GREEN THOUGHTS: Small fun with fake stone
DIAMOND RINGS, GOLD WATCHES and the keys to a new Porsche—all good things in small packages. While I don’t have much experience with any of those, […]
Category: Communities
LIBRARIES: North Chatham, Roe Jan webinars and oral history project, Chatham
Retirement, wit, topics in North Chatham N. CHATHAM—The North Chatham Free Library plans Zoom programs in June on retirement and satire. Tuesday, June 2 at 7 […]
COMMUNITIES: Morale Drive, Thank heroes, State Park beaches
Firefighter drive supports morale, veterans ANCRAM—A 2020 Memorial Day Firefighter Morale Drive is scheduled for Monday, May 25 starting at the Ancram Firehouse, 1306 County Route […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Memorial Day
MEMORIAL DAY IS THE TIME FOR HONORING and remembering those who have passed on and those who have served in our Armed Forces to make our […]
SOFT PAWS: Some shelter services restart as state pause loosens
ALLOW ME TO START by wishing you, your families, and your beloved pets a hedge of protection and health as we begin to slowly regain our […]
GREEN THOUGHTS: Lilacs: Beyond The Standard
WE THIRD GRADERS ALWAYS KNEW when Mrs. Bouton, the substitute, was in school: the smell of lilacs. A woman of great age, large stature and ample […]
COMMUNITY BRIEFS: Grange, Elks, Memorial Day, Food Bank, farmers’ markets, no Bash Bish, Humane Society, Clermont garden, Boy Scouts
That’s some Swedish meatball COPAKE—Copake Grange #935 presents, “Cooking with Stuart” in a Zoom online event, Thursday, May 21 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. During this […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Snapping turtle
NEAR OLD POND IN CHATHAM, right in the middle of a dirt road, was a magnificent common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina serpentina. At first it appeared […]
GREEN THOUGHTS: Mother Nature’s blushing beauty
DON’T GO BY WHAT PEOPLE TELL YOU, judge by what you see in the landscape. I learned this from the redbud. Some folks claim it isn’t […]
