January 15 celebrate Winterfest on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail with horse-drawn sleigh rides, ice carving and more.  The first Saturday in February New Paltz's Winter Carnival offers cross-country skiing and snowshoe events. Clearwater's Family Open Boat Days for 2012 resume on Sun., Jan. 15, and Sat., Feb. 18, and Sat., March 24, at Lynch's Marina, 2 Ferry Street, Saugerties.  Enjoy good food, music, a boat tour and other fun and festivities.  Clearwater’s own Power of Song Apprentices will kick off the festivities on January 15. Bring an instrument for the jam session, or a dish to share at the potluck.  Also January 15 is Shandaken's Primitive Biathlon with competitions in target shooting with black powder muzzle loaders, tomahawk and knife throwing, and sharp shooting.  Primitive dress desired but not required.  Sat., Jan. 21, Visit the Mohonk Preserve and learn about birds in Winter Wings: Birding for children.  Ages 5+ with an adult. February 4-5 enjoy ice skating, snow tubing, astronomy, drumming, primitive skills at Ashokan's Winter Weekend in Olive Bridge.  Also Saturday February 4 & 18, Kingston Farmers’ Market is proud to announce the inaugural year of its Winter Market at the Old Dutch Church. Saturday, 25 February thepopular ChiliBowl Fiesta at the Rosendale Community Center fills attendees Women’s Studio Workshop-made ceramic bowls with hearty chili made by local restaurants.

Hi, I'm Mike Jacobson, aka Jake, the owner and proprietor of Emerald Forest Bungalows.  My goal is to give you an experience that is good and wholesome.  In other words, a whole lot at a fair price.  The summer season was awesome!  The heat, the pool, the very cold swimming holes, the BBQs, the camp fires, the quests!  I have to say that the people who have stayed at our cabins over the years are the best.  Good wholesome people, some who have become good friends of ours.  Thanks everyone for staying at Emerald Forest Bungalows.  So to the rest of you I say come and stay a while.  We have fully furnished one and two bedroom bungalows/cottages for rent, a salt water pool, a two acre pond that is stocked with large mouth bass and 75 acres to frolic in.

Swayze became a star in 1987 with his performance as the misunderstood, leather-clad bad boy Johnny Castle in ''Dirty Dancing.''  The coming-of-age romance established him as a romantic leading man. He starred opposite Jennifer Grey as a sexy (and much older) working-class dance instructor at a Catskills resort who proved to have more heart, integrity and sex appeal than many of the wealthy guests with whom he was forbidden to fraternize.  The film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.  Swayze's 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer ended when he died Monday, September 14.  He was 57.  The Catskills were once America's largest resort area.