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Putnam County’s master gardener plant sale blooms
KENT – Get your yard ready for summer – Putnam County residents are being encouraged to visit the county’s Veterans Memorial Park in Kent today (Saturday) for Cornell Cooperative Extension’s annual plant sale featuring a huge selection of heirloom and hybrid vegetable plants picked by master gardeners for local gardens.
Sojourner Truth statue to be exhibited in Kingston, Newburgh
NEW PALTZ – “Sojourner Truth: First Step to Freedom, 1826,” a bronze statue of the 19th century civil rights activist with deep Hudson Valley roots, will be temporarily exhibited at Kingston City Hall later this year, and then a site in Newburgh that will be named at a later date, before being installed permanently on the SUNY New Paltz campus in 2026.
Chronicles: The Night the Mountain Fell
Norman Osofsky was sound asleep. Earlier that evening during the summer of 1952, he set his alarm to rouse him at 5 o’clock, when he would begin his chores and the morning milking on the family dairy farm in Boston Corner, N.Y. Afterwards he would board the school bus for the ride to Roeliff Jansen Central School, where he was a sophomore.
A Rare Bright Spot for a Canine Lover Doing Time: Raising Puppies to Become Service Dogs
Christmastime 2022 saw me getting up on another wall in Fishkill Correctional Facility. As in, painting another mural, the seventh since early November — when my pup Lexi left. I was staying busy to avoid spinning too adrift in a spacey dark void of loss. “That's why I couldn’t...
Management at The Bardavon Retiring After 30 Years
It's the end of an era as the management team that saved area theaters Bardavon 1869 Opera House and Ulster Performing Arts Center, are ready for retirement. The pair helped save the legendary Hudson Valley venues during many difficult times, including COVID, which caused the theaters to close for over a year, and cost the organization $2 million in losses in 2020.
High school student raises money and awareness to help Dover Plains horse rescue in honor of ASPCA’s May National Adopt A Horse Month
DOVER PLAINS- Riley Elkins, a junior at Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, has created an equestrian apparel drive collecting donated gently-used riding apparel, boots and half chaps to raise awareness and money to support horses at Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue, a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Dover Plains in Dutchess County, New York.
Popa Chubby, Daryl’s House, Pawling NY
About three years ago I went to the Town Crier in Beacon, NY to see a blues band, but can’t remember the name of the band. Ted Horowitz, known as Popa Chubby, was in the audience, and the lead singer invited him to come on stage and he played a few songs with the band. I finally get a chance to see him again, and guess what? Daryl’s House in Pawling is the former Town Crier.
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