What’s open, what’s closed

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• Kingston Point Beach is open at 50 percent capacity and has lifeguards on duty Wednesdays to Sundays each week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Ulster County Pool Complex in New Paltz will remain open until Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. Hours of operation will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and occupancy will be limited to 325 people at any one time, It will be only open to county residents and guests. One swim lane will be available from 11 a.m. to noon. The CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines for pools must be followed at all times.

• The Belleayre Beach in Highmount is open, with reduced capacity, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Online: belleayre. com/todo/belleayre-beach.

• Additional campgrounds in the Catskill Park have reopened to reservation holders for the 2020 season, including the Devils Tombstone Campground and Day-Use Area in Hunter, the Kenneth L. Wilson Campground and Day-Use Area in Mount Tremper, and the Mongaup Pond Campground and Day-Use area in Livingston Manor. DEC-controlled fire towers, with the exception of Sugar Hill, also have reopened.

• Rummage sale, Saturday,

July 25, 9 a.m. to noon, Ponckhockie Congregational Church, 93 Abruyn St., Kingston.

• Ice cream social, Saturday, July 25, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Reformed Church of the Comforter, Wynkoop Place, Kingston. Call (845) 338-4857.

• The inaugural Walkway One Mile – 10 1-mile races celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park – has been canceled. The event had been initially postponed until Saturday, Sept. 5, but is now scheduled to take place in 2021.

• The Kingston school district’s breakfast and lunch distribution will continue over the summer for students, Mondays through Fridays. Find pick-up locations and times at kingstoncityschools.org/meals.

• The Emerson Resort & Spa Woodstock Open will take place Monday, July 27, at the Woodstock Golf Club. The deadline for entry is Wednesday, July 22, or the first 72 players to sign up for either a morning or afternoon team time. Visit https://www.woodstockgolf.com/woodstockopen or call the Woodstock pro shop at (845) 679-2914.

• The Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church, 72 Spring St., Kingston, is open Tuesdays by appointment by calling (845) 338-2954 (leave a message), and Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wear a mask to pick up a bag of groceries at the door.

• The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Center, 108 Parker Ave., Poughkeepsie, has reopened to the public.

• The Olana State Historic Site in Columbia County is resuming outdoor tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The grounds are open daily from 8:30 a.m. to sunset. More info: olana.org.

• All county fairs in New York, as well as the State Fair, have been canceled.

• The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival, scheduled for Sept. 26-27 at Cantine Field in Saugerties, has been canceled.

• The Woodstock Animal Sanctuary will remain closed in July.

• The Friends of Historic Saugerties has canceled its monthly local history lectures at the Saugerties Public Library for the rest of 2020.

• The Rosendale Library has begun curbside pickup. Holds can be placed at (845) 6589013 or at rosendalelibrary.org. Print, fax, and copy service also will be available at curbside by appointment.

• The Hurley and West Hurley libraries have reopened. Patrons may browse the shelves, use the computers, fax materials and reserve items in the online catalog. Furniture will be rearranged to maintain social distancing. The libraries will offer hand sanitizer, including wipes for the computers to be used after each visitor.

Returned books will be quarantined before re-entering circulation. Everyone will be required to wear masks and maintain social distancing. Each building will limit capacity and activities. Both libraries are still offering curbside borrowing for those patrons who are more comfortable with that service. Digital eBooks and streaming are still being fully supported as well.

• The Highland Public Library has implemented curbside pickup. Holds can be placed by calling (845) 691-2275 or going to highlandlibrary.org.

• The Starr Library in Rhinebeck is open for curbside pickup. More information at starrlibrary.org or (845) 8764030.

• The D.R. Evarts Library in Athens is open for curbside pickup. For an appointment, email director@drevartslibrary.org or call (518) 945-1417.

• The Clinton Community Library has reopened.

• The Ellenville Public Library and Museum has begun curbside pickup. Call (845) 647-5530.

• The Kingston Library is closed, but it has curbside pickup and its drop box is open for returns.

• The Saugerties Library is offering curbside pickup. More information at saugertiespubliclibrary.org or (845) 246-4317.

• The Woodstock Library is offering curbside pickup. More information at www.woodstock.org or (845) 679-2213.

• The Town of Esopus Library has begun curbside service, and its drop box is open for returns.

• The Town of Ulster Library is offering curbside pickup, and its drop box is open for returns.

• Hunter Mountain in Greene County has opened with a limited summer footprint focusing on mountain access and scenic lift rides.

• The city of Kingston’s playgrounds have reopened with health and safety rules.

• The Ulster County Department of Motor Vehicles office, 244 Fair St., Kingston, has reopened for limited transactions and by appointment only. Visit bit.ly/uc-dmv-appt.

• The Dutchess County Department of Motor Vehicles, 22 Market St., Poughkeepsie, has resumed in-person license, permits and non-driver ID transactions by appointment only. Appointments may be made by calling (845) 4862388 between 9 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. For information about vehicle registrations, go to dutchessny.gov/countyclerk.

• Metro-North’s Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines have increased peak service.

• The Morton Memorial Library & Community House in Rhinecliff has resumed contactless curbside service. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; and 2-6 p.m. Wednesdays and Friday. To request materials, call (845)876-2903 or email sandy@ mortonrhinecliff.org.

• Red Hook Public Library patrons may begin ordering materials via an online form or by talking to staff members on the phone. Pickup will be contactless. Call (845) 758-3241, email director@redhooklibrary.org, or visit www.redhooklibrary.org.

• The Phoenicia Library is closed, but it is offering curbside pickup, and its exterior book drop is open for returns.

• The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County will operate its summer day camps this year at under 50 percent of the permitted capacities.

• Coach House Players in Kingston has canceled the remainder of the 2020 season. This season shows are scheduled to be performed during the 2021 season. All season tickets that were purchased for the 2020 season will be honored for the 2021 season. Visit coachhouseplayers.org.

• Zoom Flume Water Park in East Durham in Greene County has canceled its 2020 season. • The city of Poughkeepsie has reopened its parks and skate park.

• The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has canceled all pavilion shows planned for the summer of 2020.

• The town of Ulster’s office and transfer station have reopened.

• The Town of Hyde Park has canceled its summer camp program as well as the opening of the Hackett Hill pool for the 2020 season. The town’s Independence Day parade also is canceled.

• Dutchess County Public Transit and Ulster County Area Transit have increased bus service. Go to bit.ly/bus-resume for details.

• Trailways of New York has resumed bus service between Kingston and New York City, though on a limited basis.

• The Athens Performing Arts Corporation has canceled its 2020 summer concert series in Athens Riverfront Park.

• County courts in Dutchess and Ulster have begun limited reopening. Court proceedings will continue to be done virtually.

• City of Poughkeepsie pools will not be opened for the foreseeable future.

• Opus 40 in Saugerties will be open Thursdays through Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All guests (no more than five per group) must sign up in advance, and spend no more than two hours on site, to prevent overcrowding. No one will be allowed entry without advance signup, and all indoor spaces will remain closed. Staff will be on site during all open hours to ensure that guests are practicing physical distancing. Go to opus40.org.

• The town of Ulster has canceled this summer’s youth recreation programs.

• The town of Wawarsing will not have summer recreation programs, including Camp Shawangunk, and the town pools will be closed.

• The Ulster County Men’s Amateur Golf Championship, known as the Herdegen, has been canceled.

• Mohonk Preserve has begun a phased reopening of its trails.

• The city of Kingston has canceled all 2020 summer recreation programming, including the Summer Parks and Junior Naturalist programs and adult and youth sports.

• The new Kingston Waterfront Farmers’ Market takes place at TR Gallo Park on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• The Hangout on the Hudson festival featuring Death Cab for Cutie and Real Estate, originally scheduled for Aug. 1 in Dutchess County, has been canceled.

• Maverick Concerts’ 105th chamber music festival in Woodstock, originally scheduled from June 27 to Sept. 13, 2020, is canceled.

• Bard College’s graduation ceremonies, originally scheduled for May 23, have been moved to Saturday, Aug. 22.

• The Rosendale Senors’ trip to Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills of South Dakota has been postponed until Aug. 14-24.

• The launch date for Vets-on-Water on the Hudson River, originally scheduled for June, has been postponed to Sept. 5.

• Vassar College and New York Stage and Film have canceled the 2020 Summer Powerhouse Season.

• The Town of Ulster Senior Club has suspended its scheduled meetings until further notice. The Town of Ulster Senior Center at 1 Town Hall Drive is closed. Call Karen at (845) 389-3429 for more information.

• Kingston’s Emergency Food Hotline has added a website, www.kingstonemergencyfood.com. To provide meals and groceries to those in need across the Kingston City

School District, the Emergency Food hotline, (888) 316-0879, was created to streamline the intake of requests.

• The Wilderstein Historic

Site in Rhinebeck has postponed its 2020 tour season. Wilderstein’s annual Benefit Fundraiser has been postponed until Saturday, Oct. 3. Other programming for 2020 is currently being evaluated.

• In addition to the current closure of all public buildings at Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, park roads and parking lots are now closed to vehicular traffic until further notice.

• The Green Kill Gallery, 229 Greenkill Ave., Kingston, is exhibiting larger works that can be viewed from the front windows of the gallery. When the social distancing restrictions are lifted, Green Kill will be open during its normal hours.

• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County has moved its classes, meetings and workshops online. Go to ulster.cce.cornell.edu.

• The Arts Society of Kingston’s gallery is closed and has moved its exhibitions online.

Go to askforarts.org/onlinegalleries.

• The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston, which is closed, has moved group meetings and workshops online. Go to lgbtqcenter.org for more information.

• Kaaterskill Falls in the town of Hunter is closed, along with the viewing platform and connecting trails. Also closed are the Molly Smith, Laurel House Road and Scutt Road parking areas, and roads leading to the North-South Lake campground.

• The Kingston Common Council is holding its meetings remotely.

• The Legoland New York Resort in Goshen has postponed its opening until 2021.

• Performing Arts of Woodstock has canceled its 2020 season.

• The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz has moved its exhibits online. Go to newpaltz.edu/dorskymuseum.

• Ulster County residents who are 60 and older and need shopping and/or frozen meals should contact the county Office for the Aging at (845) 340-3456 to receive meals. Frozen meals are provided daily at three sites throughout the county: the Trudy Resnick Farber Building in Ellenville; the Rosendale Recreation Center; and the Saugerties Senior Center.

• The Lions Club Mini-Park located at South Parsonage Street and North Park Road in Rhinebeck is closed until further notice.

• The Kingston Stockade FC soccer season is canceled.

• The Roost Studios & Art Gallery in New Paltz is closed. The Student Art Exhibit is online at www.roostcoop.org/studentvirtual-exhibition.

• The Woodstock School of Art is closed until further notice.

• Shadowland Stages in Ellenville has moved its screenings online. Go to shadowlandstages.org.

• All requests for Kingston Police Department reports should be directed to Records Clerk Alyssa Rockefeller at (845) 331-2061 or arockefeller@kingston-ny.gov.

• The Dutchess County Office for the Aging prepares hot meals that are delivered to home-bound seniors Monday to Friday. During the COVID-19 outbreak, New York state has temporarily expanded eligibility for the home-delivered meals program for seniors. Contact the Office for the Aging to find out more, (845) 486-2555, or email nbhargava@dutchessny.gov.

• Unison’s theater and classroom space in New Paltz is closed.

• Catholic Charities Case Management Services, including the Housing Resource Center, remain available for assistance with emergency food and shelter, and other basic social safety net support. Requests for assistance should be initiated with a phone in Ulster at (845) 340-9170, extension 3000, or by email at cccosuhelpline@cccsos.org.

• CREATE (the Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education) at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., Catskill, is closed to the public.

• The St. James Happy to Help Food Pantry said anyone needing emergency food can call (845) 331-3030 to arrange for pickups.

• The New Paltz Retired Men’s Group has temporarily suspended its monthly meetings.

• The Town of Ulster Senior Club has canceled all of its upcoming scheduled meetings. The Town of Ulster Senior Center is closed.

• The Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill has postponed some performances until August and canceled performances by The Hyde Park Ensemble and Flo Hayle’s cabaret.

• The Clermont State Historic Site’s historic mansion and visitors center has not opened for the season for tours and events. The Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Showcase has been canceled. The historic grounds and trails remain open daily from 8:30 a.m. to sunset. Parking fees are waived.

• The state police have suspended employment fingerprinting, along with child safety seat checks, at their stations.

• All local Social Security offices are closed to the public for in-person service.

• Hudson Valley Honor Flight has postponed two flights and its annual Lunch of Honor this fall.

• The Boys & Girls Club of Ulster County is operating at limited capacity.

• The Marlborough Town Hall is closed until further notice.

• The Esopus Town Hall is closed until further notice.

• The Town of Ulster Justice Court is closed.

• The FDR Library and Museum in Hyde Park is closed until further notice.

• The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie and the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston are closed.

• Colony Woodstock has canceled events.

• Helsinki Hudson has closed the club and the restaurant and canceled events.

• Upstate Films in both Rhinebeck and Woodstock is closed.

• The Rosendale Cafe has canceled Salsa Thursdays until further notice.

• Swing dance classes by Linda and Chester Freeman in Clermont, Newburgh and Kingston, and the swing dance at White Hall in Kingston, are canceled.