Towne Crier Two Great Bands From The Hudson Valley

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2015/August/06/Trolley_bus-06Aug15.htm

The new trolley route, which will run weekends on an every other hour schedule, will link the two counties and provide passengers with the opportunity to transfer directly to the Dutchess line and take their buses throughout the county. Also, the new route provides Mount Beacon…

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/04/29/leaving-peekskill-behind-city-manager-heads-beacon/26597273/

After what's been called a "tumultuous" run in Peekskill, a new city administrator will take the reins in the City of Beacon next week.

Anthony Ruggiero becomes Beacon's city manager on May 4,…

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/03/12/beacon-housing-high-demand-ex-brooklynites-transform-beacon/70230198/

"Last year was a good year," said Jonathan Miller, principal broker at JonCar Realty Residential and Commercial Sales. "We are hoping to project the same this year. But we don't have enough stock…

Dave Miller Connector Trail Opening Ceremony

There will be an opening / ribbon cutting of the Dave Miller Connector Trail (formerly known as the Waterfront - Madam Brett Trail Connector) at 2:30pm on November 20, 2013, at the head of the new trail (east side of the bridge on Denning’s Avenue that spans the main line of Metro North’s Hudson Line). There will be a short walk of the…

Here is the list of musicians from Second Saturday Jam 

Karl Dushin guitar+ vocals, Lynn Johansen Costello vocal+ guitar, Bob Costello guitar, …

Tuesday, July 23rd at 7pm at Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street. 

Reserve your seat and join the D.C.-based Executive Director of Food and Water Watch, Wenonah Hauter, along with Glynwood President Kathleen Frith in an intimate discussion about Ms. Hauter's new book Foodopoly- The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.

Attendees receive a signed copy of…

Beacon, New York-based Gourmetibles/The Chocolate Studio, are pleased to announce the expansion of their Birthday Party options with the collaboration of local personality ‘Princess Wow’. The Chocolate Studio currently hosts chocolate making parties in which guests create their own chocolate treats, including chocolate lollipops, chocolate covered oreos, pretzels, marshmallows and more. These parties include everything from invitations to…

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2012/December/24/antigun_rally-24Dec12.html

I have posted my notes on the proposed zones document on the Beacon Streets website: http://tmblr.co/ZanPFyXSMtmR

Thom Joyce, Margery Groton, and Susan Batton will be honored at the 1 November BeaconArts Awards. 

For more information, visit Beacon Streets.

We've gotten approval from the City Council on the Main Street Sharrows Initiative, and BACA will be supporting our grant activities as fiscal sponsor. For more details (and map) visit Beacon Streets: Advocating A Walkable Beacon, here: http://tmblr.co/ZanPFyR8bcD_

Be sure to join the mailing list to get regular email updates, here: http://edglings.wufoo.com/forms/z7x3z9/

We urge you to enjoy the Corn Festival in Beacon by the dock this Sunday! There will be no program at the Sargent and Downing Gardens Educational Center this Sunday, as we will be supporting and enjoying the Corn Festival festivities also.However if you would like afterwards to visit our gardens you can see the corn and all the other beautiful plants growing in our spiral garden. Thank you and have a wonderful weekend.



News:    

The Bees have been approved by the Beacon City…

Watch the teaser trailer:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benroyce/misanthropia-a-christm...

Thank you Rick Price for letting me use an image of your mural.

And thank you Chris Stain for letting me use an image of your murals too. I am glad I got your mural in there literally 30 minutes before they tore it…

Sargent~Downing Gardens & Nursery

Located at 724 Wolcott Ave. (Rt.9D) Beacon N.Y.

Presents

The 2^nd Annual Community Planting Day Festival

&…

Anders Behring Breivik Trial: Protesters Sing 'Children Of The Rainbow,' A Pete Seeger Children's Song

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/anders-breivik-children-of-the-rainbow_n_1455973.html

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Drawn by a Facebook-organized protest, Norwegians flocked to public squares across the country…

Hi all,

I organized a workshop a few months ago in collaboration w beahive - Community Stimulus: Local Currency + Barter Networks,' to gauge interest locally in this topic area.

I've been in regular communication with Amy Kirschner, (who spoke at the workshop) who runs the Vermont…

Thanks to all last night another great night of music. Musicians were

Norm Dodge guitar and vocals, Joe Martinez vocal, Dennis Winge guitar and bass, Guy Mart Van Pamel Callari guitar, Bob Mazzafaro guitar, Charlie Adamsguitar and vocals, Ken Bowles guitar and vocals, Robert Murphy bass and…