Celebrating Community
Despite 47-degree weather, the warriors of the Red Hook Locals Softball League (RHSL) had an exciting opening day. The weather meant the planned opening day ceremonies did not happen but the Colucci Cup (trophy named for Jack Colucci) made an appearance in the dugout for defending champions Bait & Tackle. The first two games started at 6 pm with Bait […]
T he Ariston Group is an Italian leading corporation in heating systems and related products. But recently it became the center of a diplomatic clash between Italy and Russia. Indeed the Russian branch of the group, Ariston Thermo Rus, has been expropriated by the Kremlin and acquired by Gazprom, Moscow’s top multinational energy enterprise. It all started on April 26th […]
I get on the B61. 2 stops up a tiny lady, maybe Mexican, gets on with a 60 inch tv, holding it the way you march with a rifle. It soars 2 feet above her head. The tv that makes you feel like you’re in a movie theater. The tv that also makes your neighbors feel like they’re in a […]
The 2024 Red Hook Locals Softball League (RHSL) began on April 18. This is their third season since the ballfields were re-opened in 2022, after being closed due to post Sandy rebuilding and continued lead remediation. Bait & Tackle will look to defend its Colucci Cup after an impressive playoff run in 2023 which concluded with a victory over B61 […]
Every month while distributing newspapers, one of the most exciting places to go for me is Frank’s Bike Shop, because there are a couple of very cool-looking parakeets there. I spoke to Frank about his birds, the shop, and his move from 80 Delevan to his new location at 138 Pioneer Street. “I’m not from Red Hook but I’ve worked […]
Summit Academy’s girls basketball team won its first citywide championship last month as it pulled away in the 4th quarter to win the 1A girls basketball playoffs over Manhattan’s School of the Future, 53-45. The game at Long Island University’s Steinberg Wellness Center was packed with fans from both teams. In the semifinals at Queensborough Community College, Summit beat No. […]
Stan Mack is one of the most prolific story tellers of the 20th century. He’s told over 1,500 tales using thick white paper, a pen and black ink to create comic strips about ordinary people, sometimes in extraordinary locations. A thousand were published in the Village Voice every week for two decades. Now 275 of the best of those will […]
Jean-Paul Sartre was right! (maybe) We’ll skip the millennial interview and let a Boomer rant this month. The main threat to society, from my born in the ‘50s point of view, is the trending reduction in human contact. The millennials I have spoken in the past few months don’t seem to be bothered by this, i.e. the dating apps and […]
Sweden is to Europe like the Amazon is to South America. It is a land full of lakes and forests that hug you the very moment of your arrival. Getting on the bus to leave the airport you are driven through a nature scenario, with snowy trees extending miles. If you were sweating in the plane because of your ski […]
Tim O’Brien’s 1990 auto fictional novel based on his time as a young soldier in Vietnam remains a popular choice in high school curriculum across the country. Teaching at a rural school in northern New Hampshire, the average student is removed from the horrors of war and mostly, blessedly, from extreme levels of violence. Although some students do have grandparents […]