Monica Sandreczki

1 week ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

Folks in Parishville are throwing an end-of-school bash this weekend and everyone is welcome!"Arts in the Park" is more than an arts festival to the kids, parents and teachers organizing it, though. It's their latest effort to try to meet the needs of every family in the Parishville-Hopkinton school district. They’re using the proceeds to pay for all the school supplies for every kid in the district next year. "Parishville feels like a family. Families take care of each other.

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Kitty O'Neil |Monica Sandreczki |Catherine Wheeler

North Country farmers are starting new plants and birthing new calves, lambs and kids. "It's one of the busiest times on a livestock farm and everyone can be run ragged, but it's also a pretty wonderful and happy time, too," said Kitty O'Neil, agricultural climate resiliency specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. "It's hard not to smile and laugh watching goat kids romp around a pasture or piglets race around a pen playing with each other.

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

For Katelyn Foley, viewing the artwork and reading original writing by young Adirondackers is essential as we think together about the future we want for the North Country. "It's an important opportunity to talk about what's happening right now, and what these students are expressing and thinking right now," said Foley, curator of education and engagement at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. "What are we aspiring to be?

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

May in the North Country is a time of  transitions - students are graduating; the snow is mostly melted, trees are budding; baby calves and lambs are being born. Laurinda Lind, of Sackets Harbor, shared a poem with NCPR that fits this time of year. Lind is an internationally recognized poet. She is the 2018 first-place winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Foley Poetry Winner from America Magazine.

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki |Catherine Wheeler

Les Oeufs Mayonnaise, or Eggs Mayonnaise, would be a great dish for a French person who can never have just one egg. Why? Because one egg is never un oeuf. Ba Dum Tss!Curtiss Hemm shared a list of egg-themed dad jokes along with this simple recipe with Northern Light co-hosts Monica Sandreczki and Catherine Wheeler. Hemm is the executive chef at the View at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid and the founder of the Carriage House Cooking School in Peru, outside of Plattsburgh.