SUNY COBLESKILL BASEBALL SWEEPS NAC DOUBLEHEADER FROM CAZENOVIA COLLEGE 6-4 & 8-2

The SUNY Cobleskill baseball team pushed their current winning streak to nine games by sweeping the visiting Wildcats of Cazenovia College in North Atlantic Conference (NAC) action on Friday by scores of 6-4 and 8-2 at Fighting Tiger Field. With the sweep Cobleskill moves into first place in the NAC Western Division with a 16-11 overall including a 7-0 record versus NAC opponents while the Wildcats are now 7-17 overall with a 2-5 record in conference action.  

The Fighting Tigers trailed the visitors 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning with the bases loaded and two outs when Head Coach Lance Ratchford went to his bench sending first year slugger Logan Hutter, Smithtown, N.Y. Smithtown West High School, in to pinch hit. Hutter who had arrived to the game the previous inning from a late class and a make-up exam responded by ripping a bases clearing double down the third base line to give Cobleskill a 5-3 lead. He would then score the team’s final run when the Wildcats committed an error on a ball hit by first year pinch hitter Matt Deall, Manorville, N.Y., Eastport South-Manorville High School, which made it 6-3. 

Cobleskill senior starter Jarrod Williams, Baldwinsville, N.Y., C.W. Baker High School/Finger Lakes Community College, went six innings allowing three earned runs on five hits striking our 10 Wildcat hitters while walking three to improve to 2-0 overall on the year with relief help in the sixth inning from senior Manielvic Diplan, Peekskill, N.Y., Peekskill High School, who notched his second save of the year.  

Sophomore third baseman David Flora, Windsor, N.Y., Windsor High School/Herkimer Community College, kept the home team in the contest early twice tying the game with solo home runs as part of a 2-for-3 effort at the plate.  

In the second game Cobleskill senior lefty Devin Lewis, Cobleskill, N.Y., Cobleskill-Richmondville High School, returned from the disabled list to hold the Wildcats scoreless over five innings allowing only two hits while striking out two and walking only one to improve to 3-2 overall on the year. 

Offensively the Fighting Tigers capitalized on three Cazenovia errors and several wild pitches to secure the victory as senior shortstop Eddy Garcia, Bronx, N.Y., World View High School, went 2-for-3 with a pair of triples, a run scored and an RBI while third baseman David Flora continues his hot hitting going 2-for-3 with a stolen base, a run scored and an RBI. Catcher Logan Hutter also continued to play well going 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored with first year center fielder Zach Ducorsky, Oceanside, N.Y., Oceanside High School, going 1-for-2 with a walk and an RBI from the lead-off stop.  

The two teams are tentatively scheduled to next meet on Monday April 18 for a NAC single game at Fighting Tiger Field.  

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Permaculture Workshop April 21st

Permaculture is the harmonious integration of landscape and people to meet their food, energy, material, and non-material needs in a sustainable way. In other words, permaculture is a holistic practice as well as a technical approach for how to design your garden for self-sufficiency. Join our CCE Agriculture and Horticulture Intern, Becca Leone on April 21st at noon for a workshop on permaculture. Her presentation will include principles of permaculture, site planning, self-sufficiency, and urban permaculture. The workshop will be provided over zoom and will include an at-home activity to show the advantages of redesigning your garden to fit within the scope of permaculture. Be prepared to dive into all the facets of this exciting land management practice to better help yourself, your family, and the environment. To register, visit https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/permaculture_243

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Team Empie to return to Schoharie County CROP Hunger Walk

The 2022 Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial CROP Hunger Walk  will start and end at Cobleskill United Methodist Church on Sunday, May 1. Again this year Team Empie will be part of the event.

Registration will run from 1:15 till 1:30 with the short  program at 1:30. The 2.8-mile in-person  walk around Cobleskill will start soon thereafter. The route will be almost identical to last year's.

The Walk can again this year also be a virtual walk for those who can't participate on May 1. Virtual Walkers collect donations and walk any distance at any time that they like before 1:30  on May 1, when all donations should be turned in at Cobleskill United Methodist Church.

Virtual Walkers do not have  to walk 2.8 miles.

Each virtual and  in-person Walker will get a CROP tee shirt.  

During the program the MC will recognize Aggie Scott and Lee Empie, two senior citizens who passed away several years ago. Both were known for their amazing fundraising skills and for following the CROP route while both were  in their eighties.

Aggie was such a persuasive fundraiser that she once stopped her car when she saw a friend  who was also raising money for the event. She asked him to support her with some cash for a donation. 

He responded, ''But I'm walking too, so I'm trying to collect money, not give it away!''

Aggie replied, ''But if you give me a donation, that money will end up in the same place anyway!''

He said, ''Aggie, you're right.'' He gave her ten dollars. Aggie thanked him and drove away.

Aggie Scott was always the Walker turning in the most money on CROP Hunger Walk Sunday.

Lee Empie joined the local walk after Aggie passed away. Lee was an even more prolific CROP fundraiser, but his method was more technological  than Aggie's direct, personal approach. 

Besides using Aggie's direct approach, Lee used social media to reach out to his friends and supporters.

His children and grandchildren helped him by using their social  media contacts. Lee and his family soon brought in record amounts of money for the local CROP Hunger Walk.

For example, for the 2019 Walk Lee raised $2555. The Walker who brought in the second highest amount of money, John Jarvis,  turned in $535.

In 2017 Lee collected $2254 while teenager Nathalia Mazoff turned in $521 to earn a certificate for submitting the second-largest amount of money.  

In 2016 Lee turned in $2010 while Nathalia Mazoff and John Jarvis turned in a combined $715.

Lee Empie, with help from  his family, was clearly a gifted money raiser for our local CROP Hunger Walks.

After Lee passed away  on April 3, 2019, his fundraising skills lived on.

His family members formed Team Empie, which participated in the 2020 CROP Hunger Walk in person. Team Empie raised money virtually for the 2021 Walk. Both years Team Empie won awards for raising the most money for that year's CROP Hunger Walk.

For the 2021 CROP Hunger Walk, Team Empie raised  $3330 of the $7027 turned in on CROP Hunger Walk Sunday, Team Empie actually raised  47% of all money turned in that day to Tracy Smith during registration.

Team Empie will be part of the 2022 Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial  CROP Hunger Walk. 

John Jarvis of the local CROP Hunger Walk Planning Committee is very glad to have Team Empie back for another year of fighting hunger locally and everywhere.

''With Lee Empie's family joining us again this year, I know that the Schoharie County Aggie Scott Memorial CROP Hunger Walk will be a big success by our standards,'' Jarvis added. ''All of us involved with the local CROP Hunger Walk are so proud of the dedication and support of the Empie family.''

A new team will join the local CROP Hunger Walk this year.

A group of SUNY- Cobleskill students, advised by Pr. Ray Richards of Calvary Assembly of God,  will join the CROP Hunger Walk virtually on the SUNY campus a few days before the May 1 fundraiser. 

The local CROP Hunger Walk planning team  is very excited to have SUNY college students involved in the event.  

Members of the local CROP Hunger Walk planning team are Treasurer Marty Blankowitz, Statistician Tracy Smith and Arranger John Jarvis.

CROP stands for ''Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.''

Anyone with questions can call 518-234-2933.

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Word Thursdays 30th Anniversary In-Person at Bright Hill on April 28 at 7 PM

Word Thursdays, Bright Hill Press & Literary Center's legacy program, will celebrate 30 years of readings by presenting an in-person reading on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 7 pm EST, at Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell, NY (next door to the Methodist Church). The reading will also stream live on Facebook. The featured poets and writers are Robert Bensen, Oneonta; Ginnah Howard, Otego; Bertha Rogers, Treadwell; and Sharon Ruetenik, Delhi, all of whom were featured during Word Thursdays' first year, 1992, and who have been long-time participants in Bright Hill's programs. Refreshments will be served during the intermission. Local poets and writers, among them Lisa Wujnovich, Michael Piercy and Teresa Winchester, are invited to read from their own work or work by others for up to three minutes. Suggested donation is $3, and free to students. Donations to Bright Hill are gratefully accepted via Paypal by visiting this link, https://paypal.me/brighthillpress, by check made out to Bright Hill Press Inc, and mailed to 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846, or by credit card by personal appointment by emailing info@brighthillpress.org. Virtual "donation jar:" https://paypal.me/brighthillpress RSVP to the event on here.

Robert Bensen’s volume, What Lightning Spoke: New & Selected Poems, will be published by Bright Hill Press in June 2022. After retiring as Professor Emeritus and former Director of Writing at Hartwick College (1978-2017), he founded and currently directs the Seeing Things Poetry Workshop for Bright Hill Literary Center. His poems, essays, editions, and studies have been widely published and earned awards and fellowships from the NEA, NEH, Newbery Library, NYSCA, Illinois Arts Council, Harvard University, NY State Fair, Eric Hoffer Award, and elsewhere. He has taught writing and literature at SUNY Oneonta, Parkland College, and the University of Illinois. For more information visit: https://robertbensen.com/

Bertha Rogers's most recent poetry collection is Wild, Again (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2019); her translation of all 95 of the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems, Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019. Her forthcoming collection, What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems, will be published in 2023 (Salmon Poetry). Rogers co-founded Bright Hill Press with her husband (now deceased), Ernest M. Fishman; she retired in 2017 but still leads kid's literary workshops and edits poetry collections. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize nine times, and she has received fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and others.

Sharon Ruetenik, poet and educator, has published in several anthologies and journals, most recently Iconoclast and Evening Street Review. Her chapbook, The Wooden Bowl, illustrates the role of women from Eve to Dorothy. Ruetenik was awarded a fellowship at the Saltonstall Foundation and at Platte Clove. She has taught poetry classes for Writers in the Mountains and functioned as a facilitator for the New York Council of the Humanities directing discussions on such diverse subjects as WWI, the Muslim Journey, and A History of Aging. Sharon Ruetenik has an abiding interest in What Ifs and a natural proclivity for incongruities.

Ginnah Howard taught high school English for twenty-seven years and began writing when she was in her mid-forties. Her work has appeared in Water-Stone Review, Permafrost, and A Room of One’s Own, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For more information, visit www.ginnahhoward.com.

Word Thursdays at Bright Hil

On a snowy evening in January of 1992, the Bright Hill Word Thursdays Reading Series was inaugurated at the home of Bertha Rogers and Ernest Fishman, just up the road from Treadwell, NY. So much has happened during our 30 years of operation, including:   * Word Thursdays, the continuing series, presenting open readings followed by readings and discussion by featured authors;    *  Bright Hill Books, publishing anthologies as well as poetry collections, chapbooks and interdisciplinary collections by individual authors since 1994;    *  The NYSCA Literary Map of New York State and the NYSCA Literary Tree: nyslittree.org (since 1999), developed and administered by BHP, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts.   *  Word Thursdays Share the Words HS Poetry Mentoring Program and Competition, affording young poets a chance to write and present their own poetry in a public competition since 1996;   *  Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids & Adults, offering, since 1994, innovative programs that celebrate and incorporate the elegant use of words with other disciplines;   *  BHLC Internship Program for College and HS Students, offering, since 1994, students an opportunity to learn the business of literature.   *  Bright Hill Presents: Annual History & Nonfiction Day; Chamber music in the library; and Songs from the Great American Songbook; Great American Poets Day; and Veterans and Communities Day.

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Power Authority Reopens Reservoirs for Recreational Boating

Power Authority Reopens Reservoirs for Recreational Boating

 

New Picnic Amenities at Upper and Lower Reservoir Available

 

NORTH BLENHEIM—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has opened the lower and upper reservoirs for the season to recreational boating at the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project. Both fishing areas were enhanced in 2021 with picnic tables and portable bathrooms for the convenience of the boating and fishing communities as a result of the power project’s new 50-year operating license.

 

Use of the upper reservoir is limited to rowboats, canoes, and kayaks only, with or without electric-trolling motors. Gasoline-powered engines and sailboats are prohibited on the upper reservoir. Recreational craft, including rowboats, canoes and kayaks—with or without electric-trolling motors—and boats with gas-powered engines may be used in the lower reservoir.

 

The public fishing access along the Schoharie Creek just below the lower reservoir is currently open.

 

For access to the upper reservoir, boaters are required to stop at the south gate on Valenti Road no earlier than 7 a.m. All boats must be off the reservoir promptly at 5 p.m. Shoreline fishing closes at dusk. Daily inspections of the reservoir will be performed by NYPA security.

 

For access to the lower reservoir, boaters are required to stop at Mine Kill State Park’s toll booth or the park’s office on the day of intended use. Boating will be permitted from 7:30 a.m. until the park closes; however, all boats must be off the reservoir one hour before then. The park will remain open until 4 p.m. until the first weekend in May; afterward, it will remain open until dusk.

 

Please visit the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation webpage on tips for Boating Safety and observe all NYS COVID-19 safety protocols.

The reservoirs may be closed to boating at any time at the Power Authority’s discretion.

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Catskill’s “Little Theatre That Can” Celebrates Survival In Its 2022 Season

“To tell you the truth, I’m amazed we’re both still ambulatory,” groans Steven Patterson, one of the co-founders of Bridge Street Theatre.

Patterson and his partner John Sowle, who converted a once-derelict factory building in the Village of Catskill into an arts complex early in 2014 and have since transformed it into one of the most adventurous and exciting small theater companies in the Hudson Valley region, were hit hard when COVID19 shut everything down in mid-March 2020.

“We’d just held a hugely successful benefit performance featuring Edmund Bagnell in February and were all set to launch into our full season when everything came crashing down,” says Sowle, the theatre’s Artistic and Managing Director. “As a space dedicated to live performance, the fact that suddenly no one was able to gather in groups pretty much froze us in our tracks. We’d initially hoped, of course, that things would return to ‘normal’ soon and that we’d be able to salvage at least some of the work we’d planned to present. But before too long it became fairly obvious that we were going to be in this for the long haul.”

But while the pandemic definitely slowed things down, it couldn’t stop them entirely. The pair hunkered down to try and figure out what the theatre could do to move forward – and to survive!

“John and I had been creating theatre together since 1986 and had a huge backlog of archival videos of productions we’d presented,” says Patterson. “We hauled those out, John edited and enhanced them as much as he was able, and we wound up posting as many of them as we could receive permission to post – which turned out to be 25 – free of charge on Vimeo. I did a series of Bedtime Story readings for kids, which we posted for free on YouTube. About midway through the year, we brought in two of the solo shows we’d originally hoped to present, filmed them live on our stage without an audience, and posted them online as ticketed events, sharing the proceeds with the artists. We also partnered with La Mama ETC in NYC for a livestream from our stage of Concrete Temple Theatre’s “Geppetto”, and with the Orlando-based steampunk horror troupe “Phantasmagoria” for a Halloween Weekend online presentation of their show “Plague Tales”.

As 2021 came in, and the situation remained unstable, the theatre was approached by Duke Dang of the Works and Process Series at Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum about the possibility of hosting a series of bubble dance residencies. Utilizing Bridge Street’s artist housing, the dancers were then able to isolate and use the theatre’s mainstage and technical facilities to develop new works. This program ran from January through June of 2021, hosting twelve different dance companies, and was so successful that it was re-instituted during the first few months of 2022.

As the COVID pandemic began to ease somewhat, Bridge Street was able to re-instate occasional live performance, with a limited seating capacity to allow for social distancing and proof of vaccination and masking required for entry. One of the theatre’s most successful annual events, Bridge Street Belly Dance, was made a triumphant two-performance return in June. Those performances were filmed and transformed by filmmaker JD Urban into a stunning concert documentary called “Before”, which has since screened to great acclaim at Bridge Street Theatre, Hudson Hall, and numerous film festivals. Jazz vocalist Charles Turner, composer Sean Mason, and playwright Marcus Scott brought a one-performance “tasting” of a new musical they’d been working on during a residency at Catskill’s Catwalk Institute to BST’s Mainstage in late July, and have since returned to BST for a week-long residency (and performance) in February of 2022. During the summer, the theatre instituted a Youth Musical for local students and alumni, whose own performance opportunities had also been forestalled by the pandemic. A two-weekend run of “The Addams Family Musical: Quarantine Edition” as presented August 12 – 22.

And finally, with a nod from Actors’ Equity Association, Bridge Street was able to roar back to life with three of the productions they had originally hoped to present in 2020 – Fred Barton’s musical revue “Miss Gulch Returns!” (which won “Best Solo Performance” at the 2021 Berkshire Theatre Critics “Berkie” Awards), Samuel D. Hunter’s “Lewiston”, and Eugene O’Neill’s classic tragedy “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”.


John Sowle and Steven Patterson of Bridge Street Theatre

The theatre is now proceeding with caution (but unbridled enthusiasm) with plans for its first full season since 2019. “This enforced pause, if you can call it a pause, definitely confirmed a number of things for us,” says Patterson. “It’s strengthened our already firm commitment to presenting new works - works with a strong human connection and characters that audiences truly care about. Having to do more with less lately has re-affirmed our esthetic of making maximal imaginative use of our minimal means. It’s also demonstrated just how loyal our core audience in the region is and how much they want us to succeed. And we’ve also discovered reserves of strength I’m not sure we suspected we had. It’s been an exhausting, but exhilarating, couple of years.”

“We’d also be remiss if we didn’t give big thanks for the financial aid we’ve received during these tough times,” says Sowle. “Our patrons came through bigtime during our Fall Fundraising Appeal. EID loans, and grant monies from NYSCA and the Restart NY program, not to mention the grant monies we received for hosting the amazing artists’ residencies in our space, have been instrumental in helping us keep our heads above water. Sometimes literally – we actually had a couple inches of water in the theatre at one point during 2021.”

Plans are now moving ahead for the theatre’s 2022 Season, which they’re calling (appropriately enough) “Celebrate Survival”. The five-play slate they’ve scheduled includes a regional premiere (Samuel D. Hunter’s “Clarkston”, which is the companion piece to last year’s critically acclaimed production of his “Lewiston’, opening on April 28 and playing through May 8), an East Coast premiere (Eric Pfeffinger’s unexpectedly hilarious “Fourteen Funerals” June 2-12), a commissioned world premiere (Brad Fraser’s “Shelley’s Shadow” September 8-18), a U.S. premiere (Hannah Moscovitch’s “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes”, winner of the 2021 Canadian Governor General’s Award for English Language Drama, October 13-23), and an American classic – even if it is set in England (James Goldman’s “The Lion in Winter” November 10-20). They’ve also planned an exciting slate of imported theatre, readings, music, dance, and more, as well as another Student Musical production, for the summer months.

“We often say that when folks walk through the doors of our scrappy little theatre, it’s pretty much guaranteed they’re going to see work they’re unlikely to see anyplace else in the region,” says Sowle. “Want plays that’ll make you think and feel? This is the theatre you want to come to. We’re back, we’ve survived, and we’re so relieved. Hope you’ll all come share in the celebration.”

For more information on Bridge Street Theatre, winner of Best Theater/Performance Space for four consecutive years in the annual “Best of Greene County Awards”, as well as detailed information on their 2022 performance calendar, visit their website at BridgeStreetTheatre.org.

Other links:
Archival Videos: https://bridgest.org/archival-videos/
Bridge Street Bedtime Stories: https://bridgest.org/bridge-street-bedtime-stories/
Dance Residency Videos: https://bridgest.org/2021-dance-residency-videos/

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ACADEMY OF FORTEPIANO PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL SALON 10 THE FORTEPIANO CONNECTION: FROM AMSTERDAM TO JAPAN AND BOSTON

 

Hunter, NY – April 19, 2022 – Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Academy of Fortepiano Performance presents International Fortepiano Salon 10,  The Fortepiano Connection: From Amsterdam to Japan and Boston, on April 23, 2022 at 8 PM (EDT). The virtual event will be hosted by Academy of Fortepiano Performance faculty Maria Rose and Yi-heng Yang, and livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salon 10 features renowned fortepianists Sylvia Berry and Chie Hirai performing piano music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Berry and Chie met years ago while studying the fortepiano in Holland and are now established fortepianists with their own unique accomplishments in their respective countries, the US (Boston) and Japan. Their friendship and mutual respect will be evident as they share their latest research and projects, and their lives as fortepianists in general.

 

Salon host Yiheng Yang will also share a sneak peak of her recent recording of music by Fanny Hensel, Robert Schumann, and Franz Schubert. This album, entitled  "Free Spirits: Early Romantic Music on the Graf Piano", will be released in May on the Deux-Elles label.

 

Sylvia Berry is one of North America's leading exponents of historical keyboard instruments. A Philadelphia native based in the Boston area, she has played countless types of fortepianos, harpsichords, organs, and clavichords, including many noteworthy antiques. Her recording of Haydn's "London Sonatas” on an 1806 Broadwood & Son grand (#3448, restored by Dale Munschy) drew critical acclaim; a reviewer in Early Music America proclaimed her “a complete master of rhetoric, whether in driving passagework or in cantabile adagios,” while a review in Fanfare stated, “To say that Berry plays these works with vim, vigor, verve, and vitality, is actually a bit of an understatement." Of her concertizing, Cleveland Classical enthused: “Her splendid playing took her up and down the keyboard in lightning-fast scales and passagework, and her thrilling full-voiced chords allowed the fortepiano to assert itself as a real solo instrument.” Though primarily a fortepianist, Berry’s engagement with a wide variety of keyboard instruments and repertoire has informed her musicianship and understanding of historical performance practices for 25 years.

 

Chie Hirai studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1997 before specializing on the fortepiano under Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she received her Master’s Degree in 2002 with distinction. In 2006, the inaugural recital of Chie’s recital series, “Composers fascinated by Viennese Pianos” was welcomed enthusiastically by critics:  “The music had its own breath under her fingers, the instrument must be rather difficult to control, but she had a complete command to allow her to choose the proper sonorities with the right taste. The performance was of highest quality”. (MUSICA NOVA, Tokyo) In the ensuing years, Chie has won international acclaim through competitions and performances, having been described as “the expert of this instrument…(a) virtuoso without any trace of vanity…” (Wiener Zeitung) Chie is currently in demand as a soloist and chamber musician in various ensembles in both Europe and Japan.

 

Academy of Fortepiano Performance (AFP) will hold its annual workshop and festival June 11-19, 2022. AFP co-founders Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose and Yi-heng Yang have arranged a full schedule including masterclasses with Sylvia Berry and Pierre Goy, an improvisation workshop with John Mortensen, “Galant Continuo” with Therese de Goede, and concerts by faculty, students and Pierre Goy.

 

Watch the free virtual salon on Facebook and YouTube on April 23, 2022 at 8PM EDT. Register at catskillmtn.org or academyfortepiano.org to receive the Salon 10 links. For more information about the Academy of Fortepiano Performance International Salon 10 or the Academy of Fortepiano Performance Workshop and Festival, visit catskillmtn.org or academyfortepiano.org.

 

About the Academy of Fortepiano Performance

The Academy of Fortepiano Performance was co-founded by fortepianists Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose, and Yi-heng Yang in 2017 to provide an inspiring and practical immersion into the world of historical performance for students, professionals, amateurs, and audiences. Hosted by the Catskill Mountain Foundation Piano Performance Museum in the idyllic mountain setting of Hunter, New York,  the intimate performance hall, impressive piano museum, and comfortable student lodging are all in close proximity to each other and just 2 1/2 hours north of New York City. The Academy is open to students, professionals, and adult amateurs. Visit catskillmtn.org or academyfortepiano.org for more information.

 

About Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop.

 

Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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Meat Processing Microcredentials Offered at SUNY Cobleskill This Summer

COBLESKILL, N.Y. – SUNY Cobleskill is offering two in-demand, non-credit microcredentials in Meat Processing in May and September 2022. These microcredentials are held in the College's federally inspected processing facility. Registration is now open and limited space is available. Find more information and registration here.

 

Beef Processing for Producers: Designed for a beef producer to manage the complexity of regulations and maximize marketing yield from their animals. Participants will have a hand in fabricating finished cuts. This is a three-day course runs May 18 through 20.

 

Meat Processing and Food Safety: This intensive, basic training program provides the knowledge and skills necessary to attain employment in the meat processing industry. The program delivers specialized training in whole carcass utilization, equipment use, and sanitation within federal compliance. This is a four-week course and runs September 12 through October 7.

 

SUNY Cobleskill actively collaborates with organizations to deliver industry-demanded education to build our regional economy and match the needs of both students and industry, today and in the future. Badges and microcredentials never expire and are stackable, enabling learners to earn badges and microcredentials as needed for employment advancement and while compiling them over time to earn certificates and college degrees. 

 

 

About SUNY Cobleskill: 

With an emphasis on experiential education, The State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill prepares students for successful careers, advanced studies, and engaged citizenship. SUNY Cobleskill is an accredited, baccalaureate, residential college, with a rich academic tradition that spans 100 years. Today, we offer 52 baccalaureate and associate degree programs through our two schools – The School of Agriculture and Natural Resources and The School of Business and Liberal Arts and Sciences. Learn more at www.cobleskill.edu. 

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