Lions honor citizens for their service

AMENIA — Amenia residents Jack and Linda Gregory were honored on Saturday, June 11, with awards given by the Lions Club during their annual installation dinner.Jack Gregory received the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award, which was named after the founder of Lions Club International Foundation. The award, which is considered to be the highest honor granted by the organization, is not given for a specific accomplishment, but recognizes a recipient’s dedication to humanitarian service through generosity, compassion and commitment to the less fortunate.Gregory said that it was a “great honor” to win the award and be recognized by the community.He said he plans to continue his service to the community by remaining an active member of the Lions Club and other organizations.He also said that community service has been ingrained in him since his youth, when he saw his parents often participating and contributing to the community.“It’s something we grew up around,” he said.His wife, Linda Gregory, received the Citizen of the Year award. The award recognizes someone whose dedication and achievements have greatly benefited the local area and have exemplified the Lions Club motto, “We serve.”Gregory is a member or board member of several organizations in the Amenia area, including the Lions Club, the Women’s Association of the United Presbyterian Church, Recreation Committee and the Sunday in the Country Food Drive.Gregory said she was touched by the honor and recognition.When talking about the motivation behind her service, she said, “We just do what we do. We have to give back to make our community stronger. We always believed in giving back.”

Latest News

South Kent School’s unofficial March reunion

Elmarko Jackson was named a 2023 McDonald’s All American in his senior year at South Kent School. He helped lead the Cardinals to a New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC) AAA title victory and was recruited to play at the University of Kansas. This March he will play point guard for the Jayhawks when they enter the tournament as a No. 4 seed against (13) Samford University.

Riley Klein

SOUTH KENT — March Madness will feature seven former South Kent Cardinals who now play on Division 1 NCAA teams.

The top-tier high school basketball program will be well represented with graduates from each of the past three years heading to “The Big Dance.”

Keep ReadingShow less
Hotchkiss grads dancing with Yale

Nick Townsend helped Yale win the Ivy League.

Screenshot from ESPN+ Broadcast

LAKEVILLE — Yale University advanced to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a buzzer-beater win over Brown University in the Ivy League championship game Sunday, March 17.

On Yale’s roster this year are two graduates of The Hotchkiss School: Nick Townsend, class of ‘22, and Jack Molloy, class of ‘21. Townsend wears No. 42 and Molloy wears No. 33.

Keep ReadingShow less
Handbells of St. Andrew’s to ring out Easter morning

Anne Everett and Bonnie Rosborough wait their turn to sound notes as bell ringers practicing to take part in the Easter morning service at St. Andrew’s Church.

Kathryn Boughton

KENT—There will be a joyful noise in St. Andrew’s Church Easter morning when a set of handbells donated to the church some 40 years ago are used for the first time by a choir currently rehearsing with music director Susan Guse.

Guse said that the church got the valuable three-octave set when Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center closed in the late 1980s and the bells were donated to the church. “The center used the bells for music therapy for younger patients. Our priest then was chaplain there and when the center closed, he brought the bells here,” she explained.

Keep ReadingShow less
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Penguin Random House

‘Picasso’s War” by Foreign Affairs senior editor Hugh Eakin, who has written about the art world for publications like The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York Times, is not about Pablo Picasso’s time in Nazi-occupied Paris and being harassed by the Gestapo, nor about his 1937 oil painting “Guernica,” in response to the aerial bombing of civilians in the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

Instead, the Penguin Random House book’s subtitle makes a clearer statement of intent: “How Modern Art Came To America.” This war was not between military forces but a cultural war combating America’s distaste for the emerging modernism that had flourished in Europe in the early decades of the 20th century.

Keep ReadingShow less