitter ¼ cup shiromiso (white miso paste) 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, plus more for of a cherry-blossom tree might feel irre- flavor intriguing, and its texture kind of grilling sistible, but I suspect the actual experience playful. I’ve also wondered why so many 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice ½ pound asparagus, woody ends snapped off would not live up to the impulse, and could people find tofu weird but think mozzarella 1 tablespoon mirin damage the lovely blossoms to boot. is perfectly normal when they’re basically Sesame seeds to garnish, optional 1 tablespoon maple syrup or brown sugar Thankfully, we can turn to the kitchen, the same thing, just made from different Cooked white rice, for serving which welcomes this season like an antsy, milks. Indeed, some food historians believe 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil desk-bound teen. And as soon as the refrig- that tofu was invented when Mongolian erator fills with asparagus, ramps, peas, yak herders encountered Chinese soybean Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cut the tofu into 1-inch slabs. Spread a clean kitchen strawberries, rhubarb and fresh ricotta, I farmers more than 2,000 years ago, and the towel on a rack, arrange the tofu on the towel, fold towel over tofu, and set a cast- am filled with an urge to find fresh new former shared the secrets of turning milk iron skillet on top to press out excess water. ways to prepare them. into curds with the latter. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk together the miso, lemon, mirin, maple syrup, I first made the progenitor to this dish last and sesame oil until smooth. Remove and set aside ¼ cup (about half the total) to spring, as part of my initial round of vegetar- use as dressing. To the remaining miso mixture, add the tamari and vegetable oil; ian experiments, and it was received just as whisk again. This portion will be the marinade. The Philipstown enthusiastically by the meat-eaters. When I revisited it just a few weeks ago, Dosi (still Cut the tofu into roughly 1-inch cubes, and toss in the tamari-miso marinade. Set Food Pantry an omnivore — for now) said: “You should aside for at least 15 minutes, and up to 1 hour (the longer it sits, the more flavor We would like to thank the Town write your next column about this.” the tofu will absorb). of Philipstown Feeding Assistance I replied that I didn’t think I’d developed Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and brush with vegetable oil. Remove Program and Richard Shea for it sufficiently yet. Sure, yes, parts of it were tofu from marinade and arrange on baking sheet, leaving space between the providing Foodtown Gift Cards for great (the dressing), but others (the mari- pieces (this helps tofu dry out and crisp while baking). Transfer to oven and bake distribution to our clients. nade) still needed time to evolve. 15 to 18 minutes, until brown on bottom. Flip the pieces over, and return to the Then I woke up last Monday and sat oven for 5 minutes more. We would also like to thank all the down and wrote this column. Suddenly anonymous doners who provided it occurred to me that time was no longer While the tofu is baking, heat a grill pan or skillet over medium-high. Toss the asparagus with the remaining vegetable oil and salt, and grill or fry until black in the funds for these gift cards. in its winter holding pattern and that the evolution of this recipe had to be acceler- places, and beginning to soften, 2 to 4 minutes, depending on the thickness of the They were especially appreciated ated, pronto. So I got to work and fixed it, stalks. (Alternatively, you can steam or roast the asparagus). this Easter season. photographed it and sent it off. After all, Serve the asparagus and tofu over rice, with reserved dressing on top and a ~ The Volunteers I’ve got some yodeling to do. sprinkling of sesame seeds, if desired. 18 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org Looking Back in Philipstown By Chip Rowe expense of his recovery. The Recorder reported that “the senti- 150 Years Ago (April 1871) ment of Nelsonville is against the neighbor A watch owned by William Bloomer of who interfered in a domestic affair and beat Nelsonville, which he obtained from John an intoxicated man,” Henry Birdsall, with a Mekeel, who said he found it on the Old shovel. But the following week, Mrs. William Post Road near Peekskill, was brought to Birdsall and her daughter wrote to correct Pelham and Co. for repair. On the reverse the record, saying their neighbor was a hero. was inscribed: “1779 Presented to Gen. Geo. They said Henry had struck Mrs. Birdsall Washington, by His Army,” although there with a crowbar and ax and Sarah with a were no other markings. (A week later, crowbar. When the women cried “Murder!” The Cold Spring Recorder dismissed the the neighbor came to their rescue. Henry engraving as a fraud.) “started for him, with an oath, saying that he George McCabe retained his seat as town would take his heart out, struck him three supervisor, defeating former supervisor times and clinched him by the throat, where- George Garrison, 437-423. upon said neighbor took the back of an old In 1971, four Cold Spring children appeared on Wonderama, hosted by Bob McCallister. The ground was broken for a train depot chair and struck him three times.” They said in Garrison about 100 yards south of the the neighbor then subdued Birdsall “without The Cold Spring Light, Heat & Power Co. Nelsonville met to discuss their new coun- current one. Some argued it should be moved offering to hurt him in any way.” installed new electric light poles. seling hotline at 9404 (WHOG). to the east side of the tracks but because of The films shown on Tuesdays and Satur- Four Cold Spring children attended the the hill there would not be enough room to 100 Years Ago (April 1921) days at Philipstown Town Hall included the Wonderama children’s show starring Bob get a team of horses around it. The Village Board assigned Officer Reil- six-reel Man and His Woman; Tom Mix in McCallister. Mary Gencen was chosen to About 25 members of the Social Merry ley to be on duty at the baseball games at The Untamed; Pearl White in Tiger’s Cub; talk to the guest star, Marty Allen, while Bachelors and their dates gathered on a Kemble’s Field at a rate of $1 per Sunday. Leonard Shumway in A Beggar in Purple; Richy Nobile competed in the cardboard Monday night at Town Hall to promenade, The season opened with the locals defeating and Shirley Mason in Love’s Harvest. Each tractor race and all four children, including dance, feast and converse. the marines of Iona Island, 17-3, and a squad show also had a Sunshine comedy and a Patty and Barbara Gencen, participated in A jury in Carmel found John Trump- from Bear Mountain, 11-3. The Recorder Fox News reel. the go-go dance. boar guilty of second-degree murder in the noted two rule changes. First, if there was William Ladue returned from a winter Robert A.W. Carlson, 89, of Garrison, a shooting death in July 1870 in Cold Spring an argument, only the captain of each team trip in which he traveled 6,000 miles by civil engineer who worked on many of New of coachman Elijah Jones. Trumpboar was could speak to the umpires. Second, the base- automobile. York’s subways and tunnels, died at Butter- fleeing on Stone Street after robbing a lines were roped off to keep spectators from A “flying squadron” with at least 30 cars field Memorial Hospital. messenger of the National Bank of Fishkill wandering across them. In addition, the club representing the merchants of Beacon Kenneth Gilbert, 32, the son of Garrison when Jones attempted to stop him. He was asked women spectators to donate to pay the visited Cold Spring. auctioneer O. Rundle Gilbert, died when given a life sentence. expenses of the club, along with the men. The Odd Fellows lodge hosted a barn his small plane crashed near Wilmington, On a Sunday morning, William Hustis, The Village Board transferred $100 from dance at Town Hall with prizes for the best North Carolina. He had taken off from Stor- who lived above the North Highland church, the sewer fund to maintain the village park fox trot and waltz. mville Airport for Florida. reached in his pocket for his tobacco box and and voted to have the president ask the rail- Carlo Tomaselli, a former member of the found it gone. He went into the room where road company to lay a concrete sidewalk 75 Years Ago (April 1946) Metropolitan Opera, purchased a home on his pants had been and found that someone from the station to Main Street. Several thousand people turned out for Foreman Road in the North Highlands. He had crawled in the window and ransacked The state Department of Health sent its Cold Spring’s week-long celebration to mark said the Hudson Valley reminded him of his it overnight. It had rained and tracks in the specially designed Healthmobile motor car the 100th anniversary of its founding on hometown of Bari, Italy. road pointed toward Fishkill, where Hustis to Cold Spring to offer free examinations of April 22, 1846. Mayor William Dardess Jr. Mayor Ray LeFever hosted an organiza- and his neighbors found a “tramp” having infants and children up to 6 years of age. opened the week by flipping a switch that tional meeting for the Cold Spring Auxil- breakfast at Jackson’s Hotel with the stolen At the end of the day, an electric genera- illuminated the streets with colored lights. iary Police Force, which he said was open items in his possession. After pleading guilty, tor installed in the car powered a motion There was an antique show at Moog’s store, a to any man aged 21 or older who wanted to the burglar was sent to Sing Sing for 10 years. picture projector. parade, a display at the Old Homestead Club help keep the village’s young adults under A 35-year-old brakeman on a freight A benefit was held at St. Mary’s-in-the- of products made in Cold Spring, fireworks control. About 25 men attended. Two village train, Edward Buckley, who had been seri- Highlands for the Lending Library, with and a rodeo at Kemble’s Field, a ball at the trustees told the mayor they thought the ously injured when his head struck a beam the parish house decorated with daffodils high school and a Saturday night block party. auxiliary force was a bad idea since (1) the on the drawbridge over Fishkill Creek, was and yellow forsythia. Most of the 85 people men were not trained for police work, (2) if left by the engineer at Cold Spring station. in attendance wore costumes related to a 50 Years Ago (April 1971) the men were issued nightsticks, it’s possible James Maher of Market Street took him book. Dorothy Giles, as Robinson Crusoe, The chairmen of the Narcotics Guidance they might hurt someone, and (3) it could in, with the railroad company covering the won the top prize. Councils of Philipstown, Cold Spring and (Continued on Page 19)

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120-yard high hurdles) and broke another The Franciscan Friars at Graymoor spon- (from Page 18) Looking Back (21 feet, 5¾ inches in the long jump). sored an interfaith conference called AIDS: open the village to lawsuits. LeFever, who Town Supervisor Joseph Percacciolo and The Faith Community Responds. had been in office for 10 days, dismissed his brother, Angelo, were the first people A mother and her son were injured at their concerns, saying he and the police chief elected to honorary membership in the 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning when were in charge of the force, not the trustees. North Highlands Fire Department. she ran the stoplight in Cold Spring and The North Highlands Fire Co. completed collided with a Haldane school bus. the reconditioning of a used 2,200-gallon 25 Years Ago (April 1996) The Desmond-Fish Library held its tanker it purchased the year before. Cold Spring celebrated the 150th anniver- second annual Associates Awards dinner, A Garrison woman and her brother, sary of its founding with a dinner dance at which honored novelist E.L. Doctorow and who was visiting from Canada for a family Breakneck Lodge. Among the speakers was children’s book author Jean Marzollo. The reunion, were among three people killed Mayor Anthony Phillips, who recalled that In 1996, the Cold Spring Lions dedicated keynote speaker was Jane Alexander, chair in a crash on the Bear Mountain extension. he had been 6 years old at the 100th anni- this bronze plaque at the Cold Spring of the National Endowment for the Arts. Members of the Putnam County Histor- versary. “Cold Spring was my little world,” Cemetery. A resident asked the Philipstown Town ical Society gathered at the museum for he said. “During the Centennial parade, the Board if there was a conflict between its the dedication of a new wing. The indus- Italian American Club sponsored a float school for boys in Garrison founded in 1927 approval of a permit to allow Harold Lyons trial designer Russel Wright spoke on the featuring a king and a queen. I was the king by her husband’s father. Her family recalled to expand his soil mining operations on history and future of Putnam County and and now, 50 years later, I am your mayor.” her saying she had heard 13 of the 17 presi- Route 9 just south of the Dutchess County Michael and Peter Lyons presented the The Cold Spring Lions dedicated a bronze dents of her lifetime speak in person, start- border by 321,000 cubic yards of sand and society with a model of the Hudson River plaque and planted a sugar maple tree at ing with Theodore Roosevelt. gravel on 54 acres over five years, and its sloop Victorine, which had been captained the Cold Spring Cemetery to remember the Jack Effner, the head coach of the Army earlier stated opposition to a mining opera- by their ancestor, Capt. David Lyons. victims of the bombing the year before of wrestling team, spoke at the annual dinner tion just across the border. The town super- Putnam County Sheriff Raynor Weize- the federal building in Oklahoma City. of the Philipstown Wrestling Team at the visor said that the Dutchess project was an necker created a substation at the Philip- The U.S. Postal Service changed the mail- Taconic Outdoor Education Center. entirely different situation that involved the stown Town Hall that consisted of a desk, ing addresses of residents of Continental A heavy bronze sculpture was stolen removal of 50 million tons of stone from the a typewriter and a phone. Village from Peekskill to Garrison. from the garden of Vanessa Solomon on south face of Fishkill Ridge over 150 years. During a meet against Millbrook, Jeff Nan Gordon died at age 86. She and her Moffet Road. She offered $300 for its Macaluso of Haldane High School tied husband were the longtime co-heads of return, saying she had cast it as an intern Visit highlandscurrent.org for news a school track record (16 seconds in the the Malcolm Gordon School, a preparatory at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon. updates and latest information.

$5 million and $25 million annually while district officials began meeting with (from Page 1) School Funding raising taxes on those earning more than Serino, Jacobson and other legislators. had not yet happened. $1 million. The state also brought in more City of Beacon “They didn’t understand that a school “Cuomo was really leaning on that,” income and sales tax revenue last year than district is a different financial institution Quartironi said this week. “If we didn’t get was projected at the onset of the pandemic, Also Benefits than a private business,” White said. “If we the American Rescue Plan,” budget cuts Jacobson said. have a gap in funding from one year to the “absolutely would have been made.” Serino criticized Cuomo for raising taxes When the Beacon City Council next, it really hinders our operations. It’s The rescue plan was passed by Congress despite the stimulus funding and said that adopted the city’s 2021 budget in like we’re on pins and needles each year.” and signed by President Joe Biden last while she supports the school aid, the budget December, it anticipated drawing Landahl told the school board on Monday month. That’s when things began to change is “bloated with backward priorities.” about $2.3 million from reserves to that the plan for the 2021-22 budget, with for the better, she said. Jacobson, however, maintained that balance the $22.4 million general the outside funding now resolved, will be The package sent more than $12 billion parents, educators and other advocates fund budget. Mayor Lee Kyriacou “maintaining the huge gains” of the past to New York, including $4.2 million to the were outspoken that public education could said that was a worst-case scenario, four years. Since 2017, the district has Beacon school district, $182,000 to Haldane not become a casualty of the pandemic. depending on how much state aid and added seven elementary teachers, a fourth- and $232,000 to Garrison. In addition, the “Our schools are really struggling during sales tax revenue the city received. grade music teacher (making that program state budget, adopted April 7, made good on this moment of crisis,” said Jasmine Grip- permanent), a social worker at Beacon High City Administrator Chris White Cuomo’s pledge for school funding. per, the executive director of the Alliance School and a part-time art teacher at the said on Wednesday (April 14) that Assembly Members Jonathan Jacobson, for Quality Education, a group that orga- high school. It also has revamped profes- Beacon will receive about $1.5 whose district includes Beacon, and Sandy nized two rallies in Albany last month. “You sional development programs and equipped million from the state’s Aid and Galef, whose district includes Philipstown, can’t cut schools when you’re asking them every student with a Chromebook laptop — Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) both voted for the budget. Sen. Sue Serino, to do something this historic that they’ve a significant advantage during more than a program — more than anticipated. whose district includes the Highlands, never done before.” year of virtual and hybrid schooling. The unexpected revenue will lower voted “no.” “Our hope and goal is that the budget the amount the city must draw “This has been a real roller-coaster ride undergirds all of this work and puts us in a ‘A moral victory’ from savings to about $736,000, or of a budget season,” Superintendent Matt A major component of the budget’s educa- good position to build,” he said. roughly a third of the high projection. Landahl told the school board on Monday tion funding is its commitment to make For 2021-22, the district plans to add a (April 12). “We were looking at pretty good on “foundation aid” — unrestricted prekindergarten teacher to pilot a full-day substantive cuts and now we’ve had a lot funding that makes up the bulk of what program and provide more hotspots for of positive things happen. It’s felt like a new districts receive each year from the state. Some is expense-driven aid that repays students who don’t have internet access surprise every day.” While the state was ordered to begin the district for transportation, equipment at home. It also hopes to partner with the What happened? providing the aid in 2007, following a and other costs, while $20.1 million is the Dutchess Board of Cooperative Educational “The answer is Georgia,” Jacobson said protracted legal battle, the economic unrestricted foundation money — about Services (BOCES) on professional develop- on Tuesday, referring to the two run-off downturn occurred soon after and it began $600,000 more than in 2020-21. ment, Landahl said, and will support the elections in the state in January that, both making only partial payments to districts. “We are really pleased that, after a year creation of new and expanded music, arts, won by Democrats, shifted the U.S. Senate Nearly 15 years later, the state teachers’ of threats of devastating cuts, we’re seeing theater and other extracurricular clubs to from Republican to Democratic control. union says the Beacon district is owed $1.7 this extra funding,” said Meredith Heuer, foster a “holistic student experience.” “Once there was a change in leadership million in unpaid aid. While the 2021-22 president of the school board. “The foun- The board will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday in the Senate, it became possible for the New York State budget doesn’t repay that dation increase isn’t huge in the scheme of (April 19) to adopt the 2021-22 budget, federal government to give New York State debt, it will give districts 60 percent of this our entire budget but it is a moral victory which includes $76.9 million in spending. money [to help offset pandemic costs] and year’s payment and commits to paying 100 that acknowledges the state was not help- The district’s state-mandated tax cap for allow us to do what we should have been percent annually by 2023. (Haldane is ing districts provide an equitable education 2021 is 2.35 percent, which translates to a doing all along, to fund education properly.” owed $649,000 and Garrison is not owed to our students.” $42.6 million tax levy, or $980,000 more In addition to the stimulus package, legis- anything, the union says.) School Board Member Anthony White, than last year. The budget, along with four lators during budget negotiations created Beacon anticipates $30.7 million in over- who was the board’s president from 2016 school board seats, will be on the ballot for tax brackets for people making more than all school funding from the state this year. to 2020, traced that victory to 2017, when district voters on May 18. 20 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

Inside Town Hall Earlier this month, Philipstown Supervisor Richard Shea provided a tour of the renovated space to Ross Corsair, who also visited Town Hall in February 2020 as the work began. A video in which Shea discusses the project is posted at highlandscurrent.org. Photos by Ross Corsair

In addition, “the fire suppression system and also with an eye toward energy effi- (from Page 1) Town Hall grew in scope,” he said. “We also decided to ciency,” including new windows, lighting Town Board and the many hours that Justin raise the ceiling in the meeting room to the and heating and cooling systems, an eleva- Town Hall Still Kacur of Highlands Architecture donated, tin panels and restore them; the original tor and bathrooms that comply with the we could never have come in under budget.” plan had been to be more ‘corporate’ and Americans with Disabilities Act. Closed to Public As examples, he noted that a boiler was go with a dropped panel ceiling.” “One of the problems was, in the winter, While the town clerk and assessor installed that was not in the original plan While giving a tour, Shea noted that you couldn’t get the building to temper- have moved back into Town Hall, and stainless steel added to the chimney “everything in the building, interior and ature, so people were wandering around their offices remain open only after the discovery that it was unlined brick. exterior, has been redone and modernized, with coats on,” he said. by appointment because of the At a Town Board meeting on April 8, he pandemic shutdown. Call 845- said that, with the upgrades, “by and large 265-3329 or email townclerk@ it will be a very green building, and a much philipstown.com. The Justice Court greener building than it used to be. It was also has not resumed regular green only based on the fact it was covered sessions but messages can be left in mold.” at 845-265-2951. The work restored many of the build- ing’s original features, including the It’s not clear when the Town Board maple floor in the meeting room, which will return to its meeting room. Its had been covered by carpet. “My mother next meeting is scheduled for May tells me there were roller-skating events up 6; Supervisor Richard Shea said here,” he said. “If you look at the historical he planned to consult with the records, all sorts of community events were other board members to see how held up here, such as concerts and speak- comfortable they are with meeting ing events. So we’re glad that we’re able to in-person. All have been vaccinated. bring this floor back and really lighten up “It would be nice to get back the room.” together,” Shea said. “I’m not at The windows, he said, are “historic repro- all sure about public attendance ductions of what was here, but they just func- at this point but we will adhere tion in a much more energy-efficient way. We to the CDC [Centers for Disease can open them and ventilate the room, where Control and Prevention] and state in the past they were covered with plastic just guidelines. The meetings will still be trying to keep some heat in.” televised and we could host people He pointed out that the restoration on Zoom for questions.” included installing lights in the vents that were used when the room was lit by gas lamps. “They would get so hot that they had the vent out to the outside, so there stay in this building, to respect the build- were four chimneys in the room that went ing, and to bring it back to life. And now it outside. will be a much more pleasant work environ- “There were a lot of period details in the ment, a much more energy-efficient build- building that we were able to keep,” he said. ing and something I’m going to be proud to “I think preserving this Town Hall in this hand off to the next person who sits in my location, in this building, was really impor- seat. I’d say, congratulations to the Town tant. We considered moving out, going to of Philipstown.” a different site, maybe even constructing a building, but historic buildings need to be Ross Corsair contributed reporting. preserved. And this is part of our history. “There’s a long history here in Philip- Visit highlandscurrent.org for news stown, so I think it was really important to updates and latest information. highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current April 16, 2021 21 NOTICE

NOTICE OF ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARING ON THE BUDGET, ANNUAL, MEETING, ELECTION AND VOTE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Education of the Beacon City School District, Dutchess County, New York, will hold a public hearing on the budget at Beacon High School, 101 Matteawan Road, Beacon, New York, and via Zoom, on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 7:00 P.M, for the purpose of presenting the budget document for the 2021-2022 School Year.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for School District purposes during the 2021-2022 school year (the Budget), as prepared by the Board of Education, may be obtained by any resident of the District during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote, commencing May 4, 2021, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays during regular school hours, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., at each of the District’s schoolhouses, at the Administrative Offices, and on the District’s website.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote, will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M., prevailing time, when the polls will be open for the purpose of voting by voting machine: A. To elect four (4) members to the Board of Education as follows: two members for three year terms (commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2024), one member for a three year and six week term commencing May 18, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2024, and one member for a one year and six week term commencing May 18, 2021 and expiring on June 30, 2022. B. To vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures for School District purposes for the 2021-2022 School Year (the Budget). C. To vote upon the following proposition: Shall the bond resolution adopted by the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Beacon, Dutchess County, New York, dated March 22, 2021 authorizing the purchase of school buses at a maximum estimated cost of $395,000; authorizing the issuance of $395,000 bonds of said School District to pay the costs thereof; and that such sum or so much as may be necessary shall be raised by the levy of a tax upon the taxable real property of said School District and collected in annual installments as provided in Section 416 of the Education Law; Putnam History Museum and providing that, in anticipation of said tax, obligations of the School District shall be issued; determining the period of Philipstown Town Hall at the turn of the 20th century probable usefulness and maximum maturity thereof to be five years; pledging the faith and credit of said School District for the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds; delegating powers to the chief fiscal officer with respect to the issuance and sale of bond anticipation notes and such bonds; containing an estoppel clause and providing for the publication of an estoppel notice, be approved? Earlier Plans for Town Hall D. To vote upon the following proposition: Shall the Board of Education of the Beacon City School District be authorized to sell a ±33 acre portion of a 64.75 acre parcel fronting on Route 9D (identified on the Dutchess County Tax Map as Section The Philipstown Town Hall was built two staircases should descend [outside] 6055, Block 1, Lot 182629), upon which the Dutchess Stadium, Intermodal Transportation Facility and associated parking facilities have been erected, to Dutchess County for the sum of $627,000, and such other terms and conditions as are set in 1867 following three acts of the to the street,” The Recorder reported. forth in the Contract of Sale negotiated between the parties? State Legislature. The first, in 1864, A contractor estimated that the project E. To vote on any other proposition legally proposed. authorized the Philipstown Board of would cost $5,500 to $8,000. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that for the purposes of voting, the School District has been divided into two (2) election districts and Trustees and the police commissioner that an accurate description of the boundaries of these school election districts is on file and may be inspected at the Office of the District Clerk on weekdays when school is in session, during regular work hours, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., at the Administrative to “procure a suitable piece of ground” “Thus the Town Board realized the Offices, 10 Education Drive, Beacon, New York. for a jail. The second, an amendment gravity of the situation, which they NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the 2021 Annual Meeting, Election and Vote, will be held at the following polling places in the to the 1864 act, authorized the town to discussed most seriously for several School Election Districts hereinafter set forth; issue bonds of up to $10,000 to build hours on the 8th of February,” the SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 1 a Town Hall with a jail. The third, which newspaper reported. “There was some POLLING LOCATION: BEACON HIGH SCHOOL amended the second, authorized the uncertainty about the law; there was Description: First Ward, First and Second Districts | Second Ward, First, Second, and Third Districts | Third Ward, First, Second and Third Districts | Fourth Ward, First and Second Districts town to issue up to $13,500 in bonds, additional uncertainty about the exact repayable at up to 7 percent interest limit of alteration and expense to which SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 2 POLLING LOCATION: GLENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL over 10 years. The final bill was $7,000. to go; there was a feeling that drawings Description: Bounded on the north and east by Wappingers Central School District No. 1, Towns of Wappinger, Poughkeepsie, should be prepared to be exhibited to Fishkill, East Fishkill and LaGrange in Dutchess County and the towns of Kent and Philipstown in Putnam County; south by the A quarter-century later, according to an common town line of the Towns of Fishkill and Wappinger and west by the Hudson River. the people, allowing exactly what was 1894 account in The Cold Spring Recorder, Bounded on the north by the common town line of the of Fishkill and Wappinger, east by Wappinger Central School District to be done; there was lack of time to No. 1 in the Towns of Wappinger, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, East Fishkill and LaGrange in Dutchess County and the Towns of Kent a group of townspeople presented the and Philipstown in Putnam County and Union Free School District No. 3, Town of Fishkill, south by Beacon City line and west by secure specific estimates, as well as Hudson River. Town Board at its Feb. 6 meeting with a to exploit the perfected design so that Bounded northerly by former Common School District No. 4 in the Town of Fishkill and Wappinger, easterly by Central School petition and proposal to transform the District No. 1 in the Towns of Wappinger, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, East Fishkill and LaGrange in Dutchess County and the Towns the electorate of Philipstown might of Kent and Philipstown in Putnam County and Central School District No. 1 in the Towns of Philipstown and Putnam Valley in meeting room into a performance space. thoroughly grasp the situation; and rise Dutchess County; southerly by Central School District No. 1 in the Town of Philipstown and Putnam Valley in Putnam County Based on their interpretation of the state and the Town of Fishkill in Dutchess County; westerly by the Hudson River and the City of Beacon being the former Union Free to the responsibility of the occasion. School District No. 3 of the Town of Fishkill. legislation, voters would have to approve NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that petitions for nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education must the spending, and the election was a “So it came to pass, as the shades of be filed with the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 P.M. on the 20th day preceding the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Such petitions must be signed by at least fifty (50) qualified voters of the District (per S4430 for 2021 week away. Would the board add their night were gathering around the council only), shall state the name and residence address of each signer and the name and residence address of the candidate. Petition plan to the ballot? chamber, it was, ‘Resolved, that in forms may be obtained at the Office of the District Clerk on weekdays when school is in session, during regular business hours, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. or they can be downloaded from the district website. the opinion of this board the time to The proposal called for the building intelligently present said petition to the NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Education of the Beacon City School District, Dutchess County, New York, has fixed to be extended by 25 feet to allow Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at the Administrative Offices, 10 Education Drive, Beacon, New York, as the date on which the Board of people of said town is too limited; and Registration of said School District will meet between the hours of 1:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M., prevailing time, for the purpose of for a stage with a dressing room and preparing the register of the School District for each election district for the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote, to be held on we therefore under the circumstances staircase to the ground floor on each Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at which time any person shall be entitled to have his/her name placed upon such register if known or respectfully decline to submit said proven to the satisfaction of the registrars to be then or thereafter entitled to vote. Persons whose registration to vote with the side and room for an orchestra. In County Board of Elections is current, pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, shall be qualified to vote without further registering petition at the coming election.’ ” with the School District’s Board of Registration, as well as all persons who shall have previously registered for any annual addition, the floor would be sloped from or special district meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special district meeting or election held or the rear and opera chairs installed. A week after the election, a resident conducted at any time during the 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020 calendar years. A temporary floor could be installed wrote to The Recorder: “If the people NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the register of voters so prepared shall be filed in the Office of the District Clerk and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., prevailing time, beginning over the chairs to hold meetings or wish their town-house improved, who fourteen (14) days prior to the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote. Said register will be open for inspection in each of the polling for elections or “entertainments.” The shall say them nay? Let the people’s places during the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote.

ceiling would be removed to open the voice be heard.” NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots for the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote may be obtained at space to the roof and to add ventilation; the Office of the District Clerk or downloaded from the school district website. The completed application must be received by Another resident responded: “Why the District Clerk no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the election, and at least seven (7) days prior to the election if the ballot fire escapes would be installed in the is to be mailed or the day before the election, if the ballot will be picked up at the Office of the District Clerk. The completed is that we hear so much senseless application can be sent by email, or delivered by a designated agent. Absentee ballots must be received at the Office of the second-floor windows; and painting chatter about internal improvements? District Clerk by no later than 5:00 P.M., prevailing time, on the day of the election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots would be done inside and out. shall have been issued will be available in the said Office of the District Clerk during regular office hours until the day of the For 25 years, this Town Hall has been Annual Meeting, Election and Vote. Any qualified voter may file a written challenge of the qualifications of a voter whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for the challenge. During the meeting, several people good enough for better men — I say said they took exception to the plans this candidly — than we have today. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a qualified military voter who is not currently registered can obtain a military personal registration form on the District’s website, or from the District Clerk between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. A registered military voter for sloping floors, temporary flooring The entrances are wide enough for may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District Clerk in the same manner. Additionally, qualified military voters can contact the District Clerk to indicate their preference to receive a military personal registration form, absentee or removing the ceiling. One petitioner straightforward people. The ceiling is ballot application or absentee ballot via mail, facsimile or electronic mail. Ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later insisted on the installation of steam high enough for humility. The stage is than 5:00 P.M. on the date of the election and vote. Military voter registration and absentee ballots shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of Section 2018-d of the Education Law and Part 122 of the Commissioner’s Regulations. heating and gas lighting. Another, “from low enough for high-minded people. the country,” advocated buying the And the benches are soft enough if adjacent land to build horse sheds. people have an easy conscience.” Dated: March 24, 2021 By the Order of the Board of Education of the Beacon City School District “Then it was said that a cabinet piano ______So opinions varied. should go on the new stage, and that the Kelly Pologe, School District Clerk 22 April 16, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org Calls for Artists Current Classifieds

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VOLLEYBALL The Haldane High School volleyball team continued to thrive last week, picking up three victories to improve to 12-1, with the playoffs opening Monday (April 19). On Tuesday (April 13) the Blue Devils traveled to Putnam Valley, where they defeated the Tigers in three sets. Maria Barry scored eight kills, 27 digs and six aces. Jill Weinpahl had eight kills, Meghan Tomann added 12 assists and five aces, and Megan Farrell had 20 digs. Despite the victory, “we didn’t play our best game,” said Coach Kristina Roling. “We’re happy we came out with the win. They know how to keep the ball in play; we had some long rallies.” “We do need to clean up some stuff for The Beacon football team has struggled this season because of COVID-19 quarantines, with two games canceled. Photo by S. Pearlman the playoffs,” she added. “But the girls have a strong mindset; being down doesn’t shake Barry led the way in that one with 13 kills, Quarterback Dan Santos completed 5 of them.” Tomann had 22 assists, Weinpahl had 17 digs 16 attempts for 11 yards and was picked off A day earlier, the Blue Devils visited and Farrell added 22 digs and seven aces. three times. Darrin Santos ran 10 times for Poughkeepsie, where they also won in three The Blue Devils are hoping for a high seed 50 yards. sets, 25-22, 25-11, 25-21. Weinpahl had 11 in the Section 1 regional playoffs. (There is The Blue Devils are scheduled to travel kills, Tomann handed out 18 assists and no state tournament this year because of the to Rye Neck (0-3) on Saturday (April 17). Farrell had 21 digs and seven aces. pandemic shutdown.) They will compete in Haldane will close its season at Tuckahoe On Saturday (April 10) at home, they the Northern Westchester/Putnam small- in the Section 1, Class D title game on April blanked Putnam Valley, 25-20, 25-15, 25-10. school division with Lakeland, Peekskill, 24. The schools are the only Class D teams Walter Panas, Hendrick Hudson, Putnam in the section. Valley, Briarcliff, Croton and North Salem, Beacon’s game scheduled for April 9 and should be the No. 1 seed. The potential against Somers was canceled because of No. 3 seed, Croton (8-2), handed Haldane its ongoing COVID-19 issues. After a 10-day only loss this season, and No. 2 Panas (10-2) pause following the previous game against has a solid team, as well. Tappan Zee, Beacon didn’t have enough Roling said her team is still getting healthy players. The Bulldogs are sched- better. “Maria, Jill, Meghan and Megan uled to close their regular season hosting have been the backbone. They’ve all been Lourdes at 7 p.m. on Saturday (April 17). the model of consistency and a positive atti- tude. Zoe Silverman and Rachel Iavicoli HALLS OF FAME switched positions and have been such a Haldane is accepting nominations for force on the floor, especially with serving.” inductees into its Athletic Hall of Fame, Haldane is scheduled to finish its season Darrin Santos ran for 50 yards but the Blue Devils were shut down offensively in which honors athletes, coaches and teams. today (April 16), hosting Carmel. The a loss to Valhalla. See bit.ly/Haldane-hall-fame. The deadline Beacon squad, meanwhile, lost this week is May 1. Selections are made by a nine- at Lourdes and Carmel to fall to 0-13. The Haldane (1-3) forced a fumble early but member committee of coaches, community Bulldogs will enter the Dutchess County couldn’t convert it to points, and things members and a school administrator. The playoffs for Section 1 as the No. 7 seed and went downhill from there when the Vikings 2020 induction ceremony was postponed will likely face John Jay-East Fishkill (8-1) quickly scored on runs of 3 and 75 yards. because of the pandemic shutdown. or Arlington (9-2). The Vikings added a 1-yard touchdown Beacon High School also postponed the run in the third quarter and a 6-yard score induction ceremony for its most recent FOOTBALL in the fourth. Athletic Hall of Fame class until the winter The Haldane squad played a game on “They did a good job of bottling us up,” of 2021-22. Nominations will be reviewed Saturday (April 10) that it might just as said Coach Ryan McConville. “In the second in the fall by a nine-member committee soon forget, missing an early scoring oppor- half we couldn’t get anything going. We of coaches, Hall of Fame inductees and Haldane captain Maria Barry (8) rises to tunity before falling, 28-0, to the defending need to get back to fundamentals — better community members. See bit.ly/beacon- play a ball in Tuesday's win at Putnam Valley. Section 1, Class C champion Valhalla. blocking and better tackling.” hall-fame.