Woodcraft & Willow Suffern business owner Chris Devinney grew up surrounded by the smells of sandpaper and wood. His father Gary, a fellow furniture refinisher, owned Devinney’s Furniture Refinishing for 45 years and was the first to school Chris in the art of restoring wooden home pieces to their former glory. While the younger Devinney […]
When COVID-19 stopped the world in March of 2020, Kevin Murphy and Margaret Dowling-Murphy of Pearl River’s Murphy Wood Art were just getting started. Though Margaret had always identified as a painter, her work as a high school English teacher, tutor and mother had long taken up most of her time. Shortly before the pandemic, […]
What better way to celebrate love this Valentine’s Day than by giving back to the community? As part of “Love Week,” the Angel Nyack—a newly formed not-for-profit organization formed to preserve the local First Reformed Church —is offering a limited number of micro-wedding, elopement and vow renewal ceremonies to raise funds for Soup Angels, a […]
On Wednesday, January 31, the Town of Ramapo teamed up with Good Samaritan Hospital and Bon Secours Medical Groups to host the “New Year, New You!” health fair. The event provided Town of Ramapo employees with a day ofm healthcare in the workplace and over 230 of town employees participated. A second health fair will […]
When Suffern resident Josie DaCosta was a college student, she found herself at a crossroads: Would she go into a career of art design or teaching? Though DaCosta decided on art design then, the now 53-year-old balloon artist and owner of one-stop party shop Beyond Twisting is happy to report that decades later, she […]
For Rockland residents with an artistic eye, the Nyack Art Collective may just be the place to nourish creative expression. In its 10-year existence, this collective of “artists serving artists” has grown from a small social club to a 60-member not-for-profit with an Etsy store that regularly shares its work with the community at large. […]