Latest News
Built in 2024 this new three-bedroom home at 175 Snyder Road in Copake sold for $614,000.
Photo by Christine Bates
COPAKE — Communities with lake front properties like Salisbury and Goshen in Northwest Connecticut and Copake in Columbia County are especially active in May as properties viewed in spring close in anticipation of spending the summer on the water.
Columbia County’s Clerk recorded eight property transfers in May including five single family homes ranging in price from $170,000 to $5.6 million. Copake’s real estate market appears set to continue at this pace in June with 25 single family homes for sale and an additional 10 pending sale.
1175 County Route 27A — 6 bedroom/7 bath single family homeon 133.4 acres sold by Robert and Donna Golden to Marc Robbins and Carol Chang as Trustees of Robbins Chang Family Trust for $5.6 million recorded on May 8.
49 Snyder Pond Road — 5 bedroom/3.5 bath home on 3 acres sold by Shadic Builders Inc. to Michael Martinez and Michelle B. Cherande for $1,724,500 recorded on May 12.
175 Snyder Pond Road — 3 bedroom/2.5 bath home on 4.43 acres sold by Liberty Home Development LLC to Frank and Patricia A. Bogucki for $614,000 recorded on May 12.
244 Weedmine Road — Easement sold by John A and Cindy Heck to United States of America for $68,670 recorded on May 14.
County Route 7 — 43.55 acres of vacant residential land sold by A Great Pear LLC to Part Deux LLC for $440,000 recorded on May 16.
156 Farm Road — 4 bedroom/1 bath single family on 4.2 acres sold by Yvonne J. Hyatt to LZU NY LLC for $170,000 recorded on May 21.
Cambridge Road — 8.6 acres vacant residential land sold by Deborah Minton to J&J Sunset Ridge LLC for $260,000 recorded on May 22.
1170 Lake View Road — 3 bedroom/1.5 bath lake front single-family home sold by Misty Robinson Pondview LLC to Silvia Lopez, Christopher Patton and Jennifer A. Montgomery for $650,000 recorded on May 27.
*Town of Copake real estate recorded as sold with consideration is derived from Columbia County public deed transfers and active listings data reported from realtor.com, and Trulia.com. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Advisor with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in Connecticut and New York.
Keep ReadingShow less
Patrick L. Sullivan
I recently returned from a week’s vacation at the ancestral manor in the Catskill village of Phoenicia.
Few things are as tedious as kvetching about the weather, but kvetch I must.
During my week off the weather went from a good impression of the Northeast in late September to Las Vegas in August.
The first day dawned clear and positively chilly at 55 degrees. I went to a nearby stretch of Woodland Valley Creek where I had unfinished business in the form of a brown trout I hooked last year and failed to bring to the net. In Tangled Lines parlance, this is called a “compassionate release.”
It’s a tricky bit of stream that comes down in riffles and pockets and empties into a wide basin hemmed in by a modest cliff on the river right side and a couple of boulders on my side.
You can stand on the boulders and scare everything, or you can creep around and crouch behind the boulders, peering over them in the vain hope of seeing what you’re doing.
After conventional tactics failed, I rigged up two heavy nymphs, one drab and one sparkly, on a 10 foot Tenkara rod.
The length of the rod gave me barely enough leverage to keep the line tight while perched behind my boulder.
The third time through something tugged at the other end. I thought it was a rock at first but then it moved around.
Fish on!
(I never say “fish on!”)
Patrick L. Sullivan
At this moment the Zen simplicity of the fixed-line rod went out the window as I was confronted with a) keeping the fish hooked while b) getting upright from a baseball catcher’s crouch and savoring the resulting back pain while c) scrambling around the boulder in order to d) step into the deceptively deep hole, almost falling face-first into the water.
Somehow I kept this 15 inch or so brown trout on until the very last moment, when it came unbuttoned but e) hung there in the soft water for a split second, just long enough for me to slide the net under it.
The brown took the sparkly nymph, in case you were wondering.
My main fishing buddy Gary Dodson took the wheel the next day for an extended tour of the Beaverkill watershed, with a pit stop beforehand to play with wild rainbows in a small brook near the Pepacton reservoir.
Along the way we stopped in Livingstone Manor at Dette’s fly shop, which is halfway between a retail business and a shrine. I bought some isonychia patterns I didn’t need for the good of the house.
And we visited another fly tyer, Quinn Still-Zinsel of Quinn’s Fly Box (see his shop on Etsy).
Of course this made me think of the Bob Dylan song “The Mighty Quinn.” Instant earworm.
Patrick L. Sullivan
We hit a lovely stretch adjacent to the state campground on the Beaverkill, where I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of decent-sized brown trout that grabbed my Chubby Chernobyl in lieu of the nymphs and wet flies I had tied on a dropper.
This is why I prefer a dry-dropper rig, where the big bushy and highly visible dry fly serves as an indicator, to indicator rigs.
Indicators don’t have hooks in them.
My nomadic attorney Thos. showed up the next day, and we investigated a little blue line. I caught wild brookies and browns, half a dozen of each, and all on a size 10 Parachute Adams that was subsequently retired to the Chewed-Up Fly Hall of Fame. The white post was completely gone, and most of the tail. Makes me wonder just how picky these fish are, anyway.
Then it got hot.
Way up in my valley, it’s usually five to 10 degrees cooler than it is down in the cities of the plain.
Well, on the second day of the heat wave it was 102 in the shade. That means it was worse down below. I don’t know for sure because I didn’t go anywhere.
Instead I read Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels and hydrated.
There were two smallmouth attempts, a stupid and futile effort at dawn at Chimney Hole on the Esopus, and an afternoon assault on the Schoharie in Prattsville.
Patrick L. Sullivan
Just as the 2025 Colorado Rockies occasionally win a ballgame, Thos. outfished both Gary and yours truly on the Schoharie. The final score was one smallmouth to two compassionate releases to zilch, in the order specified above.
Long-time readers will want to know about the Bad Cinema lineup over this vacation. At the ancestral manor we are unafflicted by internet or cell phone signal, so we must watch DVDs.
We watched episodes of the 1941 Republic Pictures serial “The Drums of Fu Manchu,” as an appetizer before the main events, which were:
“Shatter,” a 1974 epic about an international assassin trying to make sense of Peter Cushing’s wind-swept hair; “The Big Bird Cage,” a 1972 women in prison flick that is thoroughly appalling in every possible way; “The Legend of Hell House” (1973) with Roddy McDowell pursing his lips and a revealing visual essay on the state of British dentistry; and “The Devil Rides Out,” a 1967 devil movie with Christopher Lee as the hero for a change.
Keep ReadingShow less
Legal Notice - July 3, 2025
Jul 02, 2025
NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL ENROLLED DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF THE TOWN OF PINE PLAINS THAT A MEETING OF SAID ENROLLED VOTERS WILL BE HELD ON
Sunday, the 13th day of July, 2025 at 3:00 PM at the Pine Plains Community Room located at 7775 S. Main St., 2nd floor, Town of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, New York for the purpose of selecting and nominating candidates for the following positions to be voted on at the General Election to be held on NOVEMBER 4, 2025:
Town Councilperson - 4 year term
Town Councilperson - 4 year term
Town Supervisor - 2 year Term
and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. July 3, 2025.
Meeting called by Jim Petrie
Democratic Committee
Town of Pine Plains, NY
07-03-25
Keep ReadingShow less
Classifieds - July 3, 2025
Jul 02, 2025
Help Wanted
Congregational Church of Salisbury: opening for Church Administrator. Publicity, bookkeeping, office management, volunteer coordination. See full job description: salisburycongregationalchurch.org/jobs/. Please email resume and cover letter to jobs@salisburyucc.org.
Experienced Horse Equestrian: to train three-year-old white Persian Mare for trail riding. 860-364-0603.
Help wanted: Small Angus Farm seeks reliable help for cattle and horses. Duties include feeding, fence repair, machine repair. Will train the right person. 860-364-0603.
Sharon Congregational Church is seeking a pianist: to join our music team. We host a blended worship service; knowledge of traditional hymns is beneficial. The team practices once per week and on Sunday in preparation for our 10:30 worship. A stipend is available. call 860-364-5002 or e-mail PastorDawson06@yahoo.com.
The David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village is hiring: an Assistant Director/Youth Services Coordinator to start mid-August. The position is 28 hours a week. A full job description and how to apply can be found at huntlibrary.org/employment/.
Services Offered
Hector Pacay Service: House Remodeling, Landscaping, Lawn mowing, Garden mulch, Painting, Gutters, Pruning, Stump Grinding, Chipping, Tree work, Brush removal, Fence, Patio, Carpenter/decks, Masonry. Spring and Fall Cleanup. Commercial & Residential. Fully insured. 845-636-3212.
Antiques, Collectibles
Private sale of selected furnishings/furniture: and household items from Ballyhack Farm in Cornwall. For more information please contact us on jbjb4859@gmail.com. Viewings by arrangement only.
Free!
FREE Sofa: matching Loveseat. Burgundy Plaid. 518-755-5565.
Real Estate
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: Equal Housing Opportunity. All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1966 revised March 12, 1989 which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color religion, sex, handicap or familial status or national origin or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. All residential property advertised in the State of Connecticut General Statutes 46a-64c which prohibit the making, printing or publishing or causing to be made, printed or published any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, age, lawful source of income, familial status, physical or mental disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.
Tag Sales
Falls Village, CT
Two Families and One Enormous Tag Sale!:Saturday, July 5, 9-3. Furniture, Electronics, Collectibles, and much more! 76 Barnes Road, Falls Village.
Keep ReadingShow less
loading