Tag: Greenwich

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    Leaving urban life to run a bookstore in a barn

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    Family leaves California to take charge of area vintage bookstore   Sydney Nichols and Eric Kufs stand with their daughter Sally Jane in the children’s section at Owl Pen Books. Nichols and Kufs are the new owners of the 60-year-old vintage bookstore in Greenwich, N.Y. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREENWICH, read more

    Leaving urban life to run a bookstore in a barn
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    Essential oils, scent power a one-woman micro-business

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    Essential oils, scented pillows power a one-woman micro-business   Gina Grillo started her one-woman business in 1996 after becoming a single parent with two pre-teen daughters. She vowed her new career would be something she could do at home while providing a living for her family. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer read more

    Essential oils, scent power a one-woman micro-business
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    Presidential loss cost local congressman his seat

    President Chester Arthur, who was born in Vermont and lived for a portion of his childhood in Greenwich, N.Y., was loyal to his friends. “His credo was stay by your friends — fight your enemies,” The Granville Sentinel wrote on Nov. 26, 1886. U.S. Rep. Henry G. Burleigh, R-Whitehall, was “a warm personal friend” of read more

    Presidential loss cost local congressman his seat
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    Filling a need for food

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      Cars line up to receive an emergency food packages May 26 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Regional food banks and local charitable organizations have organized a series of similar events around the region as unemployment has spiked upward amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Scott Langley photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   Inside the local read more

    Filling a need for food
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    Local paper’s roots date to abolitionist era

    In the fall of 1842, the agricultural muses visited local poets, inspiring “odes” to be read at that year’s Washington County Fair. “In a sweet healthy air, with a farm of his own, secluded from tumult and strife, the farmer, more blest than a king on his throne, enjoys all the comforts of life,” began read more

    Local paper’s roots date to abolitionist era
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    Pub snacks with a purpose

    New brand, Battenkill Bites, made by team of adults with disabilities KC Scott and Aaron Cook roll out dough to make pretzels in the commercial kitchen at the Cossayuna firehouse. Scott and Cook are both baker/cooks for Battenkill Culinary Services, a team that includes adults with developmental disabilities. The group makes snack foods for area read more

    Pub snacks with a purpose
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    Immersion in healing — For cancer survivors, a retreat just for healing

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    After cancer, owner shares riverside retreat with patients, survivors By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y.   Roger and Letitia Wyatt run the Barn at Basset House on Hudson, a riverside retreat in Greenwich, N.Y. Next month, they’ll host a daylong retreat for area cancer patients and survivors.  Joan K. Lentini photo When Letitia Wyatt opened read more

    Immersion in healing — For cancer survivors, a retreat just for healing