Fleischmanns

Fleischmanns — Klezmer music arrives in Fleischmanns on Sunday, July 11 at 2 p.m. when The Metropolitan Klezmer sextet comes to Congregation Bnai Israel Synagogue in a co-presentation with The Roxbury Arts Group. With influences that range from old school Arabic music to Latin jazz to Motown, Metropolitan Klezmer interprets aged Yiddish favorites with a mixture of tradition and irreverence.

Fleischmanns — Congreg-ation Bnai Israel announces the arrival this weekend of Rabbi Moshe Edelman who will be sharing the pulpit alternate weeks with Rabbi Pomerantz. 
Rabbi Edelman has been a member of the United Synagogue Senior Staff since 1992 after 19 years as a congregational rabbi in Port Jefferson and Cedarhurst.

Fleischmanns — Photographer Colin D. Young will open at Zoom Gallery in Fleischmanns on July 3 where he is a part-time resident. Young also maintains a residence in New York City as well as being a world traveler.  The upcoming show of his work reflects his enthusiasm for the Village of Fleischmanns, the Catskill Region and points around the world that visualize his appreciation of community and nature.

Fleischmanns —When Alf Evers was asked what Catskill book besides his own monumental history should always remain in print, he replied without hesitation, John Burroughs’ In the Catskills. Bob Steuding, author of Last of the Handmade Dams,” Rondout, and Heart of the Catskills says, “Without a doubt, this is one of the most interesting and informative books, once again available, on the Catskills. It is an invaluable resource, one which no student of the Catskills should be without.”

Margaretville — Registration for the 1,000 Books Club is now open at the Fairview Public Library in Margaretville, the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns or the Margaretville Central School Library.
The 1,000 Books Club is an early childhood literacy program, the goal of which is to make it convenient, easy and free for parents to have access to 1,000 quality children’s books to read aloud to their children.

Fleischmanns — This Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday, May 29, Fleischmanns will once again host a village-wide celebration and street fair, with more music and entertainment than ever before. Main Street in the village will be closed to car traffic and filled with sidewalk vendors and tag sales, with music and entertainment all day in the gazebo.

Area communities will hold annual Memorial Day Parades on Monday, May 31.

Delhi — The Delaware County Public Health Nursing Service will hold free rabies vaccination clinics in Roxbury and Fleischmanns in June. The Fleischmanns clinic will be held on June 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the firehall.

Roxbury — Summer’s coming early to Roxbury’s Kirkside Park, where three Delaware County vintage baseball clubs will launch a season of summer fun and fierce competition on Saturday, May 22.
At noon, a doubleheader begins with the veteran Roxbury Nine facing the hard-hitting battery of the Bovina Dairymen. Then the Nine will take on their neighborly rivals from Fleischmanns, the Mountain Athletic Club.

By Julia Green
Roughly 230 miles north of Bangkok in lower northern Thailand sits a city called Phitsanulok. The capital of Phitsanulok Province, which stretches to the Laotian border, the name of the city means “Vishnu’s Heaven.”
It is here that Fleischmanns native Claire Cella will spend the next year as a teaching assistant, thanks to an English Teaching Assistantship Award from The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.