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Volume 84 Number 45

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

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By JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

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MILLBROOK — On the morningof Dec. 5, an accident claimed the lifeof Millbrook School Athletic DirectorEdward Allen, 32, and injured his twoyoung daughters, 3-year-old Codie, and1-year-old Tatum.

According to the Dutchess CountySheriff’s Office, both children weretaken to Mid-Hudson Regional Hospi-tal, then were airlifted to WestchesterMedical Center in Valhalla, one withlife-threatening injuries. The accident

occurred on Route 44, just 4 miles fromthe Millbrook School.

The car was traveling west on Route44 when Allen’s 2006 BMW X5 crossedthe line and was hit head-on by a dumptruck that was headed east. The SUVwas pushed off the road. The truck,driven by Richard Colesanti, 47, over-turned in the road, spilling its contentsof gravel. The truck was registered toBulldog Concrete of Poughquag. Cole-santi was unharmed.

The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Of-fice stated that the accident seemed to be

driver distraction on the part of Allen,although cell phone use was not thoughtto be a factor in the crash. Route 44 wasclosed for more than 11 hours.

By WHITNEY [email protected]

MILLERTON — The holidays of-

ten inspire generosity. That’s exactlywhat Adopt-A-Family organizer StaceyMoore, of Moore & More Printing inMillerton, is hoping. That’s because forroughly the 20th year she’s spearhead-ing in the new winter clothing and toydrive for children up to 16 years old,who live in the North East (Webutuck)and Pine Plains central school districts.

Moore spoke with The MillertonNews on Thursday, Dec. 3.

“It’s going well,” she said. “Thephones are ringing like crazy and we’resigning up children and adopting themout as quickly as they’re coming in. We

Berger’s life is a window to the pastPart one of two

By CYNTHIA HOCHSWENDER [email protected]

MILLERTON — For Sandy Berg-er, the little village of Millerton waslike the memory of Rosebud in the

film “Citizen Kane.” It was a small butmighty part of his life, the place thatshaped him into the man he later be-came.

Berger died Dec. 2, 2015, at homein Washington, D.C., from a cancer ofthe bile duct that had been diagnosedabout a year ago. He was 70.

Sandy was my cousin, so eventhough it’s not newspaper style, I’mgoing to refer to him for the rest of thisarticle by his first name.

Sandy was an important person— important enough that there were

feature articles on him in the New YorkTimes and Washington Post withinhours of his death. The announcement

PHOTO BY DAN LOH

Laurie Gross and Sandy Berger at a bar mitzvah for Laurie’s grandson, Jacob Klaff, in December 2014 in Livingston, N.J.

Three area

restaurantsclosing

of his passing came from his businesspartner, Madeleine K. Albright, the for-mer secretary of state. She and Sandyhad served together in the Clintonadministration. Sandy was first thedeputy national security adviser under

Anthony Lake and then the nationalsecurity adviser during Clinton’s sec-

ond term. You can read about that inthe national newspapers.But what was important to him

was the little village of Millerton inDutchess County, which still has apopulation of under 1,000 people (asit did when he was growing up here).Millerton was the place he returned to,a place that he made certain his threechildren knew about.

The last time I saw him was in 2000,when he and his older sister, LaurieGross, came back for a multi-genera-tional reunion for the Webutuck Cen-

tral School District. He and Laurie were

MillbrookSchool athleticdirectordies in crash

Adopt-A-Family relies on spirit of goodwill

PHOTO BY WHITNEY JOSEPH

Bob and Sarajane Inglis, of Poughkeepsie, donated a car load of toysto the Adopt-A-Family program on Thursday, Dec. 3. The pair made asimilar donation last year.

had over 100 children as of yesterday,so we’re not quite halfway there.”

Last year Adopt-A-Family providedclothing and toys to 300 children and

110 families. All people have to do iscall Moore and make a monetary dona-tion, or they can drop off new clothing,for newborns to 16-year-olds, and newtoys, to Moore & More Printing onDutchess Avenue.

And there’s a “most wanted” list. Itincludes: board games; sports items,like basketballs, soccer balls and foot-balls; Legos; dolls, Monster High dolls,specifically; arts and crafts items; farmtoys, including toy tractors; books forall ages; fleece blankets; new hats and

See BERGER, A10

See ALLEN, A10

See ADOPT-A-FAMILY, A10


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SALISBURY — Arthur R. Tay-lor, 80, former president of CBSInc. and 10th Presidentof Muhlenberg Collegedied Dec. 3, 2015, withhis loving wife, Kath-ryn, and his beloveddaughter, Annie, by hisside at Lehigh ValleyHospital-Cedar Crestin Allentown, Pa.

A resident of Salis-bury Township, Pa.,and Salisbury, Conn.,

Taylor was born July 6, 1935, inElizabeth, N.J. He was the son ofthe late Marion (Scott) and Ar-thur Earl Taylor.

A native of Rahway, N.J., hegraduated from Rahway HighSchool and went on to earn a fullscholarship and was a magna cumlaude Phi Beta Kappa graduatefrom Brown University, where healso received his master’s degreeand later served as a trustee.

Taylor began his businesscareer with the First BostonCorporation. He went on to be-come vice president of finance,executive vice president and adirector of International PaperCompany. Taylor was one of agroup of young fast-rising execu-tives known as the Whiz Kids,when at age 36 he was namedpresident and a director of CBSInc., where he was responsiblefor the operations of the entirecompany including the CBS Tele-vision Network, CBS News and

the New York Yankees.Taylor was founding chairmanand president of cable television’sEntertainment Channel (now the

Arts and Entertainment Network— A&E). He was also the found-ing president of the formidableNew York City Partnership withChairman David Rockefeller.

In 1985, Fordham Universi-ty named him dean of the Gradu-ate School of Business Adminis-tration and dean of the facultyof Business. In his seven years

at Fordham, he transformed theyoung graduate school, whichsubsequently awarded him anhonorary doctorate. Taylor thenserved as president of Muhlen-berg College for a decade(1992–2002), during which timeMuhlenberg tripled its endow-ment, halved its debt and saw asignificant rise in admissions. Itsprominence as a fine liberal artscollege grew substantially.

Taylor served on the boardsof many corporations including

Toshiba, Eastern Airlines, PitneyBowes, the First Boston Corpora-tion and The Travelers.

In addition, he held govern-

sought his advice as did numer-ous people with whom he worked

and lived.He and his wife,

Kathryn, lived inSalisbury in the OldBushnell Tavern, anhistoric home, whichhe truly loved. Hewas proud to live inSalisbury and servedas a commissionerof the Historic Dis-

trict Commission. He

was a founding member of theBerkshire Taconic CommunityFoundation and the Friends of

Washinee Park and was a trusteeof the Salisbury School.

He was incredibly proud ofhis family. His three daughtersand their achievements were ev-erything to him. His four grand-children meant the world to himand they felt the same — not a daywent by that he did not speak toat least one of his grandchildren.

In addition to his family, headopted hundreds of surrogatesons, daughters, nieces and neph-ews who depended on his loveand guidance. He was knownas “Uncle Arthur” to many. Heloved people and was truly largerthan life.

He is survived by the love ofhis life, his wife Kathryn (Pel-grift) Taylor, from whom henever wanted to be apart; hisdaughters, Martha (Taylor) Jo-sephson and her husband, Jon

Carter, Anne (Taylor) Maddenand her husband, Sean, andSarah (Taylor) Rountree and herhusband, John; his four belovedgrandchildren, David Arthur Josephson, Zoe Taylor Joseph-son, John Taylor Madden andBrody McFarland Rountree; hissister, Marilyn (Taylor) Rocks;his brothers- and sisters-in-law,Robert Y. Pelgrift Jr. and his wife,Susan, Elizabeth P. Boak and herhusband, Jeffrey, Anne P. Craw-ford and her husband, Gregory,

James D. Pelgrift and his w ife,Sara, Nancy P. Kocian and herhusband, Matt, and Christopher

Y. Pelgrift; 15 nieces and neph-ews for whom he cared greatly;and his dear friends the Scarpafamily in Salisbury.

The family asks that in lieu offlowers, memorial contributionsbe made to Lehigh Valley HealthNetwork, which took such greatand caring care of him for manyyears (Lehigh Valley Health Net-work-Development Department,

2100 Mack Blvd., 6th Floor, Al-lentown, PA 18105); The KiskiSchool, where Arthur was atrustee and deeply involved in

Arthur R. Taylor

AMENIA — Muriel Rothstein,90, a former longtime resident of

Amenia and Sharon,and a recent eight-

year resident of Del-ray Beach, Fla., diedDec. 4, 2015.

Muriel wasborn Sept.24, 1925,in Brooklyn, thedaughter of the late

Julia (Haves) and Ju-lius Furst.

She grew up inBrooklyn, graduating from GirlsCommercial High School there.

On Feb. 25, 1945, she mar-ried Leon Rothstein of Amenia.

They lived in Amenia for morethan 50 years. During that timethey raised their three childrenand worked in the community.

(Rothstein) Clemmer and her hus-band, Darrell, of New York City,

Zachary Rothstein andhis wife, Alli Smith, of

London, England, ElenaRothstein and her fiancé,

Joshua Cook, of Douglas,Mass., and Miles Roth-stein of Sudbury; onegreat-grandchild, AidanGuild of Wellesley; andseveral nieces and neph-ews.

In addition to herparents, she was predeceased byher husband Leon in 1996; herbrother, Morton Furst; her sis-ter, Shirley (Furst) Sandweiss; and

several nieces and nephews.Muriel was a devoted daugh-

ter, sister, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great-grand-

Muriel Rothstein

OBITUARIESI had the privilege of know-

ing Samuel R. Berger for 65years. Sandy, as everyone knewhim, died on Dec. 2, 2015, at age

70. Our friendship began in Mrs.Hultslander’s kindergarten classat the Millerton School, and mywife, Meg, and I last saw him onNov. 8.

Sandy had a keen interestin people. As former PresidentClinton humorously observed athis Memorial Service at TempleSinai in Washington, D.C., onFriday, Dec. 4, Sandy was a greathumanitarian, but unlike manywho profess to be such, he actu-ally liked real people. Add to that

his natural empathy and his won-derful sense of humor, and theresult was a person with a rarecapacity for true friendship.

As has been mentioned insome of the national coverage ofhis death, Sandy was a passionatebaseball fan and that may havebeen the greatest test of ourfriendship. He loved the BrooklynDodgers and I was an insufferable

Yankee fan. During our childhoodin Millerton, the Yankees andDodgers were often in the WorldSeries and the Dodgers seldomwon. Sandy, ever patient and tak-ing the long view, knew his timewould come. It did in our fresh-man year in college. The Dodgershad moved to Los Angeles andwere playing the Yankees in the World Series. They swept the Yankees four straight. Mel Allen,the longtime Yankee announcer,did the television play-by-playfor the final game. He had laryn-gitis and by the end of the game

could hardly talk. Two hours latera man knocked on my dorm roomdoor and handed me a telegram. Iopened it and read: “Ed. Even Mel

Allen choked. Sympathy. See yousoon. Sandy.”

Sandy could have left M iller-

ton and never looked back, buthe didn’t. He enjoyed visitingthe area to the extent his busyschedule allowed. Whenever we

saw him, after inquiring aboutus and our family, his next ques-tions were about his friends inMillerton and Amenia and whatwas going on in those communi-ties. When we saw him in earlyNovember, he was delighted tohear that our classmates GeorgeKaye and Victoria Perotti had justbeen elected supervisor in theircommunities and asked me tosend him their e-mail addresses.For many years, he kept his sub-scription to The Millerton News

and especially enjoyed Bernie Sil-vernail’s column on local history.

During the memorial service,former President Clinton, formerSecretary of State Madeleine Al-bright and Vice President JosephBiden all spoke of Sandy’s wis-dom, wit, warmth and persever-ance as did, most eloquently,Sandy’s daughter Sarah and son Alex. When speaking at a gath-ering of his family and a groupof close friends afterward, I toldthem that many of those qualitiescould be traced back to his timein Millerton.

Sandy’s parents, Rose and Al-bert Berger, were business peoplewith a strong sense of civic andsocial responsibility. They wereactively involved in the effortto consolidate the Amenia andMillerton school districts into the Webutuck Central School Dis-trict, and Al was a member of itsfirst Board of Education.

They purchased the depart-

ment store business from LenaBloch in 1952, located in what isnow Oblong Books and Music,and it became Berger’s Depart-ment Store. Two years later, AlBerger died from a heart attack.Sandy was 8 and his sister, Laurie,

In appreciation: Sandy Berger

was 12. Sandy once told me howdifficult it was for his mother. Notonly had she unexpectedly losther husband, but her education

had prepared her to be a teacher,not a business person. Sandy andLaurie worked in the store, andRose successfully continued thebusiness until both children hadgraduated from college.

We attended Webutuck whenit was under the aspirational lead-ership of Superintendent MikeRindsberg, who was so commit-ted to seeing we got into the rightcolleges that he would drive usto visit them. Sandy’s interestin history and government was

nurtured by exceptional teachers,my mother, Leola Downey, andher close friend, Violet Simmons,whose admonition to her studentswas: “The difficult we do rightaway, the impossible takes a littlelonger.” His confidence to expresshimself publicly was helped enor-mously by his participation in ourschool plays under the directionof our gifted English teacher, JackBower.

Sandy and I came of age in aworld that valued public serviceas a way to help people improve

the quality of their lives. GivenSandy’s rare combination of in-tellect, personality and sense ofsocial responsibility, a career in

public service was a natural fit.That his work would take

him to a point where he wouldbecome one of the key architectsof our nation’s foreign policy, andby extension the world’s, is re-markable but even more remark-able is that it never changed him. Ibelieve it was his capacity to keepthe important things in life in per-spective that drew an estimated1,000 people to Temple Sinai toremember Sandy and celebratehis life.

As usual, Sandy said it bestwhen in an Aug. 25, 1999, inter-view in The New York Times hetold R.W. Apple: “Where I grewup is very important to what Iam. My perspectives are still moreMillerton 1960 than Washington2000. The small-town sense ofcommunity and social responsi-bility — that’s the lasting imprintof Millerton on me.”

— Edward Downey is a Millerton

native and founding partner of thelaw firm of Downey, Haab & Mur- phy, PLLC, in Millerton.


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MILLERTON — This is theseason of celebrations, and thevillage of Millerton is right inthe thick of such activities. TheMillerton Business Associationhas organized a village-wide sea-sonal celebration this upcomingweekend. There will be a film,fundraising and frolicking, forall to enjoy.

Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonder-ful Life,” with Jimmy Stewart and

Donna Reed, is the quintessentialholiday film. On Sunday, Dec. 13,at 11 a.m., area residents will beable to enjoy the classic on th e bigscreen, thanks in part to sponsorsat The Moviehouse and SalisburyBank and Trust.

“I think it should be really fun,”

said Moviehouse owner Carol

Sadlon. “It’s a nice way to do it,and it’s not just one person do-ing it but a lot of people gettingon board to make a special time.It’s exciting, and several peoplesaid they would like to make itan annual event.”

In addition to the showing of“It’s a Wonderful Life,” there willbe horse-drawn carriage ridesthroughout the village on Dec. 13,all day long. The carriage rides arebeing sponsored by AssociatedLightning Rod and Over Moun-

tain Builders.“We wanted to make it more of

a community-wide event insteadof just a Moviehouse event,” saidSadlon. “The Millerton Business Association stepped up and israising some money for AstorHead Start. The event is really just

a free celebration for the com-

munity.“Townscape did an amazing

job this year lighting all the treesand the town looks really beauti-ful, and all of the shops pitchedin and did their own decorating,”she said. “It’s a really special com-munity — and why we chose thetag line, “It’s a Wonderful Life, It’sa Wonderful Town, Millerton.”

The fundraising that Sadlonmentioned is being organized bybusiness association leader DickHermans, of Oblong Books.

“The part that I’m doing is alittle fundraiser for Astor HeadStart,” Hermans said. “We’re try-ing to come up with 20 busi-nesses to put little donationcontainers on their counters tosee how much we can raise for

Astor. We’re hoping for $1,000,

By GABRIEL NAPOLEONSpecial to The Millerton News

MILLERTON — About oneyear ago, Four Brothers restau-rant chain co-founder Peter Ste-fanopoulos purchased the MainStreet building colloquially knownas Simmons’ Way.

At that time, the buildinghoused No. 9 Restaurant & Inn.

Stefanopoulos said then that

the existing arrangement wouldstay, with the landowner rentingto Tim and Taryn Cocheo, whoowned No. 9.

However, last month theCocheos closed shop and Ste-fanopoulos is planning anew.

The restaurateur, who alsoowns The Boathouse in Lakeville,Conn., said he’s already hired “thebest chef” and is mapping out newarchitecture and design.

The food, he said, will be a “littlebit of everything.” The restaurant

will be a place for “New Yorkersand also for the local people.”

The owner hopes to open nextspring. So far, there’s no officialname.

Meanwhile the Cocheos, whoopened No. 9 in 2009, have relo-cated to Vermont.

Taryn emphasized apprecia-tion for the restaurant’s custom-ers throughout the years.

“Thank you to all our patronsover the last six years,” she said.“We loved serving you.”

Before No. 9, there was Sim-mons’ Way Village Inn, foundedin the 1980s by Robert and CarolSadlon, who own The Movie-

Village-wide holiday celebration Dec. 13

PHOTO BY GABRIEL NAPOLEON

At Simmons’ Way, No. 9 is out and a new restaurant is in themaking.

Stefanopoulos plans for new

restaurant at Simmons’ Way

but whether we can raise $200,

$800 or $1,200, I don’t know. Atthe moment, I have 16 businessesthat are going to do it and I expectto hear from more.”

The donation boxes will beplaced on businesses’ countertops village wide Friday, Satur-day and Sunday, Dec. 11, 12 and 13.

The money will help Astor getthrough tight financial times, saidHermans.

“Apparently, they get theirfunding as reimbursements forservices, and they run into prob-

lems at certain times of the yearwhen they have to put out moneyto get things. It gets tight. Thegoal is to give them a little nestegg to allow them to float throughthose situations and not worryabout the money.”

Astor Head Start is “a feder-ally funded program for childrenfrom low-income families,” ac-cording to its website. “It is a pre-school developmental programof early childhood educationand ancillary services includinghealth [physical, dental, mental],nutrition and social services, withextensive parental involvement

and participation. Children with

disabilities are served within afully integrated setting with non-disabled children.”

There is an Astor center rightin Millerton serving local chil-dren.

“I don’t remember Astor evercoming to the business commu-nity and asking for money,” saidHermans, who just celebratedhis store’s 40th anniversary. “Itshould be a no-brainer to supportwhat they’re doing.”

And what a fun way to do it,

said Sadlon. There will be cider,cookies and candy canes for thosewho attend Sunday’s festivities.Santa will also stop by, on a Mil-lerton Fire Company firetruck, tovisit with children. One anony-mous donor is making little bellson ribbons to hand out to thelittle ones, to tie in the movie’sbell theme.

“Well be spreading holidaycheer,” said Sadlon. “There will bea lot of people pitching in to makeit a special day. Hopefully peoplewho come to the movie will stayin Millerton to enjoy everythingthe town has to offer.”

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Communitydinner Dec. 18

Everyone is invited toshare a free communitycares Italian Christmasdinner at the MillertonPresbyterian Church, 58Main St., on Friday, Dec.18, from 6 to 7 p.m. In addi-tion to the meal, there willbe the opportunity to shopfor free household itemsand clothing for the fam-

ily. For more informationcall Nicole LeGrand at 518-592-1327.

The dinner is made pos-sible through a grant fromthe Northeast DutchessFund, a fund of the Berk-shire Taconic Communityfoundation.

Christmas concert A Christmas concert

conducted by Heidi John-son will take place on Sun-day, Dec. 13, at 3 p.m., atthe Millerton PresbyterianChurch 58 Main St. Sacredand popular music will bepresented by the Presby-terian Church Choir andfriends. A reception willfollow.


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AMENIA – Library patronsand board members gatheredtogether in the small but cozy

Amenia Free Library on Sundayafternoon, Dec. 6, to celebrate allthe library does and the commu-nity it serves.

“It’s a good way to thank thecommunity and all of the peoplewho support us,” said libraryboard member Ginny Eschbach.

There was good conversationand delectable treats for all to en-

joy. A table stacked with desserts,and the library’s famous wassailspiced apple cider, welcomedguests to chew while they chatted.

“The goodies, we have theboard make them,” said LibraryDirector Miriam Devine. “This isour own thing, we don’t ask any-

body else to bake, unlike our bookand bake sale. This is to show ourappreciation and to thank thecommunity for its support.”

“We just appreciate the supportthe community gives us and this isthe one thing we can do withoutspending a lot of money to showthem that,” said library boardPresident Alan Gamble. “Peoplemake donations to the book saleto help us out. If nobody used usthere would be no purpose for us.

We like to look back at the end of

the year, and there were 16,000 to17,000 transactions for the year.It blows you away.”

One steadfast Amenia Free Li-

brary patron is Janet Byrne, whonow lives in Millbrook.

“I’ve been coming here sinceI moved into Amenia in 2001,”she said. “I was here for four orfive years and then even when Imoved away I continued to comeback every weekend. I’ve knownMiriam and Tina for years.They’re wonderful.”

Byrne said when requests aremade of the library it delivers,even if it has to do some legworkto do so.

“I’ve seen people asking forhistorical information and ifMiriam and Tina don’t know itthemselves they know where toget it,” she said. “And on Saturdaysthis is a social hub. I love it.”

Like many of those in atten-dance on Sunday, Byrne saidshe’s been attending the library’swinter celebration for a number

of years.“It’s wonderful,” she said. “I’ve

been here for the last few openhouses and it’s very nice. Youget to meet and see some greatpeople. It’s very nice. Miriam andTina do a nice job.”

It was the library’s 25th Holi-day Open House. Those who wereable to mix and mingle said theyenjoyed themselves thoroughly.The library board agreed it wasthe perfect way to welcome in theholiday season.

For more information on the Amenia Free Library go to www.amenialibrary.org or call 845-373-8273.

Library celebratesthe holidays, thanks

the community

PHOTOS BY WHITNEY JOSEPH

Amenia Free Library board members gathered around a holidaytable full of treats at the library’s Holiday Open House on Sun-day, Dec. 6. Front row, from left, David Stanford, Kevin Boyd,Linda Gregory, Charlotte Murphy, Library Director MiriamDevine and Amanda Forbes. Back row, from left, Robert Brady,President Alan Gamble and Ginny Eschbach.

by GABRIEL NAPOLEONSpecial to The Millerton News

AMENIA — The Town Boardmet for a regular workshop atTown Hall on Thursday, Dec. 3.

After opening the meeting, Su-pervisor Victoria Perotti movedto go into executive session “formatters relating to collective ne-gotiations under the Taylor Law.”Councilperson Vicki Doyle sec-onded the motion, and the pres-

ent members voted for the sessionunanimously.

After an hour and 30 minutes,the board returned to public ses-sion, now with CouncilpersonStephen Perotti, who was absentat the meeting’s opening.

“I make a motion that we hireDavid Wise as our attorney tohelp us with labor negotiationsat a rate of $185 per hour, effec-tive immediately,” said Doyle, af-ter reopening. Supervisor Perottiseconded, and the board approvedunanimously.

“Then I make a motion that weaccept Teamster Union 456 as thebargaining agent for the highwaydepartment workers,” Doyle said.

Again, Supervisor Perotti sec-onded. All but Councilperson Pe-rotti voted in favor. Doyle madeanother motion, for SupervisorPerotti to sign a letter to TeamsterUnion 456 accepting it as “bar-gaining agent.” Supervisor Perottiseconded and the vote was 4-1,

Councilperson Perotti voting no.The meeting resumed withpublic comment. Wassaic resi-dent Jeff Barnett-Winsby urgedthe board to approve a sidewalkcleaning resolution for the com-ing winter. “Snow Removal Deci-sion” appeared later on the work-shop agenda.

At the previous meeting, theboard accepted a partial bid from Al Smith & Son Excavating toplow Town Hall this season at$1,400. The remainder of the bid

asked $10,100 for Wassaic and Amenia hamlet sidewalks.Barnett-Winsby said, “I think

that the shared cost for the com-munity is far lower than what youwould see individually — for thetaxpayers.” He said that he wouldneed to purchase a snowblower ifthe town did not plow.

Councilperson Gretchen Hit-selberger responded.

“I just wanted to let you knowthat, whether or not the TownBoard decides to or to not plow,it is still in the code that propertyowners are responsible for theirsidewalks being cleaned,” she said.

Barnett-Winsby said that hewill continue plowing the town-leased parking lot in front of theLantern Inn, which he manages.

Councilperson Perotti said Amenia should hire its own staffto take care of sidewalks, and to

contract the service “for 10 yearsand then to up and stop doing it… is unconscionable.”

“At the end of the day, it is theproperty owner’s responsibility tomake sure that their sidewalk isclear, no matter who does what-ever initial clearing, or thoroughclearing,” Hitselberger said.

When motion for approvalcame to the floor, CouncilpersonMichael DeLango said his “big-gest problem with cleaning thesesidewalks” was that “for $10,000,they cannot be done properly.”

DeLango added that if it’s notplowed properly, Amenia couldget into liability issues.

“When we do our bids for thesidewalk cleaning, there is noprovision for that big mound to

be removed between the parkingspot and the sidewalk,” DeLangoadded. “So the sidewalk could beas clean as it could be, but youcould have a four-foot snow bankto get over from the parking lot.”

DeLango owns DeLango Au-tomotive on Main Street.

DeLango said that before thetown took over sidewalk clean-ing 10 years ago, the individualowners all did their part and thesidewalks were cleaner.

“It’s small town helping smalltown,” he said, “and unfortunatelybecause the town of Amenia istaking on this expense and this re-sponsibility, that is out of the win-dow now because everybody says,‘Amenia took it over. It’s their jobto clean it, let them do it.’”

Doyle said that it’s in the lawthat what the town is doing is “justthe initial clearing, and it’s up toeach property owner to make surethat the rest of it is cleaned andmaintained and they are respon-sible for it.”

The bid was approved 3-2.DeLango and Hitselberger votedno.

The Board set its annual reor-ganization meeting for Monday,

Jan. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall.

Whose job is it? Boarddiscusses snow removal

AMENIAIN BRIEF

Holiday of Lightsand activities

The Holiday of Lightsin Amenia is Saturday, Dec.12, beginning with a musi-cal review performed bystudents in Amenia’s FreeDance and Performing

Arts program at 3 p.m. inthe Amenia Town Hall Au-ditorium.

Participants in theHoliday of Lights Paradeshould line up at 4 p.m.,at the Amenia Firehouseon Mechanic Street, withthe parade stepping off at5 p.m. sharp.

At 4:30 p.m., at Foun-tain Square, there will becaroling, hot chocolate andtree trimming activities.

The parade will proceedalong East and West Mainstreets, then turn down

Broadway, then continueup Route 22 North toTown Hall. Once inside,Santa will provide childrenwith gifts and photos.


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PINE PLAINS — After 37 yearsin business, Deuel’s Home Centerowner Joan Taylor is readying forretirement with a liquidation sale.

Joan and her late husband,Robert, purchased the businessfrom Mike Rosenthal, whosefather Paul Rosenthal bought itfrom Sam Deuel, who founded itin the early 1900s.

At that time, Joan and Robertwere living in Wisconsin wherethey each worked as educators.

“We decided we needed tohave a different lifestyle andfound out this property was forsale and wound up buying it,”

Joan said.The couple had no retail expe-

rience, but thanks to some train-ing from the younger Rosenthaland True Value courses, theymanaged to run the business forseveral decades.

Deuel’s Home Center is a True Value store with a Just Ask Rentalcomponent.

Joan, an Ancram native, kepther ties to education in PinePlains. Until three years ago, shewas a math teacher at StissingMountain High School.

Juggling both gigs was hard,she said.

“It was basically like havingtwo full-time jobs,” she said.

Though time has come tomove on from work, Joan said

she will not move on from town.“This is my home, I don’t plan

to move,” she said, though she is“looking for some new adven-

PHOTO BY STAN HIRSON/PINEPLAINSVIEWS.COM

Deuel’s Home Center is selling all inventory as owner JoanTaylor readies for retirement.

Deuel’s holds liquidation sale

POLICE REPORT

The following information was provided by the New York State Police. All suspects are considered innocent

until proven guilty in a court of law.Criminal mischief arrestOn Tuesday, Nov. 17, New York

State Police from the Dover Plainsbarracks arrested Ryan J. Williams,32, of Dover, for criminal mischieffourth degree, a class A misde-meanor.

On Nov. 12, troopers were dis-patched to investigate a criminalmischief complaint in Dover. The

victim reported that someone hadbroken his living room window onor about Wednesday, Nov. 11. Policeconducted an investigation and al-lege that Williams was responsiblefor the damage to the victim’s win-dow.

Williams was issued an appear-ance ticket directing him to appearbefore the town of Dover JusticeCourt on Thursday, Nov. 19.

Criminal contempt arrestOn Tuesday, Nov. 17, The New York State Police in Rhinebeck ar-rested Julie Mathers, 54, of Ancram,for three counts of criminal con-tempt in the second degree, a class

A misdemeanor.Mathers reportedly violated an

active stay away order of protectiondirecting her to refrain from hav-ing contact with two protected par-ties named on a court order. Thedefendant reportedly visited oneprotected party who was lodged

in the Dutchess County Jail on twooccasions. Additionally, she alleg-edly violated the court order whenshe sent a text message to anotherprotected party.

Mathers was arraigned in theStanford Justice Court and was re-manded to Dutchess County Jail inlieu of $1,000 cash bail or $2,000secured bond. She was due back incourt on Wednesday, Nov. 18.

SHERIFF’S REPORTThe following information was

provided by the Dutchess County

Sheriff’s Office. All suspects are con-sidered innocent until proven guilty ina court of law.

Firearm theft chargesThe Dutchess County Sheriff’s

Office reports the arrest of ScottSweeney, 39, of Dover Plains, forgrand larceny in connection with astolen rifle from the town of Wap-

pinger.The theft was reported to theSheriff’s Office in late October2015, after which the DetectiveBureau became involved and con-

ducted further investigation. Dur-ing the investigation Sweeney wasidentified as a potential suspect andis accused of stealing the rifle andthen selling it to another person.Sweeney was arrested on Saturday,Nov. 21, and the rifle has been re-covered by detectives.

At this time Sweeney has beencharged with one count of grandlarceny in the fourth degree, which

is a felony. After being processed hewas arraigned before the town of Wappinger Court and remanded tothe Dutchess County Jail in lieu of$10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond.

PHOTO BY GABRIEL NAPOLEON

Little Holiday trees sold by garden clubThe Pine Plains Garden Club and the Pine Plains Free Library presented the Festival of TreesSilent Auction at the library through Saturday, Dec. 5. The trees were auctioned off to benefitthe garden club and the library.

AREA IN BRIEF

PINE PLAINS — Anall-you-can-eat breakfast,sponsored by the PinePlains Hose Co., will beheld Sunday, Dec. 27, from8 to 11 a.m. at the firehouseat 7 Lake Road.

Price is adults $7 andseniors and children ages6 to 12 are $5. Childrenunder age 6 are free.

Menu consists of pan-cakes, French toast, eggs(any style), bacon, sausage,toast, juice, coffee and tea.

MILLERTON — Thelocal Brownie Troop at Webutuck Elemen tarySchool is holding a fund-raiser for the local home-less shelter. There are39 girls in the troop andthey are collecting toilet-ries, undergarments, hats,gloves and scarfs.

Many local businesshave taken in donation/drop off boxes and are

showing their communitysupport. Donation boxescan be found at the follow-ingestablishments;Richies

p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.;and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The store is closed Christmas

and New Year’s Day.Call Deuel’s at 518-398-7171 for

more information.

Have hot food on acold day Dec. 27

Brownie Troophelps homeless

PINE PLAINS — ThePine Plains United Meth-odist Church is host-ing a Christmas Houseat the parsonage next tothe church (East Church

Street, Route 199).The Christmas House

is open Fridays from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. and Satur-days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,through Saturday, Dec. 12.

AMENIA — The Ame-nia Free Library will besponsoring its 25th visitwith Santa Claus at theTown Hall, as part of theannual Holiday of Lightscelebration on Saturday,Dec. 12.

All o f the town’s chil-dren are invited to thatevent; the library will pres-ent each child with a giftand a picture of himself orherself with Santa.

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By JUDITH O’HARA BALFE [email protected]

MILLBROOK — For thefourth year, the Village of Mill-brook hosted the Parade ofLights, a festival of more than 50floats, brightly lit and musical. Asone parade-watcher exclaimed,“Wow! This is the best one yet!”

From so many people workingon this Christmas extravaganza,

the Millbrook Business Associa-tion, the Millbrook Fire Depart-ment, the Auxiliary of the FireDepartment and Brian Hicks, avolunteer with the Millbrook FireDepartment, were given most ofthe credit for the program, whichseemed to have gone off withouta hitch.

The Dec. 4 ceremony beganwith the tree lighting sponsoredby The Millbrook Business As-sociation. President Mary Alexintroduced Mayor Laura Hur-

ley. Essay contest winner Lor-raine Affigne was the official treelighter. Her essay was “What theHolidays Mean to Me.” Joe Dailyof 92.1 radio’s morning show wasthe official announcer.

As the floats passed by, one

child said, “It’s better than Macy’sparade!”

The first float carried the girlsvolleyball team, which came with-in one game of winning the New York State Class C Champion-ship. They were greeted by loudcheers.

The parade included tractors,firetrucks, lawn mowers and chil-dren’s motorized vehicles.

One float was dedicated to

Scott Meyer, the owner of Mer-ritt Bookstore who died over thesummer. Merritt had its ownfloat, as did Voorhees, HitchcockCattle Corp., Murphy’s and sev-eral scout troops. There was an

American Flyer float. Boice An-tique Machinery was represented.There were just too many to list.

Talking with both Alex andHicks, the program was extremelysuccessful and each year the pa-rade has gotten bigger and better.This is a community event where

all are encouraged not to justwatch the parade, but to get activein it. Hicks said they even had les-sons this year to show people howto come up with ideas for floatsand to then implement them.

The night for many began with

Parade of Lights, tree lighting

welcome holiday season

PHOTO BY JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

There were more than 50 floats in the fourth annual Paradeof Lights on Friday, Dec 4.

a trip to the wooden manger setup near the entrance to the Trib-ute Garden Park, near the officialtree. After the tree lighting andthe parade, all were invited to

the Millbrook Fire Departmentwhere Santa, Mrs. Claus andelf Speedy waited to greet thethrongs. Hot chocolate, donutsand other treats were providedby the Fire Auxiliary.

Hicks is already planning for

the 2016 festivities. He said, “Wealways try to do something dif-ferent, provide something for ev-eryone. We want the communityto be involved in every way. This

year we had two small motorizedvehicles with little kids, next yearmaybe we’ll have 25.”

An estimated 1,000 peopleturned out for the parade, andmore than 200 of them went tothe firehouse for Santa and treats.


MILLBROOK — J. McLaugh-lin’s took center stage Friday,Nov. 27, during a book-signingevent hosted by Colleen Howland,

Jay McLaughlin and Jack Lynch.The public was invited, and agreat many attended, greeted byRebecca Seaman, Chairman ofthe Dutchess Land Conservancy(DLC). She highlighted the workdone by the DLC during the or-ganization’s 30-year history, dis-cussing the preservation of morethan 39,000 acres of farmland,water resources, scenic views andwildlife habitats.

Another highlight that nightwas a book signing for “Packingfor Travel.” Author Karen Klopp,

founder of www.What2Wear- Where.com, was on hand, aswas the book’s illustrator, Lara


Illustrator Lara Glaister, left, and Karen Klopp, founder of What2WearWhere.com, signed their book “Packing for Travel”at J. McLaughlin’s on Friday, Nov. 27.

Glaister. The book is touted asa must-have for those who travelfrequently. “From jet set to trekset, [it is] the definitive globe-trotting guide,” states the book.

Both author and illustratorgraciously signed the books andengaged in conversation with thesizeable crowd. The book address-es what to wear in all seasons andincludes quirky tips, like what towear when clay shooting, fly fish-ing or tending business. It also ad-dresses dressing for athletics andformal happenings like weddings.

It is fully illustrated, in color,and includes all kinds of tips ontraveling, health tips, where toshop and how to dress for a spe-cific body type. It also includesmany check lists and resources.

To round out the day, J.

McLaughlin donated 15 percentof all sales to the Dutchess LandConservancy.


MILLBROOK — Millbrook’sfirst First Saturday, held on Dec.5, was so successful the MillbrookBusiness Association hopes tomake it an annual event. About15 Millbrook businesses partici-pated.

Grace Church hosted a Christ-mas Bazaar offering handmadecrafts, cards, painted glass, birdhouses, watercolors, woolen hatsand mittens, baked goods and

jewelry.Rose Randolph Cookies of-fered a lesson on decoratingcookies. Babette’s Kitchen offeredthree free cookies with everypurchase of a specialty beverage.Forza’s Fitness offered a free fit-ness lesson to nonmembers.

Millbrook Antiques Centerfeatured Santa and Mrs. Claus.(Don’t tell, but they were J.R. andPatricia McCarthy.)

Merritt Bookstore featuredlocal authors Moby Mudge (who

has written about the Alice in Wonderland statues in Central

First Saturday considered a successPark, depicting tales and scenesfrom “Alice in Wonderland”) andRick Moody (whose books in-clude “Hotels of North America”).

Punch featured jeweler de-signer Valerie Horn, who had atrunk show of her work. J.E. Hea-ton had coffee and cookies, alongwith jewelry designer StephanieHitchcock, showing new pieces.

Alicia Adams Alpaca show-cased designer John Robshaw,who signed copies of his book“John Robshaw Prints.” Therewas also a raffle for an alpaca gift.

Millbrook Antiques Mall hadegg nog and cookies. Danielle’sHair Design offered a chance towin a wash/cut and deep condi-tioning treatment.

McLaughlin’s hosted a quartetof carolers from the Half MoonTheatre at the Culinary Instituteof America. J. McLaughlin pre-sented the carolers with ties forthe men, scarves for the ladies.

The all-day event concludedwith a free holiday concert hostedby the Millbrook Arts Group at

Millbrook High School. Joyce Heaton of J.E. Heaton


Jewelry designer Valerie Horn showed off her collection.

Farmland, traveltopics of discussion

Jewelers came up with the idea ofFirst Saturday. She thought thatworking together as a communitycould only help bring the Christ-mas spirit to Millbrook in a waythat would benefit all businesses.

“It was done,” she said, “withshort notice,” with everyonepitching in. She especially men-tioned Colleen Rowland as a great

help in stepping in when Heatoncouldn’t be available.


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WEBUTUCK — The Webu-tuck High School Warriors areback on the basketball court withboth girls and boys varsity pro-grams this winter.

GirlsThe varsity girls will be

coached by Webutuck’s AthleticDirector Jon Zenz.

“After not having a varsityteam last year, the Webutuckgirls basketball program will

have a junior varsity (JV) andvarsity team for the 2015-16 sea-

son,” said Zenz.

“The goal for the season is tobe competitive and experience awin,” he added.

The coach highlighted playersKenya Blue and Ruo Nan Huangas his “varsity anchors,” while “anexciting group of younger play-ers are poised for a fun season.”

BoysThe varsity boys team will be

coached by Pete Iuele. Vars it y pl ay er Hun te r

Coulthard previewed the team’sapproaching season during an

interview.“We lost some seniors but

have a good core group of ju-

niors returning, along withsome sophomores that shouldreally help us out big time,” hesaid.

Coulthard himself is a senior.His position is forward.

“A lot of the same g uys fromsoccer are on the team, so welook to keep going on a positivenote and look to start the seasonoff right,” he added.

(Webutuck’s varsity soccerteam won its sectional champi-onship this year.)

“Should be much improvedover last year,” Coulthard said.

“We’re already putting in more

work than years in the past.”More information Webutuck compe tes in the

New York State Public HighSchool Athletic Association’sninth section.

The teams are categorized asClass C. Classes are based onstudent body size.

The school is a member of thecross-sectional and multi-classMid-Hudson Athletic League(MHAL).

For upcoming Webutuck

basketball games, see the sportsschedule on this page.

BY JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

[email protected]

MILLBROOK — Two flamingpink flamingos stood tall outside

of Punch on Merritt Avenue onBlack Friday, Nov. 27. That eve-ning, servers floated through thestore with canapes and drinks.

Punch, a lifestyle boutiqueowned by Ruthie Bontecou, isfilled with eclectic merchandise(much of it equestrian oriented). Alarge crowd gathered, both shop-pers and those wanting to witnessthe presentation of a check to theMillbrook Rescue Squad.

Fernanda Kellogg and KirkHenckels, founders and hosts ofthe Fitch’s Corner Horse Trials,were there celebrating the 22ndanniversary of their annual horsecompetition and weekend, heldearlier in the year. Fitch’s Cornerraised $33,000 for the Millbrook

Webutuck readies for basketball season

Equestrian event leads to $33,000donation to the Millbrook Rescue Squad


From left, Fitch’s Corner’s Fernanda Kellogg presented a checkto Millbrook Rescue Squad Chief Laurie Olsen at an event heldat Punch on Friday, Nov. 27. Alan Meyers stood nearby.

MillbrookFriday, Dec. 11, at 4:30 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity,Millbrook at Ellenville, League,Ellenville High School.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 4:30 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Junior Varsity,Ellenville at Millbrook, League,Millbrook High School.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 5:45 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Varsity, Mill-brook at Ellenville, League, El-lenville High School.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 6 p.m., Girls

Basketball, Varsity, Ellenville atMillbrook, League, MillbrookHigh School

Friday, Dec. 11, at 6 p.m., In-door Track, Varsity, Millbrookat OCIAA, A Meet, West Point.

Monday, Dec. 14, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Modified, PinePlains at Millbrook, 5 Quarters,Millbrook High School.

Monday, Dec. 14, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified Mill-brook at Pine Plains, 5 Quarters,Stissing Mountain Middle/High

School.Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Modified Mill-brook at Rhinebeck, 5 Quarters.Rhinebeck Middle School.

Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15p.m., Girls Basketball, Modified,Rhinebeck at Millbrook, 5 Quar-ters, Millbrook High School.

Pine PlainsFriday, Dec. 11, at 4:15 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity,Rhinebeck at Pine Plains, League,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Junior Varsity,Pine Plains at Rhinebeck, League,Rhinebeck High School.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 5:45 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Varsity, Rhine-beck at Pine Plains, League,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Friday, Dec. 11, at 5:45 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, Pine

Plains at Rhinebeck, League.Saturday, Dec. 12, at 1 p.m., In-door Track, Varsity Pine Plains atOCIAA, A Meet, West Point.

Monday, Dec. 14, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Modified, PinePlains at Millbrook, 5 Quarters,Millbrook High School.

Monday, Dec. 14, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified, Mill-brook at Pine Plains, 5 Quarters,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 4:15 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity,Pine Plains at John A. Coleman,League, John A. Coleman HighSchool.

Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 5:45p.m., Boys Basketball, Varsity,Pine Plains at John A. Coleman,League, John A. Coleman HighSchool.

Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Modified, Webu-tuck at Pine Plains, 5 Quarters,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified, PinePlains at Webutuck, 5 Quarters,

Webutuck High School. Webutuck

Friday, Dec. 11, at 5:45 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, Webu-tuck at John A. Coleman, League,

John A. Coleman High School.Saturday, Dec. 12, at 5 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Varsity, Webu-tuck at Chester Academy, Tour-nament, Chester Academy.

Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, Webu-tuck at Chester Academy, Tour-nament, Chester Academy.

Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Modified, Webu-tuck at Pine Plains, 5 Quarters,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Thursday, Dec. 17, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified, PinePlains at Webutuck, 5 Quarters,

Webutuck High School.

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Laurie Olsen, chief of the Mill-brook Rescue Squad, accepted the

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THE MILLERTON NEWSEDITORIAL PAGE 8 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015

LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR

EDITORIAL

Cartoon by Bill Lee of Sharon, Conn., and New York City

Adopt-A-Family justone way to help othersduring the holidays

There are so many worthy causes at this time of

year — in fact all year long. It’s impossible tolist all of them or to focus on every cause worth

fighting for. But there’s one cause in particular, espe-cially well-known to those who live in Millerton, thatstands out during the holidays: Adopt-A-Family.

During its 20-year-plus history, Adopt-A-Family has pro-vided new winter clothing and toys to children in need — fromnewborns to 16-year-olds. Donors have the choice of droppingoff clothes or toys in person, sending in a check for an amountof their choosing (always useful) or actually adopting out achild or entire family for Christmastime for a set amount.

Organizer Stacey Moore has been at it for two decades.Before that, the late Mariley Najdek founded the program to

benefit children affiliated with Astor Head Start, a federal-ly funded program for children from low-income families.There’s an Astor center right in Millerton. Najdek was itsexecutive director for years and years and instituted manygoodwill projects throughout the community during hertenure, from Adopt-A-Family to the Millerton Food Pantry.

Moore eventually took over the Adopt-A-Family pro-gram, which grew and grew. Instead of just helping localMillerton families, now it assists any child in need from theNorth East (Webutuck) or Pine Plains central school dis-tricts. That covers a lot of towns, and a lot of households.

And donations come from all over the map, fromaround the Hudson Valley to the Northwest Corner of

Connecticut. Moore stressed that the program wouldbe nowhere without the generosity of area residents.She’s right. Programs like Adopt-A-Family, or the Sun-

day in the Country Food Drive (a major fundraiser duringThanksgiving and Christmas that feeds hundreds of hun-gry residents), depend on each and every one of us.

The fact that so many people donate shows just howcaring this community is. Residents don’t shy awayfrom difficulties but rather look for solutions. And onesolution to the problem of children not having a hap-py Christmas is Adopt-A-Family. If possible, try to be apart of that solution. Try to donate if you can. For detailson how to do so turn to this week’s story on Page A1.

Also worth noting, the village of Millerton is celebrat-ing the holidays with a showing of “It’s a Wonderful Life,”horse-drawn carriage rides, Santa and plenty of treatson Sunday, Dec. 13. That weekend, village merchants willhave donation boxes to raise much-needed funds for As-tor Head Start. Think about stopping by one of thosestores and making a donation — no amount is too small.

And to all of those other causes this holiday season, goodluck! We know how hard it is to do good works in today’sworld. Send us news about your efforts and activities and we’lltry to include it in the paper. After all, it takes a village …

A positive moveIn January 2013, the Bank of

Millbrook took ownership of theproperty located at 7775 Main St.,Pine Plains, through a foreclosureprocess. Most residents know thisbuilding as the Pine Plains Libraryand Community Center. Unfor-tunately, the Community Centerclosed up and the Pine Plains Li-brary had to move into their for-mer cramped quarters.

After nearly three years of ne-

gotiations and legal proceedings,the property was purchased by thetown of Pine Plains. The library isplanning on moving back to itsformer home and the Pine Plainscommunity will have a great re-source again.

I would like to thank the Townof Pine Plains Board, especiallySupervisor Coons, for having thevision and understanding that a li-brary is one of the foundations ofa small community. I would fur-ther like to thank the group of do-

nors who pledged over $500,000,making the purchase by the townpossible. Additionally, I wouldlike to thank Mr. James Mara forall of his hard work on makingthis transaction happen. Jim woremany hats in this process; PinePlains Library President, FOSLTrustee, Pine Plains resident andcommunity leader.

We look forward to seeing thebooks, computers and more im-portantly, the users, going backinto the building. Pine Plains ismoving forward with positiveevents happening in the down-town district. The town’s acquisi-tion of this property added to thisforward motion.

George T. Whalen IIIPresident, Bank of Millbrook

Millbrook

Thanks to FRIENDSI would like to give my per-

sonal thanks to the dedicatedFRIENDS of the Pine Plains Free

Library officers and directors andto our membership. As a group, the FRIENDS have

been privileged to have manygenerous members and we con-tinue to try and give back to thelibrary and the community. Itwas a great pleasure today to give84 books to the Food Locker andthe Adopt-A-Family organizationas part of our OUTREACH pro-grams. The books, and a financialcontribution, will be distributedto those in need in the Pine Plains

and the Northeast communitiesby these worthy groups.

Our OUTREACH programto the Senior Gamers group last

The Amenia Lions’ decora-tive banners are back in townthanks to the cooperative re-lationship between Jack’s AutoService and Cablevision. Thebanners welcome everyone to

Amenia and r emind all th at theholidays are right around thecorner. The Lions would like tothank Mike Johnson and Steve

Wrisley for their assistancewith this project again this year.

Lions Club International isone of the largest service orga-nizations in the world. Foundedin 1917 by Melvin Jones, Lionsare best known for fightingblindness. Given the motto,“We Serve,” Lions are part of aglobal service network, doingwhatever is necessary to help

Amenia Lions serve the community and give thankslocal communities throughdifferent kinds of communityprojects — including caring forthe environment, feeding thehungry and aiding seniors andthe disabled. The Amenia LionsClub is comprised of 35 heartyvolunteers and 12 LEO Club(youth division) members.

The club was established in1948 and enjoys a much young-er membership than most, butis also enriched with veteranmembers that have served for30 years or more. We are alwayslooking for new members thatenjoy community service proj-ects. We welcome you to joinand get involved. Please con-tact membership chair William

Anstett, at anstettstone@opton-

line.net or President Lori Haleat [email protected].

The Club is deeply ap-preciative to everyone in thecommunity for their supportof fundraisers like their golftournament, Community Clas-sic Car Show, chicken BBQ andlast weekend’s 300 Club Event.Every dollar raised goes backinto the community with theexception of the $2,000 do-nation raised for the JuvenileDiabetes Research Foundation(JDRF).

Recently, the Lions donated$1,000 to the Adopt-A-Fami-ly Program, another $1,000 tothe Sunday in the Country andfood basket drives, have collect-ed eyeglasses to be recycled, anddonated $1,000 toward the newvision screening equipmentutilized to screen pre-school

children in the community. The Amenia Lions will also help payfor vision/hearing screeningsand eyeglasses and hearing aidsif people cannot afford them.One of the highlights of theyear is hosting the Ralph Vin-chiarello Memorial Kids’ Fish-ing Derby in May. All of thesethings are possible thanks toour generous community.

Don’t forget to support theannual Memory Tree. The treeis dedicated this by Murphy’s

Crest Tree Farm in Amenia andproceeds from the memory treeare earmarked for the DutchessHearing Conservation Com-

Come enjoy many festiv-ities at the Holiday of Lightsin Amenia on Saturday, Dec.12, beginning with the AmeniaMusical Theatre Holiday Revueat 3 p.m. in Amenia Town Hallauditorium.

Talented performers thisyear include Georgia Chinn,Olivia Chinn, Tessa Fountain,Sonia Kowalczyk, Tabitha Maf-fucci, Bellah Mahar, EmmaManning, Grace Manning,Kyhra McClennon, Margot

Minton, Hope Murphy, GisselOros, Zoe Romanowski, Bran-don Stevens, Bryandt Stevens,Gabriella Titone, JoAnna Voi-

cutting, pony rides and more atMonte’s Local Kitchen and TapRoom and Monte’s Health NutHut on Mechanic Street andEast Main Street.

At 4:30 p.m., help put wild-life-friendly decorations on thetrees at Fountain Square withFlock of Feathers 4-H Club andwatch the Parade of Lights at 5p.m. Santa will disembark fromthe last firetruck at Town Hall,and children will receive giftsand photos with Santa, courte-

sy of Amenia Free Library and Amenia Lions Club. Refresh-ments, dozens of fabulous raffleprizes (all free) will also be pro-

Enjoy Amenia’s holiday festivities

Parent remember children

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that the North East Fire DistrictBoard of Commissioners, ata meeting held on December1, 2015 adopted the following

resolution:“A RESOLUTION DECLAR-

ING CERTAIN EQUIPMENTAS SURPLUS AND AUTHO-

reserves the right to reject any orall bids at it’s sole discretion andto re-advertise for the sale of theaforesaid surplus equipment.

The Sale of said surplus equip-ment is subject to a permissive

referendum as set forth in Gen-eral Municipal Law Section 6(g)(4) as amended and will not takeeffect until thirty (30) days after

176(23) OF THE TOWN LAWAS AMENDED

BE IT RESOLVED by theBoard of Fire Commissionersof the North East Fire District inthe Town of North East, Dutchess

County, New York, as follows:Section 1: The Board hereby

determines that North EastFire District 1989 Mack is no

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Frost in Amenia

I

write this column as I turn32 and another mass murderpierces the conscience of our

country. This column isn’t aboutpolicy; it’s about people. And acertain kind of person: thosein the gray area between boysand young men. It’s not aboutpsychology, but experience, myexperience. While it may notbe universal I hope it providessome insight.

I started upon this reflectionwondering how certain killersend up so nihilistically violent.Then I remembered my flailing

adolescent efforts to defend mypride. Over time I found myidentity and dignity, and rec-ognized those same qualities inothers, but for a while I strug-gled to prevent my anger frombecoming violent.

The writers Chip and DanHeath — borrowing from the so-cial psychologist Jonathan Haidt— use a metaphor of a rider onan elephant to describe the re-lationship between our rationalthinking and emotions. The rid-

er’s logic can turn the elephant’semotions, but only slowly overtime. The rider doesn’t force theelephant to do anything because

Young men need somethingto turn to, away from violence

them,” I thought. The questionwas how.

Looking back I feel discom-fort more than anything else. Isee myself trying to fit in, wear-ing uncomfortable clothes andexperiencing feelings that areeven more uncomfortable.

As I pondered how to geteven when a peer stung my

pride, two things in particu-lar led me to forego violence.First, I had someone left to dis-appoint. Of course, I really hadmany people left to disappoint,but in my consciousness usuallyone or two stood out. Second, Icould imagine another way to“show them,” by becoming moresuccessful.

Sometimes, even when I

THE FOUNDRY

Zachary Janowski

didn’t care much about how myactions would reflect on me, Icared enough about how theywould reflect on others that Iresisted the urge to lash out.

When I wanted the instant sat-isfaction of revenge, I realizedthat by waiting I could provehow wrong the other person re-ally was.

Perhaps, if my experience isat least somewhat representa-tive, it points us toward the an-tibodies that prevent nihilisticviolence.

Adolescent males need

meaningful connections anda way out and into the future.Today, as an adult, I would callthese things community and op-portunity. Together, they createhope.

Zachary Janowski writes for the Hartford-based Yankee Institute,Connecticut’s free-market thinktank.


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Allen came to the MillbrookSchool in 2009 and was highlyregarded by coworkers, parents

and students of the private board-ing college preparatory institution.The school’s Facebook page wassoon filled with heartfelt con-dolences and praise for Allen bystudents and alumni.

The school posted on Face-book, “This is an incalculable loss

for all who knew and loved Ed,starting with his family. It is anequal tragedy for the Millbrook

School community. Our focusnow is to care for the Allen fam-ily and each other at school.”

Allen’s wife, Emily, was not inthe car. She is expecting their thirdchild in the spring.

The accident remains underinvestigation.

enjoying the summer sun on thefront porch of the former Sim-mon’s Way inn on Main Street. He

had a Secret Service detail therekeeping an eye on everyone whowalked up the steps to see him.

There are still plenty of peoplearound the area who rememberhim. One of his closest friends,from the time they were in kin-dergarten, was Ed Downey. Edshared some memories with meof Sandy, in his office late onThursday, Dec. 3. He and his wife,Meg, were flying to Washingtonthe next morning for the memo-rial service.

I also talked at length to mycousin Laurie (Sandy’s sister); sheand her husband, Phil, were intheir car driving from their New

Jersey home to Washington, alsofor the service and to be withSandy’s widow, Susan, and thethree Berger children.

Berger’s Department StoreSandy and Laurie’s childhood

here in Millerton has a kind ofmythic quality. Of course my fam-ily always talked about the tragicearly death of their father, AlBerger. But after I moved here tothe Tri-state region 20 years ago,I used to hear about Al’s deathfrom people in town, especiallyLew Saperstein, who was a fewyears younger than my cousins

but knows their history well.In part, this could be because

the Saperstein family and the

Berger family had parallel busi-nesses. They both ran apparelshops in the center of town. Ifyou read the national newspa-pers, they all say that the Bergersowned an Army Navy Surplusstore here in town. That’s a cor-rect but incomplete version ofthe family’s businesses. Ed sharedwith me an old newspaper clip-ping that described Al’s arrivalhere in town, in 1929, when hewas in his 20s (Rose followedlater).

In case you’re wondering, Rosewas a member of the Lehr-manfamily, and so am I. That’s howSandy and I are cousins.

Al moved here from Brooklynand opened Berger’s Army andNavy Store, which he ran until,interestingly, he was drafted intothe U.S. Army. That store wason South Center Street, Ed said.It burned down in a fire severalyears ago; the playground for theNortheast Community Center ison the spot where the store usedto stand.

Laurie remembers her fatheras an entrepreneurial type, whostarted several businesses hereand then sold them. According toa 1952 newspaper article that Ed

shared with me, when Al returnedfrom his military service he boughtthe Parsons Glen-Lake Laundry

in Millerton; he later opened andoperated New England Cleaners,which is still open, on Route 44(he sold the business in 1951). Healso at one point owned a businessthat made aviator suits during theKorean War.

In 1952 he purchased what wasknown kind of grandly as a depart-ment store in the center of town,in the building that is now hometo Oblong Books and Music. Ac-cording to the newspaper article,the store had been around for 68

years and had been owned by twomen named Goodman and Straussand then by Irving Bloch. Bloch’sDepartment Store became Berger’sDepartment Store.

Laurie remembers that this wasthe first business in which her fa-ther actively involved her mother.

“She had been a schoolteacherand didn’t feel she was suited tobusiness, but it turned out she hadgreat business acumen,” Laurie re-called. “My father trained her, andSandy and I worked there too. Heswept the floors and stocked theshelves. I helped with sales.”

Laurie wonders now if herfather had a premonition that hewas in failing health. Perhaps, shethinks, he knew that he needed

to prepare his young family tosurvive without him. Two yearsafter opening the store, he died

suddenly of a heart attack at age44. Laurie was 12, Sandy was 8.

“At first our mother wasn’tsure what she should do with thestore,” she said. “But she decidedeventually to give it a try. Shethough it would give her somefinancial security, so she couldpay for us both to go to college.”

The Central School DistrictEducation was important to

the family. Laurie recalled thatRose Berger was part of the groupthat helped regionalize the small,

town schools into what is nowthe Webutuck Central SchoolDistrict.

According to the local news ar-ticle about his death, Al Berger hadbeen a member of “the new Cen-tral School Board of Education.”

“Millerton schools were closedfor a half day March 16 in memoryof Mr. Berger,” the article said.“Many Millerton business placeswere also closed during the funeralservices on March 16.”

The article described Al Bergeras “one of Millerton’s most civic-minded residents.” Certainly thislegacy was passed along to his son,Ed Downey said.

Next: Berger’s public service.

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gloves; winter jackets; and more.For more specifics call Moore at518-789-4508.

“I think we’re going on almost20 years now,” she said of theprogram, noting it started withMariley Najdek of Astor HeadStart even earlier. “It’s grown. Itoriginally started with just AstorHead Start in Millerton; theremight have been 20 families.Then Pine Plains reached out tous and said ‘Can you take us on?’then Amenia reached out to usand said ‘Can you take us on, too?’Then we made it for everyone inthe [two] school districts.”

The program works withteachers, social workers, foodpantries, churches and otherswho can help determine wherethe greatest need is. Those enti-ties, and others, like area horsefarms, all pitch in and make do-nations. To increase participa-tion Moore has reached out tothe community at large.

“It’s pretty phenomenal,” shesaid. “It’s equally the Tri-statearea — our neighbors in Sharon,Lakeville and Salisbury, Conn.,

are equally supportive of ourcause. And here in Millerton thatexpands to Millerton, Pine Plainsand Amenia There’s a need

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roads, [and] their efforts to ridDutchess County of impaired

drivers 24 hours a day, sevendays a week, 365 days a year,”said Dutchess County STOP-DWICoordinator William C. Johnson.“Motorists who choose to drivewhile impaired by alcohol ordrugs will be arrested — no ex-cuses, no warnings — as DutchessCounty simply does not tolerateone driver’s bad choices to ad-versely affect those with whomthey share the road.”

And there’s always an alter-native to driving while impaired,said Veeder.

“Usually I tell people there aretwo choices you could make,” hesaid. “One is to get a safe ridehome, which is always the bestway, even if you only had a coupleof drinks and don’t think you’reimpaired. Hopefully you make theright one and get a safe ride home.That’s the ultimate goal for me asan officer and for other officers.

“There’s always a way home,” Veeder added. “The thing I have

people tell me is they don’t havea ride home, but after they’re ar-rested they always seem to makethat one phone call and get a saferide home, whether from a taxi,

friend or neighbor. When peopletell me that, I kind of tell them

that there are plenty of rides andplenty of people to call.”

Veeder said he trained for theSTOP-DWI Program, among oth-ers, with nine months in the po-lice academy, as required by New

York state. Officer Veeder went toone recent class entitled ARIDE(Advanced Roadside ImpairedDriving Enforcement). He saidthe two-day class was especiallyhelpful.

“That was two 16-hour classesthat focused on impaired drivingand what to look for and differentclues and signs,” he said. “I wasfortunate enough that the Mil-lerton Police Department sentme to that.”

The bottom line, he said, is tomake sure anyone who gets be-hind the wheel is sober.

“If they’re a threat to anybodyon the road — if my wife andkids are on the road and they hitthem — that’s a real problem,” theofficer said. “New York state is

really tough with impaired driv-ers, which is good. It teaches theoperator if you go out and havea good time that’s fine, just get asafe ride home.”

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“It was really great,” saidMoore.

In the summer, Adopt-A-

Family held a golf tournamentfundraiser, which raised another$5,000.

“It got us rolling to raise mon-ey toward clothing,” said Mooreof that event.

“The fact is that I couldn’t dowhat I do, period, if it wasn’t forthe community’s generosity. Bot-tom line. Certainly in years pastwe would worry that we wouldn’thave enough [clothes and toys],but we would be able to do a sin-gle pair of pants, a sweatshirt and

a single toy,” remembered Moore.“This year the children will get

three toys and go to Saperstein’sfor $125 worth of clothing. That’sa wonderful Christmas, and my

thing is that but for the grace ofGod this could be anyone of us inthat very same position.”

Poughkeepsie resident Sara- jane Inglis brought a car load oftoys to drop off for Adopt-A-Family on Thursday, Dec. 3. Shesaid they were basic toys, but add-ed that way her dollar stretchedfurther than it would have withelectronic toys.

“There’s a need out here,” shesaid, “everybody does Poughkeep-sie. We did this last year, too, be-

cause we don’t need for anything.”To make a donation, send a

check made out to Adopt-A-Family, PO Box 880, Millerton,NY 12546.

For more information callMoore at 518-789-4508.

HOLIDAY BRIEFS

COPAKE — The town ofCopake’s Holiday Light Pa-rade will be held Saturday,Dec. 12.

The parade starts at 5:30p.m., by the Copake firehouse,Center Hill Road. The paradewill proceed through thehamlet and end at the Copake

Memorial Park building.Hot chocolate and cookies

will be served. A bonfire willbe lit in the parking lot and

Santa will arrive with gifts forall of the children.

This event is sponsored bythe Copake Parks and Recre-ation Commission.

MILLBROOK — The Millbrook Chanukah Menorah Light-ing will be held on Sunday, Dec. 13, on the lawn of the ThorneBuilding.

The festivities will begin at 3 p.m., with refreshments atGrace Church Parish House, 3328 Franklin Ave., followed bythe lighting across the street from the church. All are welcome.

This event is sponsored by the Millbrook Chanukah Com-mittee.

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Holiday Light Parade in Copake

Menorah lighting on Dec. 13

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HEALTH

By CYNTHIA

HOCHSWENDER [email protected]

There have been significantchanges at Sharon Hospital in thepast year or two but one depart-ment that has remained stableand productive is the woundcare center.

Inaugurated in October 2011,the center has treated about890 patients with wounds thatweren’t healing. Program Direc-tor (and registered nurse) Renee

Maus said that about 96 percentof the wounds treated at the cen-ter are healed with interventionsthat range from simple consul-tations to specialized syntheticskin substitutes or the use of thecenter’s two hyperbaric oxygenchambers.

Those are the most extremecases, explained the center’s med-ical director, Dr. Douglas Finch.

“The hyperbaric chamber isthe most advanced treatmentwe have,” he said, adding that it

is in use every day of the week.It’s used primarily with patients“who haven’t healed after 30 daysor more of standard wound care.”

Not all wounds respond to thehyperbaric treatment, cautionedDr. John Zboinski (known at thewound care center as Dr. Z). Apodiatric specialist, his particulararea of expertise is helping pa-tients who suffer from diabetes.

“Many diabetics are prone tofoot wounds, because they havevascular problems and neuropa-thy,” Dr. Zboinski said. Neurop-athy, he explained, is “a loss ofsensation due to diabetes.”

The end result of these woundsfor many diabetics is amputation.

“Our goal is limb salvage,”Zboinski said.

The hyperbaric chamber canhelp.

“With hyperbaric oxygen ther-apy, the patient is in a pressurizedchamber breathing in air with ahigh concentration of oxygen,”

Maus said.

“The pressure in the chamber

forces the oxygen into the tissuesat a higher concentration,” Finchadded.

Many other protocols are triedbefore the hyperbaric chamber iscalled into use, the medical teamexplained. Sometimes all it takesis a simple consultation with apatient about his or her lifestyle.

“We do a full assessment oneach patient,” Maus said. “We lookat circulation, sensation, nutritionand vascular status.”

“We make sure they’re seeing

their primary care doctor andtrying to control their diabetes,”Zboinski said. “We check theirdiet and make sure they’re eatingthe right foods. We check theirprosthetics

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