Opinion

This little fantasy represents just one night but there’s no reason why this shouldn’t be a reality every night in Cold Spring.

Who names these games anyway?

A number of stories I have written over the past year have a special resonance that I’d like to share. The Listening Room Returns   The pre-Christmas gathering hosted by Philipstown. info’s at its space at 69 Main Street was, on one level, simply about people getting together to enjoy really good, live music. They certainly happened, as […]

When Gordon Stewart first broached the idea of Philipstown.info to me and asked me to be editor, I thought I knew what it was going to be: a directory of services with a little local color that would occupy me for a couple of hours a day during the week. How mistaken I was for […]

On the local government beat, the last six months of 2010 and first six months of Philipstown.info’s existence involved issues ranging from budget crunching, rezoning, and infrastructure demands to clashes over siren tests and waterfront lights, accusations from Lyndon LaRouche fans who likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler, and the disruption to Main Street from […]

If each of us got only one line to sum up our first six months, mine would be: Funny how the simplest ideas take the hardest work to carry out. The good news is that an e-paper doesn’t have such tough space limits. We can cover just about everything that happens in Philipstown in whatever depth and at whatever length […]

Six months old.  Funny how similar the six-month-old Philipstown.info feels to a six-month-old baby: flushed with excitement about sitting up, balancing and staying upright— albeit with a few wobbles; grabbing at what’s just beyond reach and most of the time getting it; a torrent of sounds and grins. A nice age to be; a place […]

Just what is it that makes a place a community?

People and places have a lot in common