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The Amacher Archives SPEND Sonic $olar $ense Hugh genius Does it pay to buy or lease panels? Reynolds TIME Preserving Maryanne Elliott Auerbach WISELY Amacher’s for Congress? with legacy Almanac COUNTY BEAT > 14 Weekly ART > 4 ENVIRONMENT > 12 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2015 VOLUME 10; ISSUE 53 ULSTER PUBLISHING, INC. WWW.KINGSTONX.COM KINGSTON TIMES ONE DOLLAR TOWN OF ESOPUS BUSINESS Rising Star Charles Ferri aims to bring ‘destination distillery’ to riverfront property BY DAN BARTON he way he tells it, Charles Ferri had always wanted to get back to the Hudson Valley and set up a top-notch distillery. The T way there just happened to go through Oregon. Ferri, who grew up in Hopewell Junc- tion and graduated from John Jay High School, worked on Wall Street for a spell The 19th-century building at the heart of the new Star Estate. but made a name for himself out in the Pacific Northwest as the creator of Star egon, distilled with Cascade a 19th-century building (the yellow one Vodka. “My heart’s always been in the Mountain water and filtered with brown trim used as a retreat by the Hudson Valley,” he said, and he’s been five times through lava rocks order) and a more-recent brick structure. “longing” to get back home, but five years before being bottled. Ferri, who’s appeared on the Esquire ago, an opportunity for a partnership But always, he said, there Network’s Lucky Bastards reality show, ended up with him founding Star Vodka was that homeward pull, to do said he spent a year or so looking locally out in Oregon, and building that brand what he did in Oregon — and for the right spot for his enterprise, but it into a success. more — here. was his wife who happened upon it while Ferri’s vodka is an “ultra-premium” In October, Ferri closed on taking a ride up 9W. “What is this? Stop product which drinks so smooth, he says, a 27-acre riverfront parcel on the car!” Ferri said his wife said. “This is it should be served sans adornment or Route 9W in the Town of Eso- your dream. This is it.” dilution (“neat, on the rocks, in a straight pus that was subdivided from Ferri’s enthusiastic about the site’s martini,” he suggests). The vodka is made a 117-acre piece once owned future. It’s been rechristened the Star from handpicked non-GMO corn from by the Christian Brothers. The Estate and he’s working on turning it the Midwest, which is brought to Or- Charles Ferri. part that Ferri bought contains (continued on page 6) REGION COUNTY GOVERNMENT Parete leaves power Legislature chairair to bbee back-benched come 2016 BY HUGH REYNOLDSEYNOLDS wo-term Ulsterr County Legisla- ture Chairman Johnohn Parete willwill vacate that top spot on Jan. 1, relegatedrelegated to a rank-and-file positionition bbyy the same cross- A proper sendoff T party coalition thatat bbroughtrought hhimim to the fore. But he’s apparentlytly con- ROBERT FORD vinced that he made a differencerence Firefi ghters salute Capt. Jack Rose’s casket. while chairman. “Bipartisanship works,” ssaidaid Parete, who also has held postsosts Thousands bid farewell to Jack Rose, of county Democratic chairmanman and appointed Democratictic Mount Marion’s fallen firefighter BY JEREMIAH HORRIGAN county elections commis-s- sioner. “We won a few, wwee hey stood, three-deep, Rose and his fellow firefighters had lost a few, but mostly wee along Saugerties’ Lafayette been called out on mutual aid to a house established that the legis- Street, wearing their dress fire at 11 Fel Qui Road in Centerville. lature would have a strong blues, their thin white Flames were reported coming from the voice in making policy,” he T DAN BARTON cotton gloves and somber building’s first floor; a team of firefight- said at a press conference John Parete. expressions. They were waiting the in- ers, including Rose, were detailed to Monday afternoon at the evitable command. And when it came, the basement to put out the blaze. Rose chairman’s office in the County Office Donaldson and himself, the only Demo- more than 1,000 firefighters from across became separated from his team, but he Building. crats in the coalition, for the necessary the state and beyond snapped to attention was quickly located and taken from the “I believe the legislature finally came votes. Last year, legislators Chris Allen and raised their right arms in salute. basement. to birth with John,” said Parete’s deputy of Saugerties and T.J. Briggs of Ellenville The long, mournful goodbye those Once outside, Rose became unrespon- chairman, former chairman Dave Don- (continued on page 6) firefighters had come to Saugerties to say sive and firefighters initiated lifesaving aldson of Kingston. to their brother, Capt. Jack Rose of the measures. Continued efforts at HealthAl- Parete was elected chairman of the Mount Marion Fire District, had begun. liance Hospital’s Broadway Campus failed 23-10 Democratic majority legislature Rose died a few days before Christmas to revive him. in 2014, but needed all 10 Republican doing what he loved: fighting fires. (continued on page 2) members to join his son Richard of Accord, 4 NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2015 KINGSTON TIMES upon issues Kingston is currently Following the ceremony, Noble Cahill’s temporary move BRIEFLY NOTED facing and priorities of his incom- will host a catered reception right ing administration.” in City Hall. “It is my fi rm belief Assemblyman Kevin Cahill New year, new mayor The swearing-in ceremony will that City Hall belongs to all of reminds constituents that his dis- Mayor-elect Steve Noble will include vocal performances by us and that the doors should be trict offi ce has moved temporarily become Mayor Steve Noble, and Rebecca Martin, Christine Noble open to the community,” Noble from its location at the Governor Alderman-at-Large Jim Noble, as and Robin Carey, the reciting stated. “I look forward to sharing Clinton Building on 1 Albany Ave., well as fi ve aldermen and four of the Pledge of Allegiance by this special day with all who at- Suite G-4 down the street to 65 alderwomen will also take their children from the Everette Hodge tend and introducing community Albany Ave., Suite C. The perma- oaths of offi ce at a New Year’s Community Center, an invocation members to our hard-working de- nent offi ce is undergoing needed Day ceremony in Common Coun- by Father John Borzuchowski of partment heads and employees.” maintenance and renovation, cil chambers at City Hall. Immaculate Conception Church, According to the statement, stated Cahill’s offi ce in a release; The noon ceremony is open to and a blessing from Johann guests are encouraged to arrive the process is expected to take the public. Christoph Arnold, senior pastor of early as seating is limited. City until early February. “By taking this oath, I am com- the Bruderhof Community. Hall is a fully accessible facility; “Our hosts, the Landmark De- mitting to this city, its residents, PHYLLIS McCABE State Supreme Court Judge the ceremony will include a sign velopment team, are working to businesses, and all who call Steve Noble. James P. Gilpatric, will administer language interpreter and Span- make our facility as modern and Kingston their own, that I will lead the oath of offi ce for both Steve ish language translator. For more up to date as possible. The new from a place of integrity, trans- his Annual Message he released and James Noble. Aldermen will information, contact City Clerk offi ce is open to meet our goal parency, and professionalism.” on social media this week. Noble be sworn in by City Court Judge Carly Winnie at (845) 334-3914 of offering top rate constituent stated Noble in an excerpt from stated his message “will touch Phillip Kirschner. or at [email protected]. service without interruption dur- ART Miss Havisham. “She was totally brilliant and loved by her MFA students,” Bielecki said. A collaborator with John Cage who had spent time as a fellow at MIT and other prestigious institutions, Amacher “was The Amacher archives experimenting in a way that was fascinating to me and other people in the experimental music community,” said Pauline Oliveros, an electronic music pioneer, Preserving the work of a sound-art genius BY LYNN WOODS composer, and multimedia artist/performer who also lives in Kingston. Oliveros, who met Amacher in 1980 at the New Music America festival in Minneapolis and subsequently rented a room in Amacher’s house for a few months, noted that Amacher “developed her own language sonically and in her scores. Ideally I would love to see a space devoted here to her archive, where scholars could come and study her work.” Amacher lacked an heir, so the preservation of her archives has been entirely dependent on her friends. Robert The, a visual artist who had lived in Amacher’s house in 1999, served as her health-care proxy after she fell and suffered a brain injury, followed by a de- bilitating stroke. He began drying out her mildewed papers and carefully boxing and labeling them. After her death, he transferred them to the storage facility, paying the monthly fee out of his own pocket. Bill Dietz, a Berlin-based composer and another close friend who’d assisted Amacher on many of her European installations, has also been involved in the preservation effort. After a stint of teaching at Bard this summer, he extended his stay in Kingston to help catalog the materials. “I created an inventory of all the boxes containing the most important print materials, including 15,000 images,” he said.
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