Summer in Copake sees three sales over $1M

Looking out over Robinson Pond, 1254 Lakeview Road built in 1970 and recently renovated was sold for $560,000.
Photo by Christine Bates
Looking out over Robinson Pond, 1254 Lakeview Road built in 1970 and recently renovated was sold for $560,000.
COPAKE — In June, the Town of Copake experienced another month of high real estate activity with eight properties transferred at arm’s length.
The three sales over $1 million reflect the sale of large, very contemporary homes on large parcels that are available in the town and lakefront properties. The same modest to magnificent spectrum is revealed in more than 10 homes on the market now with a median listing price of $649,500.
184A Cambridge Road — 3 bedroom/5.5 contemporary home on 8.46 acres transferred by Scot E. Cohen and Julie Cohen for $3 million on June 6.
16 Deerfield Circle — 3 bedroom/2 bath ranch on 3.16 acres sold by Colleen and Fred R. Millerto David Julien and April J. Whalen for $625,000 on June 9.
1175 County Route 27A — 133 acres of land transferred by 1175 Ventures LLC to Marc Robbins as Trustee and Carol Chang as Trustee and JP Morgan Trust Company of Delaware as Trustee for the Robbins-Chang Family Trust for $1,195,000 on June 9.
1731 State Route 23 — 2 bedroom/1.5 bath home on .4 acres transferred by Jennifer Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Gore to Spencer A. Hughes and Nina Marie Doig for $365,000 on June 10.
3 Island Drive — 3 bedroom/1.5 bath on .26 acres transferred by Mark Levinson and Melissa Brown to Matthew Patrick Hendrickson and Brianne Kelly Hendrikson-Smith for $495,000 on June 11.
70 Birch Hill Road — 5 bedroom/3.5 bath home on 6 acres sold by Paul Rousseau to Brett Sirota for $2.15 million on June 17.
1254 Lakeview Road — 3 bedroom/2 bath home on .23 acres transferred by Vivian Trakinsky to Mark and Melissa Brown for $560,000 on June 18.
45 Tamarac Road — 3 bedroom/2 bath split level transferred by Kevin Kieran to Collaborative Cats Inc. for $750,000 on June 27.
*Town of Copake real estate recorded as sold with consideration by unrelated parties is derived from Columbia County public deed transfers with property details from SDQ Imagemate. 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.
Almost 20 years ago in a packed chapel at The Salisbury School a television journalist famous for his coverage of national politics led a discussion on the question: “Can Democracy Survive the Media?” His name was Sander Vanocur, a prominent reporter whose contemporaries were other big names at political conventions in the 1960s:John Chancellor, Frank McGee and Edwin Newman. Vanocur was one of the questioners at the first of the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960.
The Salisbury event back then in 2005 was brought to the Northwest Corner by a unique regional organization known as The Salisbury Forum, which now is celebrating 20 years sponsoring open discourse for a community hungry for thoughtful dialogue.
Last week, another prominent journalist, Judy Woodruff, former anchor and managing editor of the PBS Newshour, was on stage at The Forum’s sold-out event at The Salisbury School. (Read Patrick L. Sullivan’s coverage here.)
For two decades, the Forum, a nonprofit, has hosted speaker forums that “foster a deeper understanding of issues that affect our lives globally and locally,” to quote its mission statement.
As a community we are fortunate to be the beneficiary of such a committed and valuable local organization. The Forum is supported as well by other institutions in our community that provide venues for the Forum’s event. Those include The Hotchkiss School and Salisbury School, The Moviehouse in Millerton and Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village.
For twenty years, forums — free and open to the public — have explored a wide range of topics that span the rural health crisis in the Northwest Corner, to discussions on food access, the future of journalism, the future of democracy, climate change, citizenship, pandemics, the future of books in an age of AI, as well as subjects related to science, politics and international relations. There seems to be no end to the survey of topics explored by the forums. And no limit to the level of sophistication of its speakers. They include scholars from many disciplines, diplomats, housing experts, award-winning actors of theater, film and television, environmentalists, filmmakers, art critics, theater critics, and on and on with speakers who illuminate the challenges facing America today in civic, political, scientific and cultural life.
The Forum is an adult-ed course we receive for free, which connects us with ideas and draws conversation about the full gamut of Arts and Science of today’s complicated world.
We thank the Forum and its board for an indispensable service to the community. And encourage everyone to visit the Forum’s website to learn more about the people who make it happen and about the history of this nonprofit’s contribution to our community.
Brian Ross, left, interviewed Judy Woodruff at the Salisbury Forum Saturday, Sept. 27.
SALISBURY — Judy Woodruff, former anchor and managing editor of the PBS Newshour, said that her fellow journalists do tend to “live in a bubble” and need to get out into the country more, but pushed back on suggestions that national journalists are biased.
Woodruff appeared at the 20th anniversary Salisbury Forum at Salisbury School Saturday, Sept. 27. She was interviewed by Brian Ross, a veteran of television news with ABC News and NBC News (and a member of The Lakeville Journal board).
Ross noted that he and Woodruff broke into national TV news about the same time and invited Woodruff to share some of the story of her career path.
Woodruff said she was working in local TV news in Georgia and got to know Jimmy Carter when he ran for governor.
So when Carter started running for the Democratic nomination for President for the 1976 election, she had what she thought was an inside track
She told her bosses that Carter was worth their attention and was proved correct when he came in second in the New Hampshire primary.
But being the third-string political reporter, she “got knocked off” the campaign but kept hanging around, developing contacts within the Carter team and playing in the softball games between the campaign staff and the press.
It was during one of those games — “I was playing second base” — that she met her husband, Al Hunt.
Between her Carter contacts and consistent pushing on her part she finally landed a job as White House correspondent.
She said it took a while to find her feet. “I had to play catch-up.”
She said the Carter team came to Washington “believing they had the keys to the kingdom.”
Having received minimal help from the Democratic establishment during the campaign, they thought they didn’t need the party’s help in governing.
“It was called the ‘Georgia Mafia.’ Carter relied heavily on his original team.”
Woodruff gave Carter credit for the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt, a pact that has lasted to the present day.
Ross asked about left-of-center “groupthink” within the press corps.
“It’s very competitive,” Woodruff said. “You want to get it right, get it better and you’d love to get it first.”
She said she thinks news organizations pay too much attention to the White House “and not enough on the agencies.”
“We have given the White House the ability to set the agenda.”
As to the groupthink, she said “It’s a hothouse environment, no question. I call it a ‘bubble’. We don’t get out in the country enough and talk to people.
“I do think there is a kind of groupthink that sets in,” she continued. “But if everybody else is reporting a story and we don’t…”
Ross asked about the recent defunding of public television and radio, and President Trump’s remarks about “left-wing lunatics.”
“Lumping us in with ‘left-wing lunatics’ is absolutely not true,” said Woodruff.
She said the PBS Newshour is “straight down the middle journalism. It’s in our DNA.”
She said the loss of funding is a problem, and public broadcasting is reacting.
“We are not calling it quits. We are here to serve the American people.”
Ross asked about young journalists who are more familiar with new media such as Tik Tok and podcasts, which are heavy on opinion.
Woodruff said “there’s nothing wrong with having strong feelings but we always need straight factual reporting.”
So when she is asked about what she thinks about a particular issue, Woodruff said her reply is “That’s for others to say. I’m a reporter.”
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