Hearth and hospitality at Silvia
The Choi Sisters serve healthy fare in a warm atmosphere in Woodstock.
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Adopt a furry friend at Morgan’s Cat Café in Red Hook
The small café, located on West Market St. in Red Hook, offers luncheon items – burgers, salads, cold noodles – along with smoothies, tea, baked goods and a fun time with a bevy of adoptable kittens and cats. Patrons can sit with their entrées and drinks and witness a roomful of felines as they play, eat, groom, nap.
This humble Rhinebeck chocolate shop won the gold in an international contest
“Your career has to be about mind/body/chocolate every day. That’s my philosophy.”
Where to find the best Hudson Valley holiday light extravaganzas
Heads up and eyes open! ‘Tis the season to gaze in wonder at the holiday light shows mounted in neighborhoods and commercial venues far and wide.
Cut-your-own Christmas tree at Bell’s Farm
You’ve got your pick of Douglas fir, Canaan fir, concolor fir, Serbian spruce, Colorado blue spruce, balsam fir, grand fir, Korean fir, Meyer spruce, Fraser fir and Fralsam fir. Holly the Dog runs alongside as we cruise through sections planted in each of these varieties, and Gordie talks about the Bell family having worked this farm since the 1900s.
Woodstock Holiday Open House
Saturday, Dec. 2: The festivities include a Holiday Restaurant Crawl, a cozy bonfire with s’mores, live bands, carolers, Santa and Mrs. Claus, ice-carving and a tree-lighting on the Village Green at 4:30.
Huge toy raffle at Saugerties’ Holiday in the Village
Sunday, Dec. 3: The Chamber of Commerce combines forces with the citizenry and more than 30 local businesses to bring joy to one and all. Children between the ages of 1 to 12 will be eligible to enter for a chance to win a coveted bike and more than 250 other prizes.
Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market in Hudson
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 24-26: From Acorn Hill Farm to Yankee Distillers and a hundred other vendors in between, alphabetically speaking, the fifth annual Farm & Flea Holiday Market will fill more than 9,000 square feet of floor space with handmade goods and farm-fresh food products.
Sibling revelry: A tale of two enterprising brothers
Sean and Dennis Nutley create retail success at bluecashew and Green Cottage.
Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates music inspired by nature’s waterways
Saturday, Nov. 18: Director Randall Craig Fleischer will conduct a concert that includes Smetana’s “Vltava (The Moldau),” Debussy’s “La Mer,” and Vaughan Williams’ dramatic “Sinfonia Antarctica,” the latter to be accompanied by the Vassar College Women’s Chorus and Jon Bowermaster’s stunning projected images of Antarctica’s vanishing ice cap.