Fonda…
The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the new I Love NY maps and other County promotional pieces are available at their office 12 South Bridge Street, Fonda across from the fairgrounds.
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KINDERHOOK – New York State is steeped in presidential history. Presidents’ Day is a good time to make plans to visit a New York destination with a presidential past. A new Empire State Development PSA can point the way: Read more »
NEW YORK – A record-setting number of tourists visited New York City last year, Associated Press Writer Samantha Gross reported Jan. 13, spending an estimated $28 billion. She quoted tourism officials as saying that the falling dollar sweetened the deal for international travelers. Read more »
Most of the artisan cheeses sold by Saxelby Cheesemongers on Manhattan’s Lower East Side are made at farms less than a day’s drive away from the city. Shortly after opening in 2006, Anne Saxelby, the owner of Saxelby’s, started monthly (or thereabouts) “A Day-A-Whey” Sunday outings to the cheese belt surrounding New York City. Read more »
Historic U.S. Route 20 is America’s longest continuous highway, running all the way from Boston to the Oregon coast. For 290 miles of its path, it crosses New York State from Duanesburg in the east to East Aurora in the west. During the heyday of the automobile in the first half of the 20th century, it was one of the main east-west routes. Read more »
New York’s highest village (1846 feet), Lake Placid has hosted two Olympic Winter Games — in 1980 and 1932, an honor shared only by Innsbruck, Austria, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the Savoy region in France. But Whiteface Mountain and skiing aren’t the only things Lake Placid offers. Read more »
