Compass Special - June 12, 2025

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Amenia Planning Board approves Cascade Creek conservation analysis
Amenia Town Hall
Photo by John Coston

AMENIA — Following months of meetings and significant discussion at the regular meeting of the Planning Board on Wednesday, June 25, the board voted 5-1 to approve Hudson River Housing’s conservation analysis document in connection with the Cascade Creek affordable housing project.

Planning Board chairman Robert Boyles cast the negative vote.

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Planning Board hears progress on Keane Stud conservation analysis
Amenia Town Hall
Photo by John Coston

AMENIA — Reporting that the conservation analysis in connection with the Keane Stud project remains incomplete, the developers sought advice from the Planning Borad at its regular meeting on Wednesday, June 25.

Representing the Keane Stud developers was attorney Diana Kolev, Partner of DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, of White Plains. She indicated that she was following up on the discussion heard during the previous meeting on Wednesday, June 11.

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Taking on Tanglewood

Aerial view of The Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass.

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Now is the perfect time to plan ahead for symphonic music this summer at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. Here are a few highlights from the classical programming.

Saturday, July 5: Shed Opening Night at 8 p.m. Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra as Daniil Trifonov plays piano in an All-Rachmaninoff program. The Piano Concerto No. 3 was completed in 1909 and was written specifically to be debuted in the composer’s American tour, at another time of unrest and upheaval in Russia. Trifonev is well-equipped to take on what is considered among the most technically difficult piano pieces. This program also includes Symphonic Dances, a work encapsulating many ideas and much nostalgia.

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