• Home
  • Arts
    • Griterati
    • eARTh
    • Poetry
    • Born Again
  • Stories
    • Features
    • News & Views
    • From the Editor
  • Food
    • Homemade
    • Wild Food
  • Calendar
  • dirt jr.
  • Studs
    • How Do You Saturday?
  • Field Notes
    • Day Tripper
    • Thin Places
    • Yonder
    • Habitat
    • Nouveau Country
    • Cultivator
  • Debatable
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • NEWSLETTER
  • DONATE
x
  • Sections
    • Home
    • Arts
      • Griterati
      • eARTh
      • Poetry
      • Born Again
    • Stories
      • Features
      • News & Views
      • From the Editor
    • Food
      • Homemade
      • Wild Food
    • Calendar
    • dirt jr.
    • Studs
      • How Do You Saturday?
    • Field Notes
      • Day Tripper
      • Thin Places
      • Yonder
      • Habitat
      • Nouveau Country
      • Cultivator
    • Debatable
  • Do Stuff
    • Subscribe to Paper
    • Sign Up for Emails
    • Where to Pick Us Up
    • Submit Stuff
    • Place a Classified or Legal Notice
© COPYRIGHT 2022 STRAUS NEWS
The truck-tree awaiting planting after flourishing through the winter.
The truck-tree awaiting planting after flourishing through the winter. ( Becca Tucker)

The tale of a checkout aisle impulse buy

The truck-tree that could

03 Apr 2023 | 11:19
Home

“Uh, right,” I hollered back over the roar of the immersion blender. Dion, who makes it his business to be involved in everything, had dragged a chair over to enable full participation in the morning smoothie routine....

Griterati
Antiques past and future

Antiques past and future

08 Mar 2023 | 11:01

The morning we meet in Sugar Loaf, NY marks nine years to the day that Melanie Durand noticed Tim Brown...

News & Views
These old 8-hole Doc Martens, as seen in Maxfield’s column <i>Old Soles</i>, have seen her through 30 years of life, and remind her in many ways of the cobbler in Monroe she found just as he was about to retire. The below was a reply to that column.
These old 8-hole Doc Martens, as seen in Maxfield’s column Old Soles, have seen her through 30 years of life, and remind her in many ways of the cobbler in Monroe she found just as he was about to retire. The below was a reply to that column. ( Evie Maxfield )

Sal, the soul man

03 Apr 2023 | 11:42

TO THE EDITOR,

I was working in Downtown Manhattan several years ago, and we had a visitor from Texas...

Day Tripper
We have time: a busy family’s mantra

We have time: a busy family’s mantra

01 Mar 2023 | 10:27

There is a sense of urgency in the spring. Even as the days warm up and we spend long afternoons enjoying...

Day Tripper
Home sweet base camp

Home sweet base camp

27 Feb 2023 | 11:16

If I made an activity chart of my retirement so far, the biggest slice would be devoted to cleaning....

Home
Kim Williams in Shanti Life.
Kim Williams in Shanti Life. ( Molly Colgan)

The wandering hemp hippie

03 Apr 2023 | 11:38

She’s lived in Dubai, Manhattan, London, Scotland, Sri Lanka and Vietnam; worked as a yoga teacher, beauty...

Home
Megan Morgan of Vernon, N.J. making her rounds.
Megan Morgan of Vernon, N.J. making her rounds. ( Rusty Tagliareni)

In dumpsters, a glimpse of capitalism’s dark side

27 Feb 2023 | 10:39

When people use the term “dumpster diving,” it’s usually heavy on the sarcasm, perhaps accompanied by...

Educator Carl Heitmuller at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum demonstrating the proportional size of an owl’s eyes.
Educator Carl Heitmuller at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum demonstrating the proportional size of an owl’s eyes. ( Amy Prasky)

What big eyes you have!

At Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s SuperbOwl Party, Educator Carl Heitmuller demonstrated that if humans had eyes proportionally...

Home
20 Feb 2023 | 04:32
Stumbling upon the perfect sandwich bread

Stumbling upon the perfect sandwich bread

For this year’s attempt to up my game in the kitchen, I tried my hand at homemade buckwheat noodles, Japanese style. Immediately,...

Home
03 Apr 2023 | 12:10
Cox made 22 paper masks and laid them out in Warwick’s Memorial Park.
Cox made 22 paper masks and laid them out in Warwick’s Memorial Park. ( Everett Cox )

A Vietnam vet’s ghost story

TO THE EDITOR,I made 22 paper masks to tell a ghost story. Memorial Day is in remembrance of our military war dead. There...

News & Views
03 Apr 2023 | 11:44
J’avail Haltom and her four children are pictured in the off-grid homestead of the book’s creative stylist, Lena Masur, in Upstate New York where the book was photographed.
J’avail Haltom and her four children are pictured in the off-grid homestead of the book’s creative stylist, Lena Masur, in Upstate New York where the book was photographed. ( Allison Usavage)

Sugar season meets snack time

In New York’s maple-sugaring region, early spring brings the flow of sap, and my family has blissfully indulged in this gift....

Yonder
24 Feb 2023 | 10:54
Christine Hutchinson with an OurCore student discussing plant care in the garden.
Christine Hutchinson with an OurCore student discussing plant care in the garden. ( Photo by Susan Cardona)

Move over ComiCon, here comes AgriCon

Eggs are having a moment. “You paid what for a dozen?” But for Christine Hutchinson of Newburgh, NY, a veteran teacher and...

Cultivator
13 Apr 2023 | 11:14
Eliasson turned a Swiss museum’s interior into an actual natual landscape for his installation, <i>Life </i>(2021), by flooding the interior and filling it with water plants.
Eliasson turned a Swiss museum’s interior into an actual natual landscape for his installation, Life (2021), by flooding the interior and filling it with water plants. ( Mark Niedermann)

‘Being with’ art that raises our collective consciousness

I have been crushing on Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) since my undergraduate days at art school. Eliasson...

Home
09 Mar 2023 | 01:29
‘Already, I have enough address labels to last several lifetimes.’ - Keith Stewart
‘Already, I have enough address labels to last several lifetimes.’ - Keith Stewart ( Keith Stewart)

Killing me slowly with junk mail

I’m overwhelmed with junk mail — especially the stuff sent by non-profit organizations I want to support. I’m betting you...

Features
13 Feb 2023 | 03:29
Plänterwald, a park in Berlin, Germany, where people can find and add branches to the structures.
Plänterwald, a park in Berlin, Germany, where people can find and add branches to the structures. ( Everett Cox)

A brush pile of opportunity

Fallen branches, sticks, trimmings offer unique opportunities to the backyard naturalist. They can help deepen our experience...

Thin Places
06 Feb 2023 | 11:45
Go back
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Go forward
Get News Alerts
Get the Newspaper
  • MOST VIEWED
  • MOST COMMENTED
  • Special Sections
    • Orange Community Guide
    • Passaic Community Guide
    • Pike Community Guide
    • Sussex Community Guide
  • Do Stuff
    • Subscribe to Paper
    • Sign Up for Emails
    • Where to Pick Us Up
    • Submit Stuff
    • Place a Classified or Legal Notice
  • About Us
    • Our History
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
  • Sister Sites
    • The Advertiser-News (North)
    • The Advertiser-News (South)
    • The Chronicle
    • The Pike County Courier
    • The Photo News
    • The Sparta Independent
    • The Township Journal
    • The Warwick Advertiser
    • The West Milford Messenger
    • dirt
© Copyright 2023 Straus News
All Rights Reserved | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Statement