Reader-Supported News for Philipstown and Beacon Trending Young Page 11 APRIL 30, 2021 Celebrating 10 Years! Support us at highlandscurrent.org/join Vaccination Demand Falls Local officials urge people to the doors on Tuesday (April 27). None of them needed to hear the message get shots to slow virus spread Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and Dutchess By Leonard Sparks County Executive Marc Molinaro delivered from a podium stationed to the right of the hey came in cars, Dutchess County entrance. The two elected officials praised Transit buses and vans. the progress in vaccinating people and the T At the former J.C. Penney space at recent drop in infections. Then they got to the Poughkeepsie Galleria, one of two sites the point — this one aimed at people slow to where the county regularly administers get vaccinated or outright opposed. COVID-19 vaccines, a procession of adults “We’ve got to do it now,” said Maloney. — working people, some still in uniform; “We don’t have any time to waste.” retired couples; seniors in wheelchairs While New York State and Dutchess are Sundown at pushed by caregivers — streamed through (Continued on Page 7) Indian Point First of a series By Brian PJ Cronin onight at 11 p.m., operators at 100,000 fish the Indian Point Energy Center The fate of Indian Point may have T on the Hudson River south of been sealed by a peace treaty. the Highlands will do something that In December 1980, an agreement environmentalists have been trying to was reached over the only power plant accomplish for nearly 60 years: They in the Hudson Valley more controver- will shut down the nuclear plant. sial than Indian Point: the unbuilt Con The plant’s third and final nuclear Edison plant that was proposed for the reactor will be deactivated. (The first north face of Storm King Mountain. had to be shut down in 1974 for lack The decades-long fight to prevent the Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (at left) are of an emergency cooling system; plant is credited with helping birth urging people to get vaccinated as demand slows. Photo by L. Sparks the second was shut down in April the modern American environmental 2020.) In the following days, it will movement and for providing the foun- be opened and the fuel rods inside dation of environmental law. placed in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool. The treaty reached between the Putnam Man Arrested in D.C. Riot Once the reactor has been emptied, State of New York, Con Edison and Entergy, the company that has owned environmental groups such as Scenic and Mahopac. As of Wednesday (April 28), Charged after boasting he the plant for 20 years, will submit a Hudson, Clearwater and Riverkeeper 403 people had been charged from 43 states letter to the federal Nuclear Regula- did more than bring the Storm King and D.C., based on a stormed Capitol tory Commission (NRC) known as a battle to an end. As part of dropping tally by the Program By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong Certificate of Permanent Cessation of its plans to build a plant at Storm on Extremism at Operations. It will state that all reac- King, Con Edison won provisions George Washington Putnam County man’s claims that tors have been emptied of nuclear for a plant that was already up and University. he stormed the U.S. Capitol during fuel, and that it would now be impos- running: Indian Point, which had According to A the Jan. 6 riot turned off a poten- sible for the plant to be restarted. been in the crosshairs of the embold- a federal crimi- tial date but apparently turned on a federal It will be the end of a facility ened environmental groups. They had investigation, leading to his arrest. nal complaint and Chapman that has provided thousands of taken note of the operational troubles accompanying state- Robert Chapman of Carmel appeared jobs, millions in tax revenues and that were plaguing the young plant, ment by an FBI agent, Chapman illegally before a federal magistrate judge in White hundreds of millions of megawatt how the American public’s appetite entered the Capitol building and sought Plains on April 22 following his arrest hours of power, including up to 25 for nuclear power had soured in the to disrupt government functions. The FBI by the FBI earlier that day on charges he percent of the power used by New wake of the partial meltdown in 1979 also alleged that he violated laws prohibit- participated in a riot that began as a protest York City and Westchester County. at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania ing the use of loud, threatening or abusive of the election of Joe Biden as president. It will not be the end of the contro- and the 100,000 fish that it estimated He became at least the sixth area person language to impede actions by Congress. versies. (Continued on Page 20) charged in connection to the riot, includ- When the riot began, the House of Repre- ing men from Beacon, Pawling, Newburgh (Continued on Page 19) 2 APRIL 30, 2021 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org FIVE QUESTIONS: HOODIE CRESCENT By Alison Rooney How did you come to be called “Hoodie”? My last name was Furihata, and the By Michael Turton oodie Crescent curated an exhibit first part of it sounded like “Hootie,” like that opens Saturday (May 8) at the band Hootie and the Blowfish. So, my Hthe Howland Cultural Center in nickname became Hootie. An American Golf: Great Beacon to mark Asian Pacific American friend said, “I don’t like it. Why don’t you Heritage Celebration Month. See Page 15. use Hoodie instead?” So I did, but computer sport or systems kept on asking me for a last name. Were any of the works made in I thought, Cher and Madonna don’t need stupid game? response to anti-Asian violence? a last name, but it kept asking. I thought I brought it up with the artists: What about how deeply I love crescent moons. shall we do? They wanted to talk about it I thought Hoodie Crescent sounded nice, but also they’re scared of random attacks, so I changed it legally. Now my fabrics all It takes a lot of especially in the city. I asked two artists, have this name because there’s no reason to one who is Korean, living in Queens, and promote my Japanese name, which people skill. But I only go to the other Japanese, in the Bronx, and both around the world. I moved to Beacon because couldn’t pronounce. the driving range. were hesitant to take the train up here family members were here. Last year, board because of the “hate situation.” I said I members at the Howland sent me an email to On the poster you designed for the would pick them up by car. There’s no Black be on the gallery committee. I said yes. It’s a Howland show, you use the words Lives Matter conversation going on. This is beautiful building and I’m only two minutes “contempo EAST to PERFORM.” the first time I look at my face, see that I’m away. I started doing posters for each show. What is their significance? Asian and feel I have to be careful. In December they asked me to be on the Contemporary is our mutual concept. We board, and they asked me to curate the show. don’t do traditional art. East is where our How did you come to curate this year’s heritage comes from. We perform, in a way, exhibit? How did you find the artists? in the space simultaneously. “Each artist’s I was born in Japan and lived there until Through the community. We wound up words are in each artist’s art. Please listen after college. I worked in graphics and textile with Korean, Indian, Chinese and Japa- to it; please feel it; please look at it.” That design and a company hired me in New York. nese artists, ranging in age from 20s to is my statement for anti-Asian hate. Come I became a citizen in 2016. My work was in 60s, and working in painting, sculpture, over to look at it — how we live in this coun- ~ Jazmyn O’Dell, Cold Spring the quilt market and I wound up having mixed media, fiber art, metal art, installa- try. Don’t say, “Go back to your country” — fabrics printed in my name that are sold tion, printmaking and photography. this is our country. It’s the dumbest game I’ve ever heard Superior of; it’s the most stagnant game. 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Davis is running ‘‘ As a former journalist, I against Yvette Valdes Smith to fill the 16th want to support local news.‘‘ to deceive voters District seat in the Dutchess Legislature, Jane Applegate, Verplanck By Jeff Simms which includes Ward 4 in Beacon.