This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. | info@mainstreetmag.com As human beings, we are part of a Universe vibrating with an energy that conducts itself through our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states. This energy comprises our overall vibrational energy, which defines how we engage with ourselves the world around us. If that vibration is high with positive energy, then we’re in a place of oneness and well-being. When our vibration is low and negative, energy is not flowing freely, and we find we’re operating against ourselves and [...]

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Two hours from New York’s Grand Central Station, the hamlet of Wassaic in the Town of Amenia is the end of the line on the Harlem Valley Metro North railroad. On the other side of the tracks, on Route 22, is the exclusive Silo Ridge Field Club. Fifteen years in the making, Silo Ridge, our area’s first luxury gated community, the Tuxedo Park of the 21st century, is becoming a reality. Will it alter the character of northeastern Dutchess County? Will [...]

By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. | info@mainstreetmag.com Physical activity and fundraising go together like peanut butter and jelly. Walks, runs, swims, triathlons, bike rides, and golf events to raise funds for local non-profits can accomplish several objectives. They promote activity, collective action, cause recognition, and increased donations for a worthy cause. In our tri-state area, you can hardly drive a mile without seeing event signs lining the road at well-travelled intersections. These small markers sprout from the ground like flowers to announce upcoming athletic activities [...]

By John Torsiello | info@mainstreetmag.com It strikes you as you drive down a entryway at Bard College in Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY. At first impression, it appears an otherworldly building, perhaps a hobbit dwelling from Lord of the Rings, or maybe a forest cottage from the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel… What is it? It’s the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, built over a four-year period and opened in 2003. Unlike a simple hobbit dwelling or cottage, the Center cost a whopping $62 million to [...]

By John Torsiello |info@mainstreetmag.com When one views the renovated Hudson Opera Hall, now formally known as Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House in the center of this chic town located along, quite appropriately, the slow rolling Hudson River, it is difficult to imagine the structure was once in a state of serious decay. “The building sat vacant for around 30 years,” explained Executive Director of the Hall for the past 19 years, Gary Schiro, as he stood in the performance room where workers [...]