Garden Conservancy Open Day Set

The Brine Garden has an old-fashioned ambiance. Explore its 6 acres of naturalistic plantings, enhanced by twin 1920s farmhouses. Visit, and receive a property map and an extensive plant list indicating U.S. and Dutchess County natives. Distant hills are a backdrop to this garden of many parts. Grass and gravel pathways connect ecologically and horticulturally diverse areas. The Brine Garden […]

Pastry Palate Café Opens for Business in Lake Carmel


“Eat Dessert First,” is the motto of Diane Stimson, who has opened an exciting new pastry shop at the Kent Lakes Commons in Lake Carmel. The Pastry Palate Café offers a wide variety of cakes, cookies, muffins, scones, cupcakes and daily specials that pay attention to special diets such as gluten free, vegan, dairy and sugar free. During a visit […]

Kids of All Ages Love To ‘Touch A Truck’

The Patterson Rotary hit a home run Saturday during its fourth annual Touch a Truck for Heroes event at Thunder Ridge that raised funds and awareness for local veterans and food pantries. Trucks of every size and shape were explored by the young people, their parents and grandparents during the four hour long event held at Thunder Ridge. Emergency vehicles […]

Brad Willette Appointed as Director of Selective Service System in Ohio


Brad Willette, a 1973 graduate of Carmel High School, has been appointed as the Ohio State Director of the U.S. Selective Service System, the federal agency responsible for responding to a national emergency should a draft be required to support the Department of Defense. Willette grew up in Carmel and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Hartford. He […]

The Coming Frost

FREE (with Adventures in Eating: Hen of the Woods with Potato Gnocchi)

Putnam County is entering its most spectacular season. The woodlands are tinged with colors that will soon go shout-out-loud spectacular until the last of October. We are so lucky to live where we do. Our roadsides are still full of wild flowers, notably white fluffy clouds of native Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) a slightly fragrant beauty that was once used medicinally […]