The Sunday Paper Edition
The Sunday Paper Edition
Halloween parade; vote in our state senate poll; recipe; sighting, and more!
Note: Don’t forget to vote in our State Senate Poll below! See congressional poll results, too!
Here’s our Sunday Paper edition, where we max out our Substack bandwidth and create as big a post as possible, just like the jam-packed Sunday papers we used to get delivered to our doors in decades past.
Let’s start with letting you know about the Halloween Parade today in Greenwich.
This year the Greenwich Youth Center and the Citizens' Committee for Greenwich Youth have taken over the planning from the Chamber of Commerce and will be hosting the parade. The parade starts at 1 p.m. on Main Street and ends at 6 Academy Street. There will be a costume contest, take home pumpkin kits and apple cider donuts.
Ready for Some Laughs? Comedy Set for Schuylerville.
Schuylerville Community Theater (SCT) announced its fall 2024 show is just about ready to open! “Play On!” is set to take place between November 1-3 in Schuylerville at the townhall building.
“Play On!” Is the hilarious story of one plucky community theatre that is about to produce a show called Murder Most Foul, a new “murder mystery play” with the same title as an Agatha Christie novel but with no relation whatsoever.
The director/theatre manager, Gerry, thought producing the play was a good idea since the inexperienced playwright has agreed to let the company perform the show for no charge. Gerry, however, had no idea what disasters awaited her: the show is hilariously amateur, the “murder mystery” plot doesn’t really have a murder, and to top it off the playwright keeps changing the story and script only two days from its premiere! It doesn’t help that the cast is disgruntled, and the playwright accidentally deletes the entire sound effect board.
All of the disasters come to fruition in Act III when the company performs the actual show with hilarious mishaps as every turn.
The show (and the show within a show) features a robust cast of entertaining characters and highlights the incredible comedic talents of:
Rosalyn Annely as Smitty, Robert Biales as Louis, Bridget Dunigan as Violet, Brian Haynes as Saul, Logan Haynes as Billy, Jen Madison as Gerry, Linda McKenney as Polly, Aimee McMaster as Aggie, Jonathan Nichols-Pate as Henry and Bonnie Thomas as Phyllis.
“Play On!” is a hilarious love letter to community theatre.
Schuylerville Community Theater’s production of “Play On!” is directed by theater veteran Dianne O’Neill and this local production has a collection of gifted actors and actresses that are passionate about bringing the production to life with the aid of a wonderful extended cast and crew!
Performances are Fri. Nov. 1 (7:30 pm), Sat. Nov. 2 (7:30 pm) and Sun. Nov. 3 (2 pm). Tickets for the show are priced at $22 for Adults, $20 for Students & Seniors. Tickets at this venue are limited and are general admission only.
Tickets can be reserved by calling 518-695-5480 or by visiting www.scttheater.org or https://www.ticketor.com/sct.
Sighting
By Bob Henke
Journal & Press
A reader left me a picture and what was essentially a question. However, I thought it might well be a sighting that many folks may be having this fall. He was essentially complaining about his nephews. These young miscreants persisted in climbing in his trees and were, he felt, killing his butternut trees by drilling holes in them. His question was, could he treat the damage and would it kill the tree? The answer is no and, probably, however, the villain is not the boys but a bird. The numerous holes drilled in a symmetrical pattern on smooth-barked trees like butternut, mountain ash, and beech are the work of the yellow-bellied sapsucker. As the name implies, they drill these holes and subsist on drinking the nutritious sap that oozes out. There may be as many as 30 trees the sapsucker tends and visits in the course of its day. It is not just the sapsucker, a type of woodpecker, that benefits. Numerous birds from hummingbirds to chickadees sneak in to steal the sapsucker’s bounty and many songbirds check out the holes for insects caught in the sap. Unfortunately, the holes also let in fungi and other pathogens that usually kill the tree after a few years.
Contact Bob Henke with your sightings or questions by mail c/o The Greenwich Journal & Salem Press, by email at outdoors.tomorrow@gmail.com, on Twitter at @BobHenke, or on Facebook.
This delicious pork recipe is all about the cooking method
By America’s Test Kitchen
Special to Journal & Press
We knew from our experience with chicken that cooking in a covered pot over low heat for an extended period of time produces wonderful results, so we decided to develop a pork roast recipe using this method.
We chose a boneless pork loin roast that was about 7 to 8 inches long and 4 to 5 inches wide, and we found that leaving a 1/4-inch-thick layer of fat on top of the roast is ideal. If your roast has a thicker fat cap, trim it back to be about 1/4 inch thick. As with chicken, we found that browning the pork was an essential step in developing deep flavor.
Spice-Rubbed Pork Roast en Cocotte with Caramelized Onions
Serves: 4 to 6
1 (2 1/2- to 3-pound) boneless pork loin roast, trimmed and tied at 1 1/2-inch intervals
5 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground anise seeds
3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
Pinch cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 medium onions, peeled, halved, and sliced thin
3 medium garlic cloves, minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 1 tablespoon)
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1. Adjust an oven rack to the lowest position and heat the oven to 250 degrees. Pat the pork dry with paper towels. Toss the coriander, paprika, salt, brown sugar, anise, cumin, and cayenne together in a small bowl, then rub the mixture evenly over the pork.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat until just smoking. Lightly brown the pork on all sides, 5 to 7 minutes, reducing the heat if the pot begins to scorch or the spices begin to burn. Transfer the pork to a large plate.
3. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the pot and heat over medium heat until shimmering. Add the onions, cover, and cook until softened and wet, about 5 minutes. Remove the lid and continue to cook the onions, stirring often, until dry and well browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
4. Off the heat, nestle the pork, along with any accumulated juices, into the pot. Place a large sheet of foil over the pot and press to seal, then cover tightly with the lid. Transfer the pot to the oven and cook until the very center of the roast registers 140 to 145 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, 35 to 55 minutes.
5. Remove the pot from the oven. Transfer the pork to a cutting board, tent loosely with foil, and let rest until the center of the roast registers 150 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, about 20 minutes. Stir the butter into the onions, season with salt and pepper to taste, and cover to keep warm.
6. Remove the twine, slice the pork thin, and transfer to a serving platter. Spoon the onions over the pork and serve.
Back to Endorsements: Collins for Congress
Our online audience backed woefully under-funded longshot Paula Collins over powerful GOP incumbent Elise Stefanik for US Congress by nearly a 3 to 1 ratio, and, granted, if Collins won it would be one of the biggest upsets in US election history.
And one can argue that an online audience, especially on Substack, may skew Democratic. But our editorial board surprisingly also mostly went with Collins, which surprised even the editor writing this blurb, as the e-board has some GOPers on it who picked GOPers in other races.
Perhaps it helped that Collins actually showed up at our Meet the Candidates event. She’s a lawyer, and if she somehow won, despite the lack of even her own party’s national support, she’d be fine in the position. Her party would then become her new best friend.
Previous Democratic candidates in this race did get national party financial support and lost handily. Frankly, the last one seemed like a pure vanity candidate. As well, Stefanik was commonly seen in our region, had done newspaper interviews with us, and truly was the better choice considering her weight in Washington.
But she didn’t make our recent candidate event — she was in the Carolinas stumping for Donald Trump — and her daily messages have gone from about 50% local to about 100% national in focus the past couple of years. There’s the feeling that she has forgotten about us and has her eyes on a bigger prize now.
So, while Stefanik has practically no chance of losing (it’s a huge district with very spread-out media presence — a challenger just can’t get the word out without millions of dollars) — it might send her a message if she wins by a few percentage points less than last time. We’d urge her to get back to more local messaging — the national stuff can get tedious, and too often dark. Realize you represent all constituents, not just those who wear the red MAGA hats and go to rallies.
Vote in Our State Senate Poll
Anyway, let’s move on to the next poll. State Senate…
Votes are anonymous and help inform our editorial board endorsements.
And Now for the Comics!
Animal Crackers by Mike Osbun
The Middletons by Dana Summers
Broom Hilda by Russell Myers
Filbert by LA Bonte
9 to 5 by Harley Schwadron
Well, we did it. We’re almost out of bandwidth. More tomorrow! And our print edition comes out Wednesday. Get your ads, letters, etc., in now — send to editor@journalandpress.com — and subscribe to our print edition at JPSubs.com. If you don’t, who will?