Shandaken town council member Vin Bernstein suggested at the June 3 town board meeting that Shandaken could save its taxpayers money by scaling back its local police force. Observing that the previous month’s police report entailed four arrests and 8000 miles of patrolling the roads, he remarked that an officer could have driven to Colorado and back for each of the arrests.
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I don’t know what is about Kingston, but this city is fully loaded with super-strong women. Charlene LaDay-Hill, a regulator for the state Gaming Commission, is also the director and founder of Kingston’s Summer Sizzle basketball program and preacher at New Jerusalem church.
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Peter Dykeman and I are strolling through a sunny field in Rhinebeck looking for food – not garden crops, for which it is far too early, but edible wild plants. I’m expecting that the search will be difficult, somewhat capricious, like the morels that I recently harvested in a local forest (the mushrooms like elms, but cannot always be found under the trees). So it’s a surprise when he gestures towards a weedy bank, parts the thick foliage and cuts the stalk of a fresh shoot of leaves.
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The $1.5 million sidewalk projects currently underway in Gardiner include more than just “hunks of concrete,” said supervisor Carl Zatz. In fact, part of the New York Department of Transportation-funded sidewalk project that was awarded to Paul Colucci Excavation of Gardiner includes colorful pavers, 27 lampposts, landscaping and vegetation.
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In Queens, the Mets have been rained out. High school athletic competition around the Hudson Valley has been postponed because of the rain and chill. It’s coming down hard enough to turn the diamond the shade of brown that all hardball players know is hell on spikes and knees. There shouldn’t be any baseball or softball on June 6. Who’s still playing?
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