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MILLBROOK — Following a triumph in an away game against Millbrook on Wednesday, May 19, the Stissing Mountain High School varsity baseball team endured a tough loss at the hands of the Dover High School baseball team the next day, Thursday, May 20.
Some unkind if accurate person, I don’t remember who at the moment, labeled America as a “country of mutts and outcasts.” If that is so, then I reply, “Arf Arf. That’s why I root for the “underdog.”
In all the rest of the world, a “No-No” is a very serious negative. It’s what the frightened mother yells to her toddler who thinks that hanging out with the stove, literally, is a really good idea.
A typical dry-dropper rig includes a high-visibility, buoyant dry fly like a Stimulator and a weighted nymph on a dropper. The dropper is attached directly to the bend of the hook on the top fly with a clinch knot. Your mileage will definitely vary. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
The situation: The angler approaches the little blue line cautiously. The angler, disregarding the stiff joints and aching back, creeps up behind the boulder and peers at the plunge pool. The angler ties on a dry fly, and ever so carefully drops it right where the spooky wild brook trout is probably hiding.
As we all know, baseball is a game of threes: three strikes, three outs, three bases. Even the game is three squared innings. So if you want to be a well informed batter, you have to know the three types of pitchers and go up to the plate conclusion in mind.
Millbrook mid-fielder Sadie Krueger can be seen in action during one of the games from the team’s winning season. Photo submitted
MILLBROOK — It takes a lot of training, a lot of team work and a lot of good coaching — put that all together and in this challenging pandemic year the Millbrook High School Blazers Girls Soccer Team was able to make the goal that really mattered — becoming Section Champions for 2020-21.
AMENIA — With guidance from Attorney to the Town Ian Lindars, the Amenia Town Board engaged in an in-depth discussion about the Wassaic skatepark proposal at its meeting on Thursday, April 15, during which time board members considered insurance and liability concerns.
PINE PLAINS — The Pine Plains-Rhinebeck joint varsity football team couldn’t have asked for a more triumphant end to the 2020-21 season than by defeating Dover on Friday, April 16.
Stereotypes are horrible things. They take what should be complex, nuanced and novel and turn it into simplistic, linear and banal. Terrible, terrible things, stereotypes,
Smiles tell the story of good times had at the Summer Youth Program at the Roeliff Jansen Park, among campers who formed lifelong friendships while attending camp there two years ago. Photo submitted
HILLSDALE — Childhood is fleeting, but its memories and friendships can last a lifetime, especially when they come from a special experience like the one at the Summer Youth Program, returning to the Roeliff Jansen Park this year after a year’s absence due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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