First Friday: wine, music & thespians
This month’s First Friday festivities in the village of Saugerties will take place Friday, April 5 from 6-10 p.m. featuring art openings, wine tastings, special discounts and street performances. PARTICIPATING VENUES Dig Karina Trunk Show and Fashion show. Come model in our show! 10% off all Karina dresses! Show time is 7 p.m. Light House...
First Friday in Saugerties
There will be an Irish theme for Saugerties’ First Friday event in March, with Celtic tattoos and live music, corned beef samplers and Irish coffee. Participating venues include Dave’s Coffee and Wine House with an evening of live music from 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Partition Street Wine Shop celebrating the end of winter with a...
Saugerties 3-day music festival canceled
A three-day music festival planned for Winston Farm this summer has been cancelled, Saugerties Supervisor Kelly Myers announced at the Saugerties Town Board meeting Wednesday, January 23. Promoter Michael Lang informed her that the organizers of the CounterPoint festival, planned for July 11-13, won’t take place because the organizers MCP Productions had determined that there...
Holiday in the village
More toys, more people, brighter lights and more crafts all marked the beginning of the holiday season as the village of Saugerties and its businesses celebrated Holiday in the Village Sunday, Dec. 2. This year’s celebration was highlighted, as it has been for the first two years of the event, by the giant Sawyer Motors...
When classics were classics
Along with the Good Guys Classic Car Show and Saugerties’ own Sawyer Motors Car Show, the Mills Mansion Antique Auto Show is one of the premiere area antique auto events. Hundreds of cars parked up and down the grounds of Staatsburgh’s Mills Mansion, adorned with a sea of trees with turning leaves and overlooking the...
What a crawl
Zombies and onlookers jammed Main and Partition streets in Saugerties last Saturday night, in what Brian Solomon, one of the organizers and owner of the blog spot Vault of Horror, called the “largest Zombie Crawl in the Northeast.” While the annual event is still a pub crawl at heart, the Zombie Crawl is morphing into...
Zombie Crawl
This year’s 3rd annual Zombie Crawl, which will take place on Saturday, Oct. 20, will be a crawl with a twist as an estimated 2,500 brain eating, un-dead descend upon the village. Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said his officers are looking forward to the event and will be closing Main and Partition streets to keep...
Living history
Last Saturday, the early history of our area was on display at the Saugerties Historical Society as Indians, soldiers from the Revolution and Civil War gathered at the Kiersted House. The occasion was the fifteenth annual History Day. A series of tents housed the various reenactors, most of whom wore clothing of the historic periods...
Triathletes do it on land and sea
Despite the autumnal chill in the air, things heated up at Hunter Mountain last weekend and no small amount of sweat was shed, as competitors swam, biked, and finally ran their way through the newest and—if you believe the athletes—the toughest triathlon on the block. The two-day event was a part of the HITS Triathlon...
Gala auction of thematic thrones
The 35 chairs that recently graced the sidewalks of Saugerties were sold at a “Gala Auction” on Sunday, Sept. 16, fetching prices from $250 to more than $400 to raise money for four local organizations. The chair that fetched the highest price, however, was not at the auction, said auctioneer Barry Cherwin. “Daydreaming in Saugerties,”...
Civil War Remembrance Day
It lasted four long years. The toll was horrendous; over 750,000 Americans died in combat and of disease, more Americans than were lost in all other wars combined. Of the fallen, 88 were from Saugerties. On Sunday, Sept. 16 the American Legion Lamouree-Hackett Post 72 will sponsor a Civil War Remembrance Day at Donlon Park...
Once upon a mattress
A cadre of luchadors are hurdling down Partition Street at breakneck-ish speeds as one of them sits in a bed frame and the others push. Angry twangs of old-timey music rattle off the facades of the buildings on a blocked off Partition Street – the melodies are the “Yakety Sax” to the race’s Benny Hill....