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05/15/13 Highlights of this week's edition...

‘Tag sale mania’ hits Hyde Park

Eric Savolainen is surrounded by several of his “friends” at Hyde Park Consignments, where every day is tag sale day. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

by Curtis Schmidt

For some, it’s a great way to purge the home of clutter. For others, it’s a great way to make a few bucks and start and build friendships. And for still others, it’s a passion that they have turned into businesses.

Whatever the reason, residents of Hyde Park will be doing it en masse this Saturday and Sunday as they take part in “Tag Sale mania,” otherwise known as the annual Town-Wide Tag Sale. More than 30 residents and over a dozen businesses are listed on a map to make it easy for visitors to find every location. (See page 2 of today’s paper.)

For Town Recreation Director Kathleen Davis, the sale represents her “spring cleaning.” But her real joy in participating in the event? “My greatest pleasure in selling my items is meeting the people that arrive at my home. You meet up and re-connect with old friends and acquaintances; you meet new friends and neighbors.”

Hilary VanNorstrand is a first-timer on the selling side and will be doing it with her sister from Westchester County. “This year, after Christmas, I was just feeling cluttered in my house and, along with my sister from Westchester, decided that it was time for a garage sale,” she said. “I am happy that Hyde Park is continuing the Town wide, because it attracts a lot more shoppers.”

And now, let’s talk to two people who, in addition to having fun, used this concept as part of their business model. Eric Savolainen operates Hyde Park Consignments and Kim Miller runs Surviving Sisters Boutique.

For Savolainen, it runs in the family. “My family frequented yard sales, flea markets and local auctions throughout my childhood. We also hosted an annual yard sale ourselves,” he said.

For Kim Miller of Surviving Sisters Boutique, it’s all about a wide variety of vintage items, however, she will have her traditional tent in front of her building at 4412 Albany Post Road (Route 9). “The tent is like a yard sale. It has everything from Christmas items to clothing and much more,” said Miller.

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

Milan Farmers Market set to open Friday

Charlie Godfrey, Milan Farmers Market manager, looks at young chickens at his Second Chance Farm. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

by Kate Goldsmith

MILAN--The town falls within five postal zones and three school districts, but now Milan has a farmers market all its own.

The new outdoor market will open this Friday, May 17, from 3 to 7 p.m., on the Milan Town Hall property along Route 199, and will continue each Friday through Oct. 25.

“We hope to catch a lot of traffic coming in to town, all the weekend people,” said farmers market manager Charlie Godfrey, who owns Second Chance Farm in Milan with his wife, Kim. “We’ve been putting up signage and made a Facebook page.”
The farmers market is the realization of a two-year effort by Milan Town Supervisor Bill Gallagher and Councilwoman Roberta Egan.

“We initially reached out to some local people that do eggs, vegetables, that kind of thing,” said Gallagher. “We sat down with them, had a couple of meetings where we talked about the possibility, but we couldn’t get anybody to manage it.”
Last year, the idea gained traction when Gallagher and Godfrey joined forces.

“I was helping out with Dave Byrne’s campaign [for Assembly],” said Godfrey. “I followed politics a lot, but was never really [involved] in it. I met the town supervisor, some of the council people.”

That’s when Gallagher asked Godfrey if he would consider managing a farmers market in town.

Based on his experience with the Arlington Farmers Market, where Second Chance Farm distributed its CSA shares, Godfrey had a positive response.

“We met a lot of nice people at Arlington,” he said. Even though Godfrey decided not to participate in this year’s Arlington market, he has retained a lot of those regular customers, he said.

Gallagher said Godfrey “picked up the ball and started running with it.”

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

Creative Living

Theater review

Tangent Theatre’s production of ‘Sight Unseen’ is well-wrought drama

Audrey Rapoport and Greg Skura are featured in Tangent Theatre Company’s production of “Sight Unseen” by Donald Margulies, which plays in Tivoli through this weekend. Courtesy photo

by Jim Donick

EOne of the great joys for a theatre lover must be the pleasure of watching good actors disappearing into meaty character roles. “Sight Unseen” fits that bill nicely. It’s an actors’ play.

Donald Margulies gives us a story with a set of characters whose sole purpose is to help us understand who they are and what makes them tick. It sounds rather simple, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not simple. It’s magic.

The three leads’ performances are the stuff theatrical dreams are made of.

Audrey Rapoport proves memorable as Patty/Patricia. Greg Skura, playing Jonathan, has possibly the best hidden depths to his character that Margulies’ script offers. The third lead, Patricia’s husband, Nick, has its own set of complexities.

The Tangent Theatre production gives us a rare opportunity to become completely absorbed into the complexities of these three lives. “Sight Unseen” is a drama of uncommon depth. The Carpenter Shop Theater in its intimacy provides the perfect venue to complement the script.

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

Also in the May 15-21, 2013 issue:

Tourism touted at riverside event

Lara Litchfield-Kimber, Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, speaks during the county’s annual Brochure Exchange program last week. Pictured (from left) are Lara Litchfield-Kimber, May Kay Vrba, Executive Director Dutchess County Tourism, Marc Molinaro, Dutchess County Executive and William Tatum, III. Photo by Kristine Coulter

Benefits outlined by utility merger officials
Residents to vote May 21 on school budgets
Gipson and Lalor co-sponsor term limits bill
Municipalities can join county workers’ comp plan
Rosie’s Law to help children and disabled to testify
Master Gardeners to hold plant sale at Farm & Home Center

Master Gardener Joyce Tomaselli moves a tray of tomato plants in the greenhouse at Cornell Cooperative Extension, Dutchess County. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

Pine Plains BoE overturns decision on denying tenure to two teachers
Hyde Park Chamber honors local businesswoman, awards scholarships

In Creative Living:

Earth Wise: What we can learn from tree rings
Hip Hop Theater set Thursday at the Bardavon
That’s Italian! Remembering Easter outfit shopping … and sausage soup

School of the Week:

Regina Coeli, Hyde Park

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