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August 16, 2019 Support us at highlandscurrent.org/donate Putnam to How Much Consider Is the Pain Revised Worth? Secrecy Law Proposal would split opioid settlement 33,000 ways Also wants to amend legislative handbook to By Chip Rowe ban leaks battle is taking place before a federal judge in Cleveland over who should receive the money By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong A that the manufacturers, distributors and wo weeks after Putnam County sellers of prescription opioids are expected Executive MaryEllen Odell signed to pay to settle hundreds of lawsuits T a confidentiality law, a legislative — including litigation by Putnam and panel approved a revised version and A CLOSE EYE — Juanita Rincon of Juanita’s Kitchen in Nelsonville supervises Dutchess counties — alleging they contrib- sent it to the full Legislature. one of her daughters during preparations for a sold-out Glynwood farm dinner uted to an epidemic by pushing opioid pain On Tuesday (April 13), the three- on Saturday (Aug. 10). For more photos, see Page 14. Photo by Ross Corsair pills that they knew were highly addictive. member Rules Committee also endorsed Counties and cities are wary because, a separate draft law to amend the legisla- the last time this happened — in 1998, tive manual to “prohibit the unauthorized record created by or sent to or from the Law Reporter’s Notebook when five tobacco companies agreed to disclosure of confidential material” and Department, the Legislature’s legal coun- pay more than $246 billion over 25 years allow lawmakers to censure colleagues sel, or any “outside counsel or consultant.” to 46 states to settle lawsuits over the who violate the provision. In addition, the revision permits county Would You medical costs of smoking — most of the Legislator Nancy Montgomery (D-Phil- officials and employees to share records payouts ended up in the general funds ipstown) asked that the committee post- “conspicuously marked ‘CONFIDEN- of state legislatures rather than being pone action on both measures until TIAL’ with private consultants, vendors Survive a Mass spent on public health. absent legislators return, but Neal Sulli- or contractors, for official purposes,” as This time around, hundreds of munic- van (R-Mahopac), who chairs the Rules well as with local, state or federal officials. Shooting? ipalities filed their own lawsuits. That Committee, said they “can still say ‘no’ ” The proposed revision removes a line led to the standoff last week in Cleve- when the full Legislature votes. allowing legislators, employees and County offers training for land, where a judge considered a plea The Legislature passed the secrecy law consultants to designate materials as from the attorneys general of 38 states on July 2 and Odell signed it on July 30. confidential — a provision that Odell had the unthinkable to let them receive the money, while a As in the existing law, the revised text recommended be dropped. The draft also group of lawyers representing cities and automatically makes confidential any (Continued on Page 6) By Michael Turton counties argued that any payout should be split among all 33,000 municipali- recent ties in the U.S., because all have been assignment affected by the opioid epidemic. A has me Under a proposed settlement agree- thinking about the ment that would exclude the states, 75 places I frequent. You’re percent of the local governments would a fool if you don’t do the same. have to approve the deal. A group of law I’m not supposed to get emotionally professors developed a formula for what involved with what I write. I try to remain each county, city, village and town would objective about each story, put it behind receive from the settlement based on me, and move on to the next assignment. factors such as population, the number That detachment came to a halt last of pain pills distributed and the number week when I attended Citizen Response of opioid-related overdoses and deaths. to Active Shooter Events, a monthly About 10 percent of any settlement course presented by a deputy from the would go to the lawyers and 15 percent Putnam County Sheriff’s Department. to a fund for special cases. I’ve written about highly charged The figures on Page 21 show what GIVING UP, FOR NOW — Old Town Road in Beacon has a hand-painted sign, topics such as suicide, murder, addiction at least until the rap-country song of the same name by Lil Nas X and Billy Dutchess and Putnam counties and local and lethal accidents. I felt sympathy, but municipalities would receive based on Ray Cyrus falls off the Billboard pop chart, where it has spent a record 17 I did not happen to be connected to the weeks at No. 1. Other cities report their Old Town Road signs disappeared, a $1 billion settlement, as well as The victims. The stories were not about me. as well; Wellesley, Massachusetts, lost six — three at each end, at $250 Current’s calculations for a settlement This was different. each — before it stopped replacing them. Photo by Brian PJ Cronin (Continued on Page 20) (Continued on Page 21) 2 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org FIVE QUESTIONS: ANNA SCHULZE
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nna Schulze performs with Maia Sharp as Roscoe & Etta. The duo By Michael Turton A returns to the Philipstown Depot What’s the most Theatre in Garrison on Wednesday, Aug. 21, after a sold-out show last year. Their impressive concert latest album, Blessings, Curses, Anchors you’ve attended? and Wings, will be released next month.
You’re 20 years younger than Maia. The No Nukes concert in 1979 How does that play out? I’m more in the box, working on the at Madison Square Garden computer. But we have similar influences. with Jackson Brown, Bonnie We’re both used to working in home studios, Raitt, Graham Nash and Bruce which enable you to be a less rigid and under Springsteen, who rocked the the gun. Inevitably when Maia sends me house for the last hour. stuff she likes, I know that I’ll like it, too. Anna Schulze Photo by Emery Becker
You have said you didn’t go with Maia You live in Los Angeles, but Maia has files. I love visualizing the tracks, and & Anna because you “didn’t want to moved to Nashville. Has that made the manipulating with plug-ins, from an organic sound like two folk singers wearing collaboration more difficult? audio file. For instance, with “Play On,” it dresses in a meadow.” Who are It forced us to be more deliberate about began as a jangly recording, but I heard a Roscoe and Etta? the time we have. conga part I wanted to put on top. It became They’re two of Maia’s guitars. The the impetus for rest of the [debut] album. running joke is that Roscoe is the cranky Are there advantages in touring as a duo? old one and Etta is more of diva electric. For Having someone to lean on is great. From How do you complement each other? better or for worse we have taken on these a practical standpoint, we get to split the We enable each other to get out of our personas on and off stage. It was important driving. Performing together forces us to heads and write in creative ways. I enjoy to not be precious. Our first record [in 2018] make sure we are meeting each other half starting something by playing and letting ~Lou Ponessi, New Paltz was raw, celebrating the imperfection. We way. With recording, Maia is good at audio, the energy of the room take it. Maia is good went with what felt real rather than right. getting a strong signal, cleaning up audio at taking the pieces and lining them up. The Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in September. The salty atmosphere and music was incredible.
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¢¢ It removes a section outlining proper students wear wristbands or do chores) behavior on the bus, including a prohi- and forbids the cafeteria from throw- Haldane Updates Safety Plan bition against large musical instruments, ing out a meal if a student cannot pay, or Also, adopts ‘meal-shaming’ policy live animals, pottery, glass and pointy hiring debt collectors to hound parents. objects. “Some of this language was likely ¢¢ After hiring Elizabeth Ledkovsky, an the vestiges of issues from long ago,” said By Chip Rowe the playground. The district also installed a attorney who specializes in investigating Superintendent Philip Benante. new portable radio system that eliminated harassment claims for school districts, he Haldane Board of Education will dead zones on campus. ¢¢ It eliminates minimum mandatory and meeting with her in private before hold two public hearings at 2:30 The code of conduct was reviewed by suspensions such as one year for bring- its June 18 meeting, the board voted to T p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, in Room a committee led by High School Princi- ing a weapon to school, or five days for immediately terminate Nabil Botros, its 211 of the high school, to hear feedback on pal Julia Sniffen and a parent, Siobhan a violent act or continually disrupt- director of facilities and transportation, revisions to the district’s safety plan and its Monteleone. The draft can be seen at bit. ing class, to give administrators more nine months after he was hired. code of conduct. discrepancy, said Benante. “Every situ- ly/haldane-conduct. Among the changes: ¢¢ High School Principal Julia Sniffen and Many details in the safety plan are kept ation has context, and context matters Athletic Director Chris Salumn were confidential except for staff and police. ¢¢ It adds the right of students to have when dealing with discipline,” he said. awarded tenure, along with five teach- But its public provisions — which include access to “relevant and objective infor- ¢¢ It eliminates a provision that school ers. Five teacher aides, two cleaners, a requirements that staff members wear mation concerning drug and alcohol officials may “search a student or the mechanic and a bus driver also retired, photo IDs, that each school have a single, abuse, sexual abuse or general abusive student’s belongings based upon informa- and the district hired an elementary secure point of entry and that the district behavior, as well as access to individuals tion received from a reliable informant,” teacher, Christine Spinelli. conduct eight evacuation and four lock- or agencies capable of providing direct defined as someone who has given “accu- down drills each year — can be reviewed assistance to students.” ¢¢ The president of the Haldane Elemen- rate and verified” information in the past. at bit.ly/haldane-safety. ¢¢ It adds a provision that bans students tary student council, Lincoln McCar- The district also established a form at from recording classroom activity with ¢¢ It adds a provision allowing a principal to thy, a rising fifth-grader, told the board haldaneschool.org for anonymous reports their phones without permission, or have anyone who refuses to stop engag- that it planned to plant three apple trees of violence or threats. posting approved recordings online ing in a prohibited conduct removed on campus as a memorial to longtime A security audit of the campus earlier without the written OK from the teacher. from campus or a school function. teacher Lori Isler, who died in Decem- The draft also adds a provision allowing ber. “Anyone who knew her knew she this year by Altaris, a consulting firm, In other business … teachers to confiscate phones for the day loved apples,” he explained. found “high compliance” among teachers ¢¢ To comply with a new state law, the for using them in class without approval. in keeping their doors locked during class district adopted a “meal-shaming” ¢¢ The board voted to extend Benante’s and recommended more window film in ¢¢ It adds skipping detention and miss- policy to guide interactions with fami- contract by two years, to June 30, 2023. ground-level classrooms, that all doors and ing or leaving class or school to the list lies who have cafeteria debts. It prohib- It also signed an agreement with the windows be numbered, and that bollards of “insubordinate” behaviors that can its the district from identifying students Haldane Civil Service Employees’ Asso- be installed to prevent cars from entering result in discipline. who have debts (other schools have made ciation through June 30, 2022.
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Public Notice August 5, 2019 Saturday August 17, GARRISON BOARD OF EDUCATION SEEKS TWO (2) TRUSTEE CANDIDATES 1:00-3:00pm At the July 17, 2019 meeting Garrison School Board President, James Hoch, announced the Board seeks two trustee candidates to fill vacancies. The Board agreed to accept applications 43 Rockwald Rd. for the two vacancies as per NYS Education Law. The appointed positions will be in place until Cold Spring, NY the Annual Meeting on May 19, 2019. The Board prefers candidates with financial expertise, $1,250,000.00 specifically in the areas of school/government, and who will seek re-election in 2020. Mr. Hoch indicated that qualified residents of the School District who are interested in serving on the Board of Education should contact the Board in writing. Letters of interest and a bio. should be addressed to Ms. Beth Murphy, District Clerk, Garrison Union Free School District, The Locally Owned Market Leader P.O. Box 193, Garrison, New York 10524 or [email protected]. The deadline for submission is Office: 140 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY Friday, August 16, 2019 at 5:00 pm. www.mccaffreyrealty.com In accordance with NYS Education Law and Board Policy, a Board of Education member must meet certain qualifications. He/she must:
• Be a citizen of the United States; • The Board reserves the right to conduct • Be eighteen (18) years of age or older; formal public interviews of the applicants • Be able to read and write; and it is our intent to appoint new • Be legal District resident one (1) year prior members in September 2019. School board to the election; service can be an amazing opportunity to • Not be an employee of the Garrison Union truly make a difference in your community. Seeing is Achieving. Free School District; Qualified candidates are encouraged to • Be the only member of his/her family review the following websites: Good grades and good vision go hand in hand. (that is, cannot be a member of the same - NYS School Board Association (NYSSBA) household) on the Garrison School Board; https://www.nyssba.org/ • Not simultaneously hold another, Schedule your student's thorough, comfortable back-to-school eye exam today. - Westchester/Putnam School Boards incompatible public office; Association (WPSBA) • Not have been removed from a school https://www.wpsba.org/ Large selection of youth frames & sports eyewear. | Daily disposable contact lenses. | Myopia control options. district office within one (1) year preceding the date of election to the Board. 969 MAIN ST. FISHKILL (845) 896-6700 sdec2020.com Questions may be addressed to the Board President directly at [email protected]. Optometrists Dr. Brian Peralta | Dr. Gary Weiner | Dr. Brian Powell | Dr. Weixun Wang 4 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
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Tourism director One might think that under the circum- Tell us what you think * Winner: 45 stances, the powers that be would want a director with a tourism or travel back- he Current welcomes letters to the editor on its coverage and local Better Newspaper ground, who’s familiar with the exist- issues. Submissions are selected by the editor to provide a variety Contest Awards ing state of affairs, and who could hit the T of opinions and voices, and all are subject to editing for accuracy, clarity *New York Press Association, 2013 -18 ground running as we approach peak tour- ist season in September and October. (Full and length. We ask that writers remain civil and avoid personal attacks. disclosure: that someone could have been Letters may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to NNA* Winner: me, since I applied for the job and was one 31 Better of the finalists.) Editor, The Highlands Current, 161 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516. The Newspaper It will be interesting to find out what politi- writer’s full name, village or city, and email or phone number must be Contest Awards cal forces were at work behind the scenes. included, but only the name and village or city will be published. Since there was no written test or other *National Newspaper Association, 2016-18 metric that would measure merit, it is not clear how Tracey Walsh was chosen for this NYNPA* Winner: plum position (“Putnam Names Tourism law (“Philipstown May Sue Over Secrecy Rewilding 8 Awards for Director,” Aug. 9). Magic 8 Ball? Tarot cards? Law,” Aug. 9). I wish we could secede and Rewilding with mini-meadows seems create a new county out of the western Excellence Tea leaves? Your guess is as good as mine. like a great idea (Letters and Comments, This situation is especially unfair to Cold portion of what is now Putnam. There’s Aug. 2). As I look around during the * New York News Publishers Association, 2017- 18 Spring, which is the only real tourist attrac- nothing the county does for us that we summer drought and see well-groomed, tion in the county. We are owed services in could not do for ourselves, only better and dry, brown lawns, or short lawns that are PUBLISHER more in line with our area’s interests. Highlands Current Inc. lieu of a share of sales tax, which the county green only because of daily watering, I 161 Main St. keeps, but I don’t see one of our elected offi- Donald MacDonald, Cold Spring cannot help but think that there is some- Cold Spring NY 10516-2818 cials going to bat for us. thing lacking in the approach. 291 Main St., Beacon NY 12508 Now we will be supporting another The episode reported in which Legisla- I have let my lawn grow undisturbed $80,000-a-year position in a department tor Nancy Montgomery was shouted down during much of the drought, and it is green FOUNDER and criticized for attempting to read from Gordon Stewart (1939 - 2014) that will be managed by a bunch of legis- and healthy and lush without watering or lators who are clueless when it comes to “confidential” material about road signs is fertilizer. I neaten it up once in a while, and MANAGING EDITOR promoting tourism and Main Street busi- reason enough to challenge the broad inter- it looks OK. As a result, I see more leopard Chip Rowe nesses. Example: We’ve been trying to get pretation of what constitutes confidential frogs, skinks and garter snakes, and the [email protected] a billboard back on Route 9 that says “Shop material. This is the stuff of failed states, bees and butterflies are thriving. Philip- ARTS/FEATURE EDITOR Cold Spring” and it would be great if the not of mature democracies. stown could benefit from a little rewilding. Alison Rooney county could pay for it out of the tourism Ann Fanizzi, Carmel David Limburg, Nelsonville [email protected] budget. Although I find the law ridiculous at best, As I left the Putnam County DMV in SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Patty Villanova, Putnam Valley Michael Turton I can’t support spending town tax money Brewster, I noticed peach trees beside the Secrecy suit to sue the county, which would be using building. They are part of a wonderful polli- REPORTERS I was glad to read that Philipstown is tax money to defend the suit. Once again, nator garden of native plants, complete Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong considering legal action against Putnam taxpayers lose! with small hives, bees of all types and Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney County over its newly passed confidentially Ralph Falloon, Cold Spring Pamela Doan • Deb Lucke monarch butterflies. Skip Pearlman • Jeff Simms Eileen Reilly, via Facebook
LAYOUT DESIGNER Rewilding was tried on the meridian in Pierce Strudler Fishkill several years ago and ended up as ADVERTISING DIRECTOR weeds and trash. Nobody took responsibil- Michele Gedney ity for maintaining it. For information on advertising: 845-809-5584 Geraldine Fuller, via Facebook [email protected] highlandscurrent.org/ads ‘No’ votes I am happy to see Sue Serino serving, as a woman, in government. Unfortunately, in reviewing her recent voting record in the state Senate (“How They Voted on Weed, Guns, Trump Taxes,” Aug. 2), I ponder THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT (USPS #22270) / ISSN 2475-3785 whether she is capable of thinking for herself August 16, 2019 or needs to follow a list of marching orders Volume 8, Issue 33 (2475-3785) from party honchos. Serino voted against a number of items is published weekly by Highlands Current Inc., 161 Main St., Cold Spring, that passed in the Senate and Assembly. NY 10516-2818. Periodicals Postage Paid Among these votes was a puzzling nay to at Cold Spring, NY. POSTMASTER: cannabis decriminalization while voting Send address changes to The Highlands Current, 161 Main St., Cold Spring, NY nay to raising the tobacco age from 18 to 10516-2818. 21. Concern for citizen health? Dubious, if Mail delivery $30 per year. not confused. She voted against climate highlandscurrent.org/delivery [email protected] action; farm workers’ rights; and salary history, meant to prevent wage discrimi- © Highlands Current Inc. 2019 nation, which usually impacts women in All rights reserved. No part of this publi- cation may be reproduced in any form, the workplace. mechanical or electronic, without writ- She voted nay on data protections. And, ten permission of the publisher. again, confusing concern for citizen health, she went negative on ceramic knives (safe air travel) and powerboat operation courses (safety on the recreational waters).
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LETTERS AND COMMENTS Editor’s Notebook that should not be happening and fires off (Continued from Page 4) a memo: “Add to code: No fireworks.” After Food trucks many years of that, you have a document I’m not in Cold Spring doing business Obviously, she has an agenda, one that without many loopholes. any longer, but it would be a mistake to barely speaks to the overall welfare of her My Code of Here are some of the simple truths allow food trucks to operate in town (“Are constituents and suggests she is in the gleaned from the code that inspired me (in Food Trucks Unfair Competition?” Aug. back pocket of the corporate world, read- Conduct most cases, paraphrased): 2). Brick-and-mortar shops don’t leave ing the menu from the Republican Party 1. A parent’s job is to get a child ready to town when it rains and pay local taxes to By Chip Rowe that could care less about the citizens of participate and learn. the village directly or through their rent. Putnam County, much less the citizens ’ve been feeling 2. Do not judge others by their race, skin Kamel Jamal, via Facebook of this country. She is a disappointment. a bit lost lately, color, weight, national origin, ethnic Jamal is the former owner of Angelina’s. Dr. Phil Bayer, Carmel I which may be a group, religious practices, disabilities, Editor’s note: We asked Sen. Serino to On the edge mid-life crisis, or an sexual orientation or gender. If you comment on her votes in the minority, but early late-life crisis but There is still a huge need for office can’t do that because it’s the best way she did not respond. most likely is the general space in Beacon (“Living on the Edge, Part to live, do it to avoid getting sued. crisis that began when I hit puberty. Regard- 2,” July 26). I just moved my 12-person 3. Regularly review your educational Green light less, I found solace this week in an unlikely company from Beacon to Fishkill, by the progress and career plans. The state Green Light Law, which place: Haldane’s code of conduct. Although I-84 diner, for a third of the rent I was 4. Do not wear clothing that is see- allows illegal immigrants to get driver’s I will have two children at the high school being offered in Beacon. through from the mid-thigh to the top licenses, only encourages illegal immigra- beginning next month, I had never bothered tion (“Putnam Passes Resolution Opposing Tom Cerchiara, via Instagram of the chest, make sure your clothing to read closely what is expected of them. I covers your underwear, and always ‘Green Light’ Law,” Aug. 9). New York State figured that with my advanced parenting I am not surprised at all to read that wear shoes for safety. is also pushing bills that will allow ille- skills, they know better. so many people in Beacon are struggling 5. Do not record anyone on your phone gal immigrants to vote. If you think driv- The Haldane code, at 53 pages, is compre- (“Living on the Edge, Part 1,” July 19). I without permission. er’s licenses are to help the illegals, think hensive and details the rules for students, took a 50 percent pay cut moving from the 6. The best discipline is self-imposed. again. It’s about votes. You want people teachers and administrators. It has been city to Dutchess, with the same job title, 7. Only one person should be in a bath- who don’t pay taxes deciding your future? revised slightly and the changes will be open and our living expenses have gone up. A room stall at one time. Tom Sherilla, via Facebook for public comment next week (see Page 3). recent study showed younger workers in the 8. Don’t drive with people on the hood of Reading through the current code, I was Hudson Valley are seeing wages stagnate your car, or hanging out the window. An international driver’s license is all struck by two things: (1) how much work while locally employed boomer incomes are 9. No one wants to watch you make out, that is needed. The law is such a waste of it must take to contemplate every possible on the rise. This is deeply concerning. but handholding is OK. time and money. way a school day can go wrong (thank you, Emily Boone, via Instagram Donna Adams, via Facebook code committee), and (2) the amount of 10. Burn rubber on your own time. wisdom the manual contains that comes 11. It’s unwise, if you receive detention What a waste of county business time Energy needs for skipping something, to also skip A 635-megawatt plant in Rensse- from experience, not book learning. and what a deep, deep shame for our the detention. laer filed for bankruptcy in May, and a That’s understandable, if you consider county. This resolution does not represent 12. No loitering, but also, no running. 1,000-megawatt plant in Athens filed in how a manual like this evolves. Typically, I the values of all county residents. imagine, an administrator sees something 13. The best way to learn is to show up. Melissa Aase, via Facebook June. Both plants burn natural gas. In December 2017, the organization Good for the county Legislature! Most that oversees the electric grid, the New people tend to forget that Putnam is still York Independent System Operator, said a red county, not blue. Let’s hope it stays the state only needed 600 additional that way. megawatts of generating capacity by 2027, Morgan Flaherty, via Facebook even with the closing of the Indian Point Exit 11 is Dead. nuclear plant, and without any new power Pantry rules plants going online. The letter about the Tiny Pantries in Yet the Hudson Valley is looking at three Long Live Exit 11. Beacon and expired food was a good read new natural-gas-burning plants: The (Letters and Comments, Aug. 2). I worked 650-megawatt CPV plant has started By Brian PJ Cronin in a homeless shelter and people would in Middletown, the Cricket Valley f you’ve noticed that Beacon’s exit donate clothing that was torn and stained Energy Center in Dutchess County is number on I-84 has changed from Exit 11 and say it was better than nothing. A good under construction, and investors want to Exit 41, relax. You’re not hallucinating. rule for donating is, “Would you give this to upgrade the Danskammer plant in I The change is part of an initiative by the item to your best friend?” Newburgh (“An Electric Response,” Aug. 2). state Department of Transportation (DOT) Dawn Baisley, via Facebook At the same time, there is an energy bottleneck that doesn’t allow surplus to renumber I-84 exits so they correspond upstate electricity to move downstate, and to how far they are from Pennsylvania, as wholesale electric rates were conveniently opposed to arbitrary numbers. Beacon, as Corrections increased to make it profitable to build it turns out, is 41.4 miles from the border. plants in the lower Hudson Valley. Weather permitting, the DOT expects In the Aug. 9 issue, we stated that Plans are underway to upgrade trans- to have all the new exit signs installed in Indian Brook Bridge in Garrison would mission lines to move electricity down- Dutchess County by the end of the month be one lane due to construction on state from already-built generating and in Orange County by the end of the weekdays through October. In fact, facilities. The project is to be completed year. (Putnam County is done.) The signs while the work on the bridge will only by 2023. are also “retro-reflective,” which makes be done on weekdays, one lane will Just guessing: there’s a club comprised them easier to read. also be blocked on weekends by of investors, lobbyists, politicians, politi- The Beacon exit number may have been heavy equipment. cal donors and regulatory agencies that arbitrary, but Exit 11 has long been a part In the Aug. 9 issue, in The Week decides who makes money in the electric- of the city’s identity. In the early 2000s, Ahead, we listed the free concert ity business, who doesn’t make money, Katy and Buddy Behney, lifelong residents, by violinist Akiko Kobayashi at the and who gets poisoned by fossil-fuel plant began selling “Exit 11” T-shirts, even before Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring emissions. they opened Mountain Tops Outfitters on taking place on Saturday, Aug. 17. I’m not a member of the club. Are you? Main Street. In fact, it is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Charles Davenport, Wappingers Falls Worry not. The couple say they plan to Sunday, Aug. 18. continue to make them. “It helps define every- Katy Behney with an Exit 11 sweatshirt at one who arrived in Beacon prior to now,” Mountain Tops Outfitters Photo by B. Cronin explains Katy. “We’re the Exit 11 generation.” 6 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
up the 11-page memo. “It’s sort of a travesty Secrecy (Continued from Page 1) how you go on and on about this,” she said. Montgomery said she encountered includes new language protecting whistle- another obstacle in July when Garrison blowers from running afoul of confidenti- T constituents asked about signage and ality rules. SECRE highway laws. She sought assistance from The preamble to the revised version said the Highway Department to answer their the legislators drafted it in part because of PUTNAM questions but received a response, slugged perceptions that the July 2 law “could allow confidential, from a county attorney. the county to withhold from public disclo- When Montgomery began to read from sure more information than previously.” the response at a July 24 public hearing on “We were not trying to eliminate what the the confidentiality law, some members of the public could see through FOIL [the state Free- audience attempted to shout her down. In a dom of Information Law],” said Sullivan. July 30 memo to legislators, Odell contended “We never limited FOIL,” Legislator lature voted 8-1 to adopt a resolution oppos- that Montgomery’s publicizing of the “confi- Joseph Castellano (R-Brewster) empha- ing a new state law regulating abortion, to dential” response underscored the need to sized. “FOIL remains the same. We’re not provide The Current with an 11-page memo safeguard attorney-client privilege and for marking anything ‘secret.’ ” from Robert Firriolo, the legislative coun- the Legislature to censure any member Nancy Montgomery Tampering with the state FOI Law “is sel, in which he responds to Montgomery’s who leaks confidential information and for something we could not do, in any event,” public critique of the resolution. Ethics Board reviews and penalties. said Legislator Ginny Nacerino (R-Patter- Both the July 2 secrecy law and the new Montgomery called the confidential Signs of Secrecy son). “We don’t have the ability as a Legisla- draft prevent disclosure of any legislative response to a question about road signs ture to exercise anything that’s not dictated document covered by attorney-client priv- By Chip Rowe “a very important example of why this law by state or federal law. We can’t make up ilege unless all nine legislators agree to fails the public.” After Putnam County our own rules as we go along.” release it. Defending the law, Castellano and Nacer- Legislator Nancy Montgomery In adopting the law in July, she said, “What was in that 11-page memo that ino recalled occasions on which unnamed (D-Philipstown) in July complained the Legislature wanted to “protect confi- requires protection?” Montgomery asked. legislators had released, to a disgruntled resi- that the response to a question dential information” and “shed some clar- “Sometimes we’re protecting attorney- she asked of the Highway dent, Peekskill Hollow Road-related informa- ity, so those that misinterpret the intent client privilege at the expense of the public.” Department about road signs on tion given to the Legislature in an executive would have verbiage that is clearer and Firriolo referred to his 11-page memo as behalf of constituents came back session with a county attorney and divulged more concise.” “a piece of attorney advice. It’s not a ques- marked “confidential” — meaning details of a pending lawsuit settlement. Montgomery voted against passage of the tion of whether there are facts in it that that, under a proposed law, she Consequently, “it was made clear to me law in July and maintained on Tuesday that in and of themselves would not be privi- couldn’t tell the constituents that once we get something from either the what it said — The Current filed understanding its origin is important. leged. The entire document constitutes county attorney’s office or the legislative a Freedom of Information (FOIL) Sullivan, Nacerino and Castellano legal advice and analysis” and is confiden- counsel’s office, it’s attorney-client privi- request to see the document. concurred the law was prompted in part tial, he argued. leged,” Castellano said. “And it’s marked by Montgomery’s request, after the Legis- Nacerino scolded Montgomery for bringing Two days later — light speed in ‘confidential.’ Regardless of what it says, the world of FOIL — the county it is confidential.” He noted that the public Law Department denied the can file a FOIL request and go to court to request. 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to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, committees. (So-called “Super PACs” can fornia representative who chairs the House the president’s son alleged that Castro had accept unlimited money.) Intelligence Committee, and his PAC. Whom Does “shared personal information” about them In the first six months of 2019, a Philip- In Beacon, by contrast, the two largest and compared the tweet to a hit list. stown resident gave $100,000 to the Super contributions were $1,200 to the DCCC and the Highlands In fact, information on how much individ- PAC American Bridge 21st Century, which $1,000 to Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, whose uals give to federal candidates and/or politi- calls itself “the opposition research engine of district includes the Highlands. cal action committees (PACs) is easy to find the Democratic Party,” and another $15,500 The largest contribution to a Republi- Support? — it’s posted online by the Federal Election to Democratic candidates and PACs. can candidate was $10,000 from a Garrison Commission and can be searched by name, Another Philipstown resident gave $60,900 resident to the president’s Great America Several large contributions city, zip code, candidate or employer. Even to Democratic candidates, including $25,000 Super PAC. He also gave $1,000 to the people who gave $1 — presumably to help to a fundraising committee called the Nancy re-election campaign of Lindsay Graham, to federal candidates their candidates qualify for the Democratic Pelosi Victory Fund ($21,500 went to the Demo- the senator from South Carolina. By Chip Rowe debates — are included. cratic Congressional Campaign Commit- The chart below includes candidates and Individuals may give up to $2,800 per tee (DCCC) and $3,500 to Pelosi, a California PACS that received at least $75 in donations fter Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, federal candidate per election (primary and Democrat who is the speaker of the House). from Highlands residents in the first six a Democrat, last week posted on general), as well as annual contributions of In Garrison, the largest individual donor months of 2019, according to the FEC. The A Twitter the names of 44 donors in El up to $5,000 to PACs, $10,000 to state party gave $27,150 to Democratic candidates, number of donors is in parentheses follow- Paso who have given the maximum $2,800 committees and $35,500 to national party including $13,400 to Adam Schiff, a Cali- ing each total.
COLD SPRING/ ORGANIZATION CANDIDATE OFFICE PHILIPSTOWN GARRISON BEACON Amy for America Amy Klobuchar (D) President $11,200 (2) Bernie 2020 Bernie Sanders (D) President $671 (3) $1,261 (3) $570 (4) Bennet for America Michael Bennet (D) President $2,800 (1) Biden for President Joe Biden (D) President $5,372 (4) Bob Casey for Senate Bob Casey (D) U.S. Senate (PA) $5,300 (2) Cicilline Committee David Cicilline (D) U.S. House (RI-1) $5,600 (1) Cory 2020 Cory Booker (D) President $3,800 (2) Delgado for Congress Antonio Delgado (D) U.S. House (NY-19) $6,500 (3) Developing Our New National Agenda (Donna) PAC Donna Shalala (D) U.S. House (FL-27) $5,000 (1) $5,000 (1) Donald J. Trump for President Donald Trump (R) President $433 (2) $276 (2) Donna Shalala for Congress Donna Shalala (D) U.S. House (FL-27) $11,000 (2) Doug Jones for Senate Doug Jones (D) U.S. Senate (AL) $90 (1) Giddy Up PAC John Hickenlooper (D) President $5,000 (1) Great America (Super PAC) Donald Trump (R) President $10,000 (1) Hickenlooper 2020 John Hickenlooper (D) President $5,600 (1) Jaime Harrison for U.S. Senate Jaime Harrison (D) U.S. Senate (SC) $500 (1) Joe Kennedy for Congress Joe Kennedy (D) U.S. House (MA-4) $1,000 (1) Julian for the Future Julian Castro (D) President $250 (1) Kamala Harris for the People Kamala Harris (D) President $2,700 (1) $500 (1) Marianne Williamson for President Marianne Williamson (D) President $500 (2) $905 (1) McCready for Congress Dan McCready (D) U.S. House (NC-9) $258 (1) Nadler for Congress Jerry Nadler (D) U.S. House (NY-10) $2,800 (1) Nancy Pelosi for Congress Nancy Pelosi (D) U.S. House (CA-12) $5,600 (1) Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund Nancy Pelosi (D) U.S. House (CA-12) $25,000 (1)* PAC to the Future Nancy Pelosi (D) U.S. House (CA-12) $5,000 (1) Pete for America Pete Buttigieg (D) President $1,450 (6) $3,200 (2) Schiff for Congress Adam Schiff (D) U.S. House (CA-28) $5,600 (1) Schiff Leads PAC Adam Schiff (D) U.S. House (CA-28) $10,600 (1) ** Sean Patrick Maloney for Congress Sean Patrick Maloney (D) U.S. House (NY-18) $28,100 (6) $15,309 (10) $1,000 (1) Sean Patrick Maloney House Victory Fund Sean Patrick Maloney (D) U.S. House (NY-18) $2,500 (1) Team Graham Lindsay Graham (R) U.S. Senate (SC) $1,000 (1) The Markey Committee Ed Markey (D) U.S. Senate (MA) $5,600 (1) Tim Ryan for America Tim Ryan (D) President $2,800 (1) Trump Make America Great Again Committee Donald Trump (R) President $497 (1) Warren for President Elizabeth Warren (D) President $928 (3) $1,625 (3) $743 (3) Zeldin for Congress Lee Zeldin (D) U.S. House (NY-1) $1,000 (1)
PACS American Bridge 21st Century Liberal Super PAC $100,000 (1) American College of Engineering Bipartisan $1,100 (1) Congressional Hispanic Caucus Bold Democratic candidates $100 (1) Democracy for America Founded by Howard Dean (D) $200 (1) Emily’s List Pro-choice Democratic women $150 (1) $35 (1) End Citizens United Democratic candidates $300 (1) Fair Fight Found by Stacey Abrams (D) $6,000 (1) It Starts Today Democratic candidates $150 (3) $19 (1) $19 (1) Moveon.org Progressive candidates $100 (1) Seal PAC for Supporting American Leaders Conservative veterans $200 (1)
PARTY COMMITTEES Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee $1,017 (1) $1,170 (4) Democratic National Committee $8,588 (4) $600 (2) Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee $5,250 (2) $640 (2) $300 (1) National Republican Senate Committee $85 (1) NY Republican Federal Campaign Committee $1,000 (1) $500 (1) Republican National Committee $122 (2) $1,474 (3) * $21,500 to the DCCC, $3,500 to Pelosi campaign ** $5,600 to Schiff campaign, $5,000 to United for a Strong America PAC 8 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
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Point, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Stabbing in Beacon Academy or the Merchant Marine Acad- Police say they have made arrest emy. The Coast Guard does not require a congressional nomination. eacon police say they have made an arrest Applicants must be residents of Maloney’s Bin a stabbing that took place on the east end district, as well as between the ages of 17 and of Main Street at about 1 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 4. 23 by July 1, 2020. See seanmaloney.house. Police said officers were called to 455 gov or call Cullen Lyons at 845-561-1259. Main St., where they found a male victim with a stab wound to the leg who told them he had been assaulted farther east on Main. Peekskill to Receive The man was taken by Beacon Volunteer $10 Million Grant Ambulance to a hospital for treatment of the wound, which was not life-threatening, Funds awarded to revitalize downtown said Detective Sgt. Jason Johnson. eekskill will receive $10 million from Johnson said on Aug. 14 an arrest had the state to revitalize its downtown been made but could not provide further P after being named the Mid-Hudson winner information by The Current’s deadline. SILENT PROTEST — A memorial appeared at the end of Main Street in Cold Spring of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. on Aug. 9, a week after a gunman in El Paso, Texas, killed 22 people, and another The city plans to spend as much as Norwegian Air in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine. Photo provided $300,000 of the award to develop a strate- Abandons Stewart gic investment plan to increase foot traffic flights from Stewart to Edinburgh and comment on a proposal to add a canopy over and expand tourism, the arts, media and light Airline says 737 woes doomed service Belfast, and earlier this year dropped flights the pumps at the Garrison Gulf on Route 9D manufacturing, according to the Mid-Hudson to other locations in Ireland. Construction of was rescheduled to Sept. 19 at the Old VFW Regional Economic Development Council. orwegian Air announced it would end a customs facility will continue at the airport, Hall in Cold Spring. The station owner also Middletown, Kingston and New Rochelle its flights as of Sept. 15 from Stewart N according to the Orange County executive. has asked for approval to sell used cars. have also won the Mid-Hudson award. International to Dublin — the last service it offered from the New Windsor airport — because of financial losses attributed to the Canopy Hearing Dousing Incidents Galef Seeking Interns grounding of the Boeing 737 Max jetliner Assemblymember filling spots for fall following two crashes. Rescheduled Teens allegedly threw water The discount airline also canceled four Philipstown board to hear feedback everal people on Facebook this month andy Galef, whose district in the state weekly transcontinental flights out of Prov- S each recounted how a group of teenag- S Assembly includes Philipstown, is idence and three flights from Hamilton, n Aug. 15 hearing before the Philip- ers in Beacon threw water on them from a accepting applications from high school Ontario. Last year the airline suspended A stown Planning Board to obtain public vehicle. Detective Sgt. Jason Johnson of the and college students for unpaid internships Beacon Police Department said a complaint in the fall at her field offices. In addition, was filed on Aug. 1 but that the victim interns can travel with Galef to Albany declined to prosecute because the suspect during the Assembly session. was a minor. For information, email Jennifer Fields- It was not clear what prompted the inci- Tawil at [email protected] dents, but in July, videos posted online showed or call 914-941-1111. people dousing New York City police officers who responded to gatherings on hot days around open fire hydrants. A bill introduced Foundation Honors in the state Assembly on July 24 would make Cold Spring Resident it a felony to throw or spray any substance, BOOK & MEDIA SALE including water, on a police officer. Recognized for work fighting Hep B th th old Spring resident Alan Brownstein August 17 25 Service Academy C was honored on July 23 with a lifetime achievement award from the Hepatitis B Foun- Saturdays & Sundays 10 5pm Applications dation and Hep B United, a coalition led by Monday/Wednesday/Friday 1 5pm the foundation and the Association of Asian Due to Rep. Maloney by Oct. 31 Tuesday/Thursday 1 8pm Pacific Community Health Organizations. ep. 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By Michael Turton
he Cold Spring Village Board, at its Tuesday (Aug. 13) meeting, again discussed whether to allow food T FOX HOLLOW trucks but trustees said they would make Colonial Farmhouse c1810. Original character and no decision until Michelle McGuire’s Coun- details. Two master suites. Guest house. try Kitchen has completed a second week- WEB# PO1545638 | Garrison | $1,700,000 end “trial run.” McGuire set up her food truck in Mayor’s Park on the weekend of July 20 but mechan- ical problems and park events have so far prevented a return visit. Doug Price, owner of Doug’s Pretty Good Pub on Main Street, attended the meeting and voiced his opposition to food trucks. TRANQUIL SETTING “It’s not fair,” Price said. Restaurants Tranquil setting. Lindal Cedar home with legal on Main Street “pay all our bills, property commercial space. Close to town. 2.4 acres. taxes, pay for water and donate to nonprof- WEB# PO1568776 | Cold Spring | $875,000 its.” Food trucks, he said, don’t have those expenses but can come in during the busi- Doug Price expressed opposition to food trucks being allowed on village-owned property. est seasons and “pick off business.” Photo by M. Turton The Village Code, which is being updated, requires food trucks and other moveable businesses to pay a fee of $25 per will occupy Mayor’s Park from noon Officers also issued 49 moving and 134 day, an amount Mayor Dave Merandy has to 5 p.m.; and the annual Cold Spring parking tickets. Officer-in-Charge Larry said needs to be increased. Area Chamber of Commerce Halloween Burke urged residents to lock their cars Merandy suggested that if food trucks Parade will kick off at 4:30 p.m. (a half- as the county has had thieves “looking PRIVATE GARDENS 19th Century charmer offers modern conveniences for are allowed it only be at Mayor’s Park and hour earlier than its usual start to ease for easy grabs.” Burke also reported that a tranquil lifestyle. Easy commute. be limited to a single vehicle. There also has traffic congestion). while he received no complaints about last WEB# PO1559507 | Cold Spring | $675,000 week’s Wine & Food Fest at Mayor’s Park, been discussion of allowing a truck at Dock- ¢¢ In his first report, newly hired Super- side Park when Seastreak cruise boats visit intendent of Water and Wastewater there were parking problems that should on fall weekends and restaurants have a hard Matt Koop said there was no effect on be resolved before other events there. time keeping up with the influx of visitors. the quality of the village water supply ¢¢ The board authorized the sale of 59 Deputy Mayor Marie Early pointed out as a result of a vehicle driving into the square feet of village-owned property that food tucks can operate on private prop- coffer dam on July 18 just upstream of at 15 Main St. A cafe and one-room tour- erty in Cold Spring without a permit. the water treatment plant on Fishkill ist home will be established there. Road. Koop said booms put in place by In other business … ¢¢ The Town of Philipstown offices will SIDE BY SIDE TWO-FAMILY emergency personnel prevented any ¢¢ Saturday, Oct. 26, will be a busy day operate out of the Old VFW Hall on Two-story living for both sides. Wood floors, separate fluids leaking from the vehicle from furnace, air-condition, deck/yard. in the village. At least one Seastreak Kemble Avenue and the American WEB# PO1558219 | Cold Spring | $525,000 cruise boat will bring hundreds of visi- flowing downstream. He said he would Legion on Cedar Street during renova- tors from New Jersey and New York look into placing a barrier at the site. tions to Town Hall scheduled to begin City to town from noon to 4 p.m.; a ¢¢ The Cold Spring Police Department later this year. second Hops on the Hudson beer fest responded to 73 calls for service in July.
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p WINE WEEKEND — Kyle Good, a board member of Highlands Current Inc., which publishes this newspaper, volunteered at our booth at last weekend’s Wine & Food Fest at Mayor’s Park in Cold Spring. Photo by Chip Rowe
CAUGHT WITH THE CURRENT u In a scene from Cyrano, which has five performances remaining at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival at Boscobel in Garrison, Nance Williamson (as La Bret) informs Jason O'Connell (Cyrano) that his amazing sword and verbal skills are headline news after he humbled a feckless rival. Photo by T. Charles Erickson/HVSF
t LOST BUDGIE — A budgerigar (or parakeet) flitted between Cold Spring and Garrison for at least two days last week before being nabbed on a rainy night in a village backyard on Aug. 6 by The Current’s Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong. The bird’s owner, or anyone who knows the owner, can email her at lsarmstrong@ highlandscurrent.org. PAPER MEDIA: BOETTI, CALZOLARI, KOUNELLIS
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By Michael Turton on the tail gate. The first night we ran into friends from ifty years ago this weekend, a music Long Island who had built a house out of hay and arts festival took place on Max bales. They also had a 10-man army tent. F Yasgur’s farm southwest of Wood- We brought whole-wheat bread, big jars of stock that drew as many as 500,000 people peanut butter and jam, a gallon of Gallo and more than 30 performers, from Richie wine, and a half pound of Vietnamese mari- Havens’ opening set on Friday afternoon juana that soldier friends had brought back. to Jimi Hendrix’ iconic take on “The Star- On Saturday night we sat by the stage Spangled Banner” on Monday morning. and fell asleep in the mud. At 6 a.m., Jeffer- We asked 10 Highlands residents who son Airplane came out; they were appar- attended Woodstock — which took place ently tripping. Grace Slick said: “We’ve had in Bethel, about an hour’s drive due west our sunshine this morning. Have you?” of Beacon, on Route 17B — to share their They sang “Volunteers,” a protest song, recollections. and put on a tight set for people who were probably high. JOHN TIMMONS It may be passé now but at night when I was 22. The size of the crowd was over- they asked everyone to light a match or whelming. I got a spot about 100 feet from their lighter, it illuminated the whole area. center stage and started using substances, It might have been the start of that. like everyone else. There were no problems. No one was I had a tent site but didn’t want to lose hustling anyone. People didn’t even barter. my spot. I stayed there for three days and The police were congenial; they saw how don’t remember sleeping, eating or going well-behaved the hippies were. to the bathroom. I had a 3-inch reel-to-reel People slid in the mud like they were 10 and recorded everything. years old. My girlfriend and I swam naked After Hendrix, I needed to crash for in the lake; people handed us soap and the day and headed for my tent, walking shampoo. Farmers went by in speed boats, through thick mud. A station wagon passed gawking. Their kids were already there! by and ran over my foot. The passenger There was a free kitchen. Farmers window rolled down — it was Hendrix. He donated hundreds of pounds of hamburger. said, “I’m so sorry man! Are you OK? Can A local store handed out peanut butter and we help?” They drove me to my campsite. jam sandwiches. I didn’t ask permission but recorded the They’d make announcements from the conversation. I got Hendrix’ autograph, stage: “A baby was just born,” “If you took which years later was stolen by a junkie. the brown acid it’s not poison — but it’s When I played the tape in my tent I real- crap.” They had a detox tent. ized I had erased the day’s music. I still Woodstock was like coming home in a have a bunch of the tapes in my garage. sense. If you were a hippie like I was at the They’re pretty poor quality. time, living on Long Island, you were ostra- I didn’t even know my brother Tom was cized, picked on and hunted by narcs based there until a week later. I had an extra solely on your looks. At Woodstock every- ticket but didn’t want to ask him. I wanted one looked like me. to take a lady, but that didn’t happen. The poster for the festival; one art gallery is offering an original for $2,500 Arceri is co-owner of the Ellen Hayden The Who pretty much destroyed my Gallery in Cold Spring. hearing at Woodstock. Timmons is a Cold Spring native who I saw no fights, no arguments, no unpleas- of this sea of hippies, like Moses leading the TERRY LAHEY lives in Colorado. antness. We shared everything. I saw a guy tribes to the Promised Land. I drove my son Patrick there. We went to give away his shoes. There was no end to the Timmons lives in Pennsylvania. a bar not far from the site. The bartender TOM TIMMONS generosity. There was pot everywhere. Some was a former state trooper who offered to My most vivid memory is of Hendrix stands sold it, others gave it away. GARY ARCERI take Patrick into the festival. He said it was playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That, My brother Jerry drove a bunch of us We were among the last people to get calmer inside than outside the gates. My son and Canned Heat. there in a blue 1965 Ford van we called “the in before the highway was shut down. Terry went up too, with Jerry Timmons. My We brought in food and also got a lot barn bus.” Anyone from Cold Spring knew People were sitting on the roofs and hoods sons stayed until it was over and came back from The Hog Farm [a hippie commune the barn bus. He dropped us off and went of cars, hitching rides. The tent city went to Cold Spring with Jerry in his barn bus. founded by Wavy Gravy]. We slept in a tent, home and picked up another bunch of kids for miles. Our friend stayed with his car Lahey lives in Cold Spring. stayed all four days. The mud was a hassle and somehow found his way back to us on and, like many people, he never saw the but also fun to slide in. Finding a decent back roads — every main road was shut concert. Jefferson Airplane drove past us (Continued on Page 12) portable toilet was not easy. down. He rolled up to our tent in the middle in a station wagon; Grace Slick was sitting 12 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
The Woodstock Whisperer By Chip Rowe On Friday, Aug. 15, 1969, Jim Shelley and a high school friend, Tony Tufano, began their drive from New Jersey to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. They brought sleeping bags; a 35mm camera loaded with a roll of Kodachrome slide film; and meal money. When they reached Route 17B on Friday, they found themselves at the end of a 12-mile line of cars, he recalled. They parked at a closed restaurant and slept in the car. At 6 a.m. the next day, the road had become a parking lot four lanes wide — the road and shoulders — pointed toward the festival, he said. The men began to walk. Farmers posted signs along their fields: “Cattle corn, do not eat.” The state police said, “Just ahead.” Route 17B on Saturday morning. “As When they reached the festival, “we found a spot many people were coming as going.” 100 yards from the stage toward the left,” Shelley Everyone they asked replied: “Just ahead.” recalled. “The music began about 2 p.m. but the evening had bigger names and the music got stronger. The scent of grass overpowered the smell of hay and Tony and I likely got a contact high.” Woodstock 1969 TONI VITALE During the Incredible String Band’s set, the men I was 17; there were just so many people, (Continued from Page 11) searched for food. Someone gave them oranges. I couldn’t believe it. Back then there Otherwise, “Tony and I hardly moved the time wasn’t technology to get the word out. I we were there” except to use portable toilets. MARY KULIS RAPP thought I was going to a small concert! That evening, “we meandered to the Food for I was 16, living in Queens. My older sister, People were pouring in, riding on top of Love tents. Empty. Neither food nor love.” her boyfriend, my best friend and I stayed cars. As we entered, someone came out In 2011, Shelley, who is a retired high school in a tent on someone’s lawn. We got water and a guy asked him what it was like teacher, began volunteering as a docent at from the spigot on the house. I remember inside. He said, “It’s a real bummer — no the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, on eating Cheez Whiz from a can and crackers. one showed up!” the site of the festival. Hearing about his We arrived in White Lake just before We stayed at my brother’s in Middle- experiences, one visitor said, “You’re like dawn on Friday. We found a place to park town. He knew Max Yasgur and was busy a Woodstock Whisperer,” which stuck. and started walking the mile to the festi- working at The Hog Farm. I never did find val. Just before we reached the site, we him. For more of Jim’s photos, see were approached by a young man in a It was blazing hot that first day and we woodstockwhisperer.info. Jim Shelley at Bear Mountain Mad Hatter hat. He told us: “The gates had brought nothing. People offered us State Park in 1969, a few weeks are down! They pulled down the gates!” water. When Richie Havens opened, sing- before the Woodstock Festival. No tickets would be collected. I held on ing “Freedom,” it was remarkable, beauti- to my three-day pass, which had cost $18. ful. I remember looking at all those people When the music started on Friday and thinking this really is freedom. It was a afternoon, it was already packed. We were unique event that cannot be recreated. I’m so far back that we couldn’t see anything, glad the anniversary concert fell through. but I remember the smell. It was like a Vitale lives in Garrison. cloud of cannabis was hanging over us. My favorite musical memory was Richie JIM PLATZ Havens opening the show. I have a very vague memory of the event Rapp lives in Philipstown. and I didn’t even take any drugs! I drove there in my new 1968 VW convertible, CASSANDRA SAULTER traveling with a carton of Lucky Strikes, The roads leading to Yasgur’s farm were a few six-packs of beer, and a soon-to- where the magic began. Cars were crawl- be ex-wife. ing, some were stopped, so all shared, We stayed for three days, camping in adapted and made it festive. That was the backyard of a gracious senior citi- Friday. We arrived after sundown. Trees zen. We shared the yard with a few Hell’s were backlit by the illuminated stage. The Angels without any issues at all. voice of Joan Baez was an unforgettable I vividly remember the announcements welcome. She sang “Joe Hill,” a cappella, that this person or that person needed to and it rang through the night sky. take their meds. That was scary. I recall Our exit was equally memorable. We how much fun everyone had in the cow- were still there on Monday when the pasture mud, and the scent of pot and masses were minimized. “The Star- patchouli oil. Patchouli oil seemed to help Spangled Banner” by Hendrix created a define that era. warm glow in the late-morning rain. In What pleases me most now are folks’ my memory, the promise was complete, expressions when I tell them I was there. three days of peace, music and, especially, This year I was near the Coachella Festival cooperation. in the California desert, mixing with some Later, I painted “Post Woodstock” (left) concert goers. I told them I was at Wood- a 4-foot by 4-foot acrylic on canvas that stock and I’m not sure they knew what it was. captures many of the events of the tumul- Another geezer moment! tuous 1960s. Platz, a former Garrison resident, lives Saulter lives in Cold Spring. in Colorado. Cassandra Saulter's 1969 painting, "Post Woodstock," depicts the tumultuous 1960s. 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“While most locals were unhappy with the traffic and the idea of a rock festival, these enterprising people set up a hot dog “After Santana finished 'Soul and soda stand: $1 a dog; $1 a soda (Yankee Sacrifice,' 500,000 people stood to cheer, Stadium prices). We decided to wait.” applaud, stomp, shout and whistle.”
“When asked who was at the festival, LEONORA BURTON I half-jokingly reply, 'White kids getting I was in my 20s, working in New York sunburned.' Look for the hippies. You City for Fred Weintraub, director of creative won’t see many. There were more wide- services at Warner Brothers. Because striped rugby shirts than tie-dyed ones.” Fred owned The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, where many musicians, including Joan Baez, got their start, independent film producer Mike Wadleigh came to us want- ing to do a documentary about Woodstock. Wadleigh had no money and asked Warner Brothers to fund it, which they did in exchange for the distribution rights. When the film came out, we started getting letters from people who were in it, saying they were suing because they had not given permission. Warner Brothers’ lawyers would reply, pointing out that because the film was a documentary, a release was not required. Woodstock won the 1970 Academy Award for best documentary. Burton owns The Country Goose in Cold Spring.
RICH KAPLAN It’s the spirit of Woodstock that matters most — peace, love and music. I was 16 and remember it being cold and wet, a lot of chaos, eating peanut butter without bread. The guy “Soon after The Who had I went with drove his mother’s car and she finished, the misty Sunday sunrise needed it back. We waited at least two hours appeared and the Jefferson Airplane in line to use a pay phone; we called her but closed the 22-hour marathon.” there was no answer. We didn’t call again. We were supposed to stay for one day but we knew we weren’t going to leave. After we got home, a friend called who was still at the site and said he needed a ride. We picked him up somewhere on the highway and all he had were his pants. I went back 30 years later and bought a peace-sign pendant made from the fence. I believe it really is from that fence. Kaplan owns Max’s on Main in Beacon.
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Behind the Scenes Juanita Rincon of Juanita’s Kitchen in Nelsonville and her family visited Glynwood on Aug. 10 to prepare the sold-out farm dinner. Juanita’s daughters served as sous chefs, and the Mexican cuisine included only Hudson Valley produce and meat. The next morning, the Rincons left for a long-awaited vacation.
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ested in identifying — and it’s also great being able to take the train into the city so easily.” Lo continued working full time in New The Creative York City after her move, then “dropped it, taking time to figure out what to do next,” she recalls. “I did a lot of photography when I was younger, but I got into land- Center scape architecture because you I thought you get to do creative things and be outside. New Cold Spring shop In reality, you stare at a computer a lot. I designed to inspire missed the darkroom process, wondering what will show up. I stopped doing photog- raphy because of the digital switchover, and By Alison Rooney over time my other art fell by the wayside.” hen Grace Lo finally made the After relocating to the Highlands, Lo move to Cold Spring in 2018 — found she had more time for her art and W after considering it for some discovered “so many people talking about time — she was struck by how many people creativity, and cultivating it. I began trying she met who had a side project. to figure out how to make that imprint into “It gave me permission to do that, too,” she a store. I’m still sorting it out, but actually says. The landscape architect, who grew up since I decided to open, it’s all been evolv- Grace Lo at Supplies for Creative Living Photo by A. Rooney in Queens, had a good job but a hankering ing quickly. I thought it would take the to live more of her life in a place where the whole summer to figure out, but people are outdoors is front and center — a place like The storefront, next door to The Current’s firm, I had reached the point where I no excited and it’s moving along.” Cold Spring, where she often came to hike. office, is filled with supplies, books and longer wanted to expend energy working With limited space, and a mandate to A year later, fueled by meeting people in products related to creative fulfillment. on something else for someone else. stick to “the components around creativ- creative fields, particularly visual artists, she “Here everyone seems invested in “After moving from the city, you’re always ity: how to start and how to keep yourself opened an arts way station on Main Street making a nice life for themselves and their waiting for ‘the catch,’ but there hasn’t been inspired,” Lo has focused on “having one called Supplies for Creative Living. It will families,” Lo says. “Though the last job I any, for me,” she adds. “I love the outdoors — great version of something, rather than have its grand opening on Friday, Sept. 6. had was for an awesome, woman-owned there are, like, birds that I’m suddenly inter- (Continued from Page 16)
Linda Thornton, Mark Weiss and Judy Allen Photo by Michael Turton The former Methodist Church in Putnam Valley is now the Tompkins Corners Cultural Center. Photo provided
By Alison Rooney it in 2015 to create the Tompkins Cor- Allen recalls that she and others used ners Cultural Center. to perform at the Methodist church in he oldest Methodist church in New Three of the center’s board members bands, or for readings, “so when they put York state was in a predicament. As — Judy Allen, Linda Thornton and Mark the building up for sale, a group of friends Arts with many small-town congrega- T Weiss — sat down with The Current to and neighbors thought, well, rather than tions, the number of congregants had dwin- discuss its programs and to emphasize that sell it to a developer, maybe we should get dled and the upkeep of the Putnam Valley it’s not so far from Philipstown and Beacon. together and form a nonprofit, which we Sanctuary property — rebuilt in 1891 on an 1833 foun- “Only 15 miles, or 21 minutes, from the did in 2014, with no guarantee that we’d be dation, it is the only place in town listed on center of Cold Spring,” says Thornton, who able to buy the building.” Group transforms former the National Register of Historic Places — lives in Garrison. “Just an itty bitty hill A Philipstown attorney, Bob Bickford, drew was too much for the remaining members. between Philipstown and us! A lot of people up the legal papers, and Putnam SCORE, a church into cultural center Salvation for the building came in the drive by, see the church, and aren’t aware group of business people who provide free form of a nonprofit group that purchased that it’s a community center.” (Continued from Page 16) 16 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
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counseling, helped develop a business plan so the group could get a mortgage. “We went back and forth with the Methodist Conference over cost and affordability, but ultimately, they knew us as locals and that helped complete the deal,” Allen says. The group purchased the building in April 2015 and, a month later, held its first event, a screening of local resident John Cohen’s film, 50 Miles from Times Square. Because work still needed to be done to get the church up to code, the early events were held outside. The center, which can seat 125 people, has since hosted a variety of programs, including live music, visual arts classes and exhibits, poetry and play readings, open mics, film screenings, school perfor- mances, harvest festivals, St. Patrick’s Paint brushes in all sizes Colored pencils and sketchbooks Photos by A. Rooney Day and annual Pete Seeger celebrations and tai chi sessions. There’s also a weekly “unique, sometimes handmade or vintage, that show up in leaves and flowers, with a summer farmers market. A newly-reno- Creative Center (from Page 15) touched and cared-for by others, rather late summer hike to gather flowers, then vated arts shed, once a carriage house, than plastic.” She says she “started with imprinting them on paper. Plus, we’re hosts crafts fairs, and an exhibition overlapping too many versions of it.” Her my preferences for things, especially with going to coordinate with Split Rock Books gallery is scheduled to open soon. store emphasizes drawing and watercol- watercolors. If you don’t have quality for an afternoon story time.” Weiss, who was a New York City high ors, with a selection of pad, papers, pencils supplies, things get blotchy and weird and Lo also hopes to have drop-in, informal, school principal for 20 years, says he was and brushes, along with pure pigments. you think, I’m terrible at this, and it ends.” life drawing classes, some tailored to when recruited as a volunteer by another board For children and their parents there are The store offers workshops for children commuters can make it and shift gears, member. Thornton, a music teacher, met art crayons “that blend nicely and clean and for adults. “Living with such acces- such as weekend mornings. Inspired by The Allen while singing in the Garrison-based off easily,” plus sewing and pencil and sibility to nature makes for such a great Endless Skein, another new store in town, Dream Choir, which performed at the paper kits handmade in Woodstock. environment to explore creativity and Lo offers free, open-table sessions from 3 cultural center. Everyone pitches in every- Lo says she has been looking for prod- sense perception,” Lo says. “There’ll be to 6 p.m. on Monday, Thursday and Friday where. “People do many cross-hatched ucts that are less widely distributed, seasonal themes, like looking for patterns designed to be a “hang out for those working jobs here,” Weiss says. “Our sound guy is on any creative endeavor, seeking company on the board now.” or just a change of scenery.” The center is funded by donations and She has been surprised by how many grants, particularly from the Abrons August 17 & 18 of her initial customers are locals. “I get Foundation, the Anastasi Foundation hikers looking for sketchbooks, but I’m and the Putnam Arts Council. Last year 10 am to 5 pm also getting lots of people in town who it received money from Preserve New know what they want and need,” she says. York to complete a building-condition “Others are interested but don’t know how report. The most recent capital project Riverside to start. Children have come in and have was upgrading the stage and renovating paid me with their allowance money; lots a bathroom; the next will be to install air of quarters. It’s adorable.” conditioning. Craftson Garrison’s Landing RainFair or Shine! Supplies for Creative Living is located The Tompkins Corners Cultural Center at 165 Main St. Call 845-809-5900 or visit is located at 729 Peekskill Hollow 50th Anniversary suppliesforcreativeliving.com. It is open Road in Putnam Valley. Call 845- Celebration from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Thurs- 528-7280. For a schedule of events, see day, Friday and weekends. tompkin-scorners.org. 60+ artisans & eats 60s-inspired activities & music
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Kid Friendly Bestselling Books Say Yes
By Katie Hellmuth Martin
’m a pretty opti- mistic person. I As a business owner, I have to keep on the sunny side of life. In fact, I’m listening to a song called Heading out to get a new bike. Photo by K. Martin “Keep on the Sunny Side” right now from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, a compilation about dying. daughter into thinking that I was think- thrown into the car and put on at school). My job at Tin Shingle, my business about ing about it while arranging with Tim for As they were about to go, my husband teaching businesses how to get the word a birthday delivery). He took $50 off the declared: “I can’t take the little one to out about their business, is to empower purchase and encouraged us to sell it back school because you parked the little car people to move forward, and go for big to him when she’s ready. behind the big car. You’ll have to drive him.” dreams they don’t think are possible. I This is an easy block to spot. The solu- Blocks everywhere tion is to move the car! I offered to move it, have a webinar series called “Give Your- Mental blocks are all-around us. We self Permission” where I list a string of or he could dress our little one. His choice. block ourselves, and others block us. If you He picked to move the car. Adult ideas together of what people should give get into the habit of spotting the blocks, themselves permission to do, like throw- 1. The Overstory, by Richard Powers you can more easily remove them. Let’s Block busters ing themselves a ribbon-cutting party or The author’s 12th novel won the call it Block Hunting. Make it a game. So you see, blocks are just excuses not to pitching a big magazine a story. Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. One morning just this week, as I came do something, for whatever reason. If there That’s why I surprise myself — again and back from a jog during which I was mentally is something you want to do, or you think is 2. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct again — when I instinctively say to my chil- preparing for three meetings, not to mention a great idea, and is too unbelievable for your Guide to Clarity and Style, by dren: “No, that can’t happen.” My daughter Benjamin Dreyer drafting this column, the time came for our mind to accept, go for it. And keep going is getting taller, and she outgrew her from- older two to go to camp, and the youngest to for it. Because sometimes big dreams take Dreyer, the longtime copy chief at the-scrap-yard bike that came out of our Random House, spoke before a go to day care. Two drop-offs — not hard but months (maybe years) of tiny steps. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival neighbor’s truck, headed for the smelter. requiring different things (e.g., finding shoes/ Let your children be your guide. Say yes performance in July. For her birthday, I said yes to a brand- socks, wrestling child into car seat, etc.). to them, even when it makes no sense and new bike. At her request, we headed off to My husband had drop-off duty. Techni- is hardly worth it. The more you practice Calypso, by David Sedaris People’s Bicycle in Beacon. As she peddled One reviewer called this collection of cally, all children were ready (minus the saying yes, the more you will bust through on her too-small bike, she shouted to me: 21 essays “cheerfully misanthropic.” shoes of my youngest, but those usually get bigger blocks. “Maybe he will buy my old bike!” On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by “No way,” I said. “He sells good bikes. Ocean Vuong That bike came from the trash! This isn’t a This debut novel is a letter from a son, car dealership, where they buy trade-ins!” Little Dog, to his mother. COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES Nevertheless, she persisted. I pushed 5. There, There, by Tommy Orange back a few times (why?) and then gave up. This debut novel, which was one of Sure, let her try. We’ll be embarrassed (of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize what?!), and we’ll move on. in Fiction, tells the story of 12 Native We made it to the shop. Immediately Americans attending the Big Oakland she asked the shop owner, Tim Schopen, Powwow. if he’d buy her bike. He took one look at it, 6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from and said: “Yes! $50.” the Twentieth Century, by Timothy What? I was stunned. Snyder “Of course we buy bikes! I sell used The author, a professor of history at bikes, and I happen to also carry that Yale, argues that we must learn from Class A Office Building The Millbrook Inn brand,” he said. He directed me to the the past to resist threats to democracy. Fishkill Interstate 84 & U.S. Route 9 Inn/Restaurant wall of shiny new children’s bikes. I looked 120,000 ± SF GLA | 6.34 ± Acres Reduced Asking Price! 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COMMUNITY SAT 24 SAT 17 New York International Manticore SAT 17 Air Show BEACON Book and Media Sale NEW WINDSOR 8:30 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. GARRISON 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Stewart Airport 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library 1180 1st St. | 321-395-3110 The four-piece tribute band 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 airshowny.com explores the legacy of Keith desmondfishlibrary.org/booksale The Navy Blue Angels and Royal Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl At this annual fundraiser Air Force Red Arrows will headline Palmer. Cost: $20 ($25 door) organized by the Friends of the the annual show that features Library, browse a selection of 18 aircraft on display as well as aerial SUN 18 tons of donated books, CDs and performances. Also SUN 25. Cost: Akiko Kobayashi and records priced from 25 cents to $2 $18.75 to $214 (rare and signed books are priced Eric Siepkes separately). Shop early for the COLD SPRING best selection or wait for reduced KIDS & FAMILY 4 p.m. Chapel Restoration prices during the second weekend. 45 Market St. | 845-265-5537 TUES 20 Runs daily through SUN 25. The Hate U Give chapelrestoration.org Kobayashi, a violinist, will be BEACON Dutchess County Fair, Aug. 20-25 SAT 17 accompanied on piano by Siepkes Butterfly Weekend 5 p.m. Howland Public Library in a program that includes pieces 313 Main St. | 845-831-1134 by Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. CORNWALL school supply kit. Sponsored by I artist commission, project or arts- beaconlibrary.org Am Beacon and Key Food. learning grant from Arts Mid- Donations welcome. Free 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Outdoor Discovery Center Teens are invited to watch the Hudson must attend an info session, 120 Muser Drive 2018 adaptation of Angie Thomas’ such as this one to be held in Beacon. 845-534-5506 x204 | hhnm.org bestseller. Rated PG-13. Free VISUAL ART Learn about butterflies and SAT 17 tag-and-release monarchs as THURS 22 TUES 20 part of the citizen-science project Riverside Crafts Fair Environmental Poster from Monarch Watch. Cost: $10 Space Buddies GARRISON Exhibition ($7 children; $8/$5 members) GARRISON 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Garrison’s Landing BEACON 6 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library 845-424-3960 | garrisonartcenter.org 6 – 8 p.m. The Lofts at Beacon TUES 20 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 The Garrison Arts Center’s 50th 18 Front St. | 845-202-7211 Dutchess County Fair desmondfishlibrary.org annual fair will feature more than loftsatbeacon.com The lovable dogs and their friends 60 artists and artisans selling RHINEBECK See posters designed by artists of have to get to the moon and back furniture, photography, jewelry, all ages to inspire healing solutions 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Fairgrounds in this 2009 film. Rated G. Free gourmet food, glass items, textiles, 6636 Route 9 | dutchessfair.com in response to environmental fine art, ceramics, wooden utensils challenges. Coordinated by Laurel The annual fair, hosted by the THURS 22 and tableware. Parking is free at Shute. Through Sept 16. Dutchess County Agricultural Summer Reading the Metro-North station or at the Society and held nearly every year Garrison School, where a shuttle Ice Cream Party SUN 18 since 1842, is the second largest will run to and from the site. Also MUSIC Songwriters’ Showcase in the state, covering 147 acres. GARRISON SUN 18. Cost: $8 (children free) It features live music, carnival 4 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library SAT 17 BEACON rides, performing pets, 12 barns of Benny Havens Band 7 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 SAT 17 livestock, shows and activities for 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com desmondfishlibrary.org Two From Brooklyn WEST POINT children, horse rings, horticulture, Celebrate summer and the finale 7:30 p.m. Trophy Point Jacob and David Bernz, BEACON a museum of antiques, an arts & of the reading program. Free westpointband.com Andy Stack and Steve Kirkman 4 – 8 p.m. Catalyst Gallery crafts competition, a wildlife exhibit, Dance under the stars to swing, will perform. Free a marketplace and a lumberjack 137 Main St. | 845-204-3844 disco, Latin, country, funk, hip- competition. Unlimited rides for $25 SAT 24 catalystgallery.com Back-to-School Block Party hop and Motown hits. Free TUES 20 on WED 21 and THURS 22. Gate See works by fabric artist Lanco admission is $10 on TUES 20 and $7 BEACON MC Kirton and photographer SAT 17 RHINEBECK after 5 p.m. on THURS 22. Continues Noon – 2 p.m. South Avenue Park Collette Fournier. 7:30 p.m. Dutchess Fairgrounds daily through SUN 25. Cost: $12 Learn about the many Lucky 5 Jazz Band ($15 gate; $8 seniors, military; 6636 Route 9 | dutchessfair.com organizations that help students in SAT 17 PUTNAM VALLEY children 11 and younger free) This American country band’s and out the classroom. The first 150 1,000 Cranes 7:30 p.m. participants will receive a starter Tompkins Corner Cultural Center name is short for Lancaster BEACON 729 Peekskill Hollow Road and Company, after its lead singer Brandon Lancaster. Their 5 – 7 p.m. Hudson Beach Glass 845-528-7280 | tompkinscorners.org 2018 album Hallelujah Nights 162 Main St. | 845-440-0068 This six-piece group from Great and 2017 single “Greatest Love hudsonbeachglass.com Barrington, Massachusetts, blends Story” both hit No. 1 on the This origami installation consists swing with gypsy jazz. Cost: $20 country charts. Cost: $35 of hanging paper cranes made by ($15 seniors, students) inmates at Fishkill Correctional Facility who are members of WED 21 Rehabilitation Through the Arts. Dylan Scott RHINEBECK WED 21 7:30 p.m. Dutchess Fairgrounds Arts & Culture Funding 6636 Route 9 | dutchessfair.com Info Session The country singer and Louisiana native had hits with “My Girl” and BEACON “Hooked,” and his most recent 3 p.m. Howland Public Library album, Nothing to Do Town, reached 313 Main St. | 845-831-1134 No. 3 on the country charts. Cadillac New York International Air Show, Aug. 24 artsmidhudson.org Three will also perform. 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WED 21 who retreats to the family cottage Roscoe & Etta to deal with the death of his wife, who comes back to haunt him. GARRISON The rain date is FRI 30. Free 7:30 p.m. Philipstown Depot Theatre 10 Garrison’s Landing | 845-424-3900 philipstowndepottheatre.org SAT 24 Maia Sharp and Anna Schulze Field of Dreams return to the Depot to play COLD SPRING songs from their forthcoming 7:30 p.m. Dockside Park album. See Page 2. Cost: $25 coldspringfilm.org In this screening by the Cold THURS 22 Spring Film Society of the classic LoCash 1989 film, Kevin Costner stars as an Iowa farmer who feels RHINEBECK compelled to build a baseball field 7:30 p.m. Fairgrounds in his cornfield and discovers it’s 6636 Route 9 | dutchessfair.com a place for second chances. Bring The duo of Chris Lucas (Baltimore) blankets and insect repellent. Free and Preston Brust (Kokomo, Indiana), formerly known as the LoCash Cowboys, have had seven singles SAT 24 on the country charts, including The Ancient Law the No. 1 “I Know Somebody.” Ross PUTNAM VALLEY Ellis will also perform. Cost: $35 7:30 p.m. Tompkins Corner Cultural Center FRI 23 The Battle of Stony Point, Aug. 25 729 Peekskill Hollow Road Daughtry 845-528-7280 | tompkinscorners.org RHINEBECK This screening of Ewald André Dupont’s 1923 silent film, Das alte 7:30 p.m. Fairgrounds composers such as Jobim and SUN 25 decade of gerrymandering, voter Gesetz, which was digitally restored 6636 Route 9 | dutchessfair.com Caetano Veloso. Cost: $20 ($25 door) The Battle of Stony Point purges and intimidation. Free in 2017, will be accompanied with The rock band, fronted by Chris GARRISON music composed and performed by FRI 23 Daughtry, who was a finalist on the SUN 25 10 a.m. Boscobel | 1601 Route 9D klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and fifth season of American Idol, has MusicThon: 845-265-3638 | boscobel.org Broken Wings pianist Donald Sosin. Cost: $20 ($15 sold more than 8 million albums Salon Celebration Military reenactors will BEACON seniors, students) since its first in 2006. Cost: $37 bring history to life as General BEACON 7 p.m. Howland Public Library George Washington inspects the 3 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. 313 Main St. | 845-831-1134 troops at encampments from CIVIC FRI 23 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com beaconlibrary.org the Revolution. Cost: $22 ($18 AteBit This 2002 Israeli film, screened MON 19 Since its move to Beacon in seniors, $13 children, free for 5 and BEACON 2013, the weekly Salon Series has as part of the library’s international City Council under, discounts for members) film series, examines how family 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center showcased Hudson Valley talent BEACON members cope with a tragedy. Free 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 ranging from singer-songwriters 7 p.m. City Hall | 1 Municipal Plaza SUN 25 howlandculturalcenter.org to folk to rockabilly. The Costellos, 845-838-5011 | cityofbeacon.org The punk band will perform Boom Kat, Patrick Stanfield Jones, White Glove History Tour FRI 23 songs from its latest release, Russell St. George, Jerry Lee BEACON Footloose MON 19 Couch Surfer. Semi-Pro and (Kitzrow), Tony DePaolo, Judith 1 – 3 p.m. Mount Gulian BEACON Village Board NeckScars will open. Cost: $10 Tulloch, Open Book, Vickie Raabin, 145 Sterling St. | 845-831-8172 7:30 p.m. Beacon High School Carla Springer, Abigail Lilly, Lydia mountgulian.org 101 Matteawan Ave. | 845-350-2722 NELSONVILLE Adams Davis, Van Robison, Chihoe See rare items from the beaconperformingartscenter.com 7:30 p.m. Village Hall | 258 Main St. Hahn, Pat McGinn, Rob Daniels, collection using archival gloves 845-265-2500 | nelsonvilleny.gov Caswin Moon, Len Xiang, Adam In this show by members of the to examine artifacts. Cost: $12 Beacon Performing Arts Center, a Falcon, and Robert & Paulina Hill ($10 seniors; $5 children; free for are scheduled to perform. Free high school boy from the city comes WED 21 children under 6, members) up against a ban on dancing in a School Board conservative small town. Also SAT GARRISON SUN 25 SUN 25 24. Cost: $10 ($5 ages 18 and under) The Costellos 7 p.m. Garrison School | 1100 Route 9D Story Slam Open Mic 845-424-3689 | gufs.org COLD SPRING BEACON FRI 23 5 – 7 p.m. Waterfront 6 p.m. Oak Vino | 389 Main St. Above All Things The “maverick pop” band will THURS 22 Share a 5-minute true, personal GARRISON close the summer music series School Board story or just listen. Free 8 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library sponsored by the Cold Spring Area COLD SPRING 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 Chamber of Commerce. Free 2:30 p.m. desmondfishlibrary.org STAGE & SCREEN Haldane High School (Room 211) The PG-13 film, filmed locally 15 Craigside Drive | 845-265-9254 TALKS & TOURS SAT 17 and released in 2018, will be haldaneschool.org Songs for a New Season shown outside on the side of the SAT 17 SAT 24 library. It follows Bobby Larsen, Farm with your Farmer GARRISON New World Jazz 7:30 p.m. Philipstown Depot Theatre Orchestra PHILIPSTOWN 10 Garrison’s Landing | 845-424-3900 9 a.m. – Noon. Glynwood COLD SPRING stonesthrowtheatre.org 362 Glynwood Road | 845-265-333 7:30 p.m. Chapel Restoration Members of the newly glynwood.org 45 Market St. | 845-265-5537 formed Stones Throw Theatre Learn about small-scale farming chapelrestoration.org Co. will perform songs from by hand and storing and drying crops Next To Normal, Smokey Joe’s This ensemble of Hudson while assisting with the onion harvest. Valley musicians will present Cafe, Urinetown, Once and a fresh take on standards and Godspell. Cost: $25 ($30 door) contemporary jazz. Cost: $20 SUN 18 Prison Land WED 21 SAT 24 BEACON Rigged: The Voter Luiz Simas and Wesley 7 p.m. Binnacle Books | 321 Main St. Suppression Playbook Amorim 845-838-6191 | binnaclebooks.com BEACON Brett Story will discuss her book BEACON 7:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church about prisons as a set of social 50 Liberty St. 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center relations —including property, moviesthatmatterbeacon.org 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 work, gender, and race — enacted imasamorim.bpt.me across American life. Co-hosted The monthly Movies That The duo will perform original by Beacon Prison Rides. Free Matter series presents this new documentary, narrated by Brazilian music on piano and Daughtry, Aug. 23 guitar as well as standards by Jeffrey Wright, examining a 20 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
In the second room, where the windowed (from Page 1) Active Shooter door could not be locked, students stayed The three-hour course, designed in 2004 low, out of sight, and used their feet to hold by a team at Texas State University and the door. Others flattened themselves along adopted as a national standard in 2013 by the wall parallel to the door, also out of the the FBI, teaches participants to prepare for shooter’s sight. All survived. the unthinkable as if it is inevitable, and to Denial is a natural reaction when always assume a worst-case scenario. It took gunshots ring out, Monroe said. But he place on a Thursday night at the Bureau of emphasized that you don’t want to lose Emergency Services in Carmel. I was one of precious seconds because you don’t have nine people in attendance. a plan. When a motorcycle backfired in Since January, more than 1,200 people in Times Square recently and the sound was Putnam County have taken the free training, mistaken for gunshots, Monroe said pedes- which is funded by a federal grant. Another trians made the right decision to immedi- 900 are registered to participate by the end ately flee. There were a few minor injuries, of the year. Private classes have been held but had it been gunfire, denial would have for 14 businesses and organizations, said had tragic consequences. Sergeant of Operations Matthew Monroe, The program urges people to adopt three who led our class. (Ninety percent of mass strategies: avoid, deny or defend, in that shootings have taken place in commercial, order. Avoid by being aware of exits and educational and outdoor settings.) leaving immediately. If that can’t be done, To start the session, Monroe pointed out deny by locking or barricading doors, turn- the emergency exits. If a shooter appeared, ing off lights and getting out of sight. And Sergeant of Operations Matthew Monroe (right) led the course. Photo by M. Turton he asked, who would help with first aid and if you must, defend by getting into a posi- who would take responsibility for calling 911? tion that allows you to attack and subdue A bit dramatic, I thought, but the What the hell would I do if someone burst the need to be aware of your surroundings the attacker, fight or grab the gun. sergeant got my attention when he asked: into the room firing an assault rifle? The at all times, to have a plan, and to execute I was surprised how the course affected “Who would be in charge of your safety?” killings in El Paso and Dayton reminded us it immediately. me. It started me thinking, observing and We all looked at the three, armed sheriff’s how quickly people can die when automatic “Taking immediate action has proven to be planning. deputies. Whew. weapons are involved. the most successful strategy,” Monroe later I’ve since noted the emergency exits in Not exactly. While our odds improved It occurred to me that if a shooter turned wrote me in an email. “Any plan executed Foodtown. Last Sunday, while sitting at by having the officers present, Monroe up in Cold Spring, I would, without a doubt, immediately is better than no plan.” The Current’s booth at the Wine & Food pointed out that each person would be know some of the victims. And my name He cited the 2007 shootings at Virginia Fest in Mayor’s Park, I planned what I’d in charge of his or her own safety, in that could as easily appear on a casualty list in Tech in which a gunman killed 32 people. do if I heard gunshots. I determined three classroom and in every other situation in this newspaper as anyone else’s. Most of those who died were in classrooms escape routes, depending on the shooter’s which we find ourselves. Monroe and his colleagues emphasized along a single hallway. location. I did the same on the Cold Spring In two rooms where students only hid riverfront. What would my options be if it under their desks, 20 died and nine were became a shooting ground? wounded, he said. (Two were not shot.) HIGHLAND STUDIO In two rooms where students took Citizen Response to Active Shooter action, 21 were not harmed, and four Events is held on the second Thursday of were wounded. In one room, as soon as he each month at 6 p.m. in Carmel, although heard gunshots, professor Liviu Librescu Monroe said he hopes to soon alternate told his students to break the second-floor them with a Philipstown location. To regis- windows with their desks and jump. Every- ter, see putnamsheriff.com/crase-signup. one survived but Librescu, who was killed Organizations can email Monroe at while holding the door closed. [email protected].
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Opioids (from Page 1) that would rival what the tobacco compa- nies agreed to pay 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation.
$1 billion $387 billion Dutchess $746,062 $289 million County share $562,833 $218 million In 2017, The Current published a four-part series on the opioid addiction crisis in the Beacon share $18,608 $7.2 million Highlands (see highlandscurrent.org/opioids) that included a number of statistics Putnam $201,775 $78 million from the previous year. Here are more recent figures from 2017 and 2018. County share $143,886 $57 million Cold Spring $1,357 $525,000 Putnam Dutchess NYS* Nelsonville $180 $70,000 All opioid OD deaths 2017 22 78 2,170 Philipstown $3,843 $1.5 million All opioid OD deaths 2018 18 83 1,706 Rate per 100K 2017 22.2 26.5 19.4 Meanwhile, after a lengthy battle, The Rate per 100K 2018 18.2 28.2 15.2 Washington Post obtained Drug Enforce- ment Agency records for 2006 to 2012 that “tracked the path of every single pain pill sold in the U.S.” — more than 380 million Heroin OD deaths 2017 13 44 793 — and showed the largest manufacturers, Heroin OD deaths 2018 7 38 600 distributors and sellers in each county. In Dutchess County during that seven- Rate per 100K 2017 13.1 14.9 7.1 year period, there were 60 million pain pills sold, or the equivalent of 29 pills per resi- Rate per 100K 2018 7.1 12.9 5.4 dent each year, and in Putnam, 15 million, or 21 per resident each year.
Manufacturers Opioid pain pill deaths 2017 19 62 1,903 Putnam: SpecGx LLC: 6.8 million pills Opioid pain pill deaths 2018 17 77 1,563 Dutchess: SpecGx LLC: 26.7 million pills Rate per 100K 2017 19.2 21.1 17 Distributors Putnam: Kinray Inc.: 3.3 million pills Rate per 100K 2018 17.2 26.1 13.9 Dutchess: Cardinal Health: 15 million pills * excluding New York City Pharmacies Putnam: (1) CVS, Mahopac: 1.6 million pills; (2) Shoprite, Carmel: 1.5 million; (3) Putnam Valley Pharmacy: 1.1 million; (4) Community Pharmacy, Brewster: 1.1 million; (5) Rite-Aid, Carmel: 971,000; (6) Rite-Aid, Brewster: 916,000; (7) Drug World, Cold Spring: 778,000.
Dutchess: (1) CVS, Fishkill: 3.4 million pills; Molloy’s, Poughkeepsie: 3.3 million; William C. Irwin, Hyde Park: 2.6 million; CVS, Dover Plains, 1.94 million; Wal-Mart, Fishkill: 1.91 million; … (22) Vogel Pharmacy, Beacon: 966,000; … (24) Rite-Aid, Beacon: 925,000
Back from the Dead The number of times first responders or community programs administered naloxone in 2018 to reverse an overdose. PUTNAM: DUTCHESS: 49 534 NYS (EXCL. NYC): 9,831
Source: New York State – County USDA Opioid Quarterly Report, July 2019 22 August 16, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org
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Mind Games On Aug. 5 at the Desmond- Fish Library in Garrison, a Jedi master from Star Wars (David Engel) instructed children and adults in how to use the force, handle a light saber and play telepathy tricks on your friends.
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