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| Sara Black at a recent HHA Board meeting |
The menu at Pez focuses on sustainable East Coast seafood presented in three sections: frio, vegetables, and caliente. Hernández is pulling out all the stops with raw bar dishes like a Jonah crab tostada with chicatana chintextle (a smoked chile spread from Oaxaca), plus hot plates like grilled dayboat scallops with smoky chipotle and seaweed butter, or a whole dry-aged Atlantic mackerel with salsa serrano and housemade sourdough flour tortillas.
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| Dust created by Colarusso's dock operations |
Without cuts, spending is expected to rise about 7.8% for the 2026-2027 school year, a figure that would require a large increase in school taxes and for the district to spend a significant amount of its unassigned fund balance--excess money that is supposed to serve as a rainy day fund.
But the situation is worse than that. Even if the school board were to approve a budget that would raise taxes by the maximum allowable amount this year--5.8%--and spend the maximum allowable amount of the unassigned fund balance, the district would be $2.58 short, or more than 4% of the total proposed budget of $63.1 million.
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| Photo: cityofhudsonyouth.org |
Greenagers, Inc., an education and conservation nonprofit, will be doing trail work in conjunction with local students at Oakdale Park from April 1 to April 10. A section of the forest loop trail will be temporarily closed on April 1 and April 2 due to tree work near the trail. Please observe any trail closure signs and exercise caution if you are in the woods during this period. As a reminder, all dogs must be kept on leash at all times in Oakdale Park.
Jenkins was a sea captain in Nantucket often traveling to London where he argued before the House of Lords for the rights of the colonists’ maritime trade activities.
Along with Alexander Coffin, He was instrumental in carrying important messages from France to the Founding Fathers. He also loaned money to the Continental government.
“The vessels of Nantucket … played an important part in the early days of the Revolution through being used as the medium of the conveyance of important letters to the Colonial authorities.” --The History of Nantucket, Alexander Starbuck
In spring 1783 Seth and his brother Thomas Jenkins purchased the Hudson River port of Claverack Landing on behalf of a group of proprietors. Along with other families, Seth returned in the fall with his wife Dinah, her mother Dinah Coffin Folger, and their four children, to begin the settlement. They lived on their boat while their house was built.
On May 14, 1784, the first meeting of the Proprietors was held in Seth’s house. He was on the committees that laid out the streets of the city and had the city incorporated by the state. He headed a project to build a bridge over the great hollow on Main Street. He was the first mayor of Hudson and served from 1785 until his death in 1793, whereupon his brother Thomas became mayor and then was followed by his son Robert.
Seth and Stephen Paddock began a sailmaking business, and Seth was involved in other businesses in Hudson.
In 1791 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison traveled in the Hudson Valley to examine its flora and fauna and meet with local political leaders. They breakfasted in Hudson with Seth Jenkins, who owned a large distillery, and tried to persuade him that wine from France was superior to molasses from the British West Indies in making spirits. Jefferson subsequently wrote to Jenkins about the matter. Jefferson’s object was to encourage trade with France rather than dependence on the British West Indies.
Jenkins answered his letter a couple of weeks later complaining that the low cost of wines might serve a good purpose if “that heavy Duty was out of the way,” which Jefferson was imposing! He also mentioned that he had carefully read Jefferson’s report on American cod and whale fisheries and found it quite thorough, then added that some whale fisheries in Nantucket will be moving to France, perhaps another jab at the American government for its policies regarding duties on American goods.
Years later President Jefferson would sign the Embargo Act of 1807 prohibiting American ships from trading in all foreign ports. This act was to force Britain and France to respect American neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars, but had a devastating effect on American trade. It was repealed two years later but by then it had destroyed Hudson’s whaling industry.
Hudson, 5 July 1791. Acknowledging Jefferson’s letter of 21 June about cost of “low Wines” in southern France, Jenkins states that if “that heavy Duty was out of the way,” they might serve a good purpose. But at present they “cannot answer for Distilling in this Country.”
