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Millbrook Community Day Features Parade, Hayrides, More
MILLBROOK, N.Y. -- Millbrook Community Day will return next Saturday, Sept. 10, and feature a wide variety of activities.
During the day, Millbrook businesses and restaurants will offer promotions. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Millbrook Farmers Market will be open and the high-school soccer team will host kids games on Church Street.
It will also be opening day for Town of Washington Soccer, at 9 a.m. at the town park.
Here are some of the day's other components:
Weather permitting, there will be hayrides from 11 a.m. to noon, departing from the Millbrook Firehouse.
At noon, "celebri…
See Michael Moore's Latest Film For Free In Westwood
WESTWOOD, N.J. -- The Westwood Free Public Library is offering a free screening of "Where to Invade Next," filmmaker Michael Moore's latest offering, on Monday, Sept. 19.
In this playful documentary, Moore travels Europe and examines how European countries deal with a variety of issues, from work and education to food and drugs.
"In my view, it's one of the most genuinely, and valuably, patriotic films any American has ever made," Godfrey Cheshire wrote in his review for rogerebert.com. "Optimistic and affirmative, it rests on one challenging but invaluable idea: we…
John 'Jack' Ward, 92, Former Peekskill Resident
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- John "Jack" Joseph Ward -- a Spring Hill, Florida, resident, formerly of Peekskill, died on Tuesday, Aug. 16. He was 92.Ward enlisted in the Navy when he was 18, and he served during World War II aboard the carrier USS Block Island. The carrier was sunk in the Atlantic on May 29, 1944, one week before the Normandy invasion and one week before his 20th birthday.
Following his Navy service, Ward worked for several railroad companies, including the Boston and Maine, New York Central, Penn Central and the Long Island Railroad.
In later years, he was a communicant …
Scarsdale's Hoff-Barthelson Offers Reed-Making Session For Oboe And Bassoon
SCARSDALE, N.Y. -- Got Reeds? Hoff-Barthelson Music School, in Scarsdale, is offering a free workshop on the art of reed-making for the bassoon and oboe, on Saturday, Sept. 24.
Faculty members Elizabeth Condon and Janet Grice will lead this intensive, hands-on workshop, which is suitable students from beginner to advanced.
"While discussing the idiosyncrasies of the two instruments, participants will get practice in constructing, scraping, shaping and adjusting reeds to suit their needs," organizers noted.
You don't need to bring reed tools, but bring your instrument. The last 45 …
