TOP READERS — The Butterfield Library’s High School Battle of the Books team finished third on Aug. 10 in the Mid-Hudson Library System tournament at Pawling, behind LaGrange and Kinderhook. The team met over the spring and summer to discuss five books chosen by librarians and practiced answering trivia questions. Shown from left are Leo O’Neil, Silvia Hardman, Jupiter Hutchison, Tanya Syan and Emma Cavanaugh. (Photo provided)
BOOK SALE — The Friends of the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison will hold its annual secondhand book and media sale beginning Friday evening (Aug. 23) for members and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the public. Co-organizer Rosalie Emerson Mewhinney, shown here, notes that this year’s event includes 4,000 classical music and opera CDs from the collection of the late Gordon Stewart, founder of The Current. In addition, there will be 2,000 art and coffee-table books and, as usual, thousands of other titles. The sale will continue through Sept. 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 at the Canopus Beach parking lot in Fahnestock State Park on Aug. 10, offering glimpses of the moon, the Ring Nebula and the Andromeda galaxy, which is 10 million light years away. (Photo by Ross Corsair)
