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November 22, 2019 Support us at highlandscurrent.org/join Now You See It, Now You Don’t Cold Spring artist makes graffiti disappear
Graffiti at Little Stony Point Photo by Laura Bergman By Jeff Simms
ens of thousands of people — and maybe hundreds of thousands — T pass through Little Stony Point, Breakneck Ridge and other Highlands hiking destinations each year. The vast majority are respectful, follow- ing the “leave-no-trace” rule. But occasion- ally someone will drop trash or, perhaps, decide a rock would look better with a fresh coat of spray paint. Unfortunately, it never does. It’s a troubling situation for the staff of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Tavon McVey was one of two practitioners of parkour who appeared on Main Street in Cold Spring on Saturday (Nov. 16) as part of a Historic Preservation, as well as for hikers parade led by Italian artist Marinella Senatore. Photo by Alexa Hoyer/Magazzino such as Cold Spring’s Laura Bergman. Bergman is a decorative painter who, with surprised by performances along the route. the blessing of the state, has been remediat- As the crowd made its way from St. Mary’s ing graffiti at Little Stony Point, one rock at a A Parade to Remember Episcopal Church westward to the river- time. She doesn’t use a sandblaster or harsh front bandstand, it paused several times chemicals to remove the stains, but instead Performances took place on — and above — Main Street for performers in the street, on porches disguises them to blend into the background and perched in second-floor windows. The so the rock again looks like a rock. By Michael Turton the creative power of crowds,” according eclectic mix included baton-twirling, sing- The idea, she said, was born in a meeting to Magazzino. In 2016, she created a four- ers, a marching band, a poet, bagpipes, a DJ, of the Friends of Fahnestock and Hudson ith nearly 100 performers from hour traveling street musical in Modena, drummers, a gospel choir, soccer players and Highlands State Parks, a volunteer group. around the Hudson Valley strut- Italy, and in 2018 a similar performance Native American dancers. “The graffiti is so blatant and horrible,” W ting their stuff, Main Street in parade in Palermo, Italy. Mezzo-soprano Gabriella Mikova John- Bergman said. “It’s a small space and there’s Cold Spring became a mobile stage on Vittorio Calabre, director of the Maga- son, who lives in Beacon, sang from the so much of it. But this is something I knew Saturday (Nov. 16) for a parade organized zzino Italian Art Foundation, said it was upper windows of two buildings. “It was I could do. I know how to disguise things.” by the Magazzino Italian Art Foundation. delighted to work with Senatore, “an artist thrilling and scary,” she said. “There was no In one spot, along a rock wall near the Magazzino, which operates a nonprofit renowned for her ability to foster new rehearsal, no accompaniment. It was fun to entrance to Little Stony Point, a vandal museum in Philipstown, commissioned the connections between people.” watch people’s surprised reactions.” spray-painted “Happy Place” and a heart in Italian performance artist Marinella Sena- Magazzino sponsored another public art Residents who answered an open call for yellow paint [above]. It took Bergman, who tore to create the event, which it described performance in Cold Spring, in November dancers were invited to attend a workshop uses oil-based paint mixed with a glaze as a “monumental procession and performa- 2017, when it invited Michelangelo Pisto- at Magazzino in the days before the parade and a splash of turpentine, about an hour tive celebration of community.” It was coordi- letto to reenact his 1967 piece, Scultura de led by Senatore and Nandhan Molinaro to cover it using a half-inch bristle brush. nated by Ylinka Barotto of the Moody Center Passeggio (Walking Sculpture). The artist and Elisa Zucchetti of the Berlin-based While the natural world is indeed a happy for the Arts at Rice University in Houston. and residents pushed a sphere of newspa- dance company Espz. place, parks officials say they’re hopeful Senatore, who lives and works in Rome pers through the streets near the waterfront. that Bergman’s efforts will dissuade other and Paris, is known for merging popu- Unlike traditional parades, the several For more photos of the parade, would-be outdoors artists. lar culture, dance and music with “joyful hundred onlookers on Nov. 16 were invited SEE PAGE 6. (Continued on Page 16) public participation” and for “exploring to join the procession, enabling them to be 2 November 22, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org FIVE QUESTIONS: PATRICIA SCHULTZ
By Michael Turton offered the contract to write 1,000 Places, Beacon. Come the first week of every August, and here I am. we were off to the Jersey Shore and Atlantic atricia Schultz, who grew up in City, before the casinos and their more recent By Michael Turton Beacon, is the author of 1,000 Places What destinations have surprised you? reincarnations. It’s my earliest memory. I was P to See Before You Die. She will speak Almost every place does. There’s noth- 4, and thought I was the luckiest kid on the at a meeting of the Beacon Historical Soci- ing like immersing yourself in the real block. So to those who say kids are too young At Thanksgiving dinner, ety at St. Andrew’s Church at 7 p.m. on deal versus what you might learn from to travel or they won’t remember — it’s not is the conversation Tuesday, Nov. 26. the internet. Standouts include Iran for true. It put me on a lifelong track to explore the always friendly? its incredibly lovely people world well beyond the Atlantic City boardwalk. What prompted you to write 1,000 and Antarctica for its Places? surreal beauty. Closer Which are better: places geared to I always wanted travel to to home I’d include visitors or those that aren’t touristy? We talk about be a part of my life. I made a the national parks If governments have invested money in food and wine, but go of travel writing simply in the Southwest — the infrastructure, it often improves a visi- because everything else fell Utah has five — and tor’s experience. Same is true if hotel staff there’s no shortage by the wayside. There’s a lot of the Central Ameri- go out of their way to make your stay memo- of strong opinions. competition, but I started writ- can countries of rable. But discovering a place where you ing guidebooks and created a Costa Rica, Belize feel like you are onto something unknown network of friends and people and Guatemala. or less visited, that’s every bit as special, in the industry. I’ve always often more so. The more rustic or authen- wanted to share the special What was the first tic, the better. places I have experienced — “new” place that both well- excited you? Is it your goal to visit all 1,000 places? know n I have fond I’ve seen roughly 80 percent of them. I’m and way memories of most definitely trying to see them all, and off the growing any others I discover along the way. The beaten up in world is big and its wonders are countless. path. When I check out I want it to be with a head I was full of memories and not regrets. And yes, the Hudson Valley made the list. ~Natalie Ely, Philipstown
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The board, which took no action at either involved,” he said. Old Concerns session, and whose current members all “It took a lot of village came to office after 2017, has been consider- input” to thwart the 2017 ing an agreement with the nonprofit Open cell tower plan as well and New Twist Space Institute to add the Secor parcel to as one years earlier for the adjacent 112-acre Nelsonville Woods, senior housing on the in Nelsonville which is protected from development by Secor acreage, resident a conservation easement. Adding an ease- Mary Rice recalled at the Ex-trustee says cell tower ment to the 4-acre parcel would “take it workshop on Nov. 13. “I idea was smokescreen off the table” for a cell tower, noted Mayor don’t look forward to any Michael Bowman on Nov. 13. other fights about what By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong From the audience, Potts objected to “this might be proposed.” insinuation that what we did was wrong” The Secor land recharged debate this month over a in 2017 by flagging the parcel as a possible “shouldn’t be developed,” Nelsonville-owned parcel featured tower location. He said the idea took shape not even for a modest A old arguments and a new assertion after Homeland Towers contended that village building, which — that village officials in 2017 proposed no suitable location for a tower existed in the draft agreement with putting a cell tower there only as a maneu- Nelsonville except on Rockledge. the Open Space Insti- ver, suspecting it would go nowhere To rebut that claim, the Village Board The village-owned parcel that the board suggested in 2017 tute would allow, she because of public opposition. “made a calculated decision proposing might work for a cell tower appears in dark yellow, with said. Rice observed that Two years ago, then-Mayor Bill O’Neill Secor, knowing it would never, ever be built” wetlands in green through the center. OSI among other attributes, and then-Trustees Thomas Robertson and there because residents would object, Potts the Secor site contains Alan Potts suggested the 4-acre parcel said. “We had a reason for doing it: to take had “one hell of a poker face, because prob- wetlands, “our security on Secor Street as an alternative site for away the argument from Homeland that ably a half dozen to a dozen neighbors of that against flooding” of nearby properties. a 110-foot tower proposed by Homeland there was not an alternative [to Rockledge]. property were hiring attorneys the next day.” “I’d hate to see this developed,” said Heidi Towers for Rockledge Road, overlooking They really wanted that property” on Secor, One resident, Jennifer Young, said she Wendel, another resident. “It’s a beautiful the Cold Spring Cemetery. he said. “But we did the honorable thing. “personally did not appreciate being used as a piece of woods; it well deserves protection. The board dropped the idea after a fierce We brought it to the people and the people pawn. I spent thousands of dollars, along with Others warned that granting OSI over- outcry. The Zoning Board of Appeals subse- said ‘no,’ and we immediately backed away.” a lot of neighbors” hiring attorneys. “Actually, sight of the Secor site would, in effect, be quently refused to issue a permit for the Potts criticized “this rubbish about the that infuriates me, that there was even a plan giving away something valuable. Rockledge location and Homeland and previous administration targeting the of ‘Oh, let’s come in and pretend we’re going The parcel “could be useful for us down Verizon sued Nelsonville in a case that property. The misperception here is that to give this over’ ” for cell tower use. the road,” perhaps for a village well system, remains pending in federal court. we intended to do that. And we did not.” O’Neill said in an interview that he had been since at present “our water is controlled by At a workshop on Nov. 13 and the board’s Bowman responded that “if there was really advised not to discuss what happened. “I can Cold Spring,” said resident Gloria Van Tassel. regular meeting on Nov. 18, residents engaged no plan for Secor as a viable spot for a cell only say we acted in good faith with all parties “It’s our only asset,” Trustee Dave Moroney in spirited discussion of the Secor Street plot. tower,” at a 2017 meeting the Village Board involved, we acted honorably with all parties added.
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Conduct the public’s business The Europeans have ladder rungs costs of water and wastewater treatment, in public. That’s your J-O-B. PUBLISHER installed in rock faces on their mountains traffic congestion, and wear and tear on Highlands Current Inc. Kathleen Foley, Cold Spring and don’t seem to be upset about it, so why our roads, sidewalks, parks and infrastruc- 142 Main St. should we be? (“Out There: How Safe is Too ture. These municipal costs are invisible Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819 Am I missing something here? Seventy Safe?,” Nov. 8). I might have eschewed such to most people, but if we did not spend the 291 Main St., Beacon NY 12508 thousand dollars a year for barely 15 hours help on the trails when I was younger, but money to maintain them, residents would of work per week as a local legislative the older I get, the more I appreciate it. quickly notice. FOUNDER attorney? The average federal government Gordon Stewart (1939 - 2014) Mary Fris, Beacon No one is suggesting banning all short- attorney salary is $126,000 for a full-time term rentals. That was Beacon’s approach MANAGING EDITOR position. Firriolo writes legally mean- Short-term rentals and hosts continue renting their properties Chip Rowe ingless resolutions for the religious right Contrary to popular belief, short-term rent- anyway, with property owners bearing the [email protected] containing lies and misrepresentations. als that bring tourists to Cold Spring are not brunt of all costs associated with increas- Why are we paying him so much money? necessarily a financial benefit for the village ARTS/FEATURE EDITOR ing tourism. In Cold Spring, the mayor and Alison Rooney Eileen McDermott, Brewster (Letters and Comments, Nov. 15). All the sales trustees are working to find a way to manage [email protected] tax revenue collected by local merchants is short-term rentals that offsets rising costs “We have a contract in front of us. We distributed to the MTA, New York State and yet maintains our distinctive charm and SENIOR CORRESPONDENT renew it every year. That’s what we do.” Say Putnam County, and the county does not Michael Turton quality of life. Our task is to find a balanced what? Putnam taxpayers deserve better. share sales tax revenue with its towns and approach to managing short-term rentals REPORTERS Thank you, Nancy Montgomery, for bring- villages. Cold Spring receives a paltry $7,500 that addresses the needs of residents, visi- Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong ing good governance to the Legislature — from the county to assist with collection of Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney tors and business owners alike. 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EVERYBODY LOVES A PARADE The School of Narrative Dance, led by Marinella Senatore, Cold Spring, Nov. 16
Photos by Ross Corsair, Michael Turton and Alexa Hoyer
Photos by Alexa Hoyer are courtesy Magazzino Italian Art Foundation. For a video by Angelo Vasta, see highlandscurrent.org. 8 November 22, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation would like to thank the Cold Spring community and all of those who contributed to the Marinella Senatore and The School of Narrative THANK YOU! Dance Performance! Aaron Sinift Celie Reissing – Vasile Gabria Lupone Katie Bissinger Mia Klubnick Simon Goldenberg Albert Ayache Charlie Davidson Gabriela Johnson Kelley Linhardt Michelle Folster Sofia Rasic Alex Theodoropoulos Charlie Farkas Gabriela Perez Kelly House Mona Smith Sonia Ryzy-Ryski Alexa Hoyer Chelsea Canover Giulia Anabasi Ken Pollet Nancy Flannery Sophia Marlowe Alfredo Chiarappa Chet Williams Grace Papile Kendall Lestrade Nancy Montgomery Steven Zbar Alicia Terrana Chiara Mannarino Heather Candon Kevin Lahey Nancy Olnick & Giorgio Sue Waivada Alison Rall Christine Foertsch Heidi Rosenbaum Kimberly Hiss Spanu Susan Costigan Alyssa Guardino Cindi Brown Henry Breen Kimberly Sevilla Nandhan Molinaro Suzanne Ball Alyssa Hawkins Connor Power Isa Schmidt Kory Reisterer Natalie Breen Suzanne Johnson Alyssa Laucer Craig Roffman Isabella Cruz Kreg Fraser Nicolo Cardi Suzi Tortora Amanda Allyna Curtis Eckley Jacobo Mingorance Lara Voloto Olivia Moran Tamara Bond-Williams Amaya Timms Curtis Huber James Brown Larry Burke Orla Peters Tara Vamos Amber Stickle Dan McGroarty James Hartford Laura Kaufman Peter Conway Tavon McVey Ambra Nepi Dana Behan Jane Kolleeny Lauren Danilov Phillip Benante Taylah Cox Andrea Falatovic Dani Locastro Jay Nicholas Lea Martini Phyllis Dodge Tenley Bick Andrea McCue Daniel Basiletti Jeff Consaga Lisa Rasic Pietro Gennanzi Teresa Cherubini Andrea Sadler Dave Merandy Jen McCreery Lorenzo Cherubini Rachael Epstein Teri Wavaida Andrea Wood David Resnicow Jessica Boswell Luigi Porto Rachel Emig The Patriot Brass Ensemble Angela Branco Deirdra Jen Brown Jessica Stein Lukas Lahey Rachel Evans Theo Peters Angelo Vasta Dharma Laucer Jessica Tudor Lydia Langley Rachel Thompson Thomas Correll Anna Amico Lyons Diana Rose Jessie Des Marais Madeleine DeNitto Rachele Chiuri Thomas Huber Anna Callen Diana Schulte Joann Flaherty Maise Matthews Ralph Morgan Tina Barile Anna Catherine Nelson Donna Haynes Joanne Sanchez Marco Anelli Ramona Antonio TJ Schulte Anna West Donna Pidala Joanne Sollecito Marco Antonio Redhawk Native Americans Tommaso Sacconi Anne Zbar Dr. Benante Joe Keller Maria Grazia Chiuri Regina Bei Vanessa Stylez Anneke Chan Dr. Richter Joel Connybear Marinella Senatore Ricann Bock Vera Keil Annie Carlisi Dylan Ambrose Joel Zbar Mario Gregorio Richard Syrek Veronica Purcell Audra Kizina Edwin Torres John Adams Martha Mechalakos Roderick Cummino Victoria Garguilo Ava Breen Elisa Zucchetti John Drew Mary Farkas Russell Cusick Victoria Jones Ava Kaiser Eliza Fincher John Storyk Maryann Syrek Sam Lutzer Vincent Tamagna Beata Stadler Eliza Starbuck John Watson Masha Schmidt Saoirse Brochu Violet Forssmom Beatriz Cifuentes Ella Grogan Jonathan Bickoff Matthew Koh Scotia Lee –Hartford Vittorio Calabrese Bogdan Stadler Ellyn Varela-Burstein Jonathan Birns Maxwell Timms Sean Kane Vivian Alter Brian Cole Emily Tung Jonathan Rose Maya Gooding Seth Gallagher Vivian Weixeldorfer Bruce Epstein Emmaline Carota Juanita Rincon Melia Marzollo Sheriff Langley Ylinka Barotto Caitlin Chadwick Erin Timms Judy Allen Melissa Dunn Kamala Sibaran-Browne Zade Matthews Carla Peters Ethan Timms Julia Sniffen Melissa McGill Caroline Bayer Eve Aaron Kaelin Martin Caroline Peters Father Steve Karolina Chojnowska Caterina Clerici Filippo Teoldi Kate Perrella Cathryn Fadde Fiona Caulfield Kathy Toris Cathy Augello Francesca Ricapito Cathy Lim Francesca Valiani highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current November 22, 2019 9 The Calendar
The Stops 1. Beth Haber / Metro-North. The work, from a series called Flow Texts, is structured like open A Rider’s Guide to pages of a book. “The series melds the forms of earlier carriers of information with digital language as it migrates in meaning from one thing to another.” Beacon’s Bus-Shelter Art 2. Elizabeth Lindy / Veteran’s Place. “I couldn’t be more excited to have my 2-by-5-inch Hudson shelter installations, Dutchess Tour- fit in which location. For instance, River abstract painting blown up on a huge bus Six refuges become ism provided a grant and Arts Mid- Joe’s are so large that the faces are shelter.” It’s part of a series of drawings Lindy Hudson helped administer the project. better seen from a distance, while made while looking out the window during her daily respites The latest installations were put in Melanie’s felt perfect being near the train commute. By Alison Rooney place in October; six shelters became basketball courts.” 3. Melanie Perez / Wolcott Avenue at Forrestal canvases, up from five in 2018. The Alumkal says she wishes she could Heights. “The artwork is inspired by my experience us shelters don’t typically stim- artists who submitted work for consid- “hear from people who sit at the stations on the school’s girls’ basketball team. I wanted ulate much thought except eration were told the interior dimen- every day. I wonder what they think, if the public to acknowledge these athletes and the when it’s raining. sions of the space, that the piece would it makes a difference. They were very hardships they face just for being females playing B But a few years ago BeaconArts, be divided on two panels and that it curious while we were doing it. I also sports.” inspired by the annual Windows on should be striking from a distance. wonder if on Main Street the store 4. Joe Radoccia / Wolcott Avenue near Hudson Main displays, realized any respite from Five artists were selected through owners, people facing the artwork, if Avenue. “For the past few years I had been working the weather could be enlivened by art. an open call among BeaconArts they develop a relationship with it.” on a series of larger-than-life portraits of LGBTQ Kelly Ellenwood, who was then direc- members, while a sixth, Melanie Perez, Installing the works was no easy elders, staking their right to be present in an open tor of the organization, wrote a grant is a student at Peekskill High School feat. After the images were transferred environment.” request to place artwork in the city’s bus who participated in the Dia Teens to vinyl sheets, the vinyl was laid out 5. Philippe Safire / Main at Cliff Street. “I shelters. The application was unsuccess- program at Dia:Beacon. at each site and the backing peeled wanted my artwork, nightcolors, to blend into ful, but, as she recalls, “it pushed me to The project was organized by off to reveal the adhesive. “Placing it the movement of the city, whether the viewer is think of more we could do to utilize all BeaconArts board members Michelle requires a bit of contortion and skill walking or driving by.” of these utilitarian spaces and create Alumkal and Karlyn Benson with at getting the bubbles out,” she says. 6. Anna West / Polhill Park. “I chose the surfer community through the arts.” assistance from Pam Dailey, Theresa Adds Benson: “This project is so because I thought one ride deserves another. The Beacon City Council came Goodman and Eric Hauser. important because, even with the loss When I ride the bus, I look out the window and through that year and the next with Alumkal says the curators chose the of galleries and loss of places to exhibit, daydream about what I just saw fly by, or a recent funding; this year, for the third annual artists, “then determined what would people can see there’s still art in Beacon.” trip to the beach or the pool, or a meal last week.”
Photos provided 10 November 22, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org THE WEEK AHEAD Edited by Pamela Doan ([email protected]) For a complete listing of events, see highlandscurrent.org/calendar.
COMMUNITY to appear. Cost: $12 ($30 families, $8 students, seniors) SAT 23 Harvest Sale SUN 24 GARRISON 4x4 Music Off Road 9 a.m. – Noon. St. Philip’s Church BEACON 1101 Route 9D | 845-424-3571 5:30 p.m. Howland Cultural Center stphilipshighlands.org 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 Browse white elephant ezraguitar.bpt.me treasures, baked goods, cheeses, In this performance hosted pecans and costume jewelry by the center and Ezra Guitar, in this annual fundraiser. Maoz Ezra, Anna Mnich and Jordan Dodson will perform with SAT 23 percussionist Joshua Breslauer. Turkey Bowl Flag Cost: $25 ($15 students) Football BEACON SUN 24 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Memorial Park Breakneck Ridge Revue clubs.bluesombrero.com/ BEACON beaconbears 7 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. This second annual event, 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com organized by the Beacon Bears, Andy Revkin, David Ross, Patrick will feature 45-minute games Sam Gilliam, Double Merge, Nov. 23 Stanfield Jones, Todd Giudice and for children ages 5-8, 9-12, 13- Mark Murphy will be joined by the 15, and older teens and adults. Trouble Sisters. Cost: $15 ($20 door) Register online. Cost: $20 celebration begins with a free SUN 24 SAT 23 ($10 ages 15 and younger) candlelight service at St. Mary’s, Bake-Off Playwriting Little Boxes Art FRI 29 followed by dinner at 6 p.m. at Performance BEACON Sara L’Abriola and SAT 23 The Garrison, 2015 Route 9. Cathy 6 p.m. Red Barn Friends Etsy Holiday Market and David Lilburne of Garrison GARRISON 2 & 7 p.m. Philipstown Depot Theatre Long Dock Park | beaconsloopclub.org COLD SPRING BEACON will be honored with the Elizabeth 10 Garrison’s Landing | 845-265-9575 This reception will include 7 p.m. Chapel Restoration 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Todd Healy Volunteer Service hvshakespeare.org a silent auction of submitted 45 Market St. | 845-265-5537 Howland Cultural Center Award. Cost: $90 ($75 members) Earlier this year, the staff of artworks done on 3-by-3-inch chapelrestoration.org 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 the Hudson Valley Shakespeare canvases to raise money for the As part of the Jazz at the Chapel howlandculturalcenter.org SAT 30 Festival led workshops and invited sloop Woody Guthrie. Cost: $20 series, the Garrison native will Shop for crafts, art and Holiday Boutique submissions on the theme of perform on guitar with Jasper Dütz jewelry created by members of GARRISON Hudson Valley harvest. Actors will MUSIC on clarinet, Thor Jensen on guitar Mid Hudson Etsy Makers. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library read the short plays of seven writers and Scott Colberg on bass. Cost: $10 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 — Lila Nawrocki, Eileen Burns, SAT 23 SAT 23 desmondfishlibrary.org Steve Chizmadia, Ellen O’Neill, Remember Jones Holiday Pottery Sale Shop for unique, handcrafted Julie Smith, Stephanie Buckley POUGHKEEPSIE and locally made gifts from and Jennifer Pereschino. Free GARRISON 7 p.m. Revel 32 | 32 Cannon St. dozens of artisans. See the 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Garrison Art Center 845-345-1722 | revel32.com library website for a preview. SAT 30 The latest music venue to open 23 Garrison’s Landing | 845-424-3960 Open Thursday to Sunday during It’s a Wonderful Life in Poughkeepsie will debut at the garrisonartcenter.org library hours until Dec. 15. The sale will feature works by PUTNAM VALLEY former Masonic Temple with a more than 30 ceramic artists, 2 p.m. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center “dress to impress” party and two SAT 30 jewelers and artisans, along with 729 Peekskill Hollow Road sets from Jones and his 12-piece paper goods, soaps and toys. City of Beacon Tree 845-528-7280 | tompkinscorners.org orchestra, including a performance Open daily through SUN 1, except Lighting Judy Allen, Chris Blossy, of the Amy Winehouse album, Back Thanksgiving. BEACON Elizabeth Breslin, Nancy Maloy, to Black. Cost: $20 ($25 door) 4 – 6 p.m. Beacon Welcome Center Joe Niola, Simon Skolnik, Curtis Main Street and Route 9D Watkins and Lew Zwick will bring SAT 23 Make an ornament, enjoy hot the popular film to life in a live Chris Forbes drinks and cookies, enjoy carols radio play by Joe Landry. Cost: $10 BEACON sung by Scouts and welcome Santa donation 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center Claus. The tree will be lit at dusk. 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 VISUAL ARTS howlandculturalcenter.org STAGE & SCREEN The jazz pianist returns SAT 23 to the Howland for a solo SAT 23 Jessica Bell Brown on recital. Cost: $15 ($20 door) Battling Butler Sam Gilliam FRI 29 COLD SPRING BEACON SUN 24 Almost Queen 7 p.m. Butterfield Library 2 p.m. Dia:Beacon | 3 Beekman St. Putnam Symphony PEEKSKILL SUN 24 10 Morris Ave. | 845-265-3040 845-440-0100 | diaart.org Orchestra butterfieldlibrary.org 8 p.m. Paramount Hudson Valley Putnam History Museum As part of the Dia:Talks series, BREWSTER Buster Keaton directed and the writer, curator and art historian 1008 Brown St. | 914-739-0039 Thanksgiving 3 p.m. Brewster High School starred in this 1926 comedy will discuss the work of Gilliam, paramounthudsonvalley.com 50 Foggintown Road | 914-924-8925 COLD SPRING that will be screened with live whose work from the 1960s and The tribute band returns after a putnamsymphonyorchestra.org 5 p.m. St. Mary’s Church musical accompaniment by Cary 1970s is on display. Cost: $15 sold-out show last year. The concert 1 Chestnut St. | 845-265-4010 Brown as part of the library’s ($12 students, seniors; free for Led by Christine Smith, the was postponed from its original putnamhistorymuseum.com Silent Film Series. Free members and Beacon residents) orchestra will perform holiday Nov. 16 date. Cost: $35 to $60 The museum’s 61st annual classics, and Santa is scheduled highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current November 22, 2019 11
FRI 29 will focus on various types of stroll the lit grounds and enjoy KIDS & FAMILY SAT 30 Loudon Wainwright III civil disobedience and provide music and a reception. Tours Alumni Basketball Game an overview of the Extinction depart from 3:30 to 7:15 p.m. BEACON SAT 23 COLD SPRING Rebellion social justice movement, Also SAT 30, SUN 1. Cost: $26 8:30 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. A Night at the Movies 5 p.m. Haldane School which advocates nonviolent (children $16, 5 and younger free) 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com BEACON 15 Craigside Drive | 845-265-9254 techniques to address the 5 p.m. Beacon High School The actor, songwriter, musician climate emergency, ecosystem haldaneschool.org SAT 30 101 Matteawan Road and producer will perform some of collapse and mass extinction. Watch former Haldane male and his hits from decades of recording. Spring Street Reading 845-831-0759 | yanarelladance.com female players compete in the 14th Cost: $40 ($45 door) Series Students from the Yanarella annual game hosted by the Blue SAT 23 NEWBURGH Dance Studio will perform many Devil Booster Club. If interested in Heart of Darkness 7 p.m. Atlas Studios styles. Also SUN 24. Cost: $20 playing, call Joe Virgadamo at 845- COLD SPRING 11 Spring St. | 845-391-8855 265-9254, ext. 129 (must have been 7 p.m. Split Rock Books | 97 Main St. on team during senior year). Cost: facebook.com/atlasnewburgh SAT 23 $5 ($2 children; $10 players) 845-265-2080 | splitrockbks.com Writers will explore their Middle School Night Peter Kuper will discuss his relationship to food in this month’s GARRISON latest book, an interpretation of the event. The evening includes Emily 7 – 10 p.m. Philipstown Rec Center CIVIC Joseph Conrad classic, with fellow and Matt Clifton, authors of Cork 107 Glenclyffe Drive | 845-424-4618 graphic novelist Summer Pierre. and Knife: Build Complex Flavors MON 25 with Bourbon, Wine, Beer and philipstownrecreation.com City Council Students in grades 6 to 8 can TUES 26 More; Myra Kornfeld and Stephen BEACON take the escape-room challenge, 1,000 Places to See Massimilla, authors of Cooking 7 p.m. City Hall with the Muse, and poet Elizabeth use the gym and tournament room, Before You Die and participate in game shows. 1 Municipal Plaza | 845-838-5011 Cohen, whose collection is Patron cityofbeacon.org BEACON Saint of Cauliflower. Registration required. Cost: $5 7 p.m. St. Andrew’s Church 15 South Ave. | 845-831-0514 SUN 24 MON 25 beaconhistorical.org Basketball Clinic School Board Beacon resident Patricia Schultz COLD SPRING BEACON will talk about her bestselling Noon – 2:30 p.m. Haldane School 7 p.m. Beacon High School North American travel guide 15 Craigside Drive | 845-265-9254 101 Matteawan Road | 845-838-6900 TALKS & TOURS series and share some of her beaconk12.org favorite destinations. See Page 2. haldaneschool.org SAT 23 The Haldane varsity basketball team will lead clinics for boys TUES 26 Civil Resistance 101 FRI 29 and girls in grades 3 and 4 at Board of Trustees GARRISON Twilight Tours noon; grades 5 and 6 at 1 p.m.; COLD SPRING 2:30 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library GARRISON and coaches at 2 p.m. Cost: $5 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 3:30 – 8 p.m. Boscobel 85 Main St. | 845-265-3611 desmondfishlibrary.org 1601 Route 9D | 845-265-3638 coldspringny.gov This discussion, led by Hudson boscobel.org Highlands Extinction Rebellion, Tour the candle-lit mansion, Emily and Matt Clifton
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Small, Good Things as the next guy. But peeling back the mean- ing of why-we-eat-what-we-eat-the-way-we- eat-it, you come around to the simple truth A Little Joy, expressed by the baker in the Raymond Carver short story: “You probably need to eat some- A Little Thanks thing,” Thanksgiving and communion can be a small, personal gesture — a breakfast or a By Joe Dizney snack any time of the year shared between alloween was even two people — if you make it that way. the starting This week’s recipe is a holiday twofer: cream gate: the holi- scones and pumpkin jam. The jam is a varia- H tion of a recent David Lebovitz recipe made day season is upon us. The upcoming mass- a little spicier with grated ginger and orange market trifecta of Thanks- zest. As noted in the directions, it is also a great giving, Christmas and New accompaniment to a holiday cheese platter. Year’s, along with Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, The scones are a family favorite from my are well-intentioned “holy days” meant to cousin, Robert Jensen-Cleveland. Admittedly celebrate the spiritual, religious and mythic there are a gazillion scone recipes online, but Cinnamon, Walnut, elements of our lives. Yet they sometimes Robert’s is a simple, child-friendly basic — Raisin Cream Scones seem a gauntlet of events and responsibili- its ingredients can be adapted to nearly any ties designed to challenge our pocketbooks, taste by adding, as examples, lime (zest), Makes 8 waistlines, sobriety, serenity and humanity. ginger, coconut or cranberries and pecans. We valiantly attempt to wrestle the focus This recipe is a small nod to the cinna- Pumpkin Jam back to community and communion, but some- mon rolls lovingly proffered by Carver’s 2 cups all-purpose flour times that too gets hijacked, and the festive baker. Serve them as a warmup to the main ½ cup sugar, evenly split Makes about 1½ cups communal table groans with overabundance. event or as a simple celebration any other 1½ tablespoons baking powder I’m not knocking it. I love leftovers as much day. The real joy is in the small things. ½ teaspoon salt 1¼ cups heavy cream 2 pounds sugar pumpkin, split, seeds 1 large egg, lightly beaten (optional) removed and cut into 1½-inch pieces 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (cold, 1½ cups sugar cut into ½-inch cubes) 2 tablespoons orange juice 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon, divided 2 two-inch strips of orange zest ½ cup golden raisins (or other dried or 1 tablespoon lemon juice fresh fruit of your choice) ½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise 2-inch piece of ginger, peeled and grated ½ cup walnut pieces (roughly Pinch of salt chopped) (or other nut of your choice) 1. Place the pumpkin in a steamer 1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Combine basket in a large pot. Add water to half the sugar and half the cinnamon the bottom of the basket and steam in a small bowl; mix to combine and until pumpkin is completely cooked reserve. In a large bowl, combine the through (about 30 minutes; a paring remainder of the dry ingredients and knife will easily pierce the flesh). mix with a fork. Cut the butter into the Add more water to the pot during dry ingredients using your fingers or a steaming if necessary. pastry cutter/blender. Add the raisins and nuts; mix to incorporate. Make a 2. Remove pumpkin from pot and shallow divot in the middle of the bowl, cool. Scrape flesh from the skin add the cream and egg and gently mix and puree in a food processor. (You with a fork to combine everything into should have about 2 cups.) a sticky mass. Lightly flour your hands and knead the mixture a few times. Do 3. In a heavy-duty saucepan, add not overwork. pumpkin puree, sugar, orange and lemon juice, zest and salt. Scrape 2. Knead onto a floured surface and seeds from the vanilla bean with a roll dough out into a 10-inch disc. knife and add them to the pot, along Sprinkle one-third of the reserved with the bean. Cook over medium heat, cinnamon-sugar mixture on half of stirring frequently, as sugar dissolves. the pastry and fold the disc over on Add ginger. Continue cooking, stirring itself. Roll out once again into another constantly to prevent burning. 10-inch disc and sprinkle half the (Warning: the puree as it cooks will remaining cinnamon sugar over half of thicken and can splatter — be mindful.) it, once again folding it over on itself. Shape by hand into a final 10-inch disc 4. When the mixture thickens and and cut into 8 to 10 equal wedges. holds its shape in a jelly-like mound Place wedges on a parchment-lined when heaped up onto itself, it’s baking sheet leaving space between. done. (It will take about 10 minutes.) Brush tops with a light wash of Remove zest and vanilla bean and cream and sprinkle on the remaining scrape mixture into a clean jar. Jam is cinnamon sugar. Bake on top shelf best served at room temperature and of preheated oven for 20 minutes, can be refrigerated up to one month. or until just browned on bottom (Note: This jam can also be used as a edges. Serve warm with butter and/or membrillo-like addition to a cheese or pumpkin jam on the side. charcuterie board.) highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current November 22, 2019 13
You had room for everyone? Last year we did, but with the popular- The Hub of ity of it, we’ve had to be a little selective, to curate the market. We have tried to include Newburgh a mix of people starting out and those who are established. At Atlas, we have daytime tenants for whom this is their livelihood, Artisan winter market and night tenants, who work a day job to returns for second year pay the bills. It’s important to give everyone an opportunity to share their stuff. By Alison Rooney Is there a common thread among the or the second year, Atlas Studios at vendors? 11 Spring St. in Newburgh will host a There’s an emphasis on locally sourced F winter market, with about 40 vendors, and produced products, such as Heart & including some who live or work in Beacon. Stella Lee Prowse at Atlas Gallery Soil, a floral designer that makes wreaths The market, scheduled for Dec. 7 and 8 from Photos provided and other arrangements by foraging nearby; Pottery by LAIL, a wreath from Heart & Soil 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is managed by Stella Lee Olde York Farm, which is family operated Flowers, scarf and hat from Loopy Mango Prowse, who spoke with The Current. Street Reading Series, the jazz series. Having and grows the grains and fruits used in events like this is important, especially in the their distilled-spirits process; and New food vendor. It will be selling sandwiches, What prompted the launch of the winter. Atlas is a hub in Newburgh and for York Textile Lab, where Laura Sansone has pastries, coffee and hot chocolate. market? some surrounding towns, too. discovered all these incredible sustainable I’ve had a studio at Atlas pretty much from upstate sources working with regenerative Newburgh has attracted many artists when it opened five years ago. It was the reason How did you find vendors? fibers to make clothing and accessories. and artisans who feel they have been I moved to Newburgh — to be surrounded by There are 40 artists with studios at Atlas, priced out of Beacon. Is this affecting so many creative individuals. I pitched the and although there are more retail spaces What else will be going on? Newburgh, too? Is there a new idea to [owners] Thomas Wright and Joseph opening in Newburgh, there wasn’t an event Hudson River Bindery, a bookbinder here Newburgh yet? Fratesi, and they were incredibly receptive, as or market that showed them all. It’s not a at Atlas, is setting up a press where kids can There’s still a lot of interest in Newburgh. they are to most of the ideas people come up financial venture for Atlas. In fact, everything make bookmarks and print their names on Our building fills up quickly; we’re with here. It was a team effort to pull it off, and is put on hold to make it happen, including a mini-book ornament for a tree. Steve Gerb- constantly getting inquiries about studio so many people came that it became obvious it furniture and design-production work in erich of GERB-o-MATIC — he’s pretty wacky space. And every other month a coffee shop would become a tradition, although we weren’t the shop for Atlas Industries. Last year the and everyone’s favorite person in the build- or a new retail store opens. There are lots thinking at first of doing it every year. market was completely filled by Atlas tenants ing — will be opening his huge studio on the of people here who are immersed in the after we sent out an email. We added a few second floor and have welding stations for community and excited about everything What do you like about Atlas? more this year by putting the word out on making elves and trees out of found objects. going on. If there’s a new Newburgh, I don’t The gallery space has become a central social media. There’s an abundance of design- He makes reindeer fly — it’s a little work- know where it is! place for cultural events — we have the Spring ers and makers, and they found us. shop wonderland. Beacon Pantry is our main
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troupes toured the country performing “Tom Shows,” or melodramatic adaptations Looking Back in Philipstown from the book. The wagons of Samuel Hustis of the By Chip Rowe Enraged, John fired an old rifle at the door, North Highlands and Stontenbogh, the hitting his brother in the back of the neck. butcher, collided near Town Hall. 150 Years Ago (November 1869) The Cold Spring Village Improvement The shopkeepers Perry & Reilley displayed The apiary of Harry Mckeel was robbed Association purchased drinking cups to be a locally grown, 12.5-pound, three-foot-wide of a hive of honey after the bees were suffo- placed at village water pumps and erected turnip. cated with sulfur. notice boards to discourage residents from Burglars blew open the safe at the freight William Bowne, one of the last surviving posting on trees and telephone poles. house overnight but, finding nothing of early inhabitants who settled Cold Spring, William Bremner, a monument dealer in value, attempted to break into Dalzell’s died at age 72. Peekskill, put into position in Cold Spring drugstore. They were interrupted by a A troupe led by the comedian Buck- Cemetery a family marker of dark Quincy watchman who drew his revolver and fired ley performed at Philipstown Town Hall, granite ordered by Elisha Nelson that at one of the men as he fled down Garden including a “small man in burnt cork weighed more than 9 tons. [Nelson died six Street. The other three thieves jumped the [blackface] with a big voice.” years later.] The stone required three teams watchman and beat him with the butt end The body of a “mulatto” man of about of horses to bring it from the railroad station. of a pistol before their escape. 18 years of age was found in a culvert near Frank Alberry passed through Cold Julia Fish Rogers, a granddaughter of Burns’ Shanty at the upper village crossing. Spring while attempting to break the the late Hamilton Fish, wed the painter He was identified from a memo book he 17-hour record for cycling from New York Kenneth Frazier at St. Philip’s Church in was carrying as Augustus Brag of Peters- City to Albany. Garrison. A large group of guests came burg, Virginia. M.A. Murray erected a large sign in the from New York City aboard two cars An old building known as Ben Dykman’s shape of an acorn in front of his store to attached to the No. 7 train. Market was transported up the Main Street advertise Acorn brand stoves. hill on wheels. In Continentalville, the Owen brothers 100 Years Ago (November 1919) purchased a new covered milk wagon. Peter Anderson, the Democratic district 125 Years Ago (November 1894) John Stevenson Jr. invited residents to visit attorney of Putnam County who narrowly John Gilbert shot and killed his brother, his hothouse on Pearl Street in Nelsonville to lost his bid for election as county judge, Benjamin, at their home on Cat Rock Road see his 80 varieties of chyrsanthemums. wrote the Recorder to complain that he near Garrison. According to the coroner’s The 23-year-old brother of Charles Selleck had been defeated by “the almighty dollar,” inquest, John returned drunk from Cold of Cold Spring was killed in Jersey City when An 1886 poster for a ‘Tom Show’ accusing the Republicans of “the flagrant Spring and attacked his aged mother, then he stepped off a trolley car at 11:30 p.m. and Library of Congress and shameful use of corruption funds for went upstairs and pulled his brother Ben was hit by a trolley going in the opposite the purchase of votes.” out of bed, threatening to whip him. After direction that unfortunately had no fender. slavery novel was performed at Town Hall William C. Osborn presented an account a scuffle, Ben shut the door to his room, An Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co. production to a small audience, according to the Cold in the parish house at St. Philip’s Church in leaning against it to keep his brother out. based on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti- Spring Recorder. At the time, hundreds of (Continued on Page 15)
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(Continued from Page 14) in St. Louis while on a speaking tour about of Main Street, a paratrooper, was killed in in Vietnam, the event drew 120 people, but Garrison of his visit to Japan, illustrated prison reform. [Lawes, who died in Garri- action in Belgium. The 1943 Haldane grad- Jacobs was unable to speak because of heck- with lantern slides. son in 1947 at age 63, was the warden at uate was working as an auto mechanic in lers. Before the event, the commander of the The Old Homestead Club organized a Sing Sing for 21 years and oversaw 303 Beacon when he enlisted. About the same VFW post wrote a letter to the editor stating: screening of movies on Thanksgiving Eve executions. He wrote several books that time, the parents of Edward Budney, 20, “We want to go on record as opposing bring- that included The Woman Under Cover, a became Hollywood films.] also of Main Street, received a telegram ing in hardcore men to speak against our flag, six-reel silent feature; a comic selection; stating he was killed in Germany. our country and our president.” and photos of current events. Harry Jeans Soon after, the Concerned Democrats of was appointed to apply his “critical, artistic 50 Years Ago (November 1969) Putnam County announced it would host censorship” to ensure that the evening was Joseph Percacciolo Jr. narrowly defeated a program titled Vietnam — Two Positions. “entirely wholesome.” Although the Library 14-year incumbent Jerome Downey in the The next week, Gary LaPorta of Cold of Congress says no copies have survived, race for Philipstown supervisor. Spring wrote a letter to the editor from the featured attraction was described by Bernie Nolan, who handled calls at Vietnam saying that he and eight fellow a film magazine at the time as the story Butterfield Hospital, explained why he had soldiers considered themselves “the silent of an actress played by Fritzi Brunette three rotary phones on his desk: one was majority” of service members who opposed who murders her husband, then marries a for ambulance calls, one for police calls and the war but feared speaking out. chorus man who threatens to turn her in. one for fire calls. The Philipstown Teachers’ Association Lucien Hold, the retired president of the 25 Years Ago (November 1994) co-hosted a program with the Junior Project Cold Spring Lumber Co., died at age 75. He Sue Kelly defeated Hamilton Fish Jr. for at the Haldane school that highlighted exam- purchased the lumber yard in 1926 and a seat in Congress representing the district ples of things made and grown during the operated it for 41 years. A Frenchman, he that included Philipstown; Vinny Tamagna summer and fall. There were chickens in the The Prince of Wales (left) with Brig. Gen. came to the U.S. in 1919 at age 25. defeated Alan Steiner to represent the school basement and needlework and vegeta- Douglas MacArthur, who was the superin- The Rev. Joseph Pernicone, vicar of town on the county Legislature; and Willis bles in the classrooms. Girls from the Garri- tendent of West Point from 1919 to 1923 Dutchess and Putnam counties, dedicated Stephens won the state Assembly seat. son school also presented a gymnastics drill. a two-classroom annex at the Our Lady of The Butterfield Library dedicated a new The conductor of the 8:19 southbound The 20-room, four-story Taylor home Loretto School. access ramp, parking area and walkway. train informed Officer Andrew Reilley that on Fair Street burned. The family was Elizabeth Montefiori, 81, the former oper- The Haldane boys’ soccer team defeated the small box being carried by a passen- aroused at 3 a.m. by their Scottie, Angus, ator of the Harbor Hill Inn on Lane Gate Poughkeepsie, 4-0, to end its season with a ger who was disembarking at Cold Spring and escaped through a bedroom window. Road, died when fire gutted her home at record nine wins. contained three rattlesnakes that he had It was said to be the worst fire in the village 36 Garden St. Newly elected Gov. George Pataki of Garri- exhibited in the car. Reilley put the man on since the Imperial Hotel at Bank and Divi- Milton Jacobs of the State University son was criticized for not returning a congrat- the next train, with the snakes. sion in Nelsonville burned in 1914. College in New Paltz was invited to speak at ulatory call from New York City Mayor Rudy Reilley traveled to Walden to arrest The Putnam County Republican Commit- the First Presbyterian Church on the topic Giuliani, who had endorsed his opponent, James Ferguson, who was accused of steal- tee announced the winners of its poetry An Anthropologist Looks at Vietnam. Orga- Mario Cuomo. Pataki also appeared on David ing an overcoat at a dance held at Town contest. nized by the Philipstown Ad Hoc Moratorium Letterman’s talk show to read a Top 10 List of Hall. The coat was recovered and Ferguson Word arrived that Walter Glanville, 20, Committee, which supported ending the war ways his name can be mispronounced. paid a $5 fine. After 55 years of river service, the steam- boat Mary Powell was sold for junk. Lt. Edward Inman, who was seriously injured the year before in France by a The Village Salt Room German grenade, had a bone graft to cover Relax. Rejuvenate. Heal. the wound in his skull. The National Bank of Cold Spring reported it held $188,409 in deposits [about $2.8 million today]. A number of villagers traveled to West Point to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales, who was visiting the academy. [The prince became Edward VIII in 1936 but abdicated the throne that same year to marry Wallis Simpson.] Tara Flagler 75 Years Ago (November 1944) 290 Main Street, Cold Spring Lewis Lawes of Garrison, the retired 845-240-1822 warden of Sing Sing, suffered a mild stroke www.hrhealingwellness.com
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spected. People tend to follow along.” “Graffiti-makers need to know that they (from Page 1) Graffiti Fred Martin, the president of the volun- destroy nature’s ability to heal people who “I’ve found that when people see some- teer Little Stony Point Citizens Association, seek solace and rejuvenation in our parks thing maintained, they’re respectful of those said that vandalism can destroy the same and public places,” Martin said. “When kids places,” said Declan Hennelly, the assistant qualities that draw people to the outdoors. understand the impact of this destruction, park manager at Fahnestock. “They will He cited a friend, a firefighter, who lost his I bet they may decide not to do it. I don’t also disrespect places that have been disre- entire crew on 9/11. think they know they are doing real harm.” Bergman says she’s spent about eight hours painting over graffiti at Little Stony Point in the last three months. If her paint survives the winter, she said she’ll return in the spring and train other volunteers. “It’s been a fun job,” she said. “I don’t know what else I could do; I feel like this is my contribution to the parks.”
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Class B Finals 1. Sam Lawler, Pittsford-Mendon, 14:26.1 56. Zachary Cader, Beacon, 15:57.4 Class C Finals 1. Caleb Bender, Skaneateles, 14:41.6 91. Isaac Walker, O’Neill (Garrison), 16:53.2 101. Adam Sharifi, O’Neill (Garrison), 17:13.8 Class D Finals (boys) 1. Kal Lewis, Shelter Island, 14:28.1 Haldane Senior Jade Villella 48. Walter Hoess, 17:02.4 (1), shown in the state 50. Everett Campanile, 17:04.5 semi-final game against 77. Quinn Petkus, 17:54.7 Unatego, was named to 90. Luke Parella, 18:23.5 the All-Section team. 99. John Kisslinger, 18:38.7 Photo by Damian McDonald 101. Conrad White, 18:50.2 107. Noah Bingham, 19:24.4 Team finish: 9 of 11 year Haldane career with 55 goals. (Senior year. Bela Monteleone developed some quality (from Page 20) Girls’ Soccer Analiese Compagnone of Beacon High School chances for us on the right wing. Bela wasn’t Class D Finals (girls) 1. Brooke Rauber, Tully, 16:01.2 kick, and her sister, Morgan, delivered the was also named to the All -Section team.) named a captain at the start of the season, Haldane game-winner. “Jade was almost superhuman out there,” but the coaches realized our mistake about Haldane keeper Abigail Platt had a big Schweikhart said. “She thwarted so many halfway through the season and elevated her. 27. Shannon Ferri, 19:12.6 49. Eloise Pearsol, 20:23.5 game, saving 18 shots on goal. Haldane dangerous attacks and also pushed the ball “While they didn’t play [in the semifinal], 86. Allison Nicholls, 23:39.4 closed its season at 11-6-3. up field. Anna Rowe was tireless. Abigail Quinn McDonald was as good a teammate 88. Helen Nicholls, 23:40.9 Schweikhart credited his seniors for much Platt was such a force in the net. We played as a person could be and Shianne Twoguns, 105. Eden Feinstein, 26:51.6 of the team’s success, led by Jade Villella, two games in state play. Both went four who had never played soccer, was thrust into 108. Hannah Benson, 31:14.5 who was named to the All-Section team overtimes, and she didn’t allow a single goal. the goal for a number of games when Abigail Team finish: 6 of 9 on Monday (Nov. 18) and finished her four- “Allie Ferreira had one her best games of the got hurt, and she just smiled and got it done.”
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By Michael Turton The Blue Devils will play this weekend in the Class D state finals at Glens Falls. Photo by S. Pearlman he 2020 baseball season could be the last for the Hudson Valley T Renegades under a proposal being floated by Major League Baseball to shut Haldane Rallies to Advance to Final Four down as many as 40 of its minor-league teams. Down two sets, wins next three win. The teams battled to the last point in the to their best players. Once we figured that The agreement between MLB and its fifth, which was tied at 25-25 before Haldane out, it made a big difference.” minor leagues concludes at the end of next By Skip Pearlman delivered the decisive final two points. Haldane’s three senior captains made season. According to Baseball America The emotional win put Haldane (20-2) in their presence felt. Outside hitter Grace magazine, one proposal under consider- fter the first two games of the Nov. the state final four for the first time since Tomann delivered 24 kills and 20 digs, ation would drop teams in the four Single 15 Class D regional final against Coach Kelsey Flaherty took over the team Olivia Monteleone found her way to 20 kills, A, short-season leagues. The Renegades, A The Mount Academy, it looked like in 2016. Flaherty was on Haldane’s last state 28 assists and 22 digs, and Melissa Rodino an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays that the Haldane High School volleyball team championship team in 2011, her senior year. came through with 18 kills, 32 assists and has been based at Dutchess Stadium for might be heading home. Haldane was scheduled to begin pool play 17 digs. Junior hitter Maria Barry added 14 26 seasons, is a member of one of those The Blue Devils were beaten convincingly, Saturday, Nov. 23, at Cool Insuring Arena in kills, four blocks and 18 digs. leagues, the 14-team NY-Penn League. 25-14, in the first game in the match at O’Neill Glens Falls. Two of the four teams will be “This is the best feeling ever,” Montele- Renegades’ Vice President Rick Zolzer High School in Highland Falls by what eliminated Saturday, with the remaining one said. “Being down two sets to Mount declined comment, citing the ongoing appeared to be a bigger, better Eagles team two playing Sunday for the state title. … We’ve been preparing for this for quite nature of the negotiations, which are still whose middle hitters could sky and finish. “I never doubt my team, but it’s so hard a while, so it’s a big deal.” in their early stages. Haldane looked better in the second set, but to come back from two sets down,” Flaherty Tomann said the team got more deter- MLB wants to see upgrades at many lost that, too, 25-21. The tide changed slowly said. “I told them, ‘Let’s just pretend that we mined after losing the first two sets. minor-league facilities and to reduce the in the third, which Haldane survived, 25-21. just got here.’” “We decided we wanted it more,” she distance between teams, J.J. Cooper of The end looked near again when the Blue The Eagles “had very strong hitters, said. “Now we’re going to try to bring home Baseball America reported last month. Devils trailed 21-16 in the fourth, but they probably the best we’ve faced all season,” a state championship.” Dutchess Stadium underwent reno- rallied to outscore the Eagles, 10-3, for a 26-24 she added. “And we kept feeding the ball vations before the 2019 season. In addi- tion to New York and Pennsylvania, the NY-Penn League includes teams in West but the next four tries by the Blue Devils Virginia, Ohio and Maryland. The Rene- Haldane Girls Fall in State Semifinal were blocked or missed. Unatego (19-0-1) gades have won the league championship converted on two of its chances to advance three times: in 1999, 2012 and 2017. For second straight game, to an end on Saturday (Nov. 16) in the same to the state final the next day, which it lost to MLB has proposed establishing a fashion, falling to Unatego, 2-1, in a shoot- defending champion Stillwater, 1-0. Dream League that could potentially penalty kicks decide it out in the Class C state semifinal at Cort- “To lose in a semifinal on penalty kicks absorb teams lost in the consolidation By Skip Pearlman land High School near Syracuse. against an undefeated opponent is heart- but has been short on details. After playing 80 minutes of regula- breaking,” said Coach Stephen Schweikhart. The NY-Penn League is the entry n the end, the Haldane girls’ soccer tion, two 10-minute overtimes and two “In the last week and a half, we felt the high- level for players aspiring to make the team went down the same way it had 5-minute sudden-death sessions, the teams est of highs because of penalty kicks and the big leagues. Players who move up from I survived a week earlier. remained in a scoreless tie. lowest of lows.” the Single A, short-season league must The Blue Devils, coming off a penalty- To resolve the issue, five players from each Spartans keeper Meghan Perry came up advance through Single A, Double A and kick victory over S.S. Seward in the team took shots on goal. Haldane’s Allie with a huge save on Haldane’s final penalty Triple A to reach the majors. regional final, saw their own season come Ferreira scored first to put her team ahead, (Continued on Page 17)