Birthday wishes to Alice Manzi, Deborah Allen, Andrew Kelly, Brad Hindley, Allie Colon, Laurie Weiss, Chuck Ramat, Eli VanEtten, Barry Somerville, Vicky Simpson, Michelle Klugman, Mati Friehling, Erin Lynch, Jason Broskin, Susan Otto Brown, Nellie Broskin, and my #1 son, Tyler White.

Area News Topics: 17B x Pine Grove Self-storage facility. SC International Airport ($18.5M) spring project completion. Proposed PUD put down. Villa Roma to/from NYC bus service. Skinner Falls Bridge demolition.

Bethel Departments, meeting links, minutes, newsletter, Parks & Rec: townofbethelny.us. Applications may still be available online for PT office clerks.

NYS Burn Ban is in effect until May 14.

Bethel’s P&R (bethelparksandrec@gmail.com, 845-583-5360): Apply for P&R jobs. Register for Summer Camp.

Keep fit outdoors: Smallwood Forest Reserve, www.trailkeeper.org, sullivanoandw.com, and alltrails.com.

SC Dept of Public Health (Fb) and Spring Senior Fitness (sullivanny.gov): 28th: Monday Bethel Sr Center class, 10:30am (2xmonth).

Check MoveSullivan.com for Bethel’s Monday bus service.

Support White Lake’s Shepherd’s Pantry. FMI: 845-583-5885. Jeff Bank locations are hosting Food Drives for local pantries until May 16 and bank branches are also accepting ‘Boot Cancer Card’ donations for St Jude Kids/Thunder 102’s Radiothon.

SC Litterpluck: Free disposal coupons are available at Town Hall, Transfer Station and SCA through October 31 for Roadside, Trail and Water body cleanup debris. FMI:845-807-0287.

There’s a Community Clean Up Day’ scheduled for the 26th at 10am (gather at Sr Center). Alert: Bethel’s Annual Clean Up is slated for May 3rd and 4th. Contact Town Hall for necessary vehicle permit.

For Earth Day on the 22nd, start your SC Food Scrap Recycling Program (Kassie.thelman@sullivanny.gov).

Follow Bethel Roundtable (bethelroundtable.com), ‘Lake Association of White Lake, NY’ (Fb), Sullivan 180 (sullivan180.org), and www.CatskillMountainkeeper.org.

Register for the June Rhulen Rock Hill Run & Ramble (rockhillrun.com).

Apply for the July Emergency Services Youth Academy for 14-16yo (www.esyacademy.org).

Vendor registration is open for the August Bagel Festival (thebagelfestival.org).

Business Watch: Support local business. Use the Bethel Business Association resource list: www.bethelnybba.com.

The BBA welcomes new members (application online) and appreciates those who have joined for 2025.

Friends and Bethel Woods are hiring!

Attend Monticello Rotary’s ‘Taste of Sullivan’ event at SUNY Sullivan Fieldhouse on the 22nd from 6-8pm. Tkt: $40pp. Enjoy participating restaurants, raffles. Benefits SCFH and local charities.

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance, begins the evening of the 23rd.

Attend a virtual SC Chamber Member Meeting on the 25th at 12noon-1pm (pre-register).

Drop by KL Farmers & Makers Market on the 26th at Duggan Community Center from 11-2pm with produce, bakery, meats, specialty vendors, music and more. Bashakill Vineyards opens on the 26th with new wines, food, and music, 12n-6pm.

Stop by Callicoon Market on Sundays, 11-2pm. Cochecton’s JURNI is hosting an Open House on the 27th at 12-3pm with demos, associated vendors, refreshments and raffles.

Arts & Culture:

Bethel Council of the Arts, will be returning to Kauneonga Lake ARTSPACE for the season in May. Support BCA.

Become a member (Student $25, I /Artist $50, Family $100. To: BCA, PO Box 333, Kauneonga Lake, NY 12749).

Bethel Woods (bethelwoodscenter.org): Register for programs. Purchase concert tickets. The Museum is open!

Crawford Library (ebcpl.org): ‘Tiny Art Class’ is scheduled for the 24th at 3pm. Catch an online conversation with a author Gregg Hurwitz: NYT bestselling ‘Orphan X Series’ on the 24th at 7pm. Denise Fleischman’s Art is exhibited through the 30th.

CAS (catskillartspace.org) hosts the Daccache, Orr and White exhibit until the 26th. Try Saturday 10:30am Yoga.

Cobalt Studios (cobaltstudios.biz): See seminar schedule.

DH Conservancy (delawarehighlands.org) Van Scott Nature Reserve: Register for events through May.

DVAA (delawarevalleyartalliance.org): Apply for grants, scholarships and Riverfest vending. Gallery Exhibit:

Carpenter’s “Open Spaces” (Meet Artist: 4/26 at 1pm) and O’Brien’s “When We Are Among the Trees” (Meet Artist: 5/3 at 1pm).

DVO Arts Nest hosts Open Mic on the 22nd at 6pm. The River Rep Theater’s Gala is planned at DVO Center on the 26th at 6pm. The AN Gallery hosts Alzamora and Lockwood’s “Imaginative Interlude” exhibition through May 31.

HPAC-Tango (hpacny.org) offer dance, film, and workshops. Film: See “Before the Flood” at 10am and 2pm and “Common Ground” at 7pm. Attend a ‘Floral Arranging Workshop’ on the 23rd at 6pm (Tango $40). Kid’s Craft Hour on the 26th at 12noon.

Narrowsburg Union offers Digital Art courses (catskillsdigitalarts.com/classes). Enjoy the NU Galleries.

NCA (nesinculturalarts.org) and SCCO (Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra-FB). The Chamber’s “Tapestry of Sound and Harmony” Concert: Monticello St John’s Episcopal Church on the 25th at 7pm and at the WL Reformed Presbyterian Church on the 26th at 3pm.

The Lodge at Woodloch offers programs. The Gallery features Kiesendahl + Calhoun Fine Art.

WCAA Gallery (waynecountyartsalliance.org): Catch the ‘Earth Echoes’ Exhibit through May 3rd.

Callicoon Movie Theater is on vacation until May 15th.

SUNY Sullivan’s “The MET: Live in HD” (Sunysullivan.edu) - 26th at 1pm: Mozart’s “Le Nozze Di Figaro”.

Suz sez, “K2-18b”.