Saturday, Mar. 30: The Hudson Valley takes “Flight” in the upcoming Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra presentation of music and pictures that will showcase the history of flying, from the earliest attempts all the way to space travel. The media presentation, created by local filmmaker Jarek Zabcynski, will also feature Hudson Valley flight, including the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and the Hudson Valley Balloon Festival.
Saturday, March 30: Aileen Weintraub tells the inspiring stories of early achievers in Never Too Young! 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference. The book became a best-seller when it debuted on Amazon, and won a Parents’ Choice Award. The Accord-based author has written more than 50 children’s books, with her next, Secrets of the American Museum of Natural History, due out this spring.
Thursday, Mar. 28: Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them; rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known.
It begins on April Fool’s, but it’s not a joke — as a result of the collapse in the global market for recyclables and the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency’s decision to stop accepting the city’s single-stream recycling, dual-stream recycling will commence Monday, April 1, the city announced March 13.
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will have two attorneys on hand to explain tenant rights and how they can represent themselves in court, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Kirkland Building, 2 Main St. in Uptown Kingston.
The results of the city of Kingston’s survey on what should be done with the canopies in Uptown Kingston are in. A wide majority of the 628 total responders – 77 percent – favor repairing and rebuilding the canopies. An equally wide majority – 74 percent – of the responding property owners who have Pike Plan easements favored tearing the canopies down.
Towne Crier trends Irish with Kevin McKrell and Donnybrook Fair on Friday, Flash Company on Sunday; New World Celtic Band plays Colony on Sunday; Full weekend of St. Patrick’s Day fun in East Durham.
Friday, Mar. 15: “Their show is not an autism awareness campaign, they say. They want people to laugh simply because they’re funny.”
Saturday, Mar. 16: If you suck them up with a vacuum or Dustbuster, you’ll have to live with their malodorous presence for days thereafter. Yes, we’re talking about stink bugs, those shield-shaped pests who come by their common name honestly, emitting a foul odor as a defense mechanism when threatened or disturbed.
Saturday-Sunday, March 23-24 and 30-31: With the largest resource of tappable maple trees within the US, New York State is a powerhouse in the production of this sweet treat.