In it’s 35th year, Hardscrabble Day “gives the residents a great day to get together and feel a community energy,” says Ed Blundell, a Red Hook village resident and chairman of the committee, as well as mayor. “The day kind of symbolizes the end of summer, which ties in with the energy, and kind of…

Gianna Beckmann began showing dairy cows when she was only six years old.  She started showing Jersey cows after seeing one and telling her father, “I want one of those.  They look like me.”  They both have brown hair and brown eyes.  Prior to that, she had shown Holstein cows.  Now, at age 13, Gianna…