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MILLERTON — The decorated windows of the shops on Main Street, the scent of coffee, the hum of excitement as the movie theater lets out, the buzz of people around Veterans Park, and the sight of people sitting at the diner behind fogged windows: All of it turns magic beneath thousands of winking Christmas lights.
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From left: Lenny Sutton, chef at North East Community Center (NECC); Jennie Poidamani, NECC’s finance director; Jessica Elliott, NBT Bank of Millerton branch manager; Rick Cantele, NBT executive vice president; Andreas Kapetanopoulos, NBT Connecticut regional president; Irene Banning, chair of NECC’s board of directors; Michael Hogan, NB
MILLERTON — On Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Black Barn Winter Market at SkyRise Farm will host an intimate, indoor/outdoor experience of craft, community and care.
Photo courtesy North East Community Center
Karen Santiago Lopez, left, and Gissel Oros, both members of North East Community Center’s (NECC) Teen Program, volunteered Thursday, Nov. 16, preparing bread at NECC’s holiday food pantry.
Lily Fallon, 5, who attends school in Red Hook, shows off a completed cookie Friday, Nov. 24, at the North East Community Center. Photo by John Coston
MILLERTON — The lights were strung, the fire trucks were manned and ready, festooned with lights, holiday decorations and blow-up Santas, and Main Street was cordoned off.
A cozy second-floor studio at 24 Main Street in Millerton, bedecked with thank-you drawings from young artists, is where artist Julianna Kreta creates, sells and nurtures whimsical, finely crafted objects, and runs workshops for all ages and skill levels. She also has an extensive online store with lovely items too numerous to mention.
Oblong Books is an independent bookstore with locations in Millerton and Rhinebeck, N.Y. The store in Millerton was established in 1975 and has continued to be the go-to small town book seller in Dutchess County. The shop remains a local hub for book lovers and a cultural center in the community.
Clockwise from top left: Farmers Ris Lansing, Luca Dimambro, SG, co-founder D Rooney, Kyle Ellis, Rica Bryan, and Ainhoa Woodley at Rock Steady Farm in Millerton. Photo courtesy Rock Steady Farm
MILLERTON — Rock Steady Farm, a cooperative farm in Millerton, is exemplary within the agricultural landscape for many reasons, and its fundraising ability is one of them: In 2023, it raised $650,000, largely from grants.
Michelle Smith helped prepare for a Free Toy Give-Away in November 2022 at The NorthEast-Millerton Library. Dozens of “shoppers” lined up for the event an hour before opening to get their pick from the hundreds of items. Photo by Rhiannon Leo Jameson
MILLERTON — After three decades of running Adopt-a-Family, which supplies holiday gifts to families in need, Stacey Moore is passing the program to the village’s North East Community Center (NECC), to be run by Family Program Director Jessica Raymond.
Photo by Deborah Maier
Jessica Anderson, left, of J.P. Anderson Creations, displayed her polymer clay jewelry at the craft fair at the North East fire station in Millerton on Saturday, Nov 11.
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