Photography Now 2017, the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual overview exhibit, opened last weekend as a popular glimpse of multiple modes being covered by the increasingly popular, all-encompassing medium.
With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley town supervisor candidates Republican/Conservative/ Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat/Green/ Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).
Can a candidate who lost both Democratic and Republican primaries win the general election against the two opponents who defeated him? That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20-vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with at least 217 absentee ballots still to count.
Saturday, Nov. 4: Poet and classical scholar Jim Handlin will speak in Woodstock about deciphering centuries-old cryptic works. Handlin’s solution to one work — if verifiable — is a mind-blowing revelation at a nexus of Jewish and Coptic mysticism and alchemy.
The November 7 election will represent the first time in over two decades that retiring GOP supervisor Gary Bellows has not been on the ballot. Republican John Perry will attempt to succeed him. Democrat Tracey Kellogg hopes to take the town in a different direction
The enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act has been cut in half and advertising is non-existent. In addition, so-called “navigators,” who help guide persons through the enrollment process, are scarce.
“One of the initial motivations for this series was our feeling that the Ashokan Center is an amazing venue for various groups of people to explore varied interests, a way to get away from the world at large and delve into some subjects with heart and brain.”
When Donald Elder, who opens an exhibit of new works at Elena Zang Gallery in Shady Saturday, October 28 (with an artist’s reception 2 p.m.-5 p.m.) for a three week run through November 19, moved into a new studio just steps from his garden-surrounded home several years ago, the painter seemed both enthused and exhausted.
“One of the pleasures of visiting friends in their homes is the opportunity to look at personal art collections,” write Paula Nelson and John Kleinhans in their catalogue introduction for the new exhibit they’ve curated for the Woodstock School of Art, Off The Walls: Artwork from our Patrons’ Collections, which opens on Saturday, October 21 for a run through December 16.
“Old age showers you with clarities and simplicities if you don’t struggle,” writes this former journalist who grew up in the Woodstock of the late 1930s and early 1940s.