by Catherine Garnsey

Katelyn Robertson is no ordinary ninth grader. In ad-dition to the common extra-curricular activities—skiing, running cross-country, and scuba d iv ing—she i s a l so a p rofess iona l beekeeper, who manages five honeybee hives in her backyard in Cold Spring, f ive in the Phil ip-stown area and 30 more at her family’s weekend home in Stephentown.

How did Katie become in-volved in beekeeping? She has been fascinated with her father’s beekeeping hobby all of her life. She remembers standing in front of a busy hive when she was about three years old, arms outstretched, without a beekeeper suit or any o ther pro tec t ion , jus t

“being with the bees.” She wasn’t afraid, she didn’t get stung, and she really felt that she understood their ways.

Years later, when her father announced that he was going to give up beekeeping because of a back injury, Katie said that she wanted to continue in his place. So from the age of 10 until now, Katie has been the Head Beekeeper in the Robertson family. Not only does she manage all the hives, but she also collects the honey twice a year, bottles i t and sel ls “Kat ie’s Cold Spring Honey” wholesale to two shops in Cold Spring. And every year, Katie gives beekeeping workshops to 1st grade classes at Haldane El-ementary School to teach the children to enjoy and respect honeybees and to understand

the role they play in our lives. “One out of three foods

that we eat depends on the pollination of honeybees,” Katie said, “They are indis-pensable to the crops and food markets of the world.”

But it’s not cheap to set up even one hive. Three pounds o f new honeybees wi th a queen bee in a wooden box costs about $100. The Robert-son family reminisced about the time last year that they had to o rder bees f rom a Florida apiary after most of Katie’s colonies collapsed in a nat ionwide epidemic. When the boxes with tens of thousands of bees arrived at the Cold Spring Post Office, they got an urgent call from the postmaster. “Your bees are here! Please come and pick them up!” Apparently,

the buzzing from the screened bee boxes was unnerving to the staff at the Post Office.

Katie went on to describe the seasonal rhythm of bee-keeping. In the spring (late April or early May), the hives are unwrapped so that the bees can go out to gather pollen and start their honey-making. Just before the end of the school year in June, the first batch of honey is harvested. Another batch of honey is harvested in August, before school begins again. In autumn, when the leaves turn, the hives are packed up for the winter by repair-ing any holes and wrapping the hive with tar paper to contain the heat. And the cycle continues in the spring.

PCN&R Staff Report

The PCN&R will sponsor a Philipstown Candidates Forum at 7pm on Monday, October 26, in the Haldane School Cafete-ria in Cold Spring. The event is open to the public, and donuts and cider will be served.

The 90-minute event will include all candidates for Philipstown Town Board and Philipstown Supervisor in a question-and-answer session. Questions will be asked by a panel of reporters from the PCN&R and the Putnam County Courier, as well as some students from Haldane High School.

Questions will not be pro-vided to the candidates ahead of time. Candidates will have the opportunity for brief

rebuttals.The participating candidates

will be Richard Shea, and Mat-

thew Mastrantone, running for Philipstown Supervisor; and Betty Budney, Joselle Cunane,

Terry Polhemus, and John Van Tassel, running for two seats on the Philipstown Town Board.

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Parking Fines Could Change

(See Beekeeper on Page 9)

by Michael Turton

When people are looking for a fine dining experience, they don’t want to just hope, they want to know that the establishment they choose has a long-standing tradition of excellence. The Bird & Bottle Inn takes that notion to the extreme, given that it first opened its doors in 1761—albeit as Warren’s Tavern.

Today, some 248 years later, the Bird & Bottle offers an eclectic, international, and seasonal menu that is bound to please the most discriminating palate while also capturing the imagination of those who seek a truly unique dining experience.

Chef Doug Gardiner puts i t s imply. “I don’t l ike to cook the same food every week. I like to look to dif-

ferent cultures.” The menu certainly reflects that philoso-phy—whether it’s an African s tew; the Tunis ian spiced lamb chops, now part of the new fall menu; a Jamaican jerk burger cooked up on the Inn’s increasingly popular Tavern Nights; or a Sunday brunch that is anything but just another brunch.

Bird & Bottle: Fine Cuisine, History, and Even a Ghost

dInIng Out In PhIlIPstOWn

Innkeeper Elaine Margolies is shown here with executive chef Douglas Gardner (right) and sous chef Michael Kamphius (left).

(See Bird & Bottle on Page 8) (See Settlement on Page 11)

by Michael Mell

The October 13 Vi l lage Board monthly meeting be-gan with a public hearing on a proposal to amend Village Code Chapter 126, Section 126: Penalt ies for Parking Violations, which sets parking fines in the village. This was the final step in a process be-gun by the board a few weeks ago, the goal of which has been to make the fine align with the crime and to provide incentive for prompt payment of parking fines.

Some base fines have been lowered and others raised, but the chief change is a provi-sion for increased fees for late payment. For all fines

not paid within a 30 to 60 day window, the fee will be doubled. For all fines paid af ter 90 days, the amount will be doubled and a $10 surcharge added. The only exceptions are for violations involving disabled parking and expired vehicle inspec-tions. State laws limit fines for these two violations to $75 maximum. Mayor Gallagher read the amendment and so-licited public comment. There were no negative comments, and the board voted unani-mously to pass the amendment (with Trustee Miller absent).

After completion of the pub-lic hearing the board began its agenda for the October monthly meeting with a report

from Village Accountant Ellen Mageean. In anticipation of the final payment to replace flooring in the firehouse, Ms. Mageean presented the board with a resolution to transfer $1,812 into the account for fire department building re-pairs, to be taken from the street maintenance account. This will bring the total funds available up to $9,000. The board passed the resolution without comment. In other matters, Mageean reported that the balance in the Vil-lage general fund is higher than expected due primarily to revenues from the CHIPS program, revenue sharing, and payment for fire protection service by the village of Nel-

sonville. She also informed the board that 97 percent of taxes have been collected to date, which is “very good.”

The building inspector’s repor t l i s ted a handful of building permits issued, in-spections, and certificate of occupancies issued. There was, however, a significant violation described. In re-sponse to complaints from residents of the Forge Gate condominium complex, a vio-lation was issued to Elite Prop-erty Services. Several months have passed since a structural engineer’s inspection, which cited the “advanced deterio-rat ion” and “inappropriate repairs” that have rendered the

Candidates to Participate in Philipstown Forum

by Eric Gross

In a case that has become a focal point of the current de-bate between the Democratic candidate for Putnam County Sheriff and the Republican incumbent, a Putnam Valley family has reached a settle-ment with Putnam County in a civil rights lawsuit over the suicide of a 21-year-old inmate who hanged himself in a jail cell three and one-half years ago.

As the trial wound down last week in U.S. District Court in White Plains, Donny Sinkov agreed to settle with four of the five defendants while the fifth defendant, Americor, a Delaware company hired by the county to provide medi-cal services at the Putnam Correct ional Faci l i ty, was found 35 percent responsible for the inmate’s death and was assigned a liability of $265,000.

Spencer Sinkov was sen-tenced to the county jail in May of 2006, after Sheriff’s Department investigators ar-rested him on several felony charges relating to criminal sale and criminal possession of heroin. The following day, after his family had visited h i m b e h i n d b a r s , S i n k o v committed suicide in his cell

Cold Spring’s Backyard Beekeeper Katelyn Robertson, left, works with her beehives.

Catherine Garnsey

Photo Courtesy of the Bird & Bottle

P u t n a m Va l l e y F a t h e r S e t t l e s Over Jail Suicide

(See CS Board on Page 8)

Villanova Alleges Putnam Valley Stimulus Shenanigansby Michael BrendanDougherty

Patty Vil lanova, a Town Board candidate in Putnam Valley has alleged that the Putnam Valley Fire Depart-ment lied about its condition when it applied for federal st imulus money to build a $9 million firehouse. Having pored over the grant request, Vil lanova also insists that the Town may have secretly promised $4 million in funds to be added once the stimulus funds are granted. Villanova has sent her charges, and a request for a formal inves-t iga t ion in to the s t imulus application to the Inspector General of FEMA, Robert Skinner.

Villanova, a 50-year resi-dent of the town who recently won a Republican nomination for a Town Board seat over the objections of the local Republican Committee de-scribes herself as a “taxpayer advocate.” “I don't care what party you are in, if there is wrongdoing I will expose it,” she said. Some in the town, even her own party, see i t

otherwise.“She is not a gadfly, she’s

a crank,” says Putnam Valley Supervisor Bob Tendy. “Patty has been pointing a lot of fingers at a lot of people.”

Villanova’s letter is based on the grant request the Put-nam Valley Fire Department filed with FEMA for stimulus funds to build a new mod-ernized firehouse. Her letter quotes page 10 of the appli-cation which states that the request is to “Replace unsafe/uninhabitable fire station.” Vil lanova says, “They use i t every day and for other functions. How is that un-inhabitable?”

The grant reques t no tes that the Putnam Valley Court House has been deemed “in v io la t ion of publ ic safe ty codes” by the state and must be renovated or rep laced . Villanova’s letter says that no such determination has been made.

Tendy counters: “The town has been put on notice that the courthouse is in violation of public safety codes, cer-tain DEC violations. That’s not necessarily an incorrect

statement.” “It’s a really terrible and

reckless thing for her to do,” Tendy said, “It’s easy to take sentence out of a 26-page application. She takes three or four lines out of it . The letter itself is unfair.”

“The town board was not forthcoming with the infor-mation,” Villanova said, “I had to investigate what was going on with the firehouse. The pro jec t has appeared before the town p lann ing board and design board. How can the Town Board say they don’t have the information on it?” Villanova began filing Freedom of Information Law

Requests, commonly called “FOILs” with the town.

“We spend a good part of our day responding to her FOIL requests.” Tendy said, “I’ve asked her to come into the o ff i ce and t a lk abou t things.”

Tendy says that until the Fire Department is s imply doing its diligence in explor-ing options for a new build-ing, and that the issue of a potential bond referendum in the future to complete a project like building a new firehouse are moot until the Fire Department receives a

(See Villanova on Page 11)

by Joe Lindsley Jr.

Deputy Supervisor Richard Shea, who is seeking the town’s top post on the November 3 ballot, fielded tough but civil questions Monday night from citizens determined to defend their private property rights in the face of proposed changes to Philipstown’s zoning laws.

The gathering of about 60 people at the Garrison Volun-teer Fire Company was hosted by the Concerned Citizens of Philipstown, a group of property owners and Route 9 business owners who have joined forces to register opposition to some

of the zoning proposals. Mem-bers fear that the new system, featuring various “overlays” mandating varying levels of land protection, will limit the manner in which they can de-velop or use their properties.

Joined by councilwoman Betty Budney, herself up for reelection, Shea spoke briefly before taking questions from the polite but animated crowd. Shea admitted he wasn’t quite sure what to expect when he entered the fire house, and seemed a little surprised by the size of the crowd. In the end, though, he said the gathering produced a worthwhile dialogue.

Shea emphasized that he was speaking in his capacity as a town board member and not as a candidate, though, with the election just two weeks away the evening certainly had political implications. Empha-sizing that this was not an of-ficial town board workshop, Shea said he was not there to “answer specific questions,” but rather to answer “process questions” about the re-drafting of Philipstown’s zoning laws. He encouraged those present to read the zoning proposals and then to tell the town board what specific designations they think would be appropriate for

their properties. One participant said it might take a lawyer to interpret all the material.

“Can this be put into a lan-guage we all can understand?” a woman asked Shea.

“Any zoning document is going to be dense and complex,” he said. But he reminded the crowd that the new document is a significant improvement upon the town’s existing zoning regulations.

Shea said the town board does plan to remove the “open space overlay” (OSO, in the jargon of the planners) and the scenic

(See Zoning on Page 13)

Shea Fields Zoning Questions

annie Chesnut

Wednesday, October 21, 2009CXLIII No. 42 Philipstown & Putnam Valley

Page 2 THE PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS AND RECORDER Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Mark Your Calendar – Meetings this WeekThursday 10/22 Friday 10/23 Monday 10/26 Tuesday 10/27 Wednesday 10/28

7 PM - Putnam Valley Board of Ed Business Mtg

7:30 PM Philipstown Planning Board

7:30 PM -Cold Spring Board Weekly Workshop

7:30 PM Village of Cold Spring Planning Board Public Hearing

No Meetings ScheduledNo Meetings Scheduled

SATURDAY 10/24 No Meetings Scheduled.

SUNDAY 10/25

11 AM - 12 Noon Philipstown N. Highland Fire District Workshop

7:30 PM - Philipstown Zoning Board of Appeals

Thanks The PuTnam CounTy hisToriCal soCieTy

The Putnam County Historical Society thanks the businesses and individuals who donated to our

2009 membership drive:

PCHS also wishes to thank Julie Tooth, George Whipple, and Dr. Colonel Jim Johnson

for their participation.

by Eric Gross

Legislators Mary Ellen Odell of Carmel and Vincent Ta-magna of Nelsonville will be dancing with the stars this Saturday to raise money for the Hillside Food Outreach.

The two Putnam residents will be joining ten others in the competition scheduled for the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase to support the organization that provides food to low income families who are unable to visit a food pantry.

Hillside Food Outreach has been serving residents of West-chester for many years from

its headquarters in Thornwood, and the non-for-profit recently opened a new facility at the Kent Center on Route 52.

Last week during a rehearsal at the Arthur Murray Studios in Danbury, Odell and Ta-magna both admitted they were “cautiously optimistic” about performing on the large stage at the PepsiCo Theater before hundreds of cheering fans.

In her high school days, Odell was a cheerleader at Carmel High. “We kept our feet on the floor back in the ‘70s. We weren’t permitted to do that ‘fly-girl’ stuff. I always loved to dance. My Carmel Book Club girls and I are known as the ‘dancing queens.’”

Odell called her Dancing with the Stars competition a “new learning experience. Practice is the word of the day. Besides it’s for a good cause. My good friend Kathy Purdy, who founded the Hillside Food Outreach, asked me to help her launch a fundraiser for the new Putnam County facility. I couldn’t refuse and she tricked me when explaining what the fund raiser was all about.”

Odell’s partner, Matt Ames of Ridgefield, described his

partner as being “extremely diligent. She works very, very hard. From the moment she arrives at the studio, it’s ‘go-go-go!’”

Tamagna agreed that he has had great fun preparing for Saturday’s event: “It’s been demanding but my partner and the dance studio here in Danbury have been fantastic. They have a lot of patience. This has been a great experi-ence.”

Tamagna adorned in black velvet shoes with a silk shirt and skin tight pants for the rehearsal became known for his outlandish attire. Some days he even wore ruffled shirts to get in the mood.

Nicole Almeida of Danbury is Tamagna’s professional part-ner: “Vinny is goofy. He is an actor who loves to have a good time. Our experience together has been quite a ride! Vinny is eccentric in a good way. He is extremely focused.”

The celebrity judges include Paul Teutel of American Chop-pers; Waleska Williams, wife of NY Yankees great Bernie Williams; and Roberta Pol-lard, a professional dancer. Tickets for the event are still available by calling 914-251-6200. Curtain time is 7:30pm.

Vincent Tamagna and his p a r t n e r N i c o l e A l m e i d a re h e a r s e d l a s t w e e k i n Danbury.

Dancing to Raise Money for Hillside Food OutreachThe PCN&R is host ing a Phil ipstown Candidates Fo-rum on Monday, October 26, at 7pm in the cafeteria at Haldane School. All the local candidates will be present, as wil l the PCN&R reporters and Haldane students who wil l be asking the quest ions.

The Hudson Highlands Land Trust Take a Hike program offers Cast le to Cast le with the Osborn family at 1pm on Saturday, October 24. Please cal l 424-3358 for detai ls .

The Halloween Parade is here! Gather on Saturday, October 24, at 5pm at St . Mary’s Church in Cold Spring. The parade starts at 5:30pm. The rain date for Sunday wil l only be cal led if i t is raining at 4:30pm on Saturday.

Don’t miss the Hotsy Totsy Foll ies at the Phil ipstown Community Center from 1-2:30pm on Thursday, October 29. See Coming Events for more news on act ivi t ies for this week and beyond.

Happy Birthday greet ings to: Lataben, Rajeshh Gan-dhi, Shivani Gandhi, Audrey Kenney, Nicholas Junjulas, Anthony Nastasi , Joe Blakes, Tom Phil l ips, Harris Sea-bolt Jr. , Deb Phil l ips, J .L. Shea, Nicole Fricker, Olivia Nastasi , and Clara Thompson.

Eric Gross

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 THE PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS AND RECORDER Page 3

Obituaries

P h i l i p s t o w n ’ s K a c e y M o r a b i t o o f W H U D ( c ) sha res the spo t l igh t wi th (l-r) Fr. James Gardiner, SA, chair of the Tri-State Catho-lic Committee on Radio and Televis ion and di rec tor of t he Graymoor Spir i tual Life C en t e r ; WO R - A M ' s J o h n Gambling; WYNY-Fox 5 ' s Nick Gregory; and Joseph

Zwil l ing , communicat ions d i rec tor fo r the Archdio-cese of New York , a t the p r e sen t a t i on o f t he 2009 TRISCCORT Awards on Oc-tober 7 , a t the New York Catholic Center. The awards are presented annual ly for "comi tment to exce l lence and to the h ighes t spi r i tua l and human values .”

Kacey Morabito Receives Award from Catholic Center

On Sunday, October 25, at 2pm the Franciscan Fri-ars of the Atonement wil l welcome Paul Moses, who wil l give a brief presenta-t ion and sign copies of his new book , The Sa in t and the Sultan, at the Graymoor Spir i tual Life Center.

The Saint and the Sultan is “an intr iguing examination of the extraordinary—and l i t t le known—meeting be-tween St . Francis of Assisi and Is lamic leader Sul tan Ma l ik A l -Kami l t ha t ha s strong resonance in today's divided world.” In 1219, dur-ing the Fifth Crusade, Fran-

cis daringly gained an audi-ence with Malik al-Kamil , the Sultan of Egypt, where the two talked of peace and faith. When Francis returned to Italy, he proposed that his order of fr iars l ive peace-ably among the followers of Islam—a revolutionary call at a t ime when Christ ians str ived to convert Muslims on the bat t lef ield.

Copies of the book wil l be available from the Gray-moor Book & Gift Center 424-2100 . The Graymoor Spir i tual Life Center is lo-cated at Graymoor on Route 9 in Garrison.

The Saint and the Sultan: Book Signing at Graymoor

Garrison and Cold Spring residents were among the nearly 300 supporters attending the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement annual Sharing Hope Gala on October 2, 2009, at The Plaza in NYC. Dinner chairs were Raymond and Patricia O'Rourke, of Garrison. Pictured from left are: Patty O'Rourke, Veronica Smyth, of Riverdale (Mary Shortell's mother), Kristin Burke, Mary Shortell, Lydia McMahan, Barbara Swartzwelder (behind the Archbishop), Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Tom Shortell, Sue Giusti, Beverly Leardi, Bob Dodge, Gina Dodge, Steve Leardi, Dominick Giusti, Frank Lucente, Steve Tomann, Mary Tomann, and John Schwartzwelder.

Local Residents Attend Graymoor’s Sharing Hope Gala

H e l e n P r e s t i a n n i B e l l , originally of Cold Spring, died on September 9, 2009, i n P o u g h k e e p s i e . B u r i a l se rv ices were he ld a t the Prestianni plot at the Cold Spring Cemetery.

She was born on April 4, 1934, the daughter of Afila and Frank Prestianni. She was married to Bernie Bell in Cold Spring. She was the mother of John Bell and Tina Marie

Bell Trotahn, who survive her. She is also survived by three sisters, Rose Cava, of Cold Spring, Jane Warren, of Beacon, and Carmela, of Cold Spring. One other sister, Mary, pre-deceased her. Her brothers, Joe, Frankie, Tony, Sam, Freddie, Vincent, and Basil Prestianni also survive her, as do four nieces and three nephews.

Helen Prestianni Bell

Tired of cooking? On Fri-day, October 30 at 6:30pm, the community is invited to a dinner at the First Pres-byterian Church of Phil ip-stown. Come and enjoy beef s t ew and the oppor tun i ty to si t and eat with fr iends and neighbors. There is no

cha rge . Everyone i s we l -come, so leave your po ts and pans at home and come over to Academy St . for a great meal. Anyone needing transportat ion can cal l the church office at 265-3220 to arrange for a r ide.

Damon Perpetua, age 60, l i f e long res iden t o f Cold Spring, passed away peace-fully at his home on Friday, October 16, 2009.

Born in Cold Spring on Oc-tober 11, 1949, he is the son of Damon P. Perpetua of Cold Spring and the late Katherine (Vitanza) Perpetua.

Mr. Perpetua was a Reticle Eng ineer and worked fo r NXP Semiconductors in East Fishkill , for over 30 years. He was a passionate sports enthusiast, and volunteered for many years as a coach for Phi l ipstown Lit t le League baseball and Recreation bas-ketball. He played in a men's over-35 softball league and coached Max's on Main, a regional softball team. He was a par i sh ioner o f Our Lady of Loretto Church in Cold Spring.

Af te r Mr. Perpe tua was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2004, he volunteered for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Socie ty’s Light the Night Walks, raising thousands of

dollars in honor of his team Perpetual Motion.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret L. (Cook) Perpetua, and his four children, Da-mon T. Perpetua and fiancé, Danielle Guimento, of Boca Raton, FL; Matthew Perpetua of New York City; Christine and husband, Todd Roecker, of Boston, MA; and Andrew Perpetua of Cold Spring. He is also survived by his father Damon, and his sister, Kathi Savastano of Cold Spring.

A Mass of Christian Buri-al was held on October 19, 2009, at Our Lady of Lo-retto Church, 24 Fair Street, Cold Spr ing , fo l lowed by in te rment in Cold Spr ing Cemetery. Friends called at the Clinton Funeral Home, on October 18.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in Mr. Per-petua’s name to the Leuke-mia and Lymphoma Society, Westchester/Hudson Valley Chapter, 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue, Sui te 130, White Plains, NY 10605.

Damon Perpetua

Oct. 30 Community Dinner at Presbyterian Church

ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

1 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring

Fr. Shane Scott-Hamblen, Rector,

265-2539 Mr. Ron Greene, Senior

Warden, 265-3624 stmaryscoldspring.

dioceseny.org Sun. Masses: 8am (spoken); 1 0 : 3 0 a m ( s u n g ) ; S u n d a y school in Parish Hall dur-ing 10:30 massThurs. Fri. & Sun.: AA in parish hall , 8pmFri. Oct. 23 – Fellowship Supper, 6pm, no charge.

FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT

Route 9, Garrison 424-3671

graymoorcenter@ atonementfriars.org

Sunday Eucharist - 11am, Pilgrim Hall. Daily Mass - Mon. - Sat . 11:30am. Mondays - Holy Hour, 8pm. Centering Prayer - 8pm. Monthly Prayer Meeting 2nd Sunday of every month at 2pm. Recovery Inc. every Wednesday, 7:30pm.

ST. JOSEPH’S CHAPEL A mission Chapel of Our Lady of Loretto Church

Upper Station Rd., Garrison, 265-3718

Sunday Mass: 10:15am

GREEK ORTHODOX CHAPEL OF SAINT BASIL’S ACADEMY Route 9D, Garrison

424-3500 Fr. Constantine L.

Sitaras, General Director

OUR LADY OF LORETTO CATHOLIC

CHURCH Fair Street, Cold Spring

265-3718 ourladyoflorettocs.com

Fr. Brian McSweeney, Pastor

Masses: Sat. 5:30pm, Sun. 7 : 3 0 a m , 9 , & 11 : 4 5 a m . , Weekdays: 8:15am, St. Jo-s e p h ’ s - G a r r i s o n , S u n . , 10:15am. Holy Days: 8:15am & 7:30pm Mass, Holy Day Vigil: 530pmConfessions: Sat., 4:30-5pmSun. Oct. 25 - 2nd annual Senior Luncheon, Our Lady of Loretto, 14 Fair St. , Cold Spring. Begins with 11:45am Holy Mass, anointing of the sick; followed by food, en-ter ta inment , fe l lowship & prayer. Caregivers welcome too. Free. RSVP 265-3718.Bingo - Thursdays , doors open 6pm, first game begins 7 :15pm. $1 ,500 in To ta l Cash Prizes. Concessions available.

ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

Episcopal 1101 Route 9D, Garrison

Across from school Rev. Francis H. Geer, Rec.

424-3571 stphilips@highlands.com8am - Holy Communion10:30am - Main ServiceChoir–Thu, 7:30pmJunior Choir–Sun at 9:15amSunday School–Sun 10:30am Acolytes–Sunday 9amAdult Class–Sunday at noonLife Support Group –Wednes-days at 7:30pm

GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

37 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley

Pastor Tony Mecca 845-526-3788

Sunday Service & Sunday School : 10 am.Prayer Serv ice w/ Com-munion : Tues 7 pm. “Tues-days w/ Tony” - Discussion group, 9am.Fri/Sat Nov 13/14 - Christ-mas Bazaar - Beautiful hand-made items, Christmas gifts, bake table, home-made candy & jams, White Elephant & much more. Lunch served.

ST. LUKE’S LUTHERAN CHURCH

65 Oscawana Lake Rd., Putnam Valley

stlukesputnamvalley.org 845-528-8858,

mail@stlukesputnamvalley.org Sunday Worship - Service: 9am, Coffee hour: 10:15am, Family Communion Service including Sunday School : 10:30amThu. - Prayer Service, 8pm

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF

PHILIPSTOWN Academy & Cherry

Streets, Cold Spring 265-3220

Rev. Leslie Mott, Pastor presbychurchcoldspring.org

email: FPCP@verizon.net

Worship Service: 10:30amOffice Hours: Mon. and Wed. 9-11:30, Tues. and Thurs 9-2Contemplative Prayer Group: Wednesdays 7amJazz Vespers Service: Every 3rd Saturday of each month 5:30pmFri . Oct . 30 - Communi-ty Dinner, 6:30pm. Enjoy beef s tew with f r iends & neighbors. Free, everyone welcome.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES OF COLD

SPRING & SOUTH HIGHLAND (Garrison)

265-3365 South Highland UMC,

19 Snake Hill Rd. Garrison

Cold Spring UMC, 216 Main Street

Pastor Margaret (Peggy) Laemmel

South Highland in Garrison worship service at 9:30am. Cold Spring worship service at 11am. Sundays through Nov 20: B i b l e S t u d y w i t h P a s t o r Laemmel “Living the Gos-pel of Mark,” 1-2pm.Each l e sson wi l l be se l f -contained so that people can attend as they are able, you need not be a member of the church to attend.

COLD SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH (American Baptist

Churches, USA) Jay Camp

(Interim Pastor) 245 Main St. , Cold

Spring 265-2022

Sunday Services, 10:30amWednesdays : Prayer- Fel-lowship time, 7pm

BEACON HEBREW ALLIANCE

Conservative Synagogue 331 Verplanck Ave.,

Beacon Rabbi Josh Wohl

Cantor Ellen Gersh 845-831-2012

beaconhebrewalliance.org

TEMPLE ISRAEL 140 Lake Drive Lake Peekskill

Rabbi Jeff Cymet 845-528-2305

Shabbat Services : Fridays 8pm; Saturdays 9:15am.

PHILIPSTOWN REFORM SYNAGOGUE

P.O. Box 94 Cold Spring, NY 10516

All Services at St. Mary’s Parish House

For more information call 265-8011 and leave a

message or e-mail phi l ips townreformsyna-

gogue @gmail.comSun. Nov. 1 - Special Lecture/Presentation by Dr. Stephen Gross, 2-4pm, refreshments. St. Mary’s Parish House

PHILIPSTOWN WORSHIP GROUP

Quaker Meeting 424-3525

Meeting for Worship – 2nd & 4th Sundays of each month, 10am, at 848 Old Albany Pos t Road (Whyat t S tone Cottage), Garrison. Call for directions. Children of al l ages welcome.

REFORM TEMPLE OF PUTNAM VALLEY 362 Church Road

Putnam Valley Rabbi Allen Darnov

845-528-4774 rtpv.org

Shabbat Services: Fridays, 8pm; Young people’s ser-v i ce - t h i rd F r iday o f t he month, 7pm. Hebrew School, ages 3+

HISTORIC TOMPKINS CORNERS UNITED

METHODIST CHURCH 729 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley

845-528-5076 tompkinschurchny.org

1s t Sunday o f t he mon th worship: 2pmSat. Dec. 5 - Country Concert presented by Family Music Series, $10, $5/ages 12-18.

CAPUCHIN YOUTH & FAMILY MINISTRIES 781 Route 9D, Garrison

424-3609 cyfm.org

Sat/Sun Oct 24/25 - Fresh-man/Sophomore Retreat Fri/Sat Nov 6/7 - 7th and 8th grade overnight retreat

YORKTOWN JEWISH CENTER

2966 Crompond Road Yorktown Heights

914-245-2324

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ONGOING:

Cold Spring Farmers’ Market, Saturdays through Thanks-g i v i n g , 8 : 3 0 a m - 1 : 3 0 p m , at The Nest , Chestnut St . Putnam Valley Farmers’ Mar-ket, 3-7pm at Putnam Val-ley Grange, Adams Cnrs , 128 Mill St. Indoor/Outdoor, year round. 845-528-0066

THIS WEEK:

Wed. Oct. 21 - Gold Buying Fundraising Event for Haldane Lady Blue Devils sponsored by Joseph’s Fine Jewerly, 4-6pm, Haldane Cafeteria. Cash paid for gold, silver, diamonds, watches, estate jewelry, etc.

Fri. Oct. 23 - HH Land Trust Take-a-Hike! Spooky - Not Scary: Stories on the Hudson w/ Storyteller Jonathan Kruk. 5pm Little Stony Point Park bridge, Cold Spring. 1 hr., easy/family-friendly www.hhlt.org, 424-3358

Fri/Sun Oct. 23/24/25 - Phil-ipstown Rec’s Haunted House.Young Children’s Fun House - Sat, 5-6:30pm; Sun, 3-4:30pm. Horror House - Fri/Sat, 7-10pm; Sun. 5-8pm. Children under 12 and Seniors, $4, Adults, $6

Fri. Oct. 23 - Teddy Bear PJ Party, Putnam Hospital Ctr., hosted by Mother’s Club, 6-8pm. Milk & cookies, book reading. Free…bring a pillow. PHCMoth-ersclub@yahoo.com.

Fri. Oct. 23 – Fellowship Sup-per, St. Mary’s Church, 6pm, no charge

Sat. Oct. 24 - Annual Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce Halloween Parade, meet in front of St. Mary’s Church, cnr. of Main and Chestnut Streets, 5pm; parade begins at 5:30pm down to the bandstand.

Sat. Oct. 24 - Masquerade/cos-tume party w/DJ Fred Clarke to benefit Philipstown Food Pantry, spons. by Cold Spring Lions. 6:30pm, Garrison Fire House. Costume contest, games, danc-ing, and refreshments. $20p/p; Call 265-3508 or mcarlton@houlihanlawrence.com . Checks to Betty Budney, 15 Church St., Cold Spring, NY 10516.

Sat. Oct. 24 - HH Land Trust Take-a-Hike! Castle to Castle w/ the Osborn Family. Space is limited, reg. req’d. 1pm at Cat Rock, Garrison, for shuttle to Castle Rock. 3hrs., moderate/difficult level. www.hhlt.org, 424-3358

Sat. Oct. 24 - Ghost Stories at Boscobel, 330-430pm, rec. for children 12 & older, $10/adults, $6/children ages 12 to 14 incl. grounds admission. 265-3638, www.Boscobel.org

Sat. Oct. 24 - Sustainable Put-nam Workshop: Water Wisdom/Protect Drinking & Surface Water, sponsored by Cornell Coop Extension. Putnam County Emergency Training Ctr., Don Smith Campus, 112 Old Route 6, Carmel. www.cce.cornell.edu/Putnam or 845-278-6738.

Sun. Oct. 25 - 2nd annual Senior Luncheon, Our Lady of Loretto, 14 Fair St., Cold Spring. Begins with 11:45am Holy Mass, anointing of the sick; followed by food, enter-tainment, fellowship & prayer. Caregivers welcome too. Free. RSVP 265-3718.

Sun. Oct. 25 - Glynwood’s Community Harvest Celebra-tion, 12noon-4pm. Hayrides, spinning wool, apple bobbing, relay games, etc. plus stews & cider. $10/14 and older, under 14/free. Advance registration: 265-3338.

Tue. Oct. 27 - Holistic Moms Network monthly meeting & roundtable discussion. 7-9pm, Desmond-Fish Library, www.holisticmoms.org, 845-809-5242

COMING UP:

Fri. Oct. 30 - Halloween Festi-val, Sacred Heart School, 6-8pm at school gym, concessions open at 5:30pm, $12/family of 4 or $3p/p. No gory costumes, do-nation to food pantry apprec.

Fri. Oct. 30 - Community Dinner at First Presbyterian Church, Academy St. , Cold Spring, 6:30pm. Enjoy beef stew with friends & neighbors. Free, ev-eryone welcome.

Fri/Sat Oct. 30/31 - Philipstown Recreation’s Haunted House. Children’s Fun House - Sat 5-6:30pm; . Horror House - Fri/Sat 7-10pm; Children under 12 and Seniors, $4; Adults, $6.

Sat. Oct. 31 - North Highlands Ladies Auxiliary bake sale, in front of Foodtown, 8:30am un-til noon.

Sat. Oct. 31 - PV Parks & Rec Hike in Black Rock For-est Preserve (across 9W fm Storm King), 9:30am - meet at Annsville Paddle Sports Ctr parking lot. $10p/p

Tue. Nov. 3 - Cold Spring Lions Club Election Day Luncheon, 11:30am, Chalet on the Hudson., 3250 Rte 9D. Guest speaker: John Cronin. $35p/p. Info/Res: Betty Budney, 265-3508 by Thu. Oct. 29.

Fri. Nov. 6 - Philipstown Com-munity Blood Drive, Haldane Gym, 2:30-8pm. For appoint-ments email dfidanque@att-global.net. Only 2% of eligible NYers donate. Increase the per-centage; save a life.

Fri. Nov. 6: Putnam Family & Community Services’ Din-ner Dance Benefit, including whodunit mystery. 6:30-11pm, Sinapi’s Ceola Manor in Jeffer-son Valley. $95p/p. Reservations/sponsorship: Cheryl, 845-225-2700, x136 or cmckeever@PF-CSinc.org; www.PFCSinc.org.

Sat. Nov. 7 - 5th Annual Choices for Sustainable Living Expo, co-presented by HHLT & Teatown Lake Reservation, 9am-2pm, The Garrison, www.hhlt.org, 424-3358

Sat. Nov. 7 - Family Landscape Day at Manitoga w/ the Osborn family, 9am-2pm, lunch served. www.russelwrightcenter.org

Sat. Nov 7 - Putnam Hospital Center Gala Dinner and Ball, 6:30pm, Hyatt Regency, Green-wich. Auction, dinner, dancing, raffle for Mercedes. Anita, 845-279-5711, Ext. 2963.

Sat. Nov. 7 - Hudson Valley Hospital Center’s 2009 Auxil-iary Ball, 6:30pm, Trump Natl Golf Club, Briarcliff Manor, wdauster@hvhc.org

Sat/Sun Nov 7/8 - Museum Gift Shop Trunk Sale, Bosco-bel, details at 424-3868, www.Boscobel.org

Sun. Nov. 8 - Concert: Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, Rolf Schulte, violin, Aaron Wunsch, piano. A selection of classical music. 4pm, free. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, 45 Market St., CS, park at Metro-North station.

Sun. Nov. 8 - Play reading: Shirley Girl by Tony Howarth, 3pm, Arts on the Lake, 640 Rte 52, Kent Lakes, $10. 845-225-AOTL, www.artsonthelake.org

Tue. Nov. 10 - Senior Shopping Trip to Danbury Mall sponsored by Philipstown Rec. Free. Lim-ited space. Reg req’d. 424-4618.

Fri/Sat Nov. 13/14 - Haldane Drama Club presents The Face on the Bar Room Floor, Haldane Auditorium

Fri/Sat Nov. 13/14 - Christmas Bazaar, Grace Methodist Church, 339 Peekskill Hollow Rd, Put-nam Valley. Hand-made items, gifts, bake table, home-made candy & jams, White elephant & much more. Lunch served. Info: 845-526-3788.

Sat. Nov. 14 - Putnam Chorale, celebration of Haydn, 8pm, First United Methodist Church 83 Main St., Brewster. $15, $12/seniors & students.

Sat. Nov. 14 - St. Columbanus Holiday Craft Fair, 10am-4pm, Church Hall, 122 Oregon Rd., Cortlandt Manor. Homemade baked goods, join Santa from 11-12:30, raffle, etc. 914-737-4705.

Wed. Nov. 18 - Philipstown Seniors trip to Lincoln Center Theater, NYC to see South Pa-cific w/ lunch at Carmines. $125/members, $130/non-members. Eileen, 265-5098.

Sat. Nov. 21 - Jazz Vespers w/ renowned jazz musicians, 5:30pm, free. First Presbyterian Church, 10 Academy St. Cold Spring, 265-3220.

The Putnam County News & Recorder is happy to announce your event. A complete list-ing of Coming Events is on our website at www.pcnr.com. To send your listing: PCN&R, PO Box 185, Cold Spring, NY 10516; fax 265-2144; e-mail, editor@pcnr.com.

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The Howland Chamber Music Circle will present the exciting ensemble CONTINU-UM in a program of music by contemporary Latin American composers in the United States.

Winner of the prestigious Siemens International Prize for distinguished service to music and four ASCAP/Chamber Mu-sic America Awards for Adven-turesome Programming, New York-based CONTINUUM—directed by Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs—is now in its 44th season. After a CONTIUUM concert the New York Times wrote, "Simply put, there is no musical organization in New York that produces more intellectually enticing or more viscerally satisfying programs than CONTINUUM... Year after year, its explorations...prove to be not only unusual

and unexpected but also im-portant and enduring...This ensemble has a long history of acting on behalf of composers whom others discover years or decades later."

CONTINUUM’s name em-bodies the philosophy that new music and old form an unbroken tradition, Aiming to expand the audience for this century’s music, it has performed some 130 times in New York and toured forty American states. Thirty-six international tours have taken it to Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Celebrating the music of Latin American-born compos-ers in the U.S. their program includes Conjuration for clari-net, violin, cello, and piano by Jorge Martin; Melodia for violin and piano by Manuel Sosa; Kandinsky for violin, viola, cello, and piano by Ro-berto Sierra; and more.

The concert, sponsored by Shipman Associates, LLC of Garrison, will take place on Sunday, October 25, at 4pm at the Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon.

Tickets at $30 ($10 for students) can be reserved by calling 297-9243 or may be available at the door. www.howlandmusic.org

Howland Chamber Performs Music From Latin America

On Sunday, November 8, from 1-3pm, the Hudson Val-ley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill invites chil-dren to join in a number of art activities tied in with their Double Dutch exhibition.

Family and student craft ac t iv i t i e s inc lude a ‘ t i l e trail walk’ and treasure hunt through the exhibition. The “Public Tile Project,” begun in 2008, features over 2,000 tiles created by students from across the Hudson Valley. Join in to walk along the one and a half mile path from

the Center to the Peekskill waterfront.

Act iv i t ies a t the Center include, from 1 to 2:30pm: create your own Dutch ware and Dutch flag, straw weav-ing, kaleidoscopes, and deco-rative paper cutting as well as a tour of the exhibition; 2:30-3: tile trail walk, after which hot chocolate, cider, and donuts will be served at the waterfront.

Visit HVCCA.org for more details

All events are free and open to the public.

Dutch-Themed Kids’ Art Activities at HVCCA

Three outstanding musicians on the worldwide stage, Alex-ander Fiterstein, clarinet, Rolf Schulte, violin, and Aaron Wunsch, piano, will close The Chapel of Our Lady Resto-ration’s season on Sunday, November 8, at 4pm. Their program will include Bartok, Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano, a Mozart sonata, and a Schubert rondo for violin and piano.

Mr. Fiterstein has performed with Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center, Vienna Cham-ber Orchestra, Poland’s Kam-merphilharmonie, Jerusalem Symphony, Tokyo Philhar-monic, and the China National Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared in recital, and has performed chamber mu-sic with Emanuel Ax, Dan-iel Barenboim and Mitsuko Uchida, among others, and with the American, Daedalus, and Mendelssohn string quartets. He is a graduate of The Juil-liard School.

Mr. Schulte has performed with the Berlin and Munich Ph i lha rmonics , F rankfur t Museums-Orchester, Stuttgart State Orchestra, and Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Venice, among others. In America he has performed with numer-ous symphonies and with the Lincoln Center Chamber Mu-sic Society. He studied at the

Robert Schumann Conserva-tory, Düsseldorf, and Acca-demia Chigiana, Siena, before studying at Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. He plays a 1780 instrument by Lorenzo Storioni.

Mr. Wunsch, praised for bold interpretive skills and sensitivity, is at home in ev-ery era, including his own transcriptions of Renaissance composer Palestrina, Baroque harpsichord music, and con-temporary music. He has re-cently performed in the Salle Cortot, Paris, Royal Albert Hall, London, Weill, Avery Fisher, and Alice Tully halls, New York, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and at the Ver-bier Festival in Switzerland. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. His master’s and doctoral degrees are from The Juilliard School, where he is a faculty member.

The chapel is located at 45 Market Street, Cold Spring. Free parking is available on weekends a t the adjacent Metro-North Train Station. The music series is made pos-sible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Put-nam County by Putnam Arts Council. Individual contribu-tions are welcome.

Three Outstanding Musicians In Chapel Season Finale

One of the over 2,000 student-created tiles

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 137 Main St.. Beacon

845-838-2995 vanbruntgallery.com

Open Thu/ MonCurrent exhibit: Cali Gorevic and Colin Barclay

HOWLAND LIBRARY 313 Main St., Beacon

845-831-1134 beaconlibrary.org

M, W, F: 9:30am - 5:30p Tu & Th 9:30am - 8p

Sat.10-4pm, Sun.12-4pm

KENT PUBLIC LIBRARY

17 Sybil’s Crossing Kent Lakes

845-225-8585 kentlibrary.orgMon, Wed 10-8

Tue, Thu, Fri 10-5Sat, 10-3

Closed most major holidays

MANITOGA/THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER Route 9D, Garrison

424-3812 russelwrightcenter.org

Tours on selected weekdays; every weekend at 11am and 1:30pm, res. a must. Grounds open for hiking all year.Sat. Oct. 24 - ‘Cocktail Walk’ 2-4pm, open to the publicS a t . O c t 2 4 – Wo o d l a n d L a n d s c a p e P r o g r a m w i t h Stefan Yarabek, FASLA, at Desmond-Fish Library, 5pmSat. Nov. 7 - Family Land-scape Day w/ the Osborn fam-ily, 9am-2pm, lunch served.

HUDSON HIGHLANDS NATURE MUSEUM Wildlife Education

Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson,

Fri-Sun, 12-4, 845-534-7781

Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall

10am-4pm, Sat-Sun (845) 534-5506

hhnaturemuseum.org

THE HOWLAND CENTER

477 Main Street,Beacon 845-831-4988

Thursdays, 7-9pm - Medi-tation Classes, drop in, no pre-reg req’d, $8 classThrough Nov 1 - John Len-non exhibitionThu. Oct. 22 - Bus trip to Whitney Museum in NYC

PUTNAM VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mill St. & Peekskill Hollow

Putnam Valley 845-528-1024

Hrs: T&W 9am-2pm;Sun. 1-3pm.

TILLY FOSTER FARM MUSEUM

100 Route 312, Brewster845-279-4474

Open every day, 10am-4pmtillyfosterfarm.org

JULIA L. BUTTERFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Rtes. 301 & 9D 265-3040

butterfieldlibrary.orgMon & Wed: 10am-8pmT, T, F and Sat: 10am-5pmSun. 12-3pmONGOING PROGRAMSTuesdays, Bouncing Babies, infants thru age 2; 9:30am Thursdays, Bouncing Babies, infants thru age 2; 1:30pm Wed. October 21 -Afford-abil i ty 101: The Basics of College Financial Aid, 7pmWed. Oct . 27 - High land Garden Club Meeting, 1pm, topic: Honeybees

PUTNAM VALLEY LIBRARY

30 Oscawana Lake Rd., 845-528-3242

putnamvalleylibrary.orgHours: Sun. 1-5; Mon. 10-6; Tue/Wed 10-8; Thu/Fri 11-5; Sat - 10-5Book Club 3rd Tues of each month.

PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL

Tilly Foster Farm 100 Route 312

Brewster 845-278-0230

putnamartscouncil.comArt Classes for All Agesongoing thru Fall: pottery, w a t e r c o l o r s , o i l s , c h i n e colle, etc.Sat. Oct 24 - Free Indie film sc reen ing , Who Does She Think She Is? 7pm.

DESMOND-FISH LIBRARY

Route 9D & 403, Garrison 424-3020

dfl.highlands.comHours: M/ W/F: 10am-5pmTue & Thu 2-9pm; Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1-5Sat. Oct 24 - Library Board Meeting. 11amSun. Oct. 25 - City of Silver- book talk by author Patricia King, writing as Anna-Maria Alfieri . 2pm.Mon. Oct. 26 - How to Up-date Your Resume and Find a Job - talk by Liz Taylor of the NY Department of LaborTue. Oct. 27 - Holistic Moms Network monthly meeting & round tab le d i scuss ion . 7-9pm, www.holisticmoms .org, 845-809-5242

PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & FOUNDRY SCHOOL

MUSEUM 63 Chestnut St., Cold

Spring 265-4010

pchs-fsm.orgMuseum hours : Wed-Sun, 11am-5pmOffice hours: Tues/Fri 10-5Through Dec. 15 - Exhibit: Traveling the Hudson in the Wake of Robert Fulton: 1,000 Post Cards from America’s First Working River Sat. Nov. 7 - Quadricenten-nial Lecture, topic tba, 5pmS a t . N o v. 2 1 - A n n u a l Thanksgiving Candlel ight Service & Dinner

GARRISON ART CENTER

Garrison’s Landing 424-3960

garrisonartcenter.org info@garrisonartcenter.org Gallery Hours: Tue/Sun

12-5pmOct. 23 - Nov. 15 - Photo-centric juried photography exhibition. Opening recep-tion, Fri. Oct. 23, 6-8pm

PARAMOUNT CENTER 1008 Brown Street,

Peekskill 914-739-2333

tickets@paramountcenter.orgThu. Oct . 22 - Li ly Tom-lin, 8pmFILM: Earth Days - Oct. 23, 24 at 8pm, Oct. 25 at 3pm, Oct. 29 at 8pmFILM: Cold Souls - Oct. 30 at 8pm, Nov. 1 at 3pm, Nov. 5 at 8pmSat. Oct. 31 - Frankenstein w/ live music, 8pm

CHAPEL OF OUR LADY RESTORATION

45 Market St., Cold Spring

265-5537 chapelofourlady.com

Sun. Nov. 8 - Concert: Al-exander Fiterstein, clarinet, Rolf Schulte, violin, Aaron Wunsch, piano. A selection of classical music.

PHILIPSTOWN DEPOT THEATRE

Depot Square, Garrison’s Landing

philipstowndepottheatre.org 424-3900

Oct 23 - Nov 15 - Mus i -cal, Secret Garden, Fridays and most Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Sat. Oct 31 performance 2pm only, no evening show.Fri. Nov. 11 - Depot Docs, 7:30pmSat. Nov. 21 - Music Tracks, Head Soup & Lindy Lab-riola, 8pm

STONECROP GARDENS 81 Stonecrop Lane

Cold Spring 265-2000

stonecrop.org Mon–Fri, plus 1st &

3rd Sat., 10am – 5pm; also open Fri. until

dusk through Oct 2; $5/ members - no charge

Fri . Oct . 30 - Open Day, 10am-5pm, $5/members no charge

BOSCOBEL Route 9D, Garrison

265-3638 boscobel.org

Opendaily except Tues., 9:30am-5pm,last tour

4pm $16/adults, $12/seniors, $7/children, 6-14, under

6/freeSat. Oct. 24 - Ghost Stories 330-430pm, rec. for children 12 & older, $10/adults, $6/children ages 12 to 14. Sat/Sun Nov. 7/8 - Gift shop trunk show

Local author Patricia King will talk about her new novel, City of Silver, at the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison on Sunday, October 25 at 2pm.

This mystery, which takes place in 17th century Peru, was written under the pseud-onym of Annamaria Alfieri.

City of Silver received a starred review from Library Journal, which said that "In this nail-biting debut thriller ..., an intriguing era in Latin American history comes alive under Alf ier i ' s sure hand. Highly recommended."

This presentation is free,

and a l l a re welcome. For more information, please go to Dfl.Highlands.com or call 424-3020.

Local Author King Presents Her New Novel, City of Silver

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Don’t Disparage Those Who Will

Sacrifice

To the Editor:I have read quite a few let-

ters to the PCN&R touting the benefits of the proposed new zoning law, and emphasizing that it has been and will be the product of an open process in which all affected parties will be able to voice their concerns. Wonderful!

Nevertheless, there have been some existing commer-cia l proper ty owners who c la im—and th is c la im, to my knowledge, has not been contradicted by anyone—that the proposed zoning changes will have a materially adverse impact upon their property. That is, that the new zoning law will result in a significant diminution in the present or future (resale) value of their holding so that it will be tan-tamount to the government taking the property (or i ts value) from them.

I am sure a comprehensive zoning law will provide sub-stantial benefits to the entire community. However, since we will all enjoy the benefits from this new law, we should all share equally in the costs of producing those benefits. Let us not impose those costs upon a few people, and then pat ourselves on the back by saying that the process by which those few people were targeted was an open one and that they had every opportu-nity to complain about the way they would eventually be treated.

More importantly, we should not disparage these few by as-serting that they are looking out for their own interests, instead of the interests of the community at large. They have every reason to do so, since they are being compelled to pay a price for the benefit of the community at large that none of the rest of us have been asked to pay.

Tony DiSarroGarrison

Praising Zoning Changes

Let ter Original ly Sent to Superv i sor Mazzuca and Members of the Town Board; reprinted at the request of the author

I was an active participant along with many other resi-dents of Philipstown when the Comprehensive Plan was being discussed, researched, and after many meetings and discussion groups, adopted by the community and finally adopted by you, our elected officials. Now you are in the stage of implementing new zoning laws in accordance wi th what the communi ty worked so hard and long to achieve.

Currently you are faced with a small group of business people who reject the vision that we have had and want instead to retain the current zoning code for their own per-sonal ends. Your openness in giving a hearing to that small group is commendable, but our community expressed its wish, worked on the Comprehensive Plan in many committees, de-voting many hours over many years to protect Philipstown’s character and idyllic setting.

We envisioned keeping the rural and historic character of the town, protecting its eco-

nomic and social diversity and enhancing its environmental health by protecting the trees on steep slopes, wetlands and all other natural gifts that have been entrusted to us. Our plan is a good one; there may be minor revisions necessary here and there, but basically we stand behind what we have created.

Those of us who have made our lives here are grateful to you for your efforts to carry out our wishes. Please be assured that we will speak our minds wherever possible to prevent our community from descend-ing into the degradation we see in other communities all around us.

Ellin FeldGarrison

This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land

To the Editor:Finally, in last week’s issue

of the PCN&R, we saw some well-reasoned thoughts about the seemingly never-ending debate concerning zoning. Of note were le t ters f rom Douglas H. Banker, Emily de Rham, Grace Kennedy, and the comprehensive Perspectives ar t ic le by Andrew Chmar. Unfortunately, the majority of hysterical outbursts come from those with vested in-terests, like the letter from George Marden, who calls for a “moratorium”—for what?

I prefer the KISS approach (Keep It Simple), so why not call for a moratorium on any new building in Philipstown for 3 years, while the dust sett les and everyone has a chance to rationally learn and debate the issues.

My “hidden agenda” in this proposal is selfish for our com-munity. Let’s get those NYC and Westchester deserters to bypass Philipstown and go further north. I say, let them keep passing us by and leave our bucolic landscape intact. A building moratorium would accomplish that, assuming an economic recovery is in the works. Aw, make it 5 years just for insurance!

Regarding any new zoning proposals, I am putting my full faith in the zoning approval process being shepherded by the Town Board, with public input, as well as organizations like the Hudson Highlands Land Trust that work on our behalf to preserve this special place. More of us should sup-port this non-profit organiza-tion, created for us and our community with a simple mis-sion of protecting the natural resources, rural character, and scenic beauty of the Hudson Highlands.

While I’ll leave the heavy-duty work to the supporters of the draft zoning, I’ll fuel the hysteria with My Compre-hensive Simple Plan (MCSP). It specifically excludes the complicated issues regarding the residential /commercial aspects related to Route 9. To note, we believe our property taxes will continue to rise re-gardless of any plan adopted. So that issue is moot as far as this letter is concerned. The MCSP: Five-year moratorium on new building or land acqui-sition, other than for public use; 5-acre residential zoning; no sub-division regardless of the land purchased; 500 foot set-back from the road; a full “S”-shaped wooded driveway ensuring that the house is not

visible from the road dur-ing the Spring, Summer and Fall; no “Spec” building; no cluster home developments; no condo developments; no shopping malls.

Why the 500-foot set-back, “S”-shaped wooded driveway? Very simple: We preserve the landscape to avoid seeing decadent monstrosities like the new Hearst estate. In our community, we don’t care how big and beautiful your home is. Show it off to your fam-ily and friends in private—I personally don’t want to see it! Please, build a 5-foot berm and plant 12-foot white pines that grow 12 inches per year.

In other words, leave what has already been mauled in its current state, try to rectify the damage, and ensure that land erosion ceases forever. Save our bucol ic l i festyle and maintain what is left—serenity!

Sid GibsonGarrison

Strident Voices Shouldn’t Influence

Our Progress

To the Editor:We have been residents of

Philipstown for twenty-five years, and love this area as a home, a place of extraordi-nary beauty, a community of friends. We are thrilled that our town board is moving to adopt the new zoning laws that will preserve our area’s beauty, increase i ts value, support its local businesses, and make it an even better place to live.

It is important not to let a few strident voices—some of whom are unhappy residents of Westchester, others of whom have lived here for months, not years—influence our prog-ress on these matters. The majority of our community fully supports the Philipstown Comprehensive Plan, and after public review, these new zon-ing laws will help implement the important goals within it, and help preserve the ir-replaceable character of this place we share.

Irene O’GardenJohn PielmeierPhiliPstown

What a Question

To the Editor:I wonder i f anyone else

finds hypocrisy was delivered along with the newest 2009-2010 Indian Point Emergency Guide?

Since I live within 10 miles of Indian Point, I received a booklet from the Putnam County Bureau of Emergency Services entitled “Are You Ready?” What a question? Is anyone ever “Ready” for a Nuclear Power Plant Melt-down?

I don’t know how much this cost the taxpayers but it isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Experts have told us there is no way out if something happens at IP. According to surveys, bus drivers won’t show up at the schools to bus the children to evacua-tion centers; their first prior-ity will be their loved ones. Seniors and shut ins will be left behind. Chances are the Westchester County buses who are supposed to come into the contaminated area to pick people up at those evacuation “bus stop” signs will never show up. Panic, chaos and highways turned into parking lots will be the reality.

If you are one of the lucky ones who wasn’t home dur-ing the “incident,” the Price Anderson Act protects the Nuclear Power Plant owners from having to compensate home and business owners for making their properties radioactive for the next 500 years.

Now is our chance to shut IP before the NRC relicenses the plant. Get involved and help put an end to this cha-rade. Contact Riverkeeper or your local politicians and

do something! Entergy, the State and Federal Government can refit the plant for clean energy generat ion without endangering the lives of 20 million people who live within the 50-mile radius of Indian Point. Are that many people considered expendable? Be-sides loss of life, think 9/11 times 1,000,000.

What touches some people might be the question, what sort of economic disaster will an accident of this proportion cause the entire planet? Surely we can do something besides taking a KI pill or packing our toothbrushes and leaving our neighbors and pets behind. Sorry to be a downer but this gets to me more every year when these booklets arrive.

Kathleen KourieGarrison

Come to the Pollsand Vote

To the Editor:I’d like to encourage every-

one in Philipstown— no, I’m begging everyone—to come to the polls a week from next Tuesday and vote.

This isn’t a partisan plea: I just want the process to go as smoothly as possible for all .

November 3rd marks the first opportunity for all Phil-ipstown voters to try out the new voting apparatus after generat ions have used the old lever machines.

As a BMD (Ballot Marking Device) Inspector over the past year, I’ve already had the opportunity to answer many questions that have come up for vo ters in the process , beginning with last year’s general elections (when the new Sequoia Voting Machines were first made available for individuals with a disability) and again recent ly dur ing the primary when a percent-age of Republicans used the scanners for the first t ime.

Most of the questions were answered quickly and eas-ily, with hardly any voters needing to re-vote. Never-theless, the idea of having a chance for the rest of you (Philipstown voters) to try out the new procedures and scanners during an election with relatively few offices to be filled, rather than waiting for a mid- term or general election with a very full bal-lot to give it your first try, is something I really want to encourage (BEG) you to do.

Susan PeehlCold sPrinG

Support Our Lady of Loretto Bingo

To the Editor: As a volunteer bingo caller

and helper at the Thursday night Bingo sessions at Our Lady of Loret to church, i t disturbs me that they can’t seem to get a high attendance at these sessions to generate enough money to keep them floating on their own. I love coming down to play bingo because it is a way to escape from all of l i fe’s problems and just have some good fun and see other people as well.

There are certain people within the vi l lage who want to see this form of gambling shut down for whatever rea-son, but I am making a stand and I am writing this letter to generate enough support to keep this form of gambling going in the community. Why should we not have bingo played in Cold Spring? There are other communit ies that have bingo halls and people at tend them to have fun and hopefully win some money.

Recently, the church bingo group decided to start what is cal led bonus ball bingo. Every week there is a bonus bal l drawn af ter the ear ly bird game and whoever yells bingo with the bonus ball has a chance of winning extra money on top of the regular l is ted prize. This was done wi th the hope of drawing s o m e e x t r a s u p p o r t f r o m the community, but recent a t t endances have been so low that they can not make enough money to keep this running. I f the bonus bal l is given a chance to work, I think that the at tendances will increase and more people will come to bingo. You can’t just s imply stop running an even t wi thou t g iv ing i t a chance . B ingo i s a funny game where each week is a different situation and no one can create a perfect model to fol low.

Secondly, shutt ing bingo down simply sat isf ies those who hate bingo or who do not believe in giving it a chance. I feel that six months running is not long enough to shut i t down completely. Rather, you review the whole pro-gram and make the necessary changes (new games, etc.) to keep this going. I think that the bingo committee should review the games and maybe change i t up a bi t , or put in a new game completely.

F ina l l y, t he communi ty

needs to support this func-tion and go out to have a good time. If you never played bingo in your life, then come down one Thursday night and give it a try. Those who come every week to bingo enjoy playing the games and having fun, which is something that people need in these crazy times we live in. I like bingo because it is a form of therapy and you can win money. Please tell all of your friends to come to bingo and support the church. Let us all work together and keep this going for those to enjoy.

Charles E. Hustis IIIPhiliPstown

Those Who Oppose, Please Reconsider

To the Editor:When I walk through Grand

Central Terminal every week, and look up at the zodiac, I am reminded of how it was almost demolished (not so long ago) in an effort to improve the existing property, and how one brave and determined woman saved it.

Then, my mind wanders ove r t o t he wes t s ide o f Manhattan and I think of a building that wasn’t so lucky. Penn Station. Now, there sits the monst ros i ty known as Madison Square Garden. A black cylindrical mess. And I think—was it worth it? Gone are the columns and unique elaborate carvings that made it a beautiful building.

I then think back of my kindergarten days going to school at Tokeneke school in Darien CT. One day we read a Dr. Seuss story that left all the children in the class asking in bewilderment why? And how could’ve this happened? Some were crying. It was called The Lorax. For those of you who do not know or remember the story—google it.

In this climate (so to speak) of awareness of global fragil-ity, I’m surprised that there isn’t a little more sensitiv-i ty towards th is i ssue . To the citizens of Philipstown who oppose the new amend-ments to the zoning laws, I ask you to reconsider. If not for yourselves, for your children and their children. Ultimately, this law, if not implemented, is a small de-cision among us, but a big step in the wrong direction. I write this with profound respect to my countrymen.

Charles CornwellGarrison

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Candidates for town Board

RichaRd Shea Matthew MaStRantone

John Van taSSelBetty Budney JoSelle cunane teRRy PolheMuS

Monday, October 267:00–8:30pm

Haldane School CafeteriaDonuts & cider will be served

Four candidates vying for two seats:

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Fi rs t on the l i s t o f the Fall Prix Fixe dinner menu is the soup du jour, and it does not take the term “sea-sonal” l ight ly. By way of example, Gardiner points to h is but ternut squash soup that he emphatically states takes some seven hours to prepare. “Good things take time,” Gardiner points out, adding that when he strains the soup as the final step, “It comes out as smooth as velvet.” Ingredients include cardamom cream, cranberry re l i sh , pumpkin seed o i l , and pecans. Other appetizers range from escargot, gnocchi, and crab cakes to a fall or Caesar salad.

Entrees are every bi t as interest ing. In addi t ion to t he Tun i s i an po rk chops the autumn menu includes a catch-of-the-day, duck com-fi t , chicken breast s tuffed with spinach and provolone, filet mignon, a daily seafood selection, and a second variety of pork chop—lightly breaded and stuffed with red onion jam. The Prix Fixe dinner is $48 with a supplemental charge for some offerings.

Gardiner is proud of the fact that everything, from the bread, chutneys, and jellies on up, is made at the Inn and he has started an herb garden

on site for even more local flavor. Gardiner is also big on temperature. “I want people to have to wait five minutes to eat. I want their food served that hot.”

Wine lovers will be happy to know that the Inn’s wine list has received The Wine Spectator’s Award of Excel-lence.

While the Sunday brunch offers traditional favorites such as eggs , bacon, sau-sage, potatoes, and the like it doesn’t stop there. Gardiner uses each week’s menu to add to the buffet’s variety and appeal. “Nothing is frozen,” he sa id , point ing out that this week’s brunch included chicken piccata and ribs. And what would brunch be without a mimosa? Brunch comes in at $30.

Tavern Night features ca-sual dining on Thursday eve-nings, and to honor the Inn’s beginnings, the price is set at $17.61. The menu varies week to week. “People in the kitchen have fun on Tavern Night; i t’s not so formal,” Gardiner explained. Offer-ings may include f ish and chips, Italian specialties, or a Jamaican jerk burger. Soup could be French onion or a smoked scallop and corn chowder.

Tavern Night would be an appropriate time to try the small bar’s one draft beer of-fering—Fuller’s Extra Special Brew, an English ale. The bar exudes history, with its low ceiling, wide wooden-planked floor, and fireplace. It is one place that truly lives up to the description “cozy.”

Desserts are also made on site whether it’s sorbet trio du jour, caramelized pear bread pudding, black walnut buck-les, or banana crème brulée—and if the warm chocolate torte contained any more chocolate it would definitely be declared illegal.

General Manager Andrea Newell expresses great pride in her colleague Doug Gar-diner, pointing out that he is being nominated for a James Beard Rising Star Award, a high honor given to up-and-coming chefs under the age of thirty. Newell is also proud of the kind of service that the Inn has come to be known for. “We offer gracious and kind hospitality—whether it’s fine dining, Tavern Night, or Sunday brunch,” before ask-ing, “If you are going to do something, why not do your very best?”

Newell and Gardiner have been teamed up for just eight months but they are already seeing thei r combined ef -forts pay off. “It really means something to see the change,” Gardiner said, explaining that a few months ago the dining room may have had a handful of customers. “Last night we had fifty-six,” he said.

The Bird and Bott le has also begun hosting special events including a successful “professional singles” night. For $20, singles get to enjoy delicious hors’ d’oeuvres and champagne while socializ-ing. Newell says they could use some more men, while Gardiner says the odds are perfect—with women out-numbering men by about four to one. The next chance to change those odds wil l be on October 30, when singles are encouraged to come in costume.

The Bi rd & Bot t le a l so features a large festival tent which hosts numerous special events. The Putnam County Historical Society recently held a gathering that attracted 175 guests who enjoyed the outdoor atmosphere. The tent is available for bookings from

April through October and offe r s spec ia l menus and packages.

The inn offers two romantic rooms complete wi th i ron or four poster beds, antique furniture, and working fire-places. An additional room is available in a building adja-cent to the Inn.

And finally, a word about the inn’s friendly ghost, Em-i ly Warren, long-depar ted daughter of the Warren’s Tav-ern’s original owners. Several photographers have captured her “orb” in photos taken in the Inn. Guests book one particular room because of its reputation for being haunted. Doors lock mysteriously. Cur-tains open and close without explanation. Even Chef Doug Gardiner is a believer. “One midnigh t , Andrea , E la ine (owner Elaine Margolies) , and I were sitting in the din-ing room. A woman hollered ‘hello’ from upstairs. But no one was staying upstairs, it was empty.”

Perhaps Emily simply has a taste for excellent food. The Bird & Bottle Inn is located on Route 9, south of Route 301 and is open Thursday through Sunday.

decks “unsafe.” The violation requires that resident use of al l decks be discontinued, al l decks must be brought into code compliance within 30 days, and that emergency egress be provided during the course of repairs. Although the building inspector has meet with representatives of the condominium board and their attorney and engineer, a plan for corrective action has not yet been received.

The highlight of the Police Department report was the apprehension of four suspects in the robbery of village teens at the bandstand. The report praised the efforts of members of the department and the county sheriff’s department for the quick resolution. The report also mentioned that as a result of cooperation be-tween the police department and “younger residents of the village,” calls to the depart-ment for “disorder ly sub-jects” have decreased since the beginning of the summer. In other matters, the police department will have use of the county’s DWI car, which has a license plate reader. The plate reader will inform of-ficers if the driver is wanted in connection with a crime or if the car is stolen, as well as other related offenses.

Trustee and f i re depart -ment liaison Ralph Falloon reported that three bids have been received to perform re-medial work on the garage floor at the firehouse. All bids received complied with the terms of the bid proposal. The contract will be awarded to Chirico Masonry, which offered the low bid of $9,000. The other bids were $10,056 and $10,300.

Mayor Gallagher reported that street paving and side-walk repairs are continuing throughout the village, spe-cifically identifying comple-tion of the repaving of Cross Street. The mayor was also pleased to report that meet-ings between the Board of Elections, the Town of Phil-ipstown, and the Villages of

Cold Spring and Nelsonville have resulted in restoration of the North Highlands Fire House as a polling place.

Completion of unfinished business included renewal of the lease between the vil-lage and the Cold Spring Fire Department for use of the firehouse for a period of five years. In lieu of rent, fire pro-tection services are provided for the village. The board also elected, on advice of Village Attorney Steve Gaba, not to re-bid insulation work for the village hall and firehouse. In-stead, as the potential contract amount will be insufficient to require bidding, the board will negotiate with the sole respondent to the previous bid to perform the work. In a similar fashion, the board wil l negotiate with Pidala Electric (winner of the bid for electrical work) to add the water and sewer plants to their scope of work. The village is able to increase the amount of work contracted because the anticipated costs will fall within the grant mon-ies received by the village.

Belvedere Street resident Airinhos Serradas appeared before the board to discuss potential damage that may be caused by a tree near his house, possible pollution caused by deterioration of the roadway, and rainfall run-off.

In the first instance, Mr. Serradas disagreed with the opinion of the arborist that the tree in question does not propose any danger, maintain-ing that it poses a “significant risk.” Speaking for the board, the mayor affirmed their con-fidence in the arborist and his report. He told Mr. Ser-radas that dead limbs were removed two weeks ago. Mr. Serradas expressed his belief that this would be insufficient to remove the risk. Trustee Gordon Robertson suggested the village would seek a sec-ond opinion the next time the arborist is in the village.

Regarding possible pollu-tion and flooding caused by the deteriorated condition of

the street, Mr. Serradas read at length from informational materials he had gathered online, casting it as evidence of village responsibility. He also informed the board of thousands of dollars in repairs to his house caused by water runoff, and his intention to erect a block wall to prevent further water damage. Clearly frustrated and trying to gain some leverage, Mr. Serradas often prefaced his remarks with comments such as “I’m not making any threats, but . . .”

The board did not respond to these non-threats and often sympathized with his com-plaints. They did not disagree with any of the specific items raised relating to pollution or flooding. The Mayor reminded Serradas that while the village was ready and willing to make repairs, it could not proceed until Belvedere Street was deeded to the village by all the residents. “In fact,” the Mayor added, “there is money in the budget earmarked for repairs.” Attorney Gaba add-ed that all residents (of the street) would have to agree and that attorney costs would be incurred in the process and would have to be borne by those residents. Agreement by 100 percent of the residents has been a sticking point since the issue was brought before the board last April.

Mr. Serradas was not mol-lified by anything the board had to offer and the discus-sion went round and round until Mayor Gallagher finally asked, “What do you want the village to do?” Serradas asked that possible contami-nants be removed and that the road be “reduced” until such time as a permanent solution was arrived at. In response, Gallagher reaffirmed that the village could not do anything until the street was deeded to it. Discussion concluded on this note and as there was not other public comment, the board entered into executive session.

CS BOARD (Cont’d from front pg.)

Executive Chef Douglas Gardner prepares Sunday brunch.

Michael TurTon

Entrance to The Bird and Bottle Michael TurTon

BIRD & BOTTLE (Cont’d from front pg.)

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The Rober t sons process and bottle the honey in their basement. It appeared to be a straightforward and rela-tively simple process. The workshop cons is ted of an e l ec t r i ca l cen t r i fuge tha t spins the frames and allows the honey to be gathered into a container, and a sterilizer that heats up the honey to a temperature of 180 degrees where it is then poured into s ter i l ized honey jars . The F D A r e g u l a t i o n s f o r t h e honey business are not too stringent because honey con-tains a natural antibiotic, so it never spoils. It may become crystallized, but there is no harmful bacteria present in bottled honey.

Since the honey is the food for the baby bees that grow in the ce l l s , how are bee body parts and larvae kept from getting into the honey? “That is managed at the hive with specially sized screens that keep the queen bee out of the higher boxes in the stack,” Mr. Robertson said, “This prevents her from lay-ing eggs in the honey that is going to be harvested and pro-cessed. Since the worker bees (non-reproducing females) are much smaller than the queen, they can fit through the filter screen and work on making their honey anywhere in the hive.”

What about those smokers that beekeepers use? “The smoke makes the bees think that the hive is on fire, so they quickly stuff themselves with the honey that they fear may soon disappear,” Katie said. “Then the bees become sleepy (like we feel after a Thanksgiv ing d inner ) and lethargic. The smokers use co t ton p lugs for the fue l , something like the stuff that comes out of our home clothes dryer lint fil ters. It really calms the bees down, so that they don’t attack when the beekeeper opens the hive to gather honey or to inspect the hea l th o f the co lony. By the way, the smoke i s

never harmful to my bees. They soon recover from their drowsiness.”

K a t i e ’ s f a t h e r , G o r -don (a Cod Spring vil lage t rus tee) , l e f t to se t -up the smokers, while Katie and this reporter donned beekeeping suits and screened hats, feel-ing real ly safe and secure approaching one of the hives for inspection.

Yellow bottles are attached to the front of each hive. Ac-cording to Katie, the bottles “are filled with sugar water, to satisfy the bees thirst, so tha t they can spend more t ime searching for pol len, instead of wasting their en-ergy on finding water. It is a simple way to improve the honey output of each hive.” Katie puffed some smelly, thick white smoke from the smoker into the opening at the bottom of the hive, while many busy bees were com-ing and going through the entrance. After puffing lots more smoke all around the hive, she finally removed the roof. Inside, the bees were indeed ea t ing the i r honey hurriedly and seemed very calm. So Katie set to work to unglue the f i r s t f rame, while explaining that the bees secreted a substance called propolis, sealing holes in the hive and making the frames very sticky and difficult to remove. Using a special tool, she chopped away at the edges of the frame before she could detach one.

“We are looking for any problems in the colony be-fore the winter...like mites or viruses,” Katie said. “There are several medications that I could use on the hive to help the bees if they are in-fected. But, this is a very healthy hive.”

Katie said that she has al-ready moved the f i l te r ing screen to the top of the hive to allow the queen access to the honey in the boxes above her, l es t the queen s ta rve this winter.

“I am not going to harvest

their honey now,” Katie said, noting that it is too late in the season. “I always leave my bees lots of honey to eat throughout the winter”.

“This is why I would never buy honey f rom Canadian beekeepers,” Katie’s father said. “They have a practice of exterminating the whole colony of bees at this time of year and then raiding all the ‘winter honey’ from the hive for big prof i ts . Then they start all over again in the spring by buying new bees.”

Sur rounded by some o f her re-energized bees, Ka-tie pulled out another frame and scraped off a yel low-ish brown waxy substance that had formed between the frames in the box. “This is beeswax, a substance that is secreted from a gland at the top the bees’ foreheads that they use to make the octagonal cells that hold the honey.” She smiled and said, “No one can really explain how they do this, though!”

Pointing at the beeswax, Katie noted that “these frames weren’t close enough togeth-e r,” l eav ing room for the bees to build up their cells erratically instead of neatly on the frames. “This is such d isorganized cons t ruc t ion that these cells can’t even hold honey, a waste of time and energy for my bees ,” Kat ie sa id . “So we’l l jus t take this inside and melt i t down to make cand les o r maybe we’ll just sell i t as beeswax.”

The conversation turned to the downside of beekeeping. What about gett ing stung? Katie’s advice is to quickly swipe a credit card across the skin to release the bee and the stinger (if you try to pull the bee off, i t will only make things worse) and to have on hand a topical anal-gesic such as “After Bite” to relieve the pain of the sting. Asked if she ever had any trouble with bears raiding her hives, Katie replied, “Oh yes, we had such a problem at our vacation house in the Berkshires this summer that we had to move many of our beehives up in to my tree house! It has a spiral staircase, so it is impossible for the bears to get up there. The main honey raiders here in Cold Spring, though, are skunks.”

What about swarms of an-gry bees? “I was called over to Miss Connie’s Pre-School next door one day this sum-mer,” Katie reported, “There was a swarm of bees high up in a tree, buzzing loudly and making everybody nervous. So I got into my beekeeping gear, grabbed my smoker, a ladder, and my special bee co l lec t ion box and got to work. Once I captured the queen in the box, the drones and workers followed. They weren’t my bees, though. I could tell because they were a different color. I set them up in a hive at my house and they seem to be doing okay.”

Right now, “Katie’s Cold Spr ing Honey” i s so ld a t Highlands Baskets and the Country Goose at 115 Main S t r e e t a n d a t T h e M a i n Course, Etc at 39 Chestnut Street, in Cold Spring.

Katie talked about perhaps renting out her hives to area farmers for pol l inat ion of their fruit trees and crops. She also said that she may a l so cons ider becoming a supplier of honeybees and se t t ing up a la rge ap ia ry, with hundreds of hives, and then shipping her bees around

the world. Or, she could go “retail” and sell her honey a t farmers’ markets or on the internet.

Even with her limited mar-ket exposure, this has been a lucrative enterprise for Katie since she took over four years ago. “More important ly,” Mr. Robertson added, “My wife and I encouraged and suppor ted th i s because i t was an opportunity for Katie to learn a unique sk i l l o f her own.” Katie explained that jus t one heal thy hive could produce as much as 60 pounds of honey (about two cases of 8oz. jars) each year. She has bought lots of ski equipment from the profits of her business and is currently restoring her Dad’s old car, a 1970 Volkswagen “Bug ,” in an t i c ipa t ion o f her 16th birthday when she hopes to ge t he r d r ive r ’ s permi t . Because Kat ie i s a generous beekeeper, who never keeps a l l the honey for profit , she donates her “Katie’s Cold Spring Honey” to Haldane School’s Annual Ball & Fundraiser Silent Auc-tion, where her honey gift baskets are a b ig hi t , and to the Cape Cod Hospital , where her grandparents live.

Katie’s final advice to those who are may be interested in keeping bees:

1. Take a beekeeping course at Glynwood Farm, on Rte. 301, 1 ½ miles east of Rte 9, whose mission is to help communities in the Northeast save farming.

2 . Keep i t s imple : S tar t wi th one h ive . Cal l Kat ie and she will help you set up your first hive!

3. Be kind to your bees: Leave them enough honey to make it through the winter.

BEEKEEPER (Cont’d from front pg.)

Katelyn Robertson at work in her backyard aviary. Catherine Garnsey

“The smoke makes the

bees think that the hive is on fire, so they

quickly stuff themselves.”

Katelyn explains how smoking the bees works. Catherine Garnsey

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Get a new perspective on the conservat ion and edu-c a t i o n o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r t he pa rk s i n t h i s r eg ion . Dist inguished scientis t and conse rva t i on l eade r F red Koontz will speak on Thurs-day, October 29 at 7pm at D e n n i n g ' s P o i n t ( p a r t o f H u d s o n H i g h l a n d s S t a t e Park) in Beacon. This talk is a joint presentation of the Beacon Inst i tute for Rivers and Estuaries and the Friends of Fahnestock and Hudson Highlands State Parks.

The unique Hudson Hil ls and Highlands bioregion lies on both sides of the Hud-son River, but primari ly is in Westchester and Putnam count ies and inc ludes a l l of Fahnestock and Hudson

Highlands State Parks.A b o u t 7 8 5 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e

share the 936-square-mile area with a r ich diversi ty of habitats, both plant and ani-mal. Dr. Koontz is Executive Director of Teatown Lake Reservation and is joining fo rce s w i th o the r g roups and inst i tut ions across the bioregion to strengthen the p u b l i c ’ s m o t i v a t i o n a n d a b i l i t y b o t h t o c o n s e r v e biodiversi ty and to protect the ecological services that nature provides us

Arrive by 6:30pm to al-low t ime for a short walk in from the parking area and to enjoy refreshments. Space is l imited, so pre-registrat ion i s requi red a t www.BIRE.org/events .

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and His-toric Preservation Commis-sioner Carol Ash recently announced $3.3 million in grants for 32 trail-related projects around the state as part of the Federal Recre-ational Trails Program.

The ongoing rehabilitation of the Appalachian Trail as it winds through Bear Mountain State Park will be funded with support from two awards:

(1) Palisades Parks Con-servancy: $120,935

The Palisades Parks Con-servancy, Inc., in partner-ship with the NY-NJ Trail Conference and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, will construct a half-mile ac-cessible trail along the Bear Mountain summit , g iving access to an area that is not avai lable to persons with disabilities.

(2) New York-New Jersey Trail Conference: $150,000

The original section of the

Appalachian Trail, the na-tion's first National Scenic Trail, at Bear Mountain is also the most heavily used and degraded. As par t of a larger project to rebuild this historic trail to safely accommodate the hundreds of thousands of users annu-ally, this project will open a three-quarter-mile section originating behind the Bear Mountain Inn.

The grants will be used for such projects as creating new trails, improving trails, providing connections, and purchasing equipment. Trail development plans must em-phasize providing access for people with disabilities and minimizing environmental impact.

For more information about the Pal isades Parks Con-servancy and the Palisades Inters ta te Park parks and historic sites, please visit www.palisadesparksconser-vancy.org.

Noted landscape architect and popular Hudson Valley landscape h i s to r ian , S te -phen Yarabek will trace the development of the Wood-land Garden aes the t i c in the Hudson River Val ley a t Mani toga’s Th i rd An-nual Woodland Landscape Council Public Lecture this coming Saturday, October 24, at 5pm at the Desmond -Fish Library in Garrison. An engaging speaker, Yara-bek wil l show how Russel Wright transformed the na-t ive landscape into a mod-ernist icon at Manitoga and discuss the industr ial de-signer’s connections to the themes of Hudson Val ley landscape history.

Stephen Yarabek is known for his award-winning land-scape designs at Foundry Dock Park in Cold Spring, and the Tarrytown Confer-ence Center in Tarrytown. He planned historic land-scape restoration for Mont-gomery Place at Annandale-on-Hudson, and has devel-oped site histories and plans for Boscobel, Locust Grove, and o ther Hudson Val ley landmarks. As a consultant to Hudson River vi l lages, he has spearheaded land-mark legislation preserving historic landscapes, views, and r idge l ines a long the Hudson shorel ine.

He is the American land-scape a r ch i t ec t i nvo lved in the creat ion of the 200-mile Prague-Vienna Green-way. Yarabek a lso serves on the Hudson River Val-ley National Heritage Area M a n a g e m e n t C o m m i t t e e and is a member of Mani-toga’s Woodland Landscape Council .

“Ca l l ed the ‘ l andscape t h a t m a d e A m e r i c a ’ b y Congress in 1999, Hudson Valley estates and parks set the themes and practices for American landscape design across the count ry,” sa id Yarabek. “Archi tec ts and designers practicing here in

the 19th century, such as Al-exander Jackson Downing, Calvert Vaux, and Frederick Law Olms ted i n f luenced our assumptions about our relat ionship to nature and hence the design of our cit -ies and communit ies. Rus-sel Wright picked up their themes and rethought the same concerns for a mid-20th century world becom-ing modern and beginning to be aware of the role the environment plays in our quali ty of l i fe .”

T h e Wo o d l a n d L a n d -scape Council was formed by Manitoga Board mem-ber Katy Moss Warner in 2 0 0 7 . A g r o u p o f n o t e d l andscape des ign profes-sionals assembled through M o s s Wa r n e r ’ s a s s o c i a -t ions as Director of Land-scapes for Disney Florida for more than two decades and Pres ident Emer i ta of the American Horticultural Society, the Council gives direct ion to the restorat ion of Russel Wright’s National Historic Landmark gardens in Garrison. Moss Warner has he lped Mani toga de -velop six annual Volunteer Landscape Days that pro-vide learning opportunities about gardening with native plants , tours for nat ional organizat ions such as the Garden Club of America and the American Horticultural Society, college internships for New York Univers i ty and other schools, and the annual Woodland Landscape Council Public Lecture to help share Russel Wright’s vision.

The public is invited to the come by Manitoga from 2 to 4pm for a “Cocktai l Walk” prior to the lecture at the Library. Docents will be on hand to guide visi-tors through the landscape and share Wright’s design philosophy.

Visi t www.russelwright-center.org or call 424-3812 for more information.

The Highland Garden Club of Cold Spring will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 27, beginning at 1pm, at the Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library. The guest speaker is George Kummer, who will update participants on “What’s Happened to the Honeybees?”

Only members may attend the business meeting, but the public is invited to attend the

program, which will begin at 1pm.

Refreshments follow the pro-gram. Hostesses for October are Shelly Hauser, Mary Man-glass, and Virginia Tarleton.

The Highland Garden Club is a member of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc. and The National Garden Club, Inc. For more information, phone Marilyn at 265-4322.

The National Trust for His-toric Preservation presented its Trustees Award for Orga-nizational Excellence to the Garden Conservancy of Cold Spring. The group was one of 23 award winners honored by the National Trust during its 2009 National Preservation Conference in Nashville, TN. This special award goes to a nonprofit organization that has demonstra ted extraor-dinary achievement over a long period of time.

Founded just two decades ago as the nation’s first non-profit group dedicated to the preservation of exceptional gardens , the Garden Con-servancy has already had a t remendous impact on the way Americans appreciate and preserve historic land-scapes. The organization has invested nearly $9 million in the preservation of more than 90 impor tan t gardens and currently manages 16 major preservation projects across the nation. Three of the gar-dens under the Conservancy’s care, including the sunken gardens and rose garden of Steeple top, the New York home of famed Amer ican poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, are National Historic Land-marks, and nine are l is ted on the National Register of Historic Places.

Every year since 1995, the Conservancy’s famed Open Days have provided a rare oppor tuni ty to exper ience

h u n d r e d s o f g a r d e n s n o t usual ly avai lable for pub-l i c v i ewing . In add i t i on , the Conservancy’s lectures and symposia present new concepts and best practices in garden design, develop-ment, and preservation, while volunteer opportunities and internships offer participants a chance to gain first-hand experience.

A focus o f the Conser-vancy’s efforts is working, sometimes over a period of many years, to develop master plans, establish sound finan-c ia l p rac t ices , and c rea te interpretat ion programs to enable significant gardens to make the challenging transi-tion from private ownership to publ ic access . In addi -tion, intensive preservation projects have saved and re-stored treasures as diverse as Longue Vue, a New Orleans garden devastated by Hurri-cane Katrina; the Japanese-style Humes Garden in New York State; and the long-lost gardens of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.

“The Garden Conservancy is one of the first organiza-tions in the country to recog-nize that important gardens are an essential part of our i r replaceable her i tage—as much a part of the historic preserva t ion landscape as bui ldings, bi r th s i tes , and batt lefields,” said Richard Moe, president of the Na-tional Trust for Historic Pres-

ervation. “Equally important, this dedicated organization has encouraged us all to dis-cover, enjoy, and be inspired by some the nation’s most beautiful places.”

The National Preservation Awards are bestowed on dis-tinguished individuals, non-profit organizations, public agencies, and corporations whose skill and determination have given new meaning to their communities through preservation of our architec-tural and cultural heritage.

These efforts include citi-zen a t t empts to save and

ma in t a in impor t an t l and-marks; companies, and crafts-men whose work res tores the richness of the past; the v i s ion o f pub l ic o ff i c ia l s who suppor t p rese rva t ion projects and legislat ion in their communities; and edu-cators and journalists who help Americans understand the value of preservation.

The winners o f the Na-tional Preservation Awards will appear in the November/December issue of Preserva-t ion Magazine and onl ine at PreservationNation.org/awards.

National Trust Presents Trustees Award to Garden Conservancy

Garden Club Asks: What’s Happening to the Honeybees?

The Woodland Garden & Modernism: a Lecture

Ta l k s G i v e P e r s p e c t i v e o n Hudson Highlands ‘Bioregion’

B e a r M o u n t a i n Tr a i l Receives Federal Funding

Glynwood recently held its f i rs t ever “Boot Stompin’, Black Tie Barn Dance Gala.” Two hundred guests , outfi t-ted in creative ‘farmer black t ie ,’ were led by a candlel i t path to Glynwood’s newly constructed barn to enjoy a d inner o f Hudson Val ley-produced foods prepared by Main Course New Paltz. They danced to the lively tunes of

local band Uncle Wade and Motherlode and participated in a heated auction featuring foods grown and raised at Glynwood Farm. Proceeds from the Gala will help sup-port Glynwood’s programs to help save farming in the northeast .

For more information on Glynwood, visi t www.glyn-wood.org.

G l y n w o o d ’ s B a r n G a l a Draws Two Hundred Guests

Exterior of the Garden Conservancy’s offices on Route 9.

Annie Chesnut

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by hanging himself with a sweatshir t .

I n c o u r t p a p e r s , t h e Sinkovs admitted knowing of their son’s drug addic-t ion, test ifying that he had been s en t f o r r ehab i l i t a -t ion on two occasions. But the sui t maintained that the Sheriff’s Department failed to place the inmate on an a round- the-c lock 24-hour watch even after an evalua-t ion form completed during process ing de termined he was at r isk for suicide.

Manhattan attorney Lewis Silverman, who represented Pu tnam Coun ty, s a id t he case was settled “in the best interest of al l part ies , with no admission of l iabil i ty on the county’s part .”

S inkov’s a t to rney, K im Berg, agreed the sett lement was agreeable to both par-t ies: “No amount of money

wil l bring back my cl ient’s son. We want to ensure that t ragedies of this type don’t happen again.”

Silverman did not divulge the amount his c l ient had se t t l ed fo r, howeve r, t he amount will be made public once the county legislature approves i t . The a t torney no ted tha t insurance wi l l cover the cost of the set t le-ment.

Sinkov also set t led with Sheriff Donald Smith and correct ions s taff members Sgt . Louis Lapolla and Of-ficer Joseph Vasaturo, who b o t h p r o c e s s e d S p e n c e r Sinkov at the correct ional fac i l i ty. County At torney Jennifer Bumgarner said the county’s insurance would be paying their port ion of the set t lement, as well .

by Michael Brendan Dougherty

New York’s Conservative Party is an institutionalized rebe l l ion . The pa r ty was founded by J. Daniel Mahoney, Charles E. Rice, and Charles Edison out of frustration with the Republican Party, then dominated in New York by the progressive wing. Putnam Conservative Party chairman Jim Maxwell recalled, “It was originally a spinoff of the Republican party when Rock-efeller was governor. You had some Democrats from the city join, but mostly it was angry Republicans.”

The party made its biggest splash in its first decade by running William F. Buckley, Jr., for Mayor of New York City in 1965. Buckley, the erudite founder of the conservative journal National Review, ran to take away votes from lib-eral Republican John Lindsay, who later became a Democrat. Buckley’s campaign was a kind of right-wing spoof on the liberal establishment. During a debate he refused to use his own rebuttal time, saying, “I am satisfied to sit back and contemplate my own former eloquence.” He received 13 percent of the vote, and Lind-say won anyway.

But the joke became much more serious in 1970, when Bi l l ’ s bro ther James won a seat in the United States Senate on the Conservative l ine . In a three-way race, James Buckley received a plurality of votes and served one term before being de-feated by Democrat Daniel

Patrick Moynihan. Since 1970, the party has ex-

erted a gravitational influence on the New York GOP. In 1994, Republican candidate George Pataki won the governorship by fewer than 200,000 votes. He had won over 300,000 votes on the Conservat ive

party l ine which endorsed him. Pataki, a moderate con-servative to that point in his career, immediately began delivering to his important constituents on the right. He signed into law a death penalty measure that had received 18 consecutive vetoes from his predecessors, and imple-mented a “no-parole” policy for violent offenders. He also signed a hiring freeze and a freeze on regulations his first day in office.

Throughout the ‘90s, the Conservative party promoted positions on crime that were in line with the agendas of Governor Pataki and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. But the party promoted much tougher lines on social issues.

To this day the party stands for ending abortion and has campaigned vigorously for informed consent and parental notification laws. The party also supports the deportation of illegal aliens and has agi-tated against amnesty.

In Putnam County the Con-servative party has occasion-ally been as instrumental in electing a candidate as the State party was in the ‘90s. In 2001, the Conservative Party backed Don Smith for Sheriff and beat an incum-bent, Republican-endorsed Robert D. Thoubboron. In 2007, the Conservative line provided the margin of vic-tory for Carmel Supervisor (and Republican) Kenneth Schmitt.

Maxwell said that the Con-servative party still stands “for less regulation, smaller government, and less gov-

ernment spending,” but added that he guards his par ty’s independence. The party still endorses Democrats, like leg-islator Sam Oliverio. And it once endorsed Lillian Jones, an active Democrat. “She was the most qualified at the time,” explained Maxwell.

Maxwell said that he would like to see his party continue to endorse “the right candi-dates.” He said that in the coming years the Conserva-tive party will fight to keep taxes from increasing. “There is a lot of fat in the budgets,” Maxwell said, “I don’t like to see people lose their jobs, but there are positions we’d like to see eliminated. There has been a bat t le , and the legislature is doing okay, but

we think they can do better.” The Conservative Party has

maintained about 2,000 vot-ers in Putnam County during the past three presidential election. Though the party is long past its glory days in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, when it received national attention,

and f ielded candidates for Washington, the party can exercise a decisive influence in close elections between Democrats and Republicans close to home. “And often enough, we come out on top,” Maxwell said with a smile.

Buckley’s Party Still a Factor in NY

Sheriff:

Donald Smith*Legislator District 1:

Vincent Tamagna*Legislator District 4:

Mary F. Conklin*Legislator District 7:

Daniel G. Birmingham*Carmel Supervisor:

Kenneth R. Schmitt*Carmel Councilman:

Greg EllnerFrank D. Lombardi

Kent Supervisor:

Katherine M. Doherty*Kent Town Clerk:

Yolanda D. Cappelli*Kent Town Justice:

J. Peter Collins*Kevin L. Douchkoff

Kent Councilman:

Thomas F. MaxsonKarl Rohde*

Kent Receiver of Taxes:

Jean Johnson*Kent Highway

Superintendent:

Paul C. Roncallo

Patterson Town Justice:

John E. KingPatterson Councilman:

Ernest J. Kassay*Ginny Nacerino*

Patterson Receiver of Taxes:

Sally Parfitt*Putnam Valley Supervisor:

Robert V. Tendy*Putnam Valley Town Justice:

Gina Capone*Putnam Valley Councilman:

Wendy M. Whetsel*Jacqueline Annabi

Putnam Valley Highway

Superintendent:

Earl C. Smith*Southeast Town Justice:

Gregory L. Folchetti*Richard Vercollone* (appt’d)

Southeast Councilman:

Robert S. CullenElizabeth Hudak

Southeast Highway

Superintendent:

Kevin J. Palmer*

*Incumbents

On The BallotConservative Party

Maxwell said that the Conservative party still stands

“for less regulation, smaller government, and less government

spending,”

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by Eric Gross

Putnam County has record-ed i t s f i rs t case of H1N1 influenza.

Health Commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler brought the news to members of the Put-nam Legis la ture’s Heal th Committee last week.

Dr. Amler said a child was d iagnosed wi th the H1N1 strain of influenza by a local pediatrician and the case was confirmed by the New York State Health Department. Dr. Amler also advised commit-tee members Sam Oliverio, Vincent Tamagna, and Tony Fusco, along with Legislators Mary Conklin, Dan Birming-ham, Dini LoBue, and Tony Hay, who were also in at-tendance, that an “influenza-like illness cluster has been reported in the elementary school where the H1N1 con-firmation was made.”

Dr. Amler did not identify the school or its location. She said there was “another speci-men” pending in a teenager in a different school district.

According to the commis-

sioner, New York State is currently experiencing more cases of H1N1 influenza than seasonal f lu. No pediatr ic deaths have been reported in New York State through last week but since September 1, the state has recorded three adult deaths—two between the ages of 18 and 24 and one over the age of 65.

In Putnam County, health o ff ic ia l s have vacc ina ted more than 1,300 residents and health care workers against seasonal flu, with a clinic scheduled for today (Thurs-day) at Carmel Fire Depart-ment headquarters. A clinic was also held on Monday in Garrison.

Dr. Amler told the lawmak-ers that the Health Depart-ment will be receiving free seasonal flu vaccine from the state in the next week and will be sponsoring large-scale points of distribution in both the Brewster School District and Haldane School District.

H1N1 vaccine has begun trickling into the county. Dr. Amler said once enough vac-cine is available it will be

distributed.Meanwhile the Centers for

Disease Control confirmed this week that 37 states are reporting widespread flu ac-tivity with 16 pediatric deaths reported—eleven during the past week—bringing the U.S. total to 92.

The number of H1N1 re-lated illness from September 1 through last week nationwide has resul ted in more than 16,500 hospitalizations.

Dr. Amler has stressed that pregnant women should get H1N1 vaccine when available, along with young children and adults with chronic illness such as asthma, chronic lung disease, and heart disease.

The commissioner said se-nior citizens will not receive the H1N1 vaccine initially: “We are concerned about vac-cinating those who are most at risk, and the seniors don’t seem to be having an issue with this strain of flu.”

Information is avai lable at the Health Department by calling the Influenza hotline at 845-278-6130.

Putnam Records First Case of H1N1

response to its request. “If a referendum is appropriate at that t ime, we’ll go through a referendum,” Tendy says.

Villanova points out that the grant request filed with the federal government al-ready certifies that the town has the capabil i ty to “pay the nonfederal share of [the] project cost,” which is nearly $4 million. “It is unconscio-nable in these economic times to try to sneak through two potential projects that can bankrupt Putnam Val ley,” Villanova said.

“The Town Hall and the Fire Department buildings, certainly within the next ten to twenty years, will need to be renovated or rebuilt .” Tendy maintained. “If they explore a new fire depart-ment building, they would give their old building to the town hall (and courthouse).

“We would save money by renovating a building that already existed. As it stands now, we have no s to rage space. We have floods in our basement every time we have a rainstorm. This is a very small building. My office is the size of a walk-in closet. We have to plan ahead.”

Villanova maintains that she i s a t i re less advocate for the taxpayer, acting in the best interests of Putnam Valley, without heeding the proprieties of Putnam Val-

ley’s politics-as-usual. “Just for looking into what they are doing. He [Tendy] is calling

me a conspiracy theorist ,” Villanova said.

Tendy maintains that the F i r e Depa r tmen t and the Town Board have been act-ing responsibly. “We think in terms of 10-30 years down the road, she thinks of this minute,” Tendy said.

“To say that we shouldn’t plan to change these facili-ties in the future would be a dereliction of our respon-sibili t ies,” he added. “She grabs someth ing , t r i e s to make everybody look bad, comes up with a conspiracy, and wants an investigation. It’s not responsible”

VILLANOVA (Cont’d from front pg.)

Putnam Valley Town Board candidate Patty Villanova.

P u t n a m Va l l e y To w n Supervisor Robert Tendy

“This i s a very smal l

bui ld ing. My of f ice i s the

s ize o f a walk- in c loset . We

have to p lan ahead.”

ro b e rt te n d y

SETTLEMENT (Cont’d from front pg.)

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by Eric Gross Plans to close Watson Phar-

maceuticals , one of Putnam County’s largest employers, con t i nue a s t he company has announced a new round of layoffs . Watson, which i s t ransfer r ing i t s Carmel workload to Goa, India, as wel l as two US locat ions, will be leaving Putnam next year and county officials are hopeful that a new tenant can be found for the corpora-t ion’s 110,000-square-foot Carmel plant .

Forty-two of the 155 em-p loyees s t i l l a t t he p l an t along Stoneleigh Avenue in Carmel received pink sl ips advising their positions will be terminated on Dec. 31. The latest round of layoffs follows the dismissal of more than 200 workers in Carmel last summer.

Kevin Ba i ley, p res iden t of the not-for-profit Putnam County Economic Develop-ment Corpora t ion , an t ic i -pa te s the 27 -ac re Carmel si te , consist ing of a manu-facturing plant as well as a distribution center in South-eas t , tha t c losed over the summer would be available for viewing by potential buy-ers during the f irs t quarter of 2010.

L e g i s l a t o r M a r y E l l e n Odell of Carmel, who last year served as chairwoman of the Economic Development

Committee, told the PCN&R: “For every door that closes another one opens. Putnam r ecen t l y w as aw ar d ed an Empi re Zone . wh ich wi l l a lso help t remendously to a t t rac t a new company to the si te . I feel terr ible for the employees who wil l be losing their jobs, but Putnam mus t remain pos i t ive and confident s ince this locale is most desirable to locate a large company.”

Bailey addressed the Em-pire Zone designation: “We are talking about new jobs and business being at tract-ed to the county, receiving substant ia l tax benef i ts . I am convinced the Empire Zone will allow us to attract a new corporat ion into the Watson Building when the time comes since the Carmel s i t e i s a l r eady zoned fo r industr ial use.”

Paul Bisaro, president and CEO of Watson, explained his company’s decision to close the Carmel plant , cut-ting more than 600 jobs, was extremely diff icult : “Given the current facilities, the ca-pacity of those facilities, the technology used today, and the age of our plant , Carmel was the logical choice.”

Bisaro sa id manufactur-ing would be relocated to exist ing plants in Corona, CA, Dav ie , FL , and t o a new fac i l i ty tha t recent ly opened on the wes t coas t

of India. The si te in Goa is one of three Watson faci l i-t ies that wil l shoulder the manufacturing load once the Carmel si te closes.

Wa t s o n s p o k e s w o m a n Pat ty Eisenhauer sa id the Carmel plant manufactures capsules and tablets of ge-neric drugs: “At one t ime, the plant manufactured more than 50 different products but that number has declined substantial ly as our opera-t ions have shif ted to other faci l i t ies .”

Putnam Legislature Chair-man Tony Hay of Southeast said the departure of Watson Pharmaceuticals was “upset-ting for county government. Many of those employees shop locally, which wil l re-sult in a further decline in sales tax revenue. America has to wake up . Produc ts are being outsourced over-seas in large numbers. We

f ind ourse lves behind the eight bal l when i t comes to i l l ega l a l i ens i n f i l t r a t i ng the U.S. Once again a lack of American ingenuity has resulted in a large company deciding to manufacture i ts product in a far off land for a much cheaper rate.”

Ironically, Uncle Sam is as-sisting Watson with its move to India , s ince employees now qual i fy for a spec ia l package of job training and other benefi ts as a result of the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Package—an ini-tiative expanded in February under the stimulus program.

The stimulus spending plan covers 100 percent of qual-i f i ed r e loca t ion expenses p lus a lump sum payment of $1,500 to employees who decide to relocate halfway around the globe.

Eisenhauer said her com-pany had o ff e r ed j obs t o employees who wish to work at Watson’s faci l i t ies both in and outside of the U.S.

The company announced i ts Carmel shutdown in i ts four th quar te r 2007 earn -ings release when the f irm reported a loss of $489 mil-l ion the yea r be fo re . Ac-cording to county, town, and school records, Watson paid $299,000 in municipal and school taxes in 2008.

Outsourcing to India Contributes to Demise of Carmel’s Watson Plant

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The Putnam Valley Town Boa rd began i t s Oc tobe r 14, 2009, meeting with two public hearings, both about issues related to the health and well-being of the town’s lakes and watershed. The first proposed local law would mandate septic system pump-outs on properties adjacent to lakes and watershed areas to prevent additional pollution of these sensitive environ-menta l a reas . The second proposed law would ban the use of fertil izers containing phosphorous, which causes excessive algae growth that chokes the lakes . In bo th cases, non-compliance would be met with a fine.

Supervisor Tendy opened the hearing by acknowledg-ing a le t te r f rom Stephen Axinn, president of the Lake Oscawana Civic Association, and asking how he would like to proceed. Mr. Axinn indicated that inclusion of the letter into the minutes of the meeting would be sufficient, but under prodding by Mr. Tendy, addressed the board d i r ec t ly. Ax inn began by commenting on a distinction made be tween year- round and seasonal use. The draft proposes that sept ic tanks for year-round residences be pumped out every three years, and seasonal residences ev-ery five years. His conten-tion is that an enforceable definition of year-round and seasonal will be difficult, at best, and that the three-year cyc le should app ly to a l l lots in the designated zones. Long-time resident Rose Lee David concurred, adding that the larger occupancy seen at seasonal homes, especially during the summer, is , on average, equivalent to year-round occupancy.

Axinn also suggested that upon pump-out the sept ic systems should be tested to insure proper operation. This could be a dye test or probe, but in no case should it re-quire that any lawn be dug

up. Lake Oscawana Advisory Committee member Kathleen McLaughlin added that the proposed law should require pump-out and testing by a l i censed f i rm. The boa rd seemed amenable to these suggestions.

Next to speak was long-time resident and outspoken town board candidate Patty Villanova, who read a pre-pared statement. The essence of her presentation was that the proposed local law was unenforceable and that there are already laws on the books to protect the lakes. This be-ing the case, she asked “Why should we bother?” Ms. Vil-lanova’s remarks also identi-fied the town as the “worst polluter.” As evidence, she cited recently-installed pip-ing around Lake Oscawana which “directs storm water runoff, with all its pollutants, direct ly into the lake.” In conclusion Vil lanova sug-gested the town take a page from New York City, which has bought properties sur-rounding i t s watershed to prevent development and the consequen t poss ib i l i ty o f pollution.

Supervisor Tendy, who has a s tormy history with Ms. Villanova, responded that he had “many disagreements” with her statements. One in particular was her contention that the town intentionally pollutes the lake. Referring to the piping mentioned by Villanova, Tendy stated that the reality was exactly the opposite. “The pipes were put in” he said, “to sequester run off . . . using catch basins” to help alleviate the problem.

Moving back to the pro-posed law, Town Attorney Bill Zutt commented that the intent of the law is to cover all existing and possible fu-

tu re condi t ions regard ing impaired bodies of water. Based upon comments made, Mr. Zutt expressed a desire to revisit and refine the wording of portions of the law. The board agreed, and Supervisor Tendy said that all public and board comments would be evaluated and incorporated into the next draft version. The board would like to have the law enacted by the end o f 2009 so tha t the town can “gear up” for the first g roup of a ffec ted proper-t ies next spring. The next public hearing will be held in advance of the November 18 workshop meeting.

The board next moved to t he pub l i c hea r ing abou t banning fert i l izer contain-ing phospha tes . Ka th leen McLaughl in , on behal f of the LOAC, was the first to comment. Referring to a dis-tinction made between appli-cation to lawns and indoor use, she suggested that all uses should be included ad it would be very difficult to sort out who was using which kind of fertil izer and where. McLaughlin next addressed references in the law to mini-mum distances. There may be a possible conflict with wetlands ordinances, which identify a safe distance at 100 feet. “How would these work together?” she asked. Last, she suggested that medallions might be given to residenc-es that are phosphate-free. Used in other counties, these could be a positive incentive.Steve Axinn agreed with Ms. McLaughlin’s comments. He said that he, too, would not wish the new law to undercut existing wetlands standards and suggested the proposed law “adopt and incorporate” t hose s t anda rds . He a l so pointed out that the current

draft does not speak to com-mercia l appl ica tors which may not res ide in Putnam Valley nor buy their fertil-izers there. As a remedy to this potential loophole, Axinn requested that commercial applicators be specifically identified and also subject to penalties for use.

C o u n c i l m a n G e n e Ye t -ter asked Axinn’s opinion about how the town might enforce the law. His initial response was that neighbor complaints would need to be relied on to identify pos-sible use of banned fertilizer products. “Enforcement” he said, “will not be a walk in the park.” He went on to say that whatever can be done to reduce the problem will “make a difference.” Axinn also pointed out that state and federal agencies will be more inclined to provide funding to assist with enforcement if Putnam Valley demonstrates its commitment via this law. Mr. Yetter stil l seemed con-cerned that finger pointing could form the basis for en-forcement. Supervisor Tendy did not appear as concerned, and weighed in, saying that “public education will go a long way” towards preven-tive enforcement. The board discussed various methods of public education, including new signage for the entire town identifying it as a “no phosphate area” and adding the new rules as a “crawl” on local cable channel 20 every once and a while.

As with the proposed law d i s c u s s e d e a r l i e r, p u b l i c and board comments will be evaluated and incorporated into the next draf t , which will also be presented at the November 18 meeting.

Putnam Valley Public Weighs in on Proposed Local Laws

Ironical ly, Uncle Sam is ass is t ing Watson wi th i t s move to

India

“He that goes a borrowing

goes a sorrowing.”Benjamin Franklin

protection zone in the Route 9 business corridor. Additionally, the board will soon commission an economic impact study. “If this turns out to be a complete economic disaster,” Shea said, then the town won’t go through with it. The town has not yet decided who will undertake the economic impact study, which, among other things, should provide an estimate of what the probable tax increase would be.

The deputy supervisor said he was pleased that citizens are now involved in the process, but cautioned against those who would ascribe bad motives to the town board. The zoning review committee developed the plan, spent three years crafting their proposal. All of their proceed-ings were open to the public.

Shea acknowledged that some changes should be made to the zoning proposals. He said that neither he nor Budney received the document until August, and even now, “I can’t refer to sec-tions of it myself and I’ve been into this for weeks.” Shea added that even those on the zoning review committee, including the planning consultant, had concerns about the document.

“Should the document have come out [when it did]? I don’t know,” he said.

“I feel like I’ve been up-front about this,” Shea added. “We’ve had piecemeal zoning for years. [Everyone should] sit down with the document and get familiar with [the new document].”

It was only in recent months that sizeable crowds have showed interest in the propos-als. In September, the town hall was inundated with Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests for copies of the com-prehensive plan draft and of the zoning proposals. At the time, town clerk Tina Merando said in her 17 years there she had never seen that much interest in a document. Shea suggested that those filing FOIL requests might have been a bit over-dramatic, noting that there was no need to file such a request.

Shea said that the town board

will meet in the coming weeks with the planning consultant Joel Russell. At that point, the board will modify the docu-ment and then the maps will be redrawn.

Russell, a 1972 alumnus of Harvard, is a Massachusetts-based urban planner and land use attorney who has been hired by Philipstown as a consultant during the redrafting of the town’s comprehensive plan.

“[Joel Russell] clearly has a position about what he does; his website reflects his position about how the world should be,” said a man in the audience. “How do you find the middle ground when you’re working with someone who thinks a certain way? You’re getting one-sided advice.”

Shea responded by saying the planning consultant is very intelligent and balanced. But the interlocutor was not convinced.

“Can you rely on him (Rus-sell) to provide the best direc-tion?” he asked. “[His website] smacks of activism.”

“When you hire a consultant, you’re looking for a view,” Shea said. “I think [Russell] is pretty balanced. I think he’s a good adviser.”

Also at the meeting, Shea spoke about a “green flyer” that has been circulating in some area businesses. He described it as a “thumb in the eye,” and said it contained inaccurate statements about the proposed zoning changes. He underscored the need for civility and said, “If this sort of thing continues with green sheets flying around, it doesn’t help us.”

When a man asked Shea about the logistics of the “open space overlay,” Shea said, “You’re getting into specifics. We’re here to discuss process. I can’t do it without the whole board.”

Later on, when another resi-dent spoke of overlays in a more general matter, Shea said he couldn’t comment because “You’re talking in generalities,” though he added, “In general, I will support overlays.”

Some expressed concern that changing the status quo will only make it more difficult

for citizens to expand their businesses.

A man in the audience who said he is trying to change the pitch of his roof said residents currently must meet relatively onerous requirements if they seek to make changes to their homes and businesses. “If this level of being denied exists already, how will it be in the future?”

Shea saw it differently, saying that in the current system, “a lot of people think they have more rights than they really have,” which, in the previous discussions, disturbed some because they thought they had the right to do with their prop-erty whatever they chose. “The rights you have today these are the rights I’m going to push for going forward,” Shea said.

Seeking to illustrate some of the broader regulatory confu-sion residents currently face, Shea cited the county depart-ment of health. “We (Philip-stown) lose home rule to the board of health,” he said. “They approve things that shouldn’t be approved,” such as some septic systems in Continental Village.

Tyler Gagnon, an executive member of the Concerned Citizens of Philipstown, said in his introduction that many members of the group “work late and don’t have time to go to meetings.” The group was formed, he said, to keep property owners and business proprietors informed of changes in the law that could affect the value of their properties and their quality of life. He en-couraged all present to be civil while asking their questions, and there were no disruptions during the evening. “We are about protecting property we have purchased,” Gagnon said.

The night ended with a cliff-hanger question. A woman in the audience, expressing the populist sentiment in the room, asked whether the zoning can be brought to referendum. Shea said, no, that is not possible under New York State law.

“Is there any way of getting around that?” she asked.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 THE PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS AND RECORDER Page 13

by Charlot te Rowe and Pete Salmansohn

S t u d e n t s f r o m H a l d a n e High School and the Garrison Union Free School waded i n t o t h e H u d s o n R i v e r ’ s cold currents in the name of science on the brisk but sunny morning of October 8. With support from local conservation organizations, they joined more than 3,000 students and educators sam-pling the estuary’s waters at 61 si tes from Manhattan to Troy as part of the New York Sta te Depar tment of Env i ronmenta l Conse rva -tion’s seventh annual “A Day in the Life of the Hudson River.”

Phil ipstown’s young sci-entis ts took water samples, caugh t f i sh and r eco rded their impressions of every-thing from shipping traffic to mud in order to provide the DEC with a biological, chem-ical, and physical “snapshot” of the r iver that day. Their f indings wil l contr ibute to researchers’ understanding of the r iver over t ime and will soon be shared statewide through a database organized by Columbia Univers i ty’s Lamont-Doherty Observa-tory and the DEC.

At the Garrison Landing, s o m e 3 1 G U F S s e v e n t h -graders, many wearing wad-ers and carrying clipboards, gathered for their hands-on science lesson. Their team was led by Kevin Keegan, the Middle School Science teacher, and first-grade par-ent Cathy Bakker, a cert i-f ied teacher and natural is t with the Hudson Highlands Land Trust. The Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary’s Rich Anderson and Charl ie Wilkerson con-t r ibuted both the i r exten-sive expert ise and research equipment for the Garrison students to use in their field work.

Upr ive r a t L i t t l e S tony Point , about 18 seniors in Mark Patinella’s AP Biology

class set up their own data collect ion stat ions with di-rection from HHLT educators Pete Salmansohn and Lisa Mechaley, with assis tance from Haldane parent Jeanne Fitzgerald. Educators from the Taconic Outdoor Educa-t ion Cen te r were a l so on hand and provided valuable expert ise.

Tidal currents were mea-sured by t rack ing br igh t -ly-colored oranges pi tched in the water and, with as-sistance from the Garrison Land ing Assoc i a t i on and the Gar r i son Yach t C lub , students performed a battery of chemical tests on sedi-ment samples to get a sense of the human impact on the r iver. “I l iked going in the mud and doing the project,” noted GUFS seventh-grader Soibhan Quigley. “I l iked actually seeing what we’re learning instead of reading about someone else doing it.”

Bo th g roups se ined the river with large nets. Among the more than a dozen spe-c i e s o f f i s h d o c u m e n t e d were white perch and spot-tail shiners and a freshwater smallmouth bass. The influ-ence of sa l twater f lowing in from the Atlantic Ocean was revealed by the pres-ence of scuttling blue crabs, t ranslucent bay anchovies and a tough-looking summer f lounder. “ I t ’s the beauty of the t idal system and the currents that you could get a freshwater f ish and a sal t-water f ish in the same net , and the kids got to see that,” noted Mrs. Bakker. Although most students were not sure of the identi t ies of the f ish t hey were ca t ch ing , t hey soon l ea rned how to t e l l one from the other using a special ‘ f ish key’ booklet deve loped by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater or-ganizat ion.

The day’s results will be posted on the observatory’s website at www.ldeo.colum-bia.edu/edu/k12/snapshotday

Phil ipstown Students Advance State Study of the Hudson River

GARRISON SEVENTH GRADERS: Front row from left to right: students Poppy London, Soibhan Quigley, Emmanuelle Palikuca, Margaret Dupree, Isabella Adler, Allison Clark, Paige O'Toole, and Jordan Erickson. Back row from left to right: Science Teacher Kevin Keegan; student Christopher Bohl; parent and HHLT educator Cathy Bakker, local outdoor educations..

HALDANE AP BIO STUDENTS: Kneeling: Katlyn Mastrantone; First row: Christian Callaghan, Taylor Downey, Angela Claffey, Tatiana Gilmartin, Hannah Diebboll, Grace O’Malley, Marisa Nairn, Bradley Dillon; Back Row: John Nakhla, Tyler O’Toole, Liam Gallagher-Siudzinski, Claire Koepke, Max Mueller, Zak Kane-Seitz, Ben Thomas, James Dain, Biology teacher Mr. Patinella.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 THE PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS AND RECORDER Page 14

Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Town of Kent man on charges of falsely reporting an incident and providing a false writ-ten statement after the man f led the scene of a t raff ic accident and then reported his car stolen.

On October 15, 2009, at 2:44am, Deputy Sheriff Ed-ward Kennedy responded to a report of a stolen vehicle at the Xtra Mart convenience store at 89 Gleneida Avenue in the Town of Carmel. Upon arrival, the deputy was ap-proached by James M. Viola, 20, of Kent. Mr. Viola reported

to the deputy that he had left his vehicle unattended in front of the convenience store while he went inside, and that when he exited the store, the vehicle was gone. Mr. Viola provided a writ-ten statement to the deputy in which he reported the car stolen.

At that point, officers from the Town of Carmel Police Department located Mr. Vi-ola’s vehicle unattended at the intersect ion of Routes 6 and 52. An investigation revealed that Mr. Viola had been involved in a one-car collision, had left the scene of

the accident and then falsely reported the vehicle as stolen. The deputy arrested Mr. Viola and charged him with Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree and with Making a Punishable False Written Sta tement , misdemeanors . The defendant was released to the custody of his mother pending a November 16, 2009 appearance in the Town of Carmel Justice Court to an-swer the charges.

If found guilty of the misde-meanor charges, the defendant could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 for each charge.

Learn about the plans for the emergency stabilization of the former Bannerman Resi-dence on Pollepel Island. On November 5, 2009 at 7pm, the Bannerman Castle Trust will host a public will host a public presentation of The Bannerman Island Residence Historic Structures Report and Stabilization Design at Beacon Institute’s Center for Environ-mental Innovation and Educa-tion, located on Denning’s Point in Beacon. Michael Dev-onshire and Kurt Hirschberg of Jan Hird Pokorny Associates will discuss historic and cur-rent photos and architectural drawings and details that will reveal the construction history of the Bannerman Residence and their plans to protect it from further deterioration. The presentation will be a great opportunity to get a first hand look at our plans for Bannerman Island and will also provide the public with an opportunity to get involved with the project.

Jan Hird Pokorny Associates of New York City was original-ly retained by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc. to prepare an

Historic Structures Report for the Bannerman Residence. The report was funded through a generous grant from the Dyson Foundation and was a critical first step to amass data on the history and construction of the building in preparation for stabilization planning.

Subsequently, the Banner-man Castle Trust, Inc. received a matching Environmental Pro-tection Fund Challenge Grant for $350,000 to stabilize the Bannerman Residence. The Trust has raised over $220,000 and needs to raise additional funding of at least $130,000 to realize the potential total of $700,000 for design and construction, including the matching grant. Current spon-sors for the project are Senator Steven Saland, who provided $50,000 for masonry repairs; the Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, which donated $100,000; as well as many private foundations and individual donors.

Jan Hird Pokorny Associates and their engineering team partner, Old Structures, were selected by the Trust to design the emergency stabilization

for the residence. Their sta-bilization design, which will be described at the presenta-tion, has been approved by the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, and it is hoped that work will begin in the spring of 2010 following an upcoming open selection pro-cess to retain a construction contractor. Jan Hird Pokorny Associates is a full-service architecture firm focused on the preservation of historic buildings.

Supporters of the preser-vation of Bannerman Castle may make donations for this project online by going to www.bannermancastle.org. The structures on Bannerman Island are in dire need of sta-bilization and contributions will help to save Bannerman Castle, a unique Hudson Val-ley Landmark.

There is limited seating for the Bannerman Residence pre-sentation. Please call Neil Caplan for a reservation at 845-234-3204, or email your seating request to neilcaplan@aol.com.

A s s e m b l y w o m a n G a l e f hosts founding member and co-chair of Kent Fiscal Watch Joyce Mitchell and the Ossin-ing School Board’s Citizen’s Budget Advisory Committee member Daysi Briones on her television program Speak Out with Sandy Galef. Briones and Mitchell discuss their work

with grassroots community groups and the reforms that these groups are trying to effect in their local munici-palities and school districts.

Galef’s guests talk about how they f irst became in-volved with their committees and watchdog groups, the obstacles, and the successes.

In addition, Galef, Mitchell, and Briones explore the role that s ta te government can play in assisting grassroots activists and local communi-ties in reforms.

“Citizens Working for Com-munity Change” airs on Chan-nels 15 and 21 on October 28 & November 4.

Conservation and preser-vation issues were, during the early 1830s, beginning t o b e l o o k e d u p o n m u c h more seriously in the Hud-son River Valley Highlands. Back then negative quarry-ing activity had been creep-ing more perceptively into the consciousness of public awareness . Disf igur ing of cer ta in Highlands regions was fast becoming a fr ight-ening norm.

In a no more na tu r a l l y superb set t ing was the huge bulk of a fabled mountain in the northwestern extremity of the Town of Philipstown. “Breakneck” was, and re-mains, unchallenged master of al l i t surveys, including the then miniscule hamlet of Cold Spring, two miles south, on r iver’s edge, in Putnam County. Yet , lying beneath its prevailing state-liness, “Breakneck” contin-ues maintaining its ominous reputat ion as a demanding a t t rac t ion to any in t rep id enough to attempt its craggy heights .

A devastating upheaval of horrid defacement transpired i n 1846 , when a Cap ta in Deering Ayres, in the employ of the “Harlem High Bridge Co.,” detonated a furious ex-plosion that ripped from the mountain’s soul the natural striking sculpture of a human face. Known locally, and to hundreds of passersby from steaming pleasure boats and excursion vessels, as “Turk’s Face” or “Anthony’s Face,” this chiseled marvel of na-

ture’s genius was, in a flash second, erased forever from the Highlands anatomy.

Certainly not for reasons conforming to public out-rage with quarrying in the Hudson Valley Highlands, nor in atonement for having unconscionably betrayed the beautifulness of the High-lands natural environment, quarrying on Breakneck was halted during the 1850s.

It can be speculated with a credible degree of probabil-i ty that cessation of quarry-ing operations on Breakneck a t t ha t t ime wou ld even -tua l ly, some years hence , be direct ly responsible for making way for a colossal eng inee r ing unde r t ak ing . On the draughtsman’s table were be ing c rea ted p lans for an enormous aqueduct sys t em f rom the Ca t sk i l l Mountain environs to New York Ci ty ; a const ruct ion t a sk i n wh ich Breakneck Mountain would perform a dramatical ly decisive role.

Although the water pipe-l ine sys tem a t Breakneck w o u l d n ’ t b e g i n u n t i l t h e early 1900s, there was, imag-inably, very early concern on the part of s tate, county, town, and public authorities that any further quarrying ac t iv i ty on the mammoth p rec ip ice cou ld se r ious ly undermine, disrupt, impair, and make extremely more c h a l l e n g i n g t h e a l r e a d y complex and monumenta l proportions of the proposed aqueduct system.

Assemblywoman Sandy Galef hosts Gerald Culliton, director of the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, on her television show Dear Sandy.

The discussion includes why the hospital is so impor-tant to today’s veterans, and

how the role of the hospital has changed over the years.

R e c e n t l y r e h a b i l i t a t e d buildings add to the hospital to better target today’s com-mon ailments. Culliton urges friends and family members to encourage veterans to seek treatment if needed.

“The VA Hospital is im-portant in helping our vet-erans readjust to society,” Galef said. “Soldiers come back from service and need a place to turn. That is when they need our help the most.” This edition will be shown on October 23 and 30.

Presentation on Bannerman Stabilization Current Topics for Galef’s Cable Shows

Tamagna on Shared Services A s s e m b l y w o m a n G a l e f

hosts Putnam County Leg-islator Vincent Tamagna and Ossining Town Supervisor Catherine Borgia on Speak Out with Sandy Galef, to dis-cuss sharing and consolidat-ing services in municipalities

and county government.In this episode, Tamagna

and Borgia i l luminate the areas where they, and their governments, are working to consolidate and share. The three consider the necessity and effect iveness of s ta te

grants for sharing, as well as the public’s interest in this issue.

“Working Hard for Shared Services” airs on November 11 & 18 .

Beneath Breakneck’s Stateliness Lies an Ominous Reputation

(part 1 of 4)Working for Community Change

Montrose V.A. Hospital

On Monday, October 26 at 2:30pm, Liz Taylor of the New York State Department of Labor will present a free workshop on “How to Update Your Resume and Find a Job” at the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison.

Come to this workshop to get expert, personal advice on

how to make your job search effective and successful. All are welcome. Advance res-ervations are not required.

This program was made pos-sible by the Putnam County Legislature.

The Desmond-Fish Library also has many books and books on CD on this subject which

can be borrowed, including Power Interviews, Gallery of Best Resumes, and What Color is your Parachute? A Practi-cal Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers.

Visit dfl.highlands.com or call 424-3020 for more in-formation.

How to Update Your Resume and Find a Job

The channels and usual air times are as follows:- Ossining and Peekskill, (for most of Garrison) Channel 15, Wednesdays at 8pm- Wappingers Falls Channel (for most of Cold Spring) 21, Wednesdays at 7:30pm

-Yorktown Channel 74, Wednesdays at 7:30pm- Carmel, Kent, Mahopac, and Putnam Valley, Channel 8, Wednesdays at 7:30pm

- Verizon FIOS customers should check their local listings

Kent Man Charged with False Reporting

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On October 6th of 1777 a brutal fight for the control of the Hudson River was waged a t For t Montgomery. The battle raged all day and many f e l l k i l l ed and wounded . The struggle f inal ly ended tha t n igh t . Jo in members of the 5th New York Regi-ment and Fort Montgomery State Historic Site Staff, for a respectful , yet haunting, candlelight tour of the battle-f ield. The tour wil l depart from the Fort Montgomery

Vi s i t o r ’ s Cen t e r a t 6 :30 , 7, and 7:30pm this Friday, October 23.

Admission is free; dona-tions graciously appreciated. Cider and donuts will be pro-vided by the Fort Montgom-ery Battle Site Association.

The Fort Montgomery site is located at 690 Route 9W, 1/4 mile north of the Bear M o u n t a i n Tr a f f i c C i r c l e . For more information about the event, please telephone: 845-446-2134.

On Saturday, November 21 at 4pm and again at 5:30pm, the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will be hosting a special benefit for the Mu-seum: Meet Atka—a live gray wolf at the Wildlife Educa-tion Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

This program will include an awe-inspir ing up-close encounter with this important but misunders tood preda-

tor. Guests will learn about the history of wolves in the United States, the importance of wolves in a healthy ecosys-tem, and the efforts to save these magnificent creatures for future generations. Cost: $22 adults, $16 children 12 and under. Pre-paid reserva-tions are required as there is limited space.. Call 845-534-5506, ext. 204. Visit www.hhnaturemuseum.org.

A-haunt ing you wi l l go when you accompany the wa tchman on h i s n igh t l y inspection of Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site , Newburgh. Make res-e rva t i ons fo r A N igh t A t The Headquarters on Friday, November 6 o r Sa tu rday, November 7 . Be ca r e fu l , though, you may come across things that go bump in the night .

Call 845-562-1195 to make reservations for a thirty min-ute tour. The f irst reserved

tour begins at 5pm. A new tour starts every 20 minutes, with the last reserved tour start ing at 7:30pm. Reser-vations accepted up to No-vember 5.

Summon up your courage and head to the Museum to join the night watchman and begin your adventure. I t ' s said there 's safety in num-bers. Who knows. . .?

Admission is $4 per per-son, chi ldren 6 and under are free.

The 'Boo House' will be celebrating its 8th year as a Carmel Halloween treat. The free haunted house has become a neighborhood tradi-tion. It started with father and son hiding behind a tree to greet trick or treaters and has grown each year. The house this year is planned to be over 200 feet long from start to finish and is guaranteed to be a fun experience for the whole family. 'The Boo House' is located at 73 Dingley Road in Lake Carmel, off of Towners Road. It is open on Halloween night only and begins at dusk. There is no definite end time so come early. In past years the festivities typically went

until 10pm or so based on attendance.

The Boo House is run by Robert Oliveri and John-Mi-chael (JM) Denaut . Notes Denault : “We spend about 3 months on the house. We begin p lanning the house in August and spend all of October constructing it. All for one night. But we do it because we love it, and so do the kids. This year we have made the house even larger. We added a new section and spent a lot of t ime on our props and effects. It is sure to be a frightful delight to your senses.” Check out photos and videos from past years at www.TheBooHouse.com

H a l l o w e e n a r r i v e d a f e w w e e k s e a r l y a t B u t t e r f i e l d L i b r a r y ’ s r e c e n t H a l l o w e e n p a r t y f o r t h e y o u n g e r s e t , b u t n o n e w e r e h e a r d c o m p l a i n i n g a s t h e y s e a r c h e d h i g h a n d l o w f o r t h e n o t - s o - h i d d e n c a n d y l o o t .

T h e H a l l o w e e n s e a s o n ’ s ‘ M a i n E v e n t ’ — t h e C h a m b e r o f C o m m e rc e ’ s p a r a d e d o w n M a i n S t re e t , w i l l b e h e l d o n S a t u rd a y, O c t o b e r 2 4 . G a t h e r a t 5 p m i n f ro n t o f S t . M a r y ’ s C h u r c h ; t h e w a l k d o w n t o t h e b a n d s t a n d b e g i n s a t 5 : 3 0 .

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Patrol Washington’s Quarters with the Night Watchman

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Installment Threein which we meet

Brom Bones

The pedagogue’s mouth wa-tered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxuri-ous winter fare. In his devour-ing mind’s eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his

mouth; the pigeons were snug-ly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a cov-erlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married cou-ples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.

As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buck-wheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the dam-

sel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money in-vested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle pal-aces in the wilderness. Nay, his busy fancy already real-ized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of chil-dren, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with house-hold trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee,—or the Lord knows where!

When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves form-ing a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning-wheel at one end, and a churn at the other, showed the various uses to which this important porch might be devoted. From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence. Here rows of resplendent pew-ter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one cor-ner stood a huge bag of wool,

ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of In-dian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; and-irons, with their accompany-ing shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of aspara-gus tops; mock-oranges and conch-shells decorated the

mantelpiece; strings of vari-ous-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a cor-ner cupboard, knowingly left

open, displayed immense trea-sures of old silver and well-mended china.

From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of

his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel. In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who sel-dom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered ad-versaries, to contend with and had to make his way merely through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all

which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course. Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and ca-prices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to en-counter a host of fearful adver-saries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new com-petitor.

Among these, the most for-midable was a burly, roaring, roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round, which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood. He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a min-gled air of fun and arrogance. From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known. He was famed for great knowl-edge and skill in horseman-ship, being as dexterous on horseback as a Tartar. He was foremost at all races and cock fights; and, with the ascen-dancy which bodily strength always acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes, setting his hat on one side, and giving his decisions with an

air and tone that admitted of no gainsay or appeal. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic; but had more mis-chief than ill-will in his com-position; and with all his over-bearing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom. He had three or four boon companions, who regarded him as their model, and at the head of whom he scoured the country, attending every scene of feud or merri-ment for miles round. In cold weather he was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox’s tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard rid-ers, they always stood by for a squall. Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at mid-night, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then ex-claim, “Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!” The neighbors looked upon him with a mixture of awe, admira-tion, and good-will; and, when any madcap prank or rustic brawl occurred in the vicinity, always shook their heads, and warranted Brom Bones was at the bottom of it.

Editor’s Note: The PCN&R is serializing “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” published in 1820.

WASHINGTONIRVING

ElisE Matich

‘The Legend o f S l e epy Ho l l ow ’

From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.

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L e g a l N o t i c e s

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Format ion of

KAPLAN’S KOSHER KART LLC. Ar t s . o f Org . f i l ed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/24/09. Office locat ion: Putnam County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against i t may be served. SSNY shal l mai l process to : Michae l T. Lamber t i , Esq. , 180 Froehlich Farm Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797. Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGAL NOTICENOTICE TO BIDDERSTOWN OF PHILIPSTOWN

HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTSealed proposals will be

received by the undersigned Town Clerk of the Town of

Philipstown at her office in the Town Hall, 238 Main Street , Cold Spring, New York

10516 until 2:00 PM on October 28, 2009 when the same will be publicly opened and read aloud for the sale to the Town of Philipstown of

B I T U M I N O U S CONCRETE FURNISHED, DELIVERED & LAID IN PLACE

B I T U M I N O U S CONCRETE FOB

CALCIUM CHLORIDE DELIVERED

W A S H E D S A N D DELIVERED & FOB

#2 FUEL OIL DELIVEREDD I E S E L F U E L

DELIVEREDBANK RUN DELIVERED

& FOB FILL DELIVERED & FOB

TAILINGS DELIVERED & FOB

I N S TA L L AT I O N O F G U I D E R A I L A N D FURNISHING OF GUIDE RAIL MATERIAL

WA S H E D C R U S H E D S TO N E D E L I V E R E D & FOB

M A N U F A C T U R E D C R U S H E D I T E M 4 DELIVERED & FOB

S T O N E F I L L I N G S DELIVERED & FOB

Meeting the specifications of the Town of Philipstown highway Department. Copies of the specif icat ions may be obtained from the office of said Town Clerk at the above address. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. All purchase contracts awarded pursuant to th i s not ice shal l be subject to the provis ions of Sect ion 103 A, 103 B and 103 D of the General Municipal Law.DATED: October 14, 2009

TINA MERANDOTOWN CLERK

TOWN OF Philipstown

LEGAL NOTICELoftus Associates , LLC

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 9-15-09. Office in Putnam County. SSNY design .Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shal l mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc . , 7014 13 th Avenue , Sui te 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

LEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LIMITED LIABILITY C O M P A N Y . N A M E : KAHLUA BAILEY RILEY,

L L C . A r t i c l e s o f O rg a n i z a t i o n w e r e f i l e d with the Secretary of State o f New York (SSNY) on 10/02/09. Office location: Putnam County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Saidel & Saidel, P.C., 3565 Crompond Road, P.O. Box 308, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

L e g a l N o t i c e s

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Format ion of

JDO Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/6/09. O ff i c e l oca t i on : Pu tnam Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against i t may be served. SSNY shal l mail process to: James O’Hagan, 2 1 S h a l l o w S t r e a m R d . , Ca rme l , NY 10512 , a l so registered agent. Purpose: any lawful activities.

LEGAL NOTICEN o t i c e o f F o r m a t i o n

o f A L L E G I A N C E STRATEGIES, LLC, a NYS Limited Liability Company (LLC). Arts. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8 /19 /09 . N Y O f f i c e L o c a t i o n : PUTNAM County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY sha l l mai l a copy of any p rocess aga ins t the LLC served upon him/her to C/O JEFF COOK, 10 GROVE COURT, COLD SPRING, NY 10516. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

LEGAL NOTICEN o t i c e o f F o r m a t i o n

o f B E Q U I TA , L L C , a N Y S L i m i t e d L i a b i l i t y Company (LLC). Art icles of Organization filed with the Secre tary of S ta te of NY (SSNY) on 09/04/2009. Off i c e l oca t i on : Pu tnam County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against i t may be served. The address to which the SSNY sha l l ma i l a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: C/O Rebecca M. Bardes, 32 Bank Street, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Format ion of

M a r v i k S o l u t i o n s , L L C . A r t s . o f O rg . f i l ed w i th N Y D e p t . o f S t a t e o n 9/22/09. Office location: Pu tnam County. Sec . o f State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and sha l l mai l process to the principal business address: 30 Ivy Hill Rd., Brewster, NY 10509. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICEL i z ' s C h e m o S u r v i v a l

K i t s , LLC f i l ed on June 30th, 2009. Office location, Putnam County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process against the LLC to 63 Hamlin Road, Mahopac NY10541. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICEN o t i c e o f F o r m a t i o n

o f STAT H EA LTHCA RE S O L U T I O N S L L C , a d o m e s t i c L L C . A r t s . o f Org. f i led with the SSNY o n 0 8 / 2 4 / 2 0 0 9 . O f f i c e locat ion: Putnam County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process aga ins t t he LLC may be se rved . SSNY sha l l mai l a copy of process to: The LLC, 530 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY 10523. P u r p o s e : A n y L a w f u l Purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: 12/31/2034.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Qual i f ica t ion

o f H U D S O N E A G L E LLC. Authority filed with Secre tary of Sta te of NY ( S S N Y ) o n 0 9 / 11 / 2 0 0 9 . Off ice loca t ion: Putnam C o u n t y . L L C f o r m e d i n D e l a w a r e ( D E ) o n 0 9 / 0 9 / 2 0 0 9 . S S N Y d e s i g n a t e d a s a g e n t o f LLC upon whom process against i t may be served. SSNY shal l mai l process to : The LLC, 31 Pr ivate Way, Garrison NY 10524. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover DE 19904. Ar t s . o f Org . f i l ed wi th D E S e c y. o f S t a t e , 4 0 1 Federal St. , Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activities.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Format ion of

PROFITABLE VENTURES, L L C , a d o m e s t i c L L C . Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/04/2009. Office locat ion: Putnam County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process aga ins t t he LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 20 Cliffside Court, Garrison, NY 10524. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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LEGAL NOTICE

Pursuant to provisions of section 4-120 & 4-122 of theState of New York Election Law,

official notice of the General Election publication byPutnam County Board of Elections is hereby given:

General Election, Tuesday, November 3, 2009Polls are open from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.

All polling places in Putnam County are open for voting.

PROPOSAL NUMBER ONE, AN AMENDMENTAmendment to section 1 of article 14 of the Constitution, in relation to the use of certain forest preserve lands by National Grid to construct a 46 kV

power line along State Route 56 in St. Lawrence County.The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature

to convey up to six acres of forest preserve land alongState Route 56 in St. Lawrence County to National Gridfor construction of a power line. In exchange, National

Grid would convey to the State at least 10 acres of forestland in St. Lawrence County, to be incorporated into the

forest preserve. The land to be conveyed by NationalGrid to the State must be at least equal in value to theland conveyed to National Grid by the State. Shall the

proposed amendment be approved?YES [ ] NO [ ]

PROPOSAL NUMBER TWO, AN AMENDMENT

Amendment to article 3 of the Constitution, in relationto authorizing the Legislature to allow prisoners to

voluntarily perform work for nonprofit organizations.The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature

to pass legislation to permit inmates in state and localcorrectional facilities to perform work for nonprofit

organizations. Shall the proposed amendment be approved? YES [ ] NO [ ]

Copies of the above proposals may be obtained at: Putnam County Board of Elections

1 Geneva Road. Brewster, NY 10509 (845) 278-6970or online @

WWW.ELECTIONS.STATE.NY.US

PROPOSAL NUMBER THREE,COUNTY PROPOSITION NUMBER ONE

The County Executive has the power to initiate reductionsin appropriations when budgeted revenues are insufficient.

Should the Legislature be given the same power? YES [ ] NO [ ]

JUSTICE(S) OF THE SUPREME COURT9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (Vote for four)Francesca E. Connolly DEM/WORDavid Steinberg DEM /WORJames Hubert DEM/IND/WORJeffrey A. Cohen DEM/IND/CON/WOROrazio R. Bellantoni REP/IND/CON/RTLCharley Wood REP/IND/CONCharles E. Stewart REP/ CONWilliam L. Maher REPJames Alexander Burke RTLMary N. Clark RTLStasia T. Vogel RTLCOUNTY SHERIFF (Vote for one)Kevin J. McConville DEMDonald B. Smith REP/IND/CONJim Borkowski WORCOUNTY CORONER (Vote for one)Michael J. Nesheiwat REP/IND/CONLEGISLATOR DISTRICT #1 (Vote for one)Vincent M. Tamagna REP/IND/CONLEGISLATOR DISTRICT #4 (Vote for one)Mark R. Armon DEM/INDMary F. Conklin REP/CONLEGISLATOR DISTRICT #7 (Vote for one)Daniel G. Birmingham REP/IND/CON

TOWN OF CARMELSUPERVISOR (Vote for one)David M. Wilson DEM/WORKenneth R. Schmitt REP/IND/CONCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Suzanne F. McDonough DEM/INDMarc K. Pekowsky DEM/WORGreg Ellner REP/CONFrank D. Lombardi REP/IND/CON

TOWN OF KENTPROPOSAL NUMBER FOUR,

TOWN PROPOSITION NUMBER ONESHOULD THE TERM OF OFFICE OF SUPERVISOR OF

THE TOWN OF KENT BE EXTENDED FROM TWO YEARSTO FOUR YEARS COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 2010.

YES [ ] NO [ ]

SUPERVISOR (Vote for one)Katherine M. Doherty REP/IND/CON/ROK

Yolanda D. Cappelli REP/IND/CON/ROKTOWN JUSTICE (Vote for two) J. Peter Collins DEM/REP/IND/CON/ROKKevin L. Douchkoff DEM/REP/IND/CON/ROKMaureen A. Fleming WORJoseph Esposito, Sr. WORCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Edward C. Durkee DEM/IND/WORJeff Green DEM/IND/WORJohn A. Greene REPLouis D. Tartaro REP/ROKThomas F. Maxson CON/ROKKarl R. Rohde CONReceiver of Taxes (Vote for one)Joyce Mitchell DEM/IND/WORJean R. Johnson REP/CON/ROKHIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT (Vote for one)Anthony F. Caravetta DEM/INDCris Dellaripa REP/ROKPaul C. Roncallo CON/WOR

TOWN OF PATTERSONPROPOSAL NUMBER FOUR,

TOWN PROPOSITION NUMBER ONESHALL THE ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE TOWN

OF PATTERSON FOR THE PATTERSON LIBRARY BEINCREASED BY EIGHTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY THREE

($80,293) TO THE SUM OF FIVEHUNDRED FOURTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDREDNINETY THREE DOLLARS ($514,293) ANNUALLY?

YES [ ] NO [ ]TOWN JUSTICE (Vote for one)TOWN CLERK (Vote for one)John E. King DEM/IND/CONCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Kevin Burns DEM/INDPatricia E. Ploeger DEMErnest J. Kassay REP/CONGinny Nacerino REP/IND/CONRECEIVER OF TAXES (Vote for one)Sally A. Parfitt DEM/IND/CONNanci Kalbfell REP

TOWN OF PHILIPSTOWNSUPERVISOR (Vote for one)Richard R. Shea DEM/IND/CONMatthew Mastrantone REPCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Betty L. Budney DEM/INDJohn J. VanTassel DEM/IND/CONJoselle L. Cunane REPTheresa J. Polhemus REP/CONASSESSOR (Vote for one)Brian J. Kenney REP/CON

TOWN OF PUTNAM VALLEYSUPERVISOR (Vote for one)Dawn V. Powell DEM/INDRobert V. Tendy REP/CONJUSTICE (Vote for one)Gina Capone DEM/REP/IND/CONCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Christopher Lieberman DEM/INDWendy M. Whetsel DEM/CON/WORJacqueline Annabi REP/CONPatty Villanova REPSamuel E. Davis INDHIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT (Vote for one)Earl C. Smith REP/CONMark H. Pawera IND

TOWN OF SOUTHEASTTOWN JUSTICE (Vote for two)Gregory L. Folchetti REP/IND/CONRichard W. Vercollone REP/IND/CONCOUNCILMAN (Vote for two)Robert S. Cullen REP/CONElizabeth D. Hudak REP/IND/CONJoseph P. DePaola INDHIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT (Vote for one)Kevin J. Palmer DEM/IND/CONMichael E. Bruen REP

VILLAGE OF BREWSTERMAYOR (Vote for one)James J. Schoenig REP/BFBVILLAGE JUSTICE (Vote for one)Richard L. O’Rourke REPTRUSTEE (Vote for two)Christine M. Piccini REP/BFBTeresa P. Stockburger REP/BFB

LEGAL NOTICEN O T I C E I S H E R E B Y

GIVEN that a public hearing w i l l b e h e l d b e f o r e t h e Coun ty Execu t ive o f the County of Putnam at Room 300 of the County Off ice B u i l d i n g , 4 0 G l e n e i d a Avenue, Carmel, New York 10512 on the 20th day of October, 2009 at 2:22 P.M. concerning:

A LOCAL LAWTo Amend Chap te r 41 ,

Section 41 5 of the Putnam C o u n t y C o d e E n t i t l e d "Des igna t ion o f Off i c i a l Depos i tor ies" , as wel l as S e c t i o n 4 1 1 0 E n t i t l e d "Purchase of Investments" a d o p t e d b y t h e P u t n a m C o u n t y L e g i s l a t u r e o n , October 6, 2009, Resolution R#277.

This Local Law designates the following banks and trust companies for depos i t o f monies up to a maximum amount of $30,000,000 per company: JP Morgan Chase, TD Bank, HSBC, Key Bank, M&T Bank, Wells Fargo; and the following banks and trust companies up to a maximum a m o u n t o f $ 6 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 : Mahopac Na t iona l Bank , P r o v i d e n t B a n k , P u t n a m County Commercial Bank ( a s u b s i d i a r y o f P u t n a m County Savings Bank), and Webs te r Bank . I t fu r the r amends Sect ion 41 10(A)( 2 ) b y a u t h o r i z i n g t h e Commissioner of Finance to contract for the purchase of investments by utilizing N e w Yo r k L i q u i d A s s e t Fund Cadre Securities Inc, in which can be inves ted a m a x i m u m a m o u n t o f $10,000.00.

Copies of the Local Law are available at the Office o f t h e P u t n a m C o u n t y Legislature, Room 313, 40 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel, New York 10512.

At the aforesaid time and place all persons interested in the subject matter thereof wi l l be heard concern ing same.

This Local Law shall take effect immediately.Dated: Carmel, New York

October 9, 2009Jennifer S. Bumgarner

Putnam County Attorney

LEGAL NOTICETOWN OF PUTNAM VALLEY ZONING

BOARD OF APPEALS N O T I C E

Work Session Beginning at 6:30 PM – Communications

Not ice i s hereby g iven to in te res ted par t ies tha t a Publ ic Hear ing wi l l be held by the Putnam Valley Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM at Town Hall, 265 Oscawana Lake Road for the purpose of considering t h e f o l l o w i n g p e t i t i o n s and requests together with all other matters that may proper ly come before the Board at this time.

AGENDAHeld over case 1 ) A c o s t a , A n t h o n y 2 0

Rockhill Rd 62.11-1-67 R3R e q u e s t a s i d e y a r d

variance to construct a metal storage building.

2) Piotrowski, Craig 123 Lake Front Rd 62.10-2-2 R3

Request var iance under Ar t i c le XI , Sec t ion 165-44A(1) & (2) of the Zoning O r d i n a n c e t o i n c r e a s e livable space by more than 20% and height for proposed ad d i t i o n , an d l ak e f r o n t variance.

New Applications 3 ) K u t t r u f , B r u c e &

Jennifer 10 Coleman Lndg 62.14-1-23 R3

R e q u e s t f r o n t y a r d variance to construct a roof over existing deck.

4 ) R o n a l d , K e v i n 1 4 1 Wood St 74.19-2-17 R1

Reques t ing a s ide yard v a r i a n c e t o r e p l a c e t w o e x i s t i n g s h e d s w i t h o n e large shed.

5)Lantz, Michael Irma Dr 73.17-1-30 R2

Request a 280 A and a rear yard set back to construct a single family residence.

6 ) S t a r n , D o u g l a s 1 Chippewa Rd 51 .81-1-37 R3

R e q u e s t 2 s i d e y a r d v a r i a n c e s , a l a k e f r o n t v a r i a n c e , l o t c o v e r a g e , height within setback and an increase of livable space over 20%.

7 ) M a r a g n i , F l o r a 5 1 Pembrooke Ct 92.-1-77 R1

Request var iance under Zoning Ordinance Article X I , S e c t i o n 1 6 5 - 9 D t o legalize a finished attic.

8)Glenn, Craig 6 Lee Ave 62.17-2-29 R1

R e q u e s t v a r i a n c e t o increase building volume, dormers, in non-conforming setbacks.

Miscellaneous:9) Warex Terminal Corp.

157 Bryant Pond Road 74.-1-60 Open for discussion.

LEGAL NOTICENotice of Formation of I.

Michael Danoff LLC. Arts. of Org. Cued with Secy. of S t a t e o f N Y ( S S N Y ) o n 9 /28/09 . Off ice loca t ion: Putnam County. Principal b u s i n e s s l o c a t i o n : 4 2 Far Reach Tra i l , Pu tnam Val ley, NY 10579. SSNY d e s i g n a t e d a s a g e n t o f LLC upon whom process against i t may be served. SSNY shal l mai l process to : c /o Jo Backer La i rd , Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: the provision of art advisory services, and any other purposes permitted by applicable law.

LEGAL NOTICEPlease be adv i sed tha t

t he P l ann ing Boa rd w i l l be meeting on October 24, 2009, at

10 am with Applicant Dino DeRiggi, Peekskill Hollow Road, TM# 73.-2-21. The

Planning Board wi l l be conducting an on site visit.

LEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF FORMATION

OF LIMITED LIABILITY C O M P A N Y . N A M E : P U T N A M P R O P E R T Y GROUP LLC. Art ic les of O rg a n i z a t i o n w e r e f i l e d with the Secretary of State o f New York (SSNY) on 04/16/09. Office location: Putnam County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against i t may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 2 Fair Street, Carmel, New York 10512 . Purpose : For any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICEADVERTISEMENT

FOR BIDSS e a l e d b i d s w i l l b e

accepted by the Village of Cold Spring up until 2:00 P.M. on Friday, the 6th day of November, 2009 for labor and materials required for the "Energy Conservation Project" proposed for the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 53 Fa i r S t r ee t , H ighway Garage, 49 Fair Street and Water Treatment Plant a t 200 F i shk i l l Road , Co ld Spring, New York.

The labor and materials r e q u i r e d f o r t h e E n e rg y C o n s e r v a t i o n P r o j e c t include: replacement of all exis t ing f luorescent T-12 lamps and magnetic ballasts with T-8 lamps and electronic ballasts, replacement of all incandescen t l amps wi th compact fluorescent lamps at the village of Cold Spring Wastewater Treatment plant, Water Treatment plant and Highway Garage.

A written statement of the work involved in the Energy Conservat ion Project and of bid requirements is on file with Village Clerk. All bidders may schedule and attend a pre-proposal "walk t h r o u g h m e e t i n g " a t t h e above mentioned locations p r io r to submi t t ing the i r bids.

Copies of the wr i t ten s t a t emen t o f t he Ene rgy C o n s e r v a t i o n P r o j e c t and b id requirements are available from the Village Clerk on request. Bidders should contact the Village Clerk to schedule a date and time for a pre-proposal walk through meeting. Addenda, if any, will be issued only to those persons whose names and addresses are on record as having requested written s t a t emen t o f t he Ene rgy Conservation Project.

Bids wil l be publicly opened and read at 2:00 P.M. on the 6th day of November, 2009 at the offices of the Vi l l a g e o f C o l d S p r i n g , Village Hall, 85 Main Street, Cold Spring, New York.

BY ORDER OF VILLAGE BOARD

VILLAGE OF COLD SPRING

MARY SAARI, VILLAGE CLERK

Dated: October 19, 2009

LEGAL NOTICE Public Notice:Vi l lage of Cold Spr ing

P l a n n i n g B o a r d w i l l b e meeting at the Village Hall, 85 Main Street, Cold Spring on Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30 pm to conduct a public hearing on the the intended construction of an addition to the building at 144 Main S t r e e t a n d t h e i n t e n d e d change in the use o f the building. After the public hearing, the Planning Board will continue its discussion on the deve lopment o f a Planning Board application that would assist community members in navigating the planning process.

LEGAL NOTICE WT 10/2009

October 19, 2009 Not ice i s hereby g iven

tha t the Town of Putnam Va l l e y h a s r e c e i v e d a wetlands application from the following applicant:WT 22/09 Michael Starn 1Chippewa Road TM# 51.81-1-37

• Putnam Hospital Center’s Pulmonary Support Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, November 9, from 1 to 2pm, in the PHC conference room adjacent to the Michael T. Weber Auditorium at the hospital , which is located at 670 Stoneleigh Avenue in Carmel. Allison Stowell, a nutrition coordinator and registered dietitian with Han-naford Supermarkets, will be the guest speaker.

The group is designed for patients and families of those living with pulmonary issues/conditions/diseases. Regis-tration is not required for the free group meetings. For further information, please call 845-279-5711, Ext. 2482.

• The holidays are always a stressful time but especially so when you are trying to cope with the loss of a loved one.

Learn how you can gain sup-port and comfort during this difficult time. Hospice Care in Westchester & Putnam, Inc., and Putnam Hospital Center are cosponsoring two free workshops on coping with the holidays when you are grieving.

The two separate sessions will be held on Monday, No-vember 9, and Monday, No-vember 23, both from 6:30 to 8pm at Putnam Hospital Center, which is located at 670 Stoneleigh Avenue in Carmel.

The programs will be pre-sen ted by Valer ie Braun , LMSW, Bereavement Co-ordinator, Hospice Care in Westchester & Putnam, Inc.

The workshops are free but pre-registration is required by ca l l ing 914-666-4228, ext. 492.

Support Groups at Putnam Hospital for Pulmonary Patients and Those Grieving

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Haldane Varsity Football

9/11/2009 L, 28-14 @ CHESTER

9/17/2009 L, 18-13 PUTNAM VALLEY

9/26/2009 L, 18-14 LINCOLN HALL

10/3/2009 L, 18-0 @ TUCKAHOE

10/10/2009 L, 30-7 CROTON-HARMON

10/17/2009 L, 23-7 @ HASTINGS

10/23/2009 7:00 PM @ VALHALLA

Putnam Valley Varsity Football

9/17/2009 W, 18-13 @ HALDANE

9/26/2009 L, 47-30 HASTINGS

10/2/2009 L, 23-8 ALBERTUS MAGNUS

10/9/2009 W, 30-18 IRVINGTON

10/17/2009 L, 41-6 @ CROTON-HARMON

10/24/2009 1:00PM @ DOBBS FERRY

FROM THE FIELD

by Alex Basso

PV Smacked By Croton, Dobbs Is Next

by B.J. O'Brien

Desp i te p lay ing wel l in the second half, the Haldane High School football team fell to a tough Hastings Cen-tral High School team 23-7 on Saturday.

The loss dropped the Blue Devils to 0-6 on the season. Hastings improved to 5-1.

Hastings scored early in the f irs t quarter on an 11 yard touchdown pass from Luca Cobucci to Kevin Flaherty. The two-poin t convers ion at tempt was successful and made the score 8-0.

I n t h e s e c o n d q u a r t e r , Brandon Abrahante scored on a one-yard touchdown run. The two-poin t convers ion attempt was successful once again and Hastings extended i ts lead to 16-0.

The Yellowjackets scored again later in the quarter on

another 11-yard touchdown pass from Cobucci to Fla-herty. The score was 23-0 after a successful point-after kick at tempt.

Despi te being down by such a big defici t , the Blue Devils showed a lot of heart in the second half and didn't al low Hastings to score any more points for the remainder of the game.

Haldane scored i ts only points on a one-yard touch-down run by John McGuire. That was fo l lowed by the extra-point kick by Rafael Famighetti to make the score 23-7.

Blue Devils head coach Tony Percacciolo was proud o f t he f ac t t ha t h i s t e am didn' t give up despite fal l-ing behind by such a large defici t in the f irs t half .

"They raised their inten-si ty level up," he said.

He didn' t think his team played that badly consider-ing that injuries have forced them to p l ay qu i t e a f ew players who don't have much experience.

The coach po in ted ou t that eight starters on offense were sophomores.

The biggest scare in the game came when quarterback Rafael Famighet t i , who is a l so a l inebacker, spec ia l teams player, and started the season as a running back, was down on the f ield with what appeared to be a knee injury. However, af ter s i t-t ing out a few plays he was back under center.

"He is like Gumby," Coach Percacciolo said, adding that he wasn ' t worr ied a t f i r s t when he saw one of his best players laying on the f ield because he knew he would bounce back and be okay,

just l ike he has in the past . "He wi l l run through a

wal l for you," said Coach Percacciolo.

GAME NOTES:

The Blue Devils will travel

to Valhalla Friday night. The game starts at 7pm.

Although the Vikings are 5-0, Coach Percacciolo be-lieves his team can beat them. T h a t i s b e c a u s e H a l d a n e has had to play a tougher schedule.

"I feel we are prepared," he said.

Running back Derek O'Dell was in uniform for Haldane against Hastings but was held out of action because he has been banged up. Coach Per-cacciolo pointed out that he could possibly play against Valhalla .

Yellowjackets Trip Up Haldane Gridders

When a football team such as Putnam Valley gets moved down from Class B to Class C and they are having some success , t hey beg in f ee l -ing very confident and even unbeatable. Then, meeting high-powered Class C teams such as Hastings and Cro-ton, their confidence quickly

dep le t e s . Af t e r de fea t ing Irvington last week at the homecoming game, the Ti-ge r s f e l t l i ke t hey cou ld g ive Cro ton a good f igh t and possibly a win to grab a share of the league t i t le . When the Tigers found out that Croton’s start ing ful l-back would not p lay they were going into this game with their eyes on a league championship, but Croton would not let them off too easi ly.

During the week leading up t o t he f i na l game the Tigers had a bunch of enjoy-able pract ices and seemed extremely prepared for this game. “Monday was a fun day of condit ioning, Tues-day and Wednesday were double pract ices of offense and defense, and Thursday was nas ty ou t s ide so t he c o a c h e s l e t u s o u t e a r l y and we wa t ched a l o t o f f i lm,” said tackle Gerardo Alva rez . “Al l t oge the r i t was a fun week of pract ice and we were ready for this

game.” Entering this game the Tigers sounded ready for Croton and they were ready to grab hold of this league and secure a top seed in the sect ional playoffs .

From the opening kick-off unt i l the f inal whist le Croton executed every play and completely dominated Putnam Valley on al l s ides of the bal l . The Tigers just could not get anything going, and af ter the f i rs t quarter they were already down 21-0. “We gave up much too early, we were down 21-0 after the f irst quarter. After a s tart l ike that i t ’s tough to stay in the game and stay posi t ive,” said Marcus Gi-van. The team just gave up ear ly and once they were down they knew they could not come back, and when your team has that sort of at t i tude you wil l never get back into the game.

The Tigers were defeated 41-6, and were given their t h i rd l o s s o f t he s ea son , f i n i s h i n g 3 - 3 . Wi t h t h a t

Croton is the league champ and Putnam Valley wil l be facing an extremely tough opponent in Dobbs Ferry on Saturday in the f irs t round of the playoffs .

Once the Tigers got down they jus t gave up and le t C ro ton do wha teve r t hey wanted and they never had a chance to win from the start. Putnam Valley wil l need to put this game behind them as Saturday begins the play-offs and they real ly need to get prepared because Dobbs Ferry wil l be just as tough as Croton, i f not tougher.

“The second the Croton game ended were looking into next week” Givan said. “ We p l a y D o b b s , a t e a m just as tough as Croton. We can’t give up yet , we have one more game to play” said Marcus Givan. Well , as PV had hoped, the season wil l continue and they will be in the playoffs , and they wil l need to improve this week or Saturday wil l end their season.

Philipstown Little League2009 - 2010 General Meeting & Board of Directors Voting

Thursday, October 29th 2009 at 7:30 p.m. North Highlands Fire House – Community Room

All Parents, Players, Managers, Coaches and Community Membersare invited to attend this very important meeting.

The League President, Eddie Barry will provide

a current status of the league, summarize successes & disappointments of 2009, review preparations for 2010 and advise

of proposed upcoming long-term capital improvements.

Afterward, an open forum will be moderated for all league participants – parents, players, managers and coaches.

This is your chance to comment onwhere you would like to see the league improve.

The meeting will close with the

2010 PLL Board of Director Voting.

Please attend this meeting and let us know howwe can make our league the best it can be for your children.

Support your local Little League!

Support your Board of Directors!

Pizza and soft drinks will be served.

by Mike Horton

The Putnam Valley HS vol-leyball team dropped its last three games. Monday brought a loss to Ossining, Friday to Pawling, and Tuesday to Cro-ton. Despite the sub-par play so far this year, there have been some bright spots to the season.

Put Valley traveled to Os-sining for a league game and lost in three straight games. “We played really well in the third game,” said coach Heather Henkels. “I thought we would be able to win it and force a fourth game. But Ossining finished up strong.”

Nicole Turner had two aces, four kills, nine assists, and seven digs in the loss. Amanda Davoli had three kills, seven digs and Amanda Materasso also played well, adding four kills and five digs.

On Friday Put Valley lost a tough game to Pawling in

five games. “They took the first game but we responded well in the second game,” said Henkels. “We played very well in the second, third, and fourth games, it just got away from us in the last game.”

The Tigers got stellar play from Davoli, who had 15 digs, Turner added 11 kills to go with her 13 digs, and Carey Berry had four kills and five blocks. Cassandra Girvalo also played well with six kills and 11 assists.

League opponent Croton hosted Putnam Valley on Tues-day, and the Tigers lost again in straight games. Davoli had another solid game with 14 digs, and Turner was good, as well, adding four kills and nine assists.

“Every game somebody did something to show me they got better,” said Henkels. “We played hard all year, and we had fun.”

Put Valley Volleyball Struggles but Has Fun

by Mike Horton

The Putnam Valley HS boys and girls cross country teams ran twice this week. Saturday the Tigers competed in the Green Mountain Invitational in Pawling, and Wednesday Put Valley ran in the league meet at Croton Point Park.

The Green Mountain Invita-tional at Lakeside Pa rk wen t we l l for the Tigers. “I was pleased with the way they ran,” said Coach Jerry Zupan. “We are go-ing to come back to Lakeside Park in two weeks for the Northern County C h a m p i o n s h i p s and I wanted to give them a chance to run here before then.”

The Tigers were missing a few runners but still managed to end up with a sixth place finish out of 12 teams.

Fortunately for Putnam Val-ley, Jim Hertzel was there, and he led the Tigers, finishing 3rd with a time of 17:12. Richie Cianelli came in 19th with a time of 18:33, Logan Bagarozy finished 25th with a time of 18:47, Max Ringbom finished 63rd at 20:59, Austin Levesque finished 68th at 21:13 and Robert Tendy finished 74th at 21:51.

The girls did not have enough runners to place in the event, but Casey Leake paced the team and finished with a time of 27:11.

At Croton Point Park, the girls finished fourth out of four teams. “I was very pleased with the girls’ times,” said Zupan.

“We have a young girls team. I am excited to see how we grow the rest of this season, and next year, as well.”

It was not exactly a great finish, but all five girls who participated turned in career best times. Casey Leake fin-ished 12th at 25:25 and Siobhan Divernieri finished 14th with a time of 25:35; both won All-

League hon-o r s . Audrey Malek’s time of 26:40 was good for 17th, Shelley Sper-ling finished 22nd wi th a time of 27:55, and Amanda H e f n e r w a s 25th at 30:14.

The boys ran well in the race for the league

championship. Putnam Valley beat out Hen Hud, Croton, and Peekskill, however they could not beat Ossining. 49-48 was the final score to a great race between the two teams. “We had a great lead over them,” said Zupan. “But Ossining has a great pack running mentality and that gave them the win.”

Hertzel, who has been strong all year for the Tigers and is shooting for a second straight state championship appear-ance, notched a first place finish with a time of 17:10. Richie Cianelli placed third at 17:58, Logan Bagarozy fin-ished 5th with a time of 18:02. Tom Faraone finished fourth at 18:55.

The Tigers will compete next in the Coaches’ invitational at Bowdoin Park on Saturday.

Putnam Val ley XC Comes Up Short

by Mike Horton

The Putnam Valley High girls soccer team lost its two games last week.

It’s been a tough year for the Tigers so far, and they only have a few games left to add on to their one win this season.

Friday Putnam Valley went up against league opponent Hen Hud, which has been one of the better teams in League D all year long. The Tigers were shut out, 9-0, by

a good team looking to get a good playoff spot. Goalie Kim Schneider had 21 saves in the loss.

The Tigers did a bit better last Tuesday, but not by much. PV went up against another strong team in Haldane and lost, 6-1. An unassisted goal by Ashley Marks and 15 saves by Schneider were the only bright spots in the loss.

The Tigers have their last game today (Thursday) a t home against another tough opponent in Westlake.

Put Valley Girls’ Soccer Team Drops Two Games

“We have a young girls team. I am

exci ted to see how we grow

the rest of this season, and next year, as well .”

B.J. O’BRiEn

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Annie Chesnut

A Good Week For The Blue Devils Moves Them Towards Sectionals

Top Above: Katlyn Mastrantone drives upfield against Pawling. Above: Tatiana Gilmartin stops Dover as the team went 3 for 3 this week with wins of 6-1 over Putnam Valley, 5-2 over Pawling and 4-2 over Dover. The Blue Devils get ready for Sectional action with games against North Salem on Tuesday and Kennedy Catholic on Thursday.

Fred Kohut

Fred Kohut

The Haldane JV Boys’ Soccer team had three games this past week: a thrilling 2-2 tie against Putnam Valley with two 4-minute overtimes, a 7-2 win against Pawling and a 0-6 loss against North Salem. Pictured from left, front row: Matt Marino, Aidan Draper, Jack McCann, Trevor Van Brunt, Ander Stebbe-Glorius; back row: Coach Ahmed, Jake Heitman, Edmund Fitzgerald, Simon Close, Aidan Gallagher, Jay Marchese (on the net), James Rubino, Johnny Rotando, Ciaran Dillon, Robby Schartener, Jason Kane-Seitz, Jack Quigley, Patrick Daponte. Not pictured: Albert Bajsicki.

Mixed Results, High Emotions

by Annie Chesnut

Putnam Valley High School celebrated its annual Spirit Week from October 5 through 9. In addition to the traditional pep rally and bonfire, fol-lowed by a spirited football win over Irvington, there was a powder-puff football game, an art challenge, and each day was a separate celebration:

Monday was Wild Wild West day; Tuesday was Twin Day; Wednesday was Superhero Day; Thursday was Blue & White Day; and Friday was Color Wars. Members of the senior Class of 2010, whose class color is yellow, festooned the high school building en-trance in the early hours of October 9 with streamers, me-tallic gold and bright yellow

balloons, posters, banners, and more. Most of the seniors wore every yellow-colored item in their respective wardrobes, topped off by bright yellow class T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Life’s a Beach.”

The now ten-year-old school has never been short on spirit, with well over half of its stu-dents participating in inter-scholastic athletics, a strong student government, a tradition of volunteerism, and a core group of enthusiastic staff ad-visors who steer each class’s activities.

The high school’s main hallway was a sea of yellow streamers. Other designated halls were decorated in red, green, and purple, the class colors of the junior, sopho-more, and freshman classes.

PVHS Gets Festive During Spirit Week

Football and basketball star Marcus Givan, left, poses between class with class advisor and high school health teacher, Kurt Worell, both wearing their yellow T-shirts.

Tigers FH Ends Stellar Week with Lossby Mike Horton

The Putnam Valley HS field hockey team beat Yorktown and Walter Panas High School-sthis past week, but dropped a game to Lakeland on Saturday.

This weekend Putnam Val-ley hosted the first Cortesi Classic, a tournament held for teammate Kelly Cortesi, who passed away in July of 2008. Fox Lane, Lakeland, and Walter Panas all competed in the event that was funded

almost completely by the Put-nam Valley field hockey team.

Saturday the Tigers faced Lakeland in the tournament’s championship round. Put Val-ley was shut out 5-0. Emma Bozek had two goals and an assist for the Hornets. Megan Bozek added a goal and two assists, Bridget McGovern had a goal and an assist and Shannon Scavelli added a goal as well. Goalie Tianna Daley made 18 saves for Putnam Valley.

The Tigers beat Panas 2-1 on Friday to reach Saturday’s championship game. Hannah Tavella and Amanda DeChent each scored unassisted goals. Daley had six saves in the win, and Panas got its only goal from Kerri Rabbit.

Putnam Valley took a trip to Yorktown Tuesday and came back with a 1-0 victory. DeCh-ent scored the lone goal, which doubled as the game winner. It was unassisted.

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EXPERT GROUNDS MAINTGardening, planting, landscapedesigns plus installation, stonewalls, paver, walkways, patios.New lawns installed/main-tained. Lic/Insured.www.create-a-scape.us 845-424-2323

F.S. BROTHER'S CODecoration of Beautiful Homes.Painting, molding, tiling, floor-ing. Good price. Good RefsCold Spring 845-265-9354

HOUSECLEANING AVAILhouses, offices, apartments.Local references. call 845-809-5336 or 845-787-8050

PC COMPUTER TROUBLERepair/Instruction/Upgradeneeded? We can help, reason-able rates 845-265-3089

HANDYMAN, HIGH QUAL-ITY work, reasonable rates.Refs. Call 914-879-7904 leavemessage.

HOUSEKEEPING AVAILEuropean woman will cleanyour house, office, apt. Longterm local refs. Call Zuzana914-469-1594

WWW.MIMISBASKETS.COMNow open for business! Mimi'sBaskets - perfect for Holidays,Birthdays for Children/Parents/Kids in College/Friends/Fam-ily for all giftgiving needs!

YOGA CLASSES FORHEALTH & Well-Being taughtby Kathy Barnes (CYT) Mon-days 7:30pm 10/26-12/14 VFWHall Cold Spring $65. Registernow 845-424-4669

PETSLOST OR FOUND PET? CallDog Control Officer, 265-4732.Call Sheriff's Dept., 225-4300only in an emergency.

PUTNAM VALLEY Dog con-trol office operates small im-pound. Please contact them ifyour dog is missing and mighthave travelled into Putnam Val-ley. They maintain list of lostdogs and sightings. Adoptionsare also available. 526-3293

DOGGIE DAY CARE &RESTFUL SLEEPOVERS. Iwelcome your furry friend as atrue guest in my home. Theyhave total access to my homeand my one acre fenced yard inthe woods. Bow Wow Hausjohnfunck@opton l ine .ne t845-424-6017 John Funck 43Cutler Lane, Garrison

A NEW LEASH ON LIFEPet Care. dog walking and petsitting 4th generations area res.Reliable, dependable, great w/animals! Exc refs avail. Call845-625-4481

DINGO: THIS HANDSOMECarolina mix dog was broughtto the shelteer because his fam-ily could no longer keep him.due to circumstances, they werelosing their home and had tomove where they couldn't takeDingo. He is very well behaved,loves to play with other dogsand is wonderful with children.He has a ball in the dog park buthe does chase cats. Dingo isperfect for a family who is look-ing for a playful, well traineddog. He is 3 years old, up todate on vaccinations, neuteredand microchipped. Adoptionfee is $120.Putnam HumaneSociety Old Route 6, Carmel845-225-7777 Mon-Fri 10-6pmSat/Sun 10-4pm. Come to ouradoption event Sat Oct 24 from11am-2pm at North West Re-storative Therapy & NursingHome, 3550 Lexington Ave,Mohegan Lake.

FOR SALE2000 PONTI FIREBIRDT-Top Silver/Black interior,auto, 6cyl, 55,000mi, nice con-dition. $7300. 914-980-8063

2 WALL FURNACES/PRO-PANE Empire direct Vent lgDV351SG w/fan Sm DV2157sg w/fan. Working Order fromSynergy RT9. Best Offer 917-940-7125

SELLING A LARGEAMOUNT of plumbing sup-plies, including copper tubingand lots of fittings of varioussizes. too much to list. CallDennis 845-424-4251

BRAND NEW, NEW EN-GLANDER Pellet Stove, neverused. Heats up to 2200sq. ft.$1700. Call 845-424-4251

DOUBLE NICHE AT ROSEHills Memorial Park, PutnamValley, $1500 in sectionLakeview 5. Must sell. Live inFlorida 727-545-5713

RENTALS

COLD SPRING MAIN STstore for rent 1000 sq ft. Greatlocation 1 block RR $1600/mo.Incl heat 845-528-1975

COMMERCIAL SPACEavail at 3021 Rte 9, Cold Spring.Warehouse 1,600 sq. ft. withoffice 300 sq ft. $2,000 a month.Great for any type of contrac-tor. Utilities not incld. Pls call845-265-3434

GARRISON 3BDRM 2BATHhouse renovated 1860 farmhouse, beamed ceilings,skylites, sub zero. Unique in-holding in Fahnestock StatePark amid 3500 acres of forest,lakes, water falls, meadows.Garrison school, lawn care,lake & beach permits incld.$2400/mo 845-265-2519

COLD SPRING/BEACON 9DMins, DIA, I84, RR, 70 NYC,Hudson Views, Boats, 3bdrm,den, 2 bth, $1600 914-584-7137 or 914-960-0069

GARRISONPROFESSIONALOffice Rental at The StoneHouse. Excellent Location, Rt9 at Putnam/Westchester bor-der. $475 Mo. Includes heat,electric, parking. 1 Mo FREERENT + $250 lease signingbonus for credit worthy tenant.Ref, Sec. Indian Brook Proper-ties 845-788-4191

OFFICE SPACE AVAILfor Healthcare Professional inCold Spring. 845-265-2275

GARRISON CHARMING3 bdrm 1 bth apt on horse farm.Hiking & trails. $1800/moinclds utils 845-424-3324

THREE TO FOUR BDRMhouse on large estate. Accessto trails, boat, dock, peaceful,private setting. $2,000/mo +utils. One mo Sec + last mo.914-621-8599

STORE FOR RENT IN THEheart of Main Street ColdSpring. $950/month 845-424-3478

ONE BDRM STUDIO COT-TAGE w/loft. Newly reno-vated. Avail Nov 1, $1,000/mo+ utils. Close to train, Refs.845-424-2323

COLD SPRING VILLAGERiverview apt, large 1BR, LRw/fplce, lots of closet space,central air, whirlpool tub, 1large deck directly facing river,1 private deck off BR in back.3 min walk to train and shops.Outdoor assigned pkng spotincld. Sec entrance, elevator,laundry room. $1625/mo + 1mo sec/no fee. Avail Nov 1.Laurie 914-906-3563

MISCBIJOU GALLERIES LTDNew vintage jewelry and booksplus other items. Come visitat 50 Main StreetCold Spring Daily 11-5Bijougalleries.com

VOTE RICHARD SHEAfor Philipstown Supervisor.More at sheaforsupervisor.comandphilipstowndc.wordpress.com

FREEFURNITURE, SOME NEWsome old, 10/24 9am-11am,come prepared to haul away.134 Hustis Road.

TAG SALECONTRACTOR SALE 9-4PM10/24, 2 Division StreetNelsonville, follow signs scaf-folding, saws, ladders, toomany tools to lift.

COLD SPRING VILLAGE2 BR cottage, New kitchen ap-pliances, cabinets, sink. Win-dow AC, ceiling fans. Newlypainted interior. Small yard. 1year lease. Ref, Sec, Fee.$1000/mo. Indian Brook Prop-erties 845-788-4191

SECOND FLOOR STUDIOw/private entrance; Cathedralceiling; brick wall; spiral stair-case to loft; w/w carpeting;ample closets; renovatedkitchen; walking distance toRR/Stores/Restaurants; HWincld; No pets/smoking. Sec/Refs. 845-265-9124

1 BDRM APT COLD SPRING$650/mo. Refs/Sec. Heat incld.845-265-2151 or 845-702-1303

LARGE STUDIO APTavailable in Cold Spring vil-lage. Utilities incld. 914-779-5999 $800/month

HELP WANTEDNEWSPAPER LABELERon Wed morning from 9amuntil finished. Must be depend-able and fast worker. Dutiesinclude labeling, bagging pa-pers, bundling papers, occa-sional inserts and delivery toPO. Call Put Co News 845-265-2468 ask for Carol.

SERVER POSITION AVAILat Hudson House River Inn,Cold Spring. Call Richard 845-265-9355

LOST BLACK CAT MALE1yr old not neutered. No collarlast seen Parrott St, ColdSpring. Name is Pluto. Cal 845-490-0892

FOUND ON 9D NEARManitoga. Black cat with or-ange spots (tortoise shell) andbright green eyes. Flea collarbut no ID collar. 845-424-6075

ANTIQUE SALE FARMtables old or custom made.Adirondack chairs, dressers,wash stands. Lots more. Whole-sale prices. Sun 11-5pm or byappointment. Tompkins Cor-ners on Peekskill Hollow Rd,Putnam Valley 845-225-6068

FIREWOOD SEASONEDsplit hardwoods, Oak, Maple,Ash, Locust. $200 full cord,delivered. Stacking avail 914-490-6310

IMAGE 15.5 S TREADMILLExcellent condition, lightlyused. Asking $100. Originally$375. 845-809-5155

GIRLS WHIMSICAL BDRMset. Perfect cond. Twin Bed +mattress set. Desk + Book hutchw/chair, dresser/mirror $700.845-424-4029

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