Frances Marion Platt

New York

Grantwriter, Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Writer at Woodstock Times

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Quick Brown Fox Letterpress launches retail shop in Saugerties

1 week ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

One of the daily challenges of newspaper writing is thinking up headlines that will catch the reader’s eye. Occasionally you’ll come up with a zinger that makes you feel proud, but more often it’s simply the best you could manage under deadline pressure. While alliteration is a handy go-to, it helps even more to be a person who will readily stoop to the use of puns.
Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair honors memory of founder Neil Rubinstein at County Fairgrounds this weekend

2 weeks ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

For better or worse, the Town of Woodstock has gotten an awful lot of economic mileage out of the association of its name with a legendary three-day music festival that ended up being staged 60+ miles away in August 1969.
Chamber unveils Barkin’ around Saugerties 2025 street art

2 weeks ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

You always know summer is near at hand when dozens of gaily decorated fiberglass beasties begin to make their appearance on the streets of downtown Saugerties. Each year since 2009, the Saugerties Chamber of Commerce has organized a summerlong street exhibition that draws thousands of visitors and shoppers to the village to admire fanciful works by local artists – all variations on a common template.
Three local libraries support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

3 weeks ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

According to the National Literacy Institute, the US currently ranks only 36th worldwide in the percentage of adults who can read. Last year, more than one in five adults in the US were classifiable as functionally illiterate in 2024, and 54 percent had a literacy level below sixth grade. The organization estimates that low levels of literacy cost the US up to 2.2 trillion dollars per year.
Epic Kingston scavenger hunt planned for Memorial Day weekend

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Work, weariness and woes, expenses and responsibilities are all part of the package of “adulting.” But that doesn’t mean that we have to abandon our childlike capacities for wonder and spontaneous play, just because we’re not kids anymore. In a perfect world, our communities would supply us with frequent opportunities to exercise those capacities – to participate in fun public events that engage the imagination as well as the muscles.
Cantine’s Island Cohousing woos younger members

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

You may have missed it, but National Cohousing Open House Week just ended, during which many cohousing communities invited curious neighbors to check out their cooperative lifestyle. According to the Cohousing Association of the United States, only nine of its 345 member communities are located in New York State, and of those, a full four are in Ithaca.
Chorvas seeks funds for splash pad at Saugerties’ Cantine Field

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

When you talk with Greg Chorvas, superintendent of the Town of Saugerties’ Department of Parks, Recreation and Buildings, it quickly becomes clear that he was destined to excel at two things: sports, and the development of Cantine Field to make sports more varied and accessible. His latest scheme to maximize use of the 127-acre Cantine Veterans Memorial Complex parcel is to build a splash pad to replace the former Small World Playground.
Gardiner Open Studio Tour returns May 3-4

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Since 2012, a loosely organized, ever-morphing group of Gardiner-based artists has been hosting an annual weekend of studio open houses known as GOST, short for Gardiner Open Studio Tour. This festive peek into the creative processes of local artmakers returns May 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and you’re invited. The website at gardineropenstudiotour.com/about has all the specifics, including a downloadable map showing all the participating studio sites.
Ulster County launches therapy dog program for 911 dispatchers

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Some of the most stressful jobs out there involve being responsible for helping others who are under stress. Thankfully, in recent years we have begun to ask the question, “Who cares for the caregivers?” Therapy and respite programs evolved out of that conversation. Now there’s a new version: Who responds first to the psychological and emotional needs of first responders? Here in Ulster County, it might just be a cute curly-coated dog named Oliver.
Hudson Valley Open Market relaunches at New Paltz Middle School May 3

1 month ago | hudsonvalleyone.com | Frances Marion Platt

Last summer, local siblings Laura Foster and Dave Wagner inaugurated the Hudson Valley Open Market, running every Saturday from May through October (https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2024/07/29/uc-fairgrounds-parking-lot-hosts-hudson-valley-open-market-on-saturdays).