Good food, good wine, good friends… there’s no better experience

The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming! Gifts, parties, dinners, family gatherings, and OMG, we need the right wine for all those. But, what to choose? There are so many options, from local vintners with one-of-a-kind specialties to vast world-wide assortments. 

Enter Dylan Baker at Sharon Package Store, Hillsdale Fine Wine and Spirits manager […]

By |2025-10-28T14:55:17-04:00October 31st, 2025|Featured Article, Food|

Stissing Center for Arts & Culture brings local filmmakers to the big screen with Pine Plains Festival of Shorts

On Saturday, November 1, and Sunday, November 2, Stissing Center for Arts & Culture in Pine Plains, NY, will be hosting the inaugural Pine Plains Festival of Shorts, a curated, non-competitive showcase of short films created by filmmakers from Pine Plains and other nearby localities. 

The festival will serve as a fundraiser to upgrade […]

By |2025-10-28T14:13:06-04:00October 31st, 2025|Featured Article, The Arts|

Celebrating simple, elevated home cooking with the launch of The King Cookbook

One of autumn’s most anticipated cookbooks, The King Cookbook, by Annie Shi, Clare de Boer, and Jess Shadbolt will be released on November 4. Annie, Clare, and Jess are the women behind New York City’s beloved restaurants King and Jupiter, the newly opened wine bar Lei in Chinatown, and Stissing House in Pine Plains, […]

By |2025-10-28T14:10:07-04:00October 31st, 2025|Featured Article, Food|

Mill Farm is For Sale for $90 Million: History is Being Made in the Hudson Valley

All photography accompanying this article is courtesy of Joel Petra of DDREPS and Bailey Roubos of Drone Hub Media. 

History is taking place in the heart of Ancramdale, which straddles the southern border of Columbia County in New York. For the first time ever, a 2,150-acre farm, Mill Farm to be precise, is being offered […]

By |2025-10-28T13:54:29-04:00October 18th, 2025|Featured Article, Main Street News, Real Estate|

Outdoor sculpture spaces

Art Omi grows contemporary work in former farm fields

It would be blasphemy to talk about outdoor sculpture exhibits in this area without including Art Omi in Ghent, NY, where modest to massive contemporary works become part of the landscape, owning hilltops, filling fields, and tucking into hedge-rows of a one-time 120-acre dairy farm.

Francis J. […]

By |2025-09-29T10:36:27-04:00October 1st, 2025|Business, Featured Article, The Arts|

Dugazon Shop, a home goods shop in the making for 21 years, opens in Sharon, CT

“Dugazon was born from our shared deep appreciation for heritage, discovery, and experiences that have shaped a life well-lived,” says Bobby Graham and Matt Marden, owners of the newly opened home goods store Dugazon, located in Sharon, CT. 

The concept behind Dugazon has been in the making since Graham and Marden’s first date 21 […]

By |2025-10-02T08:59:19-04:00October 1st, 2025|Business, Featured Article, The Arts|

Art and anguish: Event production 101

“What exactly does a producer do?”

If I got a nickel for every time that question has been asked, I might have amassed … perhaps … close to $2.00. It’s a fair question, however, even if the financial payout would hardly be worth the effort.

Given the opportunity to describe what actors do; what a director […]

By |2025-09-29T10:18:18-04:00October 1st, 2025|Featured Article|

Four September Days: From Ground Zero to Copake, Susan Massarella’s astonishing story of terror, survival, and healing

Above: Susan Massarella’s ID badge from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (at the time, her married name was Mollo). Curiously, the ID failed to scan at the World Trade Center security checkpoint the morning of September 11, 2001.

September 11, 2001

As Tuesday dawned in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, Susan Massarella hit the […]

By |2025-08-26T13:23:33-04:00August 28th, 2025|Featured Article|
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