Birthday wishes to Jordana Maraj, Josh Cohen, Murray Bresky, Linda Browne, Art Charpentier, Karen Fisher, Jaed Altman, Pamela Dorn, and Sandra Croissant.

Anniversary wishes to Emma and Jes Cohen-Dominguez.

Our sympathy extends to the family of Arthur ‘the barber’ Weisfeld.

PSA: Mask. Test. Vax. “It ain’t over yet.” FMI: 807-0925. SCPH- 292-5910.

To Do: Send me your news in advance. For local info: Townofbethelny.us.

Assistance: Contact Town for local CEAP Heat-Energy program applications. For County level HEAP, use 807-0142. Qualified Bethel residents can take advantage of the fire-smoke alarm ‘Save a Life’ program.

Campfires are allowed, but the local Burn Ban is in effect until May 15th.

Continue to donate food and personal care items to Shephards Pantry.

Stop in the Past Perfect Bookstore at Duggan, check their selection of books and read! FMI: 794-0017.

The Bethel-Smallwood Senior Citizens will be meeting on April 6th. FMI: 807-4373.

Business Watch: Dine at our local eateries. Shop the area businesses or support their on-line sites. Use the BBA website Member Directory resource. Join Bethel Business Association during the spring campaign and receive the ‘22 BBA GUIDE advertising discount incentive. Application/FMI: www.bethelbusiness.com.

The Eldred Preserve Homestead restaurant reopens April 1.

Crawford Library offers trained AARP Tax Aide until April 7th. Appt: 794-4660.

Look for and support the April 15th publication of the SC Democrat’s ‘Hoy en Sullivan’, Sullivan County’s first monthly Hispanic-Latino newspaper!

Stop in for ‘Mixed Doubles Pool’ at Hector’s Inn on Tuesday evenings.

Attend the Town of Bethel Board meeting on the 23rd at 7:30pm In-Person or Zoom link (QR available on-line). Get tickets for Bethel Woods’ “Sound Healing with Marc Switko” in the Events Gallery on the 23rd at 6pm. Register for the People’s Climate Action Council on Zoom on the 23rd at 7pm. Reg: catskillmountainkeeper.org.

Try ‘Dance It Off’ on Thursdays at Duggan at 4:45pm. Join Delaware Highlands Conservancy on Zoom for “Conservation Conversations’ on the 24th at 5:15pm. FMI about the group and to Reg: delawarehighlands.org. Attend Bethel Woods’ ‘Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre Band-Aqualung 50th Anniversary Tour’ in the Events Gallery on the 24th at 8/ doors open at 7pm.

Ski Villa Roma with special Bethel resident pricing on Friday Nights.

Experience NYS Maple Weekend 2022 on the 26th and 27th, 10-4pm each day. For a farm near you: Mapleweekend.nysmaple.com. Attend SUNY Sullivan’s STEM Day on the 26th from 12-2pm. Learn about the study of Sci, Tech, Engineering, and Math, and careers. Hector’s Inn hosts ‘Jaketown Road’ on Saturday night from 7-10pm.

Cobalt Studios offers a ‘Woodgrain Seminar’ on the 28-30th at the Royce Road location. 583-7025.

Culture: Support the arts! Bethelwoodscenter.org, Catskillartsociety.org, Delawarevalleyartsalliance.org, Hurleyvilleartscentre.org, Narrowsburgunion.com, Nesinculturalarts.org, and scdw.net. Join the local BCA (BCABethelArt@gmail.com). Crawford Library programs: www.ebcpl.org.

Purchase Bethel Woods concert tickets! Music starts this week and July is looking to be ‘jam-packed’. A variety of arts programs have already been scheduled on the property and we’re looking forward to the April 1st Museum opening.

“The Lost City” is featured at Callicoon Movie Theater on March 25th at 7:30 and the 26th, 27th at 2 and 7:30 p.m.(887-4460).

DVAA offers exhibits, Thursday through this Sunday, 11-4pm. Also, celebrate Women’s History and join a virtual tour and presentation with ‘Joyce Raimondo of Pollack-Krasner House & Study Center’ on March 28th at 6pm.

SC Dramatic Workshop has scheduled auditions for the 24th and 25th at the Fallsburg Sr Center for “Little Mermaid, the Musical” in August ‘22. Contact Dawn at nyx6117@yahoo.com.

Youth can register for Bethel Woods ‘Studio at the Woods: Art’ or ‘Project: Identity Photography’. Select one or more of Nesin Cultural Art’s various “NCA Spring ‘22 Programs” or FBP’s Academy series (fbplayhouse.org).

Hector’s Inn offers events and weekend entertainment. Cab Franks’ has Wednesday ‘Open Mic’, Thursday ‘Cab’raoke’ and weekend music. Check out Dutch’s, Harmony in the Woods, the Kartrite, Resorts World and the area restaurants, bars and breweries. Owners, send me event details; I can’t print what I don’t know!

Suz sez, “Working on quite the spectrum, Legislators have given aid to Ukraine and passed the end of DST!”