At one-room schoolhouse, bonnets and butter churns

At a one-room schoolhouse in Lower Milford Township, children live a little, Colonial-style. I spent Monday morning in the 1750s, or thereabouts. Colonial times, anyway. I could tell because all the children around me wore bonnets (the girls) and britches (the boys) and they were churning heavy cream into butter and chanting a little song:

Can a Riverhead schoolhouse become a brewery?

Does a microbrewery constitute “agricultural production?” That’s the question the Riverhead Zoning Board of appeals will have to answer following an upcoming hearing on turning a nearly 100-year-old former Sound Avenue school house into a microbrewery. A company called McCarthy’s on the Green is seeking to convert the old Northville School House into the “Old [...]

Schoolhouse rock: Dale Mabry students take the stage

The finale was epic and worthy of an encore, true indications that Dale Mabry Elementary boasts one of Hillsborough County's top grade school rock music programs.

Golden Oldies at Schoolhouse

THE Old Schoolhouse Gallery at Cleveland is staging a Golden Oldies exhibition, featuring the artwork of long-time gallery members Bev Dargin, John Sherwin and Josie Oldroyd.

Schoolhouse Farms prepares for third year of Community Supported Agriculture program

Mother Nature can be a fickle overseer for farmers, as evidenced by early April temperatures up near 80 degrees but snow this past Sunday night. “We always joke that Mother Nature runs the roost, but this year everything looks pretty good so far,” said Richard Malcolm, owner, along with his wife Rebecca, of Schoolhouse Farms in Borodino. The Malcolms, who farm mostly by hand on about 15 acres of ...