Northern Dutchess News This Week...

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06/19/13 Highlights of this week's edition...

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Sad farewell – St. Joseph School closes after 56 years

Seventh grade student Patrick Jodry examines sea sponges with science teacher Jean Michetti at St. Joseph School in Millbrook. The school, which opened in 1957, will close on June 20 after 56 years. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

by Danielle Fried

In a speech read during a mass at St. Joseph’s Parish in Millbrook, Luke Garrison referred to his alma mater, St. Joseph School, as “the little school on the hill.” The speech was part of an effort this spring to save the school from being closed.

Anne Wing, an art teacher at St. Joseph for 25 years, said of the speech, “It totally overwhelmed us.” She said she remembers Garrison’s exact words: “I hope someday I have a child. I want to send that child to the little school on the hill.”

But St. Joseph alums will no longer be able to send their children to the same school they attended. The school operates for its final day on June 20. A “grand finale” barbecue will be held Friday, June 21, at 5 p.m., at the school. A water slide, games, music and dancing are planned. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12.

“It’s just so sad to see that this is happening; we’re such a close-knit little community here,” said Rosalie Fegan, principal of St. Joseph School for the past eight years. “The children ... some of them are taking it in stride and some of the parents have told us their children have been crying for weeks. God has a plan; we just don’t know what it is yet.”

Read the full story in this week’s print edition.

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Friends, family come together for new community pharmacy

Dennis Gallagher and his son Mark stock shelves in the new LaGrange Pharmacy in the Country Commons Plaza at the intersection of routes 82 and 55. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

by Ray Fashona

LAGRANGE--Picture an old-fashioned drugstore with a lunch counter, soda fountain and shelves stocked with sundries for sale. Customers waiting for their prescriptions to be filled chat about neighborhood gossip and local politics. The pharmacist knows his customers by name and greets them cordially. It’s a scene once woven deeply into the fabric of American life, now merely a memory.
Now imagine this: A man with a shotgun bursts into a modern pharmacy, and brandishing a bag, demands the sack be filled with narcotics. It’s an all-too-familiar story, repeated around the country as those desperate for drugs to feed their habit decide to take them by force.

Straddling these two worlds is Mark Gallagher, new co-owner and operator of LaGrange Pharmacy in the Country Commons plaza at the intersection of Route 55 and Route 82. Gallagher wants to bring back the community drugstore – minus the soda fountain – and build lasting relationships with his customers. He has also come face-to-face with the harsh realities of today’s dangerous society. Five years ago, while managing a chain store in Carmel, he was robbed at gunpoint and thwarted the attacker.

Gallagher and his longtime friend, Jeff Papo, opened the doors to their new venture June 3. Papo has owned and operated Tuminaro Pharmacy in Hopewell Junction for 10 years and, like his pal Gallagher, believes in the power of the independent drugstore.

“I love the way Tuminaro Pharmacy has become part of the Hopewell community, and I want to help Mark bring the same personalized care to LaGrange,” Papo said.

Read the full story in this week’s print edition.

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Creative Living

Ronstadt Generations concert to benefit Hyde Park Free Library

Ronstadt Generations (from left, Petie, Michael J. and Michael G. Ronstadt) will perform a concert to benefit the Hyde Park Free Library on Friday, June 21. Michael J. is the younger brother of famed singer Linda Ronstadt. Photo courtesy of www.mjronstadt.com

by Kate Goldsmith

On Friday, June 21, at 8 p.m., the celebrated intergenerational band Ronstadt Generations will perform a fund-raiser concert for the Hyde Park Free Library. The concert will be held at the Hyde Park Dutch Reformed Church on Route 9 in Hyde Park. Suggested donation for this event is $15.

Ronstadt Generations represents the multi-cultural roots America was founded upon. Dating back five generations in North America, Michael J. Ronstadt, younger brother of Linda Ronstadt, continues the family tradition with his two sons, Michael G. and Petie.

These three voices--all multi-instrumentalists and solo artists in their own right--bring to life a repertoire that reaches back to the end of the 19th century while continually looking ahead into the 21st, with a rich innovation of original material alongside traditional Southwestern and Mexican songs.

Read the full story in this week’s print edition.

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Also in the June 19-25, 2013 issue:

• County to consider solar energy program
• Caldwell resigns as county health commissioner
• Pulse Oximetry Bill awaits governor’s signature

Families of children with congenital heart disease successfully lobbied for passage of the Pulse Ox Bill after a visit to the Capitol Monday, June 10. The children wearing red Heart Hero capes were born with congenital heart defects. From left, Shannon, Jack and Maggie James of Clifton Park; bill sponsor Sen. William Larkin (R-Cornwall-on-Hudson); Bill Sponsor Aileen Gunther (D-Forestburgh); Jacob, RJ and Kelsey Thomas of Syracuse; Dr. Harm Velvis, pediatric cardiologist, Albany; Aedan, Jennifer Corcoran and Tim Conway; Melissa and Colton Berlin of Gloversville. Courtesy photo

• Poughkeepsie Big Read to focus on Holocaust book

In Creative Living:

• The Book Nook: An explorer’s guide to the region now in eighth edition

Author Joanne Michaels celebrates the release of the eighth edition of her popular “Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains: An Explorer’s Guide.” Photo by Harvey Silver

• Love to Cook: Fragrant, fresh herbs
• Get Growing! Gardening projects abound in the Hudson Valley and beyond
• Photos from the Bellefield Design Lecture
• Dutchess the Therapy Dog publishes a book

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