Gardening GUSTO

Stay Calm and Cook On
(with Hungarian Mushroom Soup)

“Food is one of the great organizing tools.” Pete Seeger You said it, Pete! We all need organizing tools when we hit the high holiday eating and cooking months of November and December. It can get overwhelming if you dilly-dally, but here’s a Great Idea from My Boss: The Holidays are coming! Beginning the first week of November and going […]

Lauri Taylor to be New Head of Climate-Smart Communities Initiative


Lauri Taylor has spent years protecting the environment across Putnam County as District Manager of the Putnam Soil and Water Conservation District. County Executive Mary Ellen Odell has appointed Taylor as Coordinator of the new Climate Smart Communities Initiative which will lead Putnam’s effort to reduce greenhouse gases and adapt to a changing climate. Taylor has not only worked with […]

County And Kent Officials Work Together To Restore Kent Cemetery


A tornado that tore through sections of Putnam County in May 2018 heavily damaged Smalley’s Corners Cemetery in Kent by uprooting 18 Norwegian pine trees. Historians reported the trees which were 60 feet tall and five feet in diameter were planted in conjunction with a public works project during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Working in partnership, Kent Highway […]

Albert E. Rossi

Albert E. Rossi, of Brewster, NY, died peacefully on Wednesday October 16, 2019 at Westchester Medical Center. He was 72 years old. Born on January 27, 1947 in Hackensack, NJ, son of Armando and Helen (Sokolowski) Rossi. Albert attended school in Woodridge, NJ. On January 23, 1971 he married the love of his life, Deborah Brethauer in Upper Mountain, NJ. […]

Loretta E. Bauer

Loretta E. Bauer (Lorie) of Mahopac, NY passed away on October 19, 2019, after a brief illness; she was 81 years old. Loretta was born on September 29, 1938, in New York City, to Paul and Elisabeth (Voglmayr) Neumayr. Lorie was a graduate of Hunter College, and on May 7th, 1960, she married Robert Bauer. They were later blessed with […]

2,000-Year-Old Kitemaking Tradition Comes to Life

Old Soul’s Day Celebrations and Kites Date Back Centuries

Kites were on the minds of those attending Sunday’s year-round Farmers Market at the Hudson Valley Regional Community Health Centers in Southeast. Flying ‘barriletes’ or kites during Old Soul’s Day celebrations is a tradition dating back centuries to Mayan ancestry. The practice of making colorful kites and flying them over cemeteries in Guatemala is a form of honoring and communicating […]

Chorale Offers Four Concerts

The chorale, led by Music Director Douglas Anderson has announced that the group’s main concert, Let the PSALMS Resound!, with the Putnam Chorale and Putnam Chorale orchestra, will be performed at St. Joachim church December 6 at 7:30 PM. Christmas at Boscobel with the Putnam Chorale (the Chorale Holiday Ensemble with keyboard) will have three shows at the Boscobel Restoration […]

False Arrest Suit Settled For $130,000

Three Connecticut residents wrongly arrested for criminal possession of controlled substances following a traffic stop in February 2018 have settled a lawsuit against Putnam County for $130,000. The trio, Nicole Cannizarro, Alexander Schvets and Jonathan Wilson, were traveling in Carmel when stopped by undercover deputy sheriffs due to a broken taillight. In a lawsuit filed in White Plains Federal Court, […]

Schumer Wants Uncle Sam to Help Restore Fire-Damaged Mountain


U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, who two weeks ago visited a remote section of Kent demanding that federal dollars be appropriated to assist homeowners affected by an arsenic mine, is once again on the environmental trail. New York’s senior senator last week called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service to work with New York State as well as Putnam […]

Trinity Lutheran Church Holds Nov. 1 Potluck Dinner

Members of Trinity Lutheran Church, at 2103 Route 6 in Brewster, NY, 10509, invite the community to join them for food, fellowship and fun on Friday, Nov. 1 for our monthly potluck. The menu is soups and stews. Please bring a dish, and you might and make new friends. RSVP at tel. 845-279-5181.