Saugerties Times letters
Local elections are near, and most of this week’s letters concern the candidates for supervisor and town board.
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Ulster County Sheriff’s Department gets state grant for body cameras
Attorney General Letitia James today presented the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office with a check for $69,750 for body cameras. The grant will fund the purchase of 93 cameras.
New Paltz superintendent of schools announces resignation
New Paltz Central School District Superintendent Maria Rice, who has been at the helm for 14 years, announced her intent to retire, effective December 31, 2019. The Board of Education unanimously accepted her resignation at the Wednesday, October 16 meeting.
Dutchess Fairgrounds host NYS Sheep & Wool Festival
Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 17-20: There will be opportunities to shop for wool, learn different crafts, admire llamas and alpacas on parade and root for your favorite sheepdog.
Remember the Burning of Kingston
Friday-Saturday, October 18-19. While a reenactment of the Redcoats’ landing and skirmish with the local militia at Kingston Point won’t be happening this year, some new features have been added to the semiannual commemoration of the disastrous sequence of events in 1777, when British forces took over the city, setting buildings afire as they moved from east to west.
Brew U Beer Festival returns to CIA
Saturday, Oct. 19: Guests can tour the CIA brewery with head brewer Hutch Kugeman, talk to local and regional brewers, taste their beers and learn what’s unique about their breweries, all while enjoying food for which the CIA is world-famous.
VegFest brings “two days of fun, activism and food” to Kingston
Saturday/Sunday, October 19/20: The third annual VegFest comes to BSP with cooking demonstrations, music, screenings, speakers and dozens of holistic vendors in the daytime and a concert of music, art and poetry by vegan artists, called Kingston Animalia, on Saturday evening.
Slow handwriting rules at Kingston’s Brush & Reed
Saturday, Oct. 19: Perhaps the only studio of its kind, Kingston’s Brush & Reed Fine Art Calligraphy Studio is devoted entirely to the craft, aesthetics and truly global history of the calligraphic traditions.
Jay Leno to perform at UPAC in Kingston
Friday, Oct. 18: The acclaimed late-night TV show host, standup comedian, best-selling children’s book author, corporate speaker, TV and movie voiceover artist, pioneering car builder and mechanic and philanthropist has earned the moniker “the hardest-working man in show business.”
Bard hosts second annual John Cage Mycology Weekend
Saturday/Sunday, Oct. 19/20: Besides being among the most revolutionary of 20th-century classical composers, John Cage was also an avid amateur mycologist. His interest in mushrooms was literally born out of hunger during the Depression, when he would take the specimens he’d foraged near his home in Carmel, California to the local library to see if they were edible. He spent much of the rest of his life collecting and studying fungi, even supplying upscale New York restaurants such as the Four Seasons with mushrooms he gathered in the local (reachable by subway) wild.