Category: New Haven

New Haven family thankful for support after home burns down

Posted on January 17, 2013 |

• New Haven
• community
• New Haven

By Xian Chiang-Waren

NEW HAVEN — At 3:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, New Haven residents Matt and Jackie Schlein received a frantic call from their daughter, informing them that their home was on fire.

The Schleins were out of town visiting relatives in Saugerties, N.Y. When they arrived home in New Haven a few hours after receiving the phone call, their house was, as Schlein wrote on his Facebook page, a “toasted shred” of the structure that he and his family had lived in for 18 years. They lost their cat, their belongings, and the structure of their home.

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Field Days a hit in spite of showers, Route 17 repairs

Posted on August 20, 2012 |

• New Haven
• Featured
• Field Days 2012

By John Flowers

NEW HAVEN — Addison County Fair and Field Days drew to a close on Aug. 11 following another run that officials called a success in spite of some rain that drenched the site during portions of three days of the annual event’s five-day span.

Jim Foster, president of the Field Days board, estimated attendance at this year’s 64th annual Field Days was around 15 percent lower than last year’s edition. During a good year (like last year), Field Days draws between 25,000 to 30,000 visits, according to Foster.

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4-H group to send cards to thousands of troops

Posted on August 13, 2012 |

• New Haven
• 4-H
• Featured
• military

By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

NEW HAVEN –– Paper, stickers, foam, glue, string, ribbon, buttons, markers, pens and pencils covered the table located in the entrance of the 4-H Exhibit Hall at Addison County Fair and Field Days last week. A few kids sat at the table, making greeting cards and neatening up, always on the lookout for people willing to stop by.

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Field Days judges face tough task in ribbon decision-making

Posted on August 13, 2012 |

• New Haven
• Field Days

By Andrea Suozzo

NEW HAVEN — The paths and boulevards of the county fairgrounds were empty last Monday; Addison County Fair and Field Days didn’t open to the public until Tuesday.

But the Home and Garden Building was bustling with activity.

With display shelves full of produce, knitwear and baked goods to taste or examine, judging in the annual fair competitions started shortly after noon and continued into the evening.

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