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The Gardiner GazetteA call to community

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Also in this issue ...

Coyote-Wolf Hybrids, pg. 2

News from Town Hall, pg. 3

Ulster County Poorhouse, pg. 4

Christmas DJ, pg. 5

Just A Bite, pg. 6

Passings of Note, pg. 7

Solar Installations pg. 8

Builder Dave Gervais, pg. 9

Artist Greg Glasson, pg. 10

New Farmer’s Market, pg. 12

Dance Studio, pg. 14

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh ...

On Friday, December 5th at 7:00 pm, members of the com-munity will meet at Gardiner Gables for a stroll through town. We will sing Christmas carols, and then meet at the Town Hall for refreshments and merry making. Stay for the tree light-ing outside town hall to cele-brate the coming in of the holi-days!

This issue marks the Gazette’s fifth year, and in the process of indexing past articles, we real-ized that 86 Gardiner residents have submitted articles during that time. This is an extraordi-nary level of participation.

We’ve had contributors as young as 12; we’ve had very personal articles about fleet-ing encounters with someone or something that captured the essence of who we are as a community; we’ve had mem-oirs, articles about nature and art, and articles of interest to dog lovers, horse lovers, bird lovers and turtle lovers. There

were many, many informative articles about services and programs we should all know about.

Almost none of the people who contributed articles have been “writers.” They are resi-dents who felt they had a story to share, something that would resonate with the rest of the community, and we have loved every one of their contributions. Would the next 86 of you please start lin-ing up now? We’re excited to think what the next five years could bring.

Crossing the Waters: Aqueduct Connector Gives

Gardiner A Potential Tap by Ray Smith

A mile and a half south of Ireland Corners, just off of Route 208 in the town of Gar-diner, the Catskill and Delaware Aqueducts cross each other. The Catskill at that point is about 14 feet in diameter and at surface level in a “cut and cover” style of construc-tion where the bottom half of a pipeline is buried below ground level and the upper part is covered by mounded earth. The Delaware is some 600 to 700 feet below the surface of the ground. Together, the two aqueducts supply New York City with about one billion gallons of water per day from six upstate reservoirs.

At present, the site is surrounded by chain link fence, watched over 24/7 and entered

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A chamber with pipes coming from the Delaware Aqueduct Shaft 4 that will eventually be extended to the Catskill Aqueduct to allow water to flow from the Delaware to the Catskill.

Photo courtesy NY City DEP.

The Gazette ... 86 Guest Writers Later

by Carol O’Biso

The Gardiner Gazette, Fall 2014

Issue #24, page 2

Have you been wakened during the night by the yips and howls of a band of coyotes? Some people regard them as frightening, others as thrilling. However you regard these animals, which have been called coyotes for decades, you might be surprised to learn that they are actually coyote-wolf hy-brids.

Our northeastern coyote, a wolf/western coyote hybrid, is larger than the western coyote—more wolf size—and tends to have more variables in fur color. R.W. Kays, former Curator of Mammals at the New York State Museum and now a zoologist at the North Caro-lina Museum of Natural Sciences, studied coyotes from New Jersey to Maine, and Jonathan Way, wild-life biologist with Eastern Coyote Research, studied coyotes around Cape Cod and Boston. Both teams of scientists found that the animals carry both wolf and coyote DNA.

On a PBS Nature program Dr. Kays showed three skulls, the largest that of the wolf, equipped for eating elk, moose and deer; the smallest that of the western coy-ote, which preys on rabbits, mice and fruit. The eastern coyote or coywolf has the middle size, with powerful jaws and large teeth suit-able for consuming deer.

The story begins with European colonization, when settlers de-forested the land and hunted and

poisoned the eastern wolf out of existence in the north-east. The remaining wolves abandoned their territory and migrated to Canada, where they bred with the Great Plains coyotes who were pushing eastward. Their de-scendants bred with coyotes and dogs. When agriculture moved to the Midwest, the coyotes followed the deer to the reforested northeast. Now they have pushed south to Virginia and east to Newfoundland. Dr. Kays estimates that the Eastern Coyote’s hybrid ancestry has allowed it to expand its range five times faster than non-hybrid coyotes could have. They continue to evolve.

They are social animals that travel alone or in packs and mate for life. In their jazzy howl one can sound like four. The astonishing thing about this animal is how readily it has adapted to sharing the landscape with humans. Al-though there are occasional reports of attacks on people and pets, for the most part, they live quietly and stealthi-ly beside us, little noticed. This includes urban centers; Chicago alone has a popula-tion estimated at 2,000, where they are the primary predators of Canada Geese! The hybrid is thriving, often using railroad tracks for their pathways into urban envi-ronments. They are smart and resilient but, like other wild animals, they can be-come a nuisance if fed by humans, so please don’t. Next time you hear one, en-joy the chorus and respect their ingenuity!

Northeastern Coyote Is Wolf Hybrid

by Anne Allbright Smith

A northeastern Coywolf. Photo: Internet

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Issue #24, page 3

Town Budget: as The Gazette went to press, the Town Board was working on the budget for 2015. As usual, the biggest job for the Board is to fund all the New York State mandates without raising taxes above the two percent ceiling. The chal-lenge for every city and state is affording to maintain its in-frastructure, which is always in a state of deterioration. For in-stance, the Clove Road Bridge needs to be rebuilt. The town will have to find money for this project and other town roads from grants, bonds and tax payer dollars.

Gardiner Day 2014: Gardiner Day is conceived and oper-ated by Gardiner volunteers to create a free community gath-ering for the people of Gar-diner. The proceeds of many paid events organized and produced by the Gardiner Day

Committee during the year fund this event, allowing all of us to have a day to con-gregate and enjoy our sense of community with no admis-sion fee. This year the weath-er was stunning for five days before and after. On Gardiner Day, however, it poured. In spite of the rain, many Gar-dinerites came and showed their support for this wonder-ful town event. This was the first Gardiner Day where we could actually hear the Star Spangled Banner being sung! Nicole Ferrante sang it beau-

Photo: Anne A. Smith

News From Town Hall

by Laurie Willow

tifully, and our ability to hear her so well is solely due to the brand new 15-speaker, state-of-the-art sound system the Gardiner Day Committee donated and installed at Ma-jestic Park! The Gardiner Day Committee is a great way to become more involved in town. If you are interested in working on a great commit-tee, call Jewell, at Town Hall, 255-9675, extension 103.

The Former Library: As the Gazette went to press, the old Gardiner library at 5 Station Square in the Hamlet was about to have a new owner. The auction was set through AARAuctions.com—for Oc-tober 13, 2014 through Oc-tober 15—with no minimum starting bid. The building is a commercially-zoned, two sto-ry building with 1,875 square feet. It is rife with Gardiner history, having served as the fire station for many years before it was the library.

Water Monitoring Program: As reported previously in The Ga-zette, the water monitoring pro-gram has begun, though much more has been accomplished since your last reading. A base-line reading has been attained from all five wells. Each well is now equipped with a transducer to monitor water levels. As more data are collected, this informa-tion becomes an invaluable tool toward developing downtown Gardiner both residentially and commercially.

Gardiner Employee Hand-book: Supervisor Zatz and the Town Board have concluded writing part one of the new Gar-diner Employee Handbook. This is an ongoing process to deal with the increased complexities of human resource manage-ment. Part one is comprised of wages and compensation, per-formance and conduct, and the safety of employees.

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As most of us know, for many years the Ulster County Fair and the Ulster County Poor House shared the fairground (“A Colorful History of the Ulster County Fair,” Gardiner Gazette, Spring 2014). Intrigued, I interviewed Susan St-essin-Cohn and Dr. Carleton Ma-bee, the Town Historians of New Paltz and Gardiner respectively. Ms. Stessin-Cohn, in the words of The New York Times, has “made it her mission to speak for… any-one… who had died, forgotten and ignored, in the poorhouse.”

The poorhouse system came into prominence locally dur-ing the period from July 4, 1827 through 1848, partly as result of the freeing of slaves in New York State. Known as manumission, the formal release of slaves was purposely phased over decades, presumably so the economy could supply jobs for the influx of former slaves to the workforce. Where this failed, the poorhouses took up the overflow. Poorhouses were not just for people down on their luck, however. They were filled with the “intemperate,” the insane, those of below-average intelligence, unwed mothers, crippled old people, and children as young as four. During the Irish potato famine in the 1850s, starv-ing 14-16 year old Irish boys got off the boat at the Rondout with ship’s fever and were unable to work; the poorhouse ethnicity changed a lot during that time. Immigrants came from many countries, and the County rented houses to put them up. There was a nearby Lithuania House and a neighboring German House.

Today’s welfare system—which-ever side of the debate you are on—is our version of what the poorhouse was then. Even be-fore the poorhouse system,

there were four ways that people unable to support themselves were “cared for” by the County. The first was fairly kindly; friends or family members signed a contract to take care of a pauper for a set price. The second, decid-edly less kindly, was known as binding out; a pauper was contractually given to a per-son as an indentured ser-vant. For boys this was until they were 21 years old; for girls, until 18. The most Dra-conian was public auctioning. Paupers were auctioned off to the lowest bidder. That’s right ... the County gave you away to the person who bid the least for your upkeep! Talk about threats to one’s self-esteem. The County was then responsible for paying an annual fee for the upkeep of this pauper. Finally, there was outdoor relief, where a pauper would be given a certain minimal weekly allow-ance for their support.

The conditions at the poor-house, including lack of heat and ventilation and treatment of the mentally ill using medi-eval wall-chaining, were no bed of roses but, ironically, they were non-discriminatory; conditions were bad regard-less of your race, creed, reli-gion or former financial sta-tus. And, as punctuation to an already hard life, to make way for the Ulster County Fair-ground swimming pool, it was eventually necessary to ex-hume the bodies of those for-mer residents who ended up in the poorhouse graveyard.

Susan Stessin-Cohn was so moved by the poorhouse story, and by this final degra-

dation, that she sought (and received) agreement from Trina Greene, sculptor of the Sojourner Truth statue in Port Ewen, to create a memorial statue and they are hoping to form a legislative subcommit-tee that would then look into funding. The statue would stand on the Ulster County Fairground as a tribute to the strength of the individual and the compassion of the com-munity. Such a monument would be the right thing to do. Those who would turn back

the clock on the current welfare system are advised to study the poorhouse system a little better before actually doing it. Undoubt-edly, the next version of welfare will not be a backward but a for-ward step, probably including the retraining of people to use their faculties in ways that will make them not paupers, but valued by other people to the degree that they are willing to pay them for their work.

To learn more about The Poor-house Project visit http://ulster-countyny.gov/poorhouse.

The Ulster County Poorhouse: A Welfare System Of Its Time

by Bill Harvey

The Ulster County Poorhouse complex c. 1910. Photo: H.L. Schultz

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Issue #24, page 5

Have you ever heard the Temp-tations sing “My Girl” in German? Or Lesley Gore declaring “You Don’t Own Me” in French? How about the Police singing “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da in Japa-nese? I expected as much.

Gardiner’s Mark Rosen can play the above for you along with about 70 other hit songs he owns sung in foreign languages by the original artists. But perhaps his zeal for the non-traditional and offbeat is best demonstrated by his rather large collection of rock ‘n’ roll Christmas music, which he has been sharing with the Hudson Valley for the last 31 years on his Christmas Eve radio program, carried first on WPDH, now on ROCK 93.3 and online.

Mark retired in 2009 after 35 years of teaching English at Middletown High School. A re-cord buyer since the age of six, he eventually hosted a radio program at SUNY New Paltz, and in 1982 was the winner of a “Be a DJ” contest on WPDH. Required to submit a five song playlist, he did one better and sent an accompanying letter which just might have squeezed out his competitors. “The letter assured the station that I was a high school teacher and not one of their quaalude-addled listeners,” Mark laughs. He met

people at the station, pitched his Christmas show, and got a 2 hour stint alongside a WPDH DJ that year (and eventually his own show, “Strictly Sixties” which ran for nine months). The show then evolved into an annual five hour affair.

Mark’s passion for rock ‘n roll Christmas music began in 1979 after hearing Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith group play Huey “Piano” Smith’s obscure chestnut “Rock ‘n’ Roll Santa Claus.” He then happened upon a sealed copy of the record in a hole in the wall music shop in Poughkeepsie a week later. He was hooked, and his pas-sion led him to fashion the holiday show that became a staple at WPDH for 29 years. Two years ago, Mark was wooed over to ROCK 93.3, where he continues to play his unique brand of Christmas cheer. “The station allows me to bring in whatever I like, and I like to take full advantage of their generosity,” Rosen says adding, “I’m 99% sure that I have the longest running ra-dio show in the Hudson Val-ley, even though I’ve logged less than 200 hours over the years.“

In addition to his yearly gig, Mark works occasionally at Jack’s Rhythms. While record stores are slowly vanishing, New Paltz boasts two, thriv-ing within very close proxim-ity. Rhino Records and Jack’s are owned by friends who cross-refer customers and attract music lovers from far and wide. Mark not only talks, plays and sells music; he has also written about it. In 1990, he wrote an article for Gold-mine Magazine, the record collector’s bible. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Wrap-Up” traced the history of rock ‘n’ roll Christmas mu-sic from the pre-rock years through the 80’s.

The former English teacher sees lyrics and musical style as litera-ture. Mark adds, “Music, like litera-ture, comes from and reflects a culture and alters that culture.” And who can deny being altered by the music we listen to and love? Treat yourself to his personal col-lection of alternative Christmas music on ROCK 93.3 this Christ-mas Eve from seven to midnight. You might hear the beatnik “Cool Yule” by Donny Burns, the surf-rockin’ Hawaii Mud Bombers do-ing “Santa’s Wish,” or “Silent Night” by the Dickies. And if these should lack musical appeal for you, you can stop in at Jack’s and ask to hear “She Loves You”... in German.

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Each week the staff at Lombar-di’s Restaurant sets up the res-taurant foyer with a pasta rolling machine and some drying racks that most of us mere mortals would use to hang just-laun-dered socks. From the kitchen they carry dense, rich, golden dough in multiple ten-pound batches and, with deft hands, produce fettuccine, whole wheat fettuccine, spaghetti, lasagna, cavatelli, ravioli and manicotti. Occasionally they crank out a

special for good measure, like spinach fettuccine.

It’s actually not easy to make homemade pasta, no matter how good your ingredients are. How do I know that it can end up soft and mushy when you boil it, or that it can end up cracking and falling apart? I don’t want to talk about it! Restaurant co-owner Agatha Foti, however, learned to make pasta from her mother, Pierina Lom-bardi, who learned from her mother, and made pasta the same way when she was a girl in Italy. You might say they’ve got it down.

Agatha’s husband, co-owner Paul Foti, says that while various types of house made

pasta have been on the menu since the restaurant opened in 1973, demand has increased exponentially. The Fotis and their staff now produce about 200 pounds a week. Before you start trying to imagine the equivalent of 200 one pound boxes of dry pasta marching off into infinity, keep in mind that freshly made pasta still has a great deal of water-weight, so it takes less vol-ume to get to 200 pounds. Still, that’s a lot of pasta.

There’s a reason for this dra-matic increase. The pasta Lombardi’s produces is very, very good, and superior to the conventional dry pasta with which we are all familiar. The taste is richer and, without wanting to sound too uppity, I’d have to say that its textural complexity makes the differ-ence. Dry pasta, even the best quality dry pasta, is what it is when you first bite into it. Good homemade pasta on the other hand, reveals itself as you chew, managing to be both chewy and soft at the same time.

So far, we’re not even talk-ing about what the Fotis put on all this wonderful pasta. We’re just talking about the superior quality of the noodles themselves. Now imagine, for example, those soft, chewy sheets of manicotti noodles

Just A Bite ...Excellent house made pasta at Lombardi’s

by Carol O’Biso

Above: Paul Foti’s cousin Anthony Carubia and staff member (and Gardiner resident) Tony Garcia make fettucine in the restaurant foyer. Left: The array of home made pastas. Photos: Carol O’Biso

stuffed with veal, spinach and ricotta and topped with an excel-lent tomato sauce. Dream about whole wheat fettuccine dressed in olive oil, garlic and spinach, or about eleven layer lasagna. It’s really not that hard to eat too much when you go there.

The Fotis, like most true Italians, cook their pasta very al dente, which means literally “to the tooth.” It is quite firm. if you like your pasta softer, mention that when you order. Lombardi’s is open 4 PM Monday through Sun-day. Closed on Tuesdays. They will be closed from December 22nd to January 27th.

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Editor’s Note: The Gardiner Ga-zette is not in a position to include obituaries on a regular basis. We are, however, sometimes moved to comment on the passing of residents who have touched more lives than most. Here are three such people ...

Maggie McDowell died on September 16 at the age of 88. She lived in Gar-diner for over 25 years and most of us knew her as

a real estate agent. Maggie also served on the library fundraising committee leading up to con-struction of the new library; orga-nized the docents for the Wallkill Valley Land Trust house tours; raised sheep for 4-H and market lambs for Greek Easter and gave spinning and weaving demos to grade schoolers.

Maggie was a trooper. She took flying lessons, hoping to get into World War II, but it ended before she could enlist. Undaunted, she went skydiving in Gardiner to cel-ebrate her 75th birthday. In her own “auto-obituary” in the Pough-keepsie Journal Maggie said, “My ....dearest family and friends. It has been a wonderful trip, not perfect, but wonderful. My pride in my family is boundless.” Mag-gie will be sorely missed.

Three Passings Of Special Noteby Laurie Willow

Bill Stamat-edes passed away on Au-gust at 97. He was an avid commun i t y servant. The

brother of Irene Majestic, Bill was a long-time member and former Commissioner of the Gardiner Volunteer Fire De-partment, a founding mem-ber of the Gardiner Parks and Recreation Commission and an active member of the Gardiner Reformed Church. Bill was also a correction of-ficer at the Wallkill Prison, re-tiring after 33 years, and an active member of the Adonai Masonic Lodge and the New Paltz post of the American Legion. Above all, Bill en-joyed the company of his extensive family and friends, creating many fond memo-ries throughout his long and happy life. Survivors include his wife Lois and many niec-es and nephews.

Jay A. LeFe-vre passed away on Au-gust 28th after a brief illness. He was 89. Jay was a life-long and very

proud resident of New Paltz/

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Issue #24, page 8

With the increasing number of solar energy companies practic-ing in the Gardiner and New Paltz areas and a dramatic increase in homeowners installing solar systems on their homes, it is im-portant to understand what the issues are and why homeowners are installing these systems now.

Reasons range from the obvious desire to save money, to want-ing to produce clean energy and save the planet; solar is a small but significant way to make life better for the next generation. Solar offers a chance to reduce reliance on the electricity grid and sometimes even sell power to electricity companies. It also offers protection against the vol-atile costs of commercially avail-able electricity since solar ener-gy typically offers a lower, fixed rate compared to the rising costs from conventional energy.

Some people just think solar en-ergy is the right thing to do and are glad that the technology, state incentives and a range of companies have made it widely available. According to most professionals in the field, the dominant reason involves sav-ing money and energy.

The current growth of solar in-stallations is also due to sev-eral government incentives. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) provides cash grants to homeowners who decide to install solar sys-tems since the department is charged with advancing “inno-vative energy solutions in ways that improve New York’s econo-my and environment.” Its vision

is to transform New York’s economy and empower peo-ple to choose clean and ef-ficient energy as part of their everyday lives.

Besides the cash grant pro-vided by NYSERDA, the fed-eral government provides a 30% tax credit and the state government a 25% tax cred-it—capped at $5,000—for in-stalling a solar system. With similar incentives in other states, 42,000 systems were installed in the last quarter of 2014, and one of the fastest growing areas of installation (north of Consolidated Edi-son territory) is the Gardiner-New Paltz area.

At present there are three ways to acquire solar en-ergy panels: lease; loan to purchase; and outright pur-chase. Under a lease agree-ment a homeowner arranges with a solar company to in-stall the company’s system on the person’s roof or yard. The solar company owns and maintains the equipment and provides the householder with electricity at an estab-lished rate that is part of the contract written in advance. In a loan to purchase situa-tion, the homeowner hires the solar company to install the system and borrows money from the solar com-pany using either a monthly payment plan or a portion of the savings from having solar energy to pay off the loan. When the loan is paid off, the homeowner owns the system free and clear. In the purchase model, the hom-

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Gardiner/New Paltz Areaby Fred Mayo

eowner arranges with a solar company to have a system installed and pays for it. The homeowner owns the system and maintains it (or can sign a maintenance agreement with the company, similar to a service contract with an oil or furnace company).

Another reason that solar installations are moving for-ward at a fast rate is the ease of obtaining permits. In New Paltz and Gardiner, the per-mitting process used to be more difficult and require a careful review and approval. Currently, the application is a short form and the approval is almost automatic.

The rate that homeowners pay for solar energy can vary widely depending on

the type of installation, the ex-posure of the solar cells to the direct rays of the sun (how much shade), the tilt of the system, and its size. Each situation is differ-ent; however, homeowners with solar pay less than the regular rate for electricity, and they have a fixed rate per kilowatt hour whereas the rates charged by Central Hudson and other pro-viders are likely to increase over the foreseeable future.

Solar energy is a growing source of energy in this area and some-thing worth looking into for every homeowner. Although it may not be for everyone, improved technology and financing sys-tems are designed to encourage more people to use it and con-tribute their part to keeping the planet green.

Solar panels being installed on the O’Dowd residence in New Paltz. Photo: Fred Mayo

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Issue #24, page 9

working under the auspices of his own company, G-2 Construction, David is reno-vating an office building on Main Street in the Village of New Paltz that will be the offices for Allen Ross Archi-tecture. When asked about Dave’s work, Mr. Ross said, “I can’t imagine anyone do-ing a better job than Dave is doing there. His work is just fantastic.” High praise com-

David Gervais: A Builder With 36 Years Under His (Tool) Belt

by Laurie Willow

fact, Dave actually started out in the painting business, and then moved into carpentry. He will still paint occasionally if carpentry is slow, but he prefers carpentry.

Dave and his wife Cheryl cur-rently live in the Tillson Lake area in a house that David built himself. Dave can be reached at (845) 926-6736.

I sat down across the table from David Gervais at the Vil-lage Market and Bakery and talked about Gardiner and his part in renovations and build-ing here. David has 36 years of experience in painting, car-pentry and contracting. He has worked with other con-tractors in the area as well as on his own jobs.

Last summer, Dave was part of the renovation of Susan Eckert’s building across from the Village Market. “That was a great job,” said David. “We took the building that was almost condemnable and turned it into a very sweet and viable building just waiting for its new renter.” On that job, David worked as part of the crew for Dana Wilkinson of Wilkinson Builders. Currently,

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The creative odyssey of Gregory Glasson began in Capetown, South Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope to Durban, contin-ued northward to London, and finally crossed the Atlantic to the NYC environs, Canada and Central America before settling in Gardiner. This classically-trained sculptor took many excit-ing detours that influenced the rich artistic life he leads today.

Gregory was brought up as an outdoorsman-surfing in the In-dian Ocean, down-river kayak-ing, wandering the Southern part of Africa on safaris that exposed him to wildlife, otherworldly land forms and the wonders of un-spoiled nature. His father was a civil engineer who gravitated to sculpture in his retirement, expos-ing his young son to sculpture.

Greg went on to art school in Durban where he be-came aware of the political upheavals apartheid was bringing to South Africa. It was time to leave, and in 1972 he went to London where he assisted South African and Royal Academy sculptors, and travelled ex-tensively throughout Europe, self-educating himself in its museums, architecture and classical ruins.

It was his good fortune to travel to Long Island to set up a sister studio for his South African London men-tor and from there he began a long and varied career in the sculptural arts. In the 1980s he owned Alva Mu-seum Reproductions, a company making fine-art replicas for the Metropoli-tan Museum, the Louvre and others. He also started the New York Art Foundry in Long Island City, casting fine art bronze sculptures for up and coming NY sculptors. At the same time, his own sculpture commission work was taking off and his works are now found in NYC, Long Island, Cape Cod, Washing-ton and Chicago.

In the late 80s he was ap-proached by the then-editor of National Geographic to do replicas of Mayan stel-lae, altars, and artifacts for preservation purposes in

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development, delivery and installation of sculpture worldwide. He worked for Polich Art Foundry for two and a half years and then went in to his own consulting and “anything sculptural” business. Greg lived in Cold Spring before discovering “the most spectacular Sha-wangunk landscape.” He has lived in Gardiner since 2007 and loves it here. He runs his own studio in Gar-diner where he does com-mission work, mold-making and concept development for other sculptors and de-signers. His hands-on odys-sey continues unabated! www.g lassonscu lp ture-works.com.

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Gazette, from page 1

While authorship is up, how-ever, donations are down. The Gazette’s advertisers are what keep us going and we cannot thank them enough for their sup-port. We con-sistently clear costs, but mar-gins are slim and advertis-ing revenue for each issue covers exactly that issue.

The donations you sent in our early years were a good and necessary buffer. It’s prob-ably good to think of the Ga-zette in the same way you might think of a volunteer fire department; to keep provid-ing you with this service, we need your assistance every year, not just once.

It’s been a great five years. Help us make the next five even bet-ter!

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As reported in our sum-mer issue, former Gardiner Farmers’ Market manager, George Jacobs, was look-ing for an apprentice. He found one! Her name is Andy Rose, and she has ac-companied George to the recently revived Gardiner Farmers’ Market. But lest you misunderstand: This is not the green market that George, Gardiner farmer Insook Cheon, and Annie O’Neill (one of the founders) helped establish several years ago.

Since Gardiner farmers seem to have other ways to sell their produce, our mar-ket has now taken on a dif-ferent tone. Under the new management of Korey Find-

ley of Winterton Farm in Bloom-ingburg, NY, who has brought back other farmers’ markets in the area, the offerings now in-cludes crochet and knitwear, pottery, jewelry, honey, organic elixirs, local breads and chees-es, jams, pickles, wine, and a curbside cuisine food truck. Insook and George continue to present their unusual fresh veggies, herbs and plants, and Annie continues to help out.

It’s different! Try it. By the time you read this, the market will have completed its summer/fall Friday afternoon season next to the rail trail in the hamlet. Right now the plans are for a continuation into winter, but the location has yet to be deter-mined. As soon as we have details we will post them on our Facebook page.

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The Gardiner Farmers’ Market last summer. Photo: Anne Allbright Smith

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Gracie is the four month old Golden Doodle puppy of the Gazette’s General Manager and Treasurer (full disclosure: that’s me) who was forced to do the

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Gracie was spared the rod because she’s a puppy and that’s what puppies do (and then there are those goo-goo eyes!) but the Gazette’s Gen-eral Manager and Treasurer was sternly advised by the Ed-itorial Committee to stop using the dog as assistant treasurer. An agreement to this effect has been reached. Gracie will now serve in an advisory ca-pacity only.

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Congratulations to Gardiner residents Nancy Terranova and Janine Daly, who are celebrat-ing the tenth anniversary of Got Rhythm? Dance Studio. Got Rhythm? opened in 2005 with 125 students in a 400 square foot room on the second floor of Gardiner Gables. One year later it moved to its current loca-tion on Osprey Lane. The facility includes two large dance stu-dios with barres, wooden floors, mirrors, and viewing windows so that parents can watch their children in class, something es-pecially important for the young-est students, who start at three years old.

The environment is very welcom-ing, with comfortable couches, a table with chairs for students to do homework, and a chang-ing room, rest room, office, and dance shop. Decorating the walls are pictures of classes from each year the school has been open, images which lead students to identify friends and parents to recognize both their children and other children they know.

The philosophy of the school focuses on enjoyment and in-volvement. “We are a recre-ational, fun, affordable school,” said Studio Director Janine Daly. “We do not want a competitive environment. We want children to learn proper technique in a friendly environment.” She builds a relationship with each student and does everything she can to make students feel good about their dance class experience.

Approximately two hundred students take classes at the school in a wide range of areas

Gardiner Dance Studio Celebrates Ten Years

by Fred Mayo

– covering tap, ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical dance, and hip-hop – taught by six teachers, each with a specialty. For the younger students – aged three and up – there are kind-er classes; students aged 5 and 6 take jazz and tap com-bination class and pre-hip hop. All types of dance are open to students aged 7 and up. There is even an adult tap class. Each June, all the students perform in a recital at Wallkill High School.

One of the teachers, who now studies at SUNY New Paltz, even started her dance career ten years ago at Got Rhythm?. Their most dedicated student is Frank Davis, a teacher and coach who retired many years ago from New Paltz Central High School. He continues to study tap and performs in the June recital.

Some students take one class a week, others two or more, but approximately twenty students take three or four classes a week. Each

of the classes is fifty-five minutes. Students may be at the school one or more days a week, depending on what classes they are taking and the schedule of those classes. Enrollment changes throughout the fall – registration runs from June to mid-December – as stu-dents complete other physi-cal activities and decide to take indoor dance classes.

Got Rhythm? contributes to the community by perform-ing on Gardiner Day and by providing a chaperoned environment for after school activities. The New Paltz Central School District bus-es even drop students off at Osprey Lane – at three dif-ferent times – and the chil-dren are met by school staff so that they can relax at Got Rhythm? in a safe, active, and chaperoned environ-ment. They bring their own snacks, do their homework, and attend dance classes

in the late afternoons. Got Rhythm? also cooperates with the Girl Scouts on a Dance Patch. During the ten months – September to June – that the school is open, the school also offers several types of birthday parties, holding several each month. Launching a dance studio was Studio Director Janine Daly’s dream when she was seven years old. She started dancing at age six and a year later real-ized she wanted to own and op-erate a dance studio. In her youth, she babysat for many children, often leading them in dance activities and choreo-graphed events. After complet-ing an Associate’s degree in Performing Arts, she began teaching dance and has never looked back. Her enthusiasm for helping children feel good and her desire to help them re-alize that they can dance if they really want to have led to the success of this Gardiner busi-ness.

Studio Director Janine Daly. Photo: Fred Mayo

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The connection will allow the DEP to reduce turbidity in the Catskill supply after extremely large storms by mixing it with clearer Delaware water and will facilitate two other projects over the next decade. The DEP will shut down the Catskill Aqueduct for two 10 week periods in 2016 and 2017 to replace century-old valves and clean the tunnel lin-ing to maximize its carrying ca-pacity. In 2021-2022, the Dela-ware Aqueduct will be closed to repair two leaks, during which time the Catskill Aqueduct will

be relied upon more heavily for New York City’s water.

Completion of the work on the connector in Gardiner is expected during the summer of 2015. The project will also include a tap for the Town of Gardiner, should we ever de-cide to avail ourselves of New York City’s water supply. We spoke with Adam Bosch, Di-rector of Public Affairs, NYC DEP, Bureau of Water Sup-ply. He explained: “Any com-munity through which city water infrastructure runs has a right by law to purchase water from the system. They don’t have to get permission; it’s not like we can say yes or no; they have a lawful right to use that water. Now of course we have to approve their en-gineering plan to get that wa-ter. They have to pay to make the connection; they have to run their own water lines and

then, of course, they have to pay for the water. The rate paid by upstate communities is about a third of the cost in the city because the cost of maintaining the infrastructure in the city is subtracted; and the upstate communities are buying raw, untreated water from our system. The water supply agreements also re-quire that municipalities have a backup water source if the aqueduct has to be shut down for any reason.” (New Paltz now relies on the Catskill Aq-ueduct for nearly all its water, and must find an alternative

source before the 2016 closing for cleaning and repair.)

The Town of Gardiner has no current plans to use city water, but taps for municipalities must be run through existing aque-duct shafts. Since Shaft 4 of the Delaware Aqueduct was opened to create the connect-er, the DEP felt it worth making the installation just in case. This consists of a pipe down the shaft to the Delaware Aq-ueduct with an accessible valve above ground should Gardiner ever decide to use city water. CommentBack




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The Gardiner Gazette PO Box 333 Gardiner, NY 12525 [email protected] www.gardinergazette.com

Editorial Committee:Fred MayoKathy MuessigCarol O’BisoBarbara SidesAnne SmithRay SmithLaurie Willow

Carol O’Biso, General Manager Jason Stern, Ad Manager

Contributing Writers: Bill HarveyAnnie O’Neill

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About This NewsletterThe Gardiner Gazette is a quarterly publication funded entirely by advertising and contributions. Dates are as follows:

Winter, Feb. 18 release (Submission deadline January 8) Spring, May 6 release (Submission deadline March 30) Summer, Aug. 7 release (Submission deadline July 2) Fall, Nov. 14 release (Submission deadline October 1)

Articles (usually between 350 and 450 words) are written by com-munity members, not reporters. If you would like to submit an article for consideration, please contact us. Articles do not promote any particular person or point of view. Articles promoting businesses are written by our editorial committee. To suggest a business to feature, please contact us.

Peter Nathan, center. Photo courtesy Peter Nathan.

Gardiner Resident Wins World Weightlifting Championship

Gardiner resident Peter Nathan won a gold medal at the 2014 Masters World Weightlifting Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark, in early September. Nathan, 62, was already US National Champion and Pan Am Games Champion in his age/weight class when he left for Copenhagen on August 30th. He was hopeful that a gold medal was in his future, but he was facing tough competition.

“Being a 62-year-old competitor at the world level is an in-credible challenge,” he says. Nathan, a three-time CrossFit Games competitor, an exercise physiologist, and a Starting Strength staff trainer, began training seriously in Olympic style weightlifting just three years ago.

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Spectacular Mountain Views from expansive living spaces

3 Bedrooms, den, 3 Baths Cooks Kitchen Manicured 2.5 acre Open airy floor plan Town of New Paltz

68 acres meadows & woods Original wide plank floors Heated workshop Many additional out buildings On National Historic Registry Fireplaces in 2 bedrooms &

living room

Simply Charming Country Homes

Exclusive Cape Cod home Totally Handicap Accessible Wrap around front porch Wide plank oak floors Custom Mahogany Kitchen Open Floor plan Town of Gardiner

Perfect for Extended Family 5 BR - 3Full Bath 3 Car Garage Rocking Chair Front Porch Tranquil Setting Town of Gardiner

Active 41 acre working farm Complete Renovation & addi-

tion in 2008 5BR’s - 2.5 Baths High-end AGA appliances Mushroom wood cabinets Large Gambrel roof 2 story

barn

New Construction Nestled at the end of a cul-

de-sac Hardwood floors w/radiant

heat Efficient propane heat Majestic views Town of Gardiner

2 car heated garage Expansive deck Master bedroom w/ walk in

closet Stainless appliances New kitchen 2 acres in Town of Gardiner

LOTS/LAND FOR SALE NEW PALTZ: 13.6 acres ready to build on $145,000 NEW PALTZ: .70 acres in mature neighborhood $65,000 LLOYD: 1.52 acres BOHA $55,000 PLATTEKILL: 5.6 acres on private wooded site $74,500 WALLKILL: 9.6 acres with meandering stream $99,000

$550,000 $650,000 $525,000

$325,000 $1,300,000 $489,000 $549,000

$400,000 $219,000

$279,000

$489,000

Colucci Shand Realty, Inc. (845) 255-3455

2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY 12525 www.ColucciShandRealty.com

SOLD IN ESOPUS FOR $237,500 SOLD IN NEW PALTZ FOR $525,000

SOLD IN GARDINER FOR $985,OOO

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ULSTER COUNTY MONTHLY INDICATORS FOR SEPTEMBER 2014 Markets across the nation seem to be back on the recovery track after a brief pause. One of the more encouraging aspects of this re-

newed recovery is that new construction of single-family homes reached six-year highs in August, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Consumers are also finding more listings in their search results than they have in years. Inventory is rising in many neighborhoods as higher prices have motivated more sellers to list.

New Listings were up 18.6 percent to 325. Pending Sales increased 21.7 percent to 129. Inventory grew 1.8 percent to 2,359 units. Prices were still soft as the Median Sales Price was down 15.0 percent to $193,000. Days on Market decreased 1.3 percent to 157

days, the eleventh consecutive month of year-over-year declines. Months Supply of Inventory was down 6.1 percent to 19.9 months, indicating that demand increased relative to supply.

ULSTER COUNTY 3RD QUARTER COMPARISON (2013/2014) OBTAINED THROUGH UC -MLS

DATE NEW LISTINGS CLOSED SALES MEDIAN PRICE HOMES FOR SALE

2013 830 370 $214,000 1998

2014 964 385 $203,000 2142

TOTAL

LISTED NUMBER

SOLD AVG SALE

PRICE AVG DOM

NEW PALTZ 160 54 $293,667 129

GARDINER 89 31 $390,800 207

LOCAL MARKET ACTIVITY YEAR-TO-DATE (JAN-SEPT 2014)

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