NORTH SALEM, N.Y.--It's all fun and games at PQ Tigers Harvest Fair on Saturday, Oct. 14.

NORTH SALE, N.Y.--Although the air was not crisp over this past unseasonably warm weekend, the apples ready for the picking at North Salem’s local farms were.

Outhouse Orchards and Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard, both located on Hardscrabble Road, were buzzing with time-honored seasonal activities. Families from near and far flocked to the farms for a taste of a quintessential fall ...

"Benfest," a bluegrass concert, was held at the Lake Purdys Clubhouse on Sept. 24 to honor Ben Freed, a local banjoist and retired optometrist who died in 2015 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Event organizer Mike Burns said he was pleased with the turnout at this year's event.

Burns, a member of the Sleepy Hollow String Band, played with Freed several ...

NORTH SALEM, N.Y.--Essayist Thomas de Quincey famously invented the modern addiction memoir in 1821 with his “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” 

In the centuries that followed, Tolstoy, Poe, Cheever and other notables mined that vein to the point of sub-genre-ification. Now, Brewster author Linda Dahl has brought addiction lit (too close to) home, just in time for the ...