COPAKE - The Copake Comprehensive Plan Committee has extended the deadline for completing the Comprehensive Plan survey until Labor Day, and is scheduling several public meetings for further input. Copake realtors and the public are invited to a meeting Tuesday, August 11 at 7:30 p.m. (the article does not say where), and town officials and the public are invited to another meeting Thursday August 20 (no mention of where or when). E-mail Committee Chair Jeanne Mettler at copakecompplan@aol.com for more information.

VALATIE - The Valatie Planning Board could take action tomorrow on a proposed 87-unit development on Route 203, called Kinderkill Meadows, with both town houses and single-family dwellings.

HUDSON - The August issue of Chronogram profiles the founders of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, who moved from Brooklyn to Hudson a few years ago and have taken the town by storm, producing many shows for kids and adults.