Casting his vote: A boy lies in front of the Community Caregivers’ tree during the Festival of Trees on Sunday. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7062 won first prize; The Spinning Room won second; and the Kushequa Estates Neighborhood came in third.
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Open flame: A family wearing hand-knit matching pom-pom-topped hats toast marshmallows to make s’mores outside Hungerford Market during Sunday’s Victorian Holiday celebration.
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White birch reindeer made by Boy Scouts in Troop 264 wait inside the “Sold Corral” on the grounds of Orsini Park in Altamont during Victorian Holiday celebration.
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Getting hyped: Kids line the fence behind the Altamont Free Library on Sunday evening to wait for the train that brings Santa to the village each year.
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Saying hello: After the train came to a full stop, Santa hops off the engine with the conductor to wave to his adoring fans.
This was a ceremony of both celebration and farewell — not only for the graduates but for their superintendent of nearly 15 years, Marie Wiles; for a school board member of 18 years who taught for decades before that at Farnsworth Middle School, Gloria Towle-Hilt; and for half of the keynote-speaker team, longtime high-school social-studies teacher and soccer coach, Michael Kinnally.
The business, owned by Maureen and Eric Mayer of Copses Farm in Schaghticoke, features an exchange of products as well as an exchange of ideas, serving large commercial farms as well as backyard farmers.
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