Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road? by Brian JP Cronin from The Highlands Current, June 7, 2024 While out for a run, I once came across a snapping turtle in the middle of the road. A woman was blocking traffic but said she was too nervous to move the turtle since she had heard […]
“May and June are busy months for local turtles….” Read More »
The property and its views are spectacular, the vegetables, fruit (and meats) are excellent–and it’s just a few miles down 301 along the way to Cold Spring, nestled inside Fahnestock State Park. Summer, 2024: open Tuesday and Friday, 2 –> 6; Saturday and Sunday, 10 –> 2. https://www.glynwood.org/our-farm/store.html Melissa Glass with pick-your-own cherry tomatoes:
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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
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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
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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
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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
2022 Report on Lake Sagamore Water Quality Read More »
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
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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.
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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
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