TOP READERS — The Butterfield Library High School Battle of the Books team took third place behind LaGrange and Kinderhook at the Mid-Hudson Library System tournament in Pawling on Aug. 10. The team met during the spring and summer to discuss five books selected by librarians and practice answering trivia questions. Pictured, from left, are Leo O’Neil, Silvia Hardman, Jupiter Hutchison, Tanya Syan and Emma Cavanaugh. (Photo provided)
BOOK SALES — The Friends of the Desmond Fish Library in Garrison are holding their annual used book and media sale starting Friday evening (Aug. 23) for members and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the public. Co-organizer Rosalie Emerson Mewhinney, pictured here, points out that this year’s event includes 4,000 CDs of classical music and opera from the collection of the late Gordon Stewart, founder of The current. There will also be 2,000 art and coffee table books and, as usual, thousands of other titles. Sales run until September 4. (Photo by Michael Turton)
STAR PARTY — The Little Stony Point Citizen’s Association and the Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association hosted a sky-gazing party on August 10 in the parking lot of Canopus Beach in Fahnestock State Park, where people could catch a glimpse of the moon, the Ring Nebula and the Andromeda Galaxy, 10 million light-years away. (Photo by Ross Corsair)
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