How sweet it is!
Celebrating his success with his family, Anthony Cordato, center, was awarded the Most Outstanding Cupcake award for the men’s category and the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Cupcake Grange. Photo submitted

How sweet it is!

COPAKE — For one sweet summer afternoon, the Copake Grange was transformed into the Cupcake Grange for a fundraiser organized by the Friends of Copake Grange to benefit the Grange on Sunday, June 12.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., talented bakers from around the region were invited to enter their best cupcakes in the Grange’s annual baking competition. Local residents were the beneficiaries, as they were invited to buy, taste and then vote on their favorite cupcakes.

With 25 entrants participating in this year’s competition, a total of 568 cupcakes were sold at the Cupcake Grange, helping to raise a tasty, or is that tidy, sum to help the community organization.

— Kaitlin Lyle

Latest News

A Hospital’s History

When Sharon Hospital was founded in 1909, it was an eight-bed, two-nurse hospital in a rented house on Caulkinstown Road. In its first year, it served 88 patients. By the spring of 1916, thanks to the public-spirited generosity of the community that raised the funds for a building, a 16-bed hospital was officially opened.

The following day Dr. Jerome S. Chaffee, a surgical veteran of the Spanish-American War who was the moving force behind the founding of the hospital, performed an appendectomy in its new emergency room.

Keep ReadingShow less
Of odd-even rations and a Dairy Goat Princess

The following excerpts from The Millerton News were com- piled by Kathleen Spahn, Vivian Sukenik, Nancy Vialpando and Rhiannon Leo-Jameson of the NorthEast-Millerton Library.


Keep ReadingShow less
‘Greatest president we never had’
‘Greatest president we never had’
Basic Books

“How do you ‘do justice?’ How do you balance idealism with pragmatism?” asked James Traub, elucidating a key theme of his latest book, “True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America.”

Traub, a journalist, professor at NYU Abu Dhabi and Sharon resident, will be speaking about the book at the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon on Sunday, March 10 at 4 p.m.

Keep ReadingShow less