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Museum staff Perhaps more than any other year, the Museum is thrilled to welcome warmer weather, and with it, an invitation for all to enjoy its arts campus, outdoor spaces, and stunning landscaping. This summer, with a nod to the nineteenth-century French Impressionists, the Museum is pleased to offer the opportunity to paint or draw en plein air. Anyone is welcome to visit on Sunday afternoons between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. during the months of June and July for "Draw Together." Easels will be set up around the Museum's campus (weather permitting), and those who wish to bring a pad of paper or c...

East Clinton FFA wraps up banner year with annual banquet Submitted article Submitted photo The East Clinton FFA Chapter held its annual banquet Tuesday celebrating a busy and successful year. Last year, the chapter was forced to hold its banquet online, but this year, the chapter is pleased to say that it was able to hold the banquet in person with over 275 guests. The chapter also streamed the banquet live to Facebook for any who were unable to attend. The banquet began with an officer slideshow and the introduction of the chapter’s 2020-2021 officer team: President Carter Carey, Vice Pr...

Newport Life magazine It seemed like a great idea at the time. It was the late 1980s, and Newport was hosting the St. Patrick’s Day parade, as it had every year since 1957. One of the sponsors brought along a half-dozen miniature Clydesdale horses. Prancing proudly in the middle of the parade, the diminutive equines did indeed charm the spectators — if not the marchers who followed. “The people who came after had to tiptoe the rest of the route,” says James Mahoney, Grand Marshal of the 2008 parade. Lesson learned. “After that year, all equestrian mounts were placed at the end,” h...

Hometown Heroes program honors New York veterans February 05, 2021 A VFW Life member in New York was inspired to start a program honoring local veterans and military members during a trip with his wife in the Catskills Mountains. “We were driving through Cairo (New York) and saw banners with service members on them,” retired Army 1st Sgt. Bill Forte said. “My wife (Doris) and I pulled over to look at them, and I thought it was a good idea to do it in our area.” Life member of VFW Post 1386 in Kingston, New York, and retired Army 1st Sgt. Bill Forte displays Homet...

‘The most charismatic and strange of all flowering plants’ When it comes to parasites, these plants are the stuff of nightmares. Called Rafflesiaceae, they have no roots, stems, or leaves of their own. For most of their lifespan they are invisible, living only as a small necklace of cells inside the woody vines of their host. Then, without warning — like the creature in the movie “Alien” — they burst out to bloom some of the largest flowers in the world. Their pungent smell of rotting meat or fruit attracts the carrion flies that help pollinate these plants, allowing them to seed ...