We dallied a little too long over breakfast ~ but who wouldn’t when you’re eating fresh chevre (goat cheese) on fresh bread followed by damsel (? can’t be that!) plums at a kitchen table decorated with one of Maggie’s gorgeous zinnia arrangements all straight from yesterday’s Farmers’ Market!

This Weekend Calendar is being added to as we come across events that we think may be of interest to our readers.  If you know of an event which you’d like us to list, please email us at newhartfordplus@gmail.com and we’ll gladly add it here.

Following are the Calendar listings for this weekend, Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1 in New Hartford, CT and surrounding communities:

Saturday, July 31, 2010:

• Goshen Farmers Market: from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in Goshen Center School Parking lot, Route 63 North, Goshen. Enjoy goods offered by local farmers, bakers and local artisans.
• 2010 Kent Sidewalk Festival: from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m., Route 7, Kent. Food, music, sales. Today’s special activities include glassblowing demonstrations, firetruck rides, face painting, knitting and hook rug demonstrations, chair caning demonstration, a pig roast on the Kent Green, and much more! For the full schedule of events for this Festival which is running from Thursday, July 29 through Sunday, August 1, please see the complete schedule of events on the Kent Chamber of Commerce website.
• Torrington Farmers’ Market: from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Torrington Downtown Plaza (where Staples is located), South Main Street, Torrington. Featuring the freshest produce straight from the farm.
• Litchfield Hills Farm-Fresh Market: from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Center School parking area, Litchfield.  Catch the music of the Collette Hurst Quintet at this market.  For more information, please visit the Litchfield Hills Farm-Fresh Market’s website.
• Norfolk Farmers’ Market: from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., rain or shine. At the Norfolk Town Hall location, 19 Maple Avenue, Norfolk. Fresh farm produce, local artisans, musicians and much more!
• 2nd Annual Connecticut Wine Festival: from 12:00 noon until 7:00 p.m. at the Goshen Fairgrounds, Route 63, Goshen. Enjoy wine, food samples, live music, and buy great CT Wines by the bottle to take home! Our two New Hartford wineries will be there ~ the Connecticut Valley Winery on Litchfield Turnpike and the Jerram Winery on Town Hill; be sure to stop by and say “Hello!” You must present your ID upon entering the festival. No outside food or drinks allowed. No pets allowed. Tickets purchased at the festival are $25 daily/$40 weekend, $10 designated drivers and under 21. For more information, please visit the CT Wine Festival section of the CT Wine Trail website.
• Soap Making from Scratch: with Roxann Lovall owner of Aerie Mountain Garden, Gift, and Floral Shop in Barkhamsted at 2:00 p.m. in the A.B. Ceder Room at White Memorial Conservation Center, 80 Whitehall Road, Litchfield. Learn how easy it is to make fragrant soaps from scratch using only natural materials! Each participant will leave with a soap recipe and a minimum of two bars of homemade soap. This workshop is appropriate for all ages. Members: $30.00, Non members: $35.00. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. For more information please visit the White Memorial Conservation Center’s website.
• Norfolk Chamber Music Festival by the Yale School of Music: at the Battell Stoeckel Estate in the center of Norfolk. Tokyo Quartet w/Wei-Yi Yang (on piano):at 8:00 p.m. in the Music Shed. Concert includes:Franz Schubert: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op 125; Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4; César Franck: Piano Quintet in f minor. Tickets: From $15 to $45. Check the Featured Events webpage for more information. For more information about the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival by the Yale School of Music, please visit the Yale School of Music’s Norfolk website.
• Music Mountain Concert Season ~ Voxare String Quartet with Soyeon Lee Piano: At 6:30 p.m. at Music Mountain, Music Mountain Road, Falls Village. Barber: String Quartet, Opus 11 ( 1936) (7); Shostakovich: String Quartet # 3 in F Major, Opus 73 (1946) (7); Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Opus 44 (1842) (37). Cost: $30, Students (under 24) $17, Children (under 18) FREE when accompanied by a ticket holder. For more information and a full listing of the 2010 Concert Season, please visit the Music Mountain website.

The Regional Recycling Center, aka "the dump," part of Bob's morning routine on a Saturday morning: nothing comes between Bob and his dump run, as our photographer has learned over the years. Photo: Maria Moore

Sunday, August 1, 2010:

• Visit your favorite Church, Temple, Meditation Center or Meeting House: Be sure to make time today to visit your favorite church, temple, meditation center or meeting house for good fellowship and spiritual uplifting. Please refer to the listings on our front page Houses of Worship to visit the churches’ websites.
• Burlington Flea Market: from 7:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on the grounds of the Burlington Inn Antique Shops, Route 4, Burlington. For more information, please call 860-404-1780.
• 2010 Kent Sidewalk Festival: from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., Route 7, Kent. Food, music, sales. Today’s special activities include caricatures drawing, weaving demonstration, TriArts performers, Bring Your Own Chair concerts, and much more! For the full schedule of events for this Festival which is running from Thursday, July 29 through Sunday, August 1, please see the complete schedule of events on the Kent Chamber of Commerce website.
• 2nd Annual Connecticut Wine Festival: from 12:00 noon until 6:00 p.m. at the Goshen Fairgrounds, Route 63, Goshen. Enjoy wine, food samples, live music, and buy great CT Wines by the bottle to take home! Out two New Hartford wineries will be there ~ the Connecticut Valley Winery on Litchfield Turnpike and the Jerram Winery on Town Hill; be sure to stop by and say “Hello!” You must present your ID upon entering the festival. No outside food or drinks allowed. No pets allowed. Tickets purchased at the festival are $25 daily/$40 weekend, $10 designated drivers and under 21. For more information, please visit the CT Wine Festival section of the CT Wine Trail website.
• Music Mountain Concert Season ~ The Zimro Project: at 3:00 p.m. Concert includes: Prokofief: Overture on Hebrew Themes (1919) (3); Ben-Heim: Clarinet Quintet (1941) (Music Mountain Premiere); Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 115 (1891) (16). For more information and a full listing of the 2010 Concert Season, please visit the Music Mountain website.
• Riverton Music Concert ~ Opening Night Band: at 2:00 p.m. on the green in the center of Riverton. Concert will feature the music of such legends like Billy Joel, Elton John, Jimmy Buffet, Huey Lewis, The Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, Van Morrison and many more! Sponsored by the Barkhamsted Rec Department.  For more information on upcoming concerts of the Riverton Summer Music Series, please see the flyer posted on the Barkhamsted municipal website.

*** PLEASE be sure to check the details of the events we list, either by the website or by telephone.  Last-minute changes, cancellations or plain mess-ups at our end have been known to happen so double-check before you go and enjoy these great local events.***

"Buy your food from where the employees look happy and you know you're buying good food" is something our editor, Maria Moore and her husband Bob practice in their food buying. Have you ever seen a happier smile than from Aimee who's working for the summer at the Barden Farm? The photo was taken at Friday's New Hartford Farmers' where the Bardens had brought a few of their farm animals for the children to enjoy. Photo: Maria Moore

By: Maria Moore

One of the great pleasures of shopping at the New Hartford Farmers’ Market is that Bob and I never quite know what culinary treasures we’ll chance upon. Recently it was fresh dill which Karl Dineberg had at his farm stand, or more precisely farm table. Karl sets up his one table, under his signature red umbrella and he carefully lays out the week’s bounty from his farm. We had made our purchases when Karl said: “Here, try some fresh dill, see what you think of it,” and he handed Bob several stalks of the fresh herb. We’ve learned not to argue with Karl when he says “See what you think of it” and so we thanked him and took our dill home.  Our next couple of meals were centered around the dill and what a lot of fun we had discovering how to use it in our cooking!

Here’s one great recipe we found online that used not only the fresh dill but also some fresh cucumbers that we also bought from Karl:

Yogurt-Cucumber-Dill Sauce
(’Tzatziki’ is the Greek name for this sauce)

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 2 cloves of garlic minced finely
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt (we left it out)
• 1/4 teaspoon of white pepper (we only had black, it worked fine)
• 1 cup of yogurt (called for Greek yogurt, we used Stonyfield’s)
• 1 cup of sour cream
• 2 cucumbers, peeled, seeded and diced
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill (we used 1 tablespoon ~ we had a lot of dill to use up)

Preparing the sauce:

In a bowl combine the olive oil, the vinegar, the garlic, salt and pepper.  Mix it well. Using a whisk, blend the yogurt and the sour cream.  Blend the olive oil mixture into it and then add to it the cucumber and the fresh dill.   Cover and chill for 2 hours, or less if you have less time.

And there you have a really nice, cool sauce for the summer months.

Ways you can use the sauce:

We used the sauce with falafel, a Middle Eastern food which I got addicted to in London where Israeli falafel fast food restaurants were as ubiquitous as pizza parlors are here.  You can make your own falafel, but in our case, we used one of the Near East falafel mixes we picked up at Marandino’s.  Sadly, they were all out of pita bread but, ever flexible, we picked up some fresh rolls which worked almost as well.  Line the pita bread (or rolls) with lettuce and sliced tomatoes, add the falafel balls and garnish generously with the yogurt-cucumber sauce.

Our falafel and yogurt-cucumber-dill sauce meal with rolls substituted for the pita bread. We also added lettuce and sliced tomatores.

Other uses:

Use the sauce as a complement to grilled meats and vegetables; you can also use the sauce over poached salmon.

Substitutions:

If you really can’t find any fresh dill, you can use mint.  But the dill is really much nicer in this sauce.

Many thanks: To Karl Dineberg for bringing his farm-fresh produce to our local Farmers’ Market, and for his unfaltering good humor.

Catch up with Karl on his Dineberg Farm page on Facebook.

The New Hartford Farmers Market is on every Friday afternoon from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on the green in Pine Meadow, rain or shine.  See you there!

Call For Recipes:

Send us your favorite recipe using Fresh From The Market ingredients and if we publish it, you’ll win a $10 gift certificate to the New Hartford Farmers’ Market.

Karl Dineberg (in shorts) and Bob Moore visiting at Dineberg's Farm Stand. Photo: Maria Moore

Karl recently added this iron chicken to his display with a "Don't Feed The Chicken" sign on it. Photo: Maria Moore

Following are the Daily Community Calendar listings for today in New Hartford, CT:

Friday, July 30, 2010:

• New Hartford Senior Center Activities: Yoga Class: at 11:00 in the Senior Center. For more information about the Senior Center please call Jean Barnicoat at 860-379-3980 between 8:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays.
• Great Lego Build Off at the Beekley Library: from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Lego enthusiasts ages 6 and up will be at the Library to show what they can build! They will have one hour to use their imagination to creat something out of this world. A snack and drink will be provided. Sponsored by BookFriends, the New Hartford Women’s Club and the Library. For more information, please visit the Beekley Library’s website or call the Library at 860-379-7235.
• New Hartford Farmers’ Market. From 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the Green in Pine Meadow. Head down to our local farmers’ market for some of the best, freshest produce around. Shop to the music of Joe Nerney and stop by the non-profit tent and check out the Bakerville Library booth where the friends of the Library will be advertising their annual used book sale and Marketplace event. They will have a sample of the children’s books that will be offered at the sale and children and/or parents may buy them at their booth. The New Hartford Business Council tent will feature Simplicity Hair Care, from right next door on the Green and Passiflora will have a variety of sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts. Remember there are now tables at the market to sit and enjoy a picnic while being part of the market: what could be more perfect??!!!
• Should your event be listed here and you don’t see it? Please email us the info. and we’ll add it! Email: newhartfordplus@gmail.com and write Calendar in the subject line.

Our Community Calendar section provides additional information about the events listed above and information on past, current and future events - a permanent record of events in New Hartford. Also check out our UPDATED Community Bulletin Board where you can see flyers on upcoming events, monthly calendars and information on local non-profit groups.

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“Those are the bingo ladies at the very front of the picture!” “That was my son in the photo.” “I usually have a goofy look on my face, but not in this picture!”

Some of the comments our photographer Maria Moore has received from residents who attended the concerts at Brodie Park and saw their photos on NewHartfordPlus. “Get photos out of the last concert and the Music Festival.” Maria wrote in her NHPlus schedule for this coming weekend ~ fun time for her!

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Dear Editor of NewHartfordPlus,

I have read comments criticizing NH Plus about its political leanings and I just read your recent letter explaining your position on the topic. I am following up on my comments to you last week about the subject. I’ve been involved in New Hartford politics for nearly all of the 40 years that I’ve lived here and here’s what I’ve learned about the news media. Who ever owns the medium, calls the shots. No realistic reader/listener really expects the news media be unbiased. What they print or say (in the case of radio/TV), where they place articles - above/below the fold, on page 1 or 21, which photos they use, all reflect the opinions of the owner of the medium. Fox is Fox, NPR is NPR, the Republican American is what it is and the Hartford Courant is what it is (I’m not sure anymore what that is.) You have every right to report what you want to report. I think it is admirable that you are willing to print different points of view as well as criticisms of your reporting. Having served in public office in many different roles here, I know that it is very uncomfortable, even irritating, to hear or read criticisms of your activities. It used to be, when town meetings were well attended, that those criticisms would be directed to the First Selectman’s face as well as in print. And many times, those criticisms are worth considering since they come from your constituents, your voters. From my experience, a wise public official keeps the press and therefore, the public, informed. More information leads to understanding and a good working relationship. Less information leads to speculation.

I enjoy reading New Hartford Plus. Thanks for publishing it.

Anita Baxter
Steele Road

Anita Baxter is a long-time resident of New Hartford who was First Selectwoman in New Harford from 1981 through 1987.  Anita is a member of the Democratic Town Committee.

An early-morning view from the Route 219 bridge across the Farmington River looking westward towards Winsted. Photo from the NewHartfordPlus archives

[We are still in the process of confirming the information for the South End Fire District, as well as updating the mill rate for 2009 for that district.  Thank you for your understanding of our volunteer efforts; 4:30 p.m., Thursday, July 29]

New Hartford is blessed with many things, including four separate taxing authorities:   the town and three fire districts.  Since July is tax collection time for three out of the four taxing authorities we thought we’d be brave and take the plunge and provide basic information about when the taxes are due, how much is due and who the tax collector is for each of the taxing authorities and how to contact them.

1.  Town of New Hartford:

Linda Sheffield, the New Hartford Tax Collector issued the following Notice to Taxpayers which gives all the necessary information.  Following is the notice taken from the Tax Collector’s Department section of the town’s municipal website:

“Notice To Taxpayers:

Notice is hereby given to all persons liable by law to pay property taxes to the Town of New Hartford, County of Litchfield, State of Connecticut, that a tax of 24.0 mills on the dollar on the Grand List of October 1, 2009, laid by the Board of Finance on May 11, 2010 will become due and payable as follows:

First installments of Real Estate & Personal Property bills that are over $100 are due on July 1, 2010. Second installments are due January 1, 2011. All other bills are due in full on July 1, 2010. If not paid on or before August 2, 2010, the tax or 1st installment becomes delinquent and subject to interest of one and one half per cent per month from July 1st. Any fractional part of a month is considered to be equivalent to a whole month. MINIMUM INTEREST CHARGE IS $2.00. Failure to receive a bill does not excuse the tax or subsequent interest charged.

Checks may be mailed to the Tax Collector, Town of New Hartford, P. O. Box 402, New Hartford, CT 06057-0402. Payments may be made in person at Town Hall, 530 Main St., New Hartford. Office hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 to 4:00, Wednesday, 9:00 to 6:00, Friday, 9:00 to Noon.”

We called the Tax Collector’s Office and and spoke with Debbie Ventre, Linda’s assistant who told us to remind taxpayers that if they are going to pay their taxes on the very last day that they are due without penalty, next Monday, August 2, they should either pay them in person at the Tax Collector’s Office which will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. or if they are going to mail the tax payments they should ask the post office to hand stamp the envelope so that it is dated the 2nd.

What if you get to the Post Office at 5:01 p.m. and find the doors locked?  There’s still the option of paying your taxes online, either by credit card or by an ACH (Automatic Clearing House) electronic funds transfer.  Both of these forms of payments have service charges levied by the service provider (not the town) so be sure you won’t be paying more in service fees than you would by making the late payment.  For more information, check the Tax Collector’s information on the town website or call the Tax Collector’s Office at 860-379-5795.

The Three Fire Districts:

New Hartford has three separate fire districts: the New Hartford Village Fire District (District 1), the Pine Meadow Fire District (District 3), and the South End Fire District (District 4); curiously, there is no District 2 ~ perhaps one of our readers might be able to clarify that lack.  All three districts are manned by volunteers and they each operate independently of each other. They each have the authority to tax residents who live within their districts. Currently, the districts levy Real Estate taxes and Personal Property taxes.

New Hartford Village Fire District ~ District 1:

“LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS NEW HARTFORD VILLAGE FIRE DISTRICT:

Notice is hereby given to all persons liable by law to pay property taxes to the New Hartford Village Fire District, County of Litchfield, State of Connecticut, that a tax of 1.0 mills on the dollar on the Grand List of October 1, 2009 laid by the New Hartford Village Fire District on May 10, 2010, will become due and payable on July 1, 2010. If not paid or postmarked on or before August 2, 2010 the taxes become delinquent and subject to interest charged at the rate of 1 1/2% per month or part of a month (with a minimum interest charge of $2.00 per bill), from July 1, 2010 to the date paid. Any fractional part of a month is considered to be equivalent to a whole month. MINIMUM INTEREST CHARGE IS $2.00 per bill.

Checks should be mailed to Tax Collector, New Hartford Village Fire District, P.O. Box 292, New Hartford, CT 06057. Payments may be made in person at the Station #1 Fire House, 3 Greenwoods Road, New Hartford. Office hours are: Monday & Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. CHECKS THAT INCLUDE “TOWN OF NEW HARTFORD” PAYMENTS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED AND WILL BE RETURNED, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN A LATE FEE. All Motor Vehicle delinquents must be reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles as of August 3, 2010. Failure to receive a bill does not invalidate or excuse the tax or subsequent interest charged.

Dated at New Hartford this 7th day of June 2010. Lauraine Paquin, Tax Collector New Hartford Village Fire District.”

For more information regarding the New Hartford Village Fire District taxes, please Lauraine Paquin, the New Hartford Village Tax Collector at 860-738-3407.

For more information about the New Hartford Village Fire District: please visit the New Hartford Village Fire District’s website.

The New Hartford Volunteer Fire Department is located at 3 Greenwoods Road, on the corner of Greenwoods Road and Route 219. Photo: NewHartfordPlus archives

Pine Meadow Fire District ~ District 3:

The Pine Meadow Fire District is the smallest of the three fire districts.  Our reporter spoke with Marcie Patchett, the Pine Meadow Fire District Tax Collector who confirmed that the fire district has sent out 106 Real Estate tax bills in their district; the total number of tax bills the district sent out is 330 tax bills (Real Estate and Personal Property).  The fire district recently published a legal notice in the newspapers; here is the July 7 Notice which appeared in the Register Citizen:

“LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS PINE MEADOW FIRE DISTRICT:

Notice is hereby given to all persons liable by law to pay property taxes to the Pine Meadow Fire District, County of Litchfield, State of Connecticut, that a tax of 1.5 mills on the dollar on the Grand List of October 1, 2009 laid by the Pine Meadow Fire District on April 26, 2010 will become due and payable on July 1, 2010. Payments not postmarked on or before August 2, 2010 are subject to interest penalty of 1 1/2% per month from the DUE DATE (August payment - 3%) of the bill. Any fractional part of a month is considered to be equivalent to a whole month. Minimum interest is $2.00 per bill. State Statutes mandate that payments be applied to the oldest obligation first. Should you have delinquent taxes, any payment made will be applied not to your current bill, but to the oldest list year first.

Checks should be mailed to: Pine Meadow Fire District, Tax Collector - P.O. Box 93 - Pine Meadow, CT 06061. CHECKS THAT INCLUDE TOWN OF NEW HARTFORD PAYMENTS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED AND WILL BE RETURNED POSSIBLY RESULTING IN A LATE FEE. All Motor Vehicle delinquents will be reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles as of August 3, 2010. Failure to receive a bill does not invalidate or excuse the tax or subsequent interest charged.

Dated at Pine Meadow, CT this 7th day of July, 2010. Marcie Patchett, Tax Collector Pine Meadow Fire District.”

Marcie confirmed that the Pine Meadow Fire District does not have a Tax Office at which payments may be made in person.  Anyone needing more information or with questions regarding their tax bill(s) may call her at 860-379-5853.

For more information about the Pine Meadow Volunteer Fire Company: please visit the Pine Meadow Volunteer Fire Company’s website.

The Pine Meadow Volunteer Fire Department is located at 366 Main Street on Route 44 just before the light at the green. Photo: NewHartfordPlus archives

South End Fire District ~ District 4:

Unlike the rest of New Hartford taxpayers, residents who live within the South End Fire District (which includes Nepaug and Bakerville) will not be paying their tax bills fire district tax bills this month because their fire district tax bills are due September 1 and taxpayers will have until October 1 to pay their bills without penalty. When they do pay their fire district taxes, those taxpayers will most likely be paying the lowest mill rate out of the three fire districts. Although we have not been able to confirm this year’s mill rate ~ we have yet to connect with the district’s Tax Collector, Jackie Vincenzo, the mill rates for 2007 for the three districts were:

• New Hartford Village Fire District (District 1):   1.25 mills
• Pine Meadow Fire District (District 3): 1.75 mills
• South End Fire District (District 4): 0.8 mills

This relatively low mill rate, our reporter was told, is due to the cell phone tower which is located just behind the South End Fire House.  The income from that cell phone tower is used to offset the fire district’s expenses, bringing the tax rate down for the residents in that district.

For more information regarding the South End Fire District taxes: please call Jackie Vincenzo, the South End Fire District Tax Collector at 860-482-5758.

For more information about the South End Fire District: please call the Fire House at 860-482-7336; the South End Fire District does  not have a website.

The South End Fire Department is located at 20 Antolini Road, New Hartford. Photo: NewHartfordPlus archives

[We are in the process of confirming the above information for the South End Fire District; we will also update the mill rate to that for 2009.]

Following are the Community Calendar listings for today in New Hartford, CT:

Thursday, July 29, 2010:

• New Hartford Senior Center activities: at Senior Center, Town Hall, 530 Main St., New Hartford. Activities: Line dancing at 9:30 a.m.; Fitness at 10:45 a.m. ($2.50 per person, per class, includes a fitness card which is stamped for every class attended; Bingo at 12:45 p.m.; Yoga at 4:00 p.m. For more information please call Jean Barnicoat at 860-379-3980 between 8:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
• Main Street Market Place sponsored by the The Arts & Culture Commission of Torrington: from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Main Street in Torrington. Throughout July and August, downtown Torrington will close off Main Street and set up a European style open air market place. Fresh fruit and vegetable stands, artisan/exhibit booths, local restaurant vendors, classic cars and hot rods, street performers, and jazz musicians will line the streets.
• Thursday Night Gather With Friends at Passiflora: Samvahan Vibrational Healing-India’s Ancient Art of Healing with Karen Rowan: Samvahan is an Ayurvedic modality of vibrational healing that was first practiced over 3000 years ago in India. In the 1940’s an extraordinary master healer, Dr. Ram Bhosle, rediscovered Samvahan and it is now taught throughout the world. Karen Elizabeth Rowan is one of only two people in the United States that holds an Advanced Certification in Samvahan. She will be returning to Passiflora to introduce you to this ancient healing modality. Event time is 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.; event is FREE. Chef’s choice organic dinner from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. For more information, please visit Passiflora’s website , or call Passiflora at 860-379-TEAS.
• Tag Sale season is here! Send us your tag sale information and we’ll list it for FREE in our Classifieds Section for upcoming Tag Sales in New Hartford.

Our Calendar section provides additional information about the events listed above and information on past, current and future events - a permanent record of events in New Hartford.

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“Great crowd tonight!”

Overheard by our photographer as she quietly circled the green in front of Berkshire Hall last night where a record crowd had turned out to enjoy golden oldies played by ‘Magic Moments.’ Another successful concert series at Brodie, thanks to Rec and the Peter Bakker Insurance Agency.

Contribute to the …NHGrapevine… Let us know what you’ve heard - or seen - in town and we’ll add it to our Grapevine in this Daily Calendar. So let’s hear what you’re hearing around town…

Members of the Senior Center stepping out to the music at last night's Concert at Brodie Park. Photo: Maria Moore

Seniors weren't the only ones dancing to the golden oldies as this young lady showed. Photo: Maria Moore

A view of the crowd that turned out for the last concert of this summmer at Brodie Park. Photo: Maria Moore