Boston Corners Road closed for culvert replacement
Culvert replacement under Boston Corners Road near the intersection of Rudd Pond Road began on Aug. 11. Construction work is expected to finish in November.
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Moose mania in Millbrook
Sep 23, 2025
Drivers spotted the moose again Monday morning, Sept. 22, on a farm off the Salt Point Turnpike.
Photo by Michael Linck
MILLBROOK — A moose on the loose has the community abuzz with reports and images of a moose making its way through Millbrook, Clinton Corners and the Town of Washington. While some area residents are excited to share and track the moose’s whereabouts, others are hesitant to share its location to protect its wellbeing.
Over the weekend, conflicting reports of the moose being struck by a vehicle also started to appear on Facebook. New York State Trooper Krystal Paolicelli confirmed one such report. She said, “On September 18, 2025, at approximately 9:30 PM, a Chevy was traveling westbound on State Route 44 in the town of Washington when a moose entered the roadway and struck the vehicle. The moose fled the scene. No injuries were reported.”
Multiple members of local Facebook groups reported seeing the moose again since its alleged accident. “He is out walking today,” shared one user in the Millbrook NY Community Facebook group, “I have seen proof but will not share as the location is obvious to people familiar with our area.”
“So happy that Bullwinkle is out and about,” another Facebook user replied.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation collects public moose sightings on its website and asks members of the public to report information via a Google Form. Along with its research partners — including SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Cornell University’s Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit and Animal Health Diagnostic Center, the Biodiversity Research Institute and the Wildlife Conservation Society Adirondack Program — DEC is collecting the data that will be used to create a moose management plan for New York State. A public moose sighting tracker shows that areas in Dutchess County have reported between 0 and 25 moose sightings between 2014 and 2022.
The DEC also collects moose photos that are posted to the DEC Flickr page.
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Route 199 reopened to thru traffic
Sep 19, 2025
Construction crews finished installing safety railings on the culvert and reopened Route 199 on Friday, Sept. 19.
Photo by Nathan Miller
PINE PLAINS — New York State road crews finished installing a new culvert on Route 199 between Chase Road and Schultz Hill Road on Friday, Sept. 19.
Work began in June and the Department of Transportation projected construction to be complete by Aug. 31.
DOT Public Information Officer Heather Pillsworth said in a written statement that equipment issues caused the delay.
"The roadway reopened today (Sept. 19) and the New York State Department of Transportation appreciates the public’s patience as we worked to complete this important project as quickly as possible," the statement read.
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Sharon Dennis Rosen
Sep 17, 2025
SHARON — Sharon Dennis Rosen, 83, died on Aug. 8, 2025, in New York City.
Born and raised in Sharon, Connecticut, she grew up on her parents’ farm and attended Sharon Center School and Housatonic Valley Regional High School. She went on to study at Skidmore College before moving to New York City, where she married Dr. Harvey Rosen and together they raised two children.
Sharon’s lifelong love of learning and the arts shaped both her work and her passions. For decades, she served as a tour guide at the American Museum of Natural History and the Asia Society, sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with countless visitors. She also delighted in traveling widely, immersing herself in other cultures, and especially treasured time spent visiting her daughter and grandsons in Europe and Africa.
She was also deeply connected to her hometown, where in retirement she spent half her time and had many friends. She served as President of the Sharon East Side Cemetery until the time of her death, where generations of her family are buried and where she will also be laid to rest.
She is survived by her husband, Harvey; her children, Jennifer and Marc; and four beloved grandchildren.
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Claire and Garland Jeffreys in the film “The King of In Between.”
Still from "The King of In between"
There is a scene in “The King of In Between,” a documentary about musician Garland Jeffreys, that shows his name as the answer to a question on the TV show “Jeopardy!”
“This moment was the film in a nutshell,” said Claire Jeffreys, the film’s producer and director, and Garland’s wife of 40 years. “Nobody knows the answer,” she continued. “So, you’re cool enough to be a Jeopardy question, but you’re still obscure enough that not one of the contestants even had a glimmer of the answer.”
Garland Jeffreys never quite became a household name, but he carved out a singular place in American music by refusing to fit neatly into any category. A biracial New Yorker blending rock, reggae, soul and R&B, he used genre fusion as a kind of rebellion — against industry pigeonholes, racial boundaries and the musical status quo. Albums like “Ghost Writer” (1977) captured the tension of a post–civil rights America, while songs like “Wild in the Streets” made him an underground prophet of urban unrest. He moved alongside artists like Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen but always in his own lane — part poet, part agitator, part bridge between cultures.
“I think what I tried to do with the film, wittingly or unwittingly, was just to show that we all have these lives and they don’t often meet our dreams of what we think we’re entitled to, we’re talented enough to get or whatever,” said Claire. “We all have these goals, but we’re sort of stymied. Often, it’s partly circumstance and luck, but it’s also very often something that we’re doing or not doing that’s impeding us.”
This is not the typical rock-and-roll redemption story. There are no smashed guitars, no heroic overdoses, no dramatic comeback tour. What we get instead is something quieter and more intimate: hours of archival footage that Claire spent years sorting through. The sheer effort behind the film is palpable — so much so that, as she admitted with a laugh, it cured her of any future ambitions in filmmaking.
“What I learned with this project was A, I’m never doing it again. It was just so hard. And B, you know, you can do anything if you collaborate with people that know what they’re doing.”
Claire worked with the editing team of Evan M. Johnson and Ben Sozanski and a slew of talented producers, and ended up with a truthful portrayal — a beautiful living document for Garland’s legions of fans and, perhaps most importantly, for the couple’s daughter, Savannah.
“She’s been in the audience with me maybe three or four times,” said Claire. “The last time, I could tell that she was beginning to feel very proud of the effort that went into it and also of being a part of it.”
Savannah pursued a career in music for a while herself but has changed tracks and become a video producer.
“I think she couldn’t quite see music happening for herself,” said Claire. “She was like, ‘I don’t know if I want to struggle the way I saw my dad struggling and I’m going to get a job with a salary.’”
The film doesn’t just track the arc of an underappreciated musician, however. The music, always playing, is the soundtrack of a life — of a man navigating racial, musical and personal boundaries while balancing marriage, parenthood, aging, addiction andrecovery. Garland and Claire speak plainly about getting sober in the film, a life choice that gave them both clarity and shows Claire as a co-conspirator in his survival.
“I did some work early on with a director,” said Claire. “He wanted the final cut, and I didn’t feel like I could do that — not because I wanted so much to control the story, but I didn’t want the story to be about Alzheimer’s.”
Diagnosed in 2017, Garland, now 81, is in the late stages of the disease. Claire serves as his primary caregiver. The film quietly acknowledges his diagnosis, but it doesn’t dwell — a restraint that feels intentional. Garland spent a career refusing to be reduced: not to one sound, one race or one scene. And so the documentary grants him that same dignity in aging. His memory may be slipping, but the film resists easy sentimentality. Instead, it shows what remains — his humor, his voice, his marriage, the echo of a life lived on the edges of fame and at the center of his own convictions.
The Moviehouse in Millerton will be screening “The King of In Between” on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Peter Aaron, arts editor of Chronogram Magazine will conduct a talkback and Q&A with Claire Jeffreys after the film. Purchase tickets at themoviehouse.net.
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