Start your Saturday off right with a truck meet at OK4WD for its first Trucks and Coffee meet-up, with free coffee provided by The Stone Bean Coffee, of Clinton, served by the Franklin Township Fire Department. All vehicles welcome, Pick-ups, Jeep, SUV - new or old - bring them all.
Starting November 17, 2021
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” - David Mamet, Boston Marriage
Great idea! Let’s have some pie. With just one week until Thanksgiving, you should still have a couple of days to place orders, but don’t wait much longer!
This week’s photo is courtesy of Donaldson Farms in the Hackettstown area, and here are some other suggestions if you prefer to pick up - rather than bake - your desserts this year: Allie's Cupcakery & Café, Washington; Best’s Fruit Farm, Hackettstown; Buttercups Bake Shoppe, Stewartsville; Dalcourt's Desserts, Hackettstown; Florestano's Bakery, Washington; Gourmet Gallery, Blairstown; Mackey’s Orchard, Belvidere; Marshall’s Farm Market, Delaware; Tranquillity Farms, Andover; and TreeLicious Orchards & Just Made Bakery, Port Murray.
As usual, we encourage you to chart your own course if you have a better idea, and if we have neglected to include a bakery that should be on the list, please let us know!
Happy Beaver Moon partial lunar eclipse, and Happy Wanderings!
Coming Up
Join the Musconetcong Watershed Association for a hike at Point Mountain in Lebanon Township! There will be two groups taking paths of varying difficulty, both of which lead to the top of Point Mountain, offering expansive views of the Musconetcong River Valley.
Need quick and easy tasty tidbits to serve when guests drop in or to take for that at work holiday party? Come taste appetizer recipes from Villa Milagro's Vineyard Cookbook (which would also be great gift)! $15 for wine and appetizer tasting appetizers;
Ronnie Penque of The New Riders of the Purple Sage brings you Panama Dead, a tribute to the music of the classic NRPS. Panama Dead Plays all the classic NRPS songs from Henry and Last Lonely Eagle, to Glendale Train, Panama Red and plenty of deep cuts from the NRPS catalog.
Get creative with your kids! Parent & Child - Painting & Baking. Sign up by Nov. 21. $25 each, or $40 for both activities.
It’s that time of year. Guests are dropping in unexpectedly, office and school events to which you need to bring something. Come on out to sample delicious recipes from the Vineyard’s appetizer cookbook.
Taste Villa's Holiday wines including Feliz Navidad and mead and Mi Cariño.
No adult available, or just need time to prep for Thanksgiving? Sign the kids up for the Kids only baking, painting, and Thanksgiving games activities.
It’s that time of year. Guests are dropping in unexpectedly, office and school events to which you need to bring something. Come on out to sample delicious recipes from the Vineyard’s appetizer cookbook.
Taste Villa's Holiday wines including Feliz Navidad and mead and Mi Cariño.
Continuing
They’ve got the turntable, you provide the records! Bring your favorite vinyl for all to hear. Don’t have any records to play? No worries!
Join Alba every Saturday and Sunday afternoon for wine, food, and music! All guests must be 21+
Chef Anthony, Trattoria Di Fiore, will be back, with freshly made wood-fired pizza, salad, paninis, and other culinary treats available for purchase.
Sample wines at Warren County's newest vineyard, and stock up on your favorites for the holidays! Tasting Room hours, Black Friday through Christmas: 12-7pm Wednesday-Saturday; Sunday 12-5pm.
Spend part of your afternoon at Brook Hollow Winery and Event Facility for live music. Enjoy music with John Cain on 11/20, George Baier on 11/21.
This establishment has had a number of owners over its long history. Many in the region have known it as the Lanark Inn.
Enjoy brunch and live music Sundays this fall.
Live Music Sundays:
November 14 - Cody Bondra
November 21 - Sydney Atkinson
November 28 - Thomas Johnston
This holiday season, why not shop for a cause? You can buy lovely gift items and help people in developing countries improve their lives as well, by purchasing Fair Trade items at The Art of Fair Trade, an art gallery show and sale.
At this time of year, the Well-Sweep garden fairies transform the Gift Shop into a Christmas wonderland. The shop is filled with Christmas decorations, potpourri, essential oils, dried flowers and wreaths, dried organic culinary herbs and now features an expanded line of medicinal herbs.
Sample wines at Warren County's newest vineyard, and stock up on your favorites for the holidays! Tasting Room hours, Black Friday through Christmas: 12-7pm Wednesday-Saturday; Sunday 12-5pm.
Join Alba every Saturday and Sunday afternoon for wine, food, and music! All guests must be 21+
Join Alba every Saturday and Sunday afternoon for wine, food, and music! All guests must be 21+
Community Corner
The community is invited to drive around the back of Buttzville United Methodist Church for a takeout turkey dinner with all the trimmings! Free. Pick up and deliver a good meal to someone who could really use it! 908-750-4394.
The community is invited to drive around the back of Buttzville United Methodist Church for a free takeout turkey dinner with all the trimmings! Pick up and deliver a good meal to someone who could really use it! 908-750-4394.
Plan Ahead
Czig Meister is staying open until 11pm for one of their favorite nights of the year! Offering Cranberry Sauce Sour and Cranberry Lime Hard CZeltzer, with live music kicking off at 7:30.
Celebrate Thanksgiving Eve with DJ Omar, giveaways & Happy Hour (9-10pm)! For ages 21+
Centenary Stage Company rings in the Holiday season with Stephen Temperley's daptation of Charles Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol, probably the most popular piece of fiction that Dickens ever wrote.
Experience a little bit of Christmas South of the Border at Villa Milagro Vineyards.
Tree lighting, Menorah lighting, caroling and Santa visiting on the firetruck! Presented by Blairstown Enhancement Committee.
Jingle on Main is a festive Small Business Saturday event featuring local vendors, food and music, presented by the Blairstown Enhancement Committee and held throughout Blairstown's Historic Main Street.
Hackettstown Businesses will welcoming shoppers for Shop Small Saturday, commencing Saturday, November 27 through Sunday, December 5 - as well as the entire Holiday Season! To encourage shoppers to Shop Small during the holiday season, the Hackettstown BID will have a drawing.
Start your Christmas tradition by visiting two of Warren County’s most unique, family-owned farms within 4 minutes of each other. Mackey’s Orchard and Four Sisters Winery invite your family to enjoy a fun-filled day.
A Thanksgiving celebration! Box of Rain is the classic six piece that pays tribute to the most prolific and finest period of the Grateful Dead, 1968-74.
Join the Musconetcong Watershed Association for a dinner supporting the continued restoration of the historic Asbury Mill. Celebrate the continued restoration; once completed, this historic building will be a place to learn about the history of the river and life in Musconetcong Valley.
Hometown Holiday is a celebration that will light up the downtown in more ways than one. Come see Santa and much more! Free crafts for kids, horse and carriage rides (weather permitting), cookies and hot chocolate, live music with DJ Mitch Hess. Something for everyone!
Knowlton Fine Arts presents A Christmas Carol! This event is free for KFA members--please RESERVE your tickets now! Tickets reserved in advance are $2 each, payable at the door. Tickets not ordered in advance are $3 at the door.
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams is a perennial favorite at Roy’s Hall and consistently sells out their “A Very Slambovian Christmas” show at Roy’s.
Steve Forbert is one of the few artists who can mesmerize a crowd with nothing but a distinctive voice, an acoustic guitar and his trusty harmonica slung around his neck.
Country Gate Players present a live, online murder mystery show. Free registration (but donations are appreciated!) gets you access to witness the mystery.
Grammy-winning composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor has created several arrangements of Christmas classics and fashions a wondrous mixture of both instrumental and vocal music in bluegrass and other American music genres.
Jingle on Main is a festive Small Business Saturday event featuring over 50 local vendors, food and music, presented by the Blairstown Enhancement Committee and held throughout Blairstown's Historic Main Street.
Hometown Holiday is a celebration that will light up the downtown in more ways than one. Come see Santa and much more!
Czig Meister is staying open until 10pm for one of their favorite nights of the year! Offering Cranberry Sauce Sour and Cranberry Lime Hard CZeltzer, with live music kicking off at 8pm and $5 cover starts at 7pm!
Hackettstown Businesses will welcoming shoppers for Shop Small Saturday, commencing Saturday, November 26 through Sunday, December 4 as well as the entire Holiday Season!
Celebrate Thanksgiving Eve with DJs spinning tunes, photo booth, drink specials. For ages 21+
Jingle on Main is a festive Small Business Saturday event featuring over 60 local vendors, food and music, presented by the Blairstown Enhancement Committee and held throughout Blairstown's Historic Main Street.
Hometown Holiday is a celebration that will light up the downtown in more ways than one. Come see Santa and much more!
Hackettstown Businesses will welcoming shoppers for Shop Small Saturday, commencing Saturday, November 25 through Sunday, December 3 as well as the entire Holiday season!
Join MWA for a dinner, silent auction, and words from guest speakers, Rudy Digilio, a former graphite mill worker and laboratory manager, and Jean Mayberry, who worked with Asbury Graphite, and later Asbury Carbons, and served on the company Board as Treasurer and Secretary.