This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Claire Copley | info@mainstreetmag.com Here we are again: trying to avoid the cold and fight off the cabin fever that sets in. The landscape is white, frozen, pretty bleak. We can only dream of gardens and flowers, fruit trees and tomatoes and hydrangea blooms. Our dreams are aided by our beloved winter companions – the seed catalogs that come pouring in at this time of year, containing color, inspiration, and new possibilities. Usually, we toss them by the time Spring arrives but several institutions have [...]

By Richard Schlesinger | info@mainstreetmag.com At the beginning of 2017, Justin Vagliano’s varied career took a surprising turn. He had known about The Little Guild in West Cornwall, CT, for years through his wife, Dr. Katie Vagliano, a vet at Millerton Veterinary Practice. And when he heard about their search for a new Executive Director, he decided to put his experience as a businessman and entrepreneur to work to solidify the foundation of the venerable animal shelter and begin charting its new future. Justin recently sat [...]

By Olivia H. May and Mary B. O’Neill, PhD | info@mainstreetmag.com Last summer Olivia May (18) and her mother Mary O’Neill volunteered with the non-profit Simply Smiles on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in La Plant, South Dakota, where they have worked since 2009. Olivia was a summer intern and Mary was one of the scores of weekly volunteers who come to the Reservation each summer. […]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Why are we interviewing and, in effect, promoting what some might view as a direct “competitor” of ours? Local newspapers and magazines are after all fighting for much of the same readership and advertising dollars. But what some might not realize is that quite a few of our local publications work together in different capacities (i.e. reprinting stories, sharing camera-ready ads for our advertisers). I have known Parry since the inception of his Columbia Paper, and he and his staff have [...]

By Claire Copley | info@mainstreetmag.com Winter is closing in on us – again. For many, this means spending more time indoors. According to one government estimate, the average American spends 90% of his or her life indoors, and as we get older we can become even more housebound, especially in winter. Cold temperatures, icy conditions and snow – covered ground limits where and how we can spend time outdoors. But we should consider the health benefits we are sacrificing by foregoing outdoor activities. There is a [...]