The Kiwanis Club of Saugerties was proud to participate in this year’s Saugerties 4th of July Parade, joining hundreds of community members in celebrating Independence Day despite the summer heat. Following the parade, the club hosted a special birthday celebration in...
Chartered in 1932, the Saugerties Lions Club is the oldest service organization in town — and true to the international Lions motto, its core mission has always centered on sight and hearing. The club funds vision and hearing screenings for those who couldn't...
For 34 consecutive years, the Saugerties Athletic Association has teed off its annual golf tournament at the Rip Van Winkle Country Club, drawing hundreds of local sponsors and players each September. Every dollar raised funds SAA's youth basketball, softball,...
Since 1950, Cedar Grove Fire Company has stood watch over the west side of Saugerties as part of the Centerville-Cedar Grove Fire District, an all-volunteer force covering everything from structure fires to woodland brush fires across the district. Treasurer Robert...
The Saugerties Fire Department was organized in 1856, and R.A. Snyder Hose Company No. 1 has been one of its founding companies ever since — part of an entirely volunteer force that today responds to nearly 200 calls a year, from structure fires to car accidents to...
Out of two stations along Malden Turnpike, an all-volunteer crew of roughly two dozen firefighters stands ready to answer the call for the Malden and West Camp sections of the Town of Saugerties — training, equipping, and showing up, all without a paycheck. Secretary...
Every December, members of Saugerties VFW Post 5034 travel to Saratoga National Cemetery to take part in Wreaths Across America, laying wreaths on veterans' graves in Section 21 — a tradition the post has now kept for ten consecutive years, working alongside the New...
High Woods Reformed Church traces its roots to 1850, when a small congregation first gathered in a one-room schoolhouse across from where the church now stands; the cornerstone for the current building was laid in 1868. The church closed its doors for a time in 1971...
Once a month, volunteers at St. John the Evangelist Church open a food pantry at their new home on Cedar Street, welcoming anyone in need of a helping hand — no questions asked. It's a small operation with an outsized heart, run entirely by parish volunteers. Their...
For four decades, Mother Goose Nursery School has been a first classroom for generations of Saugerties children, offering licensed preschool and daycare from its home on Washington Avenue. Each year, the school hosts a craft fair fundraiser that brings the community...
The Saugerties Food Pantry traces back to the mid-1970s, when the late Rev. Fred Imhoff of First Congregational Church noticed government surplus cheese piling up with nowhere to go — and decided someone should distribute it to families who needed it. That small idea...
For nearly 50 years, The Well has been Saugerties' community thrift shop — a volunteer-run project of the Saugerties Area Council of Churches where every dollar spent on secondhand goods flows back into local support programs. When a rent increase pushed the shop out...
Tucked into Atonement Lutheran Church on Market Street, God Given Bread Food Pantry has quietly fed Saugerties families for nearly four decades. Twice a week, volunteers open their doors for regular food distribution, and throughout the year they add holiday food...
In 1999, John and Margaret Mullen lost their 13-month-old son, Andrew — named for his uncle, who died trying to save a swimmer in distress. Rather than let grief have the last word, the Mullen family, owners of J. Mullen & Sons Excavating, turned their loss into...
Upstate Films started as a single-screen, nonprofit theater in Rhinebeck in 1972 — an idea from a few friends who wanted to bring the wider world of film to the Hudson Valley. More than 50 years and 7,000 titles later, it's grown into a regional institution, and in...
Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Saugerties awards a scholarship to a graduating senior stepping into college life. This year, that student is Mackenzie Brott, who wrapped up a strong first semester at Marist University and is now working toward dual certification to...
Since 1935, the American Legion's Boys State program has dropped teenagers straight into the machinery of government, asking them to build a mock city, county, and state from scratch in one intense week at Morrisville State College. Every summer, the Kiwanis Club of...
The Kiwanis Club of Saugerties was pleased to welcome Linda Armour, Coordinator of Repair Cafe Saugerties, as our guest speaker at our recent meeting. Linda introduced members to the growing worldwide Repair Café movement, which began in 2009 in the Netherlands with a...