The Lake Sagamore Community Association Spring meeting for 2024 is to start 1 pm on Sunday, June 9. Where? The Kent Volunteer Fire Department: 2490 Rte 301, Kent Cliffs, New York 10512. kentvfd.com The next board meeting is to be Saturday, May 11, at 11 am. It is to be at Francine’s and …
There is a quality community theater group in Carmel. Called Brewster Theater Company, it presents in a spacious theater — nothing fancy, just nice — behind Drew United Methodist Church at 28 Gleneida Avenue in Carmel. (When, driving east from the lake, one comes to the end of Route 301, turn right; Drew is the …
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival moved this year to the lovely property of a former golf course in Garrison, a twenty minute drive from Lake Sagamore. For pre-theater dinner, one can bring one’s own picnic, purchase picnic food there, or eat inside at the restaurant next door to the outdoor tent theater. https://hvshakespeare.org/ : Experience …
Many of our houses around the lake have enough tree cover to make solar panel installation not viable. But: what if we could source our electricity from a sun-aplenty field of solar panels? A town program facilitates and encourages just that: Solarize Kent, our community solar program…allows you to purchase solar electricity though NYSEG with …
We Can Use Solar Power Amidst Trees? Yes We Can! Read More »
Here is a re-print of part of the email our neighbor Joe Loguirato sent to us all: I wanted to announce the opening of my art gallery, Christopher Stella Gallery LLC, 456 Main Street, Beacon….The gallery will feature my work. A Grand Opening will be held on Saturday, June 3, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. …
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One can click below to get 2002’s lake water quality report. Sagamore_2022_Princeton-Hydro-Final-1
The Kent Police Department offers what it calls a “dark house” program. A homeowner who plans to be away can go to police headquarters; in the lobby is a Dark House form. A filled-out form will lead officers to regularly check on one’s house. The department is the building just to the left when one …
The New York State Federation of Lake Associations offers an interesting guide to taking care of lakes such as ours. One can click below, where the letters state, in blue, “Diet for a Small Lake,” to view it as a PDF. And, yes, that is the name! Diet for a Small Lake
The Highlands Current, itself a donation-funded nonprofit, presents a list of community organizations to which one might want to donate funds: Last-Minute Giving Guide 2022 Thanks to Judy Rosenbaum for finding this.
An orchard/farm with a view that reaches west and north across the Hudson Valley all the way to the Catskills, Fishkill Farms is in the neighborhood. There’s a farm store that makes available what’s coming in from the fields. There are spectacular baked-there pies and mostly ever-present cider donuts and coffee with which to enjoy …