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HUDSON — Agricultural Literacy Week has been celebrated by New York Agriculture in the Classroom (NYAITC) for the past 17 years as a way to promote agricultural literacy and learning to students across New York State. Each year, with the help of county-based coordinators, thousands of volunt…
NEWBURGH — A guidebook to electronic law, written by Michael L. Fox, assistant professor of Business Law, Pre-Law advisor, and MBA coordinator at Mount Saint Mary College, has been accepted into the Library of Congress permanent collection and catalog.
WHITE PLAINS — ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam announced the launch of a major new competitive artist grant program, Voices for Change, in which three artists each will be awarded grants of $10,000 to propose and actualize new works.
Community Writes III – The Winter Session
Feb. 26-28 On-Demand Scheduling! - watch anytime this weekend!
“Now, after Matthew, I would say that Laramie is a town defined by an accident, a crime.”
The timelessness of Bach and its perfection lifts us beyond the here and now--out of the winter doldrums and the isolation of COVID to a realm of spiritual beauty, optimism and assurance. Join us for his miraculous music Sunday, February 28th at 7:30 pm as cellist and Close Encounters With M…
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is adding a virtual concert performed by the band We Banjo 3 to its programming schedule, streamed from Pearse Lyons Distillery in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday, March 13 at 5pm. Tickets purchased through the Mahaiwe benefit it in part.
Pamela Salisbury Gallery is proud to present two new one-person exhibitions:
“Nomadland,” the sober, provocative third feature from writer-director Chloe Zhao, is a recreational-vehicle drama with a superior air hanging above it. In the 1960s and 1970s, America was discovered on motorcycles. Today’s castoffs, dropouts and rebels drive vans. You know something superio…
Friday-Thursday, February 26 - March 4
CLARK ART INSTITUTE RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM FELLOW PRESENTS LECTURE ON THE MANDYLION, A MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ARTWORK
The Art Effect Offers In-Person Summer Programming for Ages 4-19
The International Fortepiano Salon Series presents informal free online performances and discussions with fortepiano students and professionals anywhere, hosted by AFP faculty and guest artists around the world.
2021 Winter Exhibitions, March 5 – April 16
Please join us at 3 p.m. on Friday, February 26, for a Zoom discussion of William Kennedy‘s Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s 1978 novel about a pool hustler and poker player during the 1930s.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are cancelled due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are cancelled due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.
CHATHAM — Chatham High School announces the Student of the Quarter for the 2020-2021 school year.
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced the first round of deadlines for competitive grants and scholarships in 2021. Schools, nonprofits and students are invited to apply for funding during the winter grants cycle. Apply online at BerkshireTaconic.org/Grants and …
ALBANY — The Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York announced a joint initiative with the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center to provide veterans living with dementia and their caregivers enhanced support.
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SAUGERTIES — State Senator Michelle Hinchey (SD-46) and members of her Constituent Services Team this week visited area nursing homes and long-term care facilities in Albany, Greene, Montgomery, Schenectady, and Ulster counties to safely deliver Valentine’s Day cards written by students and …
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ALBANY - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that DEC’s Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs Program is accepting applications for spring streamside planting projects. Anyone that owns or manages property near a stream in the Hudson Riv…
HUDSON — For the past seven years, The Columbia County KISS Program has been offering seniors the opportunity to shred their sensitive documents free of charge by dropping their documents off at their local town halls. 2020 proved to be a year unlike any other with Covid-19 striking and clos…
ALBANY - The New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services’ Office of Fire Prevention and Control today urged all New Yorkers to protect themselves from extreme cold temperatures forecast to impact much of the state through Saturday evening and use extra caution when em…
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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College announces the appointment of Kobena Mercer as the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities, a joint appointment between the Art History and Visual Culture Program in the undergraduate College, and the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS).…
ALBANY — Questar III BOCES Superintendent Dr. Gladys Cruz has joined with her colleague Dr. Lupita Hightower, who leads Arizona’s Tolleson Elementary School District, to launch a groundbreaking new program for leaders who have been long underrepresented in public schools. Despite being 2,500…
POUGHKEEPSIE — Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. received the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) Emergency Response Award for its outstanding storm recovery performance following Tropical Storm Isaias. Central Hudson was chosen by a panel of judges following an international nomination …
ALBANY — Barton & Loguidice (B&L), a northeast regional engineering, planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm announces that two members of the firm’s Albany office have received promotions in 2021.
MIDDLETOWN — Sobo & Sobo LLP welcomes Patrick Skory who will join their Worker’s Compensation legal team in their Middletown office. Skory brings more than 11 years of outstanding legal experience to the firm.
ALBANY — Barton & Loguidice, (B&L), a northeast regional engineering, planning, environmental, and landscape architecture firm announces that five members of the firm’s Albany office have received senior level promotions in 2021.
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ALBANY — The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) and NYLCV Education Fund (NYLCVEF) today released their 2021 State Policy Agenda.
HUDSON — The application is now available for the Paul and Maria Morra Scholarship Trust which is administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties.
POUGHKEEPSIE — The Art Effect has been approved for a $20,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Art Institute, with a special focus on ArtsBridge, a new program within the Art Institute (piloted for 2 years under the name MAAP). ArtsBridge will engage underserved …
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KINGSTON — RUPCO, a Hudson Valley nonprofit agency that leads the region in the creation of affordable housing and community development, is commemorating its 40th Anniversary in 2021. While the official anniversary celebration will take place at RUPCO’s annual Community Lunch in the fall, a…
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