News Updates
PHOTO GALLERY: Christmas parade and tree-lighting ceremony
RAVENA-COEYMANS — The community’s Christmas parade and tree-lighting ceremony took place Saturday. Here is a photo gallery of images from the weekend’s festivities.
Lunch with Santa packs the house
By Melanie Lekocevic Capital Region Independent Media COEYMANS HOLLOW — Santa Claus made an early stop in Coeymans Hollow to have lunch with the children a couple of weeks before […]
Parade ushers in Christmas cheer
By Melanie Lekocevic Capital Region Independent Media RAVENA-COEYMANS — With sirens and Christmas music blaring and hundreds of marchers and spectators, the annual holiday parade “officially” ushered in a season […]
District plans vote on capital project
By Melanie Lekocevic Capital Region Independent Media RAVENA-COEYMANS-SELKIRK — The RCS school district is planning to put a proposed $15 million capital project to a vote in January. “We approved […]
Columns
Whittling Away: Old friend
By Dick Brooks For Capital Region Independent Media Dear Santa, It’s December, time to write to you, so here I am again. I hope after all these years, you’re not […]
Whittling Away: To the dump
By Dick Brooks For Capital Region Independent Media I awoke the other morning feeling a need for change in the daily routine. I needed to do something out of the […]
Whittling Away: Doctors
By Dick Brooks For Capital Region Independent Media I do not like going to the doctor’s. I believe that for once, I am part of a vast majority of the […]
Whittling Away: Old houses
By Dick Brooks For Capital Region Independent Media I like old houses. I’ve always liked old houses. Our current habitation is 165 years or so old and is loaded with […]
Events
Caroling at the River
NEW BALTIMORE — The New Baltimore Conservancy cordially invites the community to “Caroling at the River” at Cornell Park, Mill Street, in the hamlet, on Friday, Dec. 9. The fun […]
‘Souper Saturdays’
COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church in Coeymans Hollow will hold “Souper Saturday” on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 12-2 p.m. There will be free soup, snacks, beverages and fellowship. […]
Community to kick off holiday season with parade
By Melanie Lekocevic Capital Region Independent Media RAVENA-COEYMANS — With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, the community is looking ahead to the next few weeks of holiday celebrations. The unofficial […]
Health & Wellness
Positively Speaking: Acceptance
By Toby Moore For Capital Region Independent Media Life sometimes goes differently than planned. Maybe there was construction on the freeway and you had to take another route; in the […]
Positively Speaking: The value of disgust
By Toby Moore For Capital Region Independent Media We’ve all been disgusted by something in our lives. Disgust is a feeling of aversion a person has towards something offensive. It […]
Positively Speaking: Irrational fear
By Toby Moore For Capital Region Independent Media If I were to walk down the street and ask each person what they were afraid of, they would mostlikely say, “nothing.” […]
Positively Speaking: Quiet quitting
By Toby Moore For Capital Region Independent Media Have you ever heard of “quiet quitting?” Quiet quitting is when you do what is required of you at your place of […]
Lifestyle
Social Security Matters: Asking for simple guidance about Medicare
By Russell Gloor For Capital Region Independent Media Dear Rusty: I’m nearing 68 years old and have never signed up for Medicare, but thinking that I should look into it. […]
Living on Purpose: The window of God’s grace is open
By Dr. Billy Holland For Capital Region Independent Media God has been stirring me for the last several years to realize there are many levels in our relationship with Him […]
College and Military Corner
Culinary history gives peek into the past
By Melanie Lekocevic Capital Region Independent Media RAVENA — History is alive with the stories of our past, the ways our ancestors lived and the cultures they embraced. We all […]
All Ravena News-Hearald Articles
Caroling at the River
NEW BALTIMORE — The New Baltimore Conservancy cordially invites the community to “Caroling at the River” at Cornell Park, Mill […]
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